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Awesome.
When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son—and why?
Detectives suspect there’s a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina’s received over the years. In her line of work, it’s not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence…or worse. But as the investigation deepens, the secrets that Corina, her husband, Robert, and her stepdaughter, Charlotte, have kept start to unravel.
As the truth behind Gabriel’s disappearance emerges, Corina must race the clock to track down her missing child…before paying the ultimate price.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bolinda Audio for giving me an advance copy.

This was genuinely gripping. I was shocked by the ending, but immediately looking back over all the clues made it clear this would be the only way for the action to be resolved - a clever clue! While I enjoyed being thrown straight into the action, it may have been nice to get a little more information towards the start of the book. However, the writer very effectively makes the reader fall in love with the sweet boy, then (spoilers) snatches him away, leaving us just as shocked as the characters in a very short span of time. Overall a very interesting premise which moved quickly and kept me hooked until the last line! I enjoyed the narration also.

Thriller child kidnap story. Suspense filled audio book. There are lots of suspects, all seemingly strong possibilities, at least at first, to keep you guessing. I liked the audio presentation. I did find the parts of the story where the parents are so self centred to ignore their older daughter’s feelings/needs in the midst of their family chaos a little bit unbelievable. But that was a minor frustration. The whole was a good listen. Thank you to Belinda Audio and NetGalley for the audio ARC. The views expressed are all mine, freely given.

Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC

The book was good and I was definitely kept hooked.
I wasnt sure where it would go to begin with but it had twists and turns everywhere to keep me interested.

Definitely recommend this to a thriller lover

This is my first book by the author but definitely won't be my last!

I found this book a really twisty, intriguing read and found myself trying to guess the culprit and falling for a lot of the red herrings!

The main character was interesting and bold whilst also showing an array of human emotions so you really felt for her.

The side characters also played a great role in creating a strong thriller with lots of probable culprits whilst also adding humanity to the situation of the plot.

I also want to say what an amazing job the barrier did for this! There were so many characters and multiple different ages/accents etc and they did a fantastic job for all of them!

Overall this was a great audio book, which I really enjoyed and will check out more by this author and narrator in the future.

Someone Saw Something by Rick Mofina and narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya is the first book I have read/listened to and I really enjoyed it, especially as it was full of twists and turns throughout that will have you wanting more. This was a audiobook that was hard to turn off is was fast paced the narrator Jennifer Jill Araya was excellent from the beginning till the very end.

Every parents nightmare and this one has come true when six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son..........and why?

Detectives suspect there’s a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina’s received over the years. In her line of work, it’s not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence…or worse.
But as their investigation deepens, secrets that Corina, her husband, Robert, and her stepdaughter, Charlotte, have kept start to unravel. As the truth behind Gabriel’s disappearance emerges,

The clock is ticking and Corina must track down her missing child..........…before paying the ultimate price.

I highly recommend this audiobook and I will be reading more from this author.

Thank you Netgalley, Bolinda Audio and Rick Mofina for the audio Arc of Someone Saw Something
Narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya

Having read Rick Mofina's Tom Reed series ( book 1-5 and highly recommended ) I was excited to read this stand alone book. Someone Saw Something gets straight into the storyline and not long, Gabriel, goes missing. This medium paced police protocol/thriller takes on the twist and turns of child kidnap. I really enjoyed the character building and even though, the main part of the story is contained within a small city, you can imagine and picture where you are.

Jill Araya narrates this book. wonderfully and her voice keeps in with the pace and tension that Rick Mofina writes in his books.

4 stars

A tense story about a boy who disappears in Central Park. Gabriel’s sister Charlotte took him to an area in the park where he could fly the plane which he made at school that day. Charlotte is texting and when she looks up, Gabriel is gone and the nightmare begins.

Why is he kidnapped, his adoptive mother is a well known journalist, the father a well respected engineer. Does it have to do with their jobs, the fact that he is adopted?

A very well narrated story and you just want to know what will happen next. A very difficult to put down book/audiobook.
Bolinda chose an excellent narrator in Jennifer Araya.

Corina' son goes missing while her step daughter is walking him home from school. A well written story with plenty of emotion. Good plotting well paced with plenty of twists. Some of the characters could have been fleshed out a bit, it is still an enjoyable story. Jennifer Jill Araya does an exceptional narration so you know which character is which. Thanks to Bolinda audio and Netgalley for this review ARC.

This audiobook was very well narrated throughout. I enjoyed the tone of the narrator’s voice and she was a pleasure to listen to. This is basically a kidnap drama which examines family dynamics in a busy household. The mother is a high profile news anchor and father is frequently absent, Not an ideal domestic setting and it gives rise to numerous questions.

There are quite a few twists as the search for the missing child is underway. At times the pacing is a little slow and some of the characters, particularly the police, are rather one dimensional. However, it’s an enjoyable romp. A little better than 3 as it held my attention through a couple of sittings, so I’ve rounded up to 4.

I shouldn't have started listening to this as I toddled off to bed - I was still listening at 3am!
This was a very enjoyable listen, the audio is excellent and compliments the story perfectly ( which doesn't always happen).
There are enough twists and turns to keep you engrossed, at times it can become a tad repetitive but it is quite a long read.
Characters were well developed including the bit players.
I really reccomend this as an addition to your December reading list.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this ARC which was very much appreciated.

