
The Undoing of Violet Claybourne
A Novel
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Nathalie Buscombe
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By:
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Emily Critchley
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Three enigmatic sisters. A Boxing Day hunt gone awry. One story, the real story, is finally coming to light.
1999: When successful writer Gillian Larking receives a letter from the nephew of an old friend, she knows that her past has finally caught up with her. Violet Claybourne, her old boarding school roommate, was a girl who captivated Gillian with stories of her charming sisters and their picturesque home at Thornleigh Hall.
Violet Claybourne pulled Gillian into her life, into her family, and changed Gilly's path forever. Violet Claybourne also spent the past sixty years in a psych hospital, and now she wants Gillian to tell her story.
The real story.
1939: Gillian knew upon meeting the Claybourne girls at Thornleigh Hall that they were something more. Rich, enigmatic, bright, unafraid of the world around them, a foreign concept to quiet, unassuming Gilly. Meeting Violet, Emmeline, and Laura was like entering a new world. Gilly longed to be a part of them, and when a terrible Boxing Day hunt goes awry, she gets that wish. But only in a way more terrible than she could ever have imagined. Soon enough Gillian has to confront just how deep her loyalty to the Claybourne girls runs, and what it might cost her, and them, in the process.
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Devon Ferrell and Richard Belmont are engaged, in love, and from two different worlds. Devon is as eager to please Richard’s elite parents as she is to leave the traumas of her childhood behind. After all, the Belmonts are her family now. But being brought into the fold is unbalancing her. There are the piercing stares from Richard’s brother, the confounding whispers about Devon’s moods and health. It’s as if the Belmonts are looking for reasons to reject her, to fill her with self-doubt and put her on edge. It’s working. And no one seems to be on Devon’s side. Not even Richard.
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narrator pronunciation
- By kristen mcdade on 04-16-25
By: Madeleine Henry
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Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
- A Novel
- By: Lizzie Pook
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-year-old Constance Horton has run away from her life in Victorian London, disguising herself as a boy to board the Makepeace, an expedition vessel bound for the icy and unexplored Northwest Passage of the Arctic. She struggles to keep her real identity a secret on the ship, a feat that only grows more difficult when facing the constant dangers of the icy North.
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grizzly and dark
- By R Smith on 07-23-24
By: Lizzie Pook
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The Stranger Beside Me
- By: Caroline England
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Katy Henry is lost and lonely. A single mother, plagued by fatigue and anxiety, she rarely has time for friends. But when she encounters Sibeal Matthews, all this changes. Sibeal is everything that Katy is not: assured, headstrong and charming. Katy soon finds herself pulled out of her isolation into a fierce friendship. But Sibeal is not all that she seems. Tragedy haunts her, and for all her feistiness, she is startlingly dependent on her brother, Gabriel.
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I tried several times…
- By Karenique on 04-27-25
By: Caroline England
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Where You Belong
- By: S.J. King
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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It seemed like a dream come true when we first moved in. A chance to leave my stressful job behind and fix things with James. But something gnaws at me each morning as I wave my husband off to work from our gated community, accept a coffee from Lin, our housekeeper, and watch my kids play in these eerily perfect, car-free streets. When a neighbor’s body is found floating in a pool during a party, the other wives say it was a tragic accident. But there are also whispers about the family who lived in our villa before us—just vanished one day, they say.
By: S.J. King
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The Good Samaritan
- A Novel
- By: Toni Halleen
- Narrated by: Adam Verner, Tara Sands, Carolyn Jania, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Sociology professor Matthew Larkin is barely holding on. After the death of his toddler son, his wife divorced him, his teenage daughter abandoned him, and he lost a job he loved. Landing a rare tenure track position at a small college in southern Minnesota, he’s trying to cope with the disaster his life has become. While driving down an empty highway in the middle of nowhere one gloomy Sunday evening, Matthew gets caught in a hailstorm. Pulling off the road to find shelter, he spies a disturbing sight.
