Character-Driven Tales on Audio

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• audiobooks
• character-driven thrillers
• crime fiction
• fiction or non-fiction

My Story 
By Elizabeth Smart
BIO SMART
Ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart’s powerful memoir reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime.

Atonement 
By Ian McEwan
F MCEWAN
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

White Cat 
By Holly Black
YA F BLACK Curse #1
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

A Child Called “It” 
By David Pelzer
BIO PELZER
Dave Pelzer’s story is that of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. Dave had to learn how to play his mother’s abusive games in order to survive, as his mother no longer considered him a son but a slave, no longer a boy but an “it.”

I Am Not A Serial Killer 
By Dan Wells
YA F WELLS John Cle #1
Having grown up helping his mom at the family mortuary, dead bodies are no big deal to John. He likes them, actually—they don’t ask for the empathy he’s not able to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the clarity to recognize that something is frighteningly different about the freshest body on the slab.