What if your best friend vanished and nobody would listen to you?

Latest audiobook: Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Maude is an elderly woman you meet on page 1. She is telling everyone who will listen to her that her friend Elizabeth is missing. She's missing! And nobody seems to be taking her seriously, which is frustrating to her and to you, as the reader. Why won't they listen? Elizabeth is missing.

As you spend more time with Maude, you realize that dementia is setting in and she's a very unreliable narrator. The fact that Elizabeth has gone missing has stirred up some long-buried memories of a trauma in her family when she was a teenager, and the author expertly carries you along as Maude's thoughts weave in between the past and present. What happened to Elizabeth? And what happened in the past?

This book was disorienting and suspenseful. It was made even better by the fact that it was on audio, and the narrator did an amazing job. Davina Porter's voice and skill made Maude come to life for me. Your heart will break for her when you realize how quickly she's losing her grasp on reality, and you'll want to step into her world and tell someone, "Just tell her what happened to Elizabeth!"

This book is a great combination of a thriller and a heartbreaking family story.