Before He Hunts

A Mackenzie White Mystery, Book 8

By: Blake Pierce

Narrated by: Mary Sarah

In Before He Hunts, victims are turning up dead in FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White’s home state of Nebraska - all shot in the back of the head, and all bearing the card “Barker Antiques.” The same card her father’s murderer left on his body years ago.

With a sudden urgency in the present, the time has finally come for Mackenzie to face her ghosts, to face her darkest past, and to find her father’s killer.

But her trip back down memory lane may take her to places she’d rather not see, and to discoveries she’d rather not find. She finds herself playing cat and mouse with a killer more sinister than she could imagine, and with her fragile psyche collapsing, this case, of all of them, may be the one that does her in for good.

A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Before He Hunts is book number eight in a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

©2017 Blake Pierce (P)2019 Blake Pierce

ugh this new narrator 😕

I love these books. I've been so addicted. I love how the writer makes it feel like I'm there with her. I'm also very invested with the characters. honestly, I bet this would make a great series on Netflix, lol
I don't mind and upstand why you would need to switch the narrator through the years. This lady should not be narrating books. I feel like she would be great at ASMR videos on YouTube, but it is so hard to concentrate on what is happening. I've had to keep rewinding it to understand. In a situation like this, I wish I could just read it without her voice. which sucks because all the previous books have been leading up to this one. I'm really hoping the next books have a different narrator. I'm scared to look.

Narration very challenging

I love Blake Pierce novels, but this narrator was like nails on a chalkboard for me. Too dramatic

Great storyline! Wonderful book.

I really enjoy the Mackenzie White series. This book was wonderful. Keep me guessing the whole way through. I would have given it a 5 star but the reader left much to be desired.

The title of the book is great.

I didn’t like the voice of the reader. What happened to Kate Wise? I’m upset we can’t pick the voice

good arc

glad to finally have reached the end of the mystery with her father. good stuff. the new narrator threw me off at first.

Poor choice of narrator for this story.

I didn’t agree with the choice of narrator for the first 7 books (why an English accent? The main character is from Nebraska and works in DC?) but this new narrator is totally wrong for this story. Her voice is very nice and relaxing. This is not the story for this voice. She sounds like she is whispering and her voice trails off at the end of every sentence. I can’t even listen to it, I have to buy the book hard copy and read it that way.

Glad I toughed out the change is narrators.

at first, I was really upset bc the narrator is different. it is a close match, but different enough. character voices are different, word pronunciation, etc, but I got used to it. and boy am I glad I did! the ending is different than what we've come to expect in the Mackenzie White story. the ended was fantastic.

Narrator- ugh!

I love this series and all these books! And books one through seven had a great narrator. But then this one has a new narrator, and it is so hard to get into the story. It is way too choppy and overly dramatic in how she speaks, and she kind of reminds me of Moira Rose, from shits creek with a horrible accent.

Can’t handle the narrator

I like Blake Pierce mysteries and have listened to Mackenzie White, Books 1-7; but I can’t concentrate on the story with this new narrator. She reads in a wispy, overly-dramatic voice, so I feel like I’m listening to golf on the radio. I’m sure her voice would go well with some stories, but not this one for me. I had to stop listening to the book, so my story rating is based on Pierce’s other stories.

Really need to stick with a good narrator

It is quite hard to stick with a story when a narrator change occurs midway the series. This narrator reads the story SOOO differently... it is so awkward tans difficult to maintain knowledge of the characters!! And while there is a coupling situation with characters, the book is a mystery- not erotica!!!! Already stopped one series due to the narrator change, this one might kill my interest in this one, too.