SUSPICION

Given that this novel has plot holes you could drive a moving van through, Steven Kearney's task in performing the audiobook is to maintain a level of tension, excitement, and surprise so propulsive that you don't stop to say, "Wait . . . a man skis off into virgin snow, and there's no way to tell which way he went?" (And if only that were the only howler.) But the producers of the audiobook did a great day's work casting Kearney. He makes the improbable protagonists sympathetic, and keeps the pace so fast and the drama so high, without going over the top, that you really might end up in the driveway listening to the high-octane ending instead of going inside for your supper. B.G. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2014]