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2009 Best Voice in MYSTERY & SUSPENSE: ABOVE THE LAW, STALKING SUSAN

“The potluck of being an audiobook reader is great, you never know what’s coming next,” Bernadette Dunne told us. She’s just finished tackling some demanding nonfiction by Ayn Rand and earlier this year completed Joyce Carol Oates’s THE GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER. Her compassionate handling of Elizabeth Edwards’s memoir SAVING GRACES adds another biography to her successes. Given this variety, it’s not surprising that her audiography of more than a hundred books has a wonderfully eclectic quality. She’s done a range of mystery series (Dana Stabenow’s Aleutian detective, Kate Shugak, and Iris Johansen’s forensic scientist, Eve Duncan); comic novels like the unabridged version of 2009 Best Voice in MYSTERY & SUSPENSE: ABOVE THE LAW, STALKING SUSAN

“The potluck of being an audiobook reader is great, you never know what’s coming next,” Bernadette Dunne told us. She’s just finished tackling some demanding nonfiction by Ayn Rand and earlier this year completed Joyce Carol Oates’s THE GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER. Her compassionate handling of Elizabeth Edwards’s memoir SAVING GRACES adds another biography to her successes. Given this variety, it’s not surprising that her audiography of more than a hundred books has a wonderfully eclectic quality. She’s done a range of mystery series (Dana Stabenow’s Aleutian detective, Kate Shugak, and Iris Johansen’s forensic scientist, Eve Duncan); comic novels like the unabridged version of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA; demanding fiction from Oates and Richard Powers’s National Book Award-winning THE ECHO MAKER; a clutch of contrasting biographies and memoirs by Ruth Reichl, Katharine Hepburn, and Sandra Day O’Connor. Bernadette has received numerous Earphones Awards and two Audies nominations.

After 10 years of audiobook narration, Bernadette thinks her assignments just seem to get better and better. However, she caught a winner early in her audiobook career with MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA in 1998. The AUDIOFILE review notes, “The cultivated refinement of her voice ranges effortlessly and credibly.” When the film version came out two years ago, Bernadette’s performance was once again in the limelight. She originally worked as part of the narrator cadre in Washington, DC, and notes the rigorous approach to audiobooks she learned from Flo Gibson and the inspiration she got from Kate Fleming’s passion for audio. At about the time she recorded her narration of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN in 2001, Bernadette moved to New York and was able to expand her audio publisher contacts.

When Bernadette talks about her recent audiobooks, it’s clear that she cares about the underlying philosophy and approach of each author--whether in fiction or nonfiction. She notes that genre fiction--mysteries, thrillers, and romance--can be approached simply, with some emotional tone and a sense of structure of where the author is taking the sentences, and she tends to take a subtle approach to character portraits. “I’m more apt to use a hint or subtle shading than a broad stroke.” A project such as Kim Edwards’s stories in THE SECRETS OF A FIRE KING is a challenge with its dense sentences and intricacy in the writing. Bernadette’s success with the work clearly brings the story alive for listeners. She does the same with Oates’s THE GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER. “The characters were so real to me,” Bernadette says. “I wanted to stay with them.” Listeners feel the same.
--2007 Narrator Yearbook

In the late 1990s, Bernadette Dunne was among a group of actors in the Washington, D.C., area who were introduced to audiobooks and trained by the inimitable Flo Gibson, who, as longtime listeners recall, started her own audio publishing company to record and preserve literary classics. At the beginning of her audio career, “a new world would open up with each new book,” Bernadette told us from her New York City home. The narration of MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden was one of Bernadette’s early successes, and her recording of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith is a sentimental favorite. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, also an Earphones winner, signals her versatility. Bernadette was recently an Audie Award Finalist in the biography category for Elizabeth Cohen’s THE HOUSE ON BEARTOWN ROAD. In this issue we celebrate another memoir—Ruth Reichl’s GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES, in which she convincingly delivers the author’s voice. ...more

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	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Bernadette Dunne (Narrator) 4.16 avg rating — 2,123,689 ratings — published 1997 — 340 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, Bernadette Dunne (Narrator) 3.82 avg rating — 941,237 ratings — published 2003 — 223 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator) 4.07 avg rating — 875,251 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Bernadette Dunne (Narrator) 4.30 avg rating — 519,997 ratings — published 1943 — 395 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (Goodreads Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator) 3.58 avg rating — 460,539 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, Bernadette Dunne (Reader), John Sherrill (Contributor) 4.48 avg rating — 361,280 ratings — published 1971 — 241 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern, Bernadette Dunne (Narrator) 4.04 avg rating — 399,459 ratings — published 2004 — 313 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blindspots and Transform Your Organization 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blindspots and Transform Your Organization 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blindspots and Transform Your Organization, Library Edition by Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Loretta Malandro (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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