PRETTY DEAD THINGS

Award-winning Devon Sorvari uses all her considerable narration talents to bring to life this story about a small town with big secrets. Cora, an affable but rather bland heroine, finds wedding rings in a jar of baubles she buys at an estate sale and seeks to find their owners. This is a dual-timeline mystery, and listeners are pulled back to 1953, a story of forbidden love, and the mystery of what happened to Clarity, a member of a prominent family. While the pace of the narrative is slow and encumbered by many lackluster similes, the story itself is interesting and the ending suspenseful. Sorvari convincingly presents the passions of the characters in a voice that is steady and balanced. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2025]