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  • By: Paula McLain
  • Narrated by: Marin Ireland
  • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)
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When the Stars Go Dark

By: Paula McLain
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
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Summary

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Paris Wife.

A detective hiding away from the world. A disappearance that reaches into her past. 

Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective living in San Francisco. When unspeakable tragedy strikes, she turns to the Californian village of Mendocino to grieve. Seeking comfort in the chocolate-box village she grew up in, Anna instead arrives to news that a local girl has gone missing.

The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of a crucial time in Anna’s childhood, when an unsolved murder changed the community forever. As past and present collide, Anna is forced to confront the darkest side of human nature.

©2021 Paula McLain (P)2021 W F Howes

Critic reviews

“A novel of both great sadness and great beauty; a gripping story drenched in the exquisite allure of the natural world.” (Kristin Hannah, New York Times best-selling author of The Nightingale)

“A tour de force of literary suspense. It pulled me under and left me gasping.” (Christina Baker Kline, author of The Exiles)

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Excellent listen

The subject matter of this book is dark and some of it based on factual cases and personal experience. Do not let this put you off. This is an absolutely excellent book with a fantastic narrator who is pitch perfect with the right expression in all the right places (Marin Ireland)and who makes the book come alive. The writing is excellent and I became completely engrossed in the story. The writing is completely excellent, thoughtful, sensitive, expressive and the story moves along at just the right pace. I’m sorry it has finished.

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Powerful gripping visceral

I was not surprised when the author admitted at the end that her character was partly autobiographical. Beautifully written, and a credit to her and her story. If you read this book you will be thankful that you did and will have learned a little more of yourself and others around you

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