The Storm
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- 20,99 €
Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense set in a Gulf Coast beach motel where hurricane season can be murder. This program features multicast narration.
"The narrators provide outstanding performances, creating such believable characters that listeners might wonder if the story is based in fact." —Library Journal on The Heiress
St. Medard’s Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel that’s survived every one of those storms, and Lo Bailey, the local girl infamously accused of the murder of her lover, political scion Landon Fitzroy, during Hurricane Marie in 1984.
When Geneva Corliss, the current owner of the Rosalie Inn, hears a writer is coming to town to research the crime that put St. Medard’s Bay on the map, she’s less interested in solving a whodunnit than in how a successful true crime book might help the struggling inn’s bottom line. But to her surprise, August Fletcher doesn’t come to St. Medard’s Bay alone. With him is none other than Lo Bailey herself. Lo says she’s returned to her hometown to clear her name once and for all, but the closer Geneva gets to both Lo and August, the more she wonders if Lo is actually back to settle old scores.
As the summer heats up and another monster storm begins twisting its way towards St. Medard’s Bay, Geneva learns that some people can be just as destructive—and as deadly—as any hurricane, and that the truth of what happened to Landon Fitzroy may not be the only secret Lo is keeping.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A small Alabama town’s dark secrets surface during the buildup to a hurricane in this atmospheric mystery. When writer August Fletcher comes to St. Medard’s Bay to investigate an unsolved murder, he brings with him Lo Bailey, the local woman accused of killing her wealthy, politically connected lover decades ago during the infamous 1984 Hurricane Maria. All innkeeper Geneva Corliss cares about is whether the book will bring some business, but as another hurricane bears down, she discovers more secrets buried along Alabama’s stormy Gulf Coast. Author Rachel Hawkins keenly understands how lives can intermingle in a small Southern town, drawing on the local women’s complicated struggles with love and wealth to drive this classic mystery. By expertly layering in relationships that go back to childhood, Hawkins weaves a taut web of suspense. Thanks to a talented cast of narrators, The Storm’s women become real—and the tension becomes deadly—making for an undeniable thrill ride.