Enola Holmes 2 Confirmed for 2022 Release

This is a crime novel with a murder mystery that people are certain they know the murderer of but aren’t actively trying to solve, because they spent years ignoring abuse. It’s a novel about unknowingly paying for other’s pain and other’s sins that asks big questions, like can you save people from their situation? From themselves? Especially, when they refuse? What binds us to others?

We follow Ruby King, her mother, and her father (her mother murdered in their home and her father suspected), Ruby’s best friend Layla, and her family, including the church pastor and what the walls of the church see. Everyone is connected and bound by friendship, secrets, pain, and a shared knowledge that Ruby’s mother was being abused by her husband for years. After the murder Ruby doesn’t know what to do, Layla doesn’t know how to help Ruby, and the pastor finds himself once again being blackmailed from helping…

The audiobook is narrated by Kim Staunton, Imani Parks, Ron Butler, Adam Lazarre-White, Lloyd Roberson II, Terra Strong Lyons.

(TW domestic abuse/ past suicidal ideation and attempted suicide, detail/ alcoholism/ child abuse/ mother with terminal cancer/ past child sexual abuse)

Dustin Tillman’s brother was convicted of murdering their mom, dad, aunt, and uncle in the ’80s–leaving Dustin, his adopted brother, and twin cousins orphaned. Now thanks to DNA evidence, his brother is exonerated. We get a past and present view including in the present all the things that Dustin is dealing with: his wife is dying; he has a new patient convinced that he can crack a serial killer conspiracy involving college athletes getting drunk and drowning; his brother Rusty is reaching out to his son; he and his cousin were the ones who sealed his brother’s conviction. It’s a fantastic read if you love deep dives into multiple characters’ lives and thoughts mixed with a background mystery running throughout.

The audiobook is narrated by Ari Fliakos, Edoardo Ballerini, Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Scott Aiello.

(I don’t remember TWs, sorry.)