It was an interesting mystery however quite predictable. I’m not sure I enjoyed the audiobook as much as I hoped I would, I didn’t particularly enjoy the narrations of the male characters however apart from that the narrator did a wonderful job and the change in accents helped relate to characters more.
I didn’t quite enjoy the change in views of multiple characters however.
Overall although interesting I didn’t feel like it was a very memorable book.

This is another book that had an interesting premise, but didn’t totally work for me. For me, I think this would be another book that would have worked better if I had read it versus listening to it.

There are two timelines and at times it did get confusing for me. We have Rosie who killed her best friend when she was younger and spent time behind bars. Now she is all grown up with her own family. Like another book I recently listened to, the narrator’s child comes up on Facebook posts as a missing child when the child is in fact with mom. Things turn around over the course of the novel as her daughter actually ends up going missing!

The book is more about a series of child murders than Mia going missing and we also have a reporter, Sadie, who believes in Rosie’s innocence and has always believed her. Through a series of twists, what starts as a slow burn turns into a fast-moving story!

Zoe Mills narration was great! She really brought the story to life with her voice.

Many thanks to the publisher Bookouture for granting me a copy to listen to and review!

I felt for Jessie from the start, fully engaged in her truth coming out. I loved that Sadie was so invested in helping her throughout. Sadly, though, Jessie had to go through a parent’s worst nightmare for any real answers to result. This is one heck of a page turner!

Zoe Mills did a wonderful job narrating the different voices & bringing compassion to them.

Thank you, Elisabeth Carpenter, Bookouture, Bookouture audio & netgalley for my audiobook! All opinions are my own.

4.3⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️



Thankyou #bookcouture and netgalley for the opportunity to read this arc for a honest review.


. Quite interesting story.
Every chapter has a questionable moment, as a mother who is on panic mode but also hiding from somewhere.
The story get more interesting when a police team is involved and couldn’t be trusted .
She is a strong woman but I guess the detective itself is the gold on this story .
Well written ending too that I did not expect .
Worth the read:)


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I loved this beautifully written, twisty story which kept me guessing until the very end. The narrator was also excellent, enabling me to clearly picture each character. A definite five ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me!

First I would like to thank Bookouture Audio for providing me a copy of the audiobook in exchange for my honest opinion.

This is the story of Jessie, artist and mother, who around the anniversary of her childhood best friend's murder starts to experience weird happenings with her life and she can't explain why. As a child Jessie was convicted of murdering her best friend and even though she claimed her innocence nobody believed her except a reporter, who also happened to be her friend's aunt. When random posts about Jessie's daughter, Mia, being kidnapped start appearing on Facebook, Jessie fears the worst that someone found out who she is and is coming to harm her daughter. With her husband Mark not being supportive, Jessie heads north to hide away with her mother until everything calms down. While this is happening to Jessie, the reporter Sadie is close to cracking the case she has been chasing down for 30 long years. As the anniversary of the murder gets closer Sadie and Jessie work together to figure out who murdered her friend and 3 other girls all those years ago.

What I Liked:
Audiobook quality, as this book is set in England sometimes when I increase the speed the quality of the accents get worse but I did not have that issue with this book at all easy to listen to no matter how fast I had it
Sadie, with her personal connection to the death I appreciated that this character stuck to her belief that Jessie never harmed her niece and there was a bigger story out there also that she was always so supportive of Jessie and refused to treat her any different
Twist, I have said this before that I read a lot of mystery/suspense books and I was legitimately surprised with the end of this book when we figure out who did it
Ending, I feel like often these books end with they caught the bad guy but we never know what happens next and this book did a great job with informing the audience what happened after
Characters, I do appreciate that these characters were very "real" in the sense that they had faults, feelings and sometimes weren't the best people and the book didn't shy away from that fact \
Multiple POVs, I liked how this book hopped between a few different characters as well as bringing in things like news articles and interview tapes that help paint a picture of the past and move the story along

Overall this was a quick read that had me hooked from the beginning and I couldn't believe who the overall "big bad" was at the very end. If you are looking for a bit of a different kind of mystery/suspense story I would recommend you consider reading this book.

