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Tessa Flannery
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Joanna Margaret
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A PhD student uncovers dark secrets in this 'richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable' (Joyce Carol Oates) Gothic mystery set in Scotland, Italy, and France. For fans of The Secret History.
Fleeing a disastrous affair with a colleague in Boston, Isabel Henley moves to Scotland to begin a PhD, only to learn upon arrival that her advisor has died mysteriously. Soon afterwards, Isabel is informed that another scholar is about to publish a book on her dissertation topic, leaving her disconcerted and in search of a new subject.
After such a rocky start to life overseas, Isabel needs a good friend, and finds one when she reconnects with Rose Brewster, a charismatic former classmate. But when Rose reveals she is in trouble, then goes missing, Isabel's already unsteady life is sent into a tailspin. A suicide note surfaces, followed by a coded message: Rose is alive but captive, and unless Isabel can complete her friend's research, both women will be killed.
Isabel follows Rose's paper trail through Genoa, Florence and Paris. She uncovers family secrets, the legend of an enormous cursed emerald, and a chain of betrayal and treason lasting centuries. If she can put the pieces together in time, Isabel may solve a 400-year-old mystery... and save her life and her friend's in the process.
Combining epistolary elements, Gothic suspense, and an atmospheric dark academia setting, The Bequest is a gripping literary thriller that will appeal to fans of Alex Michaelides and Donna Tartt.
“Richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable” Joyce Carol Oates
“Intricately plotted, exquisitely written, and brimming with atmosphere, The Bequest is a brilliant debut, as smart as it is compelling” Tasha Alexander
“A first rate mystery by a first time author. Intriguing plot and well drawn characters” Martin Cruz Smith
“This one will appeal to lovers of Dan Brown and Elizabeth Kostova and other mysteries of old documents and historical figures” Kirkus
“Readers will eagerly await Margaret's next” Publishers Weekly
“There are two attractions here: the present-day academic whodunnit and the olden puzzle revealed in Renaissance letters; viewers of the Netflix series The Chair will eat this up, as will readers of Philippa Gregory and Robert J. Lloyd” First Clue
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
Claire "Mac" Woods—a professor enjoying her newfound hotshot status at an academic conference—finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved. But at the conference's hotel bar, Mac is surprised to run into a face from a past she'd rather forget: the moneyed, effortlessly perfect Gwendolyn Whitney, Mac's foil, rival, and former best friend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- By SLuzaz on 02-15-21
By: Amy Gentry
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By Book or by Crook
- Lighthouse Library Mystery Series # 1
- By: Eva Gates
- Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 505
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 456
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Story4 out of 5 stars 456
For 10 years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family's social whorl or her sort-of engagement to the staid son of her father's law partner. But when her 10-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious rewrite.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A fun cozy with unfortunately bad narration
- By JJ on 01-14-16
By: Eva Gates
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Neither Present Time
- By: Caren J. Werlinger
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story5 out of 5 stars 106
Can a house save the lives of the people who live in it? Can an inscription written in a book over 60 years ago change the fates of people not even born when it was written? Beryl Gray is solid and dependable - her partner, Claire, thinks so, her family thinks so, her colleagues think so. She has a job she likes as a university librarian. Her life seems settled, content - except nothing is as it seems. Aggie Bishop's last girlfriend left her three years ago and she hasn't had a date since. She now takes care of her great-aunt Cory who doesn't want to be taken care of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful instant classic!
- By MissLynn on 04-15-21
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A Dream of Death
- A Kate Hamilton Mystery
- By: Connie Berry
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
Autumn has come and gone on Scotland’s Isle of Glenroth, and the islanders gather for the Tartan Ball, the annual end-of-tourist-season gala. Spirits are high. A recently published novel about island history has brought hordes of tourists to the small Hebridean resort community. On the guest list is American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton. Kate returns reluctantly to the island where her husband died, determined to repair her relationship with his sister, proprietor of the island’s luxe country-house hotel, famous for its connection with Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator has a grating, yet whiny voice
- By Lisa on 06-17-21
By: Connie Berry
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue
- A Novel
- By: Fiona Davis
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,376
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,918
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,911
It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life - her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exhilarating
- By Joanna Butler on 08-20-20
By: Fiona Davis
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The Paper Girl of Paris
- By: Jordyn Taylor
- Narrated by: Liza Seneca
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 181
Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than 70 years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A new favorite of mine
- By Rachael on 06-23-20
By: Jordyn Taylor
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Elementary, She Read
- By: Vicki Delany
- Narrated by: Kelly Clare
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 242
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 209
When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body. The highly perceptive Gemma is the police's first suspect, so she puts her consummate powers of deduction to work to clear her name, investigating a handsome rare books expert, the dead woman's suspiciously unmoved son, and a whole family of greedy characters desperate to cash in on their inheritance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great read, but only for some
- By TK on 12-05-19
By: Vicki Delany
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The Royal We
- By: Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,496
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,248
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,243
An American girl finds her prince in this "fun and dishy" (People) royal romance inspired by Prince William and Kate Middleton. American Bex Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it's adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall - and Bex who finds herself accidentally in love with the heir to the British throne. Nick is wonderful, but he comes with unimaginable baggage.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I deserve a medal for getting to the endless end.
