Far Gone

Badlands Thriller, Book 2

By: Danielle Girard

Narrated by: Whitney Dykhouse

From the USA Today bestselling author of White Out comes a story of two heroines with shattered pasts and a town with blood on its hands.

When a North Dakota couple is shot down in their home in cold blood, the sleepy town of Hagen wakes with a jolt. After all, it’s usually such a peaceful place. But Detective Kylie Milliard knows better.

Despite not handling a homicide investigation in years, Kylie is on the case. A drop of blood found at the scene at first blush promises to be her best evidence. But it ultimately only proves that someone else witnessed the murder - and the results are shocking: the DNA reveals a familial match to a crime involving local nurse Lily Baker from over a decade ago. This unveiling stirs new nightmares for Lily as she’s forced to reckon with the most traumatic time in her life.

Haunted by their pasts and hunting the killer, Kylie and Lily uncover hellish secrets and impossible truths, finding answers that put both their lives in jeopardy.

©2021 by Danielle Girard, Inc. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Secrets...Lies...Murder...What's not to love?

Oh but this book though! I didn't know that I could love Danielle Girard any more, and honestly at the beginning I thought that I was going to hate this book, but OH HOW THAT CHANGED! I have read if not all...just about all of Danielle Girard's books! I think it is save to say that she is absolutely one of my all-time favorite authors and if I ever doubted it before, Far Gone solidified it for sure!

Secrets, lies, murder, and an unknown witness...what's not to love about that? I don't want to go too in depth because you just really need to read the greatness of this story and take it all in for yourself and I don't want to take any chances on giving any of it away because you just need to experience this for yourself! There are so many twists and turns that you better buckle up!

The characters are in-depth and well thought out and intertwine with the story perfectly. There's a story within a story, maybe within a story, so there's nothing about this book that I didn't love!

I don't care if it's in the Badlands Thriller Series or a Standalone or part of another series, but I am ecstatic for the next Danielle Girard book, whatever it may be! It cannot come soon enough for me!

Far Gone was narrated by Whitney Dykhouse, and although I don't recall ever listening to her before, I think she did a pretty good job presenting this story!

Overall...this book should be far gone to the top of the best sellers list...for sure! There's a lot to follow, but if you're up to the challenge, then you should be rewarded in the end!

Amazing Story!!

Far Gone is the second book of a trilogy. I really enjoyed the first book, but the second was extraordinary. I couldn't put it down! There are return characters as well as new ones and all of them are well developed. The story line has unexpected twists and turns that I didn't even see coming.
The audio was excellent. It was easy to identify different characters. If you like realistic mystery/crime series, these books are for you. :)

Good plot but.....

The story was good and so was the reader. She has a pleasent voice and is easy to listen to, however 2 points in the book bothered me. One is the hanging of blood in the ER. Even emergency blood you dont hang it up and wait on the patient to get there. There is a time window involved to hang blood. Yes, I work in a blood bank.
The most weird thing was when Chase arrived wearing sweats but after the accident he was in jeans. He did not have time to change. Good story though.

it was very interesting how the characters evolve

It was interesting how the characters evolved from one story to the next. very good read

Good read. nice ending. some parts too unrealistic

Good wring grammatically. flowed well most of the time. too detailed in some areas. section saving injured son too extensive, gory and boring as an example. like most dramatic fiction, some scenes taken beyond believeable or credible levels.