Yolk
The Adam Garwood Detective Series
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
LIMITED TIME OFFER
3 months free
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Yolk
Narrated by:
Michael Robbins
Buy Now for £14.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
-
Narrated by:
-
Michael Robbins
About this listen
Adam Garwood did not realize that when Jillian Lambert walked into his detective agency, his life would never be the same. Not only was Jillian trying to uncover a cold case from 20 years prior, but she was also looking for her twin sister, Devon, whose disappearance was the focus of this case. Adam would soon learn that his probing would uncover a hidden mystery surrounding the Centaur Theatre and its cast of actors, this also leading to frightening details about the Montreal mafia.
Should he leave well enough alone? He would be jeopardizing not only his own life but that of Richard, his lover and soon to be husband. Had his desire to solve this case become all-consuming to him?
©2017 Waldorf Publishing (P)2017 Waldorf PublishingListeners also enjoyed...
Great narration
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The deeper Adam investigates, the more convoluted the case becomes, and his and Richard's relationship is tested. Told mostly in the first person present, with flashbacks of memory to fill in character background, the book starts well, the protagonists are given life beyond the written page and the mystery and madness of both case and client become increasingly engaging. But later it all starts to spiral out of control as the storyline becomes too confusingly unrealistic and the personal romance overly maudlin.
Narrator Michael Robbins does an excellent job, portraying the investigator caught in this increasingly complex and frightening web and as the hapless lover who just wants to go home. He reads beautifully, pace perfect, with just the right intonation to convey the emotion felt by Adam. The listener really is with him, inside his head. Voicings of the other protagonists are also good, distinctive and giving added depth.
Overall, an unusual mystery detective story interwoven with an ongoing gay romance. Sadly, what starts well later disintegrates into confusing contrived chaos. My thanks to the rights holder who freely gifted me my copy .of Yolk, at my request, via Audiobook Boom. Had the book maintained the promise of the earlier chapters, it would definitely have been a book to recommend. Unfortunately, it did not and, without Mr.Robbins' excellent narration, I would have found it hard to finish.
The spirits are looking for answers
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Listener received this title free
The book was ruined by a dull monotone voice with little change for characters and exacerbated by the lack of pause between sentences and characters.
I hate to criticise, but I struggled to listen to the poor reading.
After listening to many books through audible. This is by far the worst narration I have heard.
Next time try pausing between sentences, and especially paragraphs, it felt like a rush.
The ‘Telephone Conversations’ were also hard to hear, there was no need to make it sound like that!
If the fault lies with the editing, then I apologise to the narrator, however something is not right here!
If you want good narration try Kobna Holdbrook-Smith or Stephen Fry, who are both excellent.
I suspect the previous (good narrator) reviewer to be a friend or relation of the narrator, which is fine and understandable but is very misleading for people.
Prove me wrong!
Poor narration and/or editing
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.