- By Anne on 09-30-17
By: Heather Cocks, and others
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Homicide in Hardcover
- A Bibliophile Mystery
- By: Kate Carlisle
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 730
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 648
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Story4 out of 5 stars 645
The streets of San Francisco would be lined with hardcovers if rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright had her way. And her mentor wouldn't be lying in a pool of his own blood on the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration. With his final breath he leaves Brooklyn a cryptic message, and gives her a priceless - and supposedly cursed - copy of Goethe's Faust for safekeeping.
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5 out of 5 stars
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NICE TYPICAL COZY mystery
- By CarmelaC on 02-06-17
By: Kate Carlisle
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Murder Once Removed
- By: S. C. Perkins
- Narrated by: Nina Alvamar
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present in this captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Has potential
- By Christina M Dye on 03-21-19
By: S. C. Perkins
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Pride, Prejudice, and Poison
- A Jane Austen Society Mystery, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Blake
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,198
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,102
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,096
Erin Coleridge's used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England, is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society's monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder with extreme prejudice when president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably, but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Where was the editor??
- By Kelly Garland on 05-04-21
By: Elizabeth Blake
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The Stranger Behind You
- A Novel
- By: Carol Goodman
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,516
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,370
Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething article exposing a notorious newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator. But the night it goes live, she is brutally attacked. Traumatized and suffering the effects of a concussion, she moves into a highly secure apartment in Manhattan called the Refuge, which was at one time a Magdalen Laundry. Joan should be safe here, so how can she explain the cryptic incidents that are happening?
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2 out of 5 stars
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MeToo Redux
- By SB on 07-10-21
By: Carol Goodman
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A Dark and Stormy Murder
- Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Julia Buckley
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 180
Lena London's literary dreams are coming true - as long as she can avoid any real - life villains.... Camilla Graham's best-selling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla's new assistant, she can't believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she'll get to live rent-free in Camilla's gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Human or computer reading?
- By Mountain Dancer on 11-06-18
By: Julia Buckley
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Death at the Chateau Bremont
- Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: M.L. Longworth
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 121
When local nobleman Étienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family château, it sets the historic town of Aix-en-Provence abuzz with rumors. The once-idyllic town suddenly seems filled with people who could have benefited from Bremont's death - including his playboy brother, François, who's heavily in debt and mixed up with some unsavory characters. But just as the list of suspects is being narrowed down, another death occurs. And this time, there can be no doubt - it's murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is awful
- By F. Miller on 05-06-23
By: M.L. Longworth
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The Gun Also Rises
- A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery
- By: Sherry Harris
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
A wealthy widow has asked Sarah Winston to sell her massive collection of mysteries through her garage-sale business. While sorting through piles of books stashed in the woman's attic, Sarah is amazed to discover a case of lost Hemingway stories, stolen from a train in Paris back in 1922. How did they end up in Belle Winthrop Granville's attic in Ellington, Massachusetts, almost 100 years later? Before Sarah can get any answers, Belle is assaulted, the case is stolen, a maid is killed, and Sarah herself is dodging bullets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't disappoint!
- By ConawayMom on 04-09-21
By: Sherry Harris
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Plaid and Plagiarism
- By: Molly MacRae
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 244
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Story4 out of 5 stars 242
Janet Marsh's move into her house has been delayed due to vandalism. Then, when the women go to look for clues that might tell them who is guilty, they find a corpse (murder!) in Janet's garden shed. Constable Hobbs answers their emergency call. He's calm and quietly pleased, as he's never had a murder case. Then the contents of a dozen or so garbage bags are discovered behind the bookshop. The letters inside are nasty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book in a great setting
- By Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe on 02-21-17
By: Molly MacRae
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Tagged for Death
- A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery
- By: Sherry Harris
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Starting your life over at age 38 isn't easy, but that's what Sarah Winston finds herself facing when her husband CJ runs off with a 19-year-old temptress named Tiffany. Sarah's self-prescribed therapy happily involves hitting all the garage and tag sales in and around her small town in Massachusetts. But after returning from a particularly successful day searching for yard-sale treasures, Sarah finds a grisly surprise in one of her bags: a freshly bloodied shirt...that undoubtedly belongs to her ex, CJ, who now happens to be Ellington's chief of police. And Tiffany has gone missing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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frustrating book
- By Anonymous User on 01-08-23
By: Sherry Harris
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The First Husband
- By: Laura Dave
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4 out of 5 stars 182
Annie Adams is days away from her 32nd birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. She visits the world's most interesting places for her syndicated travel column and she's happily cohabiting with her movie director boyfriend Nick in Los Angeles. But when Nick comes home from a meeting with his therapist (aka "futures counselor") and announces that he's taking a break from their relationship so he can pursue a woman from his past, the place Annie had come to call home is shattered.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- By Bernice Holland on 05-16-21
By: Laura Dave