A Longer Fall

Charlaine Harris

Jan 2020 · RB Media · Narrated by Eva Kaminsky

About this audiobook

1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Gunnie Rose series, in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it. In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what's inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries and Midnight, Texas trilogy) is at her best here, building the world of this alternate history of the United States, where magic is an acknowledged but despised power.

Ratings and reviews

A fresh take on the fantasy adventure genres...a different kind of a magical/supernatural story. Based in historic America approx (1920-1940?) History is rewritten with a few pivotal moments altered to change the political climate and this author's idea of whatcould have been. We follow the adventures of Gunny Rose. a woman in her early 20s who has shooting talentsand took up the career of "gunny". A security guard who one would hire for protection of their person or cargo. She uses her quick wit,talent to shoot straight,and high moral/work ethic standards to complete her job the best she's able,overcoming villains with magical abilities and other gunnys. Her birth resulted fromthe rape of her mother by one of these magicians called gregories who are part of a Holy Russian empire established in parts of the former USA. Becoming involved with a gregory named Eli changes her life and her prejudices toward magic. Great story so far...but the ending of this particular book was unsatisfying

About the author

Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi on November 25, 1951. She attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She wrote poetry and plays before beginning to publish mysteries set in the American South. She is the author of the Aurora Teagarden Mystery series, the Lily Bard Mystery series, the Harper Connelly series, and the Sookie Stackhouse series. In 2001, the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead until Dark, won an Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery. The series was adapted as a TV show on HBO called True Blood.