The Good Girl

Mary Kubica

Jul 2014 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Lindy Nettleton, Johnny Heller, Tom Taylorson, and Andi Arndt

About this audiobook

“I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don’t know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she’s scared. But I will.”

Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled socialite wife, Mia Dennett moves against the grain as a young inner-city art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn’t show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, Colin Thatcher seems at first like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia’s life.

Colin’s job was to abduct Mia as part of a wild extortion plot and deliver her to his employers. But the plan takes an unexpected turn when Colin suddenly decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota, evading the police and his deadly superiors. Mia’s mother, Eve, and Detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them, but no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family’s world to shatter.

An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller, The Good Girl is a compulsive debut that reveals how, even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.

Ratings and reviews

This was the absolute worst book I've ever read/listened to. The story was predictable and veryyy surface level. I don't know if the story or the readers for the audiobook were worse. I HATE that woman's voice- it is absolutely irritating. HORRIBLE choice for a reader. I forced myself through the entire book ONLY because I paid so much for it. I read Pretty Baby before this book which I really enjoyed, and really wished I liked this one as well. I am beyond overjoyed that the book is over.

I have only recently come across this writer & I love her books because of the twists & turns. The only thing I didn't like is in both of her books I have read, they will take a very bizarre twist to the point I have to go back a few pages to see if I missed something because it doesn't make sense.

IT'S ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST AWSOME BOOK I LOVED IT! I hate how it ended though and what happened to Colin but still I loved the book and how it went before and after.The auther did an awsome job but I think she could have done a happy ending though because I am very unhappy about what happened to Colin.

About the author

Mary Kubica is the New York Times bestselling author of several thrillers, including The Other Mrs. and The Good Girl, which has now sold over one million copies. She holds a BA in history and American literature from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two children, and enjoys photography, gardening, and caring for the animals at a local shelter.

Lindy Nettleton is a professional actress and a registered nurse who was born in England and lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, Scotland, and various places in England before coming to the United States. Apart from acting and narrating audiobooks, she runs her own wellness business. She is now a US citizen and is happy to make Newport, Rhode Island, her home.

Johnny Heller, a Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, has recorded over 800 audiobooks spanning every genre. He is a four-time Audie Award winner; an AudioFile Best Voice, Booklist Editor's Choice List, and Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award winner; and the winner of over thirty Earphones Awards. His national and international audiobook coaching workshops are called "game changing" by attendees. AudioFile magazine named him one of the top fifty voices of the twentieth century.

Tom Taylorson is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and Chicago-based actor with over a decade of stage experience. In that time he also built a voice-over career and now primarily works as a voice actor. Tom is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, teaching voice-over for interactive media.

Andi Arndt is a professional voice actor, the winner of a 2017 Audie Award for Best Romance, and winner of two Earphones Awards.