White Noise, Mercedes Mercier
White Noise, Mercedes Mercier
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White Noise

Author: Mercedes Mercier

Narrator: Caroline Lee

Unabridged: 12 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/01/2022


Synopsis

'A true edge-of-your-seat thriller ... A total page-turner' KELLI HAWKINSSomeone knows your secrets. Someone knows your shame. And they won't stay buried for long.A searing, dark and dangerous thriller from an exciting new voice
When prison psychologist Dr Laura Fleming is assigned charismatic inmate Justin Jones to assess for parole, alarm bells ring. Working with some of the state's most damaged criminals, she knows Jones is too dangerous to release, but he's got everyone fooled . . . She needs proof.Laura knows all about damage. Her own painful mistakes have destroyed her marriage and she's been refused access to her daughter. Step by agonising step, she's rebuilding her life and her relationships, but it's a hard road. What does she have to do to prove she can be trusted?Laura's not taking any chances with Jones, and as she races to find evidence before his parole hearing, she digs deep into his life - and is shocked by what she finds.But as she edges closer to the truth, Laura falls victim to a series of increasingly personal attacks, and secrets from her past threaten to unhinge everything she holds dear - her job, her family . . . even her sanity.Sometimes redemption is out of reach. But revenge will do just fine.

About Mercedes Mercier

Mercedes Mercier writes 'just-one-more-page' crime with twisting plots and relatable characters. As well as writing books, Mercedes works in the criminal justice system, providing her unique insight into the world of prisons, crime and offenders. After a brush with death, Mercedes decided to throw herself into life. She lived overseas, become a black belt in Karate, skydived, and volunteered with animals. When she doesn't have her nose in her laptop and her mind in a story, she loves to read, travel, try new restaurants, and listen to podcasts (true crime of course). She dreams of living on a big property with a menagerie of animals, but currently lives in Adelaide with her partner and just the one dog. Her debut novel, White Noise, featuring prison psychologist Laura Fleming, was published in 2022.


Reviews

Goodreads review by amber on October 08, 2007

My first Don DeLillo. Not for people who use the word postulate. My experience was almost entirely ruined by the used copy I received which had notes in the margins. It says "Help" when Jack Gladney talks about Hitler on multiple pages (Has this person never heard of Hitler?), it says "sheesh" when......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on July 20, 2020

I had this babysitter named Bernice who also was the postmistress of our wind swept Kansas town. My mom would drop me off at the post office which I'm pretty sure using the post office as a day care may have been against regulation, but this was small town America. Bernice was ultra-religious and ob......more

Goodreads review by Vit on October 10, 2021

It is nice to live in the land of plenty – food is merchandise, technology is merchandise, health is merchandise, education is merchandise, culture is merchandise… And everything is mass-produced and second-rate… And you can’t consume it all. Heinrich’s hairline is beginning to recede. I wonder about......more

Goodreads review by Dorothea on October 13, 2013

Reading White Noise by Don DeLillo is the literary equivalent of 18 paranoid hours of non-stop channel surfing while chain-smoking and nursing a migraine in a smoggy, over-crowded city. On meth. Do you want to know why this is one of the most important books of the 20th century? Because it's a good e......more

Goodreads review by Tom on December 31, 2022

POP CULTURE UPDATE: Hey, it's a movie now! I was pretty satisfied; if anything it stayed TOO faithful to the book and I feel the style would be off-putting for anyone going in cold, like it wouldn't stand as a movie on its own cinematic merit. Anyhow, for the curious here's my first impressions. ~|~|~......more