Quiver
A Novel

Name: Quiver
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter Leonard
ISBN: 9781427204776

Author: Peter Leonard

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 05/13/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

Kate McCall's husband is killed by her teenage son, Luke, in a tragic bow hunting accident--an incident that sets into motion a series of events, culminating in a dramatic, life and death confrontation with a gang of killers. Included in the gang is Kate's first love - an ex-con who himself is struggling to persuade his former "colleagues" that he really did lose the heist money.

Peter Leonard displays remarkable maturity for a first-time novelist in both the language of his protagonists and plotting the story - the twists and turns of a love affair, an unrequited crush and a kidnapping/extortion plot complement a tightly-drawn, intimate cast of memorably quick and dim-witted characters all set around the Leonard family's home turf of Detroit. QUIVER marks the entry of a powerful new voice in crime fiction - and a masterful and powerful debut.

About Peter Leonard

Peter Leonard lives in Birmingham, Michigan with his wife and four children. He is a partner in the ad agency of Leonard, Mayer & Tocco, Inc. He is the author of Quiver and Trust Me.

About Scott Sowers

Scott Sowers has narrated numerous audiobooks, including books by Douglas Preston, Robert Ludlum, John Hart, and Nicholas Sparks. He was named the 2008 Best Voice in Mystery & Suspense by AudioFile magazine. AudioFile also awarded Sowers an Earphones Award for his narration of John Hart’s Down River, writing, “[providing] a bewitching rhythm and pace, expertly capturing and elevating this story of redemption. The combination of Hart and Sowers provides the perfect marriage of prose and voice. Together they enable the book to transcend genre fiction and become something exceptional.” Sowers is also an accomplished actor of both stage and screen. His theater credits include roles in Inherit the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bus Stop, and A Few Good Men. His many television credits include guest roles on Law & Order, The Black Donnellys, Six Degrees, All My Children, and the Hallmark Channel’s Season for Miracles. He has also appeared in the films Trust the Man, The Village and The Ten.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

There's homage, and then there's hand-puppetry, and Peter Leonard walks perhaps too fine a line between the two in his debut crime novel, which could have said "Elmore Leonard" on the cover and nobody would have known the difference. That said, almost everybody loves Elmore Leonard novels, as as Elmo......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Vond dit een iets te simpel verhaal, vooral het einde was te voorspelbaar. (Ruilkastboek).......more

Goodreads review by Paul

This is a really good read if you are looking for something that is fast, easy, entertaining, and full of bad guys, that you well really enjoy getting whats due them. Kate McCall is living a charmed life. She has a wonderful husband and son, that is, until her son, Luke, kills his father in a hunting......more

Goodreads review by Megan

the book was about a family of a wife named Kate Mcall, her husband, and her son, Luke. Kate's husband was killed by Luke accidentally when Luke tried to shoot an arrow at a deer it just missed the deer and hit his father instead. she now struggles with her sons guilt, her first love, Jack, an ex-co......more

Goodreads review by Alejandra

This was a book of the month pick, and, as usual, I liked it. I thought it could have been cut a little bit short in some parts; but I guess that in overall it gives the book a good feel. It's haunting in certain places and scary real in all of them.......more

Quotes

“Peter Leonard's debut novel is a rich palette of everything dark and ominous that exists in crime fiction.... Leonard's well-crafted prose is perfectly realized by narrator Scott Sowers, whose voice seems designed for this chilling story. Sowers reads with passion and a thorough understanding of this crime caper, relating the story in a natural yet understated performance. Leonard's characters are real and believable, and Sowers never fails to bring them to life with a flair for honesty in his delivery. This memorable listening experience just might have listeners coming back to the story again and again, each time experiencing it on a new level.” —AudioFile magazine, winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

“Peter Leonard makes an honourable debut in the same genre with this story of family, tragedy, of encroaching danger and of redemption. Scott Sowers narrates with flair.” —Canada.com

Awards

AudioFile Best Voices

Quiver A Novel