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Rose Madder

Thrilling suspense from the No. 1 bestseller

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Rose Madder

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Blair Brown, Stephen King
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Summary
 Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card.

Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.

But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting . . .

A brilliant, dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, ROSE MADDER is Stephen King at his electrifying best.


(P)2011 Penguin Audio USA©1995 Stephen King Domestic Thrillers Fantasy Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Scary

Critic Reviews

Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated . . . one of King's most engrossing and topical
A superb suspense novel
Rousing . . . vivid and sensitive
A superb suspense novel
Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated...one of King's most engrossing and topical horror stories
One of the great storytellers of our time
All stars
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Great reading by Blair Brown, passable reading by Stephen King, his genius is in the writing, not in the performance. But the music is just awful, jarring and out of place, drowns out the voices in some places. Definitely worth persevering through, but please, someone, give us a version without the music!

Great reading, terrible music

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it all really came together IMO. Enjoyed listening to this.

There did appear to be an error in "The temple of the bull" chapter. It seemed to jump ahead and finish but then the next chapter went back.

wonderful.

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Three quarters through book the story repeated, what's with that? Should get my credit back!

doubled up?

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At some points, the purposely grating music is louder than the narration. It's really awful.

story is great, could have ended a chapter earlier and lost nothing.

God awful music, pretty good story

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Why did they put that horrific music?? Over the top of the narrator’s reading?? I was constantly grabbing my phone to turn the volume down.

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