AUGUST 2021 - AudioFile
Narrator Natalie Naudus takes listeners through the twists and turns of a classic Southern mystery. When two bodies are discovered in an abandoned manor in Savannah, Georgia, it becomes clear that a grave on the property was intended for one more body. A reporter’s refusal to listen to her husband, a detective, may unravel a historical mystery. Naudus handles a cast of battling reporters, police officers with dark secrets, and a family with literal skeletons in their basement. She is careful to give each one a genuinely independent feel. Her narration perfectly matches the pacing and drama of the mystery, which leads to her performance outshining the sometimes predictable story. V.B. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
Publishers Weekly
05/31/2021
When the skeletal remains of two bodies and what appears to be an empty grave are found in a secret crypt in the cellar of a decaying Savannah, Ga., mansion in bestseller Jackson’s workmanlike fourth Pierce Reed/Nikki Gillette novel (after 2013’s Tell Me), police detective Pierce investigates. The bodies are soon identified as the Duval sisters, Holly, 12, and Poppy, 10, who disappeared 20 years earlier, along with their four-year-old sister, Rose. Pierce’s ambitious, strong-willed wife, Nikki, a reporter for the Savannah Sentinel, immediately begins peppering her husband with questions about the case, as it “might be the story that could jump-start her career and she could kiss the Sentinel goodbye forever.” Nikki pursues the story doggedly, taking such risks as jumping into swamps full of alligators and running through densely wooded areas in the dark. Readers should be prepared for some clichéd prose (“His jaw clenched and his heart was cold as ice”). Series fans, though, may enjoy catching up with Pierce and Nikki. Agent: Robin Rue, Writers House. (July)
From the Publisher
Narrator Natalie Naudus takes listeners through the twists and turns of a classic Southern mystery.… Naudus handles a cast of battling reporters, police officers with dark secrets, and a family with literal skeletons in their basement. She is careful to give each one a genuinely independent feel. Her narration perfectly matches the pacing and drama of the mystery, which leads to her performance outshining the sometimes predictable story.” —AudioFile Magazine
“When the skeletal remains of two bodies and what appears to be an empty grave are found in a secret crypt in the cellar of a decaying Savannah, Ga., mansion in bestseller Jackson’s workmanlike fourth Pierce Reed/Nikki Gillette novel, police detective Pierce investigates…Enjoy catching up with Pierce and Nikki.”—Publishers Weekly
AUGUST 2021 - AudioFile
Narrator Natalie Naudus takes listeners through the twists and turns of a classic Southern mystery. When two bodies are discovered in an abandoned manor in Savannah, Georgia, it becomes clear that a grave on the property was intended for one more body. A reporter’s refusal to listen to her husband, a detective, may unravel a historical mystery. Naudus handles a cast of battling reporters, police officers with dark secrets, and a family with literal skeletons in their basement. She is careful to give each one a genuinely independent feel. Her narration perfectly matches the pacing and drama of the mystery, which leads to her performance outshining the sometimes predictable story. V.B. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
