Coram House

A Novel

By: Bailey Seybolt

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Chris Henry Coffey, Jason Culp, Jackie Sanders

Sharp Objects meets The Appeal in this “atmospheric and chilling” (Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author) novel—based on a shocking true story—about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates a decades-old mystery at a crumbling orphanage.

On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Fifty years later, the opportunity to investigate his disappearance and the orphanage’s sinister history is just the break that struggling true crime writer Alex Kelley needs.

Arriving in Vermont for research, Alex grows obsessed with Tommy’s disappearance, then her investigation takes a harrowing turn with the discovery of a woman’s body in the lake. Alex is convinced this new death is somehow connected to Coram House’s dark past, even if Officer Russell Parker thinks she’s just desperate for a story. As the body count rises, Alex must prove that the key to finding the killer lies in a decades-old murder—or else she risks becoming the next victim herself.

Good not great.

I enjoyed this book very much. The narrators did a wonderful job. I think the story could have been better but still it was good.

Monotone narration, stupidly obvious ending.

I did not like this book. It spent so much time in the weeds it was ridiculous. I kept hearing that the ending was so surprising, but it wasn't. It was glaringly, stupidly obvious. I feel like I wasted my time waiting for this book to get better but it never did. Disappointing. On top of the stupid ending, the narration is terrible. It sounds like monotone AI. Steer clear, there's way better books out there.