PODCAST · fiction
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological
by Nikita Schamberger
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/100/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for a treasure trove of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks? We are proud to introduce diverse categories such as Business & Career Development, Communication Skills, and Health & Fitness. Especially, you will receive 3 free audiobooks to experience. You can listen to books anytime, anywhere on devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, and more. Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your knowledge and entertainment with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to [email protected].
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Amanda Brooke presents The Nightfall
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nightfall Author: Amanda Brooke Narrator: Clementine Medforth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Don’t miss the next utterly gripping and emotional thriller from Amanda Brooke! ‘Loaded with twists and dark turns you won’t see coming’ The Sun Every family has secrets… Following her mother’s tragic death, Paige is preparing to scatter Ellen’s ashes in the heart of the Welsh mountains with her dad, grandmother, aunt and uncle by her side. Some secrets are benign… But when a blizzard descends over the hills, the family have no choice but to abandon their quest and seek refuge in a remote mountain inn. Some secrets a person would kill to conceal… But they aren’t the only ones trapped on the mountain. A stranger has followed their trail and he knows a secret. How far would you go to protect yours?
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The Island (By Sarah Goodwin)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island Series: #6 of The Thriller Collection Author: Sarah Goodwin Narrator: Alexandra Boulton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: FYRE FESTIVAL meets ONE OF THE GIRLS in this psychological thriller with twists you'll never see coming. 'It's the hottest ticket in town. But once you're in, there's no getting out.' Jody, Ari and Carla have won golden tickets to the summer’s hottest music festival, which promises to be full of glamour, mystique and lots of freebies. But, arriving on the sun-drenched shores of a private Greek island among influencers and celebrities, the trio are dismayed to find the small festival site far from the beacon of music, art and ‘immersive experiences’ they were promised. Disappointed but not deterred, they vow to make the most of the trip. But when a shocking discovery on day three turns the festival into a nightmare, the girls find themselves trapped on the island with no escape…
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Someone Like Us: A novel by Dinaw Mengestu
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Like Us: A novel Author: Dinaw Mengestu Narrator: Junior Nyong'o Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush’s stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as a cover for a harder, more troubling truth. But on the same day that Mamush arrives home in Washington, Samuel is found dead in his garage. With Hannah and their two-year-old son back in Paris, Mamush sets out on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he'd been told never to ask. As he does so, he begins to understand that perhaps the only chance he has of saving his family and making it back home is to confront not only the unresolved mystery around Samuel’s life and death, but his own troubled memories, and the years spent masking them. Breathtaking, commanding, unforgettable work from one of America’s most prodigiously gifted novelists.
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The Perfect Sister: A Novel by Stephanie Decarolis
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Sister: A Novel Author: Stephanie Decarolis Narrator: Kristen Dimercurio, Jesse Vilinsky, Sophie Amoss, Andrew Eiden, Kaleo Griffith, Dan John Miller, Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A woman’s search for her missing sister on the sandy white beaches of the Hamptons uncovers a wealth of secrets worth killing for—a sultry and sumptuous psychological suspense from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie DeCarolis. Alex Walker has always looked up to her perfect older sister. Maddie has succeeded in all the ways Alex has not: She escaped their hometown and seems to have put the memories of their unstable childhood behind her. But despite the different paths their lives have taken, the two sisters made a pact to spend one week together every summer. It was a promise they’d never broken . . . until now. When Maddie suddenly cancels her annual trip home, Alex begins to worry. But when Maddie stops returning her calls altogether, Alex is certain something is wrong. Relying on the only clues Maddie left behind, Alex follows her sister’s footsteps to the Hamptons where she meets the Blackwell family—the last people to have seen Maddie before she vanished into thin air. The Blackwells seem to have it all: wealth, beauty, and a beachside mansion on a private stretch of Hamptons real estate. It’s a world unlike any Alex has ever known, but she quickly discovers that looks can be deceiving, and that a life of luxury always comes at a cost.
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Where Are You, Echo Blue?: A Novel by Hayley Krischer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Are You, Echo Blue?: A Novel Author: Hayley Krischer Narrator: Helen Laser, Alex Mckenna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A smart, juicy, and page-turning novel about celebrity, fandom, and the price of ambition following a journalist's obsessive search for a missing Hollywood starlet When Echo Blue, the most famous child star of the nineties, disappears ahead of a highly publicized television appearance on the eve of the millennium, the salacious theories instantly start swirling. Mostly, people assume Echo has gotten herself in trouble after a reckless New Year’s Eve. But Goldie Klein, an ambitious young journalist who also happens to be Echo's biggest fan, knows there must be more to the story. Why, on the eve of her big comeback, would Echo just go missing without a trace? After a year of covering dreary local stories for Manhattan Eye, Goldie is sure this will be her big break. Who better to find Echo Blue, and tell her story the right way, than her? And so, Goldie heads to L.A. to begin a wild search that takes her deep into Echo’s complicated life in which parental strife, friend break ups, rehab stints, and bad romances abound. But the further into Echo’s world Goldie gets, the more she questions her own complicity in the young star’s demise . . . yet she cannot tear herself away from this story, which has now consumed her entirely. Meanwhile, we also hear Echo's side of things from the beginning, showing a young woman who was chewed up and spit out by Hollywood as so many are, and who may have had to pay the ultimate price. As these young women's poignant and unexpected journeys unfold, and eventually meet, Where Are You, Echo Blue? interrogates celebrity culture, the thin line between admiration and obsession, and what it means to tell other peoples’ stories, all while ushering us on an unruly ride to find out what did become of Echo Blue.
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Enjoy Toward Eternity: A Novel from Anton Hur
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toward Eternity: A Novel Author: Anton Hur Narrator: Nicky Endres, David Lee Huynh, Zoleka Vundla, Katherine Littrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: ''A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the building and burning of bridges.'' -New York Times *A PARADE, LITHUB, and CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS Best New Book. *An AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD WINNER. Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body’s cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal. Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband. When Yonghun—himself a recipient of nanotherapy—mysteriously vanishes into thin air and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What happened to Yonghun, and though he’s returned, is he really himself anymore? When Dr. Beeko, the scientist who holds the patent to the nanotherapy technology, learns of Panit, he transfers its consciousness from the machine into an android body, giving it freedom and life. As Yonghun, Panit, and other nano humans thrive—and begin to replicate—their development will lead them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences. Exploring the nature of intelligence and the unexpected consequences of progress, the meaning of personhood and life, and what we really have to fear from technology and the future, Toward Eternity is a gorgeous, thought-provoking novel that challenges the notion of what makes us human—and how love survives even the end of that humanity.
