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The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford arrives with a three-reader audiobook

The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford arrives with a three-reader audiobook
NewsMythscribe7 October 2026

Simon & Schuster Audio lists October 6 as the release date for Nafissa Thompson-Spires's The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford. Kevin R. Free, Kamali Minter and Adenrele Ojo perform the unabridged edition, which runs four hours and 35 minutes.

Simon & Schuster Audio lists October 6 as the release date for Nafissa Thompson-Spires's The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford. Kevin R. Free, Kamali Minter and Adenrele Ojo perform the unabridged edition, which runs four hours and 35 minutes. The novel investigates the killing of a moonshiner in 1920s

Oklahoma. Four women close to Richard Milford become suspects, but their accounts also expose competing versions of life in Newville during Prohibition. The publisher provides an audio excerpt alongside the edition details. This is Thompson-Spires's first novel, following her story collection Heads of the Colored

People. Read the official source. Image: Simon & Schuster; official audiobook cover.

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