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The Wonder Test

A Novel

Audiobook
2 of 2 copies available
2 of 2 copies available

Escaping New York City and the espionage case that made her question everything, recently widowed FBI Agent Lina Connerly returns home to sell the house she has inherited in Greenfield, California. With her teenage son Rory, Lina hopes to reassemble her life, reevaluate her career, and find a clear way forward.

Adrift and battling insomnia, she discovers that her father's sleepy hometown has been transformed into a Silicon Valley suburb on steroids, obsessed with an annual exam called the Wonder Test.

When students at her son's high school go missing, reappearing under mysterious circumstances on abandoned beaches, Lina must summon her strength and her investigative instincts, pushing her own ethical boundaries to the limits in order to solve the crimes. Meanwhile, an old espionage case called Red Vine keeps calling her back into the fold. While Lina struggles to balance her new role as a single mother and the complex counterintelligence puzzles she is so adept at solving, Greenfield's shadowy dangers creep closer to her own home.

The Wonder Test is a searing view of a culture that puts the well-being of children at risk for advancement and prestige, and a captivating story of the lengths a mother will go for her son.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Therese Plummer leads listeners through a twisted thriller involving corruption in the field of education. Recently widowed Lina has quit her job at the FBI. She and her son, Rory, have left New York behind in order to clear out her late father's home in Silicon Valley. While adjusting to a new life in California, Rory learns that his new high school requires all students to take The Wonder Test, an atypical standardized test that involves far more dark secrets than he or his mother could ever imagine. Plummer portrays Lina as a combination of serious FBI agent and concerned mother. Her well-performed narration keeps the listener engaged from the beginning to the truly surprising conclusion. V.B. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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