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Hideout by Louisa Luna Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Series: Alice Vega #3
Published by Penguin Audio on March 8, 2022
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Length: 14 hours, 1 minute
Format: Audiobook
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Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like Zeb Williams, missing for over thirty years. It was 1984, and the big Cal-Stanford football game was tied with seconds left on the clock. Zeb Williams grabbed the ball and ran the wrong way, through the marching band, off the field and out of the stadium. He disappeared into legend, replete with Elvis-like sightings and a cult following.
Zeb's cold trail leads Vega to southern Oregon, where she discovers an anxious community living under siege by a local hate group called the Liberty Boys. As Vega starts digging into the past, the mystery around Zeb's disappearance grows deeper, and the reach of the Liberty Boys grows more disturbing. Everyone has something to hide, and no one can cut to the truth like Alice Vega. But this time, her partner Max Caplan has his own problems at home, and the trouble Vega finds might be too much for her to handle.
I’ve been reading the Alice Vega series from the beginning. I love the quirky Alice, who is resourceful and smart. Her work puts her up against some tough people and tends to be dangerous. You wouldn’t think this would be true with many of her cases being for missing persons. However, to solve the disappearances or any other type of case she has to get into people’s personal lives and often their secrets inform her as to what happened.
In this outing, she is being well paid to find a man who left a football game 30 years ago running out of the stadium. Her leads take her to a small town with some white supremacists throwing their weight around and not appreciating questions. It gets dicey too quickly.
Personally, she and Cap are not working together. Last time was also dangerous and he got hurt but also, his daughter Nell was threatened. Cap took a safe job, staying around home. But they miss each other, and Cap misses working with Vega and the adrenaline rush of taking down the bad guys. He was a cop in his previous life. Nell encourages him to work with Vega again.
We also see Alice’s parents, who are Bible beaters, and don’t understand her work. She struggles to spend time with them at all, but they all do care about each other.
Alice, in her own way, succeeds in taking down the Nazis, finding the long lost man, and getting the man. I love going along with her, although it is more dangerous than I would want to live. But you will have to read Hideout to learn how everything happens.
Narration:
I have listened to Tavia Gilbert before. She is the narrator for this whole series and I am very comfortable with her voice for Alice, and everyone else, but she is totally Alice and Cap for me. I really enjoy this series on audio. I listened at my usual 1.5x speed.
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About Tavia Gilbert
Tavia Gilbert (SAG-AFTRA) is an award-winning narrator with more than 150 audiobooks under her belt. Contemporary and literary fiction, biography and memoir, fantasy, romance, children’s literature, science, religion…Tavia’s range of genres is a direct result of her intuitive interpretation, clever diction and pacing, and sensitivity to each author’s or publisher’s needs.
Classically trained in voice and theater, Tavia attended the University of Washington and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Original Works in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts. She has been singing in choirs since she was 12 years old and has been working full time as a voice actor since 2006.
Tavia is also a producer with nine years experience. After moving to Portland, Maine in 2001, she studied audio documentary production at the Salt Institute. With 11 years of paralegal experience, Tavia has a clear understanding and appreciation for the business side of her world, including contractual language and legal strategy. Her creative eye, vivid personality, and experience and contacts help her cast the highest caliber of artists, including actors, musicians, videographers, and other talent. Her clients hire her again and again, recognizing her exceptional work and the advantage they have in someone with both a creative and business mind.
About Louisa Luna
Louisa Luna is the author of the novels Brave New Girl, Crooked, and Serious As A Heart Attack. She was born and raised in the city of San Francisco and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
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Alice seems like a fantastic character with a challenging family. Awesome review, I love the sound of this series.
Thanks Tammy. Alice is a very not typical PI. I like that and she keeps her self physically trained and strong. She’s knowledgeable about weapons but doesn’t use them very often.
Terrific review, Anne. Anytime a woman takes down white supremacists is a good day.
Thanks Wendy! yes. It is fiction but she didn’t let the status quo continue to bully even after they beat her up and broke her bones.
Thanks Anne this looks like it would be a good listen. I’m always tempted to change the listen speeds but then I always go back to 1 LOL
I didn’t even know I could change speeds at first. Partly because I listened to my first audiobooks on CDs!
Sounds like a consuming mystery series and I love Tavia Gilbert’s narration work.
I’ve enjoyed everything about it. I would read the series in order for personal developments. They are background but add layers to the story and help understand the choices the main characters make.
I’ve heard Cap and Alice spend much of the book apart, which was disappointing for me, but I still want to read this one. I had too many review books so I didn’t request this one. I’ll have to request a library audio at some point. Glad to see you enjoyed it, Anne!
It’s true they were apart but still connected. There is relationship and personal growth for each of them. I really enjoyed it.
I like this series, and I want to read this one, but I’m a little sad Cap and Alice aren’t working together this time.
yes but they both are in the story and have a lot of personal growth and relationship development.
I am so glad that you enjoyed this one. I did as well but must agree that Alice leads a life that is way too exciting for me!
yes I can watch but I couldn’t live it. I could be the computer backup. lol
Glad to see you enjoyed the audio. I am always so impatient and end up reading it first…lol
I struggle with which way to go. But there are some where the narrator doesn’t work for me. Or the audio takes much longer to be available. It’s a analyze it all every time as to which to read.
I think it’s a series I would like as well, it sounds intriguing
I really enjoy the complexity of the mysteries and the characters personal issues and relationships.