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Whitney Dykhouse
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The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Washington, D.C., and the Calhouns are in the midst of hosting their annual party to celebrate the best of the spring season. With a house full of friends, neighbors, and their beloved three adult children, the Calhouns are expecting another picture-perfect event. But a brutal murder in the middle of the celebration transforms the yearly gathering into a homicide scene, and all the guests into suspects.
Behind their façade of perfection, the Calhoun family has been keeping some very dark secrets. Parents who use money and emotional manipulation to control their children. Two sons, one the black sheep who is desperate to outrun mistakes he's made, and the other a new father, willing to risk everything to protect his child. And a daughter: an Instagram influencer who refuses to face the truth about the man she married.
As the investigation heats up, family tensions build, and alliances shift. Long-buried resentments surface, forcing the Calhouns to face their darkest secrets before it's too late.
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The annual fall party on Silent Ridge Road is supposed to be a celebration of community—an entire day of drinking cider, sharing laughs, and forgetting any tension that's been simmering beneath the surface all year. But beneath the festive décor, polite smiles, and pumpkin-spiced charm of this small-town block lies a tangled web of deceit, obsession, and death. The neighbors are hiding dangerous secrets.
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Lots of twists
- By Jess A on 04-30-25
By: Samara Cove
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If You Didn’t Kill Her
- By: Annie Taylor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifteen years ago, Chelsea was convicted for the murder of her university roommate, Isabella. Now, she’s being released early, and she just has one thing on her mind – clearing her name. Chelsea has always maintained that she was wrongfully accused. Now’s her chance to prove her innocence, once and for all. But as Chelsea starts digging into the past, new details – and suspects – start coming to light. And the closer Chelsea gets to the truth, the more dangerous things become.
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Good slow burn mystery
- By WBC on 04-23-25
By: Annie Taylor
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Not a Normal Family
- By: Rachel Hargrove
- Narrated by: Sarah Welborn, Danny Montooth
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Amber Pierce thought she'd planned the perfect family vacation. Seeking to mend the rift with her daughter, she books a camping retreat in the breathtaking Cascades . . . a trip that includes her ex-husband and his new wife. But hours into their first hike, the group takes a wrong turn. Days later, they're lost, hungry, dehydrated, and hope is fading.
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Painful to listen
- By Danielle P. Langston on 03-19-25
By: Rachel Hargrove
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Nowhere Like Home
- A Novel
- By: Sara Shepard
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lenna gets a call from her old friend Rhiannon, she is startled; Rhiannon disappeared years ago without a trace. But Lenna is even more startled to learn that Rhiannon has a son and that she lives off the grid with a group of women in a community called Halcyon. Rhiannon invites Lenna, a new mother herself, to join them. Why suffer the sleepless nights by yourself? It takes a village, after all. Lenna decides to go and hopefully repair her relationship with Rhiannon, but as she drives into the desert and her cell service gets weaker, she becomes suspicious.
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The ending!
- By Kathrene L. Beasley on 03-11-25
By: Sara Shepard
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Follow Her Down
- A Novel
- By: Victoria Helen Stone
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The murder of Elise Rockwood’s sister shattered her family. Their mother’s anxiety kept her housebound. Elise’s paranoid brother, Kyle, saw conspiracies everywhere. Elise numbed her grief in an aimless lifestyle that left her emotionally broken. All of them victims. A local boy eventually confessed, but the damage was already done. Years later, Elise is reinventing herself. She’s bought a mountain lodge to be close to home again and to find stability. Not even an email from her ex tempts her into revisiting the past. But Kyle won’t let it go.
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Lots of twists
- By Amazon Customer on 06-15-24
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The Marriage Rules
- By: Samantha Hayes
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Fiona Fisher lives a quiet and contented existence. A former nurse who married Jason, the doctor of her dreams, she is now a mother to his two daughters and living in the sort of cosy village home she’d always wished for.
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Nonstop Mental Abuse of Female Protagonist......
- By MA Reviewer on 04-21-25
By: Samantha Hayes
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Black Rose
- Stella LaRosa, Book 1
- By: L.T. Ryan, Kristi Belcamino
- Narrated by: Veronica Pace
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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In the heart of San Francisco, a city known for its striking contrasts of beauty and danger, Stella LaRosa plunges into an investigation that will challenge every skill she's honed as a seasoned journalist. When a gruesome murder disrupts the deceptive calm of the city, Stella finds herself entangled in a web of secrets that spans the globe, reaching into the dark recesses of power, betrayal, and revenge. Mark Bellamy's life ends in a fog-shrouded alley, his existence erased by a shadowy figure skilled enough to move undetected through the night.
