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    Cape Perdido
    Cape Perdido
    Cape Perdido
    Audiobook6 hours

    Cape Perdido

    Written by Marcia Muller

    Narrated by Dick Hill and Joyce Bean

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    About this audiobook

    Amid ancient redwoods and sun-dappled reeds, the Perdido River runs clear and cold from the mountains of Soledad County to the blue Pacific. A wildlife refuge and a pristine recreational area, the river brings tourists to the old lumber town of Cape Perdido…and flows through the memories and hearts of the rugged people who have settled there since the Gold Rush days.

    Now that is about to change. An out-of-state corporation wants to pump the river nearly dry and float the water to southern California’s thirsty cities in huge rubber rafts. With lobbyists, lawyers, and dirty tricks, the company intends to get what it wants—any way it can.

    Against this corporate Goliath, a community protest group and four unusual individuals are drawing a line in the sand. Flying in from New York City, ecologist Jessie Domingo hopes to grab headlines for her cause. Environmentalist Joseph Openshaw has come back to the home, and the secrets, he left behind decades ago. His former lover, local restaurateur Steph Pace, fears both the emotions and the ghosts arriving to haunt her. And old man Timothy McNear, owner of the defunct mill that once employed most of the town, silently broods about the sins he has hidden for too long.

    But no one envisions what will happen when the crack of a sniper’s bullet sets off a chain of desperate acts. As the peace of this small town is shattered, murder stains Cape Perdido, and one by one, those who stand tall for a cause may be swept away by the current of a town’s ugly truths—and a killer’s revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 19, 2005
    ISBN9781597370875
    Cape Perdido
    Author

    Marcia Muller

    MARCIA MULLER was named MWA Grand Masterin 2005. She has published fifty novels, thirty-two inthe Sharon McCone series, as well as six short storycollections and numerous articles, stories and bookreviews.

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    • 4/5
      Another great book by Marcia Muller. Now if I could only get my hands on the first two books of her Sharon McCone series.
    • 2/5
      first book, I heard from her. A book you can easly listen to while stuck in traffic. A little bit too many characters in the story. An ok book.