
The Rumor
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Karissa Vacker
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Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
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By:
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Lesley Kara
About this listen
“Keeps you guessing until the final page.” (Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train)
“A rollercoaster ride to the very last sentence.” (Fiona Barton, author of The Widow)
“Everyone will be talking about The Rumor.” (Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door)
When a single mother hears a shocking rumor outside her son’s school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another...and now there’s no going back. Rumor has it that a notorious killer, who committed a brutal crime as a child, has been living a new life under an assumed identity in Joanna’s seaside town. So who is the criminal hidden in their midst? Suspicion falls on everyone.
As Joanna becomes obsessed with the case, her curiosity will expose her son and his father to the supposedly reformed murderer - who may be ready to kill again. She will learn how dangerous one rumor can become...and just how far she must go to protect those she loves. She is going to regret the day she ever said a word.
Praise for The Rumor
“A brilliant premise with a killer twist. The Rumor depicts the prejudices and secrets that simmer in a small seaside town to devastating effect.” (Colette McBeth, author of An Act of Silence)
“This mystery has an unusual and resonant theme - how a single rumor can morph into a completely unmanageable, deadly force.... [There’s] psychological acuity throughout and [an] astonishing ending.” (Booklist)
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Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary - and legendarily demanding - director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline: Some girl dies. It's not much to go on, but the specifics don't concern Marissa. Whatever the script is, her job is the same. She'll spend her days in the editing room, doing what she does best: Turning pictures into stories. But she soon discovers that on this set, nothing is as it's supposed to be - or as it seems.
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Rewards you in a careful read through
- By K. S. on 02-26-20
By: Elizabeth Little
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Perfect Little Children
- A Novel
- By: Sophie Hannah
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn’t mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn’t seen Flora for 12 years. She doesn’t want to see her today - or ever again. But she can’t resist. She parks outside the open gates of Newnham House, watches from across the road as Flora arrives, and calls to her children Thomas and Emily to get out of the car.
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English accent
- By Scott on 06-24-21
By: Sophie Hannah
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The Perfect Wife
- A Novel
- By: JP Delaney
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Graham Halstead, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He’s a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss. But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins to question her husband’s motives - and his version of events.
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Really fun read!
- By Sandra Crews on 08-13-19
By: JP Delaney
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The Rumor
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend, Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis be Madeline's salvation?
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Ehhhh
- By Elizabeth ♥️ on 08-16-15
By: Elin Hilderbrand
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My Lovely Wife
- By: Samantha Downing
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances with whom you keep meaning to get dinner. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.
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Great narrator! Crazy story!
- By EasyBreezySunflower on 03-28-19
By: Samantha Downing
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56 Days
- By: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who - and what - he really is.
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A bit disappointing
- By SB on 08-18-21
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What Happened That Night
- A Novel
- By: Sandra Block
- Narrated by: Joel Richards, Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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She doesn't remember that night. But she will never be the same. One moment, Dahlia is a successful Harvard student; the next, she wakes up from a party, the victim of a brutal assault. Her life veers into a tailspin, and what's worse - her memory of the attack has been ripped away, leaving a cold rage in its wake. Now, years later, Dahlia is a tattooed paralegal suffering from PTSD and still haunted by that night. Until one day, a video surfaces online, and Dahlia sees her attack for the first time. Now she knows what happened to her. And she knows who is to blame.
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Decent Idea...But Poorly Executed
- By David on 08-31-18
By: Sandra Block
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The Better Liar
- A Novel
- By: Tanen Jones
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Karissa Vacker, Kristen Sieh
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Leslie Flores has the perfect life - a loving husband, a happy newborn, and a New Mexico home straight out of a magazine. She’s been the perfect daughter, too, taking care of her ailing father in his final days. But Leslie has a dark secret - and it’s an expensive secret to keep. When she discovers she won’t receive a penny of her inheritance unless she finds her estranged sister, Robin, she sets out to track her down. Instead, upon arriving at Robin’s apartment, Leslie discovers her body.
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Mental illness and music
- By felicia jones on 01-20-20
By: Tanen Jones
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It's One of Us
- By: J.T. Ellison
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients. But her own deepest desire can’t be fulfilled by marble counters or the perfect rug. She desperately wants to be a mother. Fertility treatments and IVF keep failing. And just when she feels she’s at her lowest point, the police deliver shocking news to Olivia and her husband, Park. DNA results show that the prime suspect in a murder investigation is Park’s son. Olivia is relieved, knowing this is a mistake. Despite their desire, the Benders don’t have any children. Then comes the confession.
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Painfully Predictable
- By Jen S. on 04-14-23
By: J.T. Ellison
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Do You Remember?
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face. She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband. Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: she was in a terrible car accident one year ago. Every morning, she wakes up unable to remember most of the last decade. Including her own wedding.
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One of the better ones
- By cotswoldrose on 10-13-24
By: Freida McFadden
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A Beautiful Couple
- A Psychological Thriller
- By: Leslie Wolfe
- Narrated by: Zara Eden
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Amanda Davis has it all: a beautiful home, a thriving career, and a charismatic husband who is the darling of television news. But when Paul kills someone in a disturbing accident, Amanda’s perfect world shatters. Pulled into a web of manipulation, deceit, and dark secrets, she becomes his unwilling accomplice, trapped in a twisted, dangerous existence that tests the limits of love and loyalty.
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the ending!!
- By Andrea Self on 06-17-25
By: Leslie Wolfe
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One of the Girls
- By: Lucy Clarke
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson, Sofia Zervadachi
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away. Six very different women travel to a sun-soaked Greek island for a bachelorette trip, to celebrate Lexi’s upcoming wedding. From the glorious ocean views to the quaint tavernas and whitewashed streets, the vacation seems too good to be true. But dangerous undercurrents run beneath the sunset swims and midnight cocktails—because each of the women is hiding a secret. Someone is determined to make sure that Lexi’s marriage never happens—and that one of them doesn’t leave the island alive.
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Found a new writer! 🎉
- By Mary Grady on 08-24-22
By: Lucy Clarke
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Just Another Missing Person
- A Novel
- By: Gillian McAllister
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Justin Avoth, Kerry Wotton
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-two-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get.
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LOVED!
- By Stefanie Jensen on 03-01-24
Blown away
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On the Edge of my Seat
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5 THRILLING STARS
Wow! Lesley Kara’s debut was a a home run, touchdown and every sports metaphor you can imagine rolled up into one. I’ve been let down by boring, predictable thrillers of late, but not by Kara. I couldn’t put THE RUMOR down and never anticipated most of the twists and turns.
Jo is such a great character. In the beginning, she uses social capital that a rumor that a child killer from half a century ago lives in their small New Jersey town. When she hears the responses of vengeance from other mothers, she immediately regrets her decision. Soon people in the town decide a shop owner is the former ten-year-old girl who killed the little boy 50 years ago. Michael, her son’s father and on and off lover, uses his journalistic resources to determine, yes, the former killer lives in town and no, she isn’t Sonia.
Kara does a wonderful job making so many people possible suspects, the overly friendly older woman, the prickly homeowner selling her house, the shopkeeper, a few of the book club members. I was positive I knew the answer and blown away by my wrong assumption.
I couldn’t put THE RUMOR down. The pace was fast and heart thumping over the last 25%. Kara doesn’t stop until the very last sentence.
Mystery, Thriller and Women’s lit lovers will enjoy THE RUMOR.
#TheRumor #LeslieKara
Enthralling
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Jo (main character) is overly dramatic and so worried about fitting in that it's sad.
3 hours to go, and I knew what the twist was gonna be, so it was pretty predictable for me.
Took me over a week to finish because it wasn't very exciting.
If you are in doubt, it's a pass.
The main character is hard to like
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Great book
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It was ok
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Couldn't put it down
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Good twists and Very Enthralling!
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Good twist with great
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Wow, solid mystery/thriller
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