

However, Chris's narrator was the real standout. Maggie's narrator did a good job of bringing the character to life. As longtime audiobook listener knows, the narrator can make or break a character. I listened to the audiobook version, which had two narrators. Audiobook cover The book alternates between Chris and Maggie's points of view. Maggie, meanwhile, would rather do the obvious "right thing" and call in the authorities. As such, he has little trust in the police or the justice system.

Chris is an ex-convict whose once bright future was yanked from under him after a drunken bar fight in college that landed a classmate in a wheelchair. Binds That Tie is a gripping tale of two ordinary married people who find themselves in a heap of legal trouble after the wife, Maggie, kills an intruder and the husband, Chris, decides to hide the body instead of reporting it.
