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Title: The Blood Royal

Subtitle: A Joe Sandilands Mystery, Book 9

Author: Barbara Cleverly

Narrator: Andrew Wincott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-12

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1922: Commander Joe Sandilands returns from a stint in India and immediately finds himself up to his neck in a tricky political situation. London is reeling from IRA atrocities and Joe is further plagued by the machinations of a spy ring being run under his nose by a Russian émigrée princess. When a war hero is gunned down and the life of a popular Englishman is threatened, Joe knows he has only days to root out the person behind the killings.

With the help of the proposed victim and the services of a woman police constable, Joe discovers that the murderers motive is more devious than he could ever have imagined. And when the mask comes off, the killers identity shocks even the battle-hardened Sandilands.

Members Reviews:

Avoid this new narrator

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I'm a huge fan of the Joe Sandilands books, and have bought every offering in the series. The previous narrator (Terry Wale?) was excellent. The new narrator (Andrew Wincott) was, for me, a disaster. If I could give him less than one star, I would. I found his lack of understanding of the major characters infuriating, and his overall tone so offensive that I gave up on the audiobook after the first three or four chapters, something I rarely do.

I then read the book on my Kindle, and enjoyed it greatly. Though I'm angry that I had to pay for it twice, and I certainly won't be buying any future audiobooks in the series if they're narrated by Andrew Wincott, I couldn't recommend the books themselves more highly.

The Best !

What did you love best about The Blood Royal?

I loved all the books in this series, the ones taking place in India most. But this one (playing in London) is the best so far. Great story and very good narrator.

What other book might you compare The Blood Royal to and why?

None.

What about Andrew Wincott???s performance did you like?

He sounded the way I invision Sandilands would sound.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No, but I could not stop listening.

Any additional comments?

I hope the next one comes out soon.

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Title: The Admiral's Daughter

Subtitle: Thomas Kydd, Book 8

Author: Julian Stockwin

Narrator: Christian Rodska

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 88 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Tensions are escalating between England and Napoleon's France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance, rescue missions, and spies on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking in English waters poised to strike at British trade. Meanwhile, smugglers and storms threaten to overcome HMS Teazer.

Members Reviews:

Hero becomes the Rogue

For the most part this series has been very entertaining. This is by far the worst of the series so far. The book turned into one big soap opera, with a story line that shows Kydd to act like a spoiled rich teenager. The hero has become the rogue, and his position not only slips with the admiralty but with this reader also. The only saving grace of the book is the performance of Rodska.

Romance

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would only recommend this to fans of the series. You have to listen to it to move the storyline ahead. It was slow moving and pretty boring. The romantic storyline did not seem plausible.

What could Julian Stockwin have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Less high society drama.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Love stories narrated by Christian Rodska.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No.

Not the best

More a series of related misadventures than a cohesive novel. Hoping the next one returns to previous form.

A seafaring adventure series jumps the shark

Pseudo spoiler alert. I'd enjoyed the Kydd series up to this point, but this book devolved to a love story with only a smattering of adventure. Kydd is bitten deep by ambition, finds improbable love, throws it (and is career) away at the end for even lees probable love, and gets broken for it. Renzi has become a shell of the enjoyable character he was, still irritatingly in the "will he, won't he" phase with the ever present Cecilia who still manages to Inexplicably climb the social ladder despite having no means, family title or (ahem) husband. Oh yeah, three of the thirteen chapters contain a woefully undeveloped sea tale. This is the book where the author jumps the shark and loses me. There's more books in the series, but I won't waste my time with Kydd's 17th impossible climb from ruin while Renzi and Cecilia continue to play sycophantic fiddles.

Bad Ending

I was very disapointed with the ending! Ruined the whole book for me. Will not listen to anymore of this series.

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Title: Dying in the Wool

Subtitle: A Kate Shackleton Mystery, Book 1

Author: Frances Brody

Narrator: Nicola Barber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 47 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills, and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens...until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing under dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants to make one last attempt at finding her father. Has he run off with his mistress? Or was he murdered for his mounting coffers?

Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance? But as Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed.

Critic Reviews:

"The first in a planned series introduces a refreshingly complex heroine and adds a fine feeling for the postwar period."(

Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Fluff & Nonsense

This book "Disney-izes" post WWI Britain in a way that I never dreamt possible for the historic fiction/mystery genre. The daffy-est "Polly-Anna" sleuth I have met yet. I just hated it.

Sooo disappointed

Based on the reviews, I thought this was going to be somewhat like "Maisie Dobbs", a series that I enjoyed very much. I must admit that it bears a resemblance. The time period is the same, and the main character, Kate, resembles Maisie. I was happily listening to and enjoying the book for 5 hours until I came upon a sex scene. I must admit, I do not know how far the situation went - sometimes an author will start a scene such as this just to titillate, but I didn't want to know. Since I wasn't reading a printed page, I have no way of knowing. I pushed the "forward" button, and continued listening, but I totally lost interest. The whole experience was soured. I know some folks consider this prudish, but, after all, I am the one who paid the money for the book, hoping to have an enjoyable listening experience. If you're like me, and you enjoyed Maisie Dobbs, I'd advise you to pass this one up.

This book dragged.

The premise was good. The setting was good. The info about satanic mills was educational. The characters were so so. And oh! I thought the story would never end! I skipped from chapter 7 to 4 from the end, and still it seemed too long. The reader was ok, though. I shan't be reading/listening to any more by this author. Sorry to be so negative!

New series--another post WWI female sleuth!

Would you listen to Dying in the Wool again? Why?

Probably not--but I don't often re-read mysteries.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Not edge of seat--but it moved rather well and kept my interest. This is the story of a young woman who would like to have someone (Kate, her friend--who is becoming an investigator) find her father, long missing, before her impending marriage.

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Title: The Sacred Stone

Author: Susanna Gregory, Michael Jecks, C.J. Sansom, Karen Maitland, Philip Gooden, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson

Narrator: Paul Matthews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 71 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Masters of the historical mystery, authors Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Philip Gooden, Simon Beaufort, and C.J. Sansom band together as The Medieval Murderers to craft this thrilling tale. In 1067 Greenland, a strange stone falls from the sky. Over the next 600 years, violence and death follow whoever possesses it, including crusading knights, a dying King Henry III, and a troupe of His Majesty King James Is players.

Members Reviews:

It didn't keep me listening...

I liked this book, but it felt to me like a preview - or sample - of other series strung together. So, I found myself listening to the chapters more like short stories. I like historical mysteries and I was intrigued by the mystery of the stone. The writers are all proficient and the presentation was good. But I think this book is right for someone looking more for the short story genre, than a fully developed novel. In fact, some of these writers are new to me and I will be checking out their other work which is more developed.

Great Reading by Paul Matthews

Which scene was your favorite?

Openning and closing.

Any additional comments?

Great reading that I really enjoyed, but mediocre stories. Too much filler. I expected better from the authors. I will find other books read by Paul Matthews. Well done.

Not as absorbing as the summary would suggest

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Each story could be shorter and snappier

Would you recommend The Sacred Stone to your friends? Why or why not?

Not compared to all the great books available on Audible

Have you listened to any of Paul Matthewss other performances? How does this one compare?

No

Did The Sacred Stone inspire you to do anything?

No

Any additional comments?

There was a predictability about all the stories, and a lack of pace in the action which means that it somehow fails to really catch the imagination.

a series of parts

I purchased this because of enjoying the Shardlake stories by CJ Sanson. I found this more a collection of short stories along a single theme and time line and as a result enjoyed some parts more than others as I could reasonably expected given the different styles present. I could have though didnt skipped a part I didnt enjoy as the separate stories stand well alone. Overall if you like historic mystery you will enjoy this though some parts more than others.

Murky mediaeval mess

A bit disappointing really. I suppose most of the authors were commisioned to write different parts and while there was a theme, the books did not seem to have a any great continuity. It's a book which as they say , is good in parts Maybe to many cooks spoil the broth.

