The Wolf's Moon

By: Patrick Jones

Narrated by: Mark Westfield

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

It's all too easy to let the ghosts you see consume you - but the very things that haunt you can often keep you alive and fighting, as the mysterious widower Mark Lansdowne discovers in Jones' debut novel. The novel opens in contemporary Missouri, where Lansdowne, whose friendly exterior masks a history of covert missions and lethal violence, is still recovering from the death of his beloved wife one year prior. But as autumn gives way to winter, the outside world intrudes in a bloody fashion: A string of attacks on locals yields a spiraling body count; the apparent culprit is an animal extinct for thousands of years. A pitched battle with the creature sends Lansdowne to the hospital - where he meets a beautiful nurse - but outside the hospital, evidence implies that the animal Lansdowne killed was not the only one of its kind.

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Great story and a gerat narrator

Since his beloved wife, Glenna, died, it seems like Mark Lansdown just wants to live a quiet life with his 3 dogs in his secluded home. But that’s simply not going to happen.

I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. It’s definitely written from a man’s perspective and I think guys would perhaps like it more than most women. That being said, and even though I’m female and it’s not my usual genre, I quickly got into the story and all the other stuff I was supposed to be doing got shelved for the duration. :-)

The author has crafted the characters - especially those of Lansdown and his sidekick, Scruggs - with care, and the mystery he builds around their previous lives makes me sure I want to read the next one.

I very much enjoyed the narrator, Mark Westfield, as well. His voice is wonderful and I liked the effects he used for the characters talking on the phone or walkie-talkies. It really added to the audio. Hope he does the next one!

Great story premise, too!