By: Toni Halleen
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Stone Angels
- By: Helena Rho
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Helena Rho
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Angelina Lee feels like she doesn’t belong. Newly divorced, and completely unmoored by the sudden and tragic death of her mother, she hopes studying Korean will reconnect her to her roots, but nothing about Seoul feels familiar. Further complicating matters is the resurgence of an alluring man from Angelina’s past, and fellow classmate Keisuke Ono, an irritatingly good looking Japanese American journalist who refuses to leave her alone. What she’ll barely admit, however, is the true reason behind her trip. She’s convinced the key to understanding her mother’s suicide lies in Korea.
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Wow! Just wow!
- By Elizabeth Morris on 05-05-25
By: Helena Rho
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When the Bones Sing
- By: Ginny Myers Sain
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The past three years have been tough for Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered. 17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.
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My new favorite novel.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-30-25
By: Ginny Myers Sain
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Inheritance
- By: Genevieve Gannon
- Narrated by: Hannah Fredericksen
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2027, Emily is deciding whether to take advantage of a new health service that promises a healthier, stronger baby through gene editing. There’s plenty in her family tree that she would like to protect her unborn child against. But not everybody loves the so-called designer baby technology.
By: Genevieve Gannon
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The King's Messenger
- By: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Angus King
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Secrets are second nature to Andrew, who must hide his Second Sight to stay alive. Joined by a court scrivener and the scrivener's spirited daughter Phoebe, Andrew slowly untangles the true purpose of his mission—to frame Sir David for Prince Henry's murder. But Andrew is unwilling to betray an innocent man.
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Poor narration
- By Amazon Customer on 03-06-25
By: Susanna Kearsley
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The Last Days of Kira Mullan
- A Novel
- By: Nicci French
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that ruined friendships, stalled her fledgling restaurant, and forced her to move out of her comfortable flat, she’ll do anything to get back to normal. She and her partner Felix—who has been a saint through her recent troubles—move into a new flat for a fresh start. Nancy is taking her pills, seeing her therapist, and avoiding unnecessary stress. She’s doing absolutely everything right, but something is still very, very wrong. On the first day in the new flat, she hears them again.
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I want more!
- By Mary Fox on 04-22-25
By: Nicci French
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The Memory Ward
- By: Jon Bassoff
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Dawn Harvey, Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages. Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall.
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Very Enjoyable, Listened to in 2 days
- By Dee Sup. on 03-15-25
By: Jon Bassoff
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What Goes Around
- By: Michael Wendroff
- Narrated by: Michael Braun, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Ludlum, who relies on his brawn to get things done, is now paired with his archenemy, Jill Jarred, a brilliant investigator with keen intuition. As they delve into the secret world of incels and white supremacists, and conflict between local authorities and the FBI rages, a media frenzy further complicates the mission.
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Ugh!
- By slm on 12-03-24
By: Michael Wendroff
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The Keeper of the Bees
- By: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Jamie MacFarlane has returned a hero from the Great War but with a stubborn chest wound. The government has sent him to their new thermal springs hospital in California “where it was hoped that the brilliant sunshine, the fruits, and the clean air, the eternal summer of a beneficent land” would heal him. But nothing has worked and with his parents now deceased and no one to care for him, it seems the next step is a camp rife with tuberculosis. Realizing this, Jamie begins his Great Adventure on foot toward the ocean.
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Good solid old fashioned writing
- By sharon on 06-13-25
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Boring and convoluted
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This book was just …. Wheeeeeeew!
I didn’t see ANY of it coming. Just when I think I’ve seen the main thing … TWWWWWIST! Absolutely astonishing, and just … whoa-of-a-book.
I read One Puzzling After, and I really enjoyed it. I was captivated. I love her writing style. And everything is so vivid, and easy to see clearly in my mind. And I didn’t see what came in that book coming either. But this one … this one blew my whole imaginative mind.
What A Story …
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