Found Money audiobook

** spoiler alert ** Library audible (To remind me of the story) Amy Parkens is a struggling single mother forced to abandon a career in astronomy for a practical computer job. She feels condemned to long hours, low pay, and no time to spend with her daughter. Then an unmarked package arrives. There's no card, no note, no return address. Someone has simply sent her a small fortune, $200,000 in cash. Amy has no idea who––or why. She only knows her dead–end life has changed forever. She then is able to trace the source back to the Duffy's and it is discovered that Ryan's Dad had sent the money as some sort of payment for a letter exonerating him of the rape he served time for as a teenager thus the time served was sealed. Ryan Duffy is a decent, responsible man, a small–town physician from the plains of southeastern Colorado. Like Amy, Ryan has recently found unexpected wealth. His father's estate is worth more than Ryan could ever have imagined––millions more. Truth is, Dad was a hardworking electrician for forty–years. But in his attic, he hid a fortune. Further enquiries reveal that Amy's mother's friend Marilyn who helped her when she was younger had told her mother that Frank Duffy was innocent and she found out later it was her husband Joe, who had raped her and put the blame on Frank. Frank had blackmailed her husband later thus the myserious money and life threats and killings to reclaim the money and threatening evidence. Nasty hatchett man was on the trail. He in the end is shot and the husband, Joe in the shoot out etc goes over a cliff. Amy's grandmother turns out to have murdered her mother who was dying of cancer, made it look like suicide. Just to keep Amy so they break up as well. Amy gets together with the son , Ryan, the doctor of Frank Duffy in the end.

A riveting page turner from the first page to the last.A box filled with $200,000 cash appears on single mother, Amy Parker's door step. She is concerned it has something to do with the suicide of her mother years ago.On his deathbed, the father of a small town doctor, Ryan, tells him about a suitcase in the attic with cash.Amy's box has a clue, which allows her to find Ryan. They connect and compare notes.This is well written with all pieces of characters pasts (dark or otherwise), connecting and falling into place.

I really loved the assumed truths! It's the way situations truly unfold. This was a really good read.

Read in 2000Thousands of dollars is left on a woman’s doorstep, millions are found in a fathers attic.

Very good

SuspenseA page turner with a surprise ending. My first Grippando! Nice development of characters. Looking forward to more novels by Grippando.

Solid read!

Another good one from GrippandoJames Grippando is an author I can always count on to spin a good tale. This book did not disappoint.

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Two-thirds of the way through this book and I'm still sitting on the edge of my seat listening to it. So many twists and turns, so many different people, so many problems, all for money that they never even knew was there. Can't wait to find out how It Ends

Shortly after his father dies, Ryan Duffy discovers a huge sum of cash that his father has hidden in his house. Simultaneously, a young mother, Amy Parkens, receives a package containing $200,000 in cash. Neither have a clue where the money came from but Amy cleverly tracks the package to Ryan's mother. Separately they both travel down their own journeys to understand why and where this cash has fallen into their laps. The journey takes Ryan to Panama and foreign accounts and it takes Amy down a path where she no longer trusts her past. Of course the journeys overlap and our characters find themselves attracted yet skeptical of each other. In true Grippado fashion, this story takes the reader through totally unexpected twists and turns until the source of the money is finally revealed.

Two people receive a great deal of money for seemingly no reason. One Amy Parkens gets a package delivered to her apartment and the other Ryan Duffy is told by his dying father there is money saved for him in the attic. Sounds like a great thing, doesn't it? But it turns out to be an albatross because neither one of them can understand why. In their separate ways they try to discover what the truth is about the reason for it. This was a hard book to put down and I didn't until I finished it.

I enjoyed this thriller. Fast paced, couldn't put it down. A father dies telling his son there is $2 million hidden in the attic that he embezzled from someone. A young woman receives a box of cash that her grandmother tells her to put in the freezer. Both investigate to find out where the money came from and if it was from a legal source. Their paths cross. Murder, foreign travel, the FBI, the IRS, and fear follow. Where did the money come from? Is dad a criminal? Well written, fast read.

When I find an author I like I go right through all his books one after another. Found Money by James Grippando is another great read. The plot is tight, suspenseful and believable. A woman receives a box with $200,000 cash. A doctor finds $2 million in cash in his deceased father's attic. The windfalls are related and Grippando takes us on a journey to another continent and back to solve the mystery, a rape and a murder while adding new twists and turns. His style is easy to read and flows well. Recommended.

If I could give this book 4.5 stars I would do it. The book started off a little slowly, but soon became one of those books that you find difficult to put down for any reason. It is a thoroughly enjoyable and spell-binding mystery / suspense novel that I would highly suggest fans of either genre reading. Put together a handsome doctor, a beautiful scientist / law student, a mysterious death, millions of dollars stashed away in the attic, add a few twists and turns and you have an enjoyable reading experience.

I don't know what it is about Jame Grippando's writing which I find so engrossing but I have enjoyed every book of his I have tried so far. Usually I prefer my crime novels to have a healthy dose of murder, but Grippando's do not necessarily follow this pattern, something I liked about this book. I liked seeing the characters develop and the plot unravel, and I felt there were some more predictable paths he could have followed but didn't. Overall I would definitely recommend his books.