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Turtle Moon

By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
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Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon.

A young single mother is murdered in her apartment and her baby is gone. Keith, a 12-year-old boy in the same apartment building - the self-styled "meanest boy" in town - also disappears.

In pursuit of the baby, the boy and the killer, are Keith's divorced mother and a cop who himself was once considered the meanest boy in town. Their search leads them down the humid byways of a Florida populated almost exclusively by people from somewhere else; emotional refugees seeking sanctuary along the swampy coast.

©1997 Alice Hoffman (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Literary Fiction Family Life Thriller & Suspense Mystery Suspense Fiction Genre Fiction Romance

Critic reviews

"She knows how to manipulate suspense and tug the heartstrings; with its cinematic flow and larger-than-life characters, her novel will make a wonderful movie." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Pure Hoffman: her take on the tropics is haunting, hypnotic, and hot as a fever dream." ( Kirkus Reviews)
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I thought it was a very nice story to listen too with well developed characters.

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This is a very enjoyable story. I am glad I went with the audio version because the narrator's voice is perfect for the story.

An enchanting story

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Nicely performed reading of a good story. This was a sort of whodunnit around characters in a state of life changes, coming of (middle) age, with some magical realism thrown in. Excellent character development and brilliant plot of intertwining lives of the quirky characters. Lots of animal loving and appreciation, too!

Nice Listen

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This was a good story, but Narrator was Not a good match. Makes me wonder who decides who is reading

Good Story, Wrong Narrator

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It's a lovely , poetic book, beautifully written, and beautifully read.I loved and recommend
It whole heartedly.

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