Three

Come to provincial France and spend a lifetime with three best friends. They are ordinary in their extraordinariness as internationally best-selling author Perrin (Fresh Water for Flowers) brings these remarkable friends, who met in 1986, vividly to life. Having moved on into their adult years without remaining in touch, Adrien has become a writer; Nina is the manager of an animal shelter, and Étienne is a police officer. In 2017, they are reunited by mystery and tragedy when a car, assumed to be that of a schoolmate who disappeared from the village when she was 18, is found in a nearby lake. Narrator Elisabeth Lagelée adds much to this production with her lightly accented English but French pronunciation of names and phrases. Llisteners will feel like residents of the French countryside, where there are plenty of plot twists, tragedy, mystery, romance, and coming-of-age elements.