The Girl You Killed

An Addictive, Heart-Stopping Psychological Thriller

By: Leslie Wolfe

Narrated by: Gwendolyn Druyor

Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

Andrea Brafford’s life is nearly perfect. A passionate marine biologist happily married to Craig, the man she loves, she has recently moved into a home commensurate with their success to enjoy a life many others only dream about in one of Houston’s most desirable suburbs. But only a few months later, a trial that dramatically polarizes their town names Craig Brafford as a defendant in the murder of his young wife, shattering the serenity of the peaceful community.

Andi’s name is on everyone’s lips, her relationships exposed and torn to shreds in a highly publicized case that has everyone’s eyes glued to the internet. Andrea’s life remains a mystery that investigators and public opinion equally fail to solve. Was she the happy, devoted wife she'd made everyone believe she was?

Only she could answer that question.

The best-selling author of Dawn Girl is back with a suspenseful, gripping psychological thriller. Fans of Celeste Ng, Alex Michaelides, and Liane Moriarty will enjoy The Girl You Killed, an addictive psychological thriller that will keep listeners enthralled until the last minute.

©2021 Leslie Wolfe (P)2021 Leslie Wolfe

An Exciting Psychological Thriller

Leslie Wolfe can always be relied on to give the reader an exciting psychological thriller to read/listen to if you like audio, which I don't mind admitting is now my personal favourite way to enjoy a good book. This one far exceeded my expectations because I think this one is her best book yet. The plot never failed to hold my attention and the twists and turns kept coming, some I saw others I didn't.

The characters are always well developed some likeable and some not! I could say so much about this book but then your enjoyment of it would be spoilt so suffice to say I didn't want to stop listening and when it ended my one thought was - I hope that there's a follow-up.

As always for Leslie's books, we get to enjoy narration by Gwendolyn Druyer who can always be relied on to read to give a performance of such clarity and pacing, each individual protagonist's voice is always distinctive and fit the characters perfectly. Her performance always adds to my enjoyment of any story.

I own the ebook as well as the audiobook for most of Leslie's books that's how good I think they are! I read this book first and enjoyed it immensely but then I downloaded the audio and listened to it - what can I say it takes this Exciting Psychological Thriller to a whole new level.

I was given this audiobook as a gift and am voluntarily writing my review.

"A talent for money."

Firstly, I must say that I very much enjoyed this book despite being both ridiculous and predictable. A psychological thriller, after the introduction of Craig, recently imprisoned and awaiting trial for the murder of his beautiful and intelligent wife, , Andie, a marine biologist, a crime which he vigorously denies, the narrative returns to several months earlier, tracing the events which led to Craig's arresst, interesting the chapters with brief fragments from his trial. The final third of the book continues the story from 'present day'. This writing device works well, allowing the personalities and backgrounds of the main protagonists to be developed whilst the story line carries the reader forwards with an anticipation of what is already partially known.

However, despite carefully concealed twists, their ripples do make the overall storyline predictable and one of the lead protagonists has to take a prize for being one of the dumbest fictional heroines ever: how can a bright college graduate be so irritatingly idiotic even if she is in love?Yet I did enjoy the book, in no small part because of the excellent narration by Gwendolyn Druyer. Her voice is melifluous, no sharp edges too catch the unsuspecting ear. She reads with clarity good pacing and with an expressive modulation. Even her voicings of individual protagonists is appropriate and gently distinctive. Her delivery, however, was too slow for my personal enjoyment but increasingly g the playback speed to 1.3 resolved this without distortion. Her performance most definitely added to the enjoyment of the story.

I was fortunate in receiving a freely gifted complimentary copy of The Girl You Killed, at my application to Audiobooks Unleasd. My thanks to the rights holder for making it avaiable.This is a nicely spun web of psychological fun, easy to read and sure to appeal to readers of mystery thrillers.

Leslie Wolfe has left me speechless!

Once again, Leslie Wolfe has exceeded my expectations with her latest psychological thriller "The Girl You Killed". I have to find another way to say I think this is her best book yet because I seem to be saying it with each of her new releases lately. The plots keep seeming to get twistier. The characters keep being well developed. I keep turning the pages faster to find out what is actually happening.

Gwendolyn Druyor is very good at putting such emotion in her voice that she makes me feel what the character feels. She makes enough distinction in each voice that it is easy to keep track of who is speaking in conversations.

I always look forward to each Leslie book and enjoy reading them as much as I do listening to them. I own each book she has published either through purchasing it myself or being gifted it. I appreciate the gifts. I would have purchased anyway as I just can't imagine missing out on a book written by Leslie Wolfe.

Narrator’s creepy voice….

The narrator’s voice when the husband was speaking mad my crazy! Not in a good way!

NARRATOR OF MENS VOICES TERRIBLE

The story of the book was good but I couldn't believe Andi could love Craig when he sounded like Marlon Brando in the Godfather. All the men sounded like him and 90 years old. Why did the author choose this man as narrator I will never know. Out of hundreds of books I have listened to this is the 1st review I have ever written but had to warn readers

Helluva Ride

what a great story! You did such an incredible job of sharing thoughts of a narcissistic.
Ending was totally unexpected 😲!

One of Leslie Wolfe's best thrillers!

Not so long ago I read The Girl You Killed and when I got a chance to listen to the audiobook version, I jumped at it. The following is my review for the kindle version, but I stand by every word for the Audiobook as well – however the only real differences in this case I was already familiar with the story but there were still things that surprised me and Gwendolyn Druyor’s narration brought Andrea and this story to life.

How often do you finish a book by an author that you’ve read all their books and sit saying I never saw this coming? The Girl You Killed is just such a book, once this book got its hooks into me, I couldn’t put it down. And even though there were some things I felt I had figured out; I couldn’t put the book down wanting to confirm I was not only right but seeing how this story was going to end. Leslie Wolfe has created a story with some characters who are so easy to like and identify with, along with a couple who are grade A scumbags and amazingly easy to hate. The way this story unfolds is a bit unorthodox, but it is the most effective way to tell this story as it provides backstory along with the current events of the storyline.

Great Plot & Narration

Craig a realtor, playing on clients emotions brought success
Andi a marine research scientist, knew a few unusual tricks
Craig in jail, even his lawyer doesn’t stand by him
Craig feels a loss of dignity, angry and fear of being in jail
A letter, a pendant, a confession, or threat to what had been done
Gripping story, who was guilty and was it planned
Another winner, a good riveting plot. Well done to enjoy.
Given audio for my voluntary review and my honest opinion

Terrible narration. Especially the male characters

The narration was terrible on male characters. The level and tempo of Craig's voice was terribly distracting.

THE GIRL YOU KILLED!

Leslie Wolfe out did herself. Loved her books, but this was the best by far. Some many twists and turns.