A Cry From The Dark Free Audiobook

Robert Barnard
read by Nicolette McKenzie
32 kbps

A taut and elegantly pitched mystery from a master’s hand. Well-respected London writer Bettina Whitelaw is a tough old lady in her eighties. Her story spirals from the present, where her agent and everyone else want to know if she is writing her memoirs, to the past, when, growing up in Bundaroo, Australia, she knew she was too smart to stay there. Why Bettina left Bundaroo sooner than she intended unfolds like an origami puzzle. Along the way, we meet her brother; the child she had but didn’t raise, a woman now in her fifties; and Hughie, who came to Bundaroo and also left but remained close to Bettina (after a fashion) over the decades. There’s real intelligence in the unfolding, which begins with a break-in at Bettina’s flat and ends with a murder. Barnard has created a perfectly credible older woman who has been shaped but not crushed by the secrets in her life.