EPISODE · Apr 11, 2017 · 5 MIN
If We Were Villains: A Novel by M. L. Rio
from Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Ericka Stehr
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If We Were Villains: A Novel Author: M. L. Rio Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 16 Genres: Popular on #BookTok Publisher's Summary: “Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” --Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless. Intelligent, thrilling, and richly detailed, If We Were Villains is a captivating story of the enduring power and passion of words.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If We Were Villains: A Novel Author: M. L. Rio Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 16 Genres: Popular on #BookTok Publisher's Summary: “Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” --Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless. Intelligent, thrilling, and richly detailed, If We Were Villains is a captivating story of the enduring power and passion of words.
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