Finding Sophie
- Author Imran Mahmood
- Narrator Lydia Bakelmun, Oliver Hembrough
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date 14 March 2024
- Run Time 11 hours and 15 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Psychological thriller.
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What to expect
Bloomsbury presents Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood, read by Oliver Hembrough and Lydia Bakelmun.
'A heart-stopping thriller, a heartfelt mystery' CHRIS WHITAKER
'A clever, chilling thriller that is also unexpectedly moving' SHARI LAPENA
'Kept me guessing until the very end' IAN RANKIN
'Incredible plotting and devastatingly good writing' THE SECRET BARRISTER
Sophie King is missing.
Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they've done everything for their beloved only daughter and now she's gone.
The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are growing increasingly frantic, although they are both dealing with it in very different ways. Increasingly obsessed with their highly suspicious neighbour who won't open the door or answer any questions, they are both coming to the same conclusion. If they want answers, they're going to have to take the matter into their own hands.
But just how far are they both prepared to go for the love of their daughter?
'Powerfully and brilliantly written' VASEEM KHAN
'Pure brilliance' JANICE HALLETT
'Wow, what an ending!' C. L. TAYLOR
'An astonishingly twisty tale of despair, deception and desperation' LIZ NUGENT
An Observer Thriller of the Month
'A heart-stopping thriller, a heartfelt mystery' CHRIS WHITAKER
'A clever, chilling thriller that is also unexpectedly moving' SHARI LAPENA
'Kept me guessing until the very end' IAN RANKIN
'Incredible plotting and devastatingly good writing' THE SECRET BARRISTER
Sophie King is missing.
Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they've done everything for their beloved only daughter and now she's gone.
The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are growing increasingly frantic, although they are both dealing with it in very different ways. Increasingly obsessed with their highly suspicious neighbour who won't open the door or answer any questions, they are both coming to the same conclusion. If they want answers, they're going to have to take the matter into their own hands.
But just how far are they both prepared to go for the love of their daughter?
'Powerfully and brilliantly written' VASEEM KHAN
'Pure brilliance' JANICE HALLETT
'Wow, what an ending!' C. L. TAYLOR
'An astonishingly twisty tale of despair, deception and desperation' LIZ NUGENT
An Observer Thriller of the Month
Critics Review
Kept me guessing until the very end. A courtroom drama with nice sharp teeth
Incredible plotting and devastatingly good writing – this book deserves enormous success
Finding Sophie is a great thriller as well as a moving look at parental grief . . . I frequently wept while reading it but couldn’t put it down
[A] forceful, slow-burn narrative . . . handled with Grisham-like assurance
A moving yet tense read with a jaw-dropping end
I couldn't turn the pages fast enough
Nuanced, heart-breaking . . . absorbing and genuinely moving — not to be missed
I loved it, so smart and the plot twists blew me away. Imran is the only author writing about a missing person that deals with grief this well
The suspense is well maintained throughout ... surprising and satisfying... it is a treat to read accounts of a police investigation and court case written by someone who knows how both are conducted
A clever, chilling thriller that is also unexpectedly moving
Finding Sophie is a rare accomplishment. By turns a heart-stopping thriller, a heartfelt mystery, and a powerful study of grief, hope, and the unbreakable bond between parent and child. Brilliant
Compelling
Wow, what an ending! An intense, desperate, heartfelt and claustrophobic story about the lengths parents will go to for love. Some books have a gut punch at the end. In Finding Sophie you're emotionally winded, all the way through
This thrilling and emotional roller coaster moved me tears with its powerful portrayal of the agonies of parental love and loss. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Imran Mahmood has excelled himself with this clever, heart-breaking thriller
What an exciting and compulsive read! Two parents with the same goal afraid to tell each other how far they are prepared to go, but they are not the only ones keeping secrets. Imran has surpassed my expectations with an astonishingly twisty tale of despair, deception and desperation
Finding Sophie is a Domestic Noir objet d'art. Mahmood's writing is exceptionally beautiful for a crime genre novel. The tension he manages to weave within such accessible and recognisable human emotions is genuinely extraordinary, and the pacing hits a real punch because you spend the entire book just wanting it all to turn out all right. Brilliant, bated-breath stuff
Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood is his best yet. Beautifully written, visceral, evocative and compelling - but with a plot that keeps you guessing to the end. So much more than a legal thriller, this is a work of pure brilliance
Mahmood’s latest slice of psychological noir examines the dilemma facing a couple whose child has gone missing and who are convinced the culprit lives on their own street. How far will desperate parents go? What boundaries will they cross to uncover the fate of their child? These are the questions tackled by Mahmood in this powerful and beautifully written suspense thriller
One of the best and most intelligent thrillers I've read in a long while. Written with such skill that you forget you're reading a novel and just get lost in the story. Gripping, moving, brilliant
Another startlingly original story from one of the UK’s finest crime writers. When it comes to legal thrillers with unreliable narrators, Imran Mahmood is pretty much peerless. Unputdownable
It is heart-stoppingly good, both as a thriller (that final third had me glued to the pages as you delivered the twists like sucker punches) and as a study in family life and parental love. Both Harry and Zara were superbly drawn and the resolution was so satisfying, exactly what this reader needed
An absolutely wonderful book. Imran is the absolute master of misdirection, as I've learned from his earlier novels, but with Finding Sophie he digs deep into the psychology of grief and loss too. Harry and Zara are such exceptionally drawn characters, their slow unravelling in the wake of Sophie's disappearance charted with deep skill. The story is both outrageous and utterly believable, the twist in its tail a masterstroke. I enjoyed it immensely, and indeed devoured the second half of it in one long sitting
Balancing deeply-drawn parental heartbreak and incomprehension to the extent of obsession, as the couple go to all extremes to resolve the often rebellious Sophie’s absence, the novel treads an assured suspenseful itinerary that never lets go and compels the reader to keep turning the pages. Not far from a perfect read.’
| Author | Imran Mahmood |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Lydia Bakelmun, Oliver Hembrough |
| Duration | 11 hours and 15 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781526647610 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Genre | Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Psychological thriller |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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