The Grown-Up

A Thriller

By: Saskia Noort, Jai van Essen - translator

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing, Amanda Dolan

A mother vanishes. A daughter searches—down a dark and twisted trail in a bestselling edge-of-the-seat thriller about secrets, lies, and a family destroyed in one terrifying instant.

Seventeen-year-old Lies wakes up to find that her mother’s bed hasn’t been slept in. Her car is parked outside. And her purse and cell phone are still by the front door. After twenty-four hours, when every possible explanation is exhausted, the reality is all too frightening for Lies. Her mother is missing.

Lies’s father and his new girlfriend chalk it up to another attention-seeking stunt. When authorities show little interest in a woman who likely walked away from her old life in favor of a new one, Lies is compelled to investigate on her own. But why would her mother abandon Lies and her younger brother? Why would her mother scrub her laptop before disappearing? And who are the strangers on her mother’s phone?

Growing more desperate with each disturbing day, Lies uncovers secrets that turn her world upside down. Nothing will stop her from getting to the truth. No matter how shocking it may be.

©2021, 2025 Saskia Noort. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2025 by Jai van Essen.

Anticipated outcome

Peter is such. a jerk. total narcissist. by the end we all knew he was the nasty murderer. the daughter fails to discover her father's hand in the murder most foul !!

C+ rating - has a lot of sex

This book had so many needless 50 shades of gray moments, it took away from story. It was free for me on kindle so I’d say it’s worth a listen, the storyline is interesting & has some twists, but also predictable in places. And again, the *hardcore* scenes probably need an SA warning. Just weird placement

what?

The story started off slow. Eventually it pulled me in but the ending..... I don't even know what to say... it was.... abrupt? kind of disappointed.

slow, predictable and waste of time

disappointing story line. unnecessary SA / shades of gray. just poorly done and waste of time.