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Good as Dead: A Novel Audiobook
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It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We’ll take care of everything.
Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse. Holly and her daughter, Savannah, will want for nothing, beginning with a luxury dream house—all for the price of their silence. But when their sudden appearance in privileged Calabasas, California, piques the curiosity of neighbors, the price becomes greater than they imagined. Because Holly and Savannah aren’t the only ones in the neighborhood with something to hide.
Told from alternating points of view, Good as Dead draws together an unlikely group of people bound to one another by a crime, a cover-up, and compounding deceptions. As carefully constructed lives begin to crumble, how far will everyone be willing to go to bury the truth and protect the people they love?
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"Susan Walter’s debut novel is a masterful, superbly constructed thriller with high tension and clever twists, but also vital heart and soul. A wildly absorbing and propulsive look at what happens when good people do bad things and the unimaginable ripple effects of one tragic event. It’s a terrific read."
— Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times film critic and author of The Last Birthday Party
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“Susan Walter’s debut novel is so full of surprises it should come with a warning label. From the daringly original premise to the shocking climax, you’ll never see the plot twists coming until you turn the page. I cannot wait for her next book!
— W. Bruce Cameron, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Courage -
Susan Walter’s Good as Dead had me holding my breath through every thrilling twist and turn until the downright explosive ending. Fearlessly tackling themes of love, wealth, personal responsibility, and life and death, it was pure pleasure to read, and a brilliant debut.
— Alethea Black, author of You’ve Been So Lucky Already and I Knew You’d Be Lovely -
Susan Walter delivers a thrilling puzzle of a story that she feeds you piece by twisty piece. A wonderfully unique premise, a deep cast of flawed but relatable characters, and a mind-blowing ending, I could not put down this book. Five stars!
— Sawyer Bennett, New York Times bestselling author -
A mystery set in Los Angeles written by a filmmaker? Yes, please! Susan Walter’s Good as Dead is a fun, fast ride through Hollywood’s suburbia. As they say, sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime. Couldn’t put it down!
— Dr. Judy Melinek, New York Times bestselling co-author of Working Stiff and the Jessie Teska mystery series
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About Susan Walter
Susan Walter was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard University. She had hoped to be a newscaster, but the local TV station saw no natural on-air talent and hired her to write and produce promos instead. She moved to Los Angeles to work in film and television production. Upon realizing writers were having all the fun, she transitioned to screenwriting, then directing. She made her directorial debut with the film All I Wish starring Sharon Stone, which she also wrote. She is the author of Good as Dead and two other novels of suspense, with one to come. Her first three books have sold over 165,000 copies combined.
About the Narrators
Kimberly Woods is an actress and producer, known for Crazed, Heartprints, and Cartoon Hook-Ups.
Suzanne Elise Freeman is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.
James Anderson Foster, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has narrated audiobooks for a variety of publishers, across nearly all genres, both fiction and nonfiction. In 2015, he was a finalist in three categories for the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Voice Arts Awards—mystery, science fiction, and fantasy.
Lauren Ezzo, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a commercial voice talent and Chicago-based actor and graduate of Hope College. She has acted in Peppermint Creek Theatre Company’s world premiere of Or You Could Kiss Me. Her narrations have placed her on several “Best of the Year” lists, including AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of the Year list. In 2018, she was part of a full cast of narrators nominated for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Original Work.
Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s, and the Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been named by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She lives in New York.