MacLeod Andrews performs this thrilling story about the illegal killing of bears in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains. Rice Moore, who is trying to escape his past, tracks wildlife and refurbishes cabins on 7,000 acres of nature preserve while investigating the murder and mutilation of bears. Andrews’s unemotional narration is perfect for a story that alternates between breathless descriptions of wilderness beauty and gut-wrenching violence against man and beast. Andrews uses a flat accent for Moore that sometimes imitates an Appalachian twang, while shifting to thick Virginian pronunciations when native mountain men speak. The barely emotional performance takes the sting out of the graphic descriptions of Moore’s violent encounters while tracking bears, dogs, bees, and other creatures. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
The booksellers who sit on the selection committee for our Discover Great New Writers program really knocked it out of the park with our Summer 2018 list. Here are fifteen novels and seven standout works of nonfiction that wowed us and broke our hearts (sometimes in the same sentence); twenty-two books publishing between April and […]
It’s summer, and things are heating up outside and on bookstore shelves, thanks to the arrivals of these 10 tightly-plotted, fast-paced new thrillers, including one from the dream team of former president Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Read on—only you can decide how thrilling your June will be.