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What would it take to make you intervene?
When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that … she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared.
A year later, Anna is still missing. Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she’s not the only one who can’t forget. Someone is sending her threatening letters—letters that make her fear for her life.
Then an anniversary appeal reveals that Anna’s friends and family might have something to hide. Anna’s best friend, Sarah, hasn’t been telling the whole truth about what really happened that night—and her parents have been keeping secrets of their own.
Someone knows where Anna is—and they’re not telling. But they are watching Ella.
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Kept me up long into the night! Very compelling!
Well structured and well paced. Told from several viewpoints. I particularly liked The Father’s narrative.
This was an incredible accounting of human nature. I couldn’t put it down. Read while cooking, cleaning and lost sleep wanting to find out what is next. Must read!
What a captivating story! I enjoyed being in everyone’s head and getting their perspective. It’s very intriguing.
I love the plot and the way the story is written. Everyone has so many secrets and you’re just waiting for everything to be revealed. I enjoyed everyone’s backstories and the suspense it added to the story, so I was bit disappointed with how quick the ending was. I also would have liked a little more. The entire book was done from multiple point of views, which I loved, so I feel like the epilogue could have been done the same. I really would have liked to know more about what happens with certain characters.
This is a great mystery and I couldn’t wait to for everything to unravel and know what happened. It’s a great story that keeps you engaged.
The charactors in this book really come to life. You feel like you are right there. Keeps you guessing until the end. Very well written.
A great thriller!
Ella Longfield becomes an unwitting sort of witness when she overhears a conversation while on the bus. Two young teenage girls start flirting with two young men .. but then she realizes that they men are fresh out of prison.
What to do? Call the parents of the girls? Tell the young men to leave the girls along? Talk to the girls and warn them? Just as she decides to call for help, she overhears something else that stops her in her tracks.
The next day one of the girl’s picture is splashed all over the media. She disappeared the night before.
A year later, Ella still feels guilty that she did nothing and someone else thinks she should pay, as well. She’s received a series of threatening letters.
Someone knows where Anna is—and they’re not telling. But they are watching Ella.
I AM WATCHING YOU is told by different voices… Ella, the friend who was with the missing girl the night she disappeared and her family, and the private detective that Ella hires to track down the person sending her letters.
These are all credible characters … and some of them have secrets …. and some are buried in lies. Many twists and turns will have you momentarily forgetting to breathe.
I really liked how it was written from different characters perspectives. The ending was emotional. I really liked this book.
Loved this book. I didn’t want to stop once I started it.
I just finished this book. I could not put it down. There was nothing I did not like about it and it always keeps you wondering.
Good book. Great suspense with many twists and turns. I thought it was a bit slow. Not quite the page turner I thought it would be. I good book, non the less.
Fantastic read couldn’t put it down !!
Mystery/Thriller
MA – mature themes, some strong language, references to sex and abuse.
Plot: A year ago a witness on a train overheard a conversation between two teenage girls and some young men who were too mature for them. Her first impulse was to call one of their mothers, since she could figure out who they were, but then decided not to. Thereafter, one of the girls disappears.
Now the witness is getting threatening postcards, and as the title suggests, someone is watching her.
The media and authorities are reviewing the case in hopes of new evidence.
Each chapter, written in present tense -which is not my favorite, reveals characters’ memories of that time as well as their feelings and actions now.
We discover little by little who could NOT have been responsible and why.
Good plot line.
keeps you on the edge of your seat!
could not put this one down
I Am Watching You is a pretty good read although some of the characters are irritating.
Ella hears some young men, just out of prison, chatting up a couple of teen girls on a train. Next day she hears one of them is missing. Should she have said something?
I liked the book. I read it awhile ago, but like it enough to look for other books by the same author. I recall there was a bit of an unexpected twist. I would recommend it.
I read about 5 books a week. This is the first one this summer that I could not put down.
Ella sees two boys flirting with two girls on a train. When she overhears that the boys were just released from prison, she feels like she should contact both of the girl’s parents and let them know. She talks herself out of it but the next day she learns one girl is missing. She feels like she could have prevented it. Ella reports what she saw to police. A year passes and still no clues as to what happened to Anna. Keeps you guessing to the end.
This was my very first novel by Teresa Driscoll. I enjoyed her writing style in this book, which switched back and forth between the different characters. The emotions of what each individual was feeling over the disappearance of a teenage girl, and how it impacted their lives was spot on. The family that was torn apart, the friend who has to live with the guilt of what she did or didn’t do, the witness who lives with her own guilt over not speaking up when she sees the teenage girls on the train and the two men who had just been released from prison… and the secrets they all keep. It all played out for me in a way that the book was hard to put down. I will be looking for other Teresa Driscoll books to read in the future.