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Like Mother, Like Son

By: William G. Flanagan
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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William Flanagan’s Like Mother, Like Son recounts the sensational true case of handsome young playboy Jed Ardito, who strangled his beautiful Brooklyn girlfriend to death in an erotic frenzy. But this true crime story gets even stranger: Seventeen years earlier, Ardito’s mother Frances Victoria Ardito had her own illicit lover murdered.

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Jonathan Yen’s crisp voice and careful pacing accentuate the sense of tragic foreboding in William G. Flanagan’s Like Mother, Like Son.

Flanagan’s true-crime story begins with the death of 24-year-old Marie Daniele at the hands of her controlling playboy boyfriend, Jed Perdito, in a midtown Manhattan hotel room in 1993. This brutal murder had an ironic twist: 17 years earlier, Perdito’s mother hired members of a motorcycle gang to kill a lover after he attempted to break off their romance.

Yen relates Flanagan’s deeply researched account with a quiet intensity and subtle characterizations in passages of dialogue.

Interesting True Story • Great Writing • Detailed Research • Engaging Narration • Easy Following • Pleasant Voice
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I wish it had stayed on track with the mother and son. To many extra stories and bouncing around for me. I just lost focus and interest.

Just ok

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I really wanted to finish this audiobook, but found it very hard to do so. Too many sidetracked stories instead of focusing on the title crime at hand. The narrator had a very monotone way of reading, which I found really hard to listen to. In short I couldn’t finish listening to this book!

The narrator leaves much to be desired

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well written, easy to follow the sequence of the events, excellent narration, will listen to a second time!

True Crime Lover

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I really liked the author's style of writing. He made the story understandable and clear. There were a couple of times things were repeated again in other chapters. I suppose to remind the reader. I enjoyed it. No real complaints at all!

Very interesting!

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I enjoyed the true story and the narrative. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Like Mother, Like Son.

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Loved this book! The research and deep dive into other family members and cases reminds me of the masterpieces Ann Rule writes in terms of style, execution and complete picture. Sometimes with too many characters and law and decades and whatever, it’s hard to follow via audio and not paperback. But I never got lost and my mind never wandered. Well done!

Reminded me of Ann Rule

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This is a very interesting story but jumps around and hard to follow. He goes into a lot of detail about other cases, at one point I was like who are we talking about. I guess it would have be ok to touch on the others but the author goes into detail on each case which really drags the book on. I did find it interesting about his mother and thought that added in was ok. The book is way to long about other cases when I just wanted to know about his case.

I thought the narrator was good I didn't like the way he pronounced a few words dragging them out . I thought he had a pleasant voice that was easy to listen to. There are no volume changes, no repeating of words, it was a very clear audio. This is the first time I have listened to him and look forward to listening to more of his work.

Interesting

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This was very well written and narrated nicely as well. It was very interesting and engaging.

Well written

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This is the story of a very unusual situation: a mother who had her lover murdered, and her son, who years later killed his lover. The mother was a strong character with unusual interests and behaviors but her personality and background were not well fleshed out. In other words, I wanted to know more about her. I didn't find the son as interesting, but the focus was mostly on his crime and trial rather than how he got the way he was. And the parallels between the two characters could have been explored more instead of tangents about lawyers and gangs. How did the mother's personality affect the son and his approach to his relationships? A structure of chapters alternating between the two crimes would have served the author well.

An interesting story with too many tangents

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story went back and forth too much betweenom and son. hard ot stay focused

ok to read but not the best

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