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Title: The Ionia Sanction

Subtitle: A Mystery of Ancient Greece

Author: Gary Corby

Narrator: Erik Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-11

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Athens, 460 B.C. Life's tough for Nicolaos, sole investigating agent in Athens. His girlfriend's left him and his boss wants to fire him. But when an Athenian official is murdered, Pericles has no choice but to put Nico on the job. The case takes Nico, with a beautiful slave girl, to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. The Persians will execute him on the spot if they think he's a spy. Beyond that, there are only a few minor problems: He's being chased by brigands who are only waiting for the right price before they kill him. He must meet Themistocles, the military genius who saved Greece during the Persian Wars, and then defected to the hated enemy. And to solve the crime, Nico must uncover a secret that could not only destroy Athens, but will force him to choose between love, ambition, and his own life.

Critic Reviews:

"Corby has not only made Greek history accessible - he's made it first-rate entertainment." (Kelli Stanley)

Members Reviews:

I Enjoyed this more than Sacred Games

I absolutely love the adventures of Nicolaus and Diotema. This time, the story is set in the court of Themistocles. The Author always puts humor into the "historical" setting, and there is much more sarcasm and humor to go around. It was great fun trying to figure out who was involved in the sordid mystery.

Possibly the Worst Mystery

For me this starts out with being one of the worst readers ever. I could never get interested in this book and the reader spoke in a monotone which added to the total boredom I felt.

I never got the feeling of the soceity of Ancient Greece despite the sprinkling of greek words and terms throughout the book. As for the mystery - is started out interesting and degenerated into a mind numbing account of travelling in the Greek and Persian world and their customs. There was no suspense in the mystery, which got lost in the description of the culture as the author understood it.

When you look at the great writers of mysteries set in the Ancient world -- like Lindsey Davis or Simon Scarrrow, who creat interesting characters and describe the culture in terms of their character interacting with it. You feel like you are living in Ancient Rome - I never felt that way about this book.

In this book there is no sense of the characters living in the culture - rather they are wooden persons dropped into a stage setting without being part of the society.

Very enjoyable

Very good plot with interesting and believable characters. Will be downloading more in this series

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Title: The Million-Dollar Wound

Subtitle: Nathan Heller, Book 3

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 116 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1942, Chicago P.I. Nate Heller and his childhood pal, boxer Barney Ross, join the Marines and see bloody action together at Guadalcanal. Upon his return to gangland Chicago, the shell-shocked Heller - more dangerous than ever - is thrust into the midst of an inter-gang war to depose Capones successor, Frank Nitti, whose minions are infiltrating Hollywood movie unions.

In this crushing finale to rough-and-tumble Nate Hellers Frank Nitti trilogy, Max Allan Collins delves into the damaged psyche of war veterans as a full-on gangland war threatens to explode. As tempers in Hollywood flare-up, Heller attempts to solve a murder committed behind enemy lines, and deal with the drug addiction of his friend Barney. But not even the company of fan dancer Sally Rand can ease Hellers conscience as he is haunted by the events at Guadalcanal even as hes surrounded by the murder and mayhem of Nittis final, violent days.

Critic Reviews:

"A serious social chronicle of Chicagos turbulent history as the 30s and 40s gangland capital of America. Its also serious fun a terrific sense of vitality. (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Great character but not a great plot.

I like Nate Heller and find this series interesting, but this particular story wanders about and is more historical fiction than a mystery. Given that Nate is a fictional character, the details of his experiences in WWII and in the hospital are kind of irrelevant. The role of the Outfit in both Chicago and Hollywood's history is detailed and, while I find it interesting, I never quite know how much is history and how much is fiction. (I find myself checking characters in the wikipedia in the hopes of figuring it out.) This is the finale of the Frank Nitti trilogy. The last chapter is an epilogue about what happened to the various gangsters subsequently. The writing is good and the performance excellent, so I'm not sorry I listened.

Great detective story. Awesome writer.

Go back to the gangsters of the 30s and 40s.

You feel like you are there.

I am going to read all the Heller books.

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Title: HaPenny

Subtitle: Small Change, Book 2

Author: Jo Walton

Narrator: John Keating, Heather O'Neill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 207 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1949, eight years after the "Peace with Honor" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb. The brilliant but politically compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists, of staunch king-and-country patriots and hardened IRA gunmen, to murder Britain's prime minister and his new ally, Adolf Hitler.

Against a background of increasing domestic espionage and the suppression of Jews and homosexuals, an ad-hoc band of idealists and conservatives blackmail the one person they need to complete their plot, an actress who lives for her art and holds the key to the fuhrer's death. From the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennies that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl around one another, spinning beyond anyone's control.

In this brilliant companion to Farthing, Welsh-born World Fantasy Award-winner Jo Walton continues her alternate history of an England that could have been with a novel that is both an homage of the classic detective novels of the 30s and 40s and an allegory of the world we live in today.

Critic Reviews:

"World Fantasy Award-winner Walton masterfully illustrates how fear can overwhelm common sense, while leaving hope for a resurgence of popular bravery and an end to dictatorial rule." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Middle book builds a world

This is a sequel to Farthing, and is followed by Half a Crown. It occurs right after the first book and features Inspector Carmichael. The other part of the story involves the theater world, which in some ways is a metaphor for all the acting and pretending and shams in this alternate history. It's quite gripping and I had to instantly go to the 3rd book. The narration is excellent, not over the top, just letting the dramatic events speak for themselves.

Disquieting and riveting

Jo Walton has given us a brilliantly thought out alternative to the existing post World War II world that we know. England has replaced Churchill with an appeasement minded Prime Minister, has struck a deal with Hitler, the war in western Europe has ended and 8 years later Hitler is still fighting in Russia. England, like all independent powers on the periphery of the Third Reich, has slid into a milder form of fascism and is trying to accommodate itself to the new reality. It is both horrifying and easily believable.

This volume, the second in the series, involves the police, under an independently minded, but politically compromised, inspector trying to determine what was behind the explosion of a bomb in a London area residence. This book, like the first, tackles the story through the eyes of two separate individuals whose fate are eventually intertwined. In this case we have the story through Inspector Carmichaels eyes and those of the lead actress in a new version of Hamlet that is to be staged. How the two tales come together and how the mystery is solved constitutes this book.

As with the first book in this series the characters seem real, the story progresses logically and nothing that takes place seems unreasonable.

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Title: A Spark of Death

Subtitle: The First Professor Bradshaw Mystery

Author: Bernadette Pajer

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When University of Washington Professor Benjamin Bradshaw discovers the dead body of a despised colleague inside the Faraday cage of the electric machine, his carefully controlled world shatters.

The facts don't add up. The police shout murderand Bradshaw is the lone suspect. To protect his young son and clear his name, he must find the killer.

Seattle in 1901 is a bustling blend of frontier attitude and cosmopolitan swagger. The Snoqualmie Falls Power Plant lights the city, but to most Seattleites, electricity is newfangled and dangerous. The public wants a culpritthey want Bradshaw behind bars.

The killer wants Bradshaw dead.

His life and liberty threatened, Bradshaw discovers the thrill of investigation as he's thrust deeper into the hunt. But questions abound. How had the electric machine's Tesla coil delivered a fatal shock? Was the murder personal, or was it connected to President McKinley's planned visit? Were students involved, or were they in danger? And why had Bradshaw's best friend, Henry, fled to Alaska on the day of the murder?

Danger and death lurk everywheredisguised as accidents. Then Henrys niece, Missouri, appears on Bradshaws porch in need of a home. Her unorthodox views and femininity confuse and intrigue him, and he feels a spark of love while yet struggling to protect his own haunting secret. Has Bradshaw begun to feel alive again only to lose all he holds dear? Before its too late, he must discover the circuit path that led to a spark of death.

