Deadly Animals
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Narrated by:
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Olivia Dowd
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By:
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Marie Tierney
About this listen
Long-listed, BookPage Best Books of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2024
This audio program includes an exclusive Q&A between the author and narrator.
Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chillingly beautiful mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a desperate town from the savagery within.
Ava Bonney is a compassionate and studious fourteen-year-old girl with a dark secret: she has an obsessive interest in the macabre. She is fascinated by the rate at which dead animals decompose. The highway she lives by regularly offers up gifts of roadkill, and in the dead of night Ava loves nothing more than to pull her latest discovery into her roadside den and record her findings.
One night, she stumbles across the body of her classmate and, fearing that her secret ritual could be revealed, she makes an anonymous call to the police. But when Detective Seth Delahaye is given the case, Ava won’t step back—not while teenagers continue to go missing.
Racing alongside the police or against them, Ava is determined to figure out who is hunting her classmates before she becomes the next prey. How hard can it be to track a killer?
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Critic reviews
Winner of the 2024 McDermid Debut Award for crime fiction
Named one of the most anticipated books of fall 2024 by Paste and CrimeReads
"Exceptional in every way, Deadly Animals is a shockingly beautiful, rare and heartbreaking gem. A story both harrowing and exquisitely told. I really can’t recommend it highly enough."–Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End
"Deadly Animals is a remarkable debut. It is funny, creepy, gory, and moving. Ava is a wonderful creation, precocious and ferociously intelligent yet vulnerable to kindness and a winning smile. As she gets closer to identifying the murderer, and the plot explodes into full-blown gothic horror, it's impossible not to root for this big-hearted child."–The Times, Best New Crime Fiction
"Ava earns readers’ investment in this macabre procedural—she’s a clever, compassionate, and resourceful protagonist with series-carrying potential. Mo Hayder fans will find much to admire."–Publishers Weekly
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Ten years ago, Theodora “Teddy” Angstrom’s older sister, Angie, went missing. Her case remains unsolved. Now Teddy’s father, Mark, has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark’s family, he had been active in a Reddit community fixated on Angie, and Teddy can’t help but fall down the same rabbit hole. Teddy’s investigation quickly gets her in hot water with her gun-nut boyfriend, her long-lost half brother, and her colleagues at the prestigious high school where she teaches English.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Super depressing
- By Amazon Customer on 01-25-24
By: Kate Brody
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Blood in the Cut
- A Novel
- By: Alejandro Nodarse
- Narrated by: Danny Pino
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone, his grief-stricken father Armando is deep in debt, and they are about to lose the butcher shop that has been in their family for generations. Iggy must earn his father’s lost trust in order to save La Carnicería Guerra from the threats imposed by a new rival business, a vigilante activist, and big-game hunter Orin, who has dragged Armando into his dangerous money-making schemes deep in the Everglades, where more than secrets are buried.
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No Place to Bury the Dead
- A Novel
- By: Karina Sainz Borgo
- Narrated by: Maria McCann
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself within the hallucinatory expanse of Mezquite—a town corrupted by greed and populated by storytellers, refugees, and violent, predatory gangs. Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest at the Third Country, a cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitación Salazar and a refuge beyond suffering and fear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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sad tale
- By Amazon Customer on 02-21-25
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Death of a Bookseller
- By: Alice Slater
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford, Sasha Higgins
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story3 out of 5 stars 22
Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her favorite true crime podcast than assisting the boring and predictable customers at her local branch of the bookstore Spines, where she's worked her entire adult life. A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became interested in the genre once it got trendy. But when Laura, a pretty and charismatic children's bookseller, arrives to help rejuvenate the struggling bookstore branch, Roach recognizes in her an unexpected kindred spirit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So dark and so hysterically funny if you have a good, sarcastic sense of humor!
- By LetsGoShopping on 07-21-23
By: Alice Slater
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Nowhere Burning
- By: Catriona Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
In the middle of the night, Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver out of bed, and the two run away from home. Riley is intent on joining a group of teenagers squatting in the abandoned ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, Nowhere. For actor Leaf Winham, Nowhere was a place to hide from his fame, and to hide his crimes—until a fire ravaged his home and exposed him as a murderer.
