The Underwood Tapes by Amanda Dewitt

Narrated by Laura Knight Keating

This was one of the rare occasions when I had the time to listen to an audiobook continuously over the course of consecutive days. This is not something that happens very regularly nowadays, but I used the time to finish this book.

This is a time slip plot. The first of this type of book that I ever read was a long time ago, much before I knew that the sub-genre had a name!

Grace is still mourning her mother’s loss and finds herself doing a dead-end job listening to old tapes recording town artifacts. She is meant to be transcribing them, but the recordings from 1992 stir something in her and soon enough she is investigating very old deaths. The Underwoods are not talked about and Grace is bent on finding out why.

I was not as satisfied with the ending, although I must admit it was the most mature and realistic outcome ( even with the concept of time being played with).

The narrator did a fantastic job bringing everything to life. Her reading was the primary reason I wanted to and was able to finish the story when I did. I would definitely recommend this book to fans of the genre/ sub- genre.

I received the book thanks to Netgalley and the publishers but the review is entirely based on my own listening experience.