The Trunk Key
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo first 3 months
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Buy for $2.99
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Ilyana Kadushin
-
By:
-
Carolyn Nash
About this listen
On her way to work, for one terrifying instant Jennifer Canfield sees a tiny hand in the trunk of a car that barely misses slamming into her van. A doll? A child? With no time to think she must act and so begins a non-stop, breathlessly suspenseful journey to find the truth and possibly save a life. Stephen Baron, a road construction worker, joins her in her pursuit of a possible kidnapper through the hills of California. And where the chase ends reveals exactly how courage and love can show up when we least expect them and change everything.
From Leland Dirks, author of "Angelo's Journey" and "Seven Dogs in Heaven"...
Listening to her heart, against the advice of her brain, Jen takes off on an adventurous chase on California backroads where more than the story of the chase is hidden.
Ms. Nash masterfully sets the stage, sculpts believable characters, and sets them free to discover whether their heads or their hearts are more reliable allies in this fight between good and evil. Your heart wants you to read this book. Before you've turned listened very long, your brain will be glad, too.
©2012 Carolyn Nash (P)2014 Audible, Inc.Related to this topic
-
NOS4A2
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
-
-
Gripping performance by Kate Mulgrew....
- By Leslie on 05-06-13
By: Joe Hill
-
Here
- By: Ella James
- Narrated by: Allison McLemore, Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Milo Mitchell's life used to be charmed, but that was before her family dissolved, she went a little crazy, and her best friends started acting more like strangers. Spending Saturday morning in a treehouse with a stun gun for company and a herd of deer for friends is the only exciting thing in her life...until she shoots a fawn and finds her dart stuck in a guy. Her gorgeous victim is dressed in a Brioni tux and armed with a hanky. He has no idea who or where he is. Afraid her dart caused his amnesia, Milo takes him in.
-
-
The worst book I have ever listened to!
- By Paul O. on 02-19-16
By: Ella James
-
Cruel World
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hart
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hidden away from the world by his famous father, Quinn Kelly strives to find meaning in his life while struggling with a deformity that has kept him from leaving the only home he has ever known. On the eve of his departure a sudden and deadly virus sweeps across the nation, killing nearly all it touches. Within days Quinn is left to fend for himself in an empty world. But there is something still very much alive beyond the walls of his sanctuary.
-
-
BEST post apocalyptic story
- By melinda a rister on 10-02-21
By: Joe Hart
-
Chosen
- The Chosen, Book 1
- By: Denise Grover Swank
- Narrated by: John Mierau
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase. She moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five-year-old son, who can see the future, are running from the men intent on taking him. Emma will do anything to protect him, even when it means accepting the help of a stranger named Will. Jake insists she needs Will, but Emma's never needed help before. And even though she's learned to trust her son, it doesn't mean she trusts Will.
-
-
Honest and Constructive Feedback
- By Kindle Customer on 12-14-12
-
The Dead Cat Bounce
- By: Sarah Graves
- Narrated by: Lindsay Ellison
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Since she bought her rambling fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick planted firmly in his cranium. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine.
-
-
too slow of a story...
- By Annette on 03-13-18
By: Sarah Graves
-
Angel Burn
- Angel, Book 1
- By: L. A. Weatherly
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Willow knows she’s different from other girls, and not just because she loves tinkering with cars. Willow has a gift. She can look into the future and know people’s dreams and hopes, their sorrows and regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where this power comes from. But the assassin, Alex, does. Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows more about Willow than Willow herself does. He knows that her powers link to dark and dangerous forces and that he’s one of the few humans left who can fight them. When Alex finds himself falling in love, he discovers that nothing is as it seems....
-
-
These Are Not Your Everyday Angels!
- By Diane Daniels on 03-30-12
By: L. A. Weatherly
-
NOS4A2
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
-
-
Gripping performance by Kate Mulgrew....
- By Leslie on 05-06-13
By: Joe Hill
-
Here
- By: Ella James
- Narrated by: Allison McLemore, Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Milo Mitchell's life used to be charmed, but that was before her family dissolved, she went a little crazy, and her best friends started acting more like strangers. Spending Saturday morning in a treehouse with a stun gun for company and a herd of deer for friends is the only exciting thing in her life...until she shoots a fawn and finds her dart stuck in a guy. Her gorgeous victim is dressed in a Brioni tux and armed with a hanky. He has no idea who or where he is. Afraid her dart caused his amnesia, Milo takes him in.
-
-
The worst book I have ever listened to!
- By Paul O. on 02-19-16
By: Ella James
-
Cruel World
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hart
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hidden away from the world by his famous father, Quinn Kelly strives to find meaning in his life while struggling with a deformity that has kept him from leaving the only home he has ever known. On the eve of his departure a sudden and deadly virus sweeps across the nation, killing nearly all it touches. Within days Quinn is left to fend for himself in an empty world. But there is something still very much alive beyond the walls of his sanctuary.