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The Art of Pretend by Lauren Kuhl
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Pretend Author: Lauren Kuhl Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Gossip Girl meets Tell Me Lies: A tantalizing novel about a woman drawn into the orbit of her friend's wealthy family in New York City and the complications and consequences that arise when she embarks on a secret relationship with the golden-boy older brother “A delicious take on class, friendship, and desire.” —Christina McDowell, author of The Cave Dwellers Pretending is an art, and all art comes at a price… Ren loves and hates Etta, her best friend since they met at NYU nearly a decade ago. Etta defines Ren's New York. She lavishes her with designer hand-me-downs and takes her along to parties at trust fund lofts and Hamptons estates. But when Etta moves to Barcelona with no warning, Ren is left to face who she is without her, her unremarkable life of shoebox apartment, thankless job, and estranged family. Enter Archer, Etta’s older brother, whom Ren’s always been infatuated with. In his sister’s absence, suddenly he’s inviting Ren to visit his art gallery, to prestigious galas, on weekend trips with his friends to Amagansett. Archer’s interest makes Ren feel alive in whole new ways, but she knows Etta can't find out. As their relationship intensifies, so does her unease. If it all blows up, who will she be on the other side? Set over a heady New York summer, The Art of Pretend is an alluring novel about love and friendship, wealth and power, art and ambition—and the stories we tell ourselves and others to get what we want.
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Ladykiller: A Novel by Katherine Wood
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ladykiller: A Novel Author: Katherine Wood Narrator: Marcella Black, Hallie Ricardo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Everyone has a story. But not everyone’s story is true. When a young woman vanishes from her remote Greek island estate, her best friend races to find her, using clues found in the explosive manuscript she left behind. “Full of sun, sex, money, and greed, not since Gone Girl have unreliable narrators been this fun.”—Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters Gia and Abby have been friends since childhood, forever bonded by the tragedy that unfolded in Greece when they were eighteen. Now thirty, heiress Gia is back in Greece with her shiny new husband, entertaining glamorous guests with champagne under the hot Mediterranean sun, while bookish Abby is working fourteen-hour days as an attorney. When Gia invites Abby on an all-expenses-paid trip to Sweden to celebrate her birthday, Abby’s thrilled to reconnect. But on the day of her flight, Abby receives an ominous email that threatens to unearth the skeletons of her past, and when she and Gia’s brother, Benny, arrive in Sweden, Gia isn’t there. Worried, Abby and Benny fly to Greece, where they find Gia’s beachfront estate eerily deserted, the sole clue to her whereabouts the manuscript she penned, detailing the events leading up to her disappearance. Gia’s narrative reveals the dark truth about her provocative new marriage and the dirty secrets of their seductive guests, a story almost too scandalous to be believed. But the pages end abruptly, leaving more questions than answers. How much of Gia’s story is true? Where is she now? And will Abby find her before it’s too late?
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Whoever You Are, Honey: A Novel by Olivia Gatwood
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whoever You Are, Honey: A Novel Author: Olivia Gatwood Narrator: Olivia Gatwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality? This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm—“a fever dream for the AI age” (People). “This book reads like a thriller, but it's also a tender and searching exploration of what it means to inhabit a female body.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Mitty can’t quite make out the expression on Lena’s face, but she doesn’t look distressed. She looks like nothing at all. She looks like the beginning, before thoughts, a white hallway with no doors, a room so long your voice disappears before it can echo. On the Santa Cruz, California, waterfront, every house is a flawless glass monolith. Except for one. In a dilapidated bungalow, Mitty and her elderly roommate, Bethel, are the oddball pair who represent the last vestiges of a free-spirited town taken over by the tech elite. But their lives are about to be forever changed when a new couple, Sebastian and Lena, move in next door. Sebastian is a renowned tech founder and Lena is his spellbindingly perfect girlfriend. But Lena has secrets; she feels uneasy about her oddly spotty memory and is growing increasingly wary of the way Sebastian controls their relationship. Mitty is also hiding something, and the way Lena appears to float through her luxurious life draws Mitty inexorably into her orbit. As the two women begin to form a close friendship, they are finally forced to face their pasts—and the urgent truths that could change everything. Showcasing Olivia Gatwood’s talent as an essential author for our hyper-digital age, Whoever You Are, Honey is a gripping, seductive, and prescient novel that dissects relationships between women and examines how striving for perfection and desirability plays out in spaces where technology and power intersect.
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The God of the Woods: A Novel by Liz Moore
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The God of the Woods: A Novel Author: Liz Moore Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 77 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 30 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Riveting from page one to the last breathless word.'—Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of I Have Some Questions For You “Brilliant, riveting .. an epic mystery, a family saga and a survival guide...I loved this book.” —Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains a map from the book.
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Bear: A Novel by Julia Phillips
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bear: A Novel Author: Julia Phillips Narrator: Sophie Amoss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods—“a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end” (People, Book of the Week). NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK! “Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer.”—Ann Patchett “Beautiful and haunting . . . this is brilliant.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can’t earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence. Then one night on the boat, Sam spots a bear swimming the dark waters of the channel. Where is it going? What does it want? When the bear turns up by their home, Sam, terrified, is more convinced than ever that it’s time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the desire to escape and puts their long-held dream in danger. A story about the bonds of sisterhood and the mysteries of the animals that live among us—and within us—Bear is a propulsive, mythical, richly imagined novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers in America.
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Death in the Air: A Novel by Ram Murali
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in the Air: A Novel Author: Ram Murali Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “Glamorous, gripping, absolutely heaps of fun. I loved this.”—Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment ''Unexpected delights await on every page of Ram Murali’s impressive and captivating debut. Crisp as a gin and tonic and delightfully wicked, this smart, smart novel delivers a sophisticated, subversive murder mystery set in the highest stratosphere of the international idle rich. I had to force myself not to binge it in one night so I could savor it like the rare and exquisite meal that it is.'' —Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel: both a sophisticated locked-room mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie, and a provocative literary whodunit for the twenty-first century. Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London’s poshest clubs and on the squash court, but unmoored after he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances. He decides it’s time to check in for some much-needed R&R at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite nestled in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. A person could be spiritually reborn in a place like this. Even a very rich person. But a person—or several—could also die there. Samsara is the Sanskrit word for the karmic cycle of death and rebirth, after all. And as it turns out, the colorful cast of characters Ro meets—including a misanthropic politician; an American movie star preparing for his Bollywood crossover debut; a beautiful heiress to a family jewel fortune that barely survived Partition; and a bumbling white yogi inexplicably there to teach meditation—harbors a murderer among them. Maybe more than one. As the death toll rises, Ro, a lawyer by training and a sleuth by circumstance, becomes embroiled in a vicious world under a gilded surface, where nothing is quite what it seems . . . including Ro himself. Death in the Air is a brilliant, teasing mystery from a remarkable new talent.
