Listen Up! New audiobooks to look out for

We all have our ever-growing to-be-read piles – the stack of books beside our bed that we are desperately trying to get through, or the huge number of pending book reservations we have at our local library. But do you have an audiobook ‘to be listened to’ pile? If not, you absolutely should, and to get you started we’ve compiled a list of upcoming April Bolinda audiobook releases to get excited for:

Wedderburn: A True Tale of Blood and Dust by Maryrose Cuskelly:

The story of a grisly triple murder in rural Australia – contemporary true crime at its best.

One fine Wednesday evening in October 2014, 65-year-old Ian Jamieson secured a hunting knife in a sheath to his belt and climbed through the wire fence separating his property from that of his much younger neighbour Greg Holmes. Less than 30 minutes later, Holmes was dead, stabbed more than 25 times. Jamieson returned home and took two shotguns from his gun safe. He walked across the road and shot Holmes’s mother, Mary Lockhart, and her husband, Peter, multiple times before calling the police.

In this compelling book, Maryrose Cuskelly gets to the core of this small Australian town and the people within it. Much like the successful podcast S-Town, things aren’t always as they seem: Wedderburn begins with an outwardly simple murder but expands to probe the dark secrets that fester within small towns, asking: is murder something that lives next door to us all?

The Invitation by Belinda Alexandra:

In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? From the bestselling author of Tuscan Rose comes a mesmerising tale of two sisters and the dangers and seductions of excess.

Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all …

Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly 20 years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut…

Emma hopes for an emotional reunion with her only family, but instead she finds herself in the vice-like grip of her charismatic and manipulative sister, who revels in the machinations of the ultra rich. As Emma begins to question her sister’s true motives, a disaster strikes, and New York society is stripped bare – beneath the glittering exterior lies a seething nest of deceit, betrayal, moral corruption … and perhaps even murder.

A Life of Her Own by Fiona McCallum:

From Australia’s master storyteller comes an inspiring story about standing up for yourself, making difficult choices and chasing your dreams.

When knowledge gives you the power to change your life …

Alice Hamilton loved being a mature-age student, but now that she’s finished her university degree she needs to find herself a career. But the job market is tough and it doesn’t help that her partner David keeps reminding her about their sizeable mortgage. When she’s offered a role in a major real estate agency, she jumps at the opportunity. David is excited by her prospects in the thriving Melbourne housing market, and Alice is pleased that she’ll be utilising her exceptional people skills.

But Alice quickly realises all is not as it seems. What is she doing wrong to be so out of sync with her energetic boss, Carmel Gold, agent extraordinaire? Alice is determined to make it work, but how much will it affect her values?

Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna:

As addictive, cinematic, and binge-worthy a narrative as The Wire and The Killing, Two Girls Down introduces Louisa Luna as a thriller writer of immense talent and verve.

Jamie Brandt was not a bad mother. Later she would tell that to anyone who would listen: police, reporters, lawyers, her parents, her boyfriend, her dealer, the new bartender with the knuckle tattoos at Schultz’s, the investigator from California and her partner, and her own reflection in the bathroom mirror, right before cracking her forehead on the sink’s edge and passing out from the cocktail of pain, grief, and fear.

When two sisters disappear from a parking lot while their mother is in Kmart, the devastated family hires bounty hunter Alice Vega to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched too thin by budget cuts and the growing meth epidemic, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max Caplan. Cap is a man trying to put the scandal of his past behind him and move on, but Vega needs his help, and she will not be denied.

With little to go on, Vega and Cap will go to extraordinary lengths to untangle a dangerous web of lies, false leads and complex relationships to find the girls before time runs out, and they are gone forever.

Looking For Madeleine by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan:

LOOKING FOR MADELEINE is the not-to-be-missed account that the online haters tried to silence. Its award-winning authors, Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, feature in the NETFLIX series ‘The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann’.

The book:

– Identifies the blunders made during the police search for Madeleine

– Draws on confidential police sources

– Analyses the thousands of pages of the Portuguese police dossier

– Pinpoints the misreading of forensic evidence that – for a time – turned Kate and Gerry McCann into formal suspects

– Follows the clues indicating that the McCanns’ apartment was watched, that the apartment had been visited by a phoney “charity collector

– Reports, in frightening detail. on the many earlier sex assaults on British children in the area

Twelve years on, as Scotland Yard and Portuguese investigators continue their work, the Yard is reportedly focusing on a specific suspect. A senior officer told the authors: ‘The case is solvable’.

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