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Audiofile Magazine’s daily Sound Reviews are going away for the first three weeks of August, But we have exciting news, we will return on Monday August 27 with a new podcast called Behind the Mic with Audiofile . Editors and reviewers from AFM will give their recommendations for the best audiobook listening Mon thru Fr Plus we’ll feature monthly in-depth conversations with the best voices in the audiobook world. Thanks and we can’t wait for you to hear Behind the Mic with Audiofile beginning Monday Aug 27

Paul Davis is driving on a remote road when he stumbles upon a killer disposing of two bodies. Paul is brutally attacked but survives, and the killer is arrested. Newbern delivers taught suspense, depraved motivations, and gobsmacking twists. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/143776 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Peter Forbes provides an impeccable narration of the shocking 1908 murder of an elderly Glasgow woman. The case drew the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the iconic fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. By using the Sherlockian technique of deduction, Forbes shows how Conan Doyle proved that the original trial offered no substantial evidence. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/143883 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Narrator Fred Berman’s youthful enthusiasm percolates through his performance of this in-depth, detailed, and quite revealing biographical analysis of Robin Williams’s life and career. This audiobook’s brutal honesty is matched only by its sincerity and iration for its subject. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/140773 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Narrator Charlie Anson does a fantastic job making listeners feel as though they are right beside the author as he travels the length of the Yukon—all 2,000 miles of it—in a canoe. KINGS OF THE YUKON is, ostensibly, the story of the salmon that once thrived in one of North America’s great rivers. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/142082 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Narrator Christopher Gebauer delivers an engaging performance as a teen named Adam. Recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, Adam struggles with the condition, the side effects of the drug trial in which he is participating, and starting at a new school where no one knows of his past. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/146681/ for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Saskia Maarleveld portrays a Jewish orphan, a U.S. spy, German students and strong, confident 15-year-old Sarah, in this thrilling WWII drama. She seamlessly delivers a wide range of accents, changing each according to the heroine's many roles as actress and spy. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/138684/ for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

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Kirby Heyborne narrates this timely, painful story. He embodies Jason D, born in America to an Afghani mother and an Afghani journalist father killed while working for the Americans. We hear Jason’s panic and fear as he witnesses his mother being taken from work by authorities. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/138672/ for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Pediatrician Hanna-Attisha presents a personal story of Flint, Michigan, as it deals with its health crisis, which began in 2014. This is a powerfully narrated story of unacceptable events that are turned around by the author's determination as well as the she receives in the midst of adversity. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/142160 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Golden Voice George Guidall continues his narration of the Gabriel Allon series. Listeners will be swiftly carried along by Guidall's confident voice and varied accents as he recounts Allon's search for a mole in the highest levels of Western intelligence. Listeners will be treated to masterful writing delivered by an expert storyteller. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/142842 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

"Going to the mountain" is the English translation of the Xhosa coming-of-age rite, which Ndaba undertook--in more ways than one--under his famous grandfather's watchful eye. Narrator Boatman captures the wonder and gratitude of Ndaba the man for a coming-of-age he realizes, in retrospect, was an extraordinary gift. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/142097 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Novik updates the story of Rumpelstiltskin with a wildly original fantasy tale that has all the markings of a future classic. A young woman with a special gift attempts to save her family but is swept up in world of magic and demons Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/142020 for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

Narrator Rob Shapiro's calm, confident tone and perfect pacing set up empathetic characters who are thrown into a life-threatening situation. The conflicts play out in an opulent setting, the 1950s-vintage ocean liner QUEEN ISABELLA, and lead to a heartbreaking climax. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/138478/ for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

George Newbern's performance highlights how cats can teach us to bring peace and elegance into our lives if we’d think like them. He playfully portrays how cats wake up with stretches and pendiculations (yawns) and considers cats as Buddhist teachers, sitting and observing. Read the full AudioFile review at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/138524/ for AudioFile's Sound Reviews comes from Grammy Award-winning publisher Hachette Audio, home to works by James Patterson, JK Rowling, Joel Osteen, David Sedaris, David Baldacci, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, and many more bestselling audiobooks https://soundcloud.com/hachetteaudio

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