Ransom

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job, and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband's death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost.

Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn't imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core, and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life.

A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda's family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them.

Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life's inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.

©2004 Danielle Steel (P)2004 Random House, Inc., Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Ransom Almost 5 stars!

95% of this was great, I held back on 5 stars due to the language. This story line could have been just as effective without the language. No one needs to F bomb at all and I was surprised actually because it directly affects the integrity of the writer and the story. The characters were strong and it was somewhat suspenseful. Without being a spoiler the outcome was good. The last few chapters were the meat of the story, so much so that I had to carve out time to finish the last 30 minutes without having to wait until days end to know how it all comes together.

Superb!!! I'll Read It Over & Over!!!

I'm A Die Hard Danielle Steel Romance Fan And This Is One Of The Best Mystery's I've Ever Read!!!

Typical

Typical Danielle Steel, easy listening, but so unrealistic! If you don’t have the money to feed your children what are you doing buying two dozen longstem red roses? What are you doing going out for pizza if you can’t afford to put groceries in your cupboard? What are you doing paying to send your kids to private school if you can’t afford to buy them clothes or shoes? A lot of extravagance -very unrealistic! I live on Social Security and wouldn’t consider for a moment wasting money on flowers or pizza out! Audible is my only extravagant!

Ransom

Great book! It keeps you trying to solve and second guess what’s next. I enjoyed this book!

loved all of it.

loved it do much I will have to read it again.

want to find other books just like that one.

This book is entirely too gripping!

This book is so twisted and what you would expect to happen next is not what happens next a lot of the time. Keeps you thinking and wondering what happens next and there's a lot of "I didn't see that coming" or "That's not what I was expecting" but it hooks you still and leaves you sitting at the edge of your seat at times waiting for the narrator to get to it. Couldn't put the phone down and got irritated with people calling while I was listening to it interrupting the Audibles and taking me away from this read.

Ransom

This book was easy to listen to and had good narration, it was slow at points, but overall I enjoyed it.

Ransom

Interesting plot. Moves along smoothly. One can feel the frustration of this woman whose husband has put her in such a precarious position.

A little slow

I didn't hate it but it was so slow in spots. I would get to a really good part and then it would just go too slow.....I agree with other reviewers about the repitition.....although I appreciate detail from a author, in this book Steele says the same thing over and over! Decent listen but I have heard many much better

Not among my fave DS books.

I liked some of the characters, but the story was just too complicated. Having Ron McClarty narration kept me listening, but I didn’t make it to the end.