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Narrated by:
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Tanya Reynolds
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By:
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Elizabeth Day
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For fans of The Last Mrs. Parrish comes a twisty psychological suspense novel about motherhood, obsession, and just how far some will go for the perfect family. “Great, plain and simple” (Stanley Tucci).
Marisa and Jake are a perfect couple. And Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommate—and not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for the baby of their dreams.
Except—no one is truly perfect. Sure, Kate doesn’t seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly familiar with Jake. But Marisa doesn’t let it concern her, knowing that soon Kate will be gone, and it will just be her, Jake, and their future baby.
Conceiving a baby is easier said than done, though, and Jake and Marisa’s perfect relationship is put to the test through months of fertility treatments and false starts. To make matters worse, Kate’s boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsession—with Jake, with Marisa, and with their future child. Who is this woman? Why does she seem to know everything about Marisa and Jake?
In her quest to find out who Kate really is, Marisa might destroy everything she’s worked so hard to create—her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self.
Jake doesn’t know the half of what Marisa has created—and what she stands to lose.
For fans of Gone Girl and The Perfect Nanny, Magpie is a “tense” (The Guardian), “gorgeous” (Lisa Taddeo, bestselling author of Three Women), “completely, terrifyingly brilliant” (Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups) novel about mothers and children, envy and possession, and the dangers of getting everything you’ve ever dreamed of.
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Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.
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Absurd...But awesome
- By T.J. on 11-12-17
By: Mike Bockoven
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The Last Word
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Adams
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. Her only human contact is her enigmatic old neighbor, Deek, and (via text) the house’s owner, Jules. One day, she reads a poorly written—but gruesome—horror novel by the author H. G. Kane, and posts a one-star review that drags her into an online argument with none other than the author himself. Soon after, disturbing incidents start to occur at night.
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Did it really start with a one star review????
- By RRLynn on 05-01-23
By: Taylor Adams
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The Stranger at the Wedding
- A Novel
- By: A. E. Gauntlett
- Narrated by: Sophie Rundle
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session for trauma survivors. Each recognizes something in the other, though both hide their own troubled pasts. It’s a whirlwind romance that propels Annie through their courtship, all the way to her wedding day—a day she couldn’t have predicted for herself once upon a time yet now feels surer about than anything in her life.
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Too weird for words
- By Theodore S. Jablonski, Jr. on 09-08-24
By: A. E. Gauntlett
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Piranesi
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
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Fascinating Social Study
- By Henry V on 02-26-21
By: Susanna Clarke
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The Collective
- A Novel
- By: Alison Gaylin
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Camille Gardener is a grieving - and angry - mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women - the collective - Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled by mutual rage, the collective members devise and act out retribution fantasies via anonymous, highly coordinated revenge killings.
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Pretty good. Entertaining but not compelling
- By Doug M on 11-04-21
By: Alison Gaylin
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The Inheritance
- A Novel
- By: Trisha Sakhlecha
- Narrated by: Avita Jay, Ellie Kendrick, Tamaryn Payne
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet the Agarwals, who have gathered on a private, luxury island off the west coast of Scotland for a much-anticipated family reunion. They’ve all got secrets they would die to protect. Who will survive this high-stakes reunion, and who will become a victim of their own greed? One thing is certain: this family gathering will shatter more than just their illusions of unity.
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Family Loyalty
- By Jennifer D Wheaton on 02-24-25
By: Trisha Sakhlecha
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Nightwatching
- A Novel
- By: Tracy Sierra
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. Shrouded in the shadows, she sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall.
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Opening was grabbing
- By Stephen R Smith on 03-05-24
By: Tracy Sierra
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The Death of Us
- A Novel
- By: Abigail Dean
- Narrated by: Claire Skinner, John Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Together, Edward and Isabel move to London. They are young and in love, occupied by friends, work and fun. But late on a spring evening when they are thirty years old, their home is invaded by a serial killer. In the wake of this violation, each tries to come to terms with a night that changed everything—and their marriage begins to crumble. Twenty-five years later, their tormentor is caught, and Edward and Isabel reunite for his sentencing. Isabel has waited years for the man who nearly ended her life to be brought to justice. Edward has tried to think about anything else.
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Not as good as her other books
- By Ron Rude on 05-18-25
By: Abigail Dean
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My Sweet Girl
- By: Amanda Jayatissa
- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything - schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them. Now at 30 years old and recently cut off from her parents’ funds, she decides to sublet the second bedroom of her overpriced San Francisco apartment to Arun, who recently moved from India. Paloma has to admit, it feels good helping someone find their way in America - that is, until Arun discovers Paloma's darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country.
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slow burn suspense
- By Barbara S on 11-14-21
By: Amanda Jayatissa
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The Maidens
- A Novel
- By: Alex Michaelides
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Louise Brealey
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students?
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Amazing
- By Beth on 06-15-21
By: Alex Michaelides
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His & Hers
- A Novel
- By: Alice Feeney
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, his and hers. Which means someone is always lying. When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessentially British village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack Harper is suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation. Someone isn’t telling the truth, and some secrets are worth killing to keep.
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No need for animal cruelty
- By ChantalDJ on 08-22-20
By: Alice Feeney
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The Turn of the Key
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss - a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten - by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare - one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
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Wow. So awful I can't even describe how awful.
- By Amazon Profile on 08-12-19
By: Ruth Ware
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The Therapist
- A Novel
- By: B. A. Paris
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Thomas Judd
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive… As Alice is getting to know her neighbors, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem…
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Disappointing
- By Travis on 07-18-21
By: B. A. Paris
I wanted more!
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The narration is honestly some of the most exquisite work I’ve ever heard on audible.
Tanya Reynolds has such a gorgeous voice and knows how to use it…
The story is clever, creepy, atmospheric, and thoroughly engaging.
I finished it in one night and was sad when it ended.
To me that’s the most satisfying thing about finding a really great book.
Give this book a shot, it’s incredibly well written and asks some important questions along the way…
The ending will have you baffled, when you see what’s truly going on it is absolutely stunning.
I could not believe it!
So glad that I bought this one.
It’s a book I’ll revisit in time for sure.
It’s certainly worth a credit.
Fantastic
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Cliche ending
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WOW
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Dumb ending
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Misdirection in the best way
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Good but dragged in the middle
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Got mommy issues?
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Great twist
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Good performance, bad story
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