Like It Never Happened, Jeff Hoffmann
Like It Never Happened, Jeff Hoffmann
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Like It Never Happened

Author: Jeff Hoffmann

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2024


Synopsis

Thirty years ago, Tommy, Malcolm, Henry, and Kevin were best friends graduating high school, brothers almost, until the night they did something terrible. The decision to keep hidden what they did in that parking lot shattered their friendship and warped their lives. But when Kevin, struggling with a heroin addiction, drives his motorcycle into the side of a truck, the other three find themselves together again—at Kevin’s funeral. When they meet Kevin’s wife Naomi at the wake, they can tell that she knows everything, and when they learn that she’s a reporter, they’re terrified. When she sends them to visit one of their victims from that night—at the nursing home where he’s been suffering for decades—they do as they’re told, even though they know it won’t stop there. After watching her husband pay a steep price for keeping the friends’ secret, Naomi has crafted a plan to make Tommy, Malcolm, and Henry pay their fair share. When the three men decide to fight back, they’re forced to decide just how far they’ll go this time.

About Jeff Hoffmann

Jeff Hoffmann's debut novel was Other People’s Children, and his writing has been published in The Sun, Booth, Harpur Palate, and Publishers Weekly. He was the winner of the Madison Review’s Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize. He is a passionate proponent of the Oxford comma, a mediocre men’s league hockey player, and a fair-weather fan of the Chicago Blackhawks. He was born and raised in St. Louis and now lives in Elmhurst, Illinois, with his wife and two children.

About Noah Michael Levine

Noah Michael Levine is an Audie Award–winning narrator, audiobook producer, actor, and author. He has narrated over 400 titles and looks forward to recording many more. His catalog spans the full breadth of genres, including history, philosophy, science, literary critique, fantasy, drama, comedy, young adult, thriller, and romance/erotica. An avid home chef and lover of animals, he lives in the beautiful Hudson River Village of Nyack, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mallory

I listened to the audiobook for this one and I did think he narrator did a good job with the main characters (I didn’t love the job he did with the female voices, but it wasn’t bad). This is a book that felt like all the build up without the explosion or climax I wanted. It was a book that kept my a......more

Goodreads review by Krystal

Narrated by Noah Michael Levine. Less a thriller, more 'three straight white guys have a tough time because they were assholes as kids'. I wanted this to be much more than it was. The story centres around an incident, in a parking lot decades ago, that had 'deadly consequences'. From the get go, it's p......more

This is one of those books that didn’t particularly entertain me, and I didn’t really enjoy reading, yet I still did. I’m not sure why, probably stubbornness, but I did. I wanted to know the secret, which, kudos to the author for creating that type of environment. The journey to get there wasn’t a f......more

Goodreads review by Letitia

‘Like It Never Happened’ by Jeff Hoffman explores how suppressing past actions and secrets can permanently alter lives and leave the most innocent to pay the price. Thirty years ago, Tommy, Malcolm, Henry, and Kevin were best friends with a brotherly bond that would never be broken until one tragic......more

Goodreads review by Kate

I'm sad to say that this book was not for me. I felt lost and confused for most of the book. I started counting and there are 19 or 20 different characters. Aside from the 4 main characters, there are the wives or ex, the children, the children's boyfriends, the colleagues, the victims, the victims'......more