Another win for Amanda Quick fans!

I'm really liking this Burning Cove series, at least I hope it will be a series and not just two books. Set in the 30s in a small California town called Burning Cove, close enough to LA that its more upscale hotels and clubs attract the Hollywood heavy hitters. Both books have started with the story of a young woman who has to flee for her life and create herself anew to survive. This was the Golden Age of cinema, with the escapism of watching beautiful and wealthy people living exciting and romantic lives being an antidote to the grimness of real, Depression era life for the average American.

The Other Lady Vanishes (and you don't find out the meaning/significance of the title until very nearly the end of the book...and it's a good one) begins with a young woman whose husband had her committed to an insane asylum where she was forced to be a test subject for a halucinogenic drug being developed there, while her husband looted her considerable inheritance to save his own family's business. All very melodramatic and convoluted and so perfectly right that it would have been a smash as a film in that era.

I've been reading Jayne Ann Krentz, in all her guises, for many years. In fact, she was one of only two fairly atypical "romance" authors that I serendipitously discovered while shopping for romance books to send to a friend in England. The other was Jennifer Crusie. I loved both their books on first reading and was soon buying everything by either of them I could find. Fortunately, JAK has been prolific and reliable for all these years. If you're not sure about this new series, give it a try, keeping in mine the era and what made a good story then, and now. I'd love to see either of these books (The Girl Who Knew Too Much was the other) made into films. They each have several strong female characters and men who will love them and protect them, if ever they should need protection. They're pretty successful of surviving even very dangerous situations through quick thinking and the courage to keep going. Really, really great reads/listens. And, incidentally, this reader, Nina Alvamar, is very much better than the one for the first book.

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Old fashion.

I dont even know if I would have enjoyed the story if the narrator wasn't so bad. Bad acting 101.

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Love Amanda Quick but...

I should have read this one since the narrator ruined the story for me. Even though I got all the way to the end it was a real slog. Save your credit buy the book.

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Always a great read.

I have never been disappointed in an Amanda Quick book. This one is even better than the last one set in this era. Loved it.

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Long and disappointing!

I have been reading Amanda Quick books for years and never thought I would not like one. This plot was tedious and did not hold my attention most of the time.

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Sigh

Just ok if you like Quick historical romantic mysteries. The location is Burning Cove on the California coast, a retreat for the rich and famous. The timeline is the period between 1929-1939, after the stock market crash but before WWII.
Adelaide escapes from Rushbrook Sanitarium where she was committed against her will by a fake husband who needed access to her inheritance.
She goes to ground in Burning Cove where she becomes the focus of several members of a group of designer drug dealers, and a blackmailer.
Alvamar has a somewhat pleasant voice, but had no range in voicing different characters, especially male.
Overall I’d rate as 3.5 stars with the round up to 4 for good editing.

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2 narrators needed for this series!

I wish there were 2 narrators. Nina does a good job with the female voices, but the male voices are the downfall of the recording. I can’t get into the story because of this. Overall, it is a good book.

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voices

Nina is good with female voices, but some of her males are very awkward sounding.

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Another great series.

I loved this story and have already preordered the next one in audio, I belie that you will also.

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Great find!

big fan of this narrator. i love this series. can't wait for the 4th book.

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