Unspeakable

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: John Henry Cox

Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. After all, he is terrifyingly good at it. Stimulated by violence, he and his brother, Cecil, had easily graduated from juvenile delinquents to full-blown killers. And Carl, now serving a life sentence in an Arkansas penitentiary, carries out a daring escape with a fellow inmate and is on his way back to where he began—Blewer County, Texas.

Ann Corbett had been widowed right before her son was born. Beset by debt and personal tragedy, she faces the toughest challenge of her life—holding on to the ranch that is her son's birthright—unaware that she is at the center of Carl Herbold's vengeful plan.

Ezzy Hardge is a retired lawman who is haunted by the one crime he sacrificed everything to solve, but could not. And Jack Sawyer, a seemingly easygoing cowboy and drifter whose past is shrouded in mystery, understands Herbold's twisted mind and his hate-filled lust for vengeance.

Risking exposure of his own troubled past, Jack arrives at Anna Corbett's ranch asking for work, but in reality hoping to protect the innocent deaf woman and her young son from Herbold's rage.

Carl Herbold's prison break draws them inexorably toward a day of reckoning: Ezzy, an over-the-hill peace officer seeking redemption; Jack, a man stalked by dark secrets he can no longer outrun; and Anna, a beautiful woman locked in silence and self-imposed isolation. All must grapple with their own demons before their tumultuous confrontation with a diabolical killer.

Realistic, sharp-edged, and complex, Sandra Brown's latest work is so suspenseful it zings like a high-tension wire. Unspeakable, with its haunting images and breathtaking pace, is the best Sandra Brown yet.

©1998 Sandra Brown Management, Ltd. (P)1998 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

great book

this was a great book I very much enjoy listening to it very well narrated I was glued to it

The best!

I found this novel one of my favourites written by Sandra Brown, a small window frame of characters, no torrid sex scenes and an interesting story line.

Great Listen!

Characters you wind up caring about and others you hate. Moves at a good pace and keeps you wondering till the end. Another great Sandra Brown book.

Touching and Engaging

Another captivating Sandra Brown mystery and romance. She creates characters that are who we hope to be.

Unspeakable was suspenseful.

I liked unspeakable. The ending had a twist I didn’t expect. I wish the book went on more, but I think that about all of Sandra Brown’s books. I guess I am a two epilogue reader!

Unspeakable

The story was filled with profanity. I stuck it out. I liked the mystery. I liked the characters. I just had to keep forwarding past the language.

This book is terrible, wouldn't recommend it.

Very disappointing, after Chill Factor I thought this book would be great! boy was I wrong.. it dragged on and on... not worth the time it took to finish it..

Though it would never end

One half step above a dime store love novel that I thought would never end. If you're a Sandra Brown fan and love everything she writes, oh well, as for the rest of us, boring.

exciting

kept me guessing to the end

C+

I enjoyed many of Sandra's books, but this one I found to be full of depressing, twisted situations and left me feeling that only evil wins in this book. The author has a morbid fascination for detail that is a put off in my opinion. The rape and murder of a 14yr old girl does not need to be expanded in detail. Why the author thinks this will be interesting for the reader is a "mystery" to me. Also the vulgarity in this book is over done. Most of the men in this book are portrayed as so low and disgusting that it leaves me to think this is only the author's view made evident. The narrator made the child out to be an annoying little brat with a whining voice that was almost too unbearable to hear. I probably won't buy any more of her books. I rate this selection a C+ only because I couldn't wait to hear the end where I expected justice to prevail in some sick sort of way. Uhhhhg!