Dallas Escue has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is Lonesome Song.
Chain Thinking: A Shep Harrington Smalltown Mystery
Summary
Syndey Vail, once a beautiful soap opera star, now has a passion for championing the rights of animals - but she keeps the controversial methods of her cause as shrouded as she keeps her partially disfigured face. Sydney enters lawyer-cum-detective Shep Harrington’s life in a cloud of dust and vanishes just as quickly, leaving behind two very different but strangely connected things: A chimpanzee and a murder. The chimpanzee is the young Kikora, whom Sydney liberated from her confining cage in a testing lab at DMI - a mega-medical conglomerate led by the hard-driving Howard Doring, who “apparently believes that the human animal has every right to exploit all living things”. At DMI, she and other chimps were used to test a new anti-obesity pill. The murdered victim, killed by a blow to the head, is Dr. Celia Stone, the DMI researcher in charge of Kikora. Soon Shep realizes that Kikora, left in his initially unwilling care, is not only stolen property, but the longer he keeps her, the more threatened his own freedom becomes - and the more often tough questions race through his head. What makes an animal property? What is the source of “human” rights? What about an animal whose only difference from humans is 1.6 percent of DNA, that can empathize and suffer like humans? The questions confuse Shep, who’s never had to think hard about them before. And the only answers he seems to find lie in the big brown eyes of a chimp called Kikora. Chain Thinking is a whodunit with a heart and a mystery with a message. Once the mystery is solved, there’s a whole lot more left to think about. Shep finds his answers. Will you find yours?
©2009 Elliott D. Light (P)2020 Bancroft Press
A Hopeful Christmas
Summary
Kathryn Wittner has made a mess of everything. Her father calls her disobedient, rebellious, and even evil. Kathryn supposes he’s right and isn’t surprised when she’s banished from the house before Christmas. Yet all she really wants is to fit in - to be loved for who she is. Unfortunately, she’s gone about it in the completely wrong way and is now suffering the consequences. And she’s not the only one suffering - so is her sister, her sister’s beau, her mother, and a tiny newborn baby. Help comes to Kathryn through a totally unexpected, and at first, totally unwanted, friendship with a Mennonite man. Isaiah shows her a truth she’s never before seen or experienced. Soon, she is rethinking her complete rejection of God and her Amish roots. But she fears she’s too late. Is it truly possible to redeem such a huge mess? Is there truly hope for her this Christmas?
©2020 Tica House Publishing LLC (P)2020 Tica House Publishing LLC
Family Secrets
Summary
A quiet night in the city of Colby is shattered by a crime that leaves a young man dead and a cop looking for answers. Hitting a stone wall at every turn, Officer Mike Collins and the Colby Police Department follow the trail of one young man's criminal act to discover a crime that leaves a family in shambles. Police officers know evil exists, they face it every day, but the evil that looms in the city of Colby may be more than they can handle.
©2020 Eagle Roost Publishing (P)2021 Eagle Roost Publishing
Amish Christmas Bazaar
Summary
Mary Sutter couldn’t get away from Hollybrook fast enough.... Her former fiancé and his new wife are expecting their first boppli by Christmas, and she doesn’t want to be there when it happens. So when she gets the opportunity to go to Ohio to help her aenti after she broke her leg, Mary goes immediately. Once in Ohio, Mary also takes over her aenti’s responsibilities with the annual Christmas bazaar. She is paired up with Daniel Bender to organize it. Mary has never met such an aggravating man. They knock heads over every decision. But what Mary can’t understand is - if he’s so annoying, why can’t she stop thinking about him? Why is he always in her thoughts? When Mary discovers Daniel is presently courting another local girl, her feelings become clear. Has she fallen again for someone who is destined to break her heart?
©2020 Tica House Publishing LLC (P)2021 Tica House Publishing LLC
Lonesome Song
Summary
Imagine you’re in your late 20s. School is behind you. You have money, a beautiful wife, lots of friends. Everything you ever wanted is at your fingertips. And then suddenly, it’s all taken from you. Shep Harrington was a young, prosperous, and happy lawyer, his bright future shining on the horizon like a beacon. But things that shine are not always what they seem. Contentment can be intoxicating, dulling the senses to the signs of change. He and wife Anna were living their dream - together. And then they weren't. Shep was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Anna, believing him guilty, divorced him. Both were victims of a system created and operated by an older generation that valued power and money over fairness. Out of prison, disbarred and disillusioned, Shep must again contend with people who see truth in practical terms as he probes the death of Reilly Heartwood, a man whom he loved and who loved him. A classic murder mystery set in a small town with secrets, Lonesome Song explores the challenges of surviving injustice and of doing the right thing.
©2012 Elliott D. Light (P)2020 Bancroft Press