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The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel by Liv Constantine
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel Author: Liv Constantine Narrator: Raquel Beattie, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Erin Bennett, Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 45 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 13 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish! “Delicious and shocking.”—Jeneva Rose “A brilliant page-turner.”—Lisa Gardner “One hell of a ride!”—Andrea Bartz CBS NEW YORK BOOK CLUB PICK • Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line. Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way. Hard work and immaculate planning turned her from invisible wallflower to prominent socialite, though there have been bumps along the way. Less than a year after her husband Jackson’s tax-evasion scandal, Amber reigns supreme over the Bishops Harbor community. But with Jackson being released from prison, Amber’s free time—and money—is vanishing. Meanwhile, Daphne Parrish left Bishops Harbor after her divorce from Jackson, swearing she would never go back. But when one of her daughters runs away from home, desperate to see her father, Daphne agrees to return for the summer for their daughters’ sake. Jackson swears he’s a changed man, but Daphne knows all too well that he can’t be trusted. When a ghost from Amber’s past emerges looking for revenge, these three figures find unlikely allies in one another. But who is playing who? When all is said and done, they’ll have to fight tooth and nail for everything they have left in this zero-sum game. With shocking turns and entertaining characters, The Next Mrs. Parrish will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about duplicity and betrayal.
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Yi-Han Lin - Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel Author: Yi-Han Lin Narrator: Katharine Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: “A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations. Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me ?The most influential book of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement—a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women’s vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive. Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan, a tightknit community of strict yet doting parents and privileged children raised to be ambitious, dutiful, and virtuous. She and her neighbor Liu Yi-Ting bond over their love of learning and books, devouring classic works—Proust, Gabriel García Márquez, the very best Chinese writers. Yet, it is their lack of real-world education that makes them true kindred spirits. Si-Chi’s innocence is irresistible to Lee Guo-hua, a revered cram literature teacher and serial predator who lives in her building. When he offers to tutor the academic-minded girls for free, their parents—unaware of Lee’s true nature—happily accept. While Yi-Ting’s studies with Lee are straightforward, Si-Chi learns about things no one teaches them in school—lessons about sex and love that will change the course of her life. Confused and uncertain, Si-Chi turns to her beloved books for guidance. But literature tells her nothing honest about rape or how to cope with the trauma of abuse. For her own salvation, the young girl begins to think of her personal hell as her “first love paradise,” where the power of love, no matter how twisted, gives her the strength to survive. One of the biggest books to come out of Taiwan in the last decade, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise is a chilling tale of grooming and its lingering trauma, and the power structures that allow it to flourish. Insightful, unsettling, emotionally raw, it is a staggering work of literature that reverberates across cultures and forces us to confront painful truths about the vulnerability and strength of women and those who use and hurt them. Translated from the Chinese by Jenna Tang Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Man's Best Friend by Alana B. Lytle
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Man's Best Friend Author: Alana B. Lytle Narrator: Adina Verson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A failed actress must decide how much she will give up—and what lies she will overlook—in order to live a life of luxury, in this irresistibly suspenseful and slightly surreal debut that is The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Nightbitch. Ever since her year as a scholarship student among the ultra-wealthy at a Manhattan private school, El knows what it is like to feel rich—to feel chosen. And being not chosen is her current living nightmare: at age thirty, she has given up her dream of becoming a famous actress, she has no passions, no great love, nothing to look forward to. Then El meets a mysterious trust-fund Cambridge grad who holds the keys to the world she has long dreamed of. Bryce may not be particularly good-looking, charming, or interesting, but he has chosen her. El allows herself to be lulled by the ease and safety that his wealth provides, becoming Bryce’s little pet, and giving up her job, friends, and apartment in short order. But when a series of disturbing and slightly surreal events reveal that Bryce is not quite what he seems, but something entirely more sinister, El must face the consequences when his darkness—and her own—are unleashed.
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The Profiler - Helen Fields
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Profiler Author: Helen Fields Narrator: Jess Nesling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: THE MILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER RETURNS WITH A DARK AND TERRIFYING JOURNEY INTO THE MIND OF A KILLER. ‘Truly exceptional…twists and turns that I didn't see coming, a unique concept, and brilliant characters…simply captivating.’ JOHN MARRS He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file – because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more dangerous than she could have ever imagined walks among them. Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes what she tells them: that he is capable of so much worse. Profile K will kill again – and, terrifyingly, Midnight realises that the moment she found his file was the moment she became his next target. Because Profile K is coming for Midnight – and the only way to escape with her life is to find him before he finds her… The million-copy bestseller is back with a dark, terrifying journey into the mind of a psychopath that will keep you riveted until the very last page. Previously published as Profile K Helen Fields' book The Institution was a UK top 20 paperback bestseller w/c 2023-09-23.
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Safe and Sound: A Novel - Laura Mchugh
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe and Sound: A Novel Author: Laura Mchugh Narrator: Jorjeana Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened—even if it puts their own lives in danger—in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author of What’s Done in Darkness. “Beautifully written, unflinchingly told, and relentlessly suspenseful.”—Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Overnight Guest In a town no one ever leaves, there are only so many places to hide. As kids, Amelia and Kylee were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teenage cousin Grace, who was babysitting them, vanished from the farmhouse in Beaumont, Missouri, leaving blood all over the kitchen. Scrappy and driven, Grace, the first in their family to go to college instead of getting married and working at the meatpacking plant, had been on the verge of escaping their dead-end town. Her disappearance is a warning to any local girl who dared hope for better. Now, as their own high school graduation looms, Amelia and Kylee dream about fleeing Beaumont, but the likelihood of that happening seems as low as that of Grace being found. When human remains are discovered in town, the sisters think they finally know who took Grace—but as they dig deeper into her past, they unearth long-buried secrets and a growing list of suspects. Amelia and Kylee vow to find Grace, dead or alive. But as they draw closer to the truth and slip further into danger, they question how far someone would go to put a woman in her place, or to cover up a crime. The answer is worse than they could have imagined, and in the end, it won’t just be Grace they’re trying to save—they’ll have to fight for their lives.
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Better by Far: A Novel by Hazel Hayes
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better by Far: A Novel Author: Hazel Hayes Narrator: Hazel Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: One of Zibby Mag's Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in 2024 | One of SheNet's Highly Anticipated Books of 2024 A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life’s little limbos, those in-between spaces where you’re no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be About her debut, Out of Love, Hazel Hayes said, “The journey from writing horror to writing love stories was a short one. There is nothing more horrific than love.” In her new novel, she sets out to prove it. This genre-defying, meta-modern novel is unlike anything you have ever read, and yet at its core it is a story we all deeply understand. A story of love and liminality, and the ways in which grief grips us all. Prepare to laugh and cry; Hazel Hayes will break your heart, but then she’ll mend it for you. Following a breakup, Kate and Finn decide to keep sharing their house until the lease runs out in twelve weeks’ time, alternating week by week so that they are occupying the same space but never at the same time. Practically, the plan makes sense, but coming back each Sunday to a home where Finn has been and gone feels far too much like living with a ghost. Kate lost her mother at a young age and now this fresh grief dredges unhealed sorrows up to the surface, and soon, Kate finds herself adrift in her own subconscious, trapped in the liminal space between loving someone and letting go.
