• A Field of Darkness

  • By: Cornelia Read
  • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
  • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (105 ratings)

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A Field of Darkness

By: Cornelia Read
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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Publisher's summary

Madeline Dare, a tough-talking, shotgun-toting ex-debutante, is not your average detective. Then again, not much about her life is what she expected. Born of old money into high society, she married into a Syracuse farming family and a bottom-of-the-food-chain job writing puff pieces for the local newspaper. Her emotional barometer these days ranges from dry irony to whining exasperation.

Then Madeline discovers mysterious circumstances linking her favorite cousin to a 20-year-old murder case, and suddenly her roots are a serious matter again: deadly serious. Unwilling to turn her evidence over to the authorities before figuring some things out herself, she will embark on an ill-prepared and harrowing investigation into the real dark side of her world.

©2006 Cornelia Read (P)2006 Blackstone Audiobooks

Critic reviews

  • Mystery Writers of America 2007 Edgar Nominee, Best First Novel by an American Author
  • Audie Award Finalist, Mystery, 2007

" "Consistently delights. The author's sharp social commentary on everything from the idle rich to the environment adds to the pleasure." (Publishers Weekly)

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