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Scandal, love, family, and murder combine in this gripping literary mystery by critically acclaimed author Emily Arsenault, in which a young academic’s life is turned upside down when her brother is arrested for murder and she must prove his innocence.
The Battle siblings are used to disappointment. Seven years, one marriage and divorce, three cats, and a dog later, Theresa still hasn’t finished her dissertation. Instead of a degree, she’s got a houseful of adoring pets and a dead-end copywriting job for a local candle company.
Jeff, her so-called genius older brother, doesn’t have it together, either. Creative, and loyal, he’s also aimless in work and love. But his new girlfriend, Kim, a pretty waitress in her twenties, appears smitten.
When Theresa agrees to dog-sit Kim’s puggle for a weekend, she has no idea that it is the beginning of a terrifying nightmare that will shatter her quiet world. Soon, Kim’s body will be found in the woods, and Jeff will become the prime suspect.
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- Margaret
- 08-01-14
Enough twists to hold your interest
Just enough worrisome twists and turns to keep one engaged with the story. Some details and character actions a bit implausible, but mostly the overall story is internally consistent and one can see, with some foreboding, why the characters are behaving as they do. Not to paint too dark a picture: the main characters are warm and likeable. Excellent narration.
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- mary
- 01-24-22
good plot
This story has a few twists. I enjoyed it a lot. It was interesting watching MC develope as the story progressed. The story does get a little long at times.
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- P French
- 01-09-22
Took forever to get to the point
Narrator voice quirky and hard to connect with. Narration boring. Story line weak. Boring actually.
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Charley's Web
- By: Joy Fielding
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
Charley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. She's spent years building an emotional wall against scathing critics, snooty neighbors, and her disapproving family. But when she receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, a young woman serving time on death row for the murders of three small children, her boundaries slowly begin to fade. Jill wants Charley to write her biography so that she can share the many hidden truths about the case that failed to surface during her trial.
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3 out of 5 stars
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not the norm
- By D. Mains on 02-04-09
By: Joy Fielding
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Lacy Eye
- By: Jessica Treadway
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 64
Hanna Schutt never suspected that her younger daughter's happiness would lead to her husband's death and the destruction of their family. When Dawn brings her new boyfriend home from college for a visit, her parents and sister try to hide their doubts because they're glad that Dawn--always an awkward child--appears to have grown into a confident, mature young woman in her relationship with Rud.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No mystery here
- By Najima Rainey on 03-13-15
By: Jessica Treadway
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Love in the Time of Serial Killers
- By: Alicia Thompson
- Narrated by: Lee Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4 out of 5 stars 186
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Was really trying my best to pull through the entire thing
- By Jocelin on 03-22-23
By: Alicia Thompson
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Gone Girl
- A Novel
- By: Gillian Flynn
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58,776
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52,091
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52,154
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Demented, twisted, sick and I loved it!
- By Theodore on 01-20-13
By: Gillian Flynn
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The Guardian
- By: Nicholas Sparks
- Narrated by: Isabel Keating
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,698
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,329
Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died - a puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now, four years later, 29-year-old Julie is far too young to have given up on love. She may be ready to risk caring for someone again. But who?
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Guardian is all washed up...
- By Pamela M on 04-21-03
By: Nicholas Sparks
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Easily Amused
- By: Karen McQuestion
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 347
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Story4 out of 5 stars 307
For twenty-nine-year-old Lola Watson, life is finally looking up: she has fabulous friends, is working her dream job at a popular magazine, and has just inherited a beautiful house from her late aunt. Sure, her love life isn’t in great shape, but she’s got time, right? And so what if her new neighbors are a little too friendly (i.e., incredibly nosy)?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Im reading it but....
- By Ruth on 08-25-12
By: Karen McQuestion
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Alone
- By: Lisa Gardner
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,515
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,772
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,755
As a sniper with the elite Massachusetts State Police SWAT Team, Bobby Dodge saved a woman and her young son by shooting her armed husband. But vicious rumors begin to circulate the next morning when Bobby loses his gun and his privileges. It turns out the dead man was the son of a prominent Boston judge and had accused his wife of poisoning their son.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I know I'm not Alone . . .
- By Sherry on 02-06-05
By: Lisa Gardner
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I Was Here
- By: Gayle Forman
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Story4 out of 5 stars 478
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything - so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg's college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there's a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good
- By Paige Matthews on 03-21-15
By: Gayle Forman
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My Name Is Venus Black
- By: Heather Lloyd
- Narrated by: Alex McKenna, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Venus Black is a straitlaced A student fascinated by the study of astronomy - until the night she commits a shocking crime that tears her family apart and ignites a media firestorm. Venus refuses to talk about what happened or why, except to blame her mother. Adding to the mystery, Venus’ developmentally challenged younger brother, Leo, goes missing. More than five years later, Venus is released from prison with a suitcase of used clothes, a fake identity, and a determination to escape her painful past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Yikes on 03-24-18
By: Heather Lloyd
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Invisible City
- By: Julia Dahl
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Story4 out of 5 stars 190
Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter.
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2 out of 5 stars
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YA book in disguise
- By ELB on 02-02-16
By: Julia Dahl
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Jar of Hearts
- By: Jennifer Hillier
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,437
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,086
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,073
When she was 16 years old, Angela Wong - one of the most popular girls in school - disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls back in high school. But 14 years later, Angela Wong's remains are discovered in the woods near Geo's childhood home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, captivating book! 5 stars
- By Katie LeF on 09-05-18
By: Jennifer Hillier
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Sex, Murder, and a Double Latte
- By: Kyra Davis
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,917
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,961
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,975
Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccionos can be. So Sophie knows it's not paranoia, or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked grave.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Autumn on 01-01-06
By: Kyra Davis
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- By: Laura Lippman
- Narrated by: Deborah Hazlett
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,477
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,174
Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- By connie on 02-19-12
By: Laura Lippman
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Dating Dead Men
- By: Harley Jane Kozak
- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 478
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Story4 out of 5 stars 377
Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating 40 men in 60 days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado - a state-run mental hospital - and is taken hostage by a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the Mob.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Stephanie Plum
- By Don on 08-30-12
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Driving with the Top Down
- By: Beth Harbison
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 373
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 343
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Story4 out of 5 stars 346
Sometimes life doesn't take you in the direction you expect. Colleen Bradley is married with a teenage son, a modest business repurposing and reselling antiques, and longtime fear that she was not her husband's first choice. When she decides to take a road trip down the east coast to check out antique auctions for her business, she also has a secret ulterior motive. Her one-woman mission for peace of mind is thrown slightly off course when 16-year-old Tamara becomes her co-pilot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Road Trip Tale
- By Lifeisshort on 02-20-15
By: Beth Harbison
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The Only Suspect
- By: Jonnie Jacobs
- Narrated by: George Kuch
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 216
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Story4 out of 5 stars 212
Doctor Sam Russell's wife is missing. The police don't believe his story - and Sam isn't so sure himself since he can remember nothing about the day she disappeared.Detective Hannah Montgomery sees something in Sam and his young daughter that touches her own sense of loss. As she delves deeper, shocking secrets come to light making Hannah wonder whether she's protecting a wronged man or a cold-blooded killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Story! Kept me guessing until the end
- By Grace Congdon on 06-30-15
By: Jonnie Jacobs