But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble. And its shocking secrets are laid bare.
By: A. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her nest of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary.
When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora Lee to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. By: Ruth Ware. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly hours in space.
During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success - and survival - is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst and enjoy every moment of it.
By: Chris Hadfield. Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times best seller Gillian Flynn, takes that statement to its darkest place in this unpausable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work "draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.
Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.
Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love.
With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn't do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet? With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.
Few stories lend themselves to audio better than thrillers. Listening gives you time to play detective and figure out the mysteries with the characters. Whether you enjoy classic detective thrillers, or something more sinister, there are endless stories to choose from.
Here are the 20 best thriller audiobooks to get you started. The perfectly utilized diary entries fold into a legendary mid-book reveal.
What would have made Gone Girl better? A different ending. The first half of the book was great, she built up the suspense masterfully. Then the second half happened. I found myself not even caring what happened to the characters after a while, I kept reading expecting it to get better, to match the first half.
Let down. Both are great narrators and I like team narrating. This book is twisted Let's start with the writing itself The writing was probably the worst part of the book BUT, that being said, the writing was actually done really well! The choice of words, sentence formation, the flow, it all was just seamless in nature, the building suspense, the tone… they were all great! I remember commenting to myself while going through this book that this was written really well.
This lends to one of the book's most alluring traits It allows you to be able to get absolutely and positively lost in it. When a book is easy to pass through like this, it's easy to see the time fly by. Secondly you have the story From the start of the book you know something is not right but not even I thought it would end up the way it did.
The more you go into the story and the more you learn about Nick and Amy, the more you find yourself getting lost in the story. It fells completely wrong and you know it is completely indulgent but it also feels oh so good. That was what this book represented If you have even an inkling of a dark side and willing to go through a raw, uninhibited, honest and demented view of an atypical relationship then you would simply LOVE this book.
Thirdly, the narration It is a toss up to me between the story and the narration as to which was better. I can't decide, every time I choose one of the two I see the merits of the other. I love multi-person narrated titles and when it is done well, I am prone to raving about it. The narrators here though were completely rave worthy. They are able to portray Amy and Nick through the various stages of the book with such precision Add the excellent writing to this and you honestly can do nothing but marvel I am so impressed by this book.
I see why this is seen as one of the best books of It is so easy to lose yourself in this book it's not even funny. Do not listen in the company of children. The book is ripe with swear words at all but there are a number of sudden outburst and moments of anger simply filled with rampant curse words. Do you think Gone Girl needs a follow-up book? Why or why not? No, please, just don't. She simply needs to figure out how to wrap up. Create determination. Skip to content Free Audiobooks Online.
Search for:. Ann Rule — Dead by Sunset Audiobook. It was on the top of the New York Times Bestseller list for eight weeks. During the end of the first year of its publication, it had sold more than 2 million copies. Flynn provides a thoroughly gripping plot to the readers filled with twists and turns.
She ensures that the readers are engaged from the beginning and completely hooked to the plot. I had actually in advance acquired nonetheless not yet review her Dark Places after a couple of pointers. Currently I need to review it, and also moreover obtain her very first book, Sharp Things. Simply a solitary warning, nonetheless: Gone Girl includes a significant action of nasty language.
This was not a concern for me, yet instead it might be for a couple of perusers.
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