Author: Charlaine Harris
Series: Midnight Pawn #1
Narrator: Susan Bennett
Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/06/2014
FIRST IN A NEW TRILOGY - From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale-- populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that' s how the locals prefer it. Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It' s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There' s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There' s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there' s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he' s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth...
A painfully slow start I almost threw the book down several times because of the awkward use of an omniscient narrator. But finally all the characters get introduced and the plot gets rolling. By the end I was really enjoying the interplay between townspeople and will definitely read the next book in the series.