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The Lodger

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The Lodger

By: Gabriel Bergmoser
Narrated by: Chloe Bayliss, Emily Weir, Jamie Oxenbould, Stephen Peacocke
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Ryan and Sophie are a golden couple in Melbourne, the charming, salt-of-the-earth country boy and the charismatic, gorgeous social butterfly. When Ryan’s father dies, leaving them the family farm, it seems like a chance for Ryan to get back to his roots and for Sophie to embrace the bucolic country life she always dreamed of. But reality proves very different, and years spent struggling against an implacable drought have pushed their marriage – and finances – to the absolute limit.

Things change when a jovial middle-aged man hires out their guest house. George’s curiosity, optimism and eccentric ideas prove to be a strange kind of balm for the couple. But as his suggestions for fixing their marriage take on a dangerous, sinister edge, both Ryan and Sophie are forced to confront how far they are willing to go to avoid hard truths – and whether George is in fact who he says he is.

Meanwhile, across the country, a young fugitive named Maggie is hunting for a man with whom she shares a twisted mutual obsession. A man who has a lot in common with George. And one who might be doing everything in his power to draw her into a final, decisive showdown.

Patricia Highsmith meets Jane Harper in this psychological thriller from the author of The Hitchhiker.

©2024 Gabriel Bergmoser (P)2024 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.
Crime Thrillers Thriller & Suspense
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About the Creator

Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author and playwright. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award in 2015 and was nominated for the 2017 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. In 2016, his first young adult novel, Boone Shepard, was shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Prize. His first novel for adults, The Hunted (2020), became a bestseller, and a film adaptation is currently in development. Since then, he has published the thrillers The Inheritance (2021) and The Caretaker (2023), along with the YA coming-of-age novel The True Colour of a Little White Lie (2021) and the middle-grade adventure Andromache Between Worlds (2024). His 2022 Audible Original novel The Hitchhiker spent a month at #1 in Australia.

About the Performer

Chloe Bayliss is a Helpmann Award nominee and 2016 finalist for the Heath Ledger Scholarship. Her television credits include Doctor Doctor, Love Child, Reef Doctors, Dance Academy and Deadly Women. Her film credits include Backtrack, starring alongside Adrian Brody, Driftwood Dustmites and Mumlife*, which premiered in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival-La Cinef. In 2023, she also co-produced and acted in NEXT, the web series. On stage, Chloe has starred in Gloria, Home Invasion, The Whale, Charitable Intent, Rapture Blister Burn, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Good Doctor and Boxing Day BBQ. Chloe released her memoir En Pointe in 2019.

About the Performer

Best known for her series regular role of Mackenzie in Home & Away (Seven), Emily has also appeared in many stage productions, including Dorine in Tartuffe (Queensland Theatre Company/Black Swan). The role earned her two Matilda Awards for Best New Talent and Best Supporting Actress. From there, she went on to playing Georgina Templeton in Laboite Theatre Company’s Dead Devils of Cockle Creek. Other credits include: QUT’s Hamlet as Hamlet, Arkadina from The Seagull, and Reggie Flutty in The Laramie Project, as well as dipping her toes into the short films After Hours and Jack and Jill, both by KP Productions.

Jamie Oxenbould

Jamie Oxenbould has been an actor for over 30 years and has worked for most of the major theatre companies in Sydney, including Ensemble, Griffin, Bell Shakespeare, Outhouse, Darlinghurst Theatre, Old Fitz and Apocalypse. His television credits include Ten Pound Poms, Secret City 2, My Place and as a Play School Presenter. He has worked consistently in the voice-over industry commercially and in animations, including Oh Yuck, Gasp, I Got a Rocket, Raggs and Tabaluga. He has written for comedy and reality TV, and written and directed short films which screened at Flickerfest, St Kilda Film Festival, Tropfest, BOFA, Adelaide Film Festival and LA Shorts Festival. Stage-writing credits include: The Spear Carrier, Gods and Little Fishes (co-writer), Chicken in a Biscuit (co-writer) and Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall (co-writer).

About the Performer

Stephen Peacocke is an award-winning actor who has appeared in RFDS (Seven), The Newsreader (ABC), Five Bedrooms (Paramount), Human Error (Nine), Les Norton (ABC), Squinters (ABC), Wanted (Netflix), Rake (ABC) and Informer 3838 (Nine Network). Feature films include Before Dawn, Danger Close, Little Monsters, Hercules: The Thracian Wars, Whisky Tango Foxtrot and Me Before You. Stephen grew up in Dubbo in Central Western New South Wales, working as a Jackaroo on a large-scale sheep and cattle station. Before acting, his passion was Rugby Union, playing at First Grade and Representative levels throughout his schooling and adult life.

Interesting Twists • Complex Characters • Talented Voices • Engaging Plot • Satisfying Ending • Unique Storyline
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Nothing all good!!!! I liked it a lot, fun read, I enjoyed it very much much.

All good!

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I liked the twists in the storyline and the character development was very good. The different voices were a plus.

Interesting mystery

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I was drawn to see what happened next. I was rooting for the girl. I also rooted for the young couple at the farm

suspenseful

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Reminded me of Stephen King but w/o the demonic parts that SK always brings in

Kind of an intense story

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The story was ok and it has ups and downs is entertaining but it will not stay with you forever

Is a good listen for one time

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i liked the performance of the narrators and the characterization development of the characters.
the author did an excellent job in developing characters but a terrible job in depicting their motivations. it was never clear why the serial killer choose his victims or how he managed to end up where he did. the efforts for the investigation were all over the place and confusing.
the story was six hours long but needed another two or three hours to develop the details, motivations and organization.
the point where the story failed the most was that none of the characters showed any real effort for redemption. Maggie grew some but not enough to enter the realm of hero or even being likeable. the rest of the actors were unsavable. in my opinion this effort was a waste of time.

no organization

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The narrators did a good job. However, somewhere along the way, I lost track of who is who. It was a suspenseful story. But I got confused so many times. I think it's one of those books that's easier to follow in print.

I'm So Lost

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Enjoyed these narrators. A narrator makes or ruins even great stories. These made the listening enjoyable not irritating.

Kept me interested in the character and their motivations

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The performances were outstanding and the story was fast paced and really good with a satisfying ending.

Great voices

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I was just looking for something included with Audible that wasn’t too awful, but this actually turned out to be kind of a hidden gem.
Turns out there are two other audiobooks that come before this, so I’m excited to go check those out now.

Surprisingly good!

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