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House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Laura Benanti
Published by MacMillan Audio, St. Martin's Press on August 13, 2024
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Pages: 352
Length: 10 hours, 43 minutes
Format: Audiobook, eARC
Source: NetGalley, Publisher
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On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.
A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer. But how can you find out the truth when everyone here is lying?
Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny - in the midst of her parent's bitter divorce - and immediately stopped speaking. Stella Hudson is a best interest attorney, appointed to serve as counsel for children in custody cases. She never accepts clients under thirteen due to her own traumatic childhood, but Stella's mentor, a revered judge, believes Stella is the only one who can help.
From the moment Stella passes through the iron security gate and steps into the gilded, historic DC home of the Barclays, she realizes the case is even more twisted, and the Barclay family far more troubled, than she feared. And there's something eerie about the house itself: It's a plastic house, with not a single bit of glass to be found.
I’ve wanted to try this author and I’m glad I was able to read House of Glass. Stella is an engaging main character with good intentions and knowledgeable about her work in being a representative for children. Rose is a bit younger than her normal cases but has a condition she once had herself.
The parents are divorcing. The paternal grandmother is living there and now teaching the child. Stella sees problems with all of them. I felt very tense with worry over Stella in the house since the nanny was most likely murdered. These are not safe people. Stella comes up with a plan to draw out the killer. So I was even more worried.
Stella is also just starting to be able to look at what happened to her parents and why they died. She has had Charles as a mentor since her mother died. He hired her and assisted her to get through law school. But now there are some hard truths she will learn about her parents.
Stella is sharp and capable. I enjoyed the ending because she handled things well and protected the child. It was suspenseful getting there!
Narration:
Laura Benanti is relatively new to me as I’ve listened to her work just once before. I enjoyed her narration and it kept me comfortably in the story. Her voices for the character felt appropriate. I listened at my normal 1.5x speed.
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I think I’d really like this, thanks for your review, Anne😁
Thank you. It’s creepy and you would like that.
Glad you enjoyed this, too, Anne💜
Thank you.
Just reading the description and your thoughts tell me just how tense it got. Interesting career for the heroine.
yes it really suited her since she had been a child without an advocate though and few choices.
Everyone seems to be liking this book! It’s one I definitely want to check out. 😀
It’s good and definitely suspeseful.
I have this one to read, So happy to see you enjoyed it.
I hope you enjoy it too!
Great review! I really enjoyed this one as well – it had such a creepy unsettling feel!
It was so creepy but the feelings were real.
Sounds like a good find!
I did really enjoy it. It was so creepy though I was worried.
I was offered a digital arc but in the end I didn’t download it because I had too much going on to add another arc to the pile. I’ll request a library audio because it sounds good!
I hope you enjoy it too. It is creepy and suspenseful, but a good story.
This sounds like it would be a good book club book 😉
It might be. It’s really creepy, kind of haunting.