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A Cold Dark Place

An Emily Kenyon Thriller, Book 1

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A Cold Dark Place

Auteur(s): Gregg Olsen
Narrateur(s): Karen Peakes
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In a secluded farm house in the Pacific Northwest, a family has been slaughtered - and a teenage son has disappeared. Single mother and cop Emily Kenyon spearheads a dark hunt for a killer. But Emily's teenage daughter, Jenna, is one step ahead of her. Then another family is butchered, and another. As Emily fits the puzzle pieces together, she makes a chilling discovery: The killer is coming after her and her daughter....

Contains mature themes.

©2008 Gregg Olsen (P)2020 Tantor Détective Enquête policière Femmes détectives Fiction Fiction féminine Suspense Thrillers et romans à suspense
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Loved this book book good narrating and keep you on your toes Spell bounding Exciting And worth listening to

A cold dark place

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Absolutely loved this book. The characters, the storyline, the twists and turns; all made out for a wonderful read. Highly recommend.

Amazing Book!

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The story line was fast paced, detailed, and the author painted an amazing picture. The narrator did a fantastic job with an the characters. Looking forward to book #2!

Great story, keeps you thinking

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The story had some great twist and turns. characters were very relatable.

the ketchup packet situation was probably the most surprising bit of information

ketchup packets

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The characters in this Gregg Olsen Mystery-Thriller are almost shockingly authentic. Olsen writes dialogue that readers/listeners could imagine being overheard: these people are living the events and we just happen to be witnessing their trials & tribulations.
Less fortunately, Olsen's characters - from self-obsessed investigators to quibbling ex-spouses to bafflingly secretive high school students - are straight-up contemptible. If I met these people in real life, I would walk in the other direction. I couldn't really get into the plot because I could not care less what happened to any of them.

As to presentation: Reader Karen Peakes is decidedly professional with regard to diction, timbre, cadence, and pacing - and her understanding of the author's intended tone is truly commendable - but her voice-acting repertoire is disappointingly cartoonish. Her false-basso "husky" male character portrayals, for example, are often legitimately cringeworthy. This recording is "adequate" at best.

Altogether, 'A Cold Dark Place' merits 5 stars out of 10. It's a reasonable way to spend a couple of quiet afternoons if you find it in the 'Plus' catalog, but not worth a Credit.

[NOTE: I had considered listening to the next book in the 'Emily Kenyon' series of Crime Thrillers (likewise free) based on Olsen's effective hyperrealistic exposition style.. but the protagonist is so strikingly unlikeable that strong plotting/writing can't overcome my reservations. Maybe you'll have more luck?]

Not Terrible

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Loved the story the narrator is amazing. Can’t wait for the next one. Incredibly written.

Excellent Read

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...... she decided to create a second monster in the last couple chapters. I didn't get it at all. bad editorial advice or just got tired of writing the book?

author was doing great until......

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I started skipping soon after the daughter went missing because Emily got tiring really quickly. How many times was she going to say "where is my daughter" to no one but herself? Hiding evidence because it would further incriminate her daughter? Woman, if your daughter turns out to be helping, her arse should be going to jail. This character came across as one that would easily go corrupt to shield a murderer if that murderer was someone she cared about.

I thought she was supposed to be investigating a family murdered, yet she ups and flies to a different state chasing after her daughter like a bounty hunter. This story is so convoluted and contains too much unnecessary drama:
-an ex boyfriend who can't take no for an answer and practically stalks her to get her back
an ex husband who keeps making up things or pushing for the daughter to stay with him for the summer, while Emily keeps rehashing the past
-the ex's new girlfriend who is pregnant and comes across as ditzy and immature
_emily who is convinced she knows her daughter, though a ton of information comes out from the start that proves otherwise
-on and on

I would have preferred if the daughter was kidnapped and she needed to solve the mystery of the other murders to find her daughter. This running in circle nonsense was all over the place and Emily's character was too unlikeable to make this story work. It was so bad that I kept hoping they would find the daughter dead so we could get to the actual investigating and make the story make sense.

The female narrator is great at doing older voices, but holy was she one dimensional when it came to younger people. they all sounded like the 80s and 90s version of a ditzy blond.

wow was this bad

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