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Title: Black Swan
Subtitle: A Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery
Author: Chris Knopf
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-11
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Sailing back from Maine, Sam Acquillo, his girlfriend, Amanda Anselma, and screwball mutt Eddie Van Halen get blown off course by a dangerous gale. With damaged boat and frayed nerves, they limp into the closest harbor, which happens to be on Fishers Island, New York, a distant and altogether disassociated scrap of Long Island.
A summer preserve for the oldest old money in America, it is defended by year-round denizens who safeguard their islands insularity with xenophobic fervor. Sam and Amanda are hardly welcomed with open arms, unless theyre the arms of the young and beautiful Anika Fey, daughter of the owner of the Black Swan, the islands only hotel, whos only too eager to fold Sam into her embrace.
But feminine wiles arent the only hazard faced by Sam and Amanda. Theyre soon swept up in big-money intrigue, dark conspiracy, brutality, murder, and the machinations of high-tech millionaires, to say nothing of the autumn storms that lash the island with wind and wave.
In the years since losing everything, Sam has fought his way back to an existence that even he believes is worth preserving. And now, bad timing and a broken rudder could result in the greatest loss of all - his life.
Chris Knopf's four Sam Acquillo mysteries have received exceptional accolades, with critics likening Sam to Dashiell Hammetts Sam Spade, Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe, and Robert Parkers Spenser, while repeatedly comparing Knopf to Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Ross Macdonald. A sailor, cabinet maker, and advertising executive in Connecticut, he and his wife also spend a lot of time at their Southampton home.
Critic Reviews:
The vivid descriptions of an angry sea and the monster storm that strikes the island fairly dwarf the human threats facing Sam and Amanda. (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
A clever tale
There's a lot to like about this story by Chris Knopf. There's the "locals versus wash-ashores" conflict. A good dose of steamy sexual tension. The mysteries of brilliant minds. Man versus nature on a few levels. And a good old-fashioned mystery to unravel. One of his most satisfying reads to date.
narrator or story? or both?
i haven't yet met a chris knopf book that i didn't like. this story - which is definitely reminiscent of Key Largo - starts out with a nautical nightmare. but it never really is explained why Sam Acquillo is drawn into to this mystery. even as it plays out, Sam himself questions his motives, but never explains the why. i've been drawn to all previous Knopf's books as his main characters and the quirky buddies that accompany him along the way are entwined at some point with the "mystery".
further, Keith Szarabajka's voice sounds to me too much like Richard Ferrone's voice (narrator of two of the more recent Acquillo audio books) so it became distracting to me as the performance sounded like Ferrone's but was not quite the same, and seemed rushed and flat. i will read/listen to it again down the road as i would prefer to give this wonderful writer a higher rating. it could just be that it was the combination of the story and the narrator made it difficult for me to engage entirely. if you are a fan, definitely don't pass this one by. if you are a first time Acquillo reader definitely start with the earlier books.
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Title: Black Swan
Subtitle: A Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery
Author: Chris Knopf
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-11
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Sailing back from Maine, Sam Acquillo, his girlfriend, Amanda Anselma, and screwball mutt Eddie Van Halen get blown off course by a dangerous gale. With damaged boat and frayed nerves, they limp into the closest harbor, which happens to be on Fishers Island, New York, a distant and altogether disassociated scrap of Long Island.
A summer preserve for the oldest old money in America, it is defended by year-round denizens who safeguard their islands insularity with xenophobic fervor. Sam and Amanda are hardly welcomed with open arms, unless theyre the arms of the young and beautiful Anika Fey, daughter of the owner of the Black Swan, the islands only hotel, whos only too eager to fold Sam into her embrace.
But feminine wiles arent the only hazard faced by Sam and Amanda. Theyre soon swept up in big-money intrigue, dark conspiracy, brutality, murder, and the machinations of high-tech millionaires, to say nothing of the autumn storms that lash the island with wind and wave.
In the years since losing everything, Sam has fought his way back to an existence that even he believes is worth preserving. And now, bad timing and a broken rudder could result in the greatest loss of all - his life.
Chris Knopf's four Sam Acquillo mysteries have received exceptional accolades, with critics likening Sam to Dashiell Hammetts Sam Spade, Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe, and Robert Parkers Spenser, while repeatedly comparing Knopf to Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Ross Macdonald. A sailor, cabinet maker, and advertising executive in Connecticut, he and his wife also spend a lot of time at their Southampton home.
Critic Reviews:
The vivid descriptions of an angry sea and the monster storm that strikes the island fairly dwarf the human threats facing Sam and Amanda. (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
A clever tale
There's a lot to like about this story by Chris Knopf. There's the "locals versus wash-ashores" conflict. A good dose of steamy sexual tension. The mysteries of brilliant minds. Man versus nature on a few levels. And a good old-fashioned mystery to unravel. One of his most satisfying reads to date.
narrator or story? or both?
i haven't yet met a chris knopf book that i didn't like. this story - which is definitely reminiscent of Key Largo - starts out with a nautical nightmare. but it never really is explained why Sam Acquillo is drawn into to this mystery. even as it plays out, Sam himself questions his motives, but never explains the why. i've been drawn to all previous Knopf's books as his main characters and the quirky buddies that accompany him along the way are entwined at some point with the "mystery".
further, Keith Szarabajka's voice sounds to me too much like Richard Ferrone's voice (narrator of two of the more recent Acquillo audio books) so it became distracting to me as the performance sounded like Ferrone's but was not quite the same, and seemed rushed and flat. i will read/listen to it again down the road as i would prefer to give this wonderful writer a higher rating. it could just be that it was the combination of the story and the narrator made it difficult for me to engage entirely. if you are a fan, definitely don't pass this one by. if you are a first time Acquillo reader definitely start with the earlier books.