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- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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A gothic tale set in a rambling house by the sea in which a maid cares for a mute old woman with a mysterious past, alongside her superstitious staff - from the author of The Silent Companions.
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Forty years later, Hester arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralyzed and mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try to escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.
Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness is now out from Penguin!
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Purcell has a sure storytelling touch, a command of atmosphere and a keen eye for the telling details of social history. Oh, and she stores up some satisfying and suitably macabre final revelations." (The Guardian)
"A Victorian tale replete with laudanum, tuberculosis and possibly fairies...a clever, creepy read." (Sunday Express, Best New Thrillers)
"Brilliantly atmospheric and chilling...I raced through the pages hardly daring to find out what would happen next. Laura’s characters and the world they inhabit are compelling, unsettling and richly drawn. A fabulous tale!" (Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things)
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Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests.
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Happily surprised
- De 9S en 07-04-09
De: Deanna Raybourn
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The Dead Travel Fast
- De: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrado por: Charlotte Parry
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With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh—and a disappointed suitor—far behind. She is bound for Romania, where tales of vampires are still whispered, to visit an old friend and write the book that will bring her true independence. She arrives at a magnificent, decaying castle in the Carpathians, replete with eccentric inhabitants, including the castle’s master, Count Andrei Dragulescu.
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- De Aryn en 04-29-11
De: Deanna Raybourn
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The Heiress
- The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh
- De: Molly Greeley
- Narrado por: Ell Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh was prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. Growing up sheltered and confined, removed from sunshine and fresh air, the pale and overly slender Anne grew up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout their childhoods, it was understood that Darcy and Anne would marry and combine their vast estates of Pemberley and Rosings. But Darcy does not love Anne or want her.
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A beautiful work of historical fiction
- De Alex M en 02-21-21
De: Molly Greeley
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The Cater Street Hangman
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
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When a maid in the upper class Ellison household is strangled, Inspector Pitt is called in to investigate. He finds a world ruled by strict manners and social customs, where the inhabitants of the Ellison's neighborhood appear to be more outraged by the thought of scandal than they are by murder. Inspector Pitt finds a most unlikely ally in Charlotte, the Ellison's spirited daughter. But as the murders continue, Charlotte and Pitt find themselves drawn together by more than the investigation.
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I really like this book but it's not for everone
- De Ancient Warrior en 03-14-11
De: Anne Perry
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Song of the Forever Rains
- The Mousai, Book 1
- De: E.J. Mellow
- Narrado por: Madeline Lake, Nelson Hobbs
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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The Thief Kingdom is a place hidden within the world of Aadilor. Many whisper of its existence, but few have found this place, where magic and pleasure abound. There, the mysterious Thief King reigns supreme with the help of the Mousai, a trio of revered and feared sorceresses. Larkyra Bassette may be the youngest of the Mousai, but when she sings her voice has the power to slay monsters. When it’s discovered the Duke of Lachlan is siphoning a poisonous drug from the Thief Kingdom and using it to abuse his tenants, Larkyra is offered her first solo mission to stop the duke.
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couldn't finish
- De Mae Fishel en 08-25-21
De: E.J. Mellow
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The Irish Healer
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Herriman
- Narrado por: Amanda McKnight
- Duración: 8 h
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1830s London is rich with promise ... and fraught with peril. Rachel Dunne and James Edmunds are about to discover that love is too. Rachel Dunne has always been a healer ... until she’s accused of causing the death of a child under her care. Acquitted but shunned, she flees Ireland in search of a new life, convinced that she’ll be fine so long as no one in London learns of her disgrace - or forces her to ever sit at another sickbed.
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- De Wendy en 07-06-12
De: Nancy Herriman
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A Strange Scottish Shore
- De: Juliana Gray
- Narrado por: Gemma Massot
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing that, according to family legend, once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea and married the castle's first laird. But Haywood and Truelove soon realize they're not the only ones interested in the selkie's strange hide.
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Time travel escape
- De M M en 11-07-17
De: Juliana Gray
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The Lost Melody
- De: Joanna Davidson Politano
- Narrado por: Amy Scanlon
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant’s father dies, he leaves to her the care of a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. Vivienne had no idea the woman existed, and yet her portrait is shockingly familiar. When the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams.
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New favorite!!!
- De Lisa Scott en 12-13-22
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Delicious
- De: Sherry Thomas
- Narrado por: Virginia Leishman
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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Delicious presents Verity Durant, an irresistible woman of a more elegant age. Verity is renowned from London to Paris for her succulent cuisine - and for her rapacious carnal appetite. And she's determined to tempt prim and proper politician Stuart Somerset with forbidden fruits he's never tasted.
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Sherry Thomas, Wonderful as Always!
- De Shoppermom en 06-04-18
De: Sherry Thomas
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Instruments of Darkness
- A Novel
- De: Imogen Robertson
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.
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Not The Best, But Not Too Bad...
- De MJ en 01-13-13
De: Imogen Robertson
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Except the Dying
- A Murdoch Mystery, Book 1
- De: Maureen Jennings
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families?
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If you like the show - don't buy
- De Sarah en 06-09-16
De: Maureen Jennings
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The Lawrence Browne Affair
- De: Cat Sebastian
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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Lawrence Browne, the Earl of Radnor, is mad. At least that's what he and most of the village believes. A brilliant scientist, he hides himself away in his family's crumbling estate, unwilling to venture into the outside world. When an annoyingly handsome man arrives at Penkellis, claiming to be Lawrence's new secretary, his carefully planned world is turned upside down.
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Historical romance without the stupid stuff
- De April en 09-28-20
De: Cat Sebastian
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The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
- A Novel
- De: Imogen Hermes Gowar
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives an unusual creature - and meets a most extraordinary woman - in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire. One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah’s trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah’s ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid.
