Mother Dear: A Thriller

Written by Nova Lee Maier

Narrated by Karen Peakes

There’s only one thing worse than doing the unthinkable: what you’re willing to do to hide it.

Helen lives a decent, uncomplicated life. Satisfied in her career, she’s raising three happy teenagers, and her family has the most envied house on the street. Admittedly, she’s growing just a little disenchanted with her marriage to her workaholic husband, Werner. But that’s nothing she can’t fix. Then one day Helen comes home to something completely unexpected that threatens to shatter her carefully cultivated world.

For disaffected, young petty criminals Ralf and Brian, it was a scheme to make some cash: a quick home invasion. The targets they’ve chosen are Helen and Werner. With Ralf as lookout, Brian disappears into Helen and Werner’s house. But he never comes out.

And Helen’s nightmare is just beginning. She can’t possibly imagine how much worse it can get or just how far she’ll need to go to protect her family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Translator: Jozef van der Voort
• Release date: Jul 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781721365982

Nova Lee Maier

Nova Lee Maier is a pseudonym of Dutch bestselling author Esther Verhoef, whose psychological thrillers and novels have sold more than 2.5 million copies in the Netherlands. Esther is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NS Publieksprijs (NS Audience Award/Prix Public); the Hebban Crimezone Award; the Diamanten Kogel (Diamond Bullet); and for Mother Dear, the prestigious Gouden Strop (Golden Noose) Award for best crime thriller of the year. She is also the author of Close-Up and Rendezvous, both available in English. For more information, visit www.novaleemaier.com and www.estherverhoef.com.

Reviews for Mother Dear

[Bianka Rubio · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

So bad. I only finished it because I had already invested time. The problem is the stage gets set- and then nothing, and I do mean NOTHING happens again until the very end, which is super anti-climactic. Throw in some really bad dialogue and cringe-worthy sex fantasy writing which is meant to be delivered by teenagers but is just unbelievable and bad.. well just save yourself the time.

[Jo'Van Prater · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book kept me invested from the beginning to the end. It was a little hard to follow sometimes listening as an audiobook, but overall the book was great!

[thelma · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Been so long i read a good thriller
My rating is 4.2
I recommend!!

[Immaculate Masamba · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I liked every bit of it. It kept me on my toes wanting to know what happened next. I would recommend it

[Marlan Knighton · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

One of the coolest and nerve gripping on my list!!

[jlynn yamrus · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very suspenseful. Many edge of your seat moments. Loved it!

[Donald King · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Enjoyable book, not always predictable which made it a little suspenseful.

[Beth Rawlins Was Corfield · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Slow starting but second half of book was great. Definitely worth persevering

[Lara Pretorius · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The story had me engaging and had me engrossed! The narrator did an amazing job and the characters were well written. The book was super suspenseful and kept me guessing! Highly recommend!

[TONYA FITZPATRICK · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I wanted to like it. The narrator was pretty good!

But, honestly not really worth the slow, arduous journey.
Getting to the end was more of a letdown than anything else.

[Carrie Holzmeister Stimpson · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was good, twisted, but a little confusing in the end. The ending seemed rushed. It was almost like an afterthought.

[Rebecca Graves · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Meh. Was just okay. Rather long and not that surprising in the end.

[Verdina Worsley · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I have never read anything by this person, but this was really good. I will be checking out more things by this author.

[Jennifer Gray · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Keep you interested the whole time. One twist and turn after anotherz