TURN OF MIND

Jennifer White has dementia. She is a former hand surgeon, independent and prickly, and not enjoying unraveling any more than you would, but that’s not the problem. Someone has murdered Jennifer’s closest friend, Amanda, and surgically removed four of her fingers. Imagine being the detective or the suspect on this case. What does White remember, and when? Is she even capable of dissembling? Jean Reed Bahle’s performance of this gripping puzzle is nothing short of uncanny. When Jennifer, the ultimate unreliable narrator, is in the present, aware of her condition and plight, her voice is that of a 65-year-old. When she has drifted back in time, her timbre modulates to the appropriate age. This remarkable alchemy is performed without pyrotechnics, but it dazzles anyway. A powerful audio experience. B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2011]