I completely get why it’s so interesting to read books set in places you’ve lived. It’s one of the reasons I like books set in California so much. I grew up in northern CA and went to college in southern CA and always have a soft spot for books set in those ares. I’m thinking of listening to The Dog Stars soon.

Thanks for the recs on the other Heller books you liked. I am planning n reading more by him, so will check both out more closely.

I hope The Silent Patient works for you.

I agree that audiobooks are SO tricky. Both story and narrator have to work. I’ve returned MANY audiobooks after listening for an hour and deciding I just couldn’t take the narrator. Certain ones now I’m pretty set on and feel they actually make books better.

I do enjoy books with more than one narrator. That worked really well in An Anonymous Girl, too.

I think you’d enjoy The Silent Patient. It was a fun sort of thriller and it has the creepy psychologist which I know you like.

I definitely loved the combination and am thinking about trying The Dog Stars next. Glad to know Heller’s one of your favorites.

Peter Heller is from Colorado and The Dog Stars was set just a few miles from where I was living when I read it–the landscape is a big part of that story, and it’s eerie to read about your home in a post-apocalyptic world. He’s a great writer, but that’s another reason that one has stuck with me.

You’ve convinced me to keep SILENT PATIENT on the list, I hope to do the audio version as well.