Crone
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Crone
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Narrated by:
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Keith Rosson
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Pete Cross
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By:
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Keith Rosson
Eli Lamp is a broken man. An ex-detective, ex-addict and long-grieving father whose daughter, Hannah, disappeared a decade before, Eli decimated his old life investigating her abduction and is now indebted to the Crooked Wheel, a local drug gang, as an enforcer.
When the son of the Crooked Wheel's boss is found viciously murdered, Eli receives a new order: find out who the killer is and your debt to the Crooked Wheel is clear forever. This pursuit brings him into the orbit of Avery Bryant, Hannah's former best friend and the last person to see her before she went missing. Soon, Eli and Avery are entwined in a hunt for answers that spans decades, stretches the realm of possibility, and brings churning to the surface a conspiracy linking not only these current tragedies but the buried sorrows of Eli's past.
And though none of them dare say the word witch, at least not out loud, something lurks in the woods, bent-backed and black-eyed, clawed and vengeful, looming ever closer...
©2025 Keith Rosson LLC (P)2026 Penguin Random House LLCdamn another amazing one, great and sad story and a fantastic narrator
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One of my biggest issue was the audiobook narration. It was so monotonous and painfully slow that I struggled to stay engaged. There was barely any variation or emotion in the delivery and I was bored for a huge chunk of it.
I also didn’t love the amount of drug use. It became another element of the story that I just wasn’t particularly interested in and, combined with the slow pace, made the whole thing feel even more of a slog.
The frustrating thing is that there is an interesting story underneath it all. There were moments where I could see what the book was trying to do and genuinely wanted it to grab me, but those moments were surrounded by so much plodding that they never really had the impact they should have.
Maybe I’d have enjoyed this more physically, where I could have read it at my own pace, because the audio definitely didn’t help, but as it is, it’s bang average for me at 2.5 stars.
Monotonous narration. Boring story
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