Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of All the Way Gone in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library.
Publisher: Minotaur Books / Dreamscape Media
Published: August 13, 2024
Summary:
The fourth installment in the beloved Detective Annalisa Vega series
Is there such a thing as a good sociopath? Newly minted private investigator Annalisa Vega is skeptical, but her first client, Mara Delaney, insists that some sociopaths are beneficial to society. Mara has even written a book titled The Good Sociopath that is centered around Chicago neurosurgeon Craig Canning. Dr. Canning has saved hundreds of lives so it shouldn’t matter that he doesn’t actually care about his patients, should it? But Mara has a more urgent problem, which is that she is now concerned that Canning might not be such a good sociopath after all. A young woman in Canning’s apartment building mysteriously plunged to her death from a balcony, and Mara fears Canning could be responsible. She needs to uncover the truth about Canning before the book comes out, so Annalisa has little time to search for answers.
Annalisa quickly discovers that more than one person wanted the young woman dead. Canning insists he didn’t do it. His charming, unflappable demeanor suggests that either he’s telling the truth or Mara is right and he’s cold-hearted to the core. The cops, including Annalisa’s husband, think the girl’s death was an accident. The more Annalisa probes, the more she becomes convinced it’s a fiendishly clever murder, one only a brilliant psychopath could pull off. She draws deeper into a battle of wits with Canning, so determined to prove his guilt that she forgets Mara’s most important warning―that sociopaths only care about winning at all costs. When Annalisa finally peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the horrifying truth of the girl’s death, she may be too late to save herself.
My thoughts:
This is the fourth book in the Annalisa Vega series and each book just gets better and better! Here we find Vega now working as a private investigator and boy is her first case a doozy! Her first client has written a book about sociopaths – good sociopaths in fact – but it turns out the subject might not be as good as she originally thought.
I adore Vega and this book was everything I hoped it would be and more! I loved seeing Vega branch out on her own, especially as we all know she likes to test boundaries when it comes to finding the truth. She has such a strong moral compass, the doesn’t let the law always hold her back. I also loved that we see both the professional and personal side of Annalisa here. There’s a great subplot involving her stepdaughter and I like how it was woven in. Annalisa definitely has a complicated family life – that’s been a given since book 1, and I appreciate that the author doesn’t away from that.
This book was full of twists and turns, complete with an unsettling prologue that really set the book up and hooked me from the get-go. While this book can be read as a stand-alone, I do highly recommend reading the previous books in the series to get a feel for who Annalisa Vega is and the character dynamics that come into play.
I cannot wait to continue on with this series…it really has become a favorite of mine!
Audio thoughts:
I decided to listen to this one and loved the narration. It was narrator by a new-to-me narrator, Kelsey Navarro Foster, but I thought she did a great job bringing the story to life, really giving Annalisa the personality and characteristics I had envisioned for her.
Books in this series:
- Gone for Good
- Long Gone
- Dead and Gone
- All the Way Gone
- Gone in the Night
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