Substitute
Written by Susi Holliday
Narrated by Esther Wane, James Langton and Simon Mattacks
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
“Susi Holliday is one of our best and most original creators of tense and twisty tales.” —Ian Rankin
Three people live. Three people die. You make the choice.
Like any mother, Chrissie wants to protect her family. She would do anything to keep them safe. So when a mysterious stranger turns up at her door, offering to prevent the deaths of the people she loves, it sounds too good to be true. The only problem: she must choose someone to die in their place. A substitute.
When her daughter Holly has a terrible accident, Chrissie has no option but to enter the programme. In that horrifying moment, she would do anything to save her. But even after Holly makes a miraculous recovery, Chrissie is convinced it’s just a coincidence. After all, who can really control the laws of life and death?
But as the dangers to her family escalate and her chosen substitutes begin to disappear, Chrissie finds herself in an underworld of hidden laboratories and secretive doctors. And the consequences of playing by their rules are far deadlier than she ever imagined…
Susi Holliday
Susi Holliday grew up near Edinburgh and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for many years before she started writing. A life-long fan of crime and horror, her short stories have been published in various places, and she was shortlisted for the inaugural CWA Margery Allingham Prize. She is the bestselling author of eight novels and a novella, several of them written as SJI Holliday. Along with three other female authors, she provides coaching for new crime writers via www.crimefictioncoach.com. You can find out more at her website, www.susiholliday.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SJIHolliday, on Twitter @SJIHolliday, and on Instagram @susijholliday.
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14 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great listen! I really like the stories this author writes. Narration was mostly good.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Boring. Annoying. Hard to follow with all the “then” and “now” chapters. And certain plot twists are evident right from the start. DNF 20% in. Life is too short to read bad books!