The Cutaway

A Novel

By: Christina Kovac

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

“The Newsroom meets Gone Girl” (Cosmopolitan) in this stunning psychological thriller featuring a young television producer investigating the disappearance of a beautiful Georgetown lawyer—perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn.

When brilliant TV news producer Virginia Knightly, “a tenacious, lovable heroine” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), receives a disturbing “MISSING” notice on her desk related to the disappearance of a beautiful young attorney, she can’t help but suspect that the lawyer may be at the heart of something far more sinister. When she realizes that she is the only one at her studio who seems to care, Knightly decides to investigate on her own.

Risking her career, her life, and perhaps even her own sanity, Knightly dives deep into the dark underbelly of Washington, DC business and politics in an investigation that will drag her mercilessly through the inextricable webs of corruption that bind the press, the police, and politics in our nation’s capital.

Harkening to dark thrillers such as Luckiest Girl Alive and Big Little Lies, The Cutaway is a ravishingly suspenseful thriller.

Great lead and hooking storyline

Any additional comments?

Knightly is a producer for a news network. She also has a troubled history with her family and basically a photographic memory. Those traits cause her to focus more on aspects that others might overlook. She sees a piece on a missing woman and can't let it go. Most everyone in her life seems to be trying to hinder her digging deeper into the woman's story. Murder, mystery, politics, detectives, witnesses and more come into play. She isn't a cop, but she is an investigative journalist out to connect the answers and expose the coverups. She's a likable lead, and the storyline is great at keeping the reader hooked and guessing. Anyone could be guilty. The Cutaway was a win for me, and I'm definitely going to be following this author's future works.

Great plot and amazing attention to detail

I was completely engrossed in it. Not only for great writing, but for the unpredictable plot line and her acute attention to detail! Even if I didn’t know all of the locales in this book, for I work in DC it would have put me there with how she wonderfully described each place in a manner that only the great writers can do.

My only complaint is minor and that was of the reader of the book. Loved her voice and pacing, but knowing the iconic Irish restaurant known as The Dubliner, would have loved for her to pronounce it correctly.

I did love that it wasn’t predictable and followed so many other writers formula for a “Hollywood” ending.

Not That Great

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The narrator, I have heard this narrator before and she has an odd speech inflection, almost like a speech impediment. Very hard to listen to especially when she tries to do men's voices. They sound like they have no personality.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

This narrator is hard to listen to and has a very strange inflection in her voice. She also absolutely cannot do men's voices. It ruins the whole story.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No

Any additional comments?

The story might have been better if there was a different narrator.

Good story, forced delivery

No need to change voices for male and female. it sounded really awkward and forced. otherwise, she did well at narrating.

The Inside Cut

I enjoyed this novel in the life of a reporter and news anchor. This was a fairly decent Audiobook. Tumbs up to the writter and narrator.
The killer did truly surprise me, which is very hard to accomplish. I had an inkling in the beginning but quickly dismissed it.
This Audiobook is well worth the purchase.
Official Review by: Author, Narrator and blogger
DeAnn DeVille