Long Time Gone by Charlie Donlea

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Now that's what I call a thriller!

Charlie Donlea's Long Time Gone is such an easy read & great on the ears by narrator Vivienne Leheny. Most days you would prefer to listen to a soothing voice reading out a good mystery and that should be the number one reason why you choose this book. Apart from being a great find on NetGalley, I felt it was a bit too long with 74 chapters and there was room to make the storyline a little more crisp. No regrets anyhow. 

On other counts, Dr Sloan Hastings is studying to be a forensic pathologist. She lives with her adopted parents and has led a good life. She never felt the necessity to track down her biological parents. Until now. Information for her research needs her to submit her DNA to a website that studies genealogy, which would aid her to gather a treasure trove of information for her assignment. 

The DNA results dig up age old secrets. Sloane's DNA seems to match the ancestry connections of the famous Margolis family of Cedar Creek, Nevada. Her DNA claims her to be a "Baby Charlotte" who had mysteriously disappeared with her parents in 1995. No search party could dig up information as to where this family could have gone. 

A Margolis family member contacts Sloane over the DNA website suggesting they meet. This fateful meeting leads Sloane to meet a huge family - her family supposedly and also Sheriff Eric Stamos. She comes to know that the Margolis family was extremely influential and had connections all over the place. Eric fills Sloane with incomplete information about how his father was investigating the disappearance of her biological parents when he was found dead with the blame that he was high on drugs.

Would the Margolis family accept Sloane to be one of theirs? Where did Sloane "Baby Charlotte"' s parents disappear? How did she end up in an adoption agency? What does Eric, along with Sloane unearth in this far off small town that would shake the very ground from their feet? 

Do pick this up once it is released. For those who like Alice Feeney, Karin Slaughter etc, you would not be disappointed with this one.

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