White Crocodile

by K. T. Medina Narrated by Mary Jane Wells

Overview

One of Booklist's Best Crime Novels of the Year

Tess Hardy thought she had put Luke, her violent ex-husband, firmly in her past. Then he calls from Cambodia, where he is working as a mine-clearer, and there's something in his voice she hasn't heard before: Fear. Two weeks later, he's dead.

Against her better judgment, Tess is drawn to Cambodia and to the killing fields. Keeping her relationship to Luke a closely guarded secret, Tess joins his team of mine clearers, who are shaken to the core by Luke's sudden death. Even in their grief, the group remains a tightly knit and tightly wound community in which almost everyone has something to hide.

At the same time, the circle of death begins to expand. Teenage mothers are disappearing from villages around the minefields, while others are being found mutilated and murdered, their babies abandoned. Everywhere there are whispers about the White Crocodile, a mythical beast that brings death to all who meet it. Caught in a web of secrets and lies, Tess must unravel the truth, and quickly. The crocodile is watching, and Tess may be its next victim.

Combining the technical expertise of military suspense with a richly drawn sense of place, White Crocodile forges new ground in the thriller genre. Medina's internationally acclaimed debut announces the arrival of a prodigiously talented novelist whom readers will be discussing for years to come.

Editorial Reviews

AUGUST 2015 - AudioFile

Medina's chilling debut takes audible form through Mary Jane Wells's narration. The Cambodian-set thriller is steeped in superstition and suspense as an English woman works clearing mines in a place where her ex-husband died suspiciously. While Wells's reading reflects little of the story's distinct setting and rich atmosphere, she elicits respect for the customs and horror for the atrocities depicted in the plot. She also adeptly juggles a variety of accents for the multicultural cast and recounts the characters' internal conflicts with compassion and authenticity. Even though this audiobook doesn’t excel, WHITE CROCODILE is an exciting, dark story that thriller fans should find suitably captivating. J.F. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

From the Publisher

"Hard to put down . . . Those who liked Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train should also appreciate K.T. Medina's White Crocodile."—Margie Romero, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Medina's writing radiates with adrenaline. . . . Supernaturally sinister and convincingly gripping . . . An atmospheric and disquieting crime thriller."—Shelf Awareness

"An exciting first novel, from a huge new talent."—Mo Hayder, Edgar Award-winning author of Gone and Wolf

"A dark tale of the way our past haunts us, and the revenge it can drive us to take. K.T. Medina knows her war torn landscape intimately, in all its complexity and desperation. Medina does for Cambodia what Timothy Hallinan does for Thailand, and I anticipate more from this intriguing new author."—Jenny Milchman, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Cover of Snow and Ruin Falls

"Operatic ... the most ambitious of canvases [with] the fraught psychological territory of Joseph Conrad's Africa in Heart of Darkness ... a vulnerable buttenacious heroine ... a strongly written thriller and a passionate meditation. There is yet another accomplished crime writer joining the sizeable throng of names to which attention must be paid."—Barry Forshaw, The Independent

AUGUST 2015 - AudioFile

Medina's chilling debut takes audible form through Mary Jane Wells's narration. The Cambodian-set thriller is steeped in superstition and suspense as an English woman works clearing mines in a place where her ex-husband died suspiciously. While Wells's reading reflects little of the story's distinct setting and rich atmosphere, she elicits respect for the customs and horror for the atrocities depicted in the plot. She also adeptly juggles a variety of accents for the multicultural cast and recounts the characters' internal conflicts with compassion and authenticity. Even though this audiobook doesn’t excel, WHITE CROCODILE is an exciting, dark story that thriller fans should find suitably captivating. J.F. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170407811
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	06/30/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged

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