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Crooked Seeds: A Novel by Karen Jennings
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crooked Seeds: A Novel Author: Karen Jennings Narrator: Fiona Ramsay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt—from the Booker Prize–longlisted author of An Island. “Extraordinary . . . unputdownable.”—Roddy Doyle Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks from a years-long drought, the nearby mountains threaten to burn, and the queue for the water trucks grows ever longer. In her crumbling corner of a public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper Deidre with questions: Was your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the 1990s? Is it true that he was building bombs as part of a terrorist plot? Deidre doesn’t know the answers to the detectives’ questions. All she knows is that she was denied—repeatedly—the life she felt she deserved. Overshadowed by her brother, then left behind by her daughter after she emigrated, Deidre must watch over her aging mother and make do with government help and the fading generosity of her neighbors while the landscape around her grows more and more combustible. As alarming evidence from the investigation continues to surface, and detectives pressure her to share what she knows of her family’s disturbing past, Deidre must finally face her own shattered memories so that something better might emerge for her and her country. In exquisitely spare prose, Karen Jennings weaves a singularly powerful novel about post-apartheid South Africa. It is an unforgettable, propulsive story of fractured families, collective guilt, the ways we become trapped in prisons of our own making, and how we can begin to break free.
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You Know What You Did: A Novel by K. T. Nguyen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Know What You Did: A Novel Author: K. T. Nguyen Narrator: Kim Mai Guest Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. . . . Annie “Anh Le” Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career, a stunning home, and a devoted husband and daughter. When Annie’s mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie’s carefully curated life begins to unravel. Her obsessive-compulsive disorder, which she thought she’d vanquished years ago, comes roaring back—but this time, the disturbing fixations swirling around in Annie’s brain might actually be coming true. A prominent art patron disappears, and the investigation zeroes in on Annie. Spiraling with self-doubt, she distances herself from her family and friends, only to wake up in a hotel room—naked, next to a lifeless body. The police have more questions, but with her mind increasingly fractured, Annie doesn’t have answers. All she knows is this: She will do anything to protect her daughter—even if it means losing herself. With dizzying twists, You Know What You Did is both a harrowing thriller and a heartfelt exploration of the refugee experience, the legacies we leave for our children, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.
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Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder Author: Asako Yuzuki Narrator: Hanako Footman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination, but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew, and Kajii can’t resist writing back. Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a master class in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii, but it seems that Rika might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body. Do she and Kajii have more in common than she once thought? Inspired by the real case of a convicted con woman and serial killer—the “Konkatsu Killer”—Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance, and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.
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Every Move You Make by C.L. Taylor
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/677997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Move You Make Author: C.L. Taylor Narrator: Clare Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: THE ONLY WAY TO STOP A STALKER IS TO BECOME ONE YOURSELF… ‘Exceptional! A breathless, chilling read with twist after brilliant twist. Clever, original and filled with tension.’ Claire Douglas ‘A totally brilliant twist. I absolutely loved it!’ Lisa Jewell 'Exceedingly clever, tense and satisfying.' Andrea Mara Keep your friends close and your enemies closer… Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, River and Natalie. Five friends who wish they’d never met. Because the one thing they have in common is the worst thing in their lives: they are all being stalked. When one of their group is murdered, days after their stalker is released from prison, time stands still for them all. They know their lives could end just as brutally at any moment – all it takes is for the people they fear the most to catch up with them. When the group receive a threat that one of them will die in ten days’ time, the terror that stalks their daily lives becomes all-consuming. But they know they don’t want to be victims anymore – it’s time to turn the tables and finally get their revenge. Because the only way to stop a stalker is to become one yourself… The multimillion bestseller returns with her most propulsive and addictive book yet. A chilling and terrifyingly real thriller that will keep you up all night – and looking over your shoulder for days to come… READERS LOVE EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE! ‘C.L. Taylor always delivers but this is an exceptional effort. She is a superstar of the genre! Five twisty stars.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I read this book in less than 48 hours and the writing style and concept makes this a five-star book … you’re in for a treat!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This gave me actual chills! So perfectly written and captivating … an amazing book.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I really really really loved this book! It's been a while since I absolutely devoured a thriller, but this one I just could NOT PUT DOWN.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An incredibly powerful, tense and mind blowing read. Then there are the twists! And boy are they good – totally unexpected!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An exceedingly clever, tense, surprising and satisfying rollercoaster of a book.’ Andrea Mara ‘Takes your worst fear about letting the wrong person into your life, multiplies it by four and then hits you round the head with a totally brilliant twist that I for one did not see coming. I absolutely loved it!’ Lisa Jewell ‘C.L. Taylor knocks it out of the park every time. Every Move You Make is a compulsive page-turner you won’t be able to put down.’ Clare Mackintosh ‘I absolutely love C.L. Taylor’s writing.’ Liz Nugent 'You’ll need your wits about you to track the truth in this terrifying thriller about victims who turn the tables on their stalkers. I read it with my heart in my mouth – exhilarating stuff.’ Louise Candlish ‘Spine-chilling at every turn! One of the best thrillers of the year.’ Jeffery Deaver ‘A tense, twisty thrill-ride of stalking, obsession and revenge.’ TM Logan 'Expertly crafted, with…vivid villains and a hard-to-spot twist. But its biggest strength is Taylor’s ability to bring home the horror of being pursued, confronted or harassed online in a way that no victim interview or TV documentary could achieve.' The Times 'Taylor ratchets up the tension and paranoia to great effect for a well-engineered, propulsive read.’ The Guardian
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Testimonies by Patrick O’Brian
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Testimonies Author: Patrick O’Brian Narrator: Rachel Isaac, Dyfrig Morris, Tim Treloar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: For the first time on audio, the deeply personal and ingenious first novel written under Patrick O’Brian’s own name. THREE BEAR WITNESS John Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour. She is estranged from her husband, an admirable man in many ways, but one who has compelled her to submit to some brutal sexual perversion. When a famous preacher, whose advances Bronwen has rejected with contempt, persuades the entire community that she has committed adultery with Pugh, a reckoning is inevitable, and the ill-fated consequences of their actions are recounted in the testimonies of Bronwen, Pugh and the preacher’s cousin, Mr Lloyd. Patrick O’Brian is world famous for his novels of nautical high adventure, but twenty years before readers were first introduced to Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, he wrote this intensely felt and evocative tale set in the beautiful but often unforgiving Welsh landscape he knew so well. With all the freshness and immediacy that have become hallmarks of O’Brian’s style, he conveys the hopes and fears, and tragedy, of his characters, demonstrating the flair and sheer humanity that have made him one of the twentieth century’s literary greats.
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What Happened to Nina?: A Novel by Dervla McTiernan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened to Nina?: A Novel Author: Dervla McTiernan Narrator: Preston Butler Iii, Stacey Glemboski, Lisa Flanagan, Kristen Sieh, George Newbern, Robert Petkoff, Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA? Nobody knows. Simon’s explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn’t add up. Nina’s parents push the police for answers, and Simon’s parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign. HOW FAR WILL HIS FAMILY GO TO KEEP HIM SAFE? Soon, facts are lost in a swirl of accusation and counter-accusation. Everyone chooses a side, and the story goes viral, fueled by armchair investigators and wild conspiracy theories and illustrated with pretty pictures taken from Nina’s social media accounts. Journalists descend on their small Vermont town, followed by a few obsessive ''fans.'' HOW FAR WILL HER FAMILY GO TO GET TO THE TRUTH? Nina’s family is under siege, but they never lose sight of the only thing that really matters — finding their daughter. Out-gunned by Simon’s wealthy, powerful family, Nina’s parents recognize that if playing by the rules won’t get them anywhere, it’s time to break them.
