Audiobook8 hours
So Far and Good
Written by John Straley
Narrated by David Chandler
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this audiobook
The verdict from the three-judge panel is in. Cecil Younger, bumbling criminal defense investigator and totally embarrassing father, has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his involvement in … well, a number of things, ranging from destruction of private property to killing a guy. But compared to the original twenty-five-year sentence, it’s not so bad. His success with getting his sentence reduced has attracted the attention of his fellow inmates, and one man, “Fourth Street,” reaches out for advice for his upcoming parole hearing in exchange for protection and companionship.
When he isn’t reading Adrienne Rich or James Baldwin with Fourth Street, Cecil spends his time filling up large yellow legal pads. He writes, mostly, about his teenage daughter, Blossom, who is on a Nancy Drew–like quest to help her friend, George, discover the truth about her biological parents, which turns out to be complicated. After submitting a mail-in genetics test, George learns she is the infamous “Baby Jane Doe” who was kidnapped from her Native mother shortly after she was born. A media and legal circus quickly ensues, but George’s reunion with her birth family isn’t the heartwarming story the journalists hoped it would be. There is an even darker secret about the baby-snatching case, one that threatens to destroy not just George’s family—but Cecil’s as well.
When he isn’t reading Adrienne Rich or James Baldwin with Fourth Street, Cecil spends his time filling up large yellow legal pads. He writes, mostly, about his teenage daughter, Blossom, who is on a Nancy Drew–like quest to help her friend, George, discover the truth about her biological parents, which turns out to be complicated. After submitting a mail-in genetics test, George learns she is the infamous “Baby Jane Doe” who was kidnapped from her Native mother shortly after she was born. A media and legal circus quickly ensues, but George’s reunion with her birth family isn’t the heartwarming story the journalists hoped it would be. There is an even darker secret about the baby-snatching case, one that threatens to destroy not just George’s family—but Cecil’s as well.
More audiobooks from John Straley
Cold Storage
Related to So Far and Good
Titles in the series (8)
The Woman Who Married a Bear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Curious Eat Themselves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Angels Will Not Care Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Music of What Happens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death and the Language of Happiness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cold Water Burning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Baby's First Felony Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5So Far and Good Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related audiobooks
The Music of What Happens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death and the Language of Happiness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Woman Who Married a Bear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wolf Kill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Simple Thing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBaby's First Felony Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Blood Retribution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fake Money, Blue Smoke Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Should I Fall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Angels Will Not Care Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Axe County: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Curious Eat Themselves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Man Dancing: A Bad Axe County Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blackwater Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing Short of Dying: A Clyde Barr Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stolen Ones Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cold Water Burning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pay Dirt Road Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stillborn Armadillos Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lady Jail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Rose Forgot: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Snow Angels Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Penance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scrublands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fragile Beasts: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ultimatum: A Thriller Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dark Flood: A Benny Griessel Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wayward Target Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHatchet Island: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Mystery For You
Listen for the Lie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5None of This is True: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Sherlock Holmes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mother-Daughter Murder Night: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Lies in the Woods: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heaven’s Crooked Finger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River We Remember: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Did I Kill You?: A Thriller Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Woman in the Library, The Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Grace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hit and Run Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tell No One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unexpected Guest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book of Lost Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One for the Money: A Stephanie Plum Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hallowe'en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silence of the Lambs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Tender Land Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Postmortem Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Girl, Alone (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for So Far and Good
Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars
4/5
5 ratings0 reviews