Afraid of the Dark

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia

Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage and increasing financial trouble, Mark's life began to slowly unravel. He became addicted to pain killers and gambling, and ended up spending five months in rehab.

Forced to go back to work, Flo became bitter and resentful of Mark and began to have an affair with one of his friends. When Mark returned home and his disability checks weren't enough to make ends meet, Flo filed for divorce.

Panicked by the thought losing her, Mark did everything he could to win Flo back. Even though she resisted his efforts, Flo did agree to a weekend getaway at the family's favorite lakeside resort. But after their first night there, Flo went missing...and the next day her corpse was found floating in the water. Mark claimed that her death was an accident - one that must have happened while he was up at the cottage putting the kids to sleep. But soon a jury would be convinced of what Flo's friends and family believed to be true: that Flo would never have been alone on the boat dock that night because she was deathly afraid of the dark.

©2017 Tom Henderson (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

algae

nothing special, another 3 star story. the real crime perpetrated here is the way the narrator pronounces algae

Great story, but left me angry!

I had never heard of this story before, but thoroughly enjoyed it. About halfway through I just assumed he would be found innocent. If he did it or not, who knows, but there was MORE THAN ENOUGH reasonable doubt to let him walk. That opinion was only solidified after hearing the note that was written to the prosecution by the jury foreman! If that doesn't induce anger in a bystander, I don't know what will.

Just up the speed to avoid the straight jacket

All in all a good story, though w/ a more strict editor, about an hour could have been eliminated. Simple, but educational pertaining to how difficult certain details are to decipher.

Kept me interested from start to finish!

Very interesting book. I wish I had been on the jury!! Even if you think you know this story, you still need to read this book.

Interesting listen, at times dry and tedious

This book was interesting but it could have been 3-4 hours shorter. The trial detail was at times tricky to follow and it was very extensive and included background information that detailed other trials that were completely separate from this book.

The singular of algae is alga.

The print book is written with the word “alga” not “algae”. He uses the singular. Which, if any of these reviewers would have bothered to use a dictionary, they would have learned it IS pronounced AL-guh.

Too Long- and Learn how to Pronounced Algae!

Eh. This book was quite interesting but the author really overdid the history lessons. Too much of the book is taken up with tangential chapters that one can skip . I felt like I was being punished. Kept it playing in the background simply because I don't like to leave a book unfinished .
Maybe his editor was on vacation.

Narration very good except he pronounced "algae " as "al-GUH. Many, many times

Emptiness

Depressing to listen. Too much detail. Would like to know what happened to the children.

was she

I thought it would have been more like a story. Most of it was courtroom testimony. I got lost in some of it.

Afraid of the dark

I really hated this and wanted it to bee over. it was so dry during the courtroom scenes.