Wow, great story and I can't wait for the next one!
What Lies Beneath By RJ Scott, Narrated By Sean Crisden
Genre: Romantic Suspense, Mystery, GLBTQ, MM
Released: Audio: November 19, 2019; eBook July 19, 2019
Publisher: Tantor Media
Series: Lancaster Falls Trilogy, Book 1
Length: 5 hrs 44 min
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
In the hottest summer on record, Iron Lake reservoir is emptying, revealing secrets that were intended to stay hidden beneath the water.
Best Selling Horror writer Chris Lassiter struggles for inspiration and he’s close to never writing again. His life has become an endless loop of nothing but empty pages, personal appearances, and a marketing machine that is systematically destroying his muse. In a desperate attempt to force Chris to complete unfinished manuscripts his agent buys a remote cabin. All Chris has to do is hide away and write, but he’s lost his muse, and not even he can make stories appear from thin air.
Sawyer Wiseman left town for Chicago, chasing the excitement and potential of being a big city cop, rising the ranks, and making his mark. A case gone horribly wrong draws him back to Lancaster Falls. Working for the tiny police department in the town he’d been running from, digging into cold cases and police corruption, he spends his day’s healing, and his nights hoping the nightmares of his last case leave him alone.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Wow, great story and I can’t wait for the next one!
I reviewed this book when it was published in July 2019 and now, I’ve had the opportunity to listen to the audiobook, performed by the fantastic Sean Crisden. A great narrator can sometimes turn a mediocre book into one that is OK but a great narrator can also make a fantastic book even better and Sean Crisden has done just that.
Below is a copy of my original review from back in July. I loved this story then and I loved it all over again while I listened to it.
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I knew before I started this book that it was the first in a trilogy. So, I didn’t expect everything to be tied up and answered in What Lies Beneath. I’m not sure I would exactly classify it as a cliffhanger, but be warned that all questions aren’t answered in this book. There is a HFN for the main couple in the story.
Now that I have that obligatory cliffhanger statement out of the way I have to emphasize how great this story is; maybe one of RJ’s best books, and it’s certainly a fantastic start to a new series. Whenever I read a book where one of the main characters is an author, I always have to wonder how much of the character comes from the real life of the book’s author? I have no clue about this one.
Best-selling horror writer Chris Lassiter is suffering from writer’s block. I follow RJ Scott pretty closely but I can’t recall if she’s ever mentioned suffering from this malady. In any case, Chris’s problem is somewhat integral to the story and I found reading about his difficulty fascinating.
Sawyer Wiseman is originally from Lancaster Falls but he left to become a cop in Chicago. He returns to Lancaster Falls several years later and is now a Lieutenant on the local police force. We know that he’s suffering because of something that happened in Chicago but it’s a bit into the story before all is revealed.
RJ’s books often have me dissolving into tears or sobs at some point but this one didn’t and I still loved it. I think because the story was so suspenseful that the mystery and suspense was really my main focus and not so much the emotional stuff like is usual. Towards the end however, the familiar emotional reaction finally made itself known and the tears fell.
The mystery, actually multiple mysteries, is yet to be solved but reading the story of Chris and Sawyer’s developing relationship and finally, their declaration of love, was just perfect. Enough loose threads of the story were tied up that I’m not dying from a typical cliffhanger feeling, but I surely can’t wait to get my hands on the next book, Without a Trace.
Story: ♥♥♥♥♥
Narration: ♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
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USA Today best-selling author RJ Scott writes stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, a happily ever after.
RJ Scott is the author of over one hundred romance books, writing emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire, princes, and the men who get mixed up in their lives. RJ is known for writing books that always end with a happy ever after. She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
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