6 New & Not-to-Miss Audiobook Mysteries
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We’re excited to partner with Novel Suspects to make it easy for you to find your next audiobook. Here are our picks for three new do-not-miss mystery titles, plus three older listen-alikes that will keep you glued to your earbuds. Happy Listening!
Once listeners start Karin Slaughter's new mystery, stopping won't be an option. How well do we ever know our parents? Best-selling author, Slaughter, who starts a new mystery by thinking of a crime and wondering how her protagonists will respond, has written a doozy about a young woman who thinks she knows her mother—then something awful happens. Early's deftness at defining characters and her remarkable skill at revealing well-hidden emotions make the woman’s discoveries both stunning and satisfying.
Lauren Fortgang gives a supple and quietly dazzling performance of this gripping high-stakes family drama set in the world of competitive gymnastics. A family will do anything for their hugely talented gymnast-daughter, until an apparent hit-and-run accident shifts everyone’s perspective. The hidden costs of ambition and the messiness of parent-child relationships are addictively rendered in this edgy audiobook.
This timely and superb audiobook focuses on the efforts of Andrei Turov, a Russian who masterminds a plot to undermine democracy by faking the death of Vladimir Putin at the hands of American operatives. Journalist Max Karpov has fashioned an all-too-believable plot that a former acting director for the CIA calls a ‘must read’. Narrator Todd McLaren has made it a must listen by mixing accents, inflection, and intensity to provide unique personas for each character.
Milo Weaver, a former CIA spy, is trying to get his life together when he’s strong-armed back into service to wreak revenge on the Chinese spy agency. But will he? Full of twists and turns made clear by Earphones Award-winning narrator David Pittu, who never lets the listener get lost in this labyrinthian, fascinating tale.
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