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SUMMER 2024! 
For the first time in audio, three vintage mysteries by Nebraska's own
Mignon G. Eberhart, renowned as the "American Agatha Christie"!
Nurse Sarah Keate works undercover with Detective Lance O'Leary to solve a murder before another occurs, in these ethereal, heavily suspenseful novels, all three of which were made into movies in the 1930s.
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Snowed in, a group of friends
must endure days of terror with
a murderer among them…

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The patriarch in a coma, eccentric
relatives vie for inheritance while
 a murderer lurks in the shadows…

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Murder and theft run rampant in
Nurse Sarah Keate’s ward…

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Audiobook Spotlight!

"Ann Marie Arvdal-Richardson's remarkable performance of this novel illuminates the voice in its protagonist's head, communicating her reflections on everyday thoughts. Yet Arvdal-Richardson is thoroughly compelling.".
Full Award-Winning Review on AudioFile

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Recently Published Audiobook Titles!

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When Steve Kaminski realized that the man who raised him wasn’t his father, he left the family’s Nebraska ranch in a rage. In 45 years he’s never been back. Now he gets a call from his sister, Wanda. She’s dying, and wants him to spend her final days with her in the house they once called home.  Academic Lyn Collier is heading to Nebraska to complete the book she started twenty years ago: a study of Mari Sandoz, author of Old Jules, Crazy Horse and Cheyenne Autumn.  Stranded in a frontier-period hotel by a spring blizzard, the two characters find their lives intertwined as they seek the truth about Steve’s family and Lyn’s literary heroine.  While exploring the dynamics of memory, conflict and reconciliation, Lost and Found in Nebraska also celebrates the unique Sandhills region, and the life of its most famous daughter.
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“Lean and compulsively readable…Andersson’s sketching of the lovesick Ester and the preoccupied Hugo is so well done that every incensed text she sends him is another little piece of our collective heart as we follow a struggle that has existed for as long as human life: the lover and the loved.” —Kirkus Reviews “Few novels about misconstrued emotion are as clear-eyed as Swedish journalist/novelist Andersson’s 2013August Prize winner…A telling portrait of how we can misunderstand others—and ourselves.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Few novels about misconstrued emotion are as clear-eyed as Swedish journalist/novelist Andersson’s 2013August Prize winner…A telling portrait of how we can misunderstand others—and ourselves.” --Library Journal (starred review)
“Lean and compulsively readable…Andersson’s sketching of the lovesick Ester and the preoccupied Hugo is so well done that every incensed text she sends him is another little piece of our collective heart as we follow a struggle that has existed for as long as human life: the lover and the loved.” --
Kirkus Reviews

About Us...


​Bringing midwestern literature and authors to audio is the primary goal of Great Plains Audiobooks. Rural middle America is a unique place to live and write about. In addition, much of the central US was settled by Scandinavian immigrants, and so our secondary goal includes bringing excellent literature from there to audio as well.
We have published:
- historical fiction
-non-fiction
-true crime
-LGBTQ fiction
- Swedish literary fiction
2023 upcoming productions include Swedish romance, and classic American mystery fiction.
Although our production volume is low due to our unique niche, Great Plains’ audiobooks are beautifully produced and "Inlands" has won the prestigious Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine, along with a spotlight article in the magazine.
AudioFile Magazine Article - Read Now!
Ann Richardson's AudioFile Magazine Reviews!
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ABOUT OUR FOUNDER, ANN RICHARDSON
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Ann Richardson founded Great Plains Audiobooks in the middle of the COVID pandemic when she had the free time to ponder where her passion would take her next. Wanting to stay in the audiobook industry she’d been narrating in since 2008, she realized she needed to form her own organization in order to license the works she felt would be a great fit for her vision.
That vision focuses largely on bringing Midlands and Scandinavian literature and authors to audio. Driving that vision are her memories of growing up in a small rural town southwest of Omaha, where Ann spent endless days riding her horse around the countryside. The Scandinavian part results from both the prevalent Scandinavian demographics of her hometown, and her immigrant father's influence; she grew to cherish her Swedish heritage 
as much as her love for the Great Plains.  Completing the mix is her deep appreciation for Nebraska authors such as Mari Sandoz and Willa Cather, which she discovered while pursuing a journalism degree at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  
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Ann is an award-winning narrator with over 300 titles to her credit. She currently narrates the majority of Great Plains Audiobooks, but is gradually hiring excellent narrators more often, as her production volume increases. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she operates Her Smooth Voice, LLC recording studios and offices. In her spare time, she enjoys coaching new narrators, going wine-tasting with her husband, and long-distance running.

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