Kate’s text message referred to a “letter” that would explain everything, so they search for that first. Morales’s office that night and search for clues on Kate’s phone and laptop. Morales’s 13-year-old daughter, Natalie, sneak into Ms. Desperate to solve the mystery, the kids, with the help of Ms. Morales, saying that she may never return. Things get even more strange when the children discover a text from their mother, intended for Ms. Also, one of Finn’s classmates says he saw Finn’s mother running out of a bank holding a bag, even suggesting that she robbed it. Morales’s extreme caution when picking them up from school. The kids are anxious when their mother doesn’t call the next day. Morales-a woman they barely know-will be watching them until she gets back. The next day, she announces that she has to go out of town on a business trip, and Ms. That night, Chess overhears his mother, uncharacteristically angry, on a phone call with a man named Joe, telling him, “You have to fix this. In a bizarre coincidence, the three kids have the same names and birthdays as the Greystones. One day, when they come home from school, the kids find their mother visibly upset, reading a news story about three kidnapped kids in Arizona, the Gustanos.

I 100% recommend it for anyone.The Strangers tells the story of Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone who live in Ohio with their mother, Kate. Definitely one of my favorite books of all time, so authentic and thorough. I'm hoping the second book doesn't suffer the same pitfalls. I tuned the pitch out but every once in a while I'd notice it. 2) there is an incessant ringing in the background that might render the audiobook unlistenable for any audiophiles out there. Saying 'restart chapter' can make you go back four chapters and take forever to find your place once more. Two things are bad about this audiobook, both minor technical issues: 1) The audible chapter encoding is off, so despite the book having ~30 chapters the audible breaks them up haphazardly into 8 audible chapters making navigation by voice very difficult. Steven did a wonderful job, and Margaret wrote a classic. As an adult, the book hit just as hard and I found myself entirely enveloped in the suspense and drama of the book despite already knowing everything that happens. This book was one of my childhood favorites.

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