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Gave up
- De Isabella Piestrzynska en 10-27-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The House of Whispers
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- Babygirl93086
- 11-04-21
Ehhhhh not my favorite
Ⓐⓤⓓⓘⓞⓑⓞⓞⓚ Ⓡⓔⓥⓘⓔⓦ
𝔗𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔬𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔰
𝔅𝔶: @laura.purcell85
𝔑𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔰: @elizabethknowelden & @christinerendelvoice
𝔊𝔢𝔫𝔯𝔢: 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝙵𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝙶𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌 , 𝙷𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛
𝔓𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔯: @penguinaudio
𝔓𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔡 𝔒𝔫: June 9th 2020
@goodreads 𝔖𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔢: 3.68
𝔐𝔶 𝔖𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔢: 🏚️🏚️🏚️ / 𝟻 𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚜
Laura Purcell has a knack for writing Victorian Gothic Tales but this one didn't quite hit the spot for me.
This book is told in two alternating story-lines. One where Louise Pinecroft's family has died from consumption. Leaving her and her Physician father alone and grieving. In his grief Dr. Pinecraft believes that he knows a cure - he is going to conduct an experiment using prisoners who have consumption and show how the sea air can cure them. He is housing the prisoners in the caves underneath their new home. While he treats his patients, his daughter is becoming more uneasy as her maid talks of fairies and how they hunt the land.
Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House forty years later to work as a nurse for the ailing and partially paralyzed Miss Pinecraft. She comes with some baggage, so to speak. She is fleeing from a previous job and finds her new living situation strange but not as strange as the customs and bizarre behavior of others who live there. Something isn't quite right here, but what?
I will agree that this book is atmospheric and Gothic but for me it has left me with more questions than answers. I felt confused at times throughout the book. The two story-lines do come together but with all of the confusion I felt of this Victorian read it left me a bit puzzled. For me this book felt a little disjointed and I would have liked the past and present story-lines to line up a little better than they did.
Perhaps I was holding this book up to a very high standard, after listening to "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅" which I indeed loved very much. This book just wasn't the best fit for me. I do however have another of Laura Purcell books to read "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔" and like this one I am looking forward to it. Here's hoping it will be a smash. 🤞
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- kat
- 11-17-21
quite the cliff hanger
unique story, leaves quite a bit up to the imagination. great performance, wonderful descriptions .
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- Lovely Reader
- 08-29-22
3.5 stars
I struggled with the last quarter of the book. I loved the narration, loved the first half of the story. But somethings went amiss for me at the second half and last quarter. Loved the idea of dark fae, just left me confused with some of the story.
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- M. M. OCallaghan
- 05-31-21
Gothic delight....
I had so much fun listening to this one. This is a true Gothic tale in the fashion of Dianne Setterfield's Bellman & Black, or even ....Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. The author has the goods and knows how to transport you to another time and place. The story was creepy (in a good way) and there was absolutely nothing one-dimensional about the characters. Such a relief! Hester is a good person who also is a criminal and a bit crazy. The rest of the characters are equally complicated, for the most part. This is my second novel of Laura Purcell's and certainly won't be my last. If you are longing for a great Gothic gem, this will probably satisfy you. The narrator's voice and reading style suited the story perfectly.
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- Sarita
- 03-30-22
Eh, I expected more
I was really exited to hear this story because the author has written such amazing books, this however is mediocre.
The book seems like two short stories merged together then scrambled to make into one complete story. The first half of the book is interesting but the ending leaves a lot to the imagination assuming you can imagine a possibly hateful mother-in-law doing something unthinkable.
The second half is something I could have skipped. It didn’t provide any interest to me besides slight confusion at the time change and the character change.
The ending however was silly. It felt rushed and yet I didn’t learn anything new and nothing happened that you didn’t expect to happen. Over all I wouldn’t say it’s a bad read but I wouldn’t listen to it again or recommend it to the masses.
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- Sarah Sharp
- 11-21-22
Not as good as I expected
I was excited to read another book by this author after reading one of hers that I enjoyed very much. The House of Whispers was very slow moving and difficult to get interested in. Twenty chapters in, I was painfully bored and waiting for something of interest to happen. I found myself not knowing what was happening, and not really caring, because it didn’t feel like there was any substance to have missed out on. It did get better towards the end, but was really just kind of blah throughout the whole thing.
The narrators did do a great job, though.
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- Deborah Stellhorn
- 09-17-23
Mesmerizing
This was written like two stories that came together as one, with both equally spellbinding. I enjoyed the historical setting and the narrators bringing the characters to life.
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- Alyse Eisenstein
- 09-22-20
this kills me.
Laura Purcell is one of my favorite authors but this just isn't her best.
It's a damn shame too as it as so much promise. have to wonder if it wasn't a bit rushed to meet a deadline.
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- Yaneth Cannon
- 09-07-22
Disjointed is what comes to mind!
I wanted to love this book but I felt like I was listening to two separate books.
The first part of the story was fascinating, however, once the main character arrived to her new position the story took a dark turn for the worse. Nonsense of ghosts and spirits. Was she a drunk seeing things? The main character changed personality from one chapter to the next. One moment she was full of anger whiling to kill her mistress unborn child, the next chapter without explanation she started acting like a mature, caring proper lady wanting to save her new employer from ghost.
Hahaha! Nuts!
Who can keep up with this story. The end was terrible!
I just wasted hours of my life!
Save yourself the aggravation don’t listen to this book.
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- RueRue
- 11-19-21
Unsatisfying
Didn’t like this one at all. Was it supposed to be a supernatural story, a story of madness, or just a gothic tale ? It seemed like a mish mash. One narrator was excellent - Elizabeth Knowelden - was excellent, the other was much too dramatic.
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