"Story and performance top notch"
Cornwell does an excellent mystery again. I'll admit that I've skipped a few novels and I'm now "backfilling" the story with some of the earlier Scarpeta stories. I find the performance by CJ Critt easy to listen to and I enjoy her rendition of the characters. I recommend the story, performance, and production.
"Years of story closed with grace and passion."
I have and will again recommend the entire Eve Duncan series by Ms. Johansen. I began reading her, but her stories lend themselves particularly well to audio and Jennifer Van Dyke has the perfect sense of drama, and character style in her rendition of the books.
I don't know what this book would be like for someone not familiar with the works preceding this conclusion to the mystery of Bonnie yet I think that the characters and plot are definitely enhanced with the background of the full Eve Duncan series. If I were to recommend just a few books to reach this Bonnie novel, it would begin with Chasing The Night, then Eve, followed by Quinn, and then Bonnie. Though it would be a shame to miss the beautiful intricacies of the earlier novels to understand the desperate passions of each of the characters in Bonnie.