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The Crystal Skull

by Manda Scott
Susan Duerden
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In a spellbinding blend of history, myth, and science, bestselling novelist Manda Scott unleashes a thriller that sweeps from the secrets of the Mayans to the court of a sixteenth-century queen to a shattering end-times prophecy.

“It’s a lump of rock, Stella; nothing more. No stone is worth dying for.”
Except it’s not just a lump of rock. It’s a blue crystal skull made by the Maya to save the world from ruin; a sapphire so perfect, so powerful that for centuries men have killed to own or destroy it.
Ancient prophecies say that if the thirteen skulls already in existence are not reunited, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Cedric Owen, the skull’s last Keeper, died so that it might keep its secret for the next four centuries. Now Stella Cody has found it, and someone has already tried to kill her. Like Owen, she’s being hunted—but by whom?
Desperate to unravel the mystery of the crystal skull, Stella must decode Cedric Owen’s coded writings, sketches and ciphers no scholar has been able to unravel. What she discovers is astounding: a shocking secret prophecy…and the staggering puzzle of four terrifying creatures, thirteen precious stones, and what will happen if Cedric Owen’s crystal skull falls into the wrong hands. But time is against Stella. She has only days—hours—left to uncover the only secret that may yet save the world.
12.21.12
The date is set. Time is running out.
The end of the world starts now.

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  • Release date

    April 15, 2008

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415949894
      • File size: 394111 KB
      • Duration: 13:41:03

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Moving from the past to the present, Scott's story recounts the quest for a crystal skull with magical healing powers. In the past, Cedric Owen has to find a place of safekeeping for the skull so that, hundreds of years in the future, Stella Cody can find it and keep it safe from the forces that wish to unleash doomsday. Susan Duerden narrates in a light, crisp English accent that comes to embody Stella's point of view and personality. When narrating Cedric's experiences, Duerden lowers her voice and adds a bit of a nasal tone, adroitly adjusting for the masculine timbre while not overcompensating for it. However, some of her accents sound forced or exaggerated. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 25, 2008
      Edgar nominee Scott (No Good Deed
      ) mixes adventure, supernatural phenomena and cryptography to create a fast-paced supernatural thriller. Mayan apocalyptic astronomical documents chillingly predict that the world will end on December 21, 2012, unless 13 crystal skulls are reunited. Cedric Owen, a 16th-century scholar and physician whose family has safeguarded one of the skulls from time unknown, struggles to unlock the jewel's secrets and arrange for its safety. Nearly five centuries later, newlyweds Stella Cody and Kit O'Connor unlock Owen's cipher and track the skull to its hiding place, only to find themselves caught up in a global struggle between the keepers of the skulls and those who are determined to destroy them and bring about the end of the world. Stella and Kit's race to prevent the apocalypse turns into a life-threatening, heart-pounding battle between good and evil.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When Professor Kit O'Connor, of Cambridge, gives his fiancée, Stella Cody, a poem about a blue crystal skull, one of 13 missing for 450 years, he has no idea of the destructive powers he is unleashing. Susan Duerden's soft, mystical-sounding voice weaves two adventure stories and time lines together. One subplot concerns the Mayans, who crafted the skull; the other takes place in modern England, where the newlyweds plan to honeymoon. Duerden's rich vocal personality portrays the ancient peoples and their civilization with subtle accents and a seamless narrative. For modern times she crafts a variety of European and English accents. Duerden's delivery and timing capture the spirit of adventure as the couple race the clock to reunite the skulls and prevent global disaster in this excellent archaeological thriller. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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