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AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The Quiet Game by Greg Iles

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Publication Date:  August 14, 2014 Format:  Audio Genre:   Legal Thriller Narrators:  Tom Stechschulte Publisher:  Penguin Audio Length:  20 hours 0 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Natchez, Mississippi. Jewel of the South. City of old money and older sins. And childhood home of Houston prosecutor Penn Cage.  In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, this is where Penn has returned for solitude. This is where he hopes to find peace. What he discovers instead is his own family trapped in a mystery buried for thirty years but never forgotten—the town’s darkest secret, now set to trap and destroy Penn as well. Review: I found this book on Scribd.    Prosecutor turned author Penn Cage and his daughter are returning to his home town of Nachez Mississippi to join ...

AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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Publication Date:  May 3, 2016 Format:  Audio Genre:   AA Fiction Narrators:  Shayna Small  Publisher:  Penguin Audio         Length:  11 hours 34 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her Black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for White, and her White husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwin...

AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The Sanatorium: A Novel by Sarah Pearse

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  Publication Date:  February 22, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller/Suspense Narrator:  Elizabeth Knowelden Publisher:  Penguin Audio         Length:  11 hours 58 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis You won't want to leave...until you can't. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancĂ©e,...