The Sleepwalker Audiobook by Chris Bohjalian

Title: The Sleepwalker
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Chris Bohjalian
Narrator: Cady McClain, Grace Experience
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-10-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 338 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire - the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.
When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and devastating. Once, she merely destroyed the hydrangeas in front of her Vermont home. More terrifying was the night her older daughter, Lianna, pulled her back from the precipice of the Gale River Bridge. The morning of Annalee's disappearance, a search party combs the nearby woods. Annalee's husband, Warren, flies home from a business trip. Lianna is questioned by a young hazel-eyed detective. And her little sister, Paige, takes to swimming the Gale to look for clues. When the police discover a small swatch of fabric, a nightshirt, ripped and hanging from a tree branch, it seems certain Annalee is dead, but Gavin Rikert, the hazel-eyed detective, continues to call, continues to stop by the Ahlbergs' Victorian home. As Lianna peels back the layers of mystery surrounding Annalee's disappearance, she finds herself drawn to Gavin, but she must ask herself: Why does the detective know so much about her mother? Why did Annalee leave her bed only when her father was away? And if she really died while sleepwalking, where was the body?
Conjuring the strange and mysterious world of parasomnia, a place somewhere between dreaming and wakefulness, The Sleepwalker is a masterful novel from one of our most treasured storytellers.

Critic Reviews:
"Bohjalian raises essential questions of identity and heredity, sexuality and desire, bringing the Ahlberg family conundrum into focus with a didn't-see-that-one-coming powerhouse ending." (Carol Haggas, Booklist)
"Bohjalian...never writes the same book twice.... His new novel is suspense with a twist." (Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal)

Members Reviews:
Awful narration
Just started listening to this anticipated story and am thoroughly disappointed in the narration. Very choppy and sharp, can't focus on the story. I never write reviews but had to on this one. Hope the story is worth it.

good story, disappointing narration
The story was compelling and the information about sleepwalking was definitely interesting. However, the narration was irritating. The narrator continually paused where no pause was needed or indicated and it detracted from the overall story.

Good story, poorly narrated.
This was a very interesting and different story from your usual murder/mystery. I'm looking forward to the next one in the series, but please get a new narrator. The reading is very choppy with hesitation in sentences where there shouldn't be any. The narrator is clearly not from New England and should have been coached on the proper way to pronounce clapboard, Storrow Drive, Copley Square and many other words. It was a distraction for me and I know I'm being picky, but I think people should hear the way things are pronounced where the story takes place. I hope it's not too long before the next book is out!

Narrator almost ruins it
Too bad! A good story practically ruined by the halting narration. The narrator pauses in a weird way, breaking up sentences and spoiling the flow of the writing.

Good story, annoying narration
incredibly difficult to listen to.