Beyond Reach

Grant County, Book 6

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. One hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey's wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, has little patience for Lena or her dramas. Fighting a heartbreaking malpractice suit, struggling to pick up the pieces of a shattered career, the last thing Sara needs is to see Jeffrey playing Lena's knight in shining armor. Sara cannot guess that within days she herself will be at the center of a bizarre and murderous case.

Lena has fled back to the place where she grew up hard, careening back through the shadows of her past and into a shocking underground world of bigotry and rage. The man who raised her is slowly killing himself with drugs. The man who beguiled - and beat - her is reaching out from prison. And now only Jeffrey and Sara can free Lena from the web of lies, betrayal, and brutality that has trapped her - as this powerhouse of a novel races toward its shattering climax...and a final, unforgettable twist.

©2007 Karin Slaughter (P)2007 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Good book bad performance

Joyce Bean may as well be a digitally created voice. No emotion at all. Ruins the book

great author and story, awful narrator

the narrator was super monotone and made it difficult to distinguish which character was speaking. there was a lack of emotion in her voice and I only finished the audiobook because i have loved the grant series.

Kathleen Early

Agree with all the other reviews in that the narration was awful. They need to stick with Kathleen Early who narrates most of Slaughter’s books!

Narration is a problem for this book

The narrator did a wonderful job with things like phone calls and making it sound like it might be a phone call but not a fan of her voices for the men in this book. The only one that sounded spot on was Hank when he was strung out and sick. Nick sounded like a little old lady and Jeffree sound like he was 70 years old (cry).

I know some people had a problem with the Southern accents. I'm not from the South so I didn't notice it. I'm disappointed that Sara/Jeffrey finally worked it out and this is the last book we get to remember Jeffrey by only to have him sounding like her grandfather. Somebody should have caught this along the way and made sure it was done right. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through the book now but I don't expect it to miraculously change further in :/

This review isn't meant to be a jab at the narrator. She did a respectable job with the rest of it, but men's voices are def not her thing - unless they're elderly men maybe.

Sorry

I like The normal reader the last two books have been hard to get through sorry