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Enjoy Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: A Novel from Nicci French
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: A Novel Author: Nicci French Narrator: Jane Collingwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed. On the day of Alec Salter’s fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children—especially fifteen-year-old Etty—grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn’t return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan’s father—and the Salters’ neighbor— Duncan Ackerley, floating in the river. The police conclude that Duncan and Charlotte were having an affair before he killed her and committed suicide. Thirty years later, Morgan Ackerley returns to Glensted with his older brother to make a podcast based on their shared tragedy with the Salters. Alec, stricken with dementia, is entering an elder care facility while Etty helps put his affairs in order. But when the Ackerleys ask to interview the Salters, the entire town gets caught up in the unresolved cases. Allegations fly, secrets come to light, and a suspicious fire leads to a murder. With the podcast making national news, London sends Detective Inspector Maud O’Connor to Glensted to take over the investigation. She will stop at nothing to uncover the truth as a new and terrifying picture of what really happened to Charlotte Salter and Duncan Ackerley emerges.
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Annie Bot: A Novel by Sierra Greer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Annie Bot: A Novel Author: Sierra Greer Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: ''Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us.'' — Esquire ''Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking.'' — New Scientist For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control. Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard. She’s learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie’s relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?
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Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Half Gone Author: Tarryn Fisher Narrator: Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: "The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!” —Colleen Hoover From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Never Iris Walsh saw her twin sister get kidnapped—so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister’s fate as a teen: abducted in broad daylight and long gone before she could convince the cops there was anything to investigate. With Piper presumed a runaway and no evidence to go on but Iris’s scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Ever since that terrible day, Iris’ search for Piper has bordered on obsession. Chasing leads across years and following clues that all seem to point to a single name, Iris does everything she can to get close to the only person who might know the answer to the question that still haunts her: where did Piper go? And if the police still won’t help, she’ll just have to find the answer herself--using her criminal psychology degree to intern at the isolated psychiatric hospital on Shoal Island, where secrets lurk in the shadows and are kept under lock and key. But Iris soon realizes that something even more sinister is simmering beneath the surface of the Shoal, and that the patients aren’t the only ones being observed… Looking for more captivating reads by Tarryn Fisher? Don't miss: - Never Never - The Wives - The Wrong Family - An Honest Lie
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Bye, Baby: A Novel (Written by Carola Lovering)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bye, Baby: A Novel Author: Carola Lovering Narrator: Helen Laser, Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'Powerful, relatable and crazily addictive, Bye, Baby takes an unflinching look at the battling forces of toxicity and love which define so many female friendships. I couldn't put it down.' —Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted and The Love of My Life 'Narrators Helen Laser and Karissa Vacker craft an amazing rhythm as the young women confront their toxic friendship. Listeners won't want to miss a word.'—AudioFile Every friendship has its shadow... On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering—with a jolt of fear—that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered Cassie’s world. Once fiercely bonded by their secrets, Cassie and Billie have drifted apart in adulthood, no longer the inseparable pair they used to be in their small Hudson Valley hometown. Cassie is married to a wealthy man, has recently become a mother, and is building a following as a lifestyle influencer. She is desperate to leave her past behind—including Billie, who is single and childless, and no longer fits into her world. But Billie knows the worst thing Cassie has ever done, and she will do whatever it takes to restore their friendship… Told in alternating perspectives in Lovering’s signature suspenseful style, Bye, Baby confronts the myriad ways friendships change and evolve over time, the lingering echoes of childhood trauma, and the impact of women’s choices on their lifelong relationships. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Broken Colours: The Complete Series 1-3: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast thriller by Matthew Broughton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Colours: The Complete Series 1-3: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast thriller Author: Matthew Broughton Narrator: Josef Altin, Alun Raglan, Holli Dempsey, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 1, 2024 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: A compelling new thriller from the creator of Tracks When artist Jess is rescued by a mysterious stranger after collapsing at a protest rally, neither of them know that their lives are about to be transformed forever. The pair swiftly fall in love, but when Dan disappears, Jess realises how little she knows about the man who saved her. Jess is an aspiring artist with synaesthesia - she sees colours and patterns when she hears certain sounds, and uses her unique ability to connect the unconnected. Searching for answers, she is seduced by a glamorous and shadowy underworld of criminal gangs and a brutal leader with murderous intent. Conflicting perceptions compete as Jess's world begins to spiral out of control in this dark and gripping thriller... Who is Dan, really? Who can Jess trust, and is the truth what it appears to be? Senses collide and worlds change in this taut full-cast drama, starring Holli Dempsey as Jess and Josef Altin as Dan. Written by Matthew Broughton and Faebian Averies Directed by John Norton, Emma Harding and Philippa Swallow Sound Design by Catherine Robinson and Nigel Lewis Produced by John Norton, Philippa Swallow and Emma Harding Cast Jess - Holli Dempsey Dan - Josef Altin Johnny - Tom Byrne Melissa - Alexandria Riley Petal - Rina Mahoney Daisy - Grace Cooper Milton Clem - Francois Pandolfo Desk Sergeant, Security Guard, Newsreader - Chris Jack Security Guard, Janey, Gallery Director - Jasmine Hyde Mark, Magner - Neil McCaul Ryan - Justice Ritchie Ronnie Vaz - Alun Raglan Henry - Brendan Charleson Mother - Christine Kavanagh Molly - Molly Pepper Tuer Man - Dean Rehman Gina - Suzanne Packer Anthony Wheeler - Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong Vic - David Sterne Maggie - Ashleigh Haddad Blue Rider - Olivia Vinall Series 1 first broadcast BBC Radio 4, February 2022 Series 2 first broadcast BBC Radio 4, December 2022 Series 3 first broadcast BBC Radio 4, December 2023 ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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The Young Widows by S. J. Short
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Young Widows Author: S. J. Short Narrator: Vivien Carter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'If you love Liane Moriarty and Shari Lapena, you'll love this twisty psychological thriller' Pick Me Up Magazine An addictive thriller that will keep you guessing until the last page, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Shari Lapena. Meet the young widows: The hot mess Kylie is done with commitment. Her trust in men died with her husband. Now she trawls bars looking for fun – no strings, no promises, no second night. That is until she meets a man who seems to want more, but is it a mistake to trust again? The new member Hannah’s grief is fresh and reminds the other widows how raw their pain once was – however, do they want to let that back into their lives? The wallflower Isabel is used to hiding in the shadows, her past still haunts her. Only her late husband knew what happened the night that ruined her life. The fiancée Adriana is moving on. But as her wedding draws closer, she’s starting to question how well she truly knows her partner. Then she receives an anonymous note that reads: Get out while you still can. Four very different women brought together by their grief, only to find their lives are inexplicably linked in the darkest of ways. Readers love The Young Widows! ‘Fantastic. A very twisty read full of suspense’ ‘A real rollercoaster’ ‘Kept me hooked’ ‘Had me gripped. I raced through … and there were plenty of twists!’
