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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

By: Joël Dicker
Narrated by: Robert Slade
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A crime story. A love story. More than 2 million copies sold worldwide.

And now a major 10-part MGM TV series starring Patrick Dempsey and Ben Schnetzer.

August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.

That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect.

Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protégé - throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name. Solving the case and penning a new best seller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'.

But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.

©2012 Editions de Fallois / L’Âge d’Homme (P)2014 WF Howes Ltd Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Mystery Fiction

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Critic reviews

"A spellbinding literary thriller… It is maddeningly, deliciously impossible to guess the truth" ( The Time)
"The cleverest, creepiest book you’ll read this year ... Twin Peaks meets Atonement meets In Cold Blood" ( Daily Telegraph)
"A tour de force, this seems set to be a huge success" ( Metro)
"Quietly compulsive…with a deliciously shocking twist" ( Daily Express)
"Big, assertive and clever… hard to resist" ( Independent on Sunday)
"Like Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy [it] combines literariness with compulsive readability" ( GQ)
"Enough plot twists to fill a truck" ( The Economist)
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Would you consider the audio edition of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair to be better than the print version?

HAVEN'T SEEN THE PRINT VERSION BUT DO NOT SEE HOW IT COULD BE BETTER THAN THE AUDIO VERSION.

What about Robert Slade’s performance did you like?

MEASURED AND TOTALLY IN "VOICE" FOR ALL OF THE CHARACTERS - AND THERE WERE MANY!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

IF I COULD STAY AWAKE FOR 30 HOURS YES!!! IT WAS UTTERLY GRIPPING.

Any additional comments?

THERE WERE SO MANY TWISTS AND TURNS IN THE PLOT .... IT KEPT ME GUESSING RIGHT UNTIL THE END! WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND.

SUPERB THRILLER

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I listened to the audio version. Beautifully told haunting love story of Harry and Nola, I don't think I will ever forget. Lessons are: you don't always get to be with the person you love. Life is full of lessons we are constantly learning from our mistakes.

Beautifully written haunting love story

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Enjoyable, but a mix of historical scenes and imagined historical scenes was slightly confusing. Concentrate!

Good story - just the odd minus

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Would you try another book written by Joël Dicker or narrated by Robert Slade?

I am currently not tempted to read another book by this author. The narration was acceptable.

What was most disappointing about Joël Dicker’s story?

Personally I felt it read like a book written by someone who went to creative writing classes and took notes and tried to learn (probably his tutor would have been very pleased with him) but it was not individual enough to interest me

What three words best describe Robert Slade’s voice?

Acceptable - not varied enough - poor when dealing with the female characters

Not really my cup of tea

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Best book I've ever read kept me entertained every minute it took to read. One word describes it thats EXCELLENT

Favourite book

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Lots of twists a clever book. I enjoyed listening to this and listened in any spare time.

Great listen

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If I had to describe this story in one word it would be cunning. Have not read this author before really enjoyed it looking for others. would highly recommend.

excellent

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The beginning was slow, and I've never had a narrator ruin a story so much in my life, but I enjoyed it overall. The characters weren't particularly likable, but that gives them a more realistic air as people aren't always inherently good.

An ok story at the end of the day, although my final criticism is that it's a story about writers, and it gets very very wanky over how amazing and noble it is to write, and how writers are so much better than us ordinary mortals, and it wears very thin by the end of the book.

Good mystery, got a bit weird

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Well read by the narrator lots of twist and turns but the story was drawn out. It took patience to get to the end.

Well read

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Robert Slade - hats off to you for your outstanding performance in bringing the text to life.

Loved the twists and turns

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