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    The Cottage
    The Cottage
    The Cottage
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Cottage

    Written by Daniel Judson

    Narrated by Lauren Ezzo

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A widowed mother is terrorized by a stalker with unfathomable intent in a novel of cold-blooded suspense by the Shamus Award–winning author of The Temporary Agent.

    When Kate Burke is awakened one night by a sound outside her window, her PTSD is triggered. Was it simply a deer crossing her secluded backyard? Or was it intruders? Because Kate still lives with the dreadful memories of her husband’s murder during a seemingly random home invasion two years before, she knows the answer can mean the difference between life and death.

    But when she discovers the unsettling ways her property has been vandalized the next day, Kate is forced to conclude the worst: someone is watching her.

    Kate decides to rent out her estranged sister’s onetime cottage, which sits on her property, for the summer. Another set of eyes around the place won’t hurt. And with additional support from friends and family, Kate should be feeling safe.

    Instead, the vandalism is escalating. So are the anonymous late-night calls and texts, each one more disturbing and violating than the last. Whoever is targeting Kate, whatever their motive or terrifying endgame, the footsteps in the dark are getting closer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 2, 2021
    ISBN9781713604266
    The Cottage
    Author

    Daniel Judson

    Daniel Judson is the Shamus Award–winning (and four-time finalist) author of The Temporary Agent, The Rogue Agent, and The Shadow Agent in the Agent Series, as well as Avenged, The Poisoned Rose, The Bone Orchard, The Gin Palace, The Darkest Place, The Betrayer, The Water’s Edge, The Violet Hour, and Voyeur. A Son of the American Revolution, former gravedigger, and self-described onetime drifter, Judson currently lives in Connecticut with his fiancée and their rescued cats. For more information, visit Daniel at www.danieljudsonbooks.com.

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    • 2/5
      The story may be good, I don’t know because I couldn’t finish it. The audio recording of the narrator is awful. Very robotic, no inflection and the speed of the reading is off 0.8 x is too slow though it makes her voice less robotic and 1.0 sounds robotic. Never mind faster.

      Unfortunately, the narrator made it so I couldn’t finish this book.

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