-
-
BEST post apocalyptic story
- By melinda a rister on 10-02-21
By: Joe Hart
-
Chosen
- The Chosen, Book 1
- By: Denise Grover Swank
- Narrated by: John Mierau
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase. She moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five-year-old son, who can see the future, are running from the men intent on taking him. Emma will do anything to protect him, even when it means accepting the help of a stranger named Will. Jake insists she needs Will, but Emma's never needed help before. And even though she's learned to trust her son, it doesn't mean she trusts Will.
-
-
Honest and Constructive Feedback
- By Kindle Customer on 12-14-12
-
The Dead Cat Bounce
- By: Sarah Graves
- Narrated by: Lindsay Ellison
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Since she bought her rambling fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storeroom, an ice pick planted firmly in his cranium. Jake's unknown guest turns out to be local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine.
-
-
too slow of a story...
- By Annette on 03-13-18
By: Sarah Graves
-
Angel Burn
- Angel, Book 1
- By: L. A. Weatherly
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Willow knows she’s different from other girls, and not just because she loves tinkering with cars. Willow has a gift. She can look into the future and know people’s dreams and hopes, their sorrows and regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where this power comes from. But the assassin, Alex, does. Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows more about Willow than Willow herself does. He knows that her powers link to dark and dangerous forces and that he’s one of the few humans left who can fight them. When Alex finds himself falling in love, he discovers that nothing is as it seems....
-
-
These Are Not Your Everyday Angels!
- By Diane Daniels on 03-30-12
By: L. A. Weatherly
-
Scan
- Scan, Book 1
- By: Walter Jury, Sarah Fine
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tate and his father don't exactly get along. As Tate sees it, his father has unreasonably high expectations for Tate to be the best - at everything. Tate finally learns what he's being prepared for when he steals one of his dad's odd tech inventions and mercenaries ambush the school, killing his father in the process and sending Tate on the run from aliens who look just like humans. Even with all he knows, like how to defend himself with useful tools made out of bubblegum, Tate fears he's still inadequate.
-
-
It's read by Luke Daniels need I say more.
- By Kepi on 02-12-15
By: Walter Jury, and others
-
Tennessee Takedown
- Harlequin Intrigue
- By: Lena Diaz
- Narrated by: Marcie Millard
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It can't be a coincidence that in the past 24 hours, three different thugs have tried to kill or abduct Ashley Parrish. Sexy SWAT team leader Dillon Gray saved her, but now he wonders why someone would want to murder the beautiful accountant…and why he finds her so infuriatingly attractive. Then the FBI comes after Ashley for embezzlement, and Dillon knows he must protect her from a killer and prove she's being framed. Taking her on a hair-raising run through dangerous terrain barely fazes him. But wanting her for more than just one night scares the hell out of him.
-
-
He'd given her a battery
- By Kindle Customer on 10-08-16
By: Lena Diaz
-
The Fireman
- A Novel
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies - before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.
-
-
GOD'S WAITING ROOM; AKA FLORIDA
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 04-25-17
By: Joe Hill
-
The Reckoning
- By: Lili St. Crow
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nobody expected Dru Anderson to survive this long. Not Graves. Not Christophe. Not even Dru. She's battled killer zombies, jealous djamphirs, and bloodthirsty suckers straight out of her worst nightmares. But now that Dru has bloomed into a full-fledged svetocha — rare, beautiful, and toxic to all vampires — the worst is yet to come. Because getting out alive is going to cost more than she's ever imagined. And in the end, is survival really worth the sacrifice?
-
-
What?!?
- By Crazyone on 08-08-12
By: Lili St. Crow
-
Krampus
- The Yule Lord
- By: Brom
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the reindeer leap skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. Moments later, a large sack plummets back to earth, a magical sack that thrusts the down-on-his-luck singer into the clutches of the terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus.
-
-
5 stars
- By colleen on 11-17-12
By: Brom
-
Mine
- By: Robert R. McCammon
- Narrated by: Isabelle Gordon
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade - a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen - Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell's only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage.
-
-
American Radical nightmare!
- By Rob Malone on 04-30-18
-
Ill Wind
- Weather Warden, Book 1
- By: Rachel Caine
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now, she's trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So, she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life.... Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful warden known. Unfortunately, he's stolen not one but three bottles of Djinn-making him the most wanted man on earth. Still, she's racing hard to find him-before the bad weather closes in fast.
-
-
This is a great series!
- By Fun Lovin Lady on 11-12-10
By: Rachel Caine
-
The Brotherhood of the Wheel
- By: R. S. Belcher
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In AD 1119, a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon - a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them.
