Upstanding Young Man

A Novel

By: Sharon Doering

Narrated by: Josh Hurley, Megan Tusing

In a quiet Chicago suburb, a star wrestler goes missing weeks before his high school graduation, shattering his mother’s carefully curated image of domestic bliss.

A pulse-pounding thriller with complicated family dynamics, perfect for fans of domestic suspense writers like Mary Kubica and Jennifer Hillier.

Meg Hart has taken great pains to create her perfect All-American family. It looks effortless, but that’s because she’s been smart about it.

However, on a brisk spring morning weeks before his graduation, her son McClane goes missing. And as the investigation deepens, the police zero in on her as their perfect suspect. Tragedy has struck this family before, and all signs suggest that she is the source. Add in her elusive husband’s strange behavior and inconsistencies in her story, it becomes clear that she has plenty to hide.

Before he disappears, it turns out McClane has secrets of his own: a pregnant girlfriend, a shocking truth about his wrestling career, and a chilling discovery—the person he trusts most has betrayed him in the worst way.

Alternating between Meg’s perspective in the initial days of the investigation and McClane’s in the hours leading up to his disappearance, Upstanding Young Man is packed with relentless tension and short, fast-paced chapters that will keep listeners up all night.

©2025 Sharon Doering (P)2025 Audible, Inc.

Way too long

It’s a good book if you just wanna listen them to someone talk on and on about the same thing over and over

could not stop listening!

edge of your seat. listened to it in a day and a half. it was just thrilling and not easy to figure out!

I'm Shocked No Other Reviewer Has Mentioned This

It took me a minute to connect with this story, not because it didn't instantly hook me (it did), but because the children (Natalie especially but McClain too) weren't really written as children. They had the same apparent wisdom and self-possession as the adults in the story, and that's not realistic. If you think about what you were like at age 17-18, and then think about the sophisticated thoughts/actions of McClain and Natalie, you will realize their thoughts/actions were not written as a youth's should be. Whitney, too. Despite this irritation, I thought the actual storyline was really good and I found myself listening & wanting to listen at times I wouldn't normally, because I wanted to know what'd happen.

Great book!

I loved this book! It was a great read. The narrators were great. The story was different and I couldn’t get enough. I was trying to figure out who and why. I would def recommend!

Excelente !¡!

Anyone who has read my reviews knows I’m super hard on the story and the narrator and overall rarely give 5 stars.
This book is worth 5 stars across the board. I enjoyed every second. Fantastic story The narrator was fantastic. Both of them. The characters were realistic, and I enjoyed loving them and hating them. The way the story unfolds keeps you entertained and intrigued. I absolutely love this book.