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Emma Jones
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Fiona McFarlane
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Long-listed, Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Book Recommendations, 2024
Long-listed, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2024
"McFarlane’s skill in evoking individual inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing their spirit make every character distinct."—The Washington Post on The Sun Walks Down, one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023
A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people.
In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims’ families, but its impact travels even further: into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes.
Highway Thirteen, Fiona McFarlane’s newest collection, takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer’s childhood town to Texas, Rome, and tropical northern Australia, McFarlane presents an oblique, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost.
What damages, big and small, do these crimes incur? How do communities make sense of such atrocities? How does the mourning of families sit alongside the public fascination with terrible crimes? And can we tell true crime stories without centering the killers? From the acclaimed author of The Sun Walks Down and The High Places comes a captivating account of loss and its extended echoes in individual lives.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Or on 02-02-25
By: Lee Child
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Do You Remember?
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- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,398
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,284
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,283
Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face. She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband. Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: she was in a terrible car accident one year ago. Every morning, she wakes up unable to remember most of the last decade. Including her own wedding.
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3 out of 5 stars
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One of the better ones
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By: Freida McFadden
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George Orwell’s 1984
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It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
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Denali
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 832
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 832
Three friends from small-town Pennsylvania set out to conquer Denali, North America's highest peak, but only two come down alive. On the mountain, their grand adventure unravels into a harrowing tale of survival, betrayal, and the haunting consequences of ambition pushed too far. For fans of Into Thin Air, Touching the Void, and 127 Hours, Denali has a full cast, jaw-dropping twists, and immersive sound design that will transport you to one of the most extreme environments on earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun and thrilling
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By: Austin Bunn
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Artemis
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Rosario Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95,125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87,048
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Story4 out of 5 stars 86,846
Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A ferrari with no motor
- By will on 11-18-17
By: Andy Weir
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The Ex
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,507
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,324
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,316
Cassie thinks she has met the perfect man. Joel is sweet, handsome, romantic, and best of all, he’s crazy about Cassie. She thinks she’s found the guy she’ll spend the rest of her life with. Have children with. Grow old with. Yes, she knows about his perfect ex-girlfriend, Francesca. The beautiful, brilliant chef, beloved by all his friends. But she thinks Francesca is out of the picture. She thinks Francesca is gone for good. Think again, Cassie.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too bizarre for someone who loves bizarre
- By G. C. Webster on 07-01-22
By: Freida McFadden
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Say No More
- By: Caroline Overington
- Narrated by: Anna Skellern
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,280
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,254
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,254
Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seriously, that was the ending?
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10 Rules for the Perfect Murder
- By: James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts
- Narrated by: Reid Scott, Cobie Smulders, full cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,226
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,100
After the killing of a prominent mob lawyer, NYPD homicide detectives Jacob Jackson and Caitlin Grimes start receive chilling, written “rules” for how to commit the perfect murder. "Rule number one for the perfect murder: Evidence is your enemy. Leave none behind." Jackson (Reid Scott) and Grimes (Cobie Smulders) race to find the killer, setting them on a collision course with the city’s crime underbelly, and a perpetrator who seems happy to toy with them. “Rule number two. No crimes of passion. The perfect murder is always business, never pleasure.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tricky
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By: James Patterson, and others
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7 Hours to Die
- By: James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski
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- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,206
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,085
Kidnappers grabbed Jenna in broad daylight, right in front of her children and their horrified classmates. Her family was issued an insane ransom demand: $25 million in cash and jewels, payable by the end of the school day, otherwise they’ll never see her again. As Jenna’s mother scrambles to gather the money, detectives Mo Butler and George Ortega follow the trail of the kidnappers, which will lead them through a sordid landscape of jealous lovers, broken dreamers, and twisted schemers. But every second counts, and there’s one thing Jenna Wade doesn’t have: very much time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was such a fun Quick listen
- By Mdc on 10-08-24
By: James Patterson, and others
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Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,920
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29,294
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29,250
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
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By: Ray Bradbury
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
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- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 71 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20,783
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,734
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18,625
Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Chapter Guide!
- By Katya Rice on 05-25-18
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly—newlyweds, farmers, mothers, indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen—confront their relationships, both with one another and with the landscape they inhabit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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exquisite writing
- By Anonymous User on 02-03-25
By: Fiona McFarlane
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Kristina D. Tiedeman
- 09-03-24
well written and interesting
compelling and well written, and very descriptive. storyline don't come together cohesive. I was looking forward that coming together, but feel like I need to listen again and take notes to get it.
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