Amanda Redman has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 27 ratings. The most-rated is The Darkness: A Thriller.
The Darkness: A Thriller
Summary
Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice. She knows which one: the Russian woman whose hope for asylum ended on the dark, cold shore of an unfamiliar country. Soon Hulda discovers that another young woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling her the whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put the brakes on her investigation. Meanwhile the clock is ticking. Hulda will find the killer, even if it means putting her own life in danger.
©2015; 2018 Text copyright Ragnar Jonasson; Translation copyright Victoria Cribb (P)2018 Penguin Books Ltd
The Mist
Summary
The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jonasson's critically acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. It's 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books "If you’re looking for a fictional good fright to distract you from the real ones, look no further than this third entry in the Hidden Iceland series , featuring brainy, glum police inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir." (Washington Post)
©2020 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
The Island
Summary
"Narrator Amanda Redman gives an adept performance as she takes on the various characters in this Icelandic thriller." (AudioFile Magazine) The newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene has arrived with a superb follow-up to The Darkness. Short-listed for the Crime Novel of the Year Award in Iceland Third Place, Novel of the Year Award 2016 in Iceland, selected by booksellers One of the best-selling novels in Iceland in 2016 Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday - a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences. Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey. A place completely cut off from the outside world, to reconnect. But one of them isn't going to make it out alive. And Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is determined to find the truth in the darkness. Ragnar Jonasson burst onto the American scene with Snowblind and Nightblind, the first two novels in the Ari Thor thriller series, and the praise was overwhelming. With The Darkness, he launched a new series featuring a completely new sleuth, Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik police department. The Island is the second audiobook in this series.
©2016; 2019 Text copyright Ragnar Jonasson; Translation copyright Victoria Cribb (P)2019 Penguin Books Ltd.
The Forsyte Chronicles: Part Two: A Modern Comedy (Dramatised)
Summary
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy’s second absorbing trilogy about the lives and loves of the Forsytes, with a star cast including Amanda Redman, Gary Bond, and Belinda Lang. A Modern Comedy is a gripping dramatisation of Galsworthy’s three classic books following the fortunes of the Forsytes throughout the Roaring Twenties. The White Monkey starts with Fleur married to Michael Mont and playing the role of society wife but dissatisfied and unfulfilled. Her attempts to find happiness lead to trouble and she must turn to Soames for help.... The Silver Spoon centres around a controversial libel action that sees Fleur pitted against spiteful socialite Marjorie Ferrar. Soon her husband, Michael, and father Soames are also dragged into the damaging court case. Swan Song sees lost loves reunited as Fleur and Jon meet after seven years apart. Their passion is reignited – but Jon is married and his wife, Anne, will not give up without a fight. Meanwhile, disaster strikes as Soames tries to save his beloved paintings from a fire….
©2011 John Galsworthy (P)2010 AudioGO Ltd
The Forsyte Saga (Dramatised)
Summary
The blockbuster BBC Radio 4 adaptation of John Galsworthy’s classic family drama, featuring a star cast including Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Diana Quick, Michael Williams, and Amanda Redman.
Galsworthy’s epic story chronicles the decline and fall of the Forsytes through almost 50 years of material triumph, emotional disaster, and a terrible feud that splits them asunder. Beginning in 1886, The Man of Property starts with the family wealthy, successful, and united.
But the actions of the arrogant Soames Forsyte and his beautiful wife Irene are to have disastrous consequences. In Chancery has marital discord as its theme, as various members of the family find themselves dealing with domestic dramas, affairs and divorce. To Letsees the second generation experiencing both the pain and the promise of love, as the sins of the father are visited on the Forsyte children.
With an all-star cast of over 30 experienced actors, and enacted over the course of 23 episodes, this thrilling tale of sex, power, and money will enthral you from beginning to end.
©2002 John Galsworthy (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd