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    Where Echoes Die: A Novel
    Where Echoes Die: A Novel
    Where Echoes Die: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    Where Echoes Die: A Novel

    Written by Courtney Gould

    Narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc

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    About this audiobook

    Two sisters travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother’s death, but uncover more than they bargained for in this supernatural thriller from the author of The Dead and the Dark.

    Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She can’t stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, longing for a time when things were more normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother’s handwriting arrives in the mail that reads Come and find me, pointing to the small town at the center of her last investigation, Beck hopes that it may hold the answers.

    But when Beck and her sister Riley arrive in Backravel, Arizona, it’s clear that something’s off. There are no cars, no cemeteries, no churches. The town is a mix of dilapidated military structures and new, shiny buildings, all overseen by a gleaming treatment center high on a plateau. No one seems to remember when they got there, and when Beck digs deeper into the town’s enigmatic leader and his daughter, Avery, she begins to suspect that they know more than they’re letting on.

    As Beck and her sister search for answers about their mother, she and Avery are increasingly drawn together, and their unexpected connection brings up emotions Beck has fought to keep buried. Beck is desperate to hold onto the way things used to be, but when she starts losing herself in Backravel—and its connection to her mother— she risks losing her way back out.

    In Where Echoes Die, Courtney Gould draws listeners into a haunting desert town to explore grief, the weight of not letting go of the past, first love, and the bonds between sisters, mothers and daughters.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJun 20, 2023
    ISBN9781250867742
    Where Echoes Die: A Novel
    Author

    Courtney Gould

    Courtney Gould writes books about queer girls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Publishing. She was born and raised in Salem, OR, where she continues to write love letters to the haunted girls and rural, empty spaces. The Dead and the Dark is her debut novel.

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    • 4/5
      Much like The Dead and the Dark this is a beautiful and strange exploration of grief gone rotten. With a lesbian MC, sisterhood, desert sunsets, and creepy cult leader in a Cadillac. It could just be me but I felt like this had some Misommar vibes, though the cult and horror elements are a bit less extreme.