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Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

By: Kerryn Mayne
Narrated by: Annie Maynard
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2024, BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, Winner

2023, Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, Short-listed

Lenny Marks is good at not remembering.

She has spent the last twenty years not thinking about the day her mother left her when she was still a child. Her stepfather's parting words, however, remain annoyingly unforgettable: 'You did this.'

Now thirty-seven, Lenny prefers contentment and order over the unreliability of happiness and the messiness of relationships. She fills her days teaching at the local primary school, and her nights playing Scrabble with her pretend housemate, watching reruns of Friends and rearranging her thirty-six copies of The Hobbit.

Recently though, if only to appease her beloved foster-mum, Lenny has set herself the goal of 'getting a life'.

Then, out of the blue, a letter arrives from the Adult Parole Board. And when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel.

Worse, she starts to remember...

©2023 Kerryn Mayne (P)2023 Penguin Random House Australia Audio Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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I had a moment or two in the first couple of hours listening that I considered stopping but so glad I didn’t! Such a great story & there were times I may have had a tear in my eye. Will definitely listen to this again, loved it.

Pleasantly surprised!

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l really have enjoyed this book.
The title was so quirky l had to read it.
So many of the characters were so relatable. l have met so many of these people in some way or another. Each struggling with their daily existence. No blood and gut every where, FBI agents struggling with the mass murders of their families and all that tosh. This was human scale - what street in Australia does not havrle a wife basher, chaotic family relationships - relatable.

Had l no expectation of this book and was very pleasantly surprised.

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I found this book difficult to put down. Good suspense right through the book and some surprises making the story very hard to predict the outcome. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Delightful story

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really enjoyed this book. enjoyed the flow of the story and the way it unfolded. take that fergus!

great read and terrific narration

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A wonderfully resolved book that considers sensitive topics well offering hope for survivors of domestic abuse.

A wonderful story

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