Garden of Beasts : A Novel of Berlin 1936 (Deaver, Jeffrey) by Jeffery Deaver

5/5 – This is one of my top 5 audiobooks ever. ( The Christmas Train is another, but that is another review.) I originally listened to this as a book on CD (BOCD) a couple of years ago. I was excited to find it available from Netlibrary for electronic download. As I automatically do after download, I re-recorded it at ‘fast speed’ (an increase of 40%) and began listening. This is the only book that I have listened to that I wanted to ‘savor’ the story, so I switched from fast speed to normal speed to finish the book. It was even better the second time around. Highly recommended. Note on the author: Jeffrey Deaver is most famous for the Lincoln Rhyme novels such as The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel) which was turned into a movie with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in 1999 ). I have listened to a couple of Lincoln Rhyme novels and I didn’t care for them so much. However, every non-Lincoln Rhyme novel by Jeffrey Deaver has been great. One such is The Blue Nowhere: A Novel. When searching for books by this author it is hard to ‘weed out’ the Lincoln Rhyme novels, so if you know of any others, please pass that info along.
Format : electronic download from Netlibrary, played at normal speed.