MY SUNSHINE AWAY

Lindy was a happy, athletic girl until she was attacked one night in her own quiet neighborhood. This audiobook begins with this revelation of violence and spends the subsequent hours examining the crime, its aftermath, and its many and varied suspects--the story's first-person narrator being a part of that group. Kirby Heyborne voices the narrator with an eerie calm and a slow, methodical pace, both suited to the novel's languid Louisiana setting. However, given the dark subject matter, these features often give the story a creepiness that doesn't seem intended. All in all, Heyborne's performance is capable; his dialogue is well defined and his portrayal of individual characters is believable. The only problem may be that one does not want to believe any of it. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2015]