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  • After Dark

  • The Griffin Powell Series, Book 1
  • By: Beverly Barton
  • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
  • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (90 ratings)
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After Dark

By: Beverly Barton
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
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Summary

When a shocking scandal exposes Southern secrets...

As the blazing heat of summer gives way to sultry September, a shroud of suspicion settles over Noble's Crossing, a sleepy Alabama town. Nothing is as it seems - and never will be again. Lane Noble Graham stands accused of murdering her ex-husband. The one man who can help, Johnny Mack Cahill, vowed never to return to the town that scorned him - or the woman whose love he knew he didn't deserve. 

...no one is safe from cold-blooded murder.

From the rusted-out trailers on the wrong side of the river to the stately pillared mansions along Magnolia Avenue, everybody has something to hide - but one secret could make Lane and Johnny Mack the next targets of a twisted killer who's struck once and is bent on striking again....

©2018 Beverly Barton (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Truly awful. Don't waste your time!

Slow, flat characters. Some pretty disgusting story points that seem to be there for next to no real reason. The murder mystery is a very distant afterthought. Terrible writing. Very poor and unwanted erotica all over the place. You'll see every one of the 'Big plot-drops' coming a mile off. I grately commend the poor narrator dor managing to get through this absolute trash and waste of time, and hope she was at least paid VERY well for it. Why anyone would pay for this is beyond me.
This absolutely awful story (Which is a waste of data, paper, time, energy, battery and more) is also part of a series but doesn't have the main character of the series in at all. Which just adds to how totally pointless this book is.
Trigger warnings of domestic abuse and incest, too.

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Oh dear 😳

I intermittently fell asleep whilst listening to this & wasn't motivated enough to rewind and listen again!!

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Well !

This is a story !
An ok picture of Aholes, red nex, bad sex and all the other scum is southern US.
This more a story about the south and it’s ugly side then it is a novel !

There is one semi positive thing that I can say, it’s brave for a brilliant narrator like Stevens to try to save this and actually make it into a story but the context can not even Stevens save but it is an impressive try non the less ?
Denmark 🇩🇰 !

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No!

No! No, no ,no, just no! Tried to persevere but when I got to “he rode her like…” NO!

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too much soft porn

might as well be porn, does nothing for the story, everyone just boning left and right

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What a load of cliched rubbish

Completely predictable cliche ridden storyline. Maybe better suited to a Mills and Boon romantic reader. The best part of the book was playing cliche bingo and I think I got a full house - quite early on.

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Great narration

Great story , excellent narration. A fair amount of sex scenes which is ok but don’t listen when you’re at work!

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Predictable, a bit like a 1990’s Tv movie /soap.

This isn’t my sort of story, I fast forwarded through quite a lot. The women were a bit wet and the men a bit stereotyped.

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Good grief

Soft porn meets Mills and Boon meets Dallas, with a vague storyline in the background.
Kept finding myself saying 'oh just get on with it!'.
Might be because I'm a Brit, but just not for me

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Brilliant story

Really enjoyed this audio book kept you guessing. Would deffo recommend to audiobook lovers x

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