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Half a Million Reasons


12 episodes


Solo Crime and Mystery Serial Audio Book


Synopsis:

Half a Million Reasons is the beginning of just one story in Hickory Bend. A town where things don’t happen, until they do. One cold winter morning, everything changed. It started with a suitcase, drifting down the Foxfire River like it had somewhere important to be.


Format: Audio Book

Continuity: Serial

Writing: Scripted

Voices: Solo

Narrator: Third Person

Genres: Crime and Mystery, Soap opera, Multigenre

Soundscape: Voices only

Maturity: Mature

Country of origin: United States

Transcript details: https://halfmillionreasons.tumblr.com

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Episodes:

#11: Shot Through The Heart

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:26:18 +0000

At last, Rusty Hollis comes face-to-face with... the body.

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#10: I Have Scaled These City Walls, Only To Be With You

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:47:32 +0000

For better or worse, Andy Crawford's day is about to change. 

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#9.5: Chasing Love

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:14:08 +0000

*an interlude of madness. 

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#9: All The Small Things

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:09:23 +0000

Sherrif Rusty Hollis is feeling things on a Tuesday morning. 

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#8: I Do Not Want This

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:09:52 +0000

A glimpse inside the mind of Maisie Kurtz.

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#7: Counting Blue Cars

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:59:57 +0000

As police sirens shatter the stillness of Hickory Bend, Edith Capshaw crosses paths with a long-time rival in a tense parking lot standoff. 

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#6: Cash Rules Everything Around Me

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:38:20 +0000

Bernard contemplates what to do with the suitcase of cash he discovered in the river. 

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#5: Come on Down!

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:08:48 +0000

Jennifer Hale's obsession with The Price Is Right keeps the Hickory Bend Police Department running on a strange rhythm, until a call about a body at Foxfire River snaps her out of her game show trance.

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#4: I Can Feel It In My Bones, I’m Gonna Spend My Whole Life Alone

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:16:50 +0000

Susan Phelps starts her morning the way all great tragedies do, half-asleep, hungover on regret, and already behind schedule. But when her daughter’s sudden friendship with the wrong kind of legacy name stirs up ghosts from the past, Susan realizes some bad apples don’t just fall close to the tree... they roll right back into your damn driveway.

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#3: Scars Are Souvenirs You Never Lose

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:22:00 +0000

While taking his dog for an early morning walk in the woods, Herb Walker stumbles upon something unexpected. 

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#2: Where the Wild Roses Grow

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 02:37:24 +0000

Somewhere between a home movie and a crime scene, Beau and Maisie’s woodland escapade takes a sharp turn when the Foxfire River serves up an uninvited guest. One who won’t be leaving a review.

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#1: Regarding the Thing in the River

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:44:27 +0000

Bernard Capshaw’s morning takes a sharp left turn into something that won’t sit right in his gut for a long, long time.

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