John Ajvide Lindqvist

Steven Pacey has read two of John Ajvide Lindqvist‘s novels onto unabridged audiobook.

Author, John Ajvide Lindqvist
John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish author, born in 1968, who grew up in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm. He came in second in the Nordic card trick championship, before working as a stand-up comedian for twelve years. His four novels, Let the Right One In, Handling the Undead, Harbour and Little Star have been translated into English.

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Let the Right One In

Title: Let the Right One In
Publisher: Quercus Publishing PLC

Synopsis:
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends – and how they came to depend on one another for life itself.

Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city’s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he’s frightened. Eli is the young girl who’s moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200-year-old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood.

Publisher’s Synopsis

IMAGE	FORMAT	RELEASE DATE	LENGTH
	Digital Download	29 October 2010	16 hours and 49 minutes Unabridged

Praise for Steven Pacey’s reading of Let the Right One In

“The narrator was excellent …”
“BTW, it is beautifully read, with a wide range of distinctive character voices – another triumph for Steven Pacy[sic]!”
“the narration is skilfully executed by Steven Pacey.”
“I could not stop listening. The narration was very clear and the plot was really engaging.”
“narrated perfectly”
“Excellent narration too.”
“very well read”

Reviews from Audible.co.uk

“Steven Pacey, who gave one of my favorite audiobook readings ever for Let the Right One In.”

Marissa van Uden, SFFaudio

Reviews Updated: 10 May, 2013

Handling the Undead

Title: Handling the Undead
Publisher: Quercus Publishing PLC

Synopsis:
Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There’s a heat wave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up….

David always knew his wife was far too good for him. But he never knew how lost he’d be without her until tonight when her car hit an elk. Now she’s gone and he’s alone. But when he goes to identify her body, she begins to move. It’s terrifying, but it gives David a strange kind of hope.

Handling the Undead is a story about our greatest fear and about a love that defies death.

Publisher’s Synopsis

IMAGE	FORMAT	RELEASE DATE	LENGTH
	Digital Download	2 July 2012	11 hours and 28 minutes Unabridged