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    Without a Trace
    Without a Trace
    Without a Trace
    Audiobook8 hours

    Without a Trace

    Written by Colleen Coble

    Narrated by Devon O'Day

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    About this audiobook

    When a plane crash claims her husband and son, Bree Nichols and her search-and-rescue dog won't rest until they recover the bodies. But when quiet Rock Harbor is shaken by a violent crime, Bree discovers links to her husband's fatal accident. Would solving this crime bring her peace—or more incredibly, reunite her family?

    It’s been months since the crash. K-9 search-and-rescue worker Bree Nicholls knows the chances of finding her husband and son in the vast wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grow more remote by the day. But her heart and her faithful dog, Samson, demand she keep searching.

    Deep in the woods a young boy wakes in a tiny cabin. He’s being nursed back to health by a reclusive woman, but he can’t figure out why she calls him by a name he doesn’t recognize. Or why she’s calling herself his mother. He wants to leave, but as winter sets in, his very life depends on her care.

    Meanwhile, Bree’s relentless determination to find her family has uncovered a violent crime. With the help of Park Ranger Kade Matthews, she discovers the violence may be linked to the plane crash that took her family. Could solving the crime bring her healing from her own loss?

    Set in the untamed beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the Rock Harbor novels draw readers into the life and adventures of a canine search-and-rescue team as it unravels the secrets of an enchanting wilderness.

    • Full-length romantic suspense 
    • Can be read as a standalone, but is also part of the Rock Harbor series
      • Book 1: Without a Trace
      • Book 2: Beyond a Doubt
      • Book 3: Into the Deep
      • Book 4: Cry in the Night
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9780785215073
    Without a Trace
    Author

    Colleen Coble

    Colleen Coble is the USA TODAY bestselling author of more than seventy-five books and is best known for her coastal romantic suspense novels. Connect with her online at colleencoble.com; Instagram: @colleencoble; Facebook: @colleencoblebooks; X: @colleencoble.

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    • 4/5
      I'm really enjoying the book and was excited to find it that it's both Christian and based in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. However, being from Michigan and listening to the repeated mispronunciation of Houghton (and Keweenaw in the beginning) is really hard to take. I would've expected that someone would have made sure these were correct before recording!!
    • 5/5
      Fun read. I loved the setting. The integrity in this book is refreshing.
    • 4/5
      I liked the book and thought it had some good twists and turns. Some of it seemed a smidge cheesy, but in a good Hallmark kind of way.
    • 4/5
      Title: Without a Trace (Rock Harbor #1)Author: Colleen CoblePages: 303Year: 2013Publisher: Thomas NelsonMy rating is 4 out of 5 stars.Bree Nicholls is a young widow who works as a search and rescue canine worker. Her husband and young son are presumed to be dead after their plane failed to show up for a scheduled landing. Bree has been searching the last 11 months in the North Woods of Michigan. This search has taken over her life. People of the town of Rock Harbor notice the change in her. Her best friend urges her to give up the search and move on with her life. Bree finally agrees to do so when someone finds a lost mitten with her son’s initials inside.An avid rock climber, Fay Aster, tells Bree she might have some information about seeing something from a plane on one of her hikes. Fay keeps a journal of her hikes and asks Bree to meet her the next day so they can go over her journal. Bree’s hopes for information are dashed when Fay is found dead at the bottom of a cliff wall. Her backpack along with her journal are missing. It is quickly determined that Fay did not fall but was murdered. Park Ranger Kade Matthews wants to help Bree discover answers to the murder that may lead to answers to her missing family.I loved the way Anu, Bree’s mother-in-law, brought God into conversations. Even when Bree expressed her doubt or unbelief, Anu kept loving Bree. Her best friend, Naomi, was the same. So, Bree had people in her life who kept showing her God’s love through Bree’s grief and doubt. I think this is a good start to what I hope is an exciting series. I am looking forward to going back to Rock Harbor for book two in the series: Beyond a Doubt.Note: The opinions shared in this review are solely my responsibility.
    • 4/5
      As the back cover of this book says it so well, this is a "whodunit with a wide-ranging cast of characters that captures the small-town America. Colleen Coble brings Michigan's Upper Peninsula to life". If you love a good mystery with a little bit of romance, then you should enjoy this book and this series.Bree Nichols runs a search-and-rescue team in the UP and has never stopped searching the wilderness around her for her husband and young child's downed plane. She wants closure on what happened and wants to be able to find their bodies. But while she searches a violent crime takes place. Can the two be related some how? I won't spoil the outcome of this story, but will say I didn't have the mystery completely figured out until the author revealed all the clues. Good work! Looking forward to the next book in the series, "Beyond a Doubt".
    • 4/5
      This was a Christiand mystery without being too preachy. I was surprised at whom the murderer was.
    • 4/5
      Bree Nichols and her German Shepherd mix dog, Samson, are a Search and Rescue (SAR) team in Rock Harbor, a small town on Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She has been looking for the small plane that went down with her husband and four year old son for a year. She knows that she needs to let go of the search, accept their deaths, and get on with living, but a part of her just can't stop searching for the missing plane. Then a woman who tells Bree that she saw an airplane seat near a remote cabin while hiking is found murdered in the woods. While trying to figure out who killed this woman, Bree begins to uncover clues about what happened to her husband's plane. This book was an enjoyable Christian mystery, with good characters and a beautiful, well-described setting. The mystery was mostly predictable, yet I was drawn to the story and the resolution nonetheless. This book also addresses some difficult questions of faith, and Bree's thoughts and questions about God and faith seemed very realistic to me in the face of her circumstances. I will most likely read the next book in the series at some time.
    • 5/5
      I love reading mysteries and had been searching for a Christian mystery book. I happened upon this book on sale at my local bookstore and decided to give it a try. I was a little skeptical at first as to how God would be tied into a mystery but Colleen Coble does a wonderful job of this. I was surprised at how much I enoyed this book. I couldn't put it down. We follow Bree Nicholls as she searches for the plane wreckage of her husband and son, along with her trained search-and-rescue dog Sampson. Colleen writes this book in a way that draws you in to the characters and keeps you guessing until the end. I don't want to give too much away because it is a great read so if you like mysteries you need to read this one! I am planning on going out and getting the rest of the books in this series.
    • 3/5
      While it took me a while to get into this one, I think it might have just been because of introducing characters for this series. I did enjoy the story, although I figured out most of the mystery long before the details were revealed. The 'salvation' of the main character through her friends was a bit overdone, in my opinion. I'm a Christian, but I find most Christian fiction to be too 'preachy' and obvious....this book bordered on that several times, but for most of the story it wasn't too bad. I'm not anxious to read more in the series, but I might give it one more chance.