Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens.
Narrator Marcella Cox’s warm voice draws listeners into Tiffany D. Jackson’s White Smoke, the story of Mari, a Black teenager getting a fresh start in a town full of secrets. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Emily Connelly discuss Jackson’s creepy tale of hauntings and hidden histories. Mari and her blended family have just moved from California to a Midwestern town where they get a house for free, courtesy of her mom’s new job. They hadn’t realized it would be on a street full of burned-down houses, or that they’d hardly get a warm welcome. Cox amplifies Mari’s anxiety and her fear as horrors unfold, and listeners will be riveted.
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Support for Behind the Mic comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Neil Wenborn’s Confucius—In a Nutshell: Opening with delightfully mood-setting music, narrator Nigel Carrington takes the reins and uses his well-modulated authoritative voice to transmit the time-tested wisdom of the great philosopher.
