When Cicadas Cry, Caroline Cleveland
When Cicadas Cry, Caroline Cleveland
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When Cicadas Cry

Author: Caroline Cleveland

Narrator: Adam Barr

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2024


Synopsis

A high-profile murder case A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins, a Black man, is found covered in blood, kneeling over the body. In a state already roiling with racial tension, this is not just a murder case: it's a powder keg. A haunting cold case Two young women are murdered on quiet Edisto Beach, an hour southeast of Walterboro, and the killer disappears without a trace. Thirty-four years later, the mystery remains unsolved. Could there be a connection to Stander's case? A killer who's watching Stander takes on Jenkins's defense, but he's up against a formidable solicitor with powerful allies. Worse, his client is hiding a bombshell secret. When Addie Stone reopens the cold case, she discovers more long-buried secrets in this small town. Would someone kill again to keep them? This novel is ideal for fans of mystery, suspense, and thrillers in the vein of Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls and Stacy Willingham's A Flicker in the Dark, as well as for listeners who followed the high-profile Murdaugh murder trial, held in the same small town as in When Cicadas Cry.

About Caroline Cleveland

Caroline Cleveland is a labor and employment lawyer. A native South Carolinian, Caroline grew up in the Lowcountry and earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1991. This is her first novel.

About Adam Barr

Adam Barr is a recovering lawyer, a twenty-five-year veteran of the golf industry, and an actor and a singer with a lifelong love of books and reading. An English major in college, he continued his education by studying with audiobook and voiceover veterans such as Johnny Heller, Steven Jay Cohen, and Tom Dheere. He currently resides with his wife and their Goldendoodle in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on April 23, 2024

When Cicadas Cry by Caroline Cleveland is a legal thriller at the forefront of the story but also infuses in a decades old mystery. The story in When Cicadas Cry is one that is told by changing the point of view between the characters. Zach Stander is a down on his luck attorney looking to make a nam......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on October 15, 2024

When Cicadas Cry has everything I love in a od mystery and much more. It is Southern fiction at its best. It doesn’t mince words talking about racial tensions and injustice in the past or the present but at the same time it shows us how far things have come and the hope for the future. It is a legal......more

Goodreads review by Bookreporter.com on July 21, 2024

Caroline Cleveland's debut mystery novel, WHEN CICADAS CRY, fooled me once. Then again and again. And maybe a few more times. Now that’s what I call a really good mystery. Cleveland wrote in an Afterword that she wanted to supply her readers with plenty of curves and twists. Mission accomplished. I......more

Goodreads review by Aly on September 25, 2024

Really good mystery/thriller/general fiction book. Enjoyed a lot. I really love that this author also included some racial tensions that are still present in parts of the world.......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on June 19, 2024

When Cicadas Cry is a debut novel by Caroline Cleveland an atty from South Carolina, and this is a good one! The story begins as Jessie, a beautiful young white woman is bludgeoned to death with a crucifix inside a church, and Sam, a young black man is accused of her murder. The small town of Walter......more