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    The Last Time She Saw Him
    The Last Time She Saw Him
    The Last Time She Saw Him
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    The Last Time She Saw Him

    Written by Jane Haseldine

    Narrated by Kate Rudd

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    In Jane Haseldine’s gripping and brilliantly crafted debut, a reporter searching for her kidnapped son must untangle the connection to her brother's long-ago disappearance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateJun 28, 2016
    ISBN9781666595680
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    Jane Haseldine

    Jane Haseldine is a Canadian journalist, former crime reporter, columnist, newspaper editor, magazine writer, and deputy director of communications for a governor. A graduate of Syracuse University, Haseldine has lived all over the US, and now resides in southern California with her husband and two sons.

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    • 4/5
      So, this book made me a bit paranoid, which IMO is a sign of well-written suspense! THE LAST TIME SHE SAW HIM is Jane Haseldine's debut novel, and also a fantastic start to the Julia Gooden Mystery series.Julia is the mother of two young boys and a crime reporter in Detroit. In 1977, her 9-year old brother Ben was kidnapped, seemingly gone without a trace. Because of Ben's mysterious disappearance, Julia is extremely overprotective of her own children, to the point where it's put a strain on her marriage. Then the unthinkable happens - exactly 30 years to the day of Ben's kidnapping, one of her sons is abducted. Could the two cases be related? I enjoyed Julia's smart, tough (yet flawed) character. This was a gripping, fast-paced mystery, with plenty of heart-pounding scenes. Perhaps not everything that happened was plausible, but overall this was an exciting read. Some unanswered questions at the end make me especially curious about the next book. {Borrowed from the library.}
    • 3/5
      Most of us don't dwell on our fears if we can help it. If we did, it might paralyze us. Ask any parent, especially parents of young children, to think about it seriously though and one of their looming fears to do with their children is likely to be that their child will be kidnapped. We all know of child abduction cases that happened in our state or even our town. They are widely reported on the news and disseminated across the globe through our Facebook feeds. We see the ones that end well (very few) and the ones that end tragically. And too, we see the ones that have no closure even years later. Debut author, Jane Haseldine, in her thriller, the first in a series, The Last Time She Saw Him, exploits this fear, not just once but twice over.Julia Gooden is a successful crime reporter who is taking a leave of absence from her job after a case comes up that is too close to her own past, triggering what few memories she has of the last day she saw her brother. When Julia was seven, her nine year old brother and protector, Ben, was snatched from the bedroom they shared. Julia doesn't remember anything about the awful night itself and Ben was never found. She's never given up searching for him and the terrible thing that happened has changed the way she lives her life. Now 37, Julia has two young sons of her own, Logan and Will, and her extreme overprotectiveness of them, her inability to allow them any freedom at all, has crippled her, embarrasses her older son, and is tearing her marriage apart. On leave from her job and newly separated from her husband, Julia takes the boys to their lake house but, even there, she can't block out the horror in her past or conquer the fear with which she has always lived.If Julia thought the lake house would be safer for her boys, she soon finds she's mistaken and the unthinkable happens. Thirty years to the day that her brother was taken, her 2 year old son Will is also snatched from his crib. Certain that her brother's long ago abduction and Will's abduction are connected because of a similarity at the crime scene, Julia is frantic to beat the clock and locate her baby before something even worse can happen to him. She uses all of the skills she's honed over the years as an investigative reporter to try and help the police track down Will and his abductors. The inspector in charge of the case is an old lover, and now friend of long standing, of Julia's, Ray Navarro. A pedophile TV evangelist, Reverend Cahill, who is in jail in large part thanks to Julia's dogged research into his crimes, claims he's received letters about Will's abduction. A psychic is called in to consult on the case, much to Julia's dismay, and her long estranged, scam artist of an older sister also shows up to complicate Julia's waking nightmare.Julia as a character is determined and strong but also forever marked by the tragedy of her brother's kidnapping. She barrels through the investigation, certain of her own hunches and refusing to be shut out. Even the reader can find her brusque and foolhardy at times. She narrates her own story so it is a little bit strange that the beginning of the novel feels so slow and draggy, not picking up until well after Will's abduction. Julia herself is a well fleshed out character but the other pivotal characters in the novel aren't as fully drawn, perhaps because they are presented from Julia's point of view. The tension of the novel does pick up as it moves along, eventually reaching a crescendo. The ending turns into a nightmarish farce of insanity and pure evil that ends up being totally unsatisfying given the believability and tautness of the plot up until that point. Despite the madness and unbelievability of the ending, there is some promise here for readers of mysteries and thrillers who want to see how Haseldine progresses as a writer.
    • 4/5
      The Last Time She Saw Him by Jane Haseldine is a 2016 Kensington publication. Just one day before the start of a new school year, Julia’s nine-year-old brother disappeared in the night, never to be seen or heard from again. It was Julia, not her parents, who alerted the authorities of her brother’s absence. Although she was right there with him, Julia couldn’t remember the details of that night- which, like her missing brother, still haunts her thirty years after the fact. Everything about her childhood has affected Julia- her choice to become a crime beat journalist, and her intense over-protective-ness of her children- which has put a serious strain on her marriage. But then, her worst fears are realized when her own son is kidnapped on the anniversary of her brother’s disappearance. Knowing the window of opportunity is narrow, Julia goes all- in- not only to save her son, but to finally uncover her brother’s fate…Somewhere along the way, I acquired the second book of this series, which has been languishing on my Kindle for a long while. I was laboring under the impression it was a stand-alone novel- but when I realized it was part of a series, I waffled a little. Did I really want to start yet another series? Since this series is only four -deep, at the moment, I thought I’d read the first book, and then decide. Well, it looks as though I might be starting another new series. LOL! At first, I was a little worried because the set up here, with a long missing sibling, is remarkably similar to another series, I recently started, but as it turns out, the similarities end there. I liked Julia, flawed though she may be. She’s got her vulnerabilities, but she thinks fast on her feet, is very smart, and tough as nails when she needs to be. The jury is still out on some of the secondary characters, as I was not entirely impressed with some people in Julia’s orbit.The race against time is effective, as are the tense surprises that kept me glued to the pages. There is a poignancy to the story, amid the grit and darkness, that is melancholy and bittersweet, and gives the story an added layer of emotion. Overall, this a very solid introduction to this series. I already have book two queued up and ready to go… 4 stars
    • 4/5
      A fast paced and well written mystery! I love finding new authors and will definitely be looking for more from this author. I liked all the characters in this story but especially Julia Gooden, the main character. Julia Gooden is a crime reporter in the city of Detroit who has 2 small boys and is separated from her husband. Her brother was abducted when she was only 7 years old and she is very protective of her 2 sons for this reason. Her worst nightmare comes true when her 2 year old son is taken from their home. Are these 2 cases which happened 30 years apart connected? This story keeps you guessing until the end.
    • 3/5
      Thanks to Librarything and Kensington Books for a free copy of this book.The Last Time She Saw Him is the story of Julia Gooden, alternating between the past when her older brother was abducted at nine years of age, and the present day when one of her children is abducted on the anniversary of her brother's disappearance.This well crafted plot had me from the very beginning. I was invested in the main character and felt very anxious about what she was going through. I had such a hard time putting the book down that I read it all in one day.I am only giving it 3 stars, 3.5 actually, because I felt that it went a bit overboard towards the end. However, if it was a movie, I would have enjoyed the ending a lot more.
    • 3/5
      I received a copy of this book through the Member Giveaway program on LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.I'm a fan of mysteries, both in print and on the big screen, and the premise of this book really caught my attention. As I began reading I was prematurely trying to guess who the kidnapper was and what the connection was between Julia’s brother and son. I couldn't wait to see “whodunnit.”I was disappointed with the book, if I'm being completely honest. It was too fast-paced for one thing. The story takes place over roughly a 48 hour period, but as I was reading it felt like everything was being pushed along too quickly. I would have appreciated longer breaks where the author could have better described settings, atmosphere, mood, etc. She painted physical descriptions of the other characters fairly well, but had the novel been written in third person she could have explored the back stories and motivations, which would have also given more breaks to the action. I’m assuming she wrote it in the first person perspective of Julia to pull the reader into her anguish as a mother and be more sympathetic to some of the dangerous and poor decisions she made along the way. Don't get me wrong, I didn't dislike the character, but I really think a third person narrative would have given the novel more opportunities. Even having it in first person but alternating chapters from Julia's perspective and that of the kidnapper (without giving away their identity) would have been an improvement.Another issue I had with the novel was the dialogue. In some instances it felt too formal and forced. As an example in one of the action-packed climactic scenes, Detective Navarro asks where a particular building is located, and rather than utilize realistic back and forth staccato sentences (such as “the other side of the hill,” I shouted as we raced out the door) the author actually chose to write “the guest house is on the other side of the hill from here.” This is just one example but throughout the book I felt the dialogue was not believable in the action-heavy scenes.Overall I think this was a good effort as a first novel for the author. There were a lot of unbelievable moments in the action as some of the other reviewers pointed out and a lot of loose ends, which seem to imply a second novel. I really think this could have been fleshed out into a much thicker tome and the story told in a slower pace with more context and mood setting, then wrap up the loose endings in an afterword.
    • 4/5
      The Last Time She Saw Him by Jane Haseldine is a suspense-filled book. It had multiple suspects in a child's disappearance from thirty years prior but remained unsolved. There is a present day child's disappearance.Sadly, there were numerous distracting spacing errors in the kindle copy I read. Because of that need for editing, I gave it four stars. This does not reflect on the quality of the author's writing. Otherwise it would have five stars because I enjoy a book that keeps me guessing."I became a reporter because I never found the ending to my own story. Thirty years after Ben's abduction, the only answers I could find were for others, the victims or those they left behind. The crime beat is a natural for me. The people I write about are the most fragile, the most broken, & they need the most answers. I piece together the frayed strands of their lives. I have to tell their stories. I feel like I owe the victims at least that."I received a complimentary copy from Kensington Books & NetGalley. That did not change my opinion for this review.
    • 3/5
      Julia was only 7-years-old when her brother Ben was kidnapped from their bedroom. The mystery of what happened to him has never been solved. Julia went on to become a crime reporter for a large, daily newspaper, married a successful attorney and had two children. On the 30th anniversary of her brother’s kidnapping, her youngest son is abducted. Are the two cases related? If so, how? As Julia seeks the answers to these questions, Detective Navarro, her former boyfriend, helps her. The action culminates with some very had to believe action, but it was still an entertaining story.