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The Scapegoat

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The Scapegoat

By: Sara Davis
Narrated by: Michael Brusasco
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N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father- unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. His investigation leads him to a hotel built over a former Spanish mission, a site with a dark power and secrets all its own. On campus, a chance meeting with a young doctor provokes uncomfortable feelings about the direction of his life, and N begins to have vivid, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa and a shameful episode from his past.

Meanwhile, a shadowy group of fringe academics surfaces in relation to his father’s death. Their preoccupation with a grim chapter in California’s history runs like a surreal parallel to the staid world of academic life, where N’s relations with his colleagues grow more and more hostile. As he comes closer to the heart of the mystery, his ability to distinguish between delusion and reality begins to erode, and he is forced to confront disturbing truths about himself: his irrational antagonism toward a young female graduate student, certain libidinal impulses, and a capacity for violence. Is he the author of his own investigation? Or is he the unwitting puppet of a larger conspiracy?

©2021 Sara Davis (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Mystery
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This was the most unsatisfying book I have listened to. The story was difficult to follow, the characters were shallow. The author did not give one main character a name, but kept referring to her as the guest lecturer. This was very distracting.
The narrator had a very strange prosody while reading.

Do not waste your time.

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This story was very hard to follow. I kept hanging on thinking things would become clear - but they never did.

Disappointing

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