Audio Fiction Dot C O Dot U K
A library of fiction podcasts, including audio dramas, books and RPG actual plays.

Pearl River Remains



Single-voiced Crime and Mystery Serial Audio Book


Synopsis:

When human bones are discovered in a Mississippi river bed, Fran Boden—a loner with peculiar gifts—returns to her small town to probe the origins of her mother’s long-ago disappearance and confront the ghosts of her family, both living and dead. Performed by Daryl Lisa Fazio, from her novel.


Format: Audio Book

Continuity: Serial

Voices: Single

Genres: Crime and Mystery

Completion status: Finished

Not tagged: [Maturity] [Creator demographics] [Character demographics] [Country of origin] [Transcript] [Content warnings]

Click here to update these tags.




Episodes:

Pearl River Remains: The Final Episode

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 18:15:00 +0000

Fran says goodbye. And finally, gently makes sure her father knows the truth.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 23

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:38:00 +0000

Fran puts it all together, Noble and the dogs at her side, through the woods, at the riverside, as we move back and forth in time, and a memory becomes present and very much alive. Until that life can finally let go.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 22

Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:56:00 +0000

Fran Boden and Sheriff Cass Noble go to a family gathering. And find warmth and comfort, a little truth and confrontation, and a woman who might not be a woman at all. Fran's mission and her commitment to it is renewed in the face of terror and confusion.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 21

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:34:00 +0000

Fran goes to the church where she grew up, to talk about a funeral, but instead meets a ghost. Possibly two. And is pulled back in time, into a terrifying day she forgot with a woman she lost. 

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 20

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:53:00 +0000

As they drive home from the prison, Matilda gives Fran her fully-fleshed-out history with John, with herself, and how Gabe came to be. While the raven perches on the side view mirror. It is both harrowing and heart-full. As is the moment when they arrive back in Oka, and Fran walks...all the way Home and braces herself for what's to come.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 19

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:54:00 +0000

Fran, Matilda, Gabe, and Surly drive to the Mississippi State Penitentiary to see an unwell John who turns out to have things to say. They aren't alone on the drive. They aren't alone inside the prison, in which chaos, sickness, and rage reign, while Fran, in the parking lot, has a close raven encounter.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 18

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 22:06:00 +0000

Gabriel visits Fran in a dream. And she comes to realize she needs his help. And he needs hers.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 17

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:57:00 +0000

Fran returns to Matilda's after a harrowing afternoon and with new information. She prods her aunt for more facts as they alternate eating with truth-hunting. Later, while on a phone call with Noble about emerging details, Fran sees her mother in the window of the kitchen and is again pulled under water.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 16

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:04:00 +0000

Fran goes to visit her daddy, Walter, at the care home and is possessed completely by her mother, Robbie, who, dripping with shame and purgatory, has something urgent and painful to tell her ailing and confused husband.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapters 13-15

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:23:00 +0000

Fran is stoned, trying to stop the pain in her head. So of course. Lamar calls. Then Noble calls. Then she sleeps and dreams of Mother and realizes it's more than a dream, it's a...possession. Who was this woman anyway?

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 12

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:23:00 +0000

Fran reveals to Matilda what she learned at the police station AND at the river. Fran reveals--unintentionally--that her soul is no longer alone. And she fights with herself and her aunt over what to do next.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 11

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:14:00 +0000

A little about where Daddy came from. And why and when he lost his head on Fran. And why Fran worries he might have lost it on her mother, Robbie, in what would end up being his last chance.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 10

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:45:00 +0000

Fran—feeling like herself and completely NOT herself—goes to the police station to see Sheriff Noble, where she gets new information, from both this side and the other.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 9

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 22:18:00 +0000

Fran wakes up feeling not entirely herself. And learns from Aunt Matilda long-kept secrets about John and her mother and the "scene of the crime."

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 8

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:03:00 +0000

Fran is delirious after a cold-river dive and on the way home and at Matilda's cannot tell what's real from dreams. More memories surface, of Mother and of past...loves and past...traumas.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 7

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:40:00 +0000

Fran relives the night she came home to find her mother gone and the entire county's worth of cops on her front porch, along with her father, coming apart at the seams. Why wouldn't they let her inside the house? And where was John?

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 6

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:58:00 +0000

Fran, Surly, and Matilda drive to the Pearl River, to the "site." Fran feels oddly powerful, then oddly numb, then oddly confused. And in the middle of it, she meets the new Black female sheriff. And wonders if she's made a new problem or a new friend. She is consumed by visions.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 5

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:33:00 +0000

Fran's memory of the day her mother disappeared in 1991 returns with a vengeance.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 4

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:47:00 +0000

Fran Boden, with her dog Surly in tow, returns to Oka, Mississippi and, before she can visit the site of the remains, she must reunite with her ornery Aunt Matilda and her non-verbal cousin Gabe. And contend with a new non-human visitor, not to mention a flood of memories that try to drown her.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 3

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:45:00 +0000

Fran remembers her mother...and her father...and the first day she realized she wasn't like anyone else.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 2

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:43:00 +0000

There's a man in Fran's house. There's a woman calling Fran's phone. And there's a strange winged thing in Fran's living room. All she wants to do is sleep, but her missing mother has other ideas.

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Chapter 1

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:38:00 +0000

Who is Fran Boden? And why is she in that boat every day, alone, looking for her mother? Where exactly IS her mother?

Direct MP3 link


Pearl River Remains: Teaser

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:37:00 +0000

Just a taste of this character and female-driven Southen Gothic ghost story and moody mystery.

Direct MP3 link