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Title: The Christians

Author: Jim Yoakum

Narrator: Alex Zonn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-16

Publisher: Precision Chicken

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the story of two psychopathic Bible salesmen who murder in the name of God. Hot on their trail is a former Texas Ranger, and US Bureau of Investigation (pre-FBI) agent, John Stoddard Pyle, a man who knows no mercy, and who does not know exactly whom he is chasing, as there is no apparent motive, and virtually no clues.

Members Reviews:

Truly fascinating and chilling

I really liked this book. I found it truly chilling to be shown the inner workings of a disturbed mind. I found the characters fascinating, and the pacing of the story is slow, but intense and works well. This was the first book I have ever read by Jim Yoakum, but after reading this one, I don't think it will be the only one for long. I can't wait to read more by him. I listened to the Audible audio version of this book narrated by Alex Zonn (the first time listening to him), and his narration was INCREDIBLE. I really want to check out more stuff that he has done, too. His voice transports you to the era of the book, and he does a great job of giving everyone a unique voice. I highly recommend this book.

Psychotic bible salesmen

Set in the Great Depression era this story gives you a real feel of that time. From door to door salesmen, to gangsters, preachers and the start of the FBI; it is a small taste of history wrapped up in a tale of murder and displaced Christian values. The deep baritone of the narrator seemed to epitomize the era and the intonation he used for the characters voices suited them to a tee. Even though there was lots of people murdered in this story, I found the action was a little slow, I would have liked to have seen more intrigue and more of the Pyle's pursuit of psychotic salesmen. Having said that, I enjoyed this book, especially the somewhat different conclusion to the story. I received the audiobook at no cost and in exchange for an honest review.

A fantastic insight to the disturbed mind.

Taking place in the time of prohibition, this story follows a pair of self righteously justified serial killers who belive they are doing the greater good by killing those who have recently cleaned their figurative slate with the Lord.

The story is fantastically written with a slow, but nonetheless fiery burn and puts you right along side of these two men going cross country on their new found purpose and the lawman determined to bring a stop to their bloody crimes.

Alex Zonn does a fantastic job emersing our mind in the setting and time of this bloody tale of retribution.

I've read many of the "best" books out there and quite a few don't even come close to how good this book was. I recommend it as highly as possible.

Not my typical genre, very good book.

This kind of book is not what I usually read, but I wanted to change up my audiobook collection and try something new for once. I had a lot of fun with this book: a few unexpected twists, some comedy, mix in some religious crazies, and viola, you've got a solid, well written book. I've already recommended it to a few friends.

I enjoyed this book.

I thought this book was a great little story. Narrative was a little weird at first but after it got started I was captivated. Loved all the scriptures in it . Would recommend.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis

Author: Allan Mitchell

Narrator: Steve White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-16

Publisher: MX Publishing

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

More menacing than the Menacing Moors, the Great Metropolis harbors evil and deviltry far more sinister than Dartmoor could offer - it is not for nothing that Watson describes London as the great cesspool draining the empire of its dregs. Its evil stems from the hearts of the most heartless of men, evil against which a group of stalwart Londoners is determined to act.

Knowledge is power and forewarned is forearmed, it is said, but fore-knowledge is fragile and Sherlock must balance probability with instinct, caution with decisiveness, when warned of impending disaster for both city and realm.

Allan Mitchell's stirring stanzas of reeling rhyme once again stretch back to an earlier era to witness the never-ending battle between Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis.

Members Reviews:

Well, it's different.

Well, it's different. I certainly would never have attempted to write out a 170 page epic poem based on an untold Sherlock Holmes mystery. Allan Michell has succeeded where others have feared to tread. "Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis" follows "The Menacing Moors", Michell's previous tour de force. While "The Menacing Moors" is based on "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Menacing Metropolis" echos "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in its group method of battling a horrible threat against London and the world. It is well-written and catches the reader up into the adventure when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson join forces with a varied bunch of people intent on protecting the people and places that they love. Recommended.

Who is the hidden Mastermind?

Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis by Allan Mitchell

My thanks go out to Steve and Timi of MX Publishing for my review copy of this book.

As I said with Mitchellâs last book, Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Moors, you have to love the dedication that he shows in writing a 170 page novel in rhymed and structured poetry. Now because of foot/meter and rhyme, there will be times when the words have to be arranged to fit the format. That is the way long epic poems are written.

I enjoyed the book, but I have said before and I say again, poetry is made to be read aloud. I read the entire 170 pages aloud over two days. The cadence at times reminded me of The Night before Christmas, and sometimes of Dr. Seuss, but the story is definitely there!

Holmes detects the presence of a devious mind behind the events of The Menacing Moors. He wonders whether or not Moriarty could possibly be alive. Watson reminds Holmes that Moriarty had a brother, Colonel James Moriarty who had defamed Holmes in the newspapers following Professor Moriarty died at Reichenbach Falls. Then there is Colonel Moran. He is supposed to be in prison, but is discovered to have escaped. Nothing really is a deciding factor in determining who the mastermind really is, but Holmes and a group called The Tower are determined to find out!

The target seems to be the gold bullion held in the nationâs banks. Stealing it would cripple Britain. Yet more that the gold is in danger, someone is fomenting distrust and anger among the nations of Europe. If someone has their way, the world will plunge into warâ

I give the book five stars!

Quoth the Ravenâ

An Epic Verse Holmes Adventure

Alan Mitchell first brought us the epic Sherlock Holmes poem in the form of âThe Menacing Moorsâ.

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Title: Butcher's Road

Author: Lee Thomas

Narrator: Theodore Copeland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-16

Publisher: Lethe Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

During Prohibition a shamed wrestler named Butch "The Butcher" Cardinal is framed for murder and subsequently hunted by the cops, the mob, and a mysterious cabal who are eager to acquire a stolen trinket that might very well be as magical as the men claim. During the frame-up Butch came into possession of the piece and the cabal will do whatever they can - including murder - to get their hands on the object. Butch travels down to New Orleans to take shelter with another old wrestler and their friendship deepens to something more serious before all hell breaks loose.

Members Reviews:

As good as it gets

I've reviewed books by Lee Thomas before and I've compared him to Stephen King. And, as good as I think Stephen King is, frankly, I prefer Lee Thomas. His books are gritty and unpredictable. And Butcher's Road is another of just such a book.

Set in 1932, the book follows a former wrestler named Butch Cardinal, who has fallen into a real mess. Facing a crooked Chicago police department, the mob and a mysterious group called the Alchemi, Butch is implicated in murder and must run, knowing there are few people he can trust. He flees to New Orleans where he meets Hollis, who is someone trustworthy and who Butch develops a deep relationship with.

Who are the good guys here? Are there any? If you've read any of Lee Thomas's books, you know that not everything is as it seems and bad guys don't always wear black. Don't try to predict the ending of this book. You'll never see it coming.

Absorbing, intelligent book. A great read.

So glad I came across this book! it's well-written and tightly plotted. Great setting, good characters.

Very good dark novel.

Second novel by this author I have read. Good character development and a constant sense of dread. Will read more from him whenever he publishes.

riveting thriller that will satisfy anyoneâs hunger for compulsive readingâif youâve read Thomas before

Lee Thomas has always made the most delicious novels from the most disparate of ingredients. His latest, Butcherâs Road, tosses a ruined pro wrestler, Irish and Italian mobsters, a psychotic hit man, and a secret society out to retrieve a stolen relic into the Thomas Mixmaster, folds in Chicago and New Orleans color circa 1932, dashes of same-sex longing, and a heavy dose of dread and comes out with a powerful, riveting thriller that will satisfy anyoneâs hunger for compulsive readingâif youâve read Thomas before, you wonât be disappointed at all. And if you havenât, shame on you. This is a wonderful place to start.

Sensational Paranormal Crime Thriller

"Butcher's Road" by Lee Thomas takes the reader into the violent world of gangsters, crooked cops and a psychopathic killer as well as a large dose of the paranormal for good measure. It begins when Butch Cardinal, a former world-class wrestler hired by a gangster to pick up a mysterious parcel, finds himself involved in the murder of a criminal lowlife and on the run from crooked Chicago cops, mobsters and a coldblooded killer.

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Title: White Jazz

Subtitle: L.A. Quartet, Book 4

Author: James Ellroy

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boomtown at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder.

Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect, a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.

Klein's been hung out as bait, 'a bad cop to draw the heat', and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins - all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden.

Members Reviews:

Excellent end to a great series.