I highly recommend this to the armchair detectives of the world! A totally addictive page-turner that will have you racing through the pages and reeling at the twists! A fantastic read… Had me guessing till the last pages! Narrators brilliant!

2x narration speed presented no problems. Narrator was well chosen and delivered.

Rosie's daughter Mia is popping up on Facebook as a "missing child", her friend is all too keen to help, her husband is MIA... and then there's Sadie, who's interviews about the past killing of a little girl intersperse the story to create two timelines where the reader is slowing piecing together a sad, tragic story.

The Girl on the News kept the pace moving, but it takes a while for the pieces to start falling together. That said, I was eager to keep listening--and the ending certainly paid off.

While I think 95% of the plot line was easy to figure out, I still really enjoyed the twists, turns, and red herrings along the way.

Overall: 4 (I really liked it)

I'll tell my students about: language, alcohol, drugs, sex, trauma, child death (past tense), violence/killing

**Thank you to NetGalley & Bookouture Audio for the free ALC. All opinions expressed are my own.**

Disappeared off my app before I could listen, despite it being downloaded - couldn't put it back on.

Wow, that was a wild ride! I just knew it was her brother! Also how creepy was her husband who stalked her to get close to her?!?! This was my 1st book by Mark Dawson but it will not be my last, I am adding all of his books to my TBR!

#TheGirlontheNews
#NetGalley

I went back and forth on the review of this one. It was definitely a slow burn for me. I was interested but not hooked. I had thoughts in my head about who did it and went back and forth and I guess I was sort of right and so I do get a little disappointed in books when I sort of have it figured out. But the way the book is written I think maybe it was made for you to figure it out and then get nervous throughout knowing you know and following the character through the situations! I liked this but didn't love it that's why I gave it 3 stars. At some points I felt maybe it drug on a bit longer than it needed to but maybe that's because I wanted more about the other aspects and was just waiting to hear about those and didn't want to know about the other story lines as they didn't draw me in as much as the other characters did. Overall I am happy I read/listened to it and did enjoy it.

The Girl on the News is Rosie's daughter, Mia, they say that she is missing and kidnapping is suspected, except she is safe at home. Why would anyone play a sick joke like this? Does this have anything to do with what Rosie was accused of all those years ago? And what happens when Mia really is kidnapped?

This story was such a great psychological thriller, more slow-burn than action-packed. The book itself was a quick read that kept me guessing and I highly enjoyed it. I particularly liked the added suspense that the narrator was able to lend to the plot and would recommend reading it this way.

As always, look to the trigger warnings prior to reading this. It is a thriller, so dark topics come up. It is not super fast-paced, nor is it super complex. If these are things that you require in your books then it may not be for you.

While not the most complex thriller I have ever read, the twists and turns were really well done. Elisabeth Carpenter did a wonderful job in how she wrote this, because I read it in one sitting and my interest was piqued from the very beginning. This is definitely a great addition to the genre and anyone who is partial to thrillers should read this one!

Oh dear! What a story! So we are told that a 12 year old girl was charged for the murder of her best friend. Really?? For me this is hard to understand, since the law is a bit different in my home country.

So this little girl payed not even with her punishment but also with all her futur plans. But she got out of it and made something of herself.
When her little daughter goes missing all of her past comes back again.

She has to face it- no matter how hard it will be.

In my humble opinion Zoe Mills did a fantastic job telling this story and I

Thank #NetGalley #Bookouture Audio for this audiobook

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book early. Unfortunately I didn't like it at all. I had the audio ARC of this book and that is definitely not the best way to consume this book. The book is about a mother who sees a report that her daughter is missing, but she thinks she knows where her daughter is so she doesn't understand why someone is faking her disappearance. Thats what the synopsis leads you to believe anyway, however this book is actually about a series of children's murders that happened years ago and who was accused, who it actually was, etc. There are a ton of characters and perspectives thrown at you and it was a little confusing on audio, but moreso it just felt like this book tried to do WAY too much and couldn't' accomplish any of it. Plot holes were huge, everything was underdeveloped, and the conclusion happened shortly after the "problem" occurred. This just wasn't good.

Rose spends her adult life trying to move on from the horrors of her childhood. Unfortunately for her the past catches back up to her and now her daughter is in danger. This was an interesting read for me, in the beginning pretty engrossed in the story but quickly found some things just unbelievable.

Rosie’s conviction was one of them, I had a hard time believing something like that under those same circumstances could actually happen. I also had some slight difficulty keeping up with all the time jumps and felt like some of them didn’t help push the story further but dragged it out instead.

Also the conclusion to the story felt kinda flat for me and was pretty predictable. I liked the summary of the novel but the overall execution didn’t hit for me. It was still a pretty decent read.

The Girl on the News:

I really enjoyed this audiobook. It was very slow at the start, but as you continue listening, it gets better and better.

Rosie is only 12 years old when she is convicted of murdering her best friend. Sadie is an investigative journalist. She believes Rosie is innocent. The story has so many twists and turns that will keep you on edge.

I love how strong Rosie's character is; she never lets herself down. Honestly, I did not see that ending coming.

Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for an ARC of the audiobook.

OK...This was a SICK book!

We open up with the news of a missing girl, 4 year old Mia, on the news.

It's a little bit hard to follow (at least in my mind), as we have dual timelines with similar situations. The opening is NOW...with the missing little girl.

Directly after this we go to the 1990's, and the death of another little girl...but this one was 12. And her BEST friend is accused of killing her!
Rosie is/was the best friend.

We meet her thru interviews of the one and only person (at least that's how it seemed to me) who actually believed that she did NOT kill her friend...a reporter/journalist named Sadie, who keeps up with her through the years...

Throughout the book we bounce back and forth between the two timelines, and learn a little bit more about all the main characters (MC) of the book.

Rosie, the female MC, has come from a tough family. She has a mother who seemed to never show her any love, and an older brother, who she really does not keep in touch with much anymore. The Mom had a long list of loves/boyfriends who seemed to mean more to her than her own children. And, as the book begins to unfold, I began to dislike her more and more.
Oh…and she never considered that Rosie might be innocent. 😮

We also see glimpses of the little girls that Rosie and Laurie were...and Laurie's family as well.

Once it got going, it was a very fast paced, can't catch your breath, kind of read...

And me for one, did not see the last quarter of the book coming!
Very EYE OPENING, to say the least.... Still trying to catch my breath!

Thanks to #NetGalley and #BookoutureAudio for an ARC of the audiobook which is being released TODAY, 1/29/24.

#TheGirlOnTheNews by #ElisabethCarpenter and beautifully narrated by #ZoeMills.

4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!

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This is simply a stunning read full of shocking revelations.
Absolutely enjoyed this tale, brilliantly written and with twists aplenty.
I love the unique way that the story is told and you will devour each chapter with a hunger for the next until it reaches its explosive conclusion.
Five Stars from me.

Rosie was only 12 when she was accused and charged with murdering her best friend. She had moved on with her life and has always maintained her innocence even when her own family didn’t believed her.

Jessie is sent a text by her mother showing a poster of a missing girl, not just any missing girl though, her own daughter Mia. Mia who is safely sitting right next to her. Who would make up a fake missing poster? Do they know about her past? The horrible secret she’s tried to move past? Now she must do everything in her power to keep Mia safe and try to uncover what really happened all those years ago.

This was my first book by this author and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the dual timelines with the interviews by Sadie Vs the present day. I was a little disappointed in the ending and wish we had just a little bit more exploration and explanation of that character. I gave this book 3.5⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and the author Elisabeth Carpenter for the ARC audio copy.

This is the story about a missing child, but she’s right here. Mia’s mother saw a picture of a missing girl on Facebook, but the girl is not missing, she, her daughter, is right next to her.

What’s going on? Is it a threat or maybe a warning? Could someone be digging into her past when HER name was in the headlines? Rosie was only twelve when she went to prison for the alleged murder of her best friend. Upon release, Rosie changed her identity, to give her daughter Mia a better future, free from the stigma of a mother who went to prison.
Then Mia is kidnapped and the story takes off.

I think this book lends better as a read book. I found the audio confusing.