Theresa Wolcott has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Born Evil.
Daughters of Bad Men
Summary
2017 Agatha Award Nominee
"For her first foray into full-length fiction, Laura Oles has demonstrated that her fictional eye is every bit as accurate as her camera lens. Well deserving of earning a place as a Killer Nashville Claymore Award finalist, Daughters of Bad Men is a solid tale, well told, and a promise of more to come from Jamie Rush." (Killer Nashville)
"Compelling and deeply moving, Daughters of Bad Men is a study of the tangled family ties that bind. An absolute page-turner." (Gretchen Archer, best-selling author of the Davis Way Crime Capers)
Jamie Rush understands what it takes to disappear because her parents taught her that long ago. Leveraging her knowledge of why and how people run from their own lives, Jamie has built a business based on bringing those in hiding back to answer for their actions. She takes pride in using her somewhat shady skills to work both inside and outside the law.
When her estranged brother, Brian, calls and says his daughter is missing, Jamie initially turns down the case. Kristen has always been a bit wild, frequently dropping off the grid then showing up a few days later. But Brian swears this time is different, and even though Jamie vowed years ago to keep her conniving sibling at arm’s length, she can’t walk away if Kristen could be in real trouble.
As Jamie begins digging into Kristen’s life, she uncovers her niece’s most guarded secrets. Uncovering the truth will put a target on Jamie’s back and endanger the lives of those she loves.
©2017 Laura Oles (P)2018 Laura Oles
Kaleidoscope: Redrawing an American Family Tree
Summary
In 2005, Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis' name and race had never been mentioned. With further exploration, Bolsterli found that when Chavis' children crossed the Mississippi River between 1859 and 1875 for exile in Arkansas, they passed into the white world, leaving the family’s racial history completely behind. Kaleidoscope is the story of this discovery, and it is the story, too, of the rise and fall of the Chavis fortunes in Mississippi, from the family’s first appearance on a frontier farm in 1829 to ownership of over a thousand acres and the slaves to work them by 1860. Bolsterli learns that in the 1850s, when all free colored people were ordered to leave Mississippi or be enslaved, Jordan Chavis' white neighbors successfully petitioned the legislature to allow him to remain, unmolested, even as three of his sons and a daughter moved to Arkansas and Illinois. In Kaleidoscope, long-silenced truths are revealed, inviting questions about how attitudes toward race might have been different in the family and in America if the truth about this situation and thousands of others like it could have been told before. Published by The University of Arkansas Press. "Kaleidoscope‘s value as a memoir about the South can hardly be overstated." (Arkansas Historical Quarterly) "This well-written and insightful narrative is a timely addition to the American drama." (Jeannie Whayne, author of Delta Empire and co-author of Arkansas: A Narrative History) "A riveting read." (Elizabeth Payne, editor of Mississippi Women)
©2015 The University of Arkansas Press (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
Fatal Impulse
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Andi seems to be on top of the world - with a charming husband and a beautiful home. But one night Chad lashes out at his wife - and, for the first time, she strikes back. Chad’s body is dashed on the rocks below, while Andi is left in the driving rain, staring down into the inky darkness of the Atlantic Ocean. The community pulls together to support the grieving widow, unaware that a local detective has his own suspicions about what happened. In her new role as widow, Andi struggles to regain her footing under the scrutiny of a determined detective, even as she questions herself what happened that fateful night. The stranglehold of Chad’s abuse continues to drag her down while she attempts to start a new life. After so many years of physical and emotional abuse, she’s broken - terrified of being alone, desperate for the safety of a relationship...no matter how self-destructive it might be. She discovers her husband led a secret life, one that threatens to destroy her even after his death. As Andi unravels the threads of Chad’s deception, she finds herself caught up in the web he designed to ensnare her - fighting for her life. Fatal Impulse is the first in an intriguing new mystery series, where each widow faces challenges that threaten to destroy her just as she begins to find her strength.
©2015 Lori L. Robinett (P)2020 Lori L. Robinett
Born Evil
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What would you do if you found out your child is a psychopath? One night when Jennifer Hanson returns home, she catches her 12-year-old son, Shane, stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. Having long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies, her worst fears may be confirmed. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. He has behaved normally up until now. Have her efforts been in vain? She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pictures of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally.... Note: Born Evil is a stand-alone psychological thriller with no sex and little violence.
©2018 Julia Derek (P)2018 Julia Derek