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Her Last Lie by J.S. Lark
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Last Lie Author: J.S. Lark Narrator: Jodie Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: When the body of Jen’s teenage son, Eli, is found at the edge of a lake, her shock and grief are overwhelming—and so is the activity swirling around her as the police investigate. The guilt she feels because she was not at home the night her child was killed weighs heavy on Jen’s heart. But while she hides a secret, Jen yearns to know what happened—are Eli’s friends telling the truth? After she learns that Eli had a girlfriend, something his friends say he’d kept hidden from everyone, it becomes more and more difficult to separate the fiction from the facts… Will Jen catch the killer of her beloved son while protecting those around her?
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A Guilty Secret - Philippa East
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Guilty Secret Author: Philippa East Narrator: Ben Morton, Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 18, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: ‘An intricate story, full of tension’ The Sun From the author of Little White Lies 'Masterful, clever, surprising at ever turn; a proper page-turner and a one-sitting read. I couldn’t stop turning the pages. Sublime’ Andrea Mara ‘A truly gripping thriller filled with teenage nostalgia and vividly rendered toxic friendships. It had me turning pages late into the night’ Heather Darwent 2003: Carrie and her friends spend their days studying at boarding school, and their nights sneaking out to the woods. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. 2019: When Finn receives a shocking call from his estranged wife, Mhairi, informing him of their friend Kate’s death, neither is prepared for the secrets they will uncover. The trail leads them to the events at a boarding school many years before. They are on the verge of unearthing the whole story – but someone will do anything to keep it buried. ‘Packed with dangerously charismatic characters you can’t get out of your head’ Laura Vaughan 'A psychologist and therapist herself, Philippa East, the author of Little White Lies, gently unspools her tale with great skill' Choice Magazine ‘A skilful, layered and ultimately emotional read. East is at the top of her game!’ Louise Swanson 'An engaging and unsettling novel that explores the spectrum of human connections, painful and tender' Lincolnshire Life ‘An addictive page-turner and a nuanced exploration of consequences and guilt. Complex and clever in the best ways’ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn 'Loved this claustrophobic and gorgeously written thriller' Fiona Cummins
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One Last Breath: a BRAND NEW totally addictive psychological thriller from bestselling author of Don't Close Your Eyes by P S Cunliffe
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Last Breath: a BRAND NEW totally addictive psychological thriller from bestselling author of Don't Close Your Eyes Author: P S Cunliffe Narrator: Ethan Kelly, Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The water's rising, the temperature's dropping. Time is running out... I wake up to darkness, my head pounding. As I reach out, my hands meet cold hard stone, and I realise in one single terrifying moment that I'm back where it all started - trapped at the bottom of the well where my best friend Amy's body was found fifteen years ago. My husband Martin warned me not to come back here. Westhaven turned its back on me a long time ago, after my hit true crime documentary freed Amy's murderer and made our small town infamous. But when another teenager turned up dead, I knew I couldn't stay away... Did I get too close to the truth? Is that why my captor put me down here? But the way they're taunting me from the top of the well feels too personal. They say if I want to live, I have to tell the truth. If I want to hold my little girl again, I have to figure out who put me down here and what secret they claim I'm keeping. But how long until I have only one last breath? A totally gripping, dark and twisty psychological thriller that will leave you breathless. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Mark Edwards and Freida McFadden.
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This Plague of Souls by Mike Mccormack
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Plague of Souls Author: Mike Mccormack Narrator: Dan Murphy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 2, 2024 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, named a most anticipated book of the year by The Guardian, The Irish Times, and The New Statesman.Nealon returns from prison to his house in the West of Ireland to find it empty. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It is as if the world has forgotten or erased him. Then he starts getting calls from a man who claims to know what’s happened to his family—a man who’ll tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting.In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon and the man embark on a conversation shot through with secrets and evasions, a verbal game of cat and mouse that leaps from Nealon’s past and childhood to the motives driving a series of international crimes launched against “a world so wretched it can only be redeemed by an act of revenge.” McCormack’s existential noir is a terse and brooding exploration of the connections between rural Ireland and the globalized cruelties of the twenty-first century. It is also an incisive portrait of a young and struggling family, and a ruthless interrogation of what we owe to those nearest to us, and to the world at large.
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Audiobook: Gone Tomorrow by Gary Indiana
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gone Tomorrow Author: Gary Indiana Narrator: Lee Osorio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in a film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogotá, only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death, it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty bohemians triumphing against the odds. The director, Paul Grosvenor, seems more interested in manipulating his cast than in shooting film. The cult star, Irma Irma, is a vamp too bored and boring to draw blood. And the beautiful, nymph-like Michael Simard doesn't seem to be putting out. Meanwhile, the film's shady financier is sleeping with his mother, while a serial killer skulks about the area killing tourists. Everything comes to a head when the carnaval celebration begins. But once the fiesta is over, all that's left are ghostly memories and the narrator's insistence on telling the tale. 'Unlike the majority of pointedly AIDS-era novels,' writes Dennis Cooper, 'Gone Tomorrow is neither an amoral nostalgia fest nor a thinly veiled wake-up call hyping the religion of sobriety. It's a philosophical work devised by a writer who's both too intelligent to buy into the notion that a successful future requires the compromise of collective decision and too moral to accept bitterness as the consequence of an adventurous life.'
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Do Not Open -- Kiersten Modglin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do Not Open Author: Kiersten Modglin Narrator: Mara Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: On the day author Mari Morgan receives the email, she has little left to live for. The message—simple yet utterly life-changing—offers a glimmer of hope to her dismal existence. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, and if she takes it, it could change everything. Mari’s immediate sense of unease is eclipsed only by her curiosity—elicited from the supposed fan on the other end of the email. Unsatisfied despite doing her due diligence, and with no way to discern the legitimacy of the sender, Mari takes a leap of faith and replies. What harm could come from one innocent message? Soon, as she comes face to face with her ‘number one fan,’ it’s all too clear things are not what they first appeared. Now trapped by a villain far more sinister than she could’ve crafted herself, the fate awaiting her is inspired by the darkest depths of the monsters in her own novels. In order to escape and survive, Mari must use the strength of the heroines she’s spent years writing about. But this villain has spent years inside her worlds, too. How will she defeat an evil who has learned from the best? For fans of Misery, YOU, and Behind Closed Doors, million-copy bestselling author Kiersten Modglin brings us a haunting tale of obsession and survival in the form of a writer’s worst nightmare come to life.
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Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lord Jim at Home Author: Dinah Brooke Narrator: Ottessa Moshfegh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.' —Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling,' 'nastily horrific,' and a 'monstrous parody' of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day—like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic Lord Jim—commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty 'in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.'
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The Girl She Was Before -- Jess Kitching
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl She Was Before Author: Jess Kitching Narrator: Jeannie Sheneman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Nat lives a picture-perfect life, but it wasn’t always this way. A victim of horrific bullying when she was a teenager, she will do anything to keep distance between the girl she was before and the woman she is now. But when her best friend is murdered and people begin to point their finger at her, Nat’s new life quickly unravels. To Nat, it’s no surprise the crime happened at the same time as the return of her biggest tormentor, Chrissy Summers, a woman with a violent streak who destroyed lives when she was younger and isn’t afraid to do it again. Face to face with the past she so firmly keeps behind her, Nat’s sanity wavers as her determination to reveal Chrissy as the monster she knows her as rises to dangerous heights. The question is, can Nat prove Chrissy is a killer, or will Chrissy get to Nat and her family before she has the chance
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The Fourth Rule: A Novel by Jeff Lindsay
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fourth Rule: A Novel Series: #4 of A Riley Wolfe Novel Author: Jeff Lindsay Narrator: Jeff Lindsay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: THE BIGGEST HEIST. THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY. FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE. OH, AND EXPLOSIONS. Impossible doesn’t belong in Riley Wolfe’s vocabulary. He’s a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley . . . No matter—with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful cultural institution in the world and bring home the supposedly unstealable Rosetta Stone. With the Cobra waiting for the right moment to strike, Riley is put to the ultimate test as he faces this most venomous villain—and tries to make it out alive. Packed with Jeff Lindsay’s trademark style of intricately plotted twists, stunning global settings, and thrilling action, The Fourth Rule is a relentlessly suspenseful and delicious escapist thriller that will leave you shocked, breathless, and endlessly entertained.
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Microserfs & Girlfriend in a Coma: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations by Douglas Coupland
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Microserfs & Girlfriend in a Coma: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations Author: Douglas Coupland Narrator: Jason Durran, Rayisa Kondracki, Florian Hutter, Will Merrick, Samantha Dakin, Matthew Needham, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 23, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Coupland's iconic novels brought to life in two full-cast adaptations Bursting onto the literary scene in 1991 with his debut Generation X, Douglas Coupland's novels swiftly established themselves as modern classics and brought the term 'Gen X' into the mainstream. His work still has resonance in today's world, with his vivid explorations of identity and creativity in the post-Baby Boomer generations. These pitch perfect adaptions probe our modern popular culture, with the author's signature wry twists and unsettling revelations. In this brand new adaptation by Theo Toksvig-Stewart, Douglas Coupland's brilliantly funny novel Microserfs takes a microscope to working culture in the early days of the tech boom. Dan is a Microsoft employee in desperate need of 'a life'. His world can be summed up as eat, sleep, code, repeat, and he's not quite feeling himself. So when the chance comes along for him and his friends to leave Microsoft to form a Silicon Valley start-up called OOP!, will they take the risk and leap into the unknown? In an unflinching and hilarious story, Dan and the other Microserfs try to find purpose, love and identity in the real world. Perhaps one of Coupland's most iconic novels, Girlfriend in a Coma begins in December 1979 when 17-year-old Karen unexpectedly falls into a deep coma after a teen house party. Frighteningly, she'd predicted the end of the world in a letter sent to her boyfriend before she collapsed. Fifteen years later, Karen wakes up. The world in 1997 is a very different and confusing place. Her friends have grown up and their reality bears little resemblance to the hopes and dreams they shared in their youth. There are questions that need to be answered, time is running out and Karen must act. Available as a double bill for the first time, these stunning adaptations are a fantastic listen. Performed by a full cast with production by Sony award-winning producer Dan Rebellato, these stories make for a stellar audio experience not to be missed. Cast and credits Microserfs Written by Douglas Coupland Dramatised by Theo Toksvig-Stewart Directed by Anne Isger Production Co-ordination by Luke MacGregor Sound by Cal Knightley, Pete Ringrose, David Gregory, Billy Godfrey Dan - Will Merrick Karla - Samantha Dakin Bug - Matthew Needham Michael - Freddie Meredith Todd - Chris Lew Kum Hoi Susan - Chloë Sommer Abe - Hughie O'Donnell Ethan - Tom Kiteley Dan's Mum - Joanna Monro Dan's Dad - Roger Ringrose Dusty - Fiona Skinner Amy - Grace Saif First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 November 2022 Girlfriend in a Coma Written by Douglas Coupland Dramatised by Dan Rebellato Produced by Polly Thomas Music by Alice Trueman Sound Design by Steve Brooke Jared - Florian Hutter Karen - Rayisa Kondracki Wendy - Maggie Blake Richard - Jason Durran Hamilton - Simon Lee Phillips Pamela - Heather Dann Doctor - Peter Marinker Megan - Julia Summer Gloria - Buffy Davis First Broadcast BBC Radio 3, 24 February 2008 ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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[Spanish] - La Metamorfosis by Franz Kafka
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La Metamorfosis Author: Franz Kafka Narrator: Artur Mas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 15, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'La Metamorfosis' fue publicada por primera vez en 1915. Cuenta la extraña historia de Gregor Samsa, un comerciante viajante que vive con su familia en un apartamento. Un día, al despertar, descubre que se ha transformado en un insecto gigante y repugnante. La transformación de Gregor en un insecto simboliza su alienación y aislamiento dentro de la sociedad. A medida que la historia avanza, se muestra cómo sus seres queridos, incluidos su padre, su madre y su hermana, reaccionan de manera diversa a su metamorfosis. La obra explora las complejidades de las relaciones familiares y cómo la apariencia y las circunstancias pueden alterar la percepción y el afecto que otros tienen hacia una persona. Gregor, en su nueva forma de insecto, se convierte en un ser marginado y dependiente. Aunque intenta comunicarse con su familia, su incapacidad para hablar y su aspecto repulsivo generan rechazo y miedo. A medida que la historia avanza, Gregor se va deshumanizando, y la situación se vuelve más opresiva y desesperada. A lo largo de 'La Metamorfosis', Kafka utiliza un estilo narrativo preciso y descriptivo para sumergir al lector en la mente y las experiencias de Gregor. El simbolismo y la atmósfera opresiva hacen que la obra sea una poderosa reflexión sobre la soledad, la alienación y la incomunicación en la sociedad moderna.
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The Silent Wife: A Novel by A. S. A. Harrison
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silent Wife: A Novel Author: A. S. A. Harrison Narrator: Vas Eli, Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling novel soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, for fans of The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient. 'I gobbled it down in one sitting.' – Anne Lamott, People Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.
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The Cornish Diary by Eleonor Samuel
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cornish Diary Author: Eleonor Samuel Narrator: Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: This move, this new job at the architect’s firm, it’s the fresh start Livia desperately needs—if she’s ever going to forget what happened three years ago... Then one day, crammed into a drawer in her creaking old fisherman’s cottage, she finds a diary. She’s utterly captivated by the unfolding story of infatuation, rejection and guilt, so similar to her own. But just as the writer is about to confess a chilling secret, the diary stops, the rest of its pages torn out. Convinced that the author lived in the same cottage, Livia is desperate to find out the truth about how the diary ended. Who wrote that diary, and what happened to her? And what will happen to Livia when she finds out?
