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The Breakdown

A Novel

Audiobook
2 of 3 copies available
2 of 3 copies available

"[Georgia Maguire's] overall narration is calm and elegant but emotional and alarming during the horrific moments Grace experiences." - AudioFile Magazine on Behind Closed Doors.
Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle!
THE NEWEST PROPULSIVE AUDIOBOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY INSTANT BESTSELLER, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside—the woman who was killed. She's been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It's a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she'd broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only have been hurt herself if she'd stopped.
But since then, she's been forgetting every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn't have a baby.
The only thing she can't forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt.
Or the silent calls she's receiving, or the feeling that someone's watching her...

You won't be able to hit pause on B. A. Paris's The Breakdown, the next chilling audiobook from the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Georgia Maguire's soft British accent is an absolute listening pleasure. But author B.A. Paris's new release, a first-person account with few supporting characters, offers Maguire scant opportunity to demonstrate any significant range beyond the musings of the anguished heroine. Tormented by what she believes are signs of early-onset dementia, Cass develops a near-paralyzing paranoia and an overwhelming fear of losing her beloved husband. Her discovery that she may have had a role in a brutal murder proves to be her tipping point into an emotional breakdown. Questions are eventually answered, and the mystery resolved, but it is the texture and tension provided by Maguire's skillful delivery and beguiling voice that make this a successful audio offering. M.O.B. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.