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    Folly
    Folly
    Folly
    Audiobook16 hours

    Folly

    Written by Laurie R. King

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Laurie R. King creates unforgettable characters and situations in her mystery series featuring Kate Martinelli and Mary Russell. In Folly, she tells the gripping story of a woman on the edge of the world--and the edge of sanity. Tragedy and mental illness have been dark companions of Rae Newborn for more than 50 years. Her life seems to start rebuilding itself, though, when she moves to a deserted island to restore the house her mysterious great-uncle built in the 1920s. But Rae senses powerful forces stirring on the island. Is the skin-crawling feeling she has of someone watching her only in her mind, or has something disturbingly real taken notice of Rae? Like King's best-selling suspense thriller A Darker Place, Folly brilliantly portrays a woman pushed to her limits and beyond. Frank Muller's powerful narration captures all the terrors that stalk Rae from without and from within.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 29, 2008
    ISBN9781436172615
    Folly
    Author

    Laurie R. King

    Laurie R. King is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Kate Martinelli novels and the acclaimed Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, as well as a few stand-alone novels. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century’s Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A Monstrous Regiment of Women won the Nero Wolfe Award. She has degrees in theology, and besides writing she has also managed a coffee store and raised children, vegetables, and the occasional building. She lives in northern California.

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    • 5/5
      As well as writing two outstanding series, Laurie R. King writes some amazing stand alones, and this is one of them. Rae Newborn is putting the pieces of her life back together, or trying to, by going to an island in the San Juans of the Northwest and rebuilding the house which belonged to her great uncle.That is the framework for the novel, but in many ways it is a study in connection, loyalty, family and the healing powers of art and creativity.I am strenuously avoiding giving away much of anything of the plot, because any new reader deserves to have every little twist show up for them. It is a great treat of a book.The suspense is so well done that I had to commit The Reader's Sin: I peeked at the ending. I love, love, love this book.
    • 5/5
      This should have been a boring book.It is about one woman's fight to resume a normal life after several bouts of suicidal depression. Rae decides to rebuild the house which her great-uncle Desmond built on a small island off the north west coast of America.The house had burnt down and Desmond had disappeared; now the island belonged to Rae.Most of the book catalogues the slow clearing of the site and the rebuilding of the house, guided by a photograph taken 70 years before. But it also describes her relationship with others who come to the island; the sheriff and the wild-life warden, the prickly relationship with her daughter and her passionate desire to keep contact with her beloved grand-daughter, Petra.Were the sounds which she heard and the feeling of being watched hallucinations or was someone really a danger to her? This is the story of a woman's determination to prove to herself and others that she is sane and able to fight her demons without the use of drugs; that she is not insane ...It is not a boring book after all. King is able to balance the rather mundane description of the gradual growth of the house with the tension Rae feels as she comes to terms with the reality of what she finds on the island, not least her sanity.
    • 4/5
      Excellent book! The only proviso I would include is that this is a thriller with long periods of quiet time, and the solution to the mystery connects to almost nothing in the book. That having been said, I highly recommend getting the audio version and spending time with the book, enjoying the narrative of the protagonist's rebuilding a vintage home and dealing with the real and perceived threats to her safety.
    • 5/5
      I limit my collections due to space in my home, otherwise this would be a keeper. It was a neat little mystery set in the Pacific Northwest. Great characters, tough problems. An interesting if unsettling insight into the depths of melancholia. Unsettling because some of it hits too close to home.
    • 5/5
      Very well done. Suspenseful without going for the cheap thrill. Romantic without mushy platitudes. During much of the narrative, nothing happens, but the story is interesting enough so that we want to get to know Rae through these moments. The use of great-uncle Desmond’s journal entries were very good, too, and illustrated parallels in her life as well as in the life of someone she doesn’t actually meet until the end of the story. I loved the parts when she was building the house alone. When she was excavating the cellar and found all those artifacts and began to piece together Desmond’s stay on the island. Her love and devotion to the house’s restoration. The pleasure she took in her art and her craftsmanship (craftswomanship?). She sounds like a person I would like to know even though she doesn’t sound easy to get to know or like once you have. She’s abrupt and uncharitable sometimes. Kind of like me.
    • 5/5
      Excellent crime mystery; great character development. Will read more by this author.