INSTINCT

Listeners discover that something weird is going on in the small mountainside town of Silvertown, Washington. Residents and a few unlucky tourists are behaving in dangerous ways counter to their personalities. These odd and at times devastating incidents are recounted by Officer Mary Whittaker, who is portrayed by narrator Nancy Wu. Mary's voice sounds clear, confident, and mercifully sane despite the madness around her. The last third of this taut thriller is electrifying as Mary confronts the villains responsible for the mounting chaos. A secondary narrator, George Newbern, delivers the local chatter in the only bar in town, providing a down-home feel to the heart-pounding sequence of events. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2021]