Review | Book review: Twin Peaks prelude is a crazed, tantalising taster
Featuring original cast voices including Kyle MacLachlan as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, this audiobook will fuel the obsessives
by Mark Frost (read by various)
Macmillan (audiobook)
Such was my obsession with David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks 25 years ago, I bought a slim spin-off volume called The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Laura named her (then unknown) killer using dashes. Realising only one character had those numbers of letters in their names, I spoilt the big finale. So, I was nervous about this audiobook prelude to a new Twin Peaks series, supposedly due next year. Written by Frost himself, it features many familiar voices: most crucially, Kyle MacLachlan as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper. There is mythology (owls, spaceships, woods) and even more self-consciously deadpan profundity: “It is important that we learn to distinguish between mystery and secrets.” By the end, I could hardly distinguish between hot and cold, but this is a crazed, tantalising trailer.