The Shadow Box

By: Luanne Rice

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Jim Frangione

Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

An Amazon Charts best seller.

The Amazon Charts best-selling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth—and the lengths someone will go to stop her.

After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin—who is running for governor—is her prime suspect.

Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed 25 years ago. If the public were to find out who her husband is, his political career would be over. Claire’s certain her husband and his powerful supporters would kill her to stop the truth from getting out.

When one of Claire’s acquaintances is murdered, the authorities suspect the homicide is linked to the attack on Claire. As the dual investigations unfold, Claire must decide how much she’s willing to lose to take down her husband and the corrupt group of elites who will do anything to protect Griffin’s interests and their own.

©2021 Luanne Rice (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“The Shadow Box is Luanne Rice at her dazzling best. Filled with dark family secrets and wells of deep emotion, this novel will stick with you long after you’ve finished reading.” (Harlen Coben, number one New York Times best-selling author of Run Away)

“As always, Luanne Rice gives us characters so real they feel like family and families so flawed they give us chills. Shocking, compassionate, and told with the unerring eye of a true and gifted observer, The Shadow Box will keep you turning the pages long past your bedtime.” (Tami Hoag, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Boy)

“A clever protagonist in extreme danger pitted against a cruel and powerful circle made the stakes in The Shadow Box so high I could barely stop reading for a drink of water. Luanne Rice creates a thrillingly compelling tale of common cruelty, high ambition, and the courage it takes to oppose them. Well done!” (Barbara O’Neal, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of When We Believed in Mermaids)

Good storyline

I bought this book on the recommendation from a good friend who grew up on Fishers Island and it was fun to read all the references the the island, and all of the coastal charm of CT. The plot was a bit far fetched and twisted way more than it needed, but overall a solid thriller.

Outstanding Story!

Superbly written story, masterfully crafted. The story moved at a fast pace throughout and was riviting. I highly recommend this book. Narrator also did an outstanding job.

A who done it.

A bit slow, but characters are well developed well. Female centered, political, wealthy families gone haywire after a very bad experience in Mexico initially.

Just okay

The storyline was good but too drawn out. I found it easy to put the book down but not boring.

Excellent!

Kept my attention. Great story line and characters.
I loved the narrators. Fast read!

Optional but not

I though it started off well. But then it got a bit silly. It wasn't particularly expensive so I listen to the end. I felt that there wasn't a clear timeline. I assumed the characters were in their 40s but there were grown up children so that might be wrong. A tiny bit sloppy but I'd give another book by the author a go.

loved this book

I really enjoyed this book. .....
at first I didn't think I was going to like it. then I couldn't put it down. it has a awesome story I really enjoyed the voices.

Could not stop listening till I finished it.

Couldn’t stop until I finished it. Kept me on the edge of my chair. I’ve never heard of a person that could change their eyes to black from green. But this was really a great book.

Ok story, horrible narration

An ok story, ruined by horrible narration. Needed more character distinction by using different voices instead of Claire said" and " Ford replied". That was absolutely exhausting and distracted from the whole story.

Corny

Corny pretty much says it, right? The story it’s self is a corny rich boys club gone bad story line, there’s way too many characters involved which makes narration clunky (“ I said, he said, Claire said”, every 3 seconds) and the narrators were not enjoyable. The female narrator in particular was overly dramatic, not feeling it.