If She Dies

Written by Erik Therme

Narrated by Marguerite Gavin

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How do you survive the death of a child?

Nine months ago, Tess’s five-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. The driver, Brady Becker, was sentenced to two years in prison. It didn't make Tess’s pain go away.

Brady also has a daughter: A twelve-year-old named Eve who walks to Chandler Middle School every day. Tess knows this because she's been watching Eve for the last few weeks. It isn’t fair that Brady’s daughter gets to live, while Tess’s daughter does not.

When Eve goes missing, all eyes turn to Tess, who doesn’t have an alibi. But Tess isn’t guilty.

Or so she believes.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Audiobooks Unleashed
• Release date: Dec 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781953250575

Erik Therme

Erik Therme has thrashed in garage bands, inadvertently harbored runaways, and met Darth Vader. When he’s not at his computer, he can be found cheering on his youngest daughter’s volleyball team, or watching horror movies with his oldest. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa—one of only thirty-nine places in the world that UNESCO has certified as a City of Literature. Join Erik’s mailing list to be notified of new releases and author giveaways: http://eepurl.com/cD1F8L.

Reviews for If She Dies

[Leslie Wolf · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was an excellent read and I loved it. Clean but 1 word.

[geauxgetlit · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

3.5-4 stars, I found this one on Hoopla in Audiobooks and I was able to finish it in half a day while working. So, it was definitely a quick read and it kept my interest.
This was a twisted read that could have went so many places told from the perspective of a mother still grieving the loss of her 5yo daughter.

[irenecole · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

As the story opens, Tess has already lost her daughter to a car accident and is on the brink of losing her marriage as well. The grief is all consuming and she can barely function. Her husband has insisted on moving them out of town to a house she can't stand and he believes the change of scenery and a little therapy is going to set her on the path to becoming "old Tess" again.

What he doesn't know is that she stalks and spies on the wife and child of her daughter's killer nearly every day. While she is watching them, someone is watching her! Ominous messages in festive red envelopes have been showing up addressed to Tess that taunt her over her daughter's death. Who would want to torment a grieving mother? On top of all this is some domestic drama with her brother, and the secrets her husband seems to be keeping. This harrowing psychological thriller is loaded with suspense and a roller coaster of emotions. I grieved with Tess for her loss, and all the twists made it impossible for me to know who to trust.

I received an advance copy for review.

[jfe16 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Review of eBookIt’s been nine months since the automobile accident when Brady Becker hit and killed five-year-old Lily Jean Parker. Her mother, Tess, mired in grief, has taken to watching Becker’s twelve-year-old daughter, Eve . . . every day. Her father, Josh, tries to give Tess the time he believes she needs, but they don’t communicate and the strain begins to affect their marriage. Josh doesn’t know about Tess’s daily excursions to watch Eve.When Eve suddenly goes missing, Tess becomes the obvious suspect. In hopes of clearing her name, Tess sets out to find the missing girl, but the truth of the girl's disappearance may be more than she can accept.=========Although the characters are well-drawn [but not necessarily likable], Tess’s self-absorbed wallowing feels more like indulgence than true grief. Yes, readers should expect Tess to grieve for her daughter, but Tess wears her grief like a mantle and behaves as if she were the only person in the universe that tragedy ever visited.In addition, readers are likely to find Tess’s obsession with Eve rather unrealistic, serving only as an artificial convention that sets the scene for the girl's much-later disappearance. However, it doesn’t stand up to close examination as something that would be likely to happen in real life.There are moments of drama, suspense, and tension as the plot twists and the story finally begins to unfold. Unfortunately, numbed by far too many pages of wallowing self-indulgence, readers are likely to find themselves ambivalent about the late-in-the-story events that lead to a disappointing denouement more frustrating than conclusive.