Thriller & Crime · Editor Review

An Unwanted Guest

By Shari Lapena Narrated by Hillary Huber ⏱ 8 hrs 27 mins 📅 2018 ★★★★☆4.0 · 2,437 ratings

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Shari Lapena’s An Unwanted Guest is available on Audible as a 8 hrs 27 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Hillary Huber.

Publisher’s Summary

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

“Lapena’s books are addictive!”Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid

“Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world…She is intensely bingeable.”Lisa Jewell

Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Not a Happy Family

A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting away

It’s winter in the Catskills and Mitchell’s Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing–maybe even romantic–weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery.

So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity–and all contact with the outside world–the guests settle in and try to make the best of it.

Soon, though, one of the guests turns up dead–it looks like an accident. But when a second guest dies, they start to panic.

Within the snowed-in paradise, something–or someone–is picking off the guests one by one. And there’s nothing they can do but hunker down and hope they can survive the storm–and one another.

Audiobook Details

  • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
  • Length: 8 hrs 27 mins
  • Publisher: Penguin Audio
  • Release year: 2018
  • Audible category: Literature & Fiction / Women’s Fiction / Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Listener Ratings

An Unwanted Guest holds an average listener rating of 4.0/5 from 2437 Audible ratings.

On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:

  • Performance (narration): 4.1/5
  • Story: 4.0/5
  • 5-star ratings: 42% of all ratings

What Audible Listeners Are Saying

3/5 stars — “Just ok”
Ok story. Terrible narration. Not worth a credit. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

— Hockey, Audible listener

4/5 stars — “If you are looking for a Agatha Christie”
Then you got a Christie novel. This is a classic “group of people trapped in one place with a murderer and a storm outside”.
The only flaw: the narrator seemed a bit mechanic (like AI)

— AG, Audible listener

4/5 stars — “Good story but bad editing”
I had pre-ordered this book since I had read some of Shari Lapena’s other books and had enjoyed them. There are many characters to distinguish right from the get go and the not so great editing made it kind of difficult. I had to listen to the first few chapters twice to fully grasp what was going on because POV changes were edited poorly and ran together.

The story was interesting and the middle of the book clipped along as a nice pace.

Make it through the bad editing in the first quarter of the book and you’re good.

— Amazon Customer, Audible listener

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