Darden North, MD

The release of Darden North's latest audiobook, the thriller “The 5 Manners of Death” written by Darden North and narrated by Steven Jay Cohen, is scheduled for November/December 2018 through  audible.com . The approximately 10-hour audiobook will be available through audible.com, iTunes, and Amazon.  This is the Darden North's fifth novel and third audiobook. Author website is  www.dardennorth.com .  Narrator Steven Jay Cohen is not only an experienced narrator but also engineer, director, and educator with nearly 30 years experience in entertainment.  Learn the latest about Steven at  www.stevenjaycohen.com .  The Five Manners of Death,  the latest thriller by nationally awarded novelist and physician Darden North, was released in print by WordCrafts Press.  North’s fifth novel,  The Five Manners of Death , is a taut, tense, and gripping tale about a long-buried secret, unleashed to begin the countdown of th...

An agonizing story that you wish were only fiction ..... I shelved my personalized-signed copy of the lengthy novel and instead enjoyed the digital audio version of this latest Penn Cage installment. Admittedly, I was at a slight disadvantage since I have not yet read "The Devil's Punchbowl," Iles' preceding novel.  However, I quickly absorbed the sickening back-story of racism and political assassinations that filled so much of the news while I was in elementary school and growing up in Louisiana and Mississippi. Much of the first 40 chapters of "Natchez Burning" builds for the reader the sickening story of the KKK and Brody Royal's Double Eagles, a group bent on a degree of terror and torture that rivals any modern-day terrorist organization. It is after these chapters heavily laced in back-story that the novel finally accelerates, earning for Iles the reviewer cliché: "Couldn't put it down." Natchez (Mississippi) mayor and novelist P...

This review was posted on audible.com 07/11/2014 by a  listener to  the audio version of "Points of Origin" and is reprinted in its entirety: 07-11-14 Overall Performance Story "An intriguing, multi-level story brought to life" Any additional comments? This book is hard to categorize, but it definitely kept my interest throughout. It is not really a mystery, though a lot of mysteries unfold. It is not really a romance, though several romances are central to it. It is not really a thriller, though it is full of excitement and twists and turns. It is the story of numerous lives in a small Southern town, that interconnect through various twists of fate, with each ripple in one person's life creating a tidal wave in another person's life. Before you realize it, you get drawn into the lives of these people, and become a fascinated voyeur. The narrator moved the story along with perfect pacing and emotion, and created a uni...