Audiobook Review: The Boy by Tami Hoag

The Boy
by Tami Hoag (Compact Disc Hoag)

Don’t let the 14 discs/17 hours of listening scare you away. The listener is pulled into the story immediately and it doesn’t let go. Rich with characters and sense-of-place this mystery unfolds as we learn more about the town folks, the victim, his mother, and what happened and why.

 

This is the second in Hoag’s series featuring married detectives Nick Fourcade and Anne Broussard set in Cajun country of the fictional small town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana. They are tasked with solving the murder of KJ, a seven-year-old boy viciously stabbed to death in his home that left his mother wounded and hospitalized. You will not be struggling to figure out the characters and the town. The author provides background on everyone and the reader is not lost when it comes to the interpersonal relationships of everyone. Several subplots are woven together here and everything is interconnected.

 

I highly recommend listening to The Boy rather than reading it. The narrator gives us southern accents, French Cajun comments sprinkled throughout much of Nick’s conversations, and an excellent feel for all of the characters. But if you do decide to read the book, the author provided a French-English translation of phrases at the back.

 

( official The Boy page on the official Tami Hoag web site )

 

Recommended by Charlotte M.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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