THE BONES OF THE STORY

Narrator Elisabeth Rodgers voices a range of characters in this locked- room mystery. Twenty-five years ago, a student and a writing professor disappeared in the caves near Briarwood College. Alumni and faculty gather now on a December evening to honor the victims, and a snowstorm prevents them from leaving campus. The dean, once a work-study student at Briarwood who felt she didn't fit in, notices haunting similarities with the past. It's not until one alumna dies the same way a character did in a story she wrote as a student that the group really becomes frightened. Rodgers uses an excessively fearful voice for one student, but her convincing Long Island accent, raspy voice for an older character, and menacing whisper enhance the story. A.L.C. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2023]