Angi
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Missing, Presumed
- By: Susie Steiner
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4 out of 5 stars 26
Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Must listen to the sample
- By ACT1 on 08-04-17
- Missing, Presumed
- By: Susie Steiner
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
Good pace & reading made it totally listenable
Reviewed: 08-25-24
Really absorbing holiday listen cleverly constructed story with interesting characters & some good insights. Eg the life of a child in care & prison but not depressing.
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Close to Death
- How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community – seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life. At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. His neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms. When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hawthorne Forever (and Tony)
- By Melissa on 09-21-24
- Close to Death
- How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
Another great yarn
Reviewed: 08-18-24
Thoroughly enjoyed, expertly read and enough twists&turns to keep me awake in the small hours wanting to know what happened next. Definitely not too many characters as each one well defined & different. I don't normally read detective novels but Tony's, sorry Anthony has me hooked.
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All the Broken Places
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event that tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly 80 years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son, Henry, brings back memories she would rather forget.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Guilt
- By Madeleine Harmse on 12-08-24
- All the Broken Places
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Kristin Atherton
Refreshing approach to a familiar topic
Reviewed: 01-24-23
I found the story very absorbing because of the way it was written, using two different timelines but about the same person. The Author's way of letting you get into that person's head worked very well & topics he covered, especially those to do with male dominance and abused, were sensitively and realistically described. But the story has a big cast all of them interesting and well portrayed. It is a well woven story of history and personal tragedy. Like all good stories I found myself going back when I had finished to review some of the clues I may have missed!
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The Marriage Portrait
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage and her father to accept on her behalf.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The storyline
- By Anonymous User on 03-13-25
- The Marriage Portrait
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
Another great book by this author
Reviewed: 09-22-22
Satisfyingly well written
This is an atmospheric and believable story. Occasionally I found the jumping back and forth in time confusing, kept me on my toes!
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A Year of Marvellous Ways
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 170
A Year of Marvellous Ways is the much anticipated and utterly beguiling new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller When God Was a Rabbit. Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone on a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something--she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story-telling
- By Carol on 07-27-15
- A Year of Marvellous Ways
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
Absolutely loved this
Reviewed: 05-19-22
Another great story from Sarah! And so refreshing that the protagonist was a female of advanced years, and wonderfully wicked and intelligent. I grew up in this part of the world but live overseas now. This book was beautifully written and described everything I remember so well. Felt quite bereft when I finished it❤️
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The Signature of All Things
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Everything about life intrigues Alma Whittaker. Her passion for botany leads her far from home, from London to Peru to Tahiti, in pursuit of that rare specimen: knowledge. But as her careful studies draw her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she meets the man who she will come to love - whose perspective, radically different from her own, will transform the way she understands the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Absorbing listen
- By Angi on 05-19-22
- The Signature of All Things
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Absorbing listen
Reviewed: 05-19-22
The Narrator was the icing on the cake. A long and mostly intelligent and intesting story about a woman who was not Instantly likeable, other characters and settings enhanced the life srory of this unusual 18th century woman of Science .
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Utopia Avenue
- The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 25 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief and blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some interesting detail
- By Angi on 06-13-21
- Utopia Avenue
- The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
Some interesting detail
Reviewed: 06-13-21
Told from various points of view left me unable to engage with the characters, Elf was the most interesting, Jasper the least.
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Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 267
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 266
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.
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5 out of 5 stars
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comments
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-20
- Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
Exquisite writing
Reviewed: 05-24-21
I listened entrancrd by both the writing and the reader. I didn't want it to end and for this reason I think I found the end slightly disappointing, hence the 4 stars . This book will give you images that will last in your head for years. The way the author writes about death is authentic and moving, not voyeuristic.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,377
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,216
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,218
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story and well read
- By Sandie on 11-25-18
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Intesting story well told and Wonderfully read
Reviewed: 01-22-21
Well crafted story.
Every chapter kept me wanting more. The reader had great skill and brought the characters to life.
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All Day at the Movies
- By: Fiona Kidman
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Wry, moving, beautifully observed and politically astute, this latest audiobook from one of New Zealand's finest chroniclers pinpoints universal truths through very NZ lives. Life isn't always like it appears in the movies. In 1952 Irene Sandle takes her young daughter to Motueka. Irene was widowed during the war and is seeking a new start and employment in the tobacco fields. There, she finds the reality of her life far removed from the glamour of the screen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An absorbing story, the writing made up for the somewhat irritating narrator.
- By Angi on 09-22-19
- All Day at the Movies
- By: Fiona Kidman
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
An absorbing story, the writing made up for the somewhat irritating narrator.
Reviewed: 09-22-19
Great saga covering a family's history over a generation, articulating how each member's story is uniquely affected by their childhood. Fiona Kidman is one of the best writers of New Zealand fiction and this work didn’t disappoint, but I was irritated by the way the narrator pronounced New Zealand place names and attempted the dialect, this fine writer deserves better. Incidentally I like this narrator reading other books, just wonder why a New Zealand narrator wasn’t used for this book?
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