Meredith Monday Schwartz
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5,660 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Meredith Monday Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.
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She threads the two timelines together so that again you're always being pulled forward.
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I did this one on audio during a long day of meal prep and I finished the entire thing standing at my kitchen counter.
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I never once was bored.
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I was always delighted to be listening to this story.
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If there is something that I would consider a weakness, it is that this book leans hard on two tropes that have been everywhere lately and are starting to feel a little bit worn out to this reader.
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One, of course, is the elderly person tangled up in a murder.
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Lord have mercy on what the Thursday Murder Club has.
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Done to the mystery genre in the last few years.
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And the other is the curmudgeon who slowly softens and also comes to have a young child friend.
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Not only have we seen a lot of these tropes, but both of them are done with in Mad Mabel, and both are done pretty heavily handed.
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But somehow that heavy-handed trope work didn't wreck this book for me.
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I did really like.
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It, but I was conscious of what she was doing the entire time I was reading it.
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The beats are just really recognizable by now, and I could feel myself hitting each one kind of on schedule.
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So if you are wanting something really different or with really different kind of nuance to your characters, this probably isn't going to be the place to look.
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Because what is here is fairly predictable, but the lovely part is that it's also
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really enjoyable.
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It's a nice way to spend a few hours.
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And those two things were, you know, both in my mind the entire time.
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But again, I ended up giving this a full four stars.
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