• Deadly Pretender

  • The Double Life of David Miller
  • By: Karen Kingsbury
  • Narrated by: Kate Zane
  • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (74 ratings)

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Deadly Pretender

By: Karen Kingsbury
Narrated by: Kate Zane
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A New York Times bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter's account of a con artist and bigamist who resorts to murder to hide his double life.

David Miller had a dream job and a beautiful family. But one perfect life wasn't enough. So he pretended to be an attorney, then a CIA agent. And he secretly married another woman. He juggled it all quite well—until the day his two wives found out about each other. Miller groped for ways to hold on to his finances and reputation. But when he tried using a gun to silence his second wife, his carefully constructed façade of power and wealth exploded.

In Deadly Pretender, New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury dives into the tangled world of deceit, greed, and lust to reveal what drove a seemingly upright citizen to live a double life, and then, to commit the unthinkable.

©1994, 2014 Karen Kingsbury (P)2023 Tantor

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how people can get away with so much.

clean, no sex, and good story telling. for me, I like Karen's Christian novels. I saw these and had to read them.

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Can’t put this book down.

Anything Karen Kingsbury writes is always suspenseful and difficult to separate you from the book. In other words, I’ve never experienced any other her books where I can put them down to live my life or even sleep for that matter. She just has a way of holding you captive.

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Convincing narrative!

I was amazed with the excellent research conducted to tell this story. It is amazing to see how easy it is to believe lies.

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Are women really this stupid?

I will read another from this Author, unless the women characters are still stupid. I have heard good reports in other books she has written.

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it's worth the slow start!

When I started the first few chapters. I was very bored and disappointed. It felt as though the entire book would be read to me by the narrator. I have bought those type of books in the past not knowing someone was reading the entire story. The first couple of chapters were predominantly the narrator reading the story. I decided to stick with it . I am happy I decided to give this book a chance. This story is for everyone that doubt their first instincts or more importantly the voice of God ...I highly recommend this book. This was a true story. My prayers are with the victims. Great Story!!! Clean Reading!!! Great Performance.

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Wow!

I couldn’t stop listening to this book. So good! I definitely recommend reading. Pulls you in and doesn’t let go.

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Amazing story

The Narration was boring in between character voices. The story was interesting enough to keep me engaged, however.

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Monotone Performance/Unusual Content for the Author

I was disappointed by the monotone quality of the voice of the individual who read the book. It almost caused me to stop listening from the start. I also was confused by the genre of story for this author. I guess this was an older work of hers and nothing like her faith based writing she currently does. The story was interesting once I was able to get past those two things.

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Exciting

It is so refreshing to listen to a crime story without horrible language and sexual content

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The narrator was excellent!

The narrator really brings this book to life! I have to find more audiobooks she narrates.

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