Genesis

Written by:
Robin Cook
Narrated by:
George Guidall

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
31
Narrator
7
Release Date
December 2019
Duration
11 hours 3 minutes
Summary
New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from ancestry websites to catch a killer in this timely and explosive new medical thriller.

When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are insisting the case be shrouded in silence. And although Kera was ten weeks pregnant, nobody seems to know who the father was--or whether he holds the key to Kera's final moments alive.

As a medical emergency temporarily sidelines Laurie, impulsive Aria turns to a controversial new technique: using genealogic DNA databases to track down those who don't want to be found. Working with experts at a start-up ancestry website, she plans to trace the fetus's DNA back to likely male relatives in the hopes of identifying the mystery father. But when Kera's closest friend and fellow social worker is murdered, the need for answers becomes even more urgent. Because someone out there clearly doesn't want Kera's secrets to come to light . . . and if Aria gets any closer to the truth, she and Laurie might find themselves a killer's next targets.
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Rachel D.

On the whole I enjoyed this book. It is an easy listen and not overly complex - working out the perpetrator is not difficult. The reader is not terrible. He has a very staccatoed way of reading, which takes a bit of getting used to. This main issue with his reading, for me, was that he does not know how to pronounce’th’ sounds. 9th May comes out of 9ff May which jolts you out of the start. I tried to work out if this was a problem with ‘th’ sounds in particular or that no-one had explained how to sound out ordinal numbers, and I think it was the latter, though I thought I heard ‘norff’ on one occasion. This was my first Robin Cook book, and I will definitely find another to listen to, I just hope that it will be another narrator.

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Peter H.

The Book is good but the narrator is nuts- too fast reading, partly not understandable

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Marian K.

What a huge disappointment ...not exactly what I was expecting from the book cover. It’s more a murder mystery and the lives of several pathologists in New York. Nothing exciting. The narrator was short of breath and sounded like an old man with a gruff voice about to have an asthma attack. It’s not the usual Robin Cook thriller.

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