Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks. But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling? She's found wearing the clothes of another girl, missing less than two days. While the detectives of Chicago Metro try to make sense of the quickly developing case, Porter secretly continues his pursuit of 4MK, knowing the best way to find Bishop is to track down his mother. When the captain finds out about Porter's activities, he's suspended, leaving his partners Clair and Nash to continue the search for the new killer alone. Obsessed with catching Bishop, Porter follows a single grainy photograph from Chicago to the streets of New Orleans and stumbles into a world darker than he could have possibly imagined, where he quickly realizes that the only place more frightening than the mind of a serial killer is the mind of the mother from which he came.
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“Entertaining from start to finish, this is a thriller listeners will remember…narrated superbly by Edoardo Ballerini and Graham Winton…Ballerini’s delivery of the story is perfect, presenting the characters with distinct voices and ample narrative drive. Winton inhabits Bishop’s psyche, using an appropriately creepy tone to deliver the psychopath’s perverted perspectives…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
“The cliffhanger ending points to more mayhem in a third volume.”
— Publishers Weekly“Well-written, haunting, and insanely addictive…This is what a crime thriller is supposed to look like. Think Stephen King meets Michael Connelly—J. D. Barker was born to write crime thrillers, and The Fifth to Die is his latest masterpiece.”
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J. D. Barker is the award-winning author of numerous novels, including Dracul and The Fourth Monkey. He also writes in collaboration with James Patterson. His novels have been translated into two dozen languages and optioned for both film and television
Edoardo Ballerini, an American actor, director, film producer, and multiaward–winning narrator. He has won several Audie Awards for best narration, including for 2019’s Best Male Narrator of the Year. He was named by Booklist as winner of their 2023 Voice of Choice Award, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, from classics to modern masters, from bestsellers to the inspirational, from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners to spine-tingling series, and much more. In television and film, he is best known for his roles in A Murder at the End of the World, The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush, and Romeo Must Die. He is also trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.
Graham Winton is a television, film, and voice actor who has won the Audie Award for Best Narration. He has appeared on such television shows as Blue Bloods, Law & Order, All My Children, and As the World Turns.