04253cam a2200397 4500 233701683 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781598872675 1598872672 a2fcffe5-108e-4fd7-9ab0-f95029682b66 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 126061 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hyde, Elisabeth. The Abortionist's Daughter [Bridges Audiobook]. HighBridge Company, 2006. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 233MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 233MB. HTML:<p>When the director of the Center for Reproductive Choice is murdered, a town must confront the consequences of choice, the nature of guilt, and the hidden allegiances and hostilities that animate and destroy families and communities.</p> <p>Two weeks before Christmas, Dr. Diana Duprey is found floating face-up in a small lap pool in her back yard. A medical doctor with an abortion practice, and a national figure who inspired passion and ignited tempers, she had been the target of violent threats by right-to-life activists. Her husband, Frank Thomson, a lawyer in the district attorney’s office, fought bitterly with her on the morning of her murder. To reveal the nature of their argument would cost him his career—and more. Diana’s daughter, Megan, also quarreled with her on the day of her death. The Reverend Stephen O’Connell, founder of the town’s outspoken Lifeblood Coalition, had reasons of his own to want Diana’s practice shut down, including her involvement with his troubled teenager. The investigation of the case unleashes a flood of secrets in Duprey’s small Colorado town, whose residents must face haunting questions—and the accusations of their own consciences.</p>. Narrator Beth McDonald takes every chance to enliven the characters of Hyde's novel about the murder of a well-known abortion doctor. While the mystery of Dr. Duprey's death winds throughout, the story is less about finding the killer than the relationships and personalities of the doctor's spoiled college student daughter, repressed and frustrated husband, ex-boyfriend, and the young, sexy detective. McDonald inhabits each character--never missing a beat with smart-alecky conversations or the banter of the cops. Most intriguing is her facility with tense interchanges--mother-daughter, father-daughter--and her fluid switching between interior monologue and conversation. Listeners may need a bit of patience with the story and the writing, but McDonald makes the performance all it can be. R.F.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:<p><i>"Like Anne Tyler, Hyde captures the quirky, heartbreaking core of a character and puts it on the page in shining prose."</i></p>. HTML:<i>--Publishers Weekly</i>. HTML:<p><i>"Elisabeth Hyde is a lucid and authoritative novelist."</i></p>. --John Irving. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:02. McDonald, Beth. (p) 2006 HighBridge Company. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=a2fcffe5-108e-4fd7-9ab0-f95029682b66 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/126061-TheAbortionistsDaughter.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/126061-TheAbortionistsDaughter.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A2FCFFE5-108E-4FD7-9AB0-F95029682B66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/126061-TheAbortionistsDaughter.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/126061-TheAbortionistsDaughter.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A2FCFFE5-108E-4FD7-9AB0-F95029682B66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)