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Good character
- By Amazon Customer on 05-03-25
By: L.T. Ryan, and others
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Expect the Unexpected
- By: Aggie Blum Thompson
- Narrated by: Stephanie Einstein
- Length: 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Emily does not like change—she spends each day working as a children’s librarian and every evening watching television with her cat, Miss Marple. She maintains her house exactly the way it was before her father died. But one day, a mysterious theft at the library pushes Emily out of her routine, forcing her to question if she really is better off all alone.
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This was nice and short and sweet
- By Slippery Vowels on 03-13-25
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After Image
- By: Jaime deBlanc
- Narrated by: Vivia Font
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Four years ago, beautiful yet troubled Allie Andersen vanished without a trace. The twenty-one-year-old daughter of an acclaimed actress, her disappearance captivated the media, left her family distraught, and became a fixation for online theorists, who implicated everybody Allie knew and loved. Everyone, including her devoted stepsister, Natasha. Now, Natasha is finally trying to move on.
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Deftly written, suspenseful
- By Scott McAfee on 03-14-25
By: Jaime deBlanc
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The Darkness Within Ourselves
- The Darkness Series, Book 1
- By: Jessica Huntley
- Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Amber and her four best friends are about to reach their teenage years when the unthinkable happens; one of her friends, Kieran, is killed in a freak accident. Twenty years later, Amber no longer speaks to her friends and is still haunted by that day in the form of severe psychological issues, including sleep paralysis, insomnia and hallucinations of a terrifying entity she calls The Creature. But it isn’t just in her head; it is real.
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GRIPPING!!!!
- By Dana K. Graves on 04-02-25
By: Jessica Huntley
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Don't Forget Me
- A Thriller
- By: Rea Frey
- Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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All Ruby wanted was a fresh start. But after an early retirement and a relocation to a tight-knit community with her husband, Tom, and her daughter, Lily, her new beginning takes a turn. First her troubled daughter and then her husband disappear without a trace. Unsure how to cope, grief-ridden Ruby turns to her neighborhood friends to find a way forward with new hobbies, including a murder club where they try to solve cold cases. But just as unexpectedly as her family vanished, a body floats to the surface of the nearby lake.
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I Will Forget This Book
- By JoJo on 04-05-24
By: Rea Frey
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- lisa
- 03-22-25
so good
Excellent written characters, great story line. The characters are what kept it interesting. Finished nicely.
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- Jennifer
- 04-06-25
Never ending plot twists!
Such a great listen, finished in two days. Characters development, twists and turns, scandal, murder… has a bit of everything!
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- Mason Turner
- 06-12-24
Complex Characters and Easter Egg Details!
I’ve read several books where the cast of characters were one too many killing the story. NOT THE CASE HERE! Each character offers such a rich and complex picture for developing the story, motivations? And the interactions between each other. I also enjoyed all the tidbits or Easter egg details that are used to tie up the ending of a perfectly horrific criminal plot!!
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- Pink Amy
- 04-19-24
Stellar narration
3.5 STARS
SUCH A LOVELY FAMILY is the opposite of a lovely family in Aggie Blum Thompson’s debut novel. In fact, most of the characters were down right horrible and seemed capable of homicide.
Narrator Whitney Dykehouse did a phenomenal job adding enough campiness to her performance that elevated the otherwise intentionally ridiculous storyline.
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- Jessica
- 07-27-24
B+/A- rating Loved all the diff family members
Lots of unique characters, easy listening, good narrative, fairly predictable but I def recommend it! Kept my attention & finished it in 36 hours.
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- Miriam Economy
- 04-27-25
Narrator Ruined It
Dear Narrator,
When you read the dialogue sections, you’re great! The characters come alive and you give very distinct, believable personalities to each character, which isn’t easy to do.
The problem lies in all of the non-dialogue parts. You seem to be deliberately inserting micro pauses in between each word. The cadence is awkward and really hard to listen to. I could see inserting them on occasion, to emphasize certain phrases. But it’s nonstop.
These micro pauses are NOT present in the dialogue portions, which tells me it’s a conscious decision. I’m not sure if you think it’s needed to differentiate between dialogue and non-dialogue? Or characters inner thoughts?
whatever the reason, it ruined the book for me. I’ve only listened to the first 40 minutes, and am returning the Audible book and will be downloading it to read on my Kindle app instead.
You truly have talent. Your dialogue is phenomenal. But might consider re-evaluating how you’re reading non-dialogue sections. Maybe it’s just me, it’s totally possible. But I couldn’t take it.
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- KMS
- 06-09-24
Boring
The story was slow, mostly wining and complaining. It similar to other stories, rich entitled adult children that hate their parents and no one character has a redeeming quality.
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