Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer audiobook

Rubbernecker

By Belinda Bauer
Read by Andrew Wincott

Dreamscape
8.14 Hours Unabridged
Format : Digital Download (In Stock)
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    ISBN: 9781520017754

The dead can’t speak to us, Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. But no one hears what he does, and no one understands when he tries to tell them. Life is already strange enough for Patrick—being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t come without its challenges. And that’s before he is faced with solving a possible murder, especially when no one believes a crime has even taken place. Now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery. But as Patrick learns one truth from a dead man, he discovers there have been many other lies closer to home.

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Summary

Summary

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

The dead can’t speak to us, Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. But no one hears what he does, and no one understands when he tries to tell them. Life is already strange enough for Patrick—being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t come without its challenges. And that’s before he is faced with solving a possible murder, especially when no one believes a crime has even taken place. Now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery. But as Patrick learns one truth from a dead man, he discovers there have been many other lies closer to home.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Rather than adopting some affectation to convey Patrick’s autism, narrator Andrew Wincott lets other characters’ reactions to Patrick do it for him. Those exasperated, sad, confused, and sometimes manipulative voices not only say all that needs to be said, they also deftly achieve the effect of making Patrick the most grounded and cogent of the lot. With this simple, creative choice, Wincott ensures that, right up to the last of many satisfying reveals, we rethink who is hero, who is victim, and who is villain. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
“[A] deliciously macabre mystery…In a tour de force of plotting and writing, Bauer not only establishes a bond between Patrick and Sam but renders their separate voices with beauty and compassion.” New York Times Book Review
“Bauer brilliantly captures both the horror and helplessness of Sam’s being mentally alive in an unresponsive body, as well as the mystification Patrick suffers in virtually all dealings with others. Even without the author’s absorbing storytelling, this standalone deserves attention for sheer inventiveness.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Breathtaking. I read this and wished I’d written it.” Val McDermid, author of Out of Bounds

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Author

Author Bio: Belinda Bauer

Author Bio: Belinda Bauer

Belinda Bauer is the award-winning author of seven previous novels that have been translated into twenty-one languages. She won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year for Blacklands, the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for Rubbernecker, and the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for outstanding body of work. Snap was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction/Thrillers/Suspense
Runtime: 8.14
Audience: Adult
Language: English