-
-
Epic Battle Brewing
- By Doug D. Eigsti on 03-29-16
By: R. S. Belcher
-
The Last Thing I Remember
- The Homelanders, Book 1
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Joshua Swanson
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Charlie West just woke up in someone else's nightmare. He's strapped to a chair. He's covered in blood and bruises. He hurts all over. And a strange voice outside the door just ordered his death. The last thing he can remember is that he was a normal high-school kid doing normal things. How long ago was that? Where is he now? Who is he really?
-
-
Not Just For Kids!
- By Sherry on 02-03-11
By: Andrew Klavan
-
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
- By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
-
-
Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
- By Jerry on 12-06-14
By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, and others
-
To the Vanishing Point
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It was just a boring drive through the Nevada desert...until the Sonderberg family picked up a beautiful young hitchhiker named Mouse and found themselves on a wild, careening ride down the exit ramp to Hell. It seems the entire universe is doomed unless Mouse, a transdimensional alien, can find and heal the dying cosmic Spinner who controls the very fabric of reality. They're driving into a fantastic nightmare to save all creation at the Vanishing Point on the Cosmic Road...which happens to be US Interstate 40!
-
-
One of my all time favorites.
- By Joseph Simpson on 09-18-21
By: Alan Dean Foster
-
Dark Memories
- By: Jeffrey S. Savage
- Narrated by: Jason Tatom
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There are things in the darkness, things much worse than the tracks and abandoned pieces of equipment that trip the children up and gash at their feet and legs, things that brush silently past them, touching their faces before disappearing again....
-
-
EZRA QUIT GOING TO CHURCH
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-11-17
What listeners say about The Trunk Key
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Debbie
- 10-17-21
A Stunner (in a Good Way)
Wow! There's a LOT packed into three and a half hours. In the beginning I was wondering: Is this woman sane? Is she a mental case? I was absolutely so relieved when it got to the point that I was certain that there WAS a child in the trunk. And then picking up the road worker! Ugh! This is one of the most artfully written stories EVER. It has some bad language . . . not terrible language . . . I'd venture to say that worse would be coming out of my mouth if I were in her shoes. I was rooting for Jennifer Canfield like crazy . . . for the little girl . . . for Stephen Baron. The abductor was super human, worst of the worst . . . and yet this woman, Jennifer kept fighting. And as the story completely unfolded, you learned why. Wow! Now I'm out to find some more by this author. I usually do not like or appreciate snarky humor, but it is EXACTLY right in this book. Way to go!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Audio Audits
- 04-23-14
Good Solid Suspense Story
So this audio book is priced at $2.09 and at a little over 3 1/2 hours I figured why not! I'm glad I took a chance, good audio quality, fantastic narrator, and a solid story, can't quite figure out why its in the romance section, because it really is a suspense novella. go ahead a buy it if your looking for a good short story that really feels like a novel, because the writer Carolyn Nash is so descriptive. Keep on writing Carolyn, I'll look for more from you!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
6 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Judy Farmer
- 08-25-22
Humanity. Emotional. Strength.
I'm a very picky listener/reader when it comes to books. The very first thing to me is the narrators voice. If the voice isn't to my liking, the listening stops right there. Second I give the author a maximum of 1 minute to capture my interest. So needless to say, I was quite pleased by this book.
The very beginning made me laugh because I can relate to the phone, earbuds and doughnuts!
It's funny, sad, thought provoking. It is relatable. It made me wish there were more people like this.
A very good listen!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Lifeisshort
- 05-13-14
Great Bargain
I thought why not when I saw this selection listed. it's price 1.95 made it worth the chance. It certainly was. Jennifer Canfield is in traffic headed for work when she sees the hand of a child extended from the trunk of an old beater. Impulsively she follows the vehicle and the adventure begins. Jennifer; a victim of sexual abuse as a child compulsively follows the car through the city onto the highway and into the mountains. Going through a construction zone a highway worker named Stephen joins her and they continue the chase together. The chase leads to more than one confrontation with the kidnapper. The ending of this novella is ambiguous and leaves open the chance for a typical romance novel to follow.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- RueRue
- 04-11-22
Short, predictable
Not much substance in this short novel with a predictable outcome. Narration wasn’t great either.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- MamaBear
- 06-05-21
Great main character
I loved this main character. Perhaps I found her more compelling than some other readers might, because I’m also an adoptive and foster parent, and because I can see myself doing the same thing Jenny did. She really resonated with me, and I celebrated her growing realization of how tough and resilient she is.
This worked well as a novella, because the shorter length kept the focus on the action. The plot moved crisply, without getting bogged down.
Despite its short length, the action, setting, and main character were all richly described. The only aspect I found lacking was in the character of the supporting character. I would have liked more information about who he is, beyond being a “nice guy” who appears to be comfortable with feminism. Does he have children? Does he want kids? What does he like to do in his spare time?!
That said, I’d still recommend this highly.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!