Someone's Listening is the genre I usually love to read, but this one did not work for me. The premise was intriguing but I had a tough time getting into it since I did not find Faith particularly likable. It went on unreasonably long, towards the end it did pick up, which I felt the entire book should have been thrilling.

I received a digital ARC of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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It's crazy how this book was written in the early 90s and it is still relevant. ( )

Someone’s Listening is Seraphina Nova Glass’s debut novel. It is a thriller featuring Dr. Faith Finley who wakes up from an auto accident in the hospital to find her husband missing. The police find no evidence of Liam being in the car despite Faith’s insistence. All evidence points to Liam deciding to disappear. Of course, it is understandable considering recent events. Their lives have been in flux. Faith leaves their Sugar Grove home to return to their Chicago condo. Then the notes begin arriving. Are they threats or warnings? Someone’s Listening has a unique format. It is told in alternating chapters of Then and Now. We get to learn about Faith and Liam’s past in the Then chapters and what led up to the accident. I found Someone’s Listening to be slow starter with the pace increasing in the second half of the book. Some parts of the story moved very slowly. There is some great suspense and action near the end that will have you riveted. There are a variety of suspects and you will be wondering who you can trust. Many readers will be surprised with the outcome. I was not a fan of Faith Findley. She is an unlikeable main character who drinks and pops pills. I would not want Faith as my therapist. She was self-involved and just plain annoying. I wish the main character had been friendly and warm. It would have made a difference. There is foul language, intimate relations, pill popping, and vast quantities of alcohol consumed in this story. Someone’s Listening is a twisty suspense novel with a lost spouse, nasty notes, an abundance of alcohol, a disengaged detective, and a prominent psychologist. ( )

Finally successful and happy, but then Faith’s life fell apart.

One of her teenage clients accused her of sexual assault, her husband, Liam, disappears and then is found dead with a gunshot to the head.

She knows she is a suspect because she was the last one to see him alive.

But...what about all the things Liam did like taking out a large sum of cash, taking his passport, and leaving a cryptic email that was to go to no one in particular but could have been for any number of people.

Many things happen that have Faith questioning what really happened and how it happened.

Then one day Faith opened her mailbox and found something unexpected - actually shocking. It was a page torn out of the book she wrote giving advice about safety.

These pages kept showing up in random places. Just what is going on?

The only good thing is that the things that are happening should take the focus off of Faith as a suspect in her husband’s death.

SOMEONE'S LISTENING is filled with twists and pretty much unlikable characters that have bad habits.

You will be confused about everything happening just like the main character, but that is what makes SOMEONE'S LISTENING a good read.

The book has a slow buildup, but an edge-of-your-seat ending as it all comes together and the stalker/murderer gets his plan to completion. 4/5

This book was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ( )

I just could not get into this story. The only character I found likable was Will. The protagonist, psychologist Faith Finley, wrote a bestselling book on how to get out of an abusive situation and has a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening. She did not come across as a professional psychologist to me. She was also heavy into drugs and alcohol, which certainly did not help her credibility when she insisted her husband was with her when she was in an auto accident. Yet he was nowhere to be found when the emergency services arrived. Now Faith’s husband is missing, and she is the prime suspect.

Then Faith begins receiving threatening notes ripped from her own book. Does she have a stalker? The story seemed to drag in several places, and I found myself skimming over those pages. There were twists and turns with false leads as I tried to figure out who it might be. But as it all comes together in the end the pace became frantic. I admit that I was surprised when the culprit was revealed. ( )