Carolina Moonset

By: Matt Goldman

Narrated by: Bradford Hastings

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

An engrossing, breakout stand-alone suspense novel with heart by New York Times best-selling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman

Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green’s short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backward in time, retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy.

At first, this seems like a blessing of sorts, with the past providing a refuge from a shrinking future, but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his father’s hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets, scandals, and suspicions long buried and forgotten. Resurfacing from decades past are mysteries that still have the power to shatter lives—and change everything Joey thought he knew.

Especially when a new murder brings the police to his door....

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times best-selling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman.

©2022 Matt Goldman (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Love this book!!!

Fantastic narration, engrossing storyline, and Beaufort SC - what’s not to love?!! You will not be disappointed!

Slow-paced but Intriguing

Well-written and well narrated. Although the plot is slow to unfold when it finally does it is hard to put down.

quick

Bradford Hasting did well narrating this quick paced book. It was enjoyable and well worth the listen.

Really enjoyable

Binged all the Matt Goldman books I could find. I love his descriptions of people and places and the community he creates with his characters.
Bradford Hastings did an excellent job bringing voices to the characters. Loved his narration of the father telling stories as he remembers the past and laughs until he cries.

Top notch

With Goldman, there is no filler. Every word matters either to the plot or because it’s a funny observation about, well, nothing.

Great Story

Great story and loved the story telling…you really fall in love with the characters.

Great Local Color

Story is steeped in Low Country history. The love story within the mystery is the true star. But the story could have unfolded more quickly. Overall a good distraction.

Good story but…

It was an excellent story w/ a solid plot and a fantastic reader. I have two reservations about it:
1. The book and audible version contains several “f-bombs”. I purchased this book to listen to on a road trip with my daughter and I truly wish the language would have been cleaner. In every single usage, it was unnecessary. So there was that.
2. A few times the plot begins to drag. It gets bogged down with too much description/expansion. But I will say that right about the time you go thought” ok, I’m getting tired of listening” a twist or clue would arise that reignited the engagement with the story.

The reader was terrific! Excellent job.

Narrator rocks!

Mr. Hastings read/told the story so well. Eager to listen to him again. Thank you.

Touching story handled by a great reader.

I’ve listened to many Matt Goldman stories. His weave of words keeps me engaged.

Brad Hastings as a reader made the story come alive. Great job.

I will be looking for more of Matt’s writings.