The Only One Left
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Narrated by:
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Christine Lakin
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Dawn Harvey
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By:
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Riley Sager
About this listen
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily
"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."
—New York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.
At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life
It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything.
“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead
As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
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Critic reviews
“As is often the case with Sager’s novels, trying to predict where the many twists will take you is fun (and maddening), but some of the most interesting parts of the story lie in the people you meet along the way. The mystery is as tantalizing to us as it is to Kit, but The Only One Left is also an exploration of family, of love, of loneliness. It even asks an examination of true-crime obsessiveness and when tales overtake reality.” —USA Today
“This twist on the Lizzie Borden murders has it all: A reclusive woman who was acquitted of brutally murdering her family living in a big, decrepit house; a new caretaker hiding secrets of her own. And, most importantly, there are a number of twists you won’t see coming.” —Katie Couric Media
"Riley Sager is one of my favorite authors, and The Only One Left might be his best yet. Not only is it a deliciously Gothic thrill ride featuring two of my favorite things (Creepy Houses and Murderous Ladies), but it also asks big questions about grief, loss, and the secrets we keep even from those closest to us. Fun, scary, and so absorbing I almost missed a flight because I was trying to read just one more chapter, The Only One Left is one hell of a read!" —Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,840
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she - or anyone - saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. Now a rising star in the NYC art scene, Emma's paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of the very same Camp Nightingale.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't finish it...
- By Carol on 07-15-18
By: Riley Sager
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Middle of the Night
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,568
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,499
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,499
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By cristina on 08-21-24
By: Riley Sager
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Final Girls
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,314
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,507
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,492
Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive... In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club - a group of survivors the press dubbed “The Final Girls”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who endured the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape the massacre at Pine Cottage. Despite the media's attempts, the three girls have never met.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected...in a good way
- By Chanda Leigh Combs on 08-08-17
By: Riley Sager
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Home Before Dark
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Cady McClain, Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,798
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,187
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,180
Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His horror memoir of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity — and skepticism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh...Not My Favorite Sager Book
- By Teethnclaws on 06-30-20
By: Riley Sager
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The House Across the Lake
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,048
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3,655
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,657
Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very odd narrator select
- By SSmith on 06-21-22
By: Riley Sager
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Lock Every Door
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,086
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,349
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6,336
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story...until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Have and the Have Nots
- By Teethnclaws on 07-03-19
By: Riley Sager
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The Last Time I Lied
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,266
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,847
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,840
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she - or anyone - saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. Now a rising star in the NYC art scene, Emma's paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of the very same Camp Nightingale.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't finish it...
- By Carol on 07-15-18
By: Riley Sager
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Middle of the Night
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,568
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,499
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,499
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By cristina on 08-21-24
By: Riley Sager
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Final Girls
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,314
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,507
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,492
Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive... In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club - a group of survivors the press dubbed “The Final Girls”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who endured the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape the massacre at Pine Cottage. Despite the media's attempts, the three girls have never met.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected...in a good way
- By Chanda Leigh Combs on 08-08-17
By: Riley Sager
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Hidden Pictures
- A Novel
- By: Jason Rekulak
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,425
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,856
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,848
Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a decent read, sounds like a bunch of haters in the room
- By Kyle B. on 12-24-23
By: Jason Rekulak
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Survive the Night
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Savannah Gilmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,558
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,277
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,281
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father - or so he says.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration
- By Selene Rackley on 07-01-21
By: Riley Sager
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Kill for Me, Kill for You
- A Novel
- By: Steve Cavanagh
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,549
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,496
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,496
One dark evening on New York City’s Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, including an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I’ll kill for you.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Standout thriller/mystery of the year
- By Terra Allen on 06-26-24
By: Steve Cavanagh
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That's Not My Name
- By: Megan Lally
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Robb Moreira
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,597
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,484
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,484
It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don’t know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This audiobook broke me
- By Katherine Galvez on 02-21-24
By: Megan Lally
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You Killed Me First
- By: John Marrs
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Moira Quirk, Clare Corbett, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,584
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,562
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,562
It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in–she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this? Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretence of friendship, but each harbours her own deadly secret–and newcomer Liv senses something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Marrs does it again!
- By Nicole Mondeaux on 03-05-25
By: John Marrs
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Rock Paper Scissors
- A Novel
- By: Alice Feeney
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,139
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,119
When Adam and Amelia Wright win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I could feel myself losing IQ points while listening to this.
- By Collier on 09-14-21
By: Alice Feeney
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None of This Is True
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,991
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,984
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Victim shaming a teen girl?
- By Lisa & Travis on 08-11-23
By: Lisa Jewell
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Look Closer
- By: David Ellis
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Hillary Huber, Elizabeth Garrett, and others
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,503
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,346
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,346
Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure: absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer. When the body of a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky’s secrets begin to unravel. A secret whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By SB on 07-06-22
By: David Ellis
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We Used to Live Here
- A Novel
- By: Marcus Kliewer
- Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Corey Brill
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,059
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,922
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,922
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in. As soon as the strangers enter their home, uncanny and inexplicable things start happening.
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3 out of 5 stars
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ok
- By Emily Santoyo on 08-14-24
By: Marcus Kliewer
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The Drowning Woman
- By: Robyn Harding
- Narrated by: Brittany Wilkerson, Heni Zoutomou
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,877
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,769
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,769
Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead of appreciation, she is met with fury.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book except for ending
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-07-23
By: Robyn Harding
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With a Vengeance
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 12 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 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served. But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers.
By: Riley Sager
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A Flicker in the Dark
- A Novel
- By: Stacy Willingham
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,751
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,276
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,258
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable story and narrative
- By Patricia on 01-14-22
By: Stacy Willingham
Surprised!!!!
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Couldn’t stop listening!
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My predictions were all over the place and just when I thought I had it all figured out they flipped it on me.
The last 2 hours is non stop!
Went for A Ride
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This one gets a four-star simply because of the amount of storyline and characters. There are four separate storylines all with their own characters. It ends up being connected in the end, but my brain was burning a lot of calories, and I found it a bit hard to keep in that sense of the word.
But boy am I glad I hung on because Sager never disappoints with his endings. Every single, psychological thriller I have read, I’ve always been able to figure out the ending before I get there. But never with Riley Sager‘s books. They are so incredibly out there. Something I never would’ve thought and also satisfied at the same time.
Well, done! I recommend this book for sure. Just be sure to pay attention to everything or you might get lost.
Wow, the end!!!
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One of my favorite audiobooks.
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What a humdinger!!!
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Amazing!
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Great Book!
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So twisty 🤯 So good!!
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Wow! What a ride!
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