The Darkness Gathers
A Novel
Lydia Strong Series: Book #2
- By: Lisa Unger
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Description
Fresh from a tour promoting her last book, reclusive true-crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protect Tatiana Quinn. Maybe the plea strikes close to her heart; maybe her investigator’s intuition ignites. She takes it on.
But this simple case of a missing teenager soon becomes much more. Someone wants Lydia to drop the case, someone anxious enough to engineer the reappearance of one of Lydia’s most dangerous adversaries. Now, in addition to tracing the roots of Tatiana’s disappearance on a trail across the country and eventually overseas, Lydia must find the man who wants her dead.
“The suspense is almost unbearably high . . . an intelligent thriller, with a love story [that] adds a poignant and beautiful relief to the omnipresent evil that pervades the rest of the pages.” — New Mystery Reader
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Lydia Strong Series Series

Angel Fire
By: Lisa Unger
Narrated by: Emily Beresford
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The childhood murder of Lydia Strong’s mother has turned her into a woman obsessed with bringing brutal killers to justice. The reclusive, bestselling true-crime writer and investigative consultant has made a life out of chasing monsters. And her powerful intuitions rarely fail her. When three adults — loners, drifters — go missing, no one... Read more »
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The Darkness Gathers
By: Lisa Unger
Narrated by: Emily Beresford
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Fresh from a tour promoting her last book, reclusive true-crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protect Tatiana Quinn. Maybe the plea strikes close to her heart; maybe her investigator’s intuition ignites. She takes it on.
But this simple case of a missing teenager soon becomes much more. Someone... Read more »
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Twice
By: Lisa Unger
Narrated by: Emily Beresford
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed artist Julian Ross has just been found standing over her husband’s bloody corpse in their New York City apartment. Julian claims that she slept peacefully beside him while he was violently stabbed in their bed. But police are skeptical, especially since Julian’s first husband was killed and mutilated in exactly the same way. Julian... Read more »
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Smoke
By: Lisa Unger
Narrated by: Emily Beresford
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In the final installment of her Lydia Strong series, bestselling author Lisa Unger, writing as Lisa Miscione, brings us her most shocking and emotionally wrenching case yet. An NYPD detective visits Lydia and her husband, P.I. Jeffrey Mark, to inform them that Lily, one of Lydia’s former writing students, has been missing for more than two... Read more »
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