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High Desert
- A Kate Delafield Mystery
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
In this long-awaited new installment of the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Kate is forced to confront her most formidable opponent: herself. Kate Delafield is in a world of trouble. Five months into mandated retirement from the LAPD, her long term on-again off-again relationship with Aimee Grant is off again. She's become hopelessly dependent on the only substance that can drown her pain over Aimee - and the illness of her best friend. She is lost without her police career and beset by terrifying dreams. Into this world walks Captain Carolina Walcott of the LAPD, with a request that Kate secretly try to locate Kate's former police partner, Joe Cameron, who has vanished. She also offers Kate a business card - the name on it a woman from Kate's past who may be able to offer a lifeline back to the self Kate once was.
As she deals with a shocking and inexplicable homicide, Kate also pursues a trail of evidence toward Cameron that leads her into the high desert. Here she will find profound challenges to the truth of everything she ever believed in as a principled police officer. Here she must decide what it is she still believes: about her past, her present, her future.
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- Marie C.
- 05-05-22
Beautifully written
This book is special. Katherine V. Forrest is a wonderful writer. Her many books in this series( this being the 9th), have all had such interesting themes, told in a really gripping way, with amazing descriptive passages which bring both characters and settings into vivid life. The very good narrator added depth and feeling to her reading which added to the enjoyment of this book.
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- Beni Pardy
- 30-05-15
Gripping crime story.
This story kept me finding more chores, walking longer and taking longer routes just so that I could listen to the next chapter! If the are more Kate Delafield books I really look forward to listening to them. The narrator was pretty good too.
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- Caroline Astell-Burt
- 08-07-22
Great writing and beautifully read.
At times I was moved to laugh or else read with a lump in my throat. Not being a lesbian romp this is a novel about characters who happen to be lesbians. It is about people who live, love in the deepest of senses. Whose lives are messy, imperfect, and full of depth and out of pain still find laughter. What they have in common is that apart from the story that makes up the plot- a dying woman and her close friends have lived through the prejudices and triumphs of gay liberation and there in a moment they gather to leave rainbow ephemera at the deathbed of Mary who had provided a welcome and refuge to lesbians in her bar for a generation. This is background. In the foreground is a woman who has lost everything, her partner of twenty years and her job as a homicide police officer because of her addiction to drink. Her courage (possibly stupidity) when helping her best friend leads to triumph- not happily ever after but to possibilities.
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- Jey
- 21-04-22
Great 👍 thanks.
Loved it, another great read from Katherine V. Forest. The narrator has a lovely tone.
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- M. A. Mccormack
- 23-08-20
LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT
I have always meant to read to one of Katherine's books but never got to them - then this gem appeared on Audible. I am definitely going to look into reading the others in the series.
THIS IS A GREAT BOOK - LISTEN TO IT
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- Jacklyn Palmer
- 02-11-21
Predictable
Not as good as thought it would be but a predictable story easy to listening
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- Angela
- 03-08-21
Tear jerker
Although this book is the last in the Kate Delafield series it didn’t matter. The story worked as a stand-alone telling the tale of a retiring police woman who was struggling- with alcohol, with retirement, with the breakdown of her relationship, with the imminent loss of her best friend - and on top of all that she’s roped into helping her ex-partner who has disappeared.
So worth a listen but make sure you have some tissues to hand just in case you get as invested as I did.
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- hf
- 03-09-21
Loved this book
I think this is the best book ofKatherine’d I’ve read, and I like all her books
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