The Moonflowers Audiobook by Abigail Rose-Marie— narrated by Abigail Reno

Why the audiobook wins

A confession delivered across a series of visits is exactly the kind of material audio was built for, and narrator Abigail Reno leans into that. Eloise Price is ninety-something, unhurried, and in no rush to give Tig — or the listener — anything before she's ready, and Reno's pacing makes that withholding feel earned rather than frustrating, a slow unspooling instead of a stall.

The book works as a two-hander, official conversations about a dead war hero running alongside the unofficial ones about what Appalachian women did for each other when the law wouldn't. Hearing those layers performed rather than read makes the gap between what's said and what's meant land harder, especially in a story rooted in a specific Kentucky place and its silences.

This is a quieter literary mystery, the kind that rewards a long, uninterrupted sit — a drive, a quiet evening. Thirteen hours with Reno in the room is a fair trade for a story this patient.