A news anchors 6 year old son is kidnapped from Central Park. Terror, stress and panic ensues …
The central plot of this book is decent if formulaic , twists and turns and a fairly engaging story. However , I found the depiction of the main characters let this book down. They lacked substance and any redeeming characteristics and so this made it difficult to care for the plot. The female characters in particular were unrealistic and the police characters felt a bit unoriginal.
I also thought the pacing was very uneven and I probably would have enjoyed this book more if it was 100 pages shorter.
A decent story but weak characters disappointed me.

What an excellent read! A twisting rollercoaster of emotions in which you are never sure who to trust. This story covers child abduction, environmental disasters, misogyny and the impact of misinformation. All topics at the front of the news today. Not only that, but it’s an enjoyable read too. I will be searching out more from Rick Mofina for sure.

3.5🌟 rounded up, just missed the 4 stars due to reasons i explain further on.

I enjoyed this book, it was very well narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya, who was able to give all characters different tones and nuances. The pitches were also well delivered at the times when needed to build suspense, etc, and develop the emotion you'd imagine if you were watching this as a movie, absolutely very well done.

The story itself finds Charlotte collecting her brother Gabriele from school in NYC where he takes off in Central Park playing with his model flying plane whilst she is in the process of texting with an older boy Vince whome her parents Corina and Robert were not happy about. It was at this time that suddenly Gabriel dissappears, and Charlotte asked for the assistance of a police officer on a horse, and from here, the investigation began to unfold.

Corina is a news journalist well known in the media and had a security team in place due to previous threats but things had calmed down to mostly online slurrs so she had felt safer meaning she had cancelled the use of that precaution over the last year they has been living a more normal life as she wanted her kids to have as normal a life as possible.

When Gabriel went missing the father Robert was on a flight on his was home from a business meeting his work involved alot of possible people being upset but could anyone really be that disappointed with his work they would use his son as leverage?

Then of course Corina herself has made many enemies along the way in her line of work but there is alot of speculation in regards to things that may happen within the lives if high profile individuals such as trafficking with various conspiracy theories as to who could be involved and why...

The family dynamics of the Corado family begin to be deeply picked apart in regards to the private adoption, etc, by people Corina considered close working friends...

There were many characters involved in this story, which does help in the beginning of who abducted Gabriel. The actual structure itself and bones of the story was good, with various important topics being covered such as trafficking, the dark web, suspicious adoptions, cults, corruption, and more. I felt it was a little drawn out and could have been concluded a bit quicker, it began to loose my interest and attention. It felt a little repetitive or predictable even at times. This is really the only main issue I had with this one. However, it is still an enjoyable listen overall.

This is the first I've read of this author and would still be interested n more in the future. With thanks to Netgalley & Bolinda Audio for this ARC in return for my own opinions to review this title.

An exciting story for most of the time but it did get repetitive at times. I couldn’t wait to pick up my earphones and listen though and that proves to me it’s one to recommend. I do get annoyed when one or other parent doesn’t seem to be in total angst when their child is missing and whilst the mother was clearly distraught I didn’t fe3l all that from the dad. A good four stars from me.

🎧Audio Book Review🎧

Someone Saw Something
Rick Mofina

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This was my first read by this author and so I wasn't sure what to expect - but the front cover and title intrigued me and drew me in.
As you know, I don't read blurbs before reading, so wasn't even sure which way this story would play out.

We get straight into this from the first few pages as we meet our main characters and see a snippet from Corina's past.
Then present day, while walking home from school with his sister, Corina's son, Gabriel, goes missing and we then follow the family as the investigation and search begins.

I was a little torn with this because basically, being a working mum, especially in her field (news anchor), Corina doesn't always have the time to devote to her children.
Her husband, Robert, also works away a lot and so I really felt for the children first of all.
But as the story develops and we learn more background, I started to really feel for the parents too.
All that guilt adding pressure to an already tense situation made me quite emotional.

This was a real page turner and once different things started to be uncovered, I couldn't stop thinking about theories about who and why - but also couldn't stop listening to this.
There were so many different threads to the storyline and so many characters, that it was really hard to not be suspicious of everyone and this kept me guessing right until the final reveal.

There were many lessons to be learned here and it really made me grateful for the life that I've been able to lead with my own children.
A very relatable story and one that I really connected with for different reasons.

Well plotted and written - a most enjoyable, twisty read and I'm sure that I'll be reading more by this author in the future.





💕Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for my ARC copy - this is my honest review 💕

This one started off well and had my attention but as it progressed it just never really went anywhere. It lacked the fast pace that you expect from a thriller. For me it was extremely repetitive with nothing in the way of surprises. There was a lot of backstory when it came to the characters but nothing that really added to the story. It’s a well written storyline but just lacked suspense. I neither liked nor disliked the characters but felt I didn’t really get to know them. This one wasn’t for me unfortunately.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bolindo Audio for the opportunity to listen and review #SomeoneSawSomething

Someone saw something doesn't just pack a punch, it's a frenzied fistful of them! As soon as you think the answer is in reach, beware, I lost count of the number of times I felt the rug being pulled from beneath me. There is a lot and I mean *a lot* going on in this book, and a pace that doesn't give you much opportunity to keep up, so buckle up!

A really good listen. A breathtaking story full of twists and turns. A really good engaging narrator.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bolinda Audio for letting me review this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

Unfortunately, some of the power in this narrative was lost due to the sheer number of scandalous going ons this one family was somehow involved in. This overshadowed the dramatic emotional pull of a lost child and the important exploration of white professional power and how it aids and villianises its own.