The Invisible Woman

Former FBI agent Elinor Gilbert feels invisible and depressed after being fired and leaving the FBI in disgrace. She is shocked when her former boss, Alan Metcalf, who a decade earlier ruined her career and reputation, asks her to meet him at a diner. Since Elinor misses working for the FBI and feels unfulfilled in her new life as a music teacher, she agrees. Metcalf promises reinstatement, a restored pension, health insurance, and, most tantalizing of all, free parking in the FBI garage, if Elinor agrees to take an off-the-books undercover assignment as a nanny for Amber and Ben Harrison, a wealthy couple suspected of laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel. Humor and hijinks ensue, even as Elinor undertakes her dangerous assignment. Narrator Penning’s dramatic reading brings each character to life, especially Amber, whose high-pitched, somewhat whiny voice reveals her anxiety and feelings of helplessness as a new mother. Amber relies heavily on Elinor, who has luckily studied baby-care manuals to prepare for the assignment.