• Northern Lights

  • By: Nora Roberts
  • Narrated by: Gary Littman
  • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5,798 ratings)

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Northern Lights

By: Nora Roberts
Narrated by: Gary Littman
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Publisher's summary

Let #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts fly you into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who are searching for love and redemption...

As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite the name, Lunacy provides a balm for Nate’s shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights....

But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And his discovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that he has finally found for himself.

©2004 Nora Roberts (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"[A] richly textured novel that captures the intimacy of smalltown police work, the prickliness of the pioneer spirit and the paradox of a setting at once intimate and expansive." (Publishers Weekly)

"Roberts's latest hit novel could not be performed better." (AudioFile)

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Icy Hot, Hot Hot!

Nora Roberts knows how to make snow sizzle. When former Detective from Baltimore changes scenery to beautiful but frigid Alaska and takes on (literally!) a 16 year old “cold case” and falls hard for the victim’s “hot damn, high flying daughter”, the tale thaws. Can’t miss.

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a better reader would have helped

Overall the book was between a 4 and a 5 .. but the reader was just a bit too vanilla for my taste. He had about 3 different voices and used them interchangeably in such a way that many of the characters sounded the same .. it was like he couldn't keep them straight himself so he just "winged" it and it was annoying. The interplay between the two main characters was fun and "real," and that was refreshing. Their ability to argue and stick together was nice. I haven't read much by Nora Roberts under that name, and I don't think I"ll be going out of my way to get more, but it was a pleasant interlude with a quick and colorful glimpse of life in Alaska.

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Entertaining

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It was a pleasant way to pass the time but not what I would call spell binding or one of those books that you just can't stop listening to. It was okay, not great, not terrible. The narration helped move the book along.

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So good

I actually burst out laughing several times. Takes a lot to get me to do that. Good book

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Loved this !!

I loved the narrater !!! And of course i love Nora Roberts !! This is an amazing book

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New favorite reader

Loved the setting of this story and the characters. I would love it if this could be the beginning of a seies. BUT most of all the reader is fabulous. Real depth of emotion in his voice. The many characters have separate and identifiable voices. I'm crushed that there are so few audible books available from Gary. More please!

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Haven't read a bad Nora Roberts novel yet!

Excellent novel. Holds one's attention. not too easy to figure out whodunit. Makes one want to visit Alaska.

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Warm up for Alaska Trip

I found this in my library and at first couldn't remember why I had purchased it. Then I saw it was about Alaska and I was about to go on an Alaska cruise. So it was timely for me to read and I really enjoyed the story. Fortunately it was much warmer and lighter out in Alaska when I visited.

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The very best

I can't stop reading and listening to this book! Five years running and I suspect 5 or 6 years to go.

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Northern Lights

I lived this story. Keeps you engaged the entire time. I lived the reader. He did an amazing job. Some great plot twists. Loved it. Nora Roberts did it again can't wait to see what else I can listen to.

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