Cat & Vivian

A Novella

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Catherine Taber, Cynthia Darlow, Matt Boren

In this sharp and shocking mystery by the New York Times best-selling author of Reese Witherspoon/Hello Sunshine pick The Jetsetters and The Lifeguards, a woman visiting her grandmother–a retired, once-legendary PI–becomes entangled in a mystifying local disappearance case on the beautiful, remote islands outside Savannah, Georgia.

Vivian, a former reporter and a newlywed, doesn’t know what to do with herself after an incident with her husband forces her to question their partnership and her future. Yearning for the ocean air and a sense of home, she retreats to Tybee Island to clear her head and visit her Nana, a retired PI who now struggles with dementia.

The phone rings: Catherine Grant, a housewife living in a private development nearby, woke up to find her husband and their baby girl missing, and she is desperate for help. Guided by all the wisdom her grandmother has instilled in her over the years, Vivian falls headfirst into this complicated case that will prove one of Nana’s favorite principles: In order to understand the present, you must examine the past.

©2022 Amanda Eyre Ward (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.

Gotta love it

Love the story, the setting, and the performances were spot on! Listened in one sitting. Funny and intriguing.

Entertaining

This was an entertaining read. My mind didn’t wander from the story or the telling. Keeping my mind busy without distraction is T.H.E. positive for everything I read. I would have liked a different ending - one that concentrated on Vivian fighting for her own recovery; substance and marital abuse. Maybe those things were implied in the “swim” and I didn’t see it.
Read this book.

Pretty good listen

Pretty good listen and good good twist, ending was a little lack lustered though

Too predictable

It was a good story, I just found it predictable. The author gave away too much, I think

Short but...

Feel a bit unforfilled for some reason. Both C & V are well developed characters.