The Safari

A Novel

De: Jaclyn Goldis

Narrado por: Connor Brannigan, Kitty Hendrix, Nancy Linari, Saskia Maarleveld, Tim Paige, Shaina Summerville

“The Safari will have you up all night hungrily hunting the pages for stealthily laid clues. A must read!”—Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author

When a wealthy family goes on a South African safari, a series of shocking murders rocks their exclusive compound in this binge-worthy thriller from the acclaimed author of the “rollicking good fun” (The Wall Street Journal) The Main Character

Odelia Babel, CEO of a sustainable fashion empire, is about to marry for the second time—to a man twenty-five years her junior. Asher Bach is the thirty-something designer of Odelia’s luxury clothing line, the darling of every high-fashion journalist, and madly in love with Odelia.

Eager to celebrate her nuptials with her nearest and dearest, Odelia invites her adult children, her daughter-in-law, her grandchild, and her best friend/assistant to an all-expenses-paid luxury safari at Leopard Sands in South Africa, the Babel family’s favorite vacation spot. In its soil, they have deep roots—and even deeper secrets.

It seems like the perfect trip, but not everyone is thrilled for the happy couple. Amid game drives in the bush and bonfires beneath the desert stars, tensions among the family threaten to boil over. And then, the morning after a big fight with her son Sam—and hours before the wedding—Odelia is found murdered. Sam is immediately the prime suspect, but he claims he has an ironclad alibi—he was with his twin sister, Bailey. Only Bailey is nowhere to be found…

As the heat roils, desperate poachers and ferocious animals lurk, and dark motives fester, it becomes clear that whoever killed Odelia isn’t quite finished yet, and the rest of the Babel family is their prey.

©2025 Jaclyn Goldis (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

laughably bad

This is melodramatic nonsense. I really hope this is intended as a farce and not intended to be taken seriously. What a mess.