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Before she knew him by Peter Swanson, narrated by Sophie Amoss and Graham HalsteadWhat it is: Finding some peace in her new life in a house outside of Boston, Hen's calm begins to dissipate after she meets a new neighbor and spots an object in his home that once belonged to the victim of an unsolved murder case that has been an obsession for Hen. Read Alike: Suspenseful, compelling and intricately plotted story similar to Paula Hawkins' style, Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
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| Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James; narrated by Dion GrahamWhat it is: a lush and, at times, surreal Afrofantasy novel by the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings.
Narration: Dion Graham imbues his AudioFile Earphones Award-winning reading with an immersive growl, multiple accents, and skillful singing. |
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| Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts; narrated by Ann Marie LeeStarring: Maud Gage Baum, wife of author L. Frank Baum, and Judy Garland, the 15-year-old actress portraying Dorothy in MGM's 1939 adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Narration: Ann Marie Lee's ability to perform multiple distinct male voices (including real-life MGM studio head Louie B. Mayer) is a standout in this AudioFile Earphones Award-winning recording. |
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The Guest Book by Sarah Blake, narrated by Orlagh CassidyWhat it is: The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used to run the world." And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. An ambitious novel that weaves the American past with its present. Narration: Orlagh Cassidy was nicknamed "the dialect queen" in acting school at SUNY Purchase, but even with a successful serial television career ("Guiding Light," "Law and Order: SVU"), she hadn't used these skills often—until she found audiobooks. available May 7
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Tightrope by Amanda Quick, narrated by Nina AlvamarWhat it is: Amanda Quick sweeps listeners back to California in the 1930s in this all-new novel. An ex-trapeze artist walks the tightrope between desire and danger as she is caught up in the mysterious circumstances surrounding the onstage death of an inventor. The race is on to find his missing invention before others, who are willing to kill for it, find it first. Once again, the resort town of Burning Cove is the center of deception and intrigue.
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Narration: John Bedford Lloyd's career began in the early 1980’s, onstage, in film, and television generally in supporting roles. In the movies, the physically-imposing Lloyd is probably best known for his supporting parts in Crossing Delancey(1988) and The Abyss (1989). He has a prolific career as a reader of audiobooks.
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The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz, narrated by Rory Kinnear What it is: Detective Daniel Hawthorne and his literary sidekick risk their lives to expose dangerous secrets while investigating the murder of a celebrity divorce lawyer and teetotaler who was bludgeoned to death with an expensive bottle of wine. Series: This is book two of the Detective Daniel Hawthorne.The Word is Murder is book one of the series.
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