#Review - Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass #Thrillers #Psychological

Series: Standalone
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Release Date: July 28, 2020
Publisher: Graydon House
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thrillers / Psychological

A gripping, edge-of-your seat thriller about a disgraced radio personality whose husband goes missing after a car accident, but the police claim he was never in the car at all.

She wrote the book on escaping a predator… Now one is coming for her.

Faith Finley has it all: she’s a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, a bestselling author and the host of a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening, with Dr. Faith Finley. She’s married to the perfect man, Liam Finley, a respected food critic.

Until the night everything goes horribly wrong, and Faith’s life is shattered forever.

Liam is missing—gone without a trace—and the police are suspicious of everything Faith says. They either think she has something to hide, or that she’s lost her mind.

And then the notes begin to arrive. Notes that are ripped from Faith’s own book, the one that helps victims leave their abusers. Notes like “Lock your windows. Consider investing in a steel door.”

As the threats escalate, the mystery behind Liam’s disappearance intensifies. And Faith’s very life will depend on finding answers

Someone’s Listening, by author Seraphina Nova Glass is a standalone thriller. Faith Finley is a famous psychologist who is also a bestselling author and radio show called Someone’s Listening. She coaches women into how to leave abusive relationships. The story switches between then and now. The story really begins in the then when Faith and her husband Liam are in a horrific crash and he allegedly disappears without a trace after withdrawing a large sum of money and later a suicide note is discovered.

As Faith is trying to find Liam, the cops believe that he was never in the car and she made the entire story up. And then the notes start to appear; notes with quotes pulled straight from her own book. The ‘Now” part of the story deals with Faith having recovered from the accident and desperately trying to find out what happened to Liam. She has lost all her friends, her radio show has been cancelled, her life and career is in ruins, she drowns herself in any bottle of alcohol she can find, but thankfully she doesn’t jump bed to bed with the next thing that comes along just to make herself feel better.

As we switch back to the then, Faith is accused of having sexual relations with one of her clients. She knows it’s a lie, her sister knows it’s a lie, Liam knows it’s a lie, but in the era of the Me-Too movement, any hint of sexual inappropriateness leads to a career being destroyed, and friends turning their back on you. The only positive she can fall back on is her book signing which is well attended.  About halfway through the book, the story finally settles in the Now as Faith moves forward and makes friends with some pretty strange people in her complex and wonders why she ever walked away from her former flame Will Holloway who is a successful lawyer.

The last third of the book is a basket of mixed feelings for me. Faith was a good character but did come across not totally likeable. I felt for Faith but also had my suspicions about her and didn’t know who to trust. I had my suspicions about who the culprit was but that was only because I suspected pretty much every character at one point or another. I thought the story started a bit slow, and confusing at times, going back and forth, and I really felt mad when the truth about what really happened the night Liam disappeared.

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