A Killer in the Low Country by Candice Fox
Candice Fox, you glorious troublemaker, you’ve officially ruined me for every other audiobook with A Killer in the Low Country. I pressed play, fully prepared to multitask — laundry, dishes, adulting, the usual. Ten minutes in, I was perched on my kitchen counter in yesterday’s eyeliner, headphones glued to my ears, ignoring life like it had personally offended me. That’s the kind of chokehold this audiobook puts on you.
Friends You’ll Follow Anywhere
Meet Amber and Blake: two high school teachers who are entirely too smart for their own payroll bracket and entirely too human for anyone’s good. They’re the friends you text at 2 a.m. with “you up?” energy, except their late-night shenanigans involve actual bodies, decades-old grudges and the sort of small-town secrets that could make a soap opera blush. Watching them bumble from “mildly nosy” to “accidentally solving murder” is the most delicious slow-motion car crash I’ve ever had the pleasure of rubbernecking.
The Low Country isn’t just a setting here; it’s a full-blown co-star dripping in honeysuckle and menace. Candice paints it so vividly, I swear my hair got bigger and my coffee turned into strong sweet tea just by listening. The humidity clings, the Spanish moss judges you, the cicadas provide a Greek chorus of “y’all are screwed,” but best of all (at least for me), every porch creaks with somebody else’s scandal. It’s atmospheric without ever being precious, dangerous without ever forgetting to be fun.
And the writing … Lord have mercy! Candice serves dialogue like she’s been eavesdropping on every group chat I’ve ever been in. It’s sharp, it’s snarky, it’s laced with that specific Southern shade that makes you whisper “bless your heart” through clenched teeth. The humor sneaks in wearing bedroom slippers; one second you’re clutching your pearls over a plot twist, the next you’re snort-laughing. Every reveal lands exactly when it should, every red herring swims by with a wink and the suspense never once forgets to pass the snacks.
A Cast That Possesses You
Now, let’s talk about the narration, because Audible didn’t just assemble a cast; they performed a full-on séance and resurrected the concept of joy.
Uzo Aduba is operating on a different plane of existence! Her warmth wraps around you like a hug from your favorite auntie who always smells faintly of vanilla and good decisions, then she pivots to dry-as-bone wit so fast you get emotional whiplash in the very best way.
Chrissy Metz shows up with a heart the size of Texas and tears you didn’t know were on standby. Jessica Almasy serves side-eye you can hear in crystal-clear 4K and Dan Bittner somehow makes awkward dad energy sexy (yes, I said what I said, fight me).
The entire ensemble is so perfectly in sync that it feels less like a performance and more like I accidentally wire-tapped real people’s lives at the absolute peak of their chaos and charisma.
This cast isn’t merely playing characters; rather, they’re possessing them and I am happily haunted. Even the bit players show up swinging — every church lady, nosy neighbor and shady deputy gets their own distinct flavor of Low Country drawl. I caught myself pausing to cackle at a perfectly timed “well, I never” that deserved its own Emmy. The chemistry between the leads is so palpable I’m half convinced Uzo and Chrissy are actually besties who recorded this in one long, wine-fueled weekend.
Twists, Teases and a Sequel I Need Yesterday
Yes, the savviest mystery nerds might spot the final twist coming a hair early, but honestly? I didn’t even care. The landing is so satisfying, so cheek-cheekily perfect … And that little epilogue tease? Ma’am, my body is ready for book two. My Paypal is open if you need a bribe.
When the credits rolled (because yes, this audiobook has credits like the masterpiece it is), I sat there almost grief-stricken, unwilling to leave these people. That’s the highest praise I’ve got: this audiobook didn’t just entertain me; it kidnapped me, fed me peach cobbler and dropped me back home happier than I started.
Clear your schedule, charge your headphones and let Candice Fox, Uzo Aduba, Chrissy Metz and the whole dazzling crew escort you straight into the sticky, sultry, sarcastic heart of the Low Country. Ten stars. Twenty if they’d let me. Hell, I’ll tattoo the cover on my body if it gets us a sequel faster.
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About Candice Fox:
Candice Fox is the author of eleven solo novels, three of which have won Australia’s prestigious Ned Kelly Award. She has multiple tv and film adaptations currently in production, with the adaptation of her bestselling Crimson Lake hitting screens as Troppo starring Thomas Jane and Nicole Chamoun in 2022. A third season of the hit show is currently in production.
In 2015, Candice began collaborating with James Patterson. Every one of their seven novels together have been New York Times best sellers.
Candice lives in Sydney with her family and is a volunteer rescuer of injured wildlife.
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