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The Nanny [Written by Eleonor Samuel]
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710840 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nanny Author: Eleonor Samuel Narrator: Mhairi Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: India McKenzie lost her mother far too young, and now she’s lost her best friend too. She needs to escape, so she takes a job with a wealthy family. They live in an isolated old manor house in the Derbyshire countryside. There’s never anyone around, and the parents are not exactly warm. It’s all piano practice and scheduling playdates. Seven-year-old Alicia can be difficult sometimes but is really just a sweet little girl who’s lonely. She needs a friend—not just a nanny. Everyone says the grown-up son is dangerous, but India can’t help being drawn to him... And there’s something no one talks about, a secret that the family will do anything to keep. India became a nanny to finally find a family to call her own. But now that she’s found them, will they destroy her? Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, Claire McGowan, K.L. Slater, Valerie Keogh, and Liane Moriarty, this utterly gripping psychological suspense with a twist will take your breath away.
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River City One: A Novel : John J. Waters
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: River City One: A Novel Author: John J. Waters Narrator: Basil Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: The hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself. The tale of a man and the memory that haunts him, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war, he has become a man on the edge, quietly raging against the people he must now work for and live among—the kind of people incapable of understanding the terror he felt in combat and the guilt he carries in his heart. When he meets Ruth, a beautiful, famous singer traveling through the city, John discovers a new passion for living. But as the lies pile up, he takes more and more foolish risks to hold onto his family and the newfound love that threatens them both. Moving and lyrical, River City One is the story of a man discovering that the hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself.
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The Favorites by Rosemary Hennigan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Favorites Author: Rosemary Hennigan Narrator: Roisin Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An outsider graduate student forges her way into an exclusive Law and Literature cohort and plots a takedown of its popular professor in this provocative campus novel about privilege, power, and obsession “A standout dark academia thriller, with shades of Donna Tartt’s modern classic The Secret History and Emerald Fennell’s revenge fantasy film Promising Young Woman.” —BookPage Most students would kill to be selected for the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University. But for Jessie Mooney, admittance into this campus inner circle is about more than social cachet and access to distinguished alumni: It’s her chance to get close to charismatic professor Jay Crane. Since the moment she discovered their secret relationship, Jessie’s been convinced Crane is to blame for the events leading to her sister’s death, and she’ll do anything to hold him accountable. Between off-campus parties and intense classroom debates, Jessie carefully plots her every move with one goal in mind—to earn the coveted position as Crane’s “favorite.” But when she finally gains his trust, attracting the other students’ envy and suspicion, the truth becomes darkly twisted. Is it justice Jessie craves, or revenge? And what does she stand to lose if she gets her way? Shimmering with tension, The Favorites explores the ways that love, desire, and anger reveal the best, and worst, of us.
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Magdalena by Candi Sary
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magdalena Author: Candi Sary Narrator: Jennifer Pickens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'Beautifully written and satisfyingly creepy, this is one of the most poignant and original ghost stories I've ever read.' —Mark Haskell Smith, author of Blown In a small, secluded town that thrives on gossip and superstition, Dottie offers plenty of both when the scandal breaks about a missing girl, a ghost, and the affair that started it all. Having suffered a history of miscarriages, reclusive Dottie develops a strange motherly interest in her fifteen-year-old neighbor, Magdalena. Somewhere between fantasy and reality, Dottie finds new life in her relationship with the mysterious girl. But Dottie's entanglements with Magdalena, a curious centenarian, a compelling stranger, an ex-mobster, and a murder of crows thrusts this once cloistered woman into a frenzy of public scrutiny. To quell the rumors, Dottie puts pen to paper and discovers something as frightening as it is liberating—her voice.
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Audiobook: The Escape by Ruth Kelly
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Escape Author: Ruth Kelly Narrator: Meg Travers, Olivia Vinall, Daphne Kouma, Ayesha Antoine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: 'Dark, chilling, atmospheric and page-turning, The Escape is this winter’s 'The Hunting Party' Veronica Henry From bestselling author Ruth Kelly, The Escape is an electrifying thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Sarah Pearse. THE PERFECT OFFER When struggling influencer couple Adele and Jack post a crowdfunding video online, they’re amazed when a mysterious benefactor offers to buy them a crumbling French chateau. It’s the lifeline they need to leave all their troubles behind. THE PERFECT DREAM For Adele, it’s a dream come true. She will post videos of the renovation as thousands of online subscribers follow their journey. But the chateau is not all it seems and the local community is far from welcoming. THE PERFECT NIGHTMARE Then Adele’s videos suddenly stop. Her sister Erin visits to make sure she’s OK but the couple have vanished. Between the obsession of Adele’s fans and the claustrophobic secrecy of the nearby town, Erin must unravel the shocking truth behind the couple’s disappearance . . . Read by a full cast, including Daphne Kouma, Meg Travers, Ayesha Antoine and Olivia Vinall, alongside Kristin Atherton, Olivia Darnley and Jon-Paul Rowden.
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[German] - Alles schweigt by Jordan Harper
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Alles schweigt Author: Jordan Harper Narrator: Mathias Grimm, Funda Vanroy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: Ein Roman wie ein schmutziges Geheimnis: Was Macht in Hollywood bewirkt Mae Pruett ist Krisenspezialistin in Hollywood. Sie wird gerufen, wenn das Leben der VIPs und Stars außer Kontrolle gerät. Mae weiß, wie man Skandale verschwinden lässt. Nach Jahren im Job hat sie keine Illusionen mehr, nur ihr Traum von einem eigenen Haus lässt sie ausharren. Bis ihr Vorgesetzter bei einem Überfall erschossen wird und die Ungereimtheiten am Tatort sie wachrütteln. Bei ihren heimlichen Ermittlungen kommt sie einigen mächtigen Spielern der Traumfabrik zu nah, man rät ihr zu schweigen. Einzig Chris Tamburro, Ex-Cop und Maes Ex-Freund, hilft ihr. Wie sie kennt er die Regeln Hollywoods: Niemand redet. Doch die Gerüchte sind immer wahr. Eine schwangere Minderjährige bringt Mae und Chris auf die richtige Spur – und in größte Gefahr.
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The Liar | Henry James
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Liar Author: Henry James Narrator: Deborah Percy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Mystery Publisher's Summary: Enter the enthralling world of 'The Liar' by Henry James, a gripping audiobook that explores the consequences of deception and the complexities of truth. This narrative plunges you into the life of a charismatic but unreliable narrator who spins a web of falsehoods, leading to a cascade of misunderstandings and revelations. With James' brilliant storytelling and intricate character development, the story offers a profound examination of the human capacity for deceit and self-deception. It's a thought-provoking exploration of the blurred lines between reality and illusion, trust and betrayal, making it a captivating choice for those who appreciate psychological intrigue and moral dilemmas.
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