By: Catriona Ward
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When the Wolf Comes Home
- By: Nat Cassidy
- Narrated by: Helen Laser, Nat Cassidy
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 255
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of the butchery that follows them—the boy can turn his every fear into reality. And when the wolf finally comes home, no one will be spared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the faint of heart
- By CC on 05-21-25
By: Nat Cassidy
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Helpmeet
- By: Naben Ruthnum
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso, John Pirhalla
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband home to Buffalo, where he grew up. Dr. Edward Wilk is wasting away from an aggressive and debilitating malady. But it's becoming clearer that his condition isn't exactly a disease but a phase of existence that seeks to transform and ultimately possess him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- By Jewel Haines on 04-26-25
By: Naben Ruthnum
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The Undercurrent
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Sawyer
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 11
It’s 2011 and Deecie Jeffries’s missing person’s case in Austin, Texas, is still cold. New mom Bee, struggling with postpartum depression, is living in Portland, Maine, having left Austin–and those memories–far behind. Until Leo, her childhood crush and her estranged twin Gus’s best friend, suddenly resurfaces, drawing Bee back into their shared past. Bee’s predictable life is upended, pushing her to return to her childhood home and piece together a neighborhood’s shattered history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Painfully slow and dull.
- By K. Grawe on 10-16-24
By: Sarah Sawyer
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A Resistance of Witches
- A Novel
- By: Morgan Ryan
- Narrated by: Grace Gray
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key to the cause: she must use her magic to track down magical relics before Hitler and his sycophants can. Then a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with heart-breaking consequences, leaving the coven shaken, exposed and divided.
By: Morgan Ryan
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The Lake of Lost Girls
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Greene
- Narrated by: Helen Laser, Frankie Corzo, Sara Young, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,510
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,475
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,475
It’s 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears. Twenty-four years later, Jessica’s sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases to guide her own investigation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started good…
- By sungoddess on 02-17-25
By: Katherine Greene
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Old Soul
- By: Susan Barker
- Narrated by: George Blagden, Jill Winternitz, Olivia Vinall
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 64
In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they've both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since. Following traces this mysterious person left behind, Jake travels from country to country gathering chilling testimonies from others who encountered her across the decades—a trail of shattered souls that eventually leads him to Theo, a dying sculptor in rural New Mexico, who knows the woman better than anyone—and might just hold the key to who, or what, she is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning
- By Tim Reads Things on 02-06-25
By: Susan Barker
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The Final Scene
- By: Steph Nelson
- Narrated by: Carolyn Jania
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
The cabin is unlocked, but there’s no escape. When Brooke was kidnapped on her way home from work, she thought her life was over. That was ten years ago. She’s been held captive in an isolated cabin on the Oregon coast ever since, scrambling to follow her kidnappers’ twisted instructions to the letter. Because the price of a mistake is death. But when a new victim shows up, everything changes. Including the rules. And this time, the only way to survive is to break them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t stop reading!
- By nicole c on 07-03-25
By: Steph Nelson
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The Ghostwriter
- A Novel
- By: Julie Clark
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Katie Schorr, Josh Hurley
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 302
The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she's offered a job to ghostwrite her father's last book. What she doesn't know is that this project is another one of his lies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great writing
- By R. Farr on 06-12-25
By: Julie Clark
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Missing White Woman
- By: Kellye Garrett
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City. Breanna’s new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything—the train tickets, the dinner reservations, the rented four-story luxury rowhouse in Jersey City with a beautiful view of the Manhattan skyline. But when Bree comes downstairs their final morning, she’s shocked. There’s a stranger laying dead in the foyer, and Ty is nowhere to be found.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to love it
- By Christian_and_Clean_Reads on 06-20-24
By: Kellye Garrett
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Lazarus Man
- A Novel
- By: Richard Price
- Narrated by: Robb Moreira
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 29
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city’s rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At day’s end, six bodies are recovered, but many of the other tenants are missing. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price, one of the greatest chroniclers of life in urban America, creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by the disaster.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Did not hold together
- By M. Wagstaff on 12-02-24
By: Richard Price
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Daughter of Mine
- A Novel
- By: Megan Miranda
- Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 355
When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel’s not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story narration could have been better
- By MamaOfDrama on 04-18-24
By: Megan Miranda
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Under the Influence
- A Novel
- By: Joyce Maynard
- Narrated by: Joyce Maynard
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 550
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 551
Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet by taking portraits of schoolchildren and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating site. Weekend visits with her son are awkward. He's drifting away from her fast.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Appearances, words and actions can be deceiving
- By Jessica on 03-02-16
By: Joyce Maynard
𝘈𝘷𝘢- 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱, 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.
𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐈𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬.
𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. This author put together a crisp, raspy story that kept me eager for more after every chapter. I figured out the protagonist early on- but that didn’t spoil the story for me.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝- there was so much poured into this, so much supporting information that was nailed on the head. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘺
“𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.”
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Different and fabulous
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I love dogs and crime stories!
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