Started to walk in retirement at a prep school field house - an audio book single CD is wonderful to listen to and time a 60-75 minute bout of early morning walking - getting in those 10K step a day. Wanted to do the LA series by Jame Ellroy and this used copy of WHITE JAZZ was an excellent end to a month of walking and following the various characters in the series. Very well written and loved learning about the word "hinky". All four books had excellent narrators and certainly held my attention while starting up this exercise program. Nice to stimulate the body and the mind at the same time - after all you can only look at those four walls so many times before the brain gives out. A wonderful selection of audio books keeps me going back six days a week.

4 hollywood stars

A challenging read, but a good read nonetheless. His short staccato prose obfuscates at times, but occasionally, like the final group of chapters, it feels like it couldnt have been written any other way.

As always, the plot is denser than a bagmans fist and this book bruises like one. The first draft was 600+ pages, but the editor thought it too long. Instead of shaving off plot, he shaved off connecting words and other stuff. This stylist approach left out descriptions and often the innerlife of the character. Those are two mild problems that partially forgivable.

My biggest qualm in this novel is the lack of complex characterization of the female characters. The two signjfcant female characters are so minor,and really have no motivations of there and only get swept up in the klein's problems. This wasnt a problem in previous novels, but it is a huge criticism.

Overall, the book was a thrilling ride. The deeds are dastardly, and every event was horrendous. The kinda book that makes being bad look so good. Neo noir at its finest.

like the other three novels in Ellroy's "L

White Jazz is, like the other three novels in Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet" quite an excellent read. The only snag for some readers will be that White Jazz was either written in a very different, stripped-down style than the three novels that precede it, or at least represents the most extreme form of a style that began to emerge in L.A. Confidential.

From what I read, Mr. Ellroy was asked by his publisher to severely shorten L.A. Confidential and, rather than cut out any of the existing plots or subplots, Mr. Ellroy chose instead to eliminate any words that were not absolutely necessary. While the prose in L.A. Confidential did not actually strike me as minimalist, it was immediately evident that the prose in White Jazz was flayed right down to the bone.

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Title: The Moon Man, Book 1

Author: Gary Lovisi, Ken Janssens, Erwin K Roberts, Andrew Salmon

Narrator: Matt Waldron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-16

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Robin Hood of the pulps!

Detective sergeant Stephen Thatcher is the son of police chief Peter Thatcher. Sickened by the effects of the Great Depression on Great City, the young lawman cannot reconcile the rich society elite living the good life while across town the poor of Great City go hungry. Unable to correct this injustice through the system he represents, Thatcher assumes the role of the vigilante thief the Moon Man by disguising himself behind a one-way Argus glass globe. In this get up he then proceeds to rob the rich and give to the needy via his loyal aide, former boxer Ned "Angel" Dargan. He is also aided by the lovely Sue McEwen, the daughter of the man sworn to capture him, his own boss, Lt. Detective Gil McEwen.

Created by pulp legend Frederick C. Davis, the Moon Man's exploits appeared in the pages of Ten Detective Aces and was a reader favorite. Now he returns to the streets of Great City in five new thrilling adventures written by writers Ken Janssens, Gary Lovisi, Erwin K.Roberts, and Andrew Salmon.

Members Reviews:

Excellent!

If I have any complaint about this volume, it is that the stories were too short! It certainly epitomizes what I have come to expect of Ariship27: well-written, well-researched, fast paced pure pulp fiction! I only wish I still had my copy of Moon Man: Lunar League to go with this, but it has vanished, and I cannot locate another copy, curse the luck! If this is your introduction to the Moon Man, you are in for a treat. If you enjoyed the book, try to find the originals. I know I have volume one, The Night Nemesis, and highly recommend it. I can't seem to find volume two, The Silver Spectre, but if I ever do I intend to snatch it if I can. Great job, Ron, Andrew, and company!

Quoth the Raven...

Good revival of a classic character

This is another fine revival of a classic pulp character by Airship27 press. This volume has five stories by four different authors. Most, if not all of these authors have written pulp style stories before and feel very comfortable with the genre. They vary in style of course, but all still have a lot of the original Moon Man flavor. I look forward to the second volume of Moon Man stories due out in 2013.

New stories of this lesser know pulp hero.

[Preliminary review until I can finish this work]

The Moon Man is one of the most unusual pulp heroes. Sometimes called the 'Robin Hood of the Pulps', he is really Detective Sgt. Stephen Thatcher, who is the son of Police Chief Peter Thatcher. Upset by the injust he sees in Great City, he assumes the role of the vigilante thief the Moon Man by disguising himself behind a one-way Argus glass globe. Aided by his loyal aide, former boxer Ned "Angel" Dargan and his fiