
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Buy for $25.00
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Kate Orsini
-
By:
-
Emily Carpenter
About this listen
Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death - and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her.
Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she’s not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history...and the part she’s meant to play in it.
Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman’s emotional journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance.
“Narrator Kate Orsini navigates the transitions between a Southern mountain accent of the 1930s and a modern Southern accent with style and grace... [Burying the Honeysuckle Girls] is for listeners who enjoy thrillers and multigenerational family fiction.” - Library Journal
©2016 Emily Carpenter (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Kate Orsini
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve has maintained Dove’s charitable foundation - and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove’s darkest secret: murder.... Tuscaloosa, 1934: a wily young orphan escapes the psychiatric hospital where she was born.
-
-
Another Hit
- By B4rd on 10-23-20
By: Emily Carpenter
-
Every Single Secret
- A Novel
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Kate Orsini
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Emotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she’d found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they’ve kept their pasts hidden from the world, and each other, until Heath’s escalating nightmares begin to put an undeniable strain on their relationship. Determined to give their impending marriage the best chance of succeeding, Heath insists that Daphne join him on a seven-day retreat with Dr. Matthew Cerny, a psychologist celebrated for getting to the root of repressed memories.
-
-
Loved it!!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-18
By: Emily Carpenter
-
The Weight of Lies
- A Novel
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Kate Orsini
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.
-
-
Wow. That was pretty bad.
- By Meg on 07-21-17
By: Emily Carpenter
-
Until the Day I Die
- A Novel
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian, Kate Orsini, Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If there’s a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn’t found it. After her husband’s sudden death, the runaway success of the tech company they built with their best friends has become overwhelming. Her nerves are frayed, she’s disengaged, and her frustrated daughter, Shorie, is pulling away from her. Maybe Erin’s friends and family are right. Maybe a few weeks at a spa resort in the Caribbean islands is just what she needs to hit the reset button…
-
-
not my favorite
- By Tcana on 05-01-19
By: Emily Carpenter
-
The Stillwater Girls
- By: Minka Kent
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Melissa Moran
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying.
-
-
All the Stars
- By Yikes on 05-04-19
By: Minka Kent
-
None of This Is True
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
-
-
Victim shaming a teen girl?
- By Lisa & Travis on 08-11-23
By: Lisa Jewell
-
Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Kate Orsini
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve has maintained Dove’s charitable foundation - and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove’s darkest secret: murder.... Tuscaloosa, 1934: a wily young orphan escapes the psychiatric hospital where she was born.
-
-
Another Hit
- By B4rd on 10-23-20
By: Emily Carpenter
-
Every Single Secret
- A Novel
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Kate Orsini
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Emotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she’d found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they’ve kept their pasts hidden from the world, and each other, until Heath’s escalating nightmares begin to put an undeniable strain on their relationship. Determined to give their impending marriage the best chance of succeeding, Heath insists that Daphne join him on a seven-day retreat with Dr. Matthew Cerny, a psychologist celebrated for getting to the root of repressed memories.
-
-
Loved it!!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-18
By: Emily Carpenter
-
The Weight of Lies
- A Novel
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Kate Orsini
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.
-
-
Wow. That was pretty bad.
- By Meg on 07-21-17
By: Emily Carpenter
-
Until the Day I Die
- A Novel
- By: Emily Carpenter
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian, Kate Orsini, Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If there’s a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn’t found it. After her husband’s sudden death, the runaway success of the tech company they built with their best friends has become overwhelming. Her nerves are frayed, she’s disengaged, and her frustrated daughter, Shorie, is pulling away from her. Maybe Erin’s friends and family are right. Maybe a few weeks at a spa resort in the Caribbean islands is just what she needs to hit the reset button…
-
-
not my favorite
- By Tcana on 05-01-19
By: Emily Carpenter
-
The Stillwater Girls
- By: Minka Kent
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Melissa Moran
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying.
-
-
All the Stars
- By Yikes on 05-04-19
By: Minka Kent
-
None of This Is True
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
-
-
Victim shaming a teen girl?
- By Lisa & Travis on 08-11-23
By: Lisa Jewell
-
The Quarry Girls
- A Thriller
- By: Jess Lourey
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can’t forget. They’ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears—the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate.
-
-
I can't
- By Brent Casey on 11-17-22
By: Jess Lourey
-
The Day I Disappeared
- A Thriller
- By: Brandi Reeds
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian, Christina Traister
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Three months after four-year-old Holly Gebhardt was kidnapped, she was inexplicably returned to the same park from which she’d vanished...with no memory of the ordeal. Though a local handyman was convicted, suspicion also fell on his friend - Holly’s mother, Cecily. The troubling doubts about her involvement shattered the family, forever driving a wedge between mother and daughter. Twenty years later, another girl goes missing under eerily similar circumstances. It’s just the latest in a series of kidnappings that Detective Jason Guidry thinks Holly can help solve.
-
-
Well done. 4.5 stars
- By NickyL on 08-27-20
By: Brandi Reeds
-
The Maid's Diary
- A Novel
- By: Loreth Anne White
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple—who might kill to keep their secret—dangerous to Kit.
-
-
Dark, powerful, twisty thriller
- By MA Reviewer on 03-04-23
-
The Shadow House
- A Novel
- By: Anna Downes
- Narrated by: Anna Downes, Natasha Beaumont
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in a rural community. Pine Ridge is idyllic; the surrounding forests are beautiful and the locals welcoming. Mostly. But Alex finds that she may have disturbed barely hidden secrets in her new home. As a chain of bizarre events is set off, events eerily familiar to those who have lived there for years, Alex realizes that she and her family might be in greater danger than ever before.
-
-
Highly Entertaining
- By Bitten and Seven Forever on 04-12-22
By: Anna Downes
-
The Almost Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Joshilyn Jackson
- Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She's having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the 38-year-old's life.
-
-
My favorite book in a long time!!
- By avid reader on 07-27-17
By: Joshilyn Jackson
-
What Lies in the Woods
- A Novel
- By: Kate Alice Marshall
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls’ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes.
-
-
INEQUITABLE RATINGS
- By Ann on 03-05-23
-
The Girl Before
- By: Rena Olsen
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. The last thing her husband yells to her is to say nothing. In chapters that alternate between past and present, the novel slowly unpeels the layers of Clara's fractured life. We see her growing up, raised with her sisters by the stern Mama and Papa G, becoming a poised and educated young woman, falling desperately in love with the forbidden son of her adoptive parents.
-
-
Darkness before the dawn
- By Janice on 09-26-16
By: Rena Olsen
-
Shadow Sister
- A Novel
- By: Lindsay Marcott
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Jane Oppenheimer, Eileen Stevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ava grew up in a haunted mansion, envied by all her friends. But when her mother died mysteriously there, the thrills of Blackworth Mansion became nightmares. Ava never accepted that her mother perished from natural causes, but no one would believe her. Seventeen years later, Ava returns home to unravel the truth of her mother’s death—and her own demons quickly follow. Her estranged and vindictive father may be stalking her. Her secretive new sister-in-law lands on her doorstep with troubles of her own. And then there’s the strange girl who may or may not be haunting the grounds.
-
-
Awful narrator
- By MJ Family on 12-17-22
By: Lindsay Marcott
-
The Good House
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tananarive Due, author of The Living Blood won the American Book Award and is praised as Stephen King's equal by Publishers Weekly. In The Good House, Due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small Pacific Northwest town. When a young woman returns to her grandmother's empty mansion, she is pitted against demonic forces that have poisoned her family for generations.
-
-
Deeply Satisfying
- By Lee on 05-08-08
By: Tananarive Due
-
Whisper Me This
- A Novel
- By: Kerry Anne King
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother’s expectations - never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ on dead-end jobs. The only thing Maisey’s sure she’s gotten right is her relationship with her twelve-year-old daughter, Elle...until a phone call blows apart the precarious balance of their lives. Maisey’s mother is in a coma, and her aging father faces charges of abuse and neglect.
-
-
Narration is awful
- By April Frazier on 10-05-18
By: Kerry Anne King
-
Unmissing
- A Thriller
- By: Minka Kent
- Narrated by: Carly Robins, Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door. Weak, broken, and emaciated, it’s Luca’s first wife, Lydia. Missing for ten years, presumed dead, and very much alive, she has quite a story. Racked with guilt over the beautiful life they’ve built, Merritt and Luca agree to help get Lydia back on her feet - it’s the least they can do. But the more enmeshed Lydia becomes in Merritt’s family, the more questions Merritt has.
-
-
As Farfetched as They Come
- By Becky on 03-12-22
By: Minka Kent
-
The Alice Network
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive.
-
-
We are standing on the shoulders of giants...
- By Marie on 02-25-18
By: Kate Quinn
What listeners say about Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
Highly rated for:
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anna
- 06-08-16
Wonderful and sad story
Very well written. Loved the narrator in this book! As a southerner I get so disappointed with a lot of the narrators "southern accent" when reading a book but this woman was spot on. Would recommend and is definitely worth a credit.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
19 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- melissa
- 06-08-16
Excellent listen.
Great story. Love the narrator. Kept me listening on the edge of my seat. Would recommend this book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Stephanie
- 06-10-16
Riveting
One if the best books,I have read in a long time. a true mystery that kept me reading and trying to figure out what happ6 to the last chapter.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Sally Sue
- 09-01-16
Fantastic novel
love the story and how the mystery built up and unfolded a bit at a time. Narratation was one of the best I have heard.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- G. Price
- 07-29-16
Bravo
I thought the narration was very good story was haunting and likely represents the truth for many.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Elizabeth D. Craig
- 10-08-16
amazing narration!!
this was just beautiful to listen to. the narrator did am amazing job that I will likely listen to ANY other book she is reading. the story was very very good. . there are some sub plots that I wish were either developed a little more or left out (like the red raven, why exactly was colli in the black ward. .. ) the ending was fitting but a little bit deux ex machina. overall a great book with fantastic, amazing narration
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- A. Swinney
- 11-04-16
Great listen
The story was ok, it was made enjoyable by the fabulous narration of Kate Orsini! She was awesome!!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Dana
- 11-16-18
Loved this book
Really interesting following different generations. of women.The secrets of a family corrupted by selfrightous
men and oppressed women .How one brave women brought the sins of the family. men to light.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Brianne
- 01-07-19
Amazing!
This story had me hooked from the very beginning. I haven't been this interested in a story for quite some time, and I highly recommend it! Every page kept me on my toes, right until the very end
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- kristi
- 10-08-19
Very hard to listen too!!!
I stopped listening to this book with 6 hrs and 10 minutes left. I absolutely hate stopping a book midway thru I feel like If I quit the book will pick up and I’ll miss out, but man oh man I just could not waste another minute of my life trying to figure out what was going on. To me this book was really slow to get into, just not a book for me maybe someone else will love it!!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!