This week we’re reairing episodes featuring some of our favorite audiobooks we’ve covered on Behind the Mic. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss Nita Prose’s zinger of a mystery with many possible suspects. Narrator Lauren Ambrose performs this creatively crafted mystery featuring Molly, a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel who discovers the body of a regular guest in his suite. Lauren Ambrose is exceptional at capturing this propulsive story, giving listeners a sense of all the details as well as the emotional cues that Molly doesn’t necessarily pick up on. All the clues in this murder point toward Molly — can she save herself by solving the case?
Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Random House Audio.
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Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Appearing in 1852, Basil was Wilkie Collins’s second published novel. Anticipating Collins’s later sensation novels, the plot involves betrayal, insanity and death, with a thrilling conclusion set among the cliffs and whirlpools near Land’s End. Basil is read by the prolific and popular narrator Nicholas Boulton.
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