Audiobooks

The Sanatorium is the first in the Detective Elin Warner series. I read it with my book club The Reading Cove. The overall thoughts on the book were good. For me personally I did enjoy listening to it.

Le Sommet, now a renovated hotel, was once a sanatorium and still holds that sinister feeling to it. It’s located in an isolated area in the Swiss Alps. It is here that Elin Warner unhappily finds herself when her estranged brother invites her to celebrate her engagement.

Arriving to a terrible snow storm coming in Elin feels right off that something doesn’t feel right to her about the hotel. She has a good reason to feel ill at ease, when the next morning, they learn that her brother’s fiancé has gone missing. As tensions rise Elin begins to investigate. She has no idea yet just how dangerous things are going to get.

I really enjoyed the audiobook. It’s narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden and I always enjoy her narration. She has a nice smooth voice that’s easy to listen to and always adds that ‘extra’ to any book she narrates. The audio is twelve hours and went by quickly for me. I really enjoyed the book and I’m looking forward to the second book in the series called The Retreat.

Copy provided by the publisher. All opinions are my own.

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I have long been a fan of Shari Lapena. Right from her first book I was hooked and I’ve read every book since as soon as I could get my hands on it. I was so excited to start her new one, Not a Happy Family, and I was not disappointed! I do have to say it was one of those books I wanted to last but I listened to it in a day and a half. I couldn’t stop listening!

Brecken Hill is a place where the upper class live. Fred and Sheila Merton are one such couple, being filthy rich. Yet as we know money can’t buy everything and it certainly didn’t save the Merton’s lives when they ended up brutally murdered.

The Mertons have three adult children. Now let’s just say up front that they stand to inherit literally millions. There’s also another problem lurking. The Mertons were never a ‘happy family’. Dad was controlling and Mom pretty much ignored everything. So… the big question is did one of them do the unthinkable and murder their parents?

The audiobook is a little over nine hours and as I mentioned earlier those hours flew by for me. The book is narrated by Ellen Archer and I’ve listened to her a few times before. She has a nice voice for telling a story. In a nutshell I loved this one! It’s a fantastic psychological thriller!

Library copy

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Such a Quiet Place is a psychological thriller that unfolds slowly and builds to an unexpected ending.

Hollow’s Edge is a quiet and idyllic neighbourhood. Everyone knows each other, spends time together, and trusts one another. That is until the fateful night that their neighbours Brandon and Fiona are murdered. One of their own, Ruby Fletcher, takes the fall for this murder and spends time in prison for it until her conviction is overturned. So where does Ruby head after her release. You guessed it. Right on back to Hollow’s Edge. She’s determined to out the actual killer of the Truetts. However it isn’t long before another tragedy hits the neighbourhood and nobody knows who to trust anymore.

The audio was nine and a half hours and narrated by Rebekkah Ross. I’ve listened to several books narrated by her and I always enjoy listening to her. She does a great job with this story. All in all I enjoyed Such a Quiet Place but I did find the beginning slow. It picked up for me in the later half and the ending was a twist I hadn’t expected and I always like that!

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That Weekend by Kara Thomas is YA fiction which I really enjoy sometimes especially if it’s a good one. This was one of suspense and was thriller’ish and just really good.

Claire, Kat, and Jesse are best friends. Instead of going to their prom the three decide to go out to the lake house belonging to Kat’s family and spend the time together. What could possibly go wrong? It seems a lot. Claire wakes up on a hiking trail with a head injury and no memory whatsoever of the last forty-eight hours of her life. Worse, where are Kat and Jesse? Yet another thing she doesn’t know, nor does anyone else. What exactly happened up on that mountain? Claire is determined to find out and as she digs deeper she learns that her friends may not have been who she always thought they were.

The audio was great! It is narrated by Phoebe Strole and Kristen Sieh, both of whom I’ve listened to before but not to a great extent. They were both fantastic in the telling of this story and very easy to listen to. The audio is about ten and half hours and well worth a listen or a read if you prefer!

Review copy provided by the publisher. All opinions are my own.

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Chevy Stevens is another favorite author that I follow and wait for any new books she writes and usually devour them immediately. She is a bestselling author and a fellow Canadian! I know when I start a new book of hers that I shouldn’t plan to do anything else other than listen!

Her newest novel takes its theme from the real Highway of Tears in British Columbia, Canada. Many, many women have gone missing or have been killed on this highway. In her novel she uses a fictional town and highway out of respect for those whose lives have been lost and their loved ones.

The novel follows Hailey, a young woman, who has just lost her father and is now living with her aunt and her husband. He is a cop in town and a piece of scum. It isn’t long before he’s making Hailey really scared and uncomfortable and she runs away into the woods. From there the story has twists and turns right up until its final pages.

The audiobook was great. It’s around 11 hours and wonderfully narrated by Angela Dawe, Brittany Pressley, and Isabella Star LaBlanc. They do an outstanding job of telling this story.

Another amazing thriller from Chevy Stevens!

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