The Other People

If you are a stickler for thrillers that make strict sense and seem to follow laws of probability or possibility in the known world, this audiobook may not be for you. If you relish a rich stew of human evil with some supernatural gothic touches, marvelously performed, dig in here. Richard Armitage is the principal narrator, and all his impressive gifts for drama, accents, and character voices are on display. Ellie Kendrick contributes an otherworldly female voice that inserts itself spookily at key moments, but the main event starts with a father rushing home spotting an unfamiliar rust bucket car on the highway in front of him that seems, impossibly, to be carrying his own 5-year-old daughter away. Mystery, horror, and obsession ensue. B.G. � AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine