Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation

Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.

As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won’t let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life. Her taboo and psychologically harrowing ability was what drove her away from the Navajo reservation, where she was raised by her grandmother. It has isolated her from friends and gotten her in trouble with the law.

And now it might be what gets her killed.

When Rita is sent to photograph the scene of a supposed suicide on a highway overpass, the furious, discombobulated ghost of the victim—who insists she was murdered—latches onto Rita, forcing her on a quest for revenge against her killers, and Rita finds herself in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque’s most dangerous cartels. Written in sparkling, gruesome prose, Shutter is an explosive debut from one of crime fiction's most powerful new voices.

©2022 Ramona Emerson (P)2022 Recorded Books

So So per story

Struggled to finish. Narrator was just adequate. Difficult to distinguish characters. Story was somewhat interesting because of 'Ritas' special gift
Don't recommend unless you're really hungry for a rather grim, police procedural ghost story

Interesting story

interesting story but not necessarily believable. I don't have anything special to say about the story.

Excellent

Rita, a character you root for. Others you don’t. Some mystery, murder, Navajo culture, and ghosts.

engaging story, well read!

I really enjoyed the story with a great reader which brought out the Navajo words clearly which made it more interesting.

Actually pretty good for the price

It was a bit slow and I didn’t think about it until after the book ended that I could’ve sped up the narration but it was a different take it there didn’t seem to be any closure but I’ll relisten and see if I missed something kept the mind open at the possibilities

Shutter

Plot moves slowly but worth listening too. Author uses too much description which beces tedious.

Poor narrator, main character does stupid things

It was really irritating that the main character, in danger of losing her job, having been asked about drug use decides to use drugs. And that as a pro photog, drops her camera randomly. She keeps trusting random ppl a sensible person would not trust.

But the biggest problem is the narrator. She mispronounced words, doesn't seem to understand the character, veers from childish cadence to sort of angry monotone even when the dialogue isn't particularly angry. Especially problematic is her weird non-pronunciation of double t's and ing's like "buuh'-in" for button, and "theen" for thing. Her tone is not bad but she needs to work on conveying appropriate emotion and get the mechanics and basics right, like pronounciation.

Great Book

It was a totally different book from what I normally read. It was excellent with excellent narration.

Wonderful

This book will hold your attention throughout. Great narration - just enough suspense that leaves you to complete the “untold”

Riveting!

Couldn't stop listening! I was "captured" by every camera-titled chapter! It opened my eyes to the non-glamourous side of photography. This story is of a young Indigenous (Diné/Navajo) crime scene photographer who can communicate with the dead victims she photographs. She struggles with trying to help them, while also honoring her culture's taboos & beliefs about death. It's also a coming of age story that focuses on her relationships with friends and family, tells how/why she became a photographer, and her battle with the corrupt cops she works with when she uncovers evidence of foul play with the help of those from the other side.