Caroline Hewitt

• Biography

  Caroline Hewitt loves reading and imagining. Since she couldn’t figure out a way to actually jump inside a novel, acting and adapting are the closest, and most satisfying, ways she has found to inhabit stories—like narrating audiobooks and adapting novels into plays.

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• Praise for Books

  “Teens who like whodunits, mysteries not easily figured out with a lot of intrigue, suspense, and slightly thriller will appreciate this one.” —Youth Services Book Review

  “Take a deep dive in the dark archives with intrepid, independent, indefatigable project archivist Emily Snow as she excavates deadly secrets in Pickett’s exhilarating debut literary thriller. With deftly woven narrative threads and intrigue worthy of Hitchcock, The Archivist is immersive and rewarding. Pickett does for university archives what Raymond Chandler did for LA.” —Janet Somerville, author of Yours for Probably Always

  “The realistically imperfect characters make mistakes and have human flaws. Readers will enjoy the twists and turns as facts that exonerate one person throw suspicion onto others…A well-paced page-turner about uncovering the truth at any cost.” —Kirkus Reviews

  “Road trip! Famously translated to the screen by Alexander Payne, Sideways deserves to be read and relished. Dour Miles and priapic Jack are the Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty of this contemporary picaresque which is by turns hilarious, poignant, and intoxicating.” —Jay McInerney, LitHub, on Sideways

  “This fast-paced thriller will keep readers guessing from the very first page all the way to the final jaw-dropping sentence.” —School Library Journal

  “Suspenseful and haunting, The Archivist carried me away. Rex Pickett’s noir novel of obsessive passion, deadly secrets, and the power of creativity unrolls with relentless, tidal force. Join heroine Emily Snow and take a journey into the dark archives. Enthralling.” —Meg Gardiner, author of the UNSUB series

  “Sideways writer Rex Pickett always leaves us wanting more and with The Archivist he delivers. Immersive, wonderful, absorbing, he draws the reader into a geologically nuanced tragic romance that ramifies into something inexpressibly transcendent.” —James Phelan, author of Patriot Act

  “Rex Pickett’s beautifully written and tautly structured novel is a slow burn that builds on every page to its searing, emotional conclusion—along the way the author and his characters descend into the dark chasm that often separates art from truth, and sometimes does not.” —Charlie Lovett, New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale and Escaping Dreamland

  “Never underestimate an archivist. Rex Pickett’s The Archivist is a haunting and sometimes heartbreaking exploration of the truths and power records hold, the insidiousness of their erasure and destruction, and the redemption that can be found in their restoration and preservation. It captures the archival thrill of the hunt, the pursuit of all the pieces that will tell a story, no matter what the consequences. In this shattering thriller, Pickett’s Emily Snow shows that archivists are detectives, and relentless ones, at that. The Archivist surfaces the hidden and often ignored labor of the archival profession. Pickett captures the joys, hazards, and annoyances of being an archivist and renders a closely observed depiction of the politics and pecking orders of libraries, special collections, and archives. Archivists are at turns eavesdroppers and voyeurs, sometimes bonded to their subjects. Although often conflicted by competing obligations, they are driven by a singular mission to ensure that truths are preserved.” —Caryn Radick, digital archivist, Rutgers University

  “An archives encapsulates an overlapping set of stories. Each of these tells one thread of a narrative, and the researcher pieces these together to create a cohesive approximation of the past. Rex Pickett, in his novel The Archivist, creates a fictional archives, one populated by archivists who act and speak as real archivists do, and his multifoliate story replicates the process of archival research. The reader accumulates the novel’s multiple streams of action, wondering where the novel will turn next, always working toward a final resolution that reveals itself with surprising force.” — Geof Huth, chief records officer, NY State Unified Court System

  “As deeply, disturbingly immersive as the archive at its heart.” —Kirkus Reviews

  “The Archivist is a powerfully engrossing mystery/thriller by author Rex Pickett. A departure from the Sideways trilogy, Pickett gracefully draws the reader into a web of love, obsession, paranoia, betrayal, and the written word. The plot draws the reader in subtly, and shortly thereafter, they are as consumed as Emily in discovering a dark reality.” —San Francisco Book Review

  “The Archivist is one of those novels that is so original and unique that it is hard to put down. Any historian, librarian, or book lover will be pulled in from the first page. Rex Pickett has written a gorgeous tale…This all-consuming novel was a fascinating delve into the dark side of academia.” —Mystery and Suspense

  “Pickett’s colorful prose and dramatic turns of phrase will keep you engaged as you become drawn into the mystery of Nadia’s death.” —Washington Independent Review of Books

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  • Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

  • By Chelsea Ichaso

    Read by Caroline Hewitt

  • Release Date: 5/17/22

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  Piper’s fall was no accident. Did someone want her dead? It’s up to her sister to discover the truth in this shocking new thriller with an unreliable narrator, from the acclaimed author of Little Creeping Things.

  Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can’t pretend to be optimistic about it; things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened.

  But then Savannah finds a note in Piper’s locker, inviting Piper to a meeting of their school’s wilderness club—at the very place and on the very day that she fell. Which means there was a chance that Piper wasn’t alone. Someone might’ve seen something. Worse, someone might’ve done something. But who would want to hurt the perfect Piper Sullivan and why?

  To discover the truth, Savannah joins the club on their weekend-long camping trip on the same mountain where her sister fell. But she better be careful … everyone in the club is a suspect, and everyone seems to be keeping secrets about that tragic day.

  And Savannah? She’s been keeping secrets, too.

  • Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

  • By Chelsea Ichaso

    Read by Caroline Hewitt

  • Release Date: 5/17/22

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • The Archivist

  • By Rex Pickett

    Read by Caroline Hewitt

  • Release Date: 11/09/21

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  A November Book Pick from The New York Times

  When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started—to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize–winning author who has been short-listed for the Nobel.

  Emily’s job comes with its inherent pressures. West’s wife, Elizabeth, is an heiress who’s about to donate $25 million to the Memorial Library—an eight-story architectural marvel that is the crown jewel of the university. The inaugural event in just a few months will be a gala for the who’s who of San Diego to celebrate the unveiling of the Raymond West Collection and the financial gift that made it all possible.

  As Emily sets to work on the West papers, it begins to dawn on her that several items have gone missing from the collection. To trace their whereabouts, she gains unsupervised access to the highly restricted “dark archives,” in which she opens a Pandora’s box of erotically and intellectually charged correspondence between Raymond West and the late Nadia Fontaine. Through their archived emails, Emily goes back a year in time and relives the tragic trajectory of their passionate love affair. Did Nadia really drown accidentally, as the police report concluded, or could it have been suicide, or, even worse, murder? Compelled to complete the collection and find the truth, Emily unwittingly morphs into an adult Nancy Drew and a one-woman archivist crusader on a mission to right the historical record.

  Twisting slowly like a tourniquet, The Archivist turns into a suspenseful murder mystery with multiple and intersecting layers. Not just a whodunit, it is also a profound meditation on love, privacy, and the ethics of destroying or preserving materials of a highly personal nature.

  • The Archivist

  • By Rex Pickett

    Read by Caroline Hewitt

  • Release Date: 11/09/21

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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