In a Dark, Dark Wood Free Audiobook Download by Ruth Ware

The transfer of ownership is an important step in a person's life. It can be a small, personal milestone with large implications for the future. In Ruth Ware's suspenseful mystery, In a Dark Dark Wood, the heroine, Cora Shaw, finds herself stuck in a dark wood while trying to make this important transition.

Wanting to be in control of her life, protagonist Maddie Smith has cut herself off from love and any other emotion she can't quantify. As if that wasn't bad enough, her life was turned upside down when her successful business suddenly folded. With nothing left but the clothes on her back, she decides to leave London and head out into the country where she finds an abandoned house in a village near Haddington. Things take a turn for the worse after she accidentally sets fire to the house and is forced to flee to Millford with only her dog for company.

After a weekend away in the country I take a wrong turn and find myself following a group of strangers down a path I can't remember walking. Within moments of meeting them, we realize that we are being stalked by someone who wants to hurt us and so we have to work out what is real and what might happen.

In a Dark, Dark Wood is a dark and suspenseful tale of a woman losing it all; her career, her friends, and everything she knew. She had it all until she made one fateful decision and the story follows how she recovers from the set-back.

In a Dark, Dark Wood is a psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end. The audiobook is narrated by Imogen Church, who does a fantastic job of getting into the character's head, making you feel like you're there with them. The audiobook has a great pace, never letting up on the suspense or weaving any false story lines.

"I looked up and saw a dark, dark wood." This is the narrator's first sentence. The reader soon finds out that she is watching her sister die from a drug overdose in their childhood home on Christmas Day. Her life was perfect until that day, but after it all went to hell, she struggled for months trying to get over the death of her sister. With only one year left before the house sold, she had to move in with her father, who was not much help. "If you can't stand the heat," he told me, "get out of the kitchen."