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The Silent Wife
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she has no reason to be afraid, but she's wrong. A predator is stalking the women of Grant County. He lingers in the shadows, until the time is just right to snatch his victim. A decade later, the case has been closed. The killer is behind bars. But then another young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead, and the MO is identical.
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Great story WORST NARRATION!
- By Katherine McKinnon on 18-07-2020
- The Silent Wife
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
Entertaining good twist
Reviewed: 22-07-2020
Seriously the narrators performance is amazing. Every characters voice is distinguishable. The men sound like men. Don’t know how she does it.
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Sex and Vanity
- By: Kevin Kwan
- Narrated by: Lydia Look
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lucy Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish Capri wedding, she can’t stand him. He’s a mama’s boy. A self-righteous eco-warrior. A brooding weirdo that takes himself much too seriously. And no-one should look that good in tight white Speedos. Worried about what her Mayflower-descended, Wall Street-wealthy family might think of this Hong Kong surfer boy, Lucy returns to the safety of Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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If you...
- By Amazon Customer on 14-07-2020
- Sex and Vanity
- By: Kevin Kwan
- Narrated by: Lydia Look
Boring, predictable, vapid
Reviewed: 10-07-2020
Lacks the charm of Crazy rich Asians. More like a trashy Danielle Steele novel. Disappointing.
1 person found this helpful
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Whisper
- Whisper, Book 1
- By: Lynette Noni
- Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes, Subject Six-Eight-Four - ‘Jane Doe’ - has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word. As Jane’s resolve begins to crack under the influence of her new - and unexpectedly kind - evaluator, she uncovers the truth about Lengard’s mysterious ‘program’, discovering that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot...and one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.
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What a surprise!
- By Rani on 06-11-2019
- Whisper
- Whisper, Book 1
- By: Lynette Noni
- Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
Great YA read
Reviewed: 15-10-2019
Loved this book. Fun story and quite a unique premise. Perfect for tweens and teens and overtired mums who can’t bare to read proper adult books anymore haha
6 people found this helpful
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Closer
- By: K. L . Slater
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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I know my daughter better than I know myself, and if there’s one thing I know for sure at this moment it's that Maisie is not okay. My ex-husband, Shaun, and I are still friends. We would do anything for our beautiful little girl, Maisie. But now Shaun has moved in with Joanne, and suddenly Maisie has a brand-new family. And there’s something not quite right about it.... I know Joanne isn’t everything she says she is. Yet no-one will listen. I need to discover what she’s hiding. Because if I don’t, my daughter will be in terrible danger.
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Good
- By Marbars43 on 28-12-2018
- Closer
- By: K. L . Slater
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
Disappointing ending after a reasonable story
Reviewed: 09-09-2019
What a disappointing end. It all just got wrapped up too quickly at the end. It felt like such an anti climax!
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Eggshell Skull
- By: Bri Lee
- Narrated by: Bri Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime. But what if it also works the other way? What if a defendant on trial for sexual crimes has to accept his 'victim' as she comes: a strong, determined accuser who knows the legal system, who will not back down until justice is done? Bri Lee began her first day of work at the Queensland District Court as a bright-eyed judge's associate. Two years later she was back as the complainant in her own case.
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Changed my life
- By Anonymous User on 24-09-2018
- Eggshell Skull
- By: Bri Lee
- Narrated by: Bri Lee
Brilliant story of survival
Reviewed: 21-07-2019
This story has such a unique perspective. She’s a lawyer and an activist and she took her abuser to court. It’s painful to listen to but absolutely worth it. The number of times she had to answer the question “do you really want to go through this” and “what are you hoping to get out of it” infuriated me. In no other crime but those committed largely against women and children would you be asked that. Do you REALLY want to see the man who stole your car convicted? The murderer? The thief? It’s absurd. These are the crimes that destroy lives and we keep asking women and girls whether it’s all really that bad. Brilliant woman. I don’t know how you managed to get these words to the page so eloquently but thank you for being so generous with your story. It WAS worth sharing.
4 people found this helpful
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This Is How It Always Is
- By: Laurie Frankel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes. Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family.
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Beautifully written and performed
- By Jennifer on 10-12-2018
- This Is How It Always Is
- By: Laurie Frankel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Ok, but cheesy
Reviewed: 20-12-2018
I really liked that the book tackled the issues that it did, but it tied it up all too neatly. This really didn’t give a realistic representation of what it is like to be a transgender kid in a binary world. It’s a beach read for people who don’t want to read romance novels.
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Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrated by: Helen Baxendale, John Sackville, Laura Aikman
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds of letters - but none like the one she's just received: 'Dear Amy, I don't know where I am. I've been kidnapped and am being held prisoner by a strange man. I'm afraid he'll kill me. Please help me soon, Bethan Avery.' Bethan Avery has been missing for nearly two decades. This is surely some cruel hoax. But as more letters arrive, they contain information that was never made public.
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Totally engrossing.
- By Chantelle on 16-04-2018
- Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrated by: Helen Baxendale, John Sackville, Laura Aikman
Easy read
Reviewed: 26-07-2018
I really enjoyed this book it was interesting and the twist actually surprised me. What I didn’t enjoy was the graphic descriptions of abuse from the rapists perspective. I actually fast forwarded through that whole section it was just too much and unnecessary.
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This House of Grief
- The Story of a Murder Trial
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Kate Hood
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This House of Grief is a heartbreaking audiobook by one of Australia's most admired authors. Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain.
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Fine telling of sad story
- By Rodney Wetherell on 05-08-2016
- This House of Grief
- The Story of a Murder Trial
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Kate Hood
Disturbing and brilliant
Reviewed: 22-02-2018
This is such a distressing story but incredibly well written and well performed. I couldn’t stop listening, even though I was familiar with the story. I felt like I was right there in the court room watching it play out.
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Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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Good enough yarn
- By Kathryn on 07-04-2019
- Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
Entertaining!
Reviewed: 17-01-2018
I’m not a sci fi fan but I loved this book. Super entertaining and relatable story. Good characters and not too predictable which makes for a nice change :-)
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Not My Father's Son
- A Family Memoir
- By: Alan Cumming
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Alan Cumming grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alan's father, Alex Cumming. Alex was the dark, enigmatic heart of Cumming family life. But he was not the only mystery. Alan's maternal grandfather, Tommy Darling, had disappeared to the Far East after the Second World War.
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Don't think twice! Buy this book!
- By Susan on 17-02-2016
- Not My Father's Son
- A Family Memoir
- By: Alan Cumming
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
Interesting and beautifully narrated.
Reviewed: 06-12-2017
Quite an interesting story. Allan Cumming has a gorgeous way with words and a beautiful accent which helps the story. The bit about his grandfather added to the story and Allan’s grace and empathy shines through from start to finish. I’m not particularly a fan but was recommended the book and now I want to go back and watch his back catalogue ;-)