Each portion of this slow-burn thriller is tackled by a different narrator who adds their own unique twist to Swanson's layered characters. Saskia Maarleveld delivers librarian Martha Ratliff's chapters, highlighting Martha's curiosity and distress. Kathleen Early narrates Lily Kitner's point of view. Early's performance sounds stiff in contrast to Maarleveld's. Newlywed Martha seeks help from her college classmate, Lily, when she suspects her husband, Alan, of violence. Digging into Alan's travels, they stumble upon an old friend, Ethan Saltz. As Lily discovers the truth about Ethan, with the help of Henry Kimball, it might be too late.
Pub Date: June 11, 2024
Duration: 8 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9780063205062
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Altheide makes the most of this complex narrative, which explores reputation, desire, and flawed judgment.
Novelist Steven Hammer’s declining career and strained marriage leave him increasingly drawn to Astrid, the family’s Norwegian au pair. Eric A. Altheide’s subtle shifts in tone highlight Steven's many missteps of obsession, insecurity, and self-justification. Listeners have front-row seats to a middle-aged man’s inability to transition from fame to obscurity. Altheide portrays Steven's growing fixation on Astrid with mounting tension. His performance maximizes the overlapping circles of passion, manipulation, and power as Steven and Astrid's choices produce larger and larger consequences and a public scandal eventually erupts.
Altheide makes the most of this complex narrative, which explores reputation, desire, and flawed judgment.Pub Date: June 30, 2026
Duration: 6 hrs, 34 mins
DD ISBN: 9780063457201
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: June 23, 2026
This audiobook immerses listeners in a bloody Texas summer.
Garrett Michael Brown narrates this exciting summer camp slasher. Sheriff’s deputy Tom arrives at the scene of a massacre, with only one teen survivor left to tell the story—a situation eerily similar to a massacre at the same summer camp a decade earlier. Narrating in a Southern accent, Brown adopts an unhurried pace as the story unfolds like a police procedural. Tom examines the remains and digs into details others want to bury. While Brown’s characters are mostly differentiated, some voices are too similar to distinguish among them. Elizabeth Cappuccino delivers the survivors’ firsthand depictions of both massacres.
This audiobook immerses listeners in a bloody Texas summer.Pub Date: June 16, 2026
Duration: 9 hrs, 25 mins
DD ISBN: 9781668651056
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Review Posted Online: June 16, 2026
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