Folly
Written by Laurie R. King
Narrated by Frank Muller
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Kate Martinelli novels and the acclaimed Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, as well as a few stand-alone novels. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first in her Mary Russell series, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of the Century’s Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A Monstrous Regiment of Women won the Nero Wolfe Award. She has degrees in theology, and besides writing she has also managed a coffee store and raised children, vegetables, and the occasional building. She lives in northern California.
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Reviews for Folly
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As well as writing two outstanding series, Laurie R. King writes some amazing stand alones, and this is one of them. Rae Newborn is putting the pieces of her life back together, or trying to, by going to an island in the San Juans of the Northwest and rebuilding the house which belonged to her great uncle.That is the framework for the novel, but in many ways it is a study in connection, loyalty, family and the healing powers of art and creativity.I am strenuously avoiding giving away much of anything of the plot, because any new reader deserves to have every little twist show up for them. It is a great treat of a book.The suspense is so well done that I had to commit The Reader's Sin: I peeked at the ending. I love, love, love this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This should have been a boring book.It is about one woman's fight to resume a normal life after several bouts of suicidal depression. Rae decides to rebuild the house which her great-uncle Desmond built on a small island off the north west coast of America.The house had burnt down and Desmond had disappeared; now the island belonged to Rae.Most of the book catalogues the slow clearing of the site and the rebuilding of the house, guided by a photograph taken 70 years before. But it also describes her relationship with others who come to the island; the sheriff and the wild-life warden, the prickly relationship with her daughter and her passionate desire to keep contact with her beloved grand-daughter, Petra.Were the sounds which she heard and the feeling of being watched hallucinations or was someone really a danger to her? This is the story of a woman's determination to prove to herself and others that she is sane and able to fight her demons without the use of drugs; that she is not insane ...It is not a boring book after all. King is able to balance the rather mundane description of the gradual growth of the house with the tension Rae feels as she comes to terms with the reality of what she finds on the island, not least her sanity.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent book! The only proviso I would include is that this is a thriller with long periods of quiet time, and the solution to the mystery connects to almost nothing in the book. That having been said, I highly recommend getting the audio version and spending time with the book, enjoying the narrative of the protagonist's rebuilding a vintage home and dealing with the real and perceived threats to her safety.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I limit my collections due to space in my home, otherwise this would be a keeper. It was a neat little mystery set in the Pacific Northwest. Great characters, tough problems. An interesting if unsettling insight into the depths of melancholia. Unsettling because some of it hits too close to home.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very well done. Suspenseful without going for the cheap thrill. Romantic without mushy platitudes. During much of the narrative, nothing happens, but the story is interesting enough so that we want to get to know Rae through these moments. The use of great-uncle Desmond’s journal entries were very good, too, and illustrated parallels in her life as well as in the life of someone she doesn’t actually meet until the end of the story. I loved the parts when she was building the house alone. When she was excavating the cellar and found all those artifacts and began to piece together Desmond’s stay on the island. Her love and devotion to the house’s restoration. The pleasure she took in her art and her craftsmanship (craftswomanship?). She sounds like a person I would like to know even though she doesn’t sound easy to get to know or like once you have. She’s abrupt and uncharitable sometimes. Kind of like me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent crime mystery; great character development. Will read more by this author.