When You Come Back

By: Debra Webb

Narrated by: Mitzi Pirkey

Forensic anthropologist Emma Graves knows about the dead. But can the dead help her remember why she’s still alive?

When you are lost....

Emma Graves was only eight years old when a tragic school bus accident shattered the rural community where she grew up. When the bus was discovered, the driver was dead and Emma, her older sister, and her sister’s best friend were missing. A frantic search through the cold, dark woods in the surrounding area began. As the sun rose the next morning, a cold and terrified Emma was found. Emma remembered little else beyond watching through the fractured windshield as her sister and her friend walked away from the bus to find help. Spring turned into summer and then to fall, and the missing girls never came back.

When you come back....

Twenty-five years later, Emma is all grown up. Though she is an acclaimed forensic anthropologist, her personal life is a different matter. After surviving another tragic accident, this one at a dig, Emma needs to hide somewhere and pull herself together again. After all, she has been fractured since she was eight years old; this breakdown has been coming for a long time. Going home is her only choice. The last thing she expected to find on her return was two more young girls missing. The small town is torn apart all over again. With Emma back, attention turns to her. What is she hiding? Why can’t she remember what really happened that day 25 years ago? Why is she back in town now and two more children are missing? When human remains are found deep in a cave that requires Emma’s expertise in retrieving them, the truth may just be more than anyone bargained for.

©2019 Debra Webb (P)2019 Debra Webb

Southern Accent

The southern accent was disconcerting because it was so inauthentic. It certainly did not enhance the performance or story.

Tense!

Power and cover-up of a 20-year-old tragedy lead our heroines on a sleuthing expedition to find the truth.
Well-written.

Mitzi Pirkey does a great job narrating and bringing the characters to life.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Gripping Story

Emma was known as the girl who came back, a part of her is still missing. Her sister and her friend never found, now twenty five years, another mishaps and Emma is broken. Going home to heal, only to find heartache for two are missing. Her stories are always gripping, deep-with emotion and twists and turns. Getting ARC audio.brought out the depth of emotion and the chilling effect it has been on this town. Great narration of which I voluntary review and my honest opinion

When you come back

I could barely put this book down!It was so exciting! Emma is the child left behind after a bus accident.Her sister and another girl go for help,and dissapear forever.When two girls go missing years later Emma is back in town.It is not a good time for anyone.There were a few parts I was a bit confused over,but all in all a solid book. Mitzi Pirkey was a fine narrator. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'

Narrator should drop the “southern” accents!

The storyline is great. It is a little to drawn out but is well written and mostly kept my attention. I am from Alabama and thought I would enjoy the setting being so close to my home town. The narrator had no idea how to pronounce the towns, seriously mobile is movement. Mobile is Mo-Bill or Mo-Beal, a costal town. When she read the book without trying to sound southern then the story flowed along fine.

The plot is based on a 25 year old disappearance of two teenage girls from a small town. The younger sister returns home and ends up involved in finding out what really happened all those years ago. There were a few twists and some good secrets to the story as well as a few emotional moments. I do recommend reading or listening to the book, but I will not be looking for anything from this narrator in the future.