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    Twist of Faith
    Twist of Faith
    Twist of Faith
    Audiobook10 hours

    Twist of Faith

    Written by Ellen J. Green

    Narrated by Angela Dawe

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When family secrets are unearthed, a woman’s past can become a dangerous place to hide…

    After the death of her adoptive mother, Ava Saunders comes upon a peculiar photograph, sealed and hidden away in a crawl space. The photo shows a shuttered, ramshackle house on top of a steep hill. On the back, a puzzling inscription: Destiny calls us.

    Ava is certain that it’s a clue to her elusive past. Twenty-three years ago, she’d been found wrapped in a yellow blanket in the narthex of the Holy Saviour Catholic Church—and rescued—or so she’d been told. Her mother claimed there was no more to the story, so the questions of her abandonment were left unanswered. For Ava, now is the time to find the roots of her mother’s lies. It begins with the house itself—once the scene of a brutal double murder.

    When Ava enlists the help of the two people closest to her, a police detective and her best friend, she fears that investigating her past could be a fatal mistake. Someone is following them there. And what’s been buried in Ava’s nightmares isn’t just a crime. It’s a holy conspiracy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 1, 2018
    ISBN9781543638820
    Twist of Faith
    Author

    Ellen J. Green

    Ellen J. Green was born and raised in Upstate New York. She moved to Philadelphia to attend Temple University, where she earned her degrees in psychology. She has worked in the psychiatric ward of a maximum security correctional facility for fifteen years. She also holds an MFA degree in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. The author of Amazon Charts bestseller Twist of Faith and The Book of James, Ms. Green lives in southern New Jersey with her two children.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this novel and recommend it to anyone who likes a surprise ending. Lots of twists and turns in this book. I admit that it was a bit difficult keeping all the characters straight and the flipping back and forth in time was distracting but the story line was compelling and worth the read. Did not guess the ending.
    • 2/5
      Book source ~ Kindle FirstThere was always something off about the story her family told about how Ava was adopted by Claire Lavoisier-Saunders. Ava wanted answers and her family wasn’t talking. So when Claire dies Ava starts searching in earnest. When her best friend and a detective from work pitch in to help, the mystery starts to unravel, but the past is filled with murders. Then Ava herself disappears and it’s up to Joanne and Russell to finish the job.I don’t care for the way this story is written. I can’t say why because it would be a spoiler, but I’m not a fan. Also, I don’t like Ava. Not one bit. The twists and turns in this are decent, but the means to finding the answers just turned me off. Again, spoilers which I won’t reveal. It’s just too hard to swallow, and falls very close to what I consider ex machina. I think the plot could have been written a different way, making it more believable and still been a great mystery. As it is, I’m disappointed in the execution.
    • 4/5
      Ava Hope Saunders, six months after the death of her adopted mother Claire, is still searching for the identity of her birth mother. The story she's been told, of being found wrapped in a blanket in a Philadelphia church when she was less than two months old, doesn't match memories of some very frightening events, when she was a toddler, or of a mother who wasn't Claire.

      She takes a picture she's found in her mother's things, of a house, and visits it. It's unoccupied at present, but a neighbor tells her there was a terrible murder there five years ago, of the couple who lived there, by an apparent intruder. The murder was never solved.

      Do the dead couple have some connection to her? She recruits her best friend, Joanne, a paralegal at the courthouse where she works as a translator, and Russ, a Camden police officer assigned to the prosecutor's office at the courthouse, to help her investigate.

      The investigation quickly gets complicated, confusing, and frightening.

      The husband of the murdered couple was a childhood friend of Claire's father, Ross Saunders. Ross's own death, though originally ruled an accident--an apparent fall getting out of the tub--has some odd, not to say suspicious, aspects. Another of the friends, Fr. Bill Connolly, also died suddenly and oddly, from an allergic reaction to an allergen he wouldn't likely have had in the house, with his Epipen found not far away, underneath the bed.

      When another death happens, and Ava disappears, Joanne and Russ are very, very worried, and they don't know the half of what they should be worried about.

      This is an intricate story, with characters who aren't what they seem at first, both good and bad. It's a little grimmer than I expected, but I couldn't stop listening.

      Recommended.

      I bought this audiobook.
    • 3/5
      Loved all the twists and mystery, but two many loose threads left at the end, even with a forthcoming sequel.
    • 5/5
      Ava Saunders is driven by the need to know who her mother was, who she is, and what her real name is. Frustratingly her adoptive mother Claire dies without telling her. Ava has snatches of memories that don't tie in with what little Claire has told her. Something connects her to events happening over twenty years before, but Ava has never managed to get the true story.The author manages to carry the mystery attached to Ava's origins almost to the end of the story, providing a number of puzzles for the reader to solve. At the centre of it all seems to lie a number of black and white photos of open doors taken by an old Polaroid camera.Prior to her death her mother insisted that Ava return from Canada where she has been studying. She has never got on really well with her adoptive mother. They seem to have been on the move for much of her life. After Claire's death Ava gains a couple of friends, one a detective, who are willing to help her search for information.While this novel is about a search for identity, it is also about revenge.
    • 3/5
      This was an odd book that I liked but feel like I didn't fully understand.Ava Hope Saunders sets out to find the name of her birth mother--she starts out at a home that's also shown in a polaroid picture. She draws her friends Joanne and Russell into investigating but leads them to believe it has something to do with a serial killer--well, I doubt you as the reader will guess who the real serial killer is.The Saunders family seems very messed up. Ava was adopted by Claire though there are times Ava wonders why Claire doesn't seem to care much for her. (In reality, Claire gave up her career to safeguard the young girl.) Claire has a sister, Marie, who lives in a convent--I'm not sure if she's taken vows already or is working toward it. Marie has a history of mental illness which makes me wonder why the church would accept her as a nun. Marie also seems a bit flightly--at one point she says she's moved around with Claire and Ava and had to invent family emergencies to help them out. She also leaves the convent and gets excused from prayers and other duties frequently in this book. Claire's and Marie's mother is Anais. She lives in France and has money. Ross was Anais's husband and the father of the two girls. I get the early motivation for the serial killer, but there's a hint at the end that the killing is not over yet--and I don't quite understand what the motivation would be for the hinted at killings--unless the intent is to say that he/she has gone so far around the bend that not killing is not a possibility. But then again, I am no serial killer expert.
    • 4/5
      A complex plot, multiple characters,living and dead, requires concentration but is rewarded ultimately in a tale of retribution. Ava has been adopted but has never learnt her birth mother's name or the exact circumstances of her adoption, but has fragments of memories. She works at a Philadelphia court as a translator and recruits a policeman and co-worker to help her unravel the mystery of her past, which opens secrets others want suppressed.