The Love Talker, Elizabeth Peters
The Love Talker, Elizabeth Peters
List: $16.95 | Sale: $11.87
Club: $8.47

The Love Talker

Author: Elizabeth Peters

Narrator: Grace Conlin

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/03/2007


Synopsis

Surely Aunt Ida couldnt really have meant what she said: I only hope I will be taken before my mind fails. Fairies in the woods, indeed! But when Laurie and her brother Doug visit her at Idlewood, they discover that Aunt Ida may indeed have something to fear in the woods.

About Elizabeth Peters

Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was one of the pseudonyms of American writer Barbara Louise Mertz, whose New York Times bestselling Amelia Peabody mysteries are often set against historical backdrops. In 1952, Peters earned a PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She was named grand master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention.


Reviews

Goodreads review by C.

I love how dated this book was. Published in the 1980s, it lacked all the current technological advances. No cell phones, lap tops, pda's, pagers, internet, etc. I found it refreshing. And the story was fun, too. Peters' heroines are always sharp-witted, driven, and fallible in a way that makes sens......more

Goodreads review by Angie

Nice, slower-paced suspense novel originally written in 1980, so lacking (refreshingly so) the influx of technological advances. Having read The Cottingley Secret earlier this year and thoroughly enjoying it, the idea of reading another "fairy photo" story was intriguing. There were many twists and......more