Hard to believe that a supposedly smart suspended cop runs around interrogating witnesses, showing up at crime scenes and doing just about everything that could incriminate him. The sniper Bobby, whom I've enjoyed in other Gardner novels, completely lacks common sense in this one. She's written like a really bad cartoon character. The femme fatale Catherine is supposed to have such beauty and sex appeal that men abandon their senses, morals and good judgment at a single glance. The story seemed intriguing at first - top-notch sniper saves the lives of a mother and child in a hostage situation, but finds himself accused in a murder plot - but became so implausible that it got tedious. She attempts to do a Boston accent with the character of Bobby (the only character with a Boston accent in a book full of Boston natives), but it comes and goes, and is never effective. Plus, all the men seemed to have slurred speech. Her attempt at male characters reminded me of adolescent girls pretending to be men while making prank calls. I've heard Anna Fields before, and she was competent, but this is cringeworthy. First of all, this is some of the worst audiobook narration I've ever heard. I usually enjoy Lisa Gardner's work, but I gave up on this one just over halfway through. Terrible narrator, unsympathetic characters If this book were a movie would you go see it?

I am so glad that they changed performers in the other books. sound much too prissy compared to every other audiobook performer I have heard. I understand that she was trying to lay on the Boston accent thick, but it came along with making him sound like a big dumb oaf throughout, and having read other Lisa Gardner books, I know that this was not the intention for Bobby Dodge. The performer made Bobby Dodge sound like 65 year old moron from South Boston. How could the performance have been better? The story was great and is very necessary to read the follow up 'HIDE.' Great plot twists. I contemplated just reading it, but since I had already purchased the audio book, I just kept going with it. No, the voice actor did such a horrible job personifying characters that I couldn't wait for the recording to be over. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Alone by Lisa Gardner