Critic Reviews:

With plenty of historical details and an eclectic cast of characters, plus a well-constructed plot and terrific pacing, this engaging first novel should be recommended to all fans of historical mysteries. (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

A Spark of Death

With Seattle history and early electricity science subtlety woven into the storyline, this new mystery guides the reader through a murderous event that changes Professor Bradshaw's life. Expertly read, the actor gives the professor a voice that enhances his character. I am anxiously looking forward to the next book in this new series.

FANTASTIC! I ENJOYED MYSELF SO MUCH!

I am so glad I found this author. Bernadette Pajer is an excellent writer. The plot was good and the story flows smoothly right to the end. It is difficult to find a good writer and I have in Audible that so far there are only four books published. I do hope there will more in this series. The narrator, Malcolm Hillgartner is excellent. His voice for Professor Bradshaw is wonderful... He sound such a gentleman, kind and understanding. The plot was very good I could not guess who the killer was until the end. Well worth a credit.

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Title: A Death in Summer

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Benjamin Black

Narrator: John Keating

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-11

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 121 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent endand an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most gripping novel yet.

On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewellknown to his many enemies as Diamond Dickis discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite.

Jewell's coolly elegant French wife, Françoise, seems less than shocked by her husband's death. But Dannie, Jewell's high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected friend: David Sinclair, Quirke's ambitious assistant in the pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. Further, Sinclair has been seeing Quirke's fractious daughter, Phoebe, and an unlikely romance is blossoming between the two.

As a record heat wave envelops the city and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find themselves caught up in a dark web of intrigue and violence that threatens to end in disaster.

In this tightly plotted and gorgeously written novel, the brilliant but sometimes reckless Quirke learns that, in a city where old money and the right bloodlines rule, he is by no means safe from mortal danger.

Members Reviews:

Disappointing

Bought and enjoyed the previous Dr. Quirk books, esp. Christine Falls, but having a hard time with this due to the change in narrator. The cadence gets very tiresome, and the "acting", if you can call it that, isn't good. The character of Dr. Quirk is entirely different. Too bad.

agree with "disappointing" based on narrator

here is one of those unfortunate situations where the book may be wonderful but the narrator doesn't work with the book. i've listened to john keating's narrations before and don't recall him getting in the way of the story. i could only listen for 5 or 6 minutes. will try again. but this pairing doesn't work. have no idea why not. wish it could be redone with Timothy Dalton. perhaps its a case of changing narrators in the middle of a series.

Narration poor.

I have enjoyed previous Benjamin Black novels with Timmothy Dalton as narrator but was not able to finish this one. The narrator completely changed my perception of the Dr. Quirke character, and not to the positive.

Terrible narrator

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

After listening to the superb narration of Timothy Dalton in three previous Benjamin Black novels, John Keating's reading was intolerable.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

I could not get beyond the first few chapters.

How could the performance have been better?

The performance was dismal, sing-song. I was unable to detect when a character was speaking.

Any additional comments?

PLEASE bring Timothy Dalton back. I was looking forward to the remainder of Banjamin Black's novels.

This narrator stinks

If you could sum up A Death in Summer in three words, what would they be?

So the darkness of Timothy Dalton is gone and instead the narrator sounds about eleven years old.

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Title: The Tattoo Murder Case

Author: Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm (translator)

Narrator: Mark Douglas Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-11

Publisher: Iambik

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Miss Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs left behind. Gone is that part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered by her late father. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor, must assist his detective brother who is in charge of the case, because he was Kinue's secret lover and the first person on the murder scene.

Members Reviews:

Great Story, Below Average Reader

What did you love best about The Tattoo Murder Case?

The story and book itself was an amazing read if you like detective novels and Japanese literature.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Tattoo Murder Case?

*SPOILER* The reveal of Kinue's body actually being that of her sister's.

What didnt you like about Mark Douglas Nelsons performance?

It was rather monotonous and was not lively at all. Even if it's an edge-of-your-seat plot reveal, he can put you to sleep. He pronounces words well, and speaks at a relatively good pace, but he bores me.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Horror, Mystery, and a Curse all in a locked room.

Any additional comments?

If this reader doesn't really bore you, this audio book is strongly recommended. Otherwise, you may need to read it in paper form. The book itself is complete gold.