The Shadows We Hide, Allen Eskens
The Shadows We Hide, Allen Eskens
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The Shadows We Hide
The highly acclaimed sequel to The Life We Bury

Author: Allen Eskens

Narrator: Allen Eskens

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2018


Synopsis

Journalist Joe Talbert investigates the murder of the father he never knew, and must reckon with his own family's past, in this "brilliant sequel" to the national bestseller The Life We Bury (Publishers Weekly)

Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota.

Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town's residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers that the dead man was a loathsome lowlife who cheated his neighbors, threatened his daughter, and squandered his wife's inheritance after she, too, passed away -- an inheritance that may now be Joe's.

Mired in uncertainty and plagued by his own devastated relationship with his mother, who is seeking to get back into her son's life, Joe must put together the missing pieces of his family history -- before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own.

About Allen Eskens

Allen Eskens is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, and The Heavens May Fall. A criminal-defense attorney for twenty-five years, he lives with his wife in Minnesota, where he is a member of the Twin Cities Sisters in Crime.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susanne on December 03, 2018

4.5 Stars* (rounded up) Reading “The Shadows We Hide” is like meeting up with an old friend who you haven’t seen in years. Once you reconnect, it’s like no time has passed at all. Oh how I’ve missed you Joe Talbert! Nowadays, Joe Talbert is a Reporter for the Associated Press. Talk about making it b......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on November 03, 2018

Meet Joe Talbert – Junior. Joe discovers there really is a Joe Talbert Senior; that his father is more than just a myth that his addict mother had invented. Joe will never have the chance to meet him, for two reasons: (1) He swore he would never try to find his father, and (2) It’s too late anyway,......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on April 16, 2021

4.5 stars! A thrilling and suspenseful follow up in the The Life We Bury series. Joe Talbert Jr. has graduated from college and is a journalist at the Associated Press. He comes across an article about the murder of a man named Joe Talbert in a small town a few hours away. Desperately curious to find......more

Goodreads review by Debra on January 06, 2019

4.5 stars Joe Talbert is back - to investigate the father he never knew, to become a good man, and to learn more about his past. Eskens has crafted another hit! This one has Joe Talbert struggling to protect a source while at the same time trying to learn more about a dead man who has the same name as......more


Quotes

FINALIST -- MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD, BEST GENRE NOVELFINALIST -- BARRY AWARD, BEST NOVEL

"A rewarding sequel . . . The Shadows We Hide completes a one-two gut punch that was well worth the wait."—Ginny Greene, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"The Shadows We Hide is a riveting novel about one man's search for his father that becomes a perilous journey into a labyrinth of deceit and lies. Eskens vividly renders how small towns try to keep their secrets, and how sometimes they cannot."—RonRash, author of Serena

"Whether you like mysteries with surprise endings and terrific twists or you are a reader who never reads a mystery, but loves literary novels that explore the emotions that bring families together or tear them apart, you will want to read Allen Eskens's excellent novel, The Shadows We Hide."—Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author of The Third Victim

"Talbert proves himself a true hero."—New York Times Book Review

"The search for the father is a favorite theme of authors and one that is perfectly suited to the detective story form. Allen Eskens has drawn an intricate and intriguing search map full of sharp turns and returns. Suspenseful, revealing, clear-eyed, and brightly told, The Shadows We Hide is a real experience, page to page to end page."—Fred Chappell, author of I Am One of You Forever

"Riveting...Readers will enjoy trying to untangle all the clues."—Pioneer Press

"A brilliant sequel full of deeply developed characters... Eskens keeps readers guessing until the last pages in this darkly lyrical and brutally intimate story of one man's journey of self-discovery."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Murder, arson, betrayal, and reconciliation will keep pages turning and leave readers eager for more of Joe Talbert."—Booklist