THE LAST SPIRITS OF MANHATTAN

Eileen Stevens narrates this slow-paced audiobook based on a true story. In 1956, sweet Midwesterner Carolyn Banks rents her great-aunts' eerie mansion on New York's Upper East Side. Unbeknownst to her, it's inhabited by familial ghosts, including her audacious Great-Aunt Snug. When Alfred Hitchcock and some of his actor friends have a party there in hopes of a ghostly encounter, they get more than they bargained for. In a scratchy timbre, Stevens delivers New York City accents and vaguely British accents for the guests and an upper-crust enunciation for Carolyn and the ghosts. As Carolyn learns more about her family, the novel's timelines become confusing. Stevens's precise narration is marred by jarring mispronunciations. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2025]