Omens

Kelley Armstrong

Aug 2013 · The Cainsville Series Book 1 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Carine Montbertrand and Mozhan Marnò

About this audiobook

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong begins her new series with Omens, featuring a compelling new heroine thrust into a decades-old murder case and the dark mysteries surrounding her strange new home.

Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a handsome young tech firm CEO with political ambitions.

But Olivia’s world is shattered when she learns that she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving a life sentence. When the news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity to her adopted family and fiancé, Olivia decides to find out the truth about the Larsens.

Olivia ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, an old and cloistered community that takes a particular interest in both Olivia and her efforts to uncover her birth parents’ past.

Aided by her mother’s former lawyer, Gabriel Walsh, Olivia focuses on the Larsens’ last crime, the one her birth mother swears will prove their innocence. But as she and Gabriel start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable to unknown enemies. Because there are darker secrets behind her new home and powers lurking in the shadows that have their own plans for her.

Ratings and reviews

It was going great, an enjoyable read, but the book is 68 chapters long, but Google audiobook only plays to chapter 62, then cuts off mid sentence 7 minutes in. I've deleted and re-downloaded several times without getting access to the remaining six chapters. I've submitted a complaint but have yet to get a response or resolution. Extremely dissapointed in Google books right now.

I would have bought the book but the preceding review is a good reason not to. When I read they've fixed the end of the book, I'll be back. It sounds like a great listen.

About the author

KELLEY ARMSTRONG is the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Otherworld series, as well as the New York Times bestselling young adult trilogy Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising series. She lives in rural Ontario with her family.