AUDIO

Nine Lives

by Peter Swanson
HarperAudio. Mar. 2022. 7:11 hrs. ISBN 9780062980106. $20.99. M
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Nine names. Nine identical lists. One murderer. Nine seemingly unconnected people receive a list in the mail with their name alongside eight strangers. The mystery of the lists and why they were chosen draws each of them into a deadly game, and as the murders begin, chances are none of them are coming out alive. A smooth if slightly monotone narration doesn’t quite manage to save a stale mystery peopled with characters who don’t really have room to flesh themselves out. Additionally, each chapter of the book is headed with a time stamp and a recital of the list of nine names. In print, it would be easy to skip over this formatting choice, but on audio, it becomes repetitive.
VERDICT A secondary purchase for audio collections; this title from best-selling Swanson (Eight Perfect Murders) may work better in print.
Reviewed by Chrystopher Lytal , Jun 01, 2022
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