REALITY CHECK

Adult mystery writer Abrahams first made the jump to young adult mysteries with the bestselling Echo Falls series. In this book narrator Jim Colby evokes all the emotions of 16-year-old Cody, whose rich girlfriend gets herself sent across the country to boarding school in Vermont, partly to get her away from him. Once there, she abruptly disappears. Cody, whose plan to get a football scholarship is sidelined by injury, heads east to find her. Listeners will eat up the action that follows, and Colby's convincing performance as a sleuth more dogged than dynamic will have them rooting for this brave kid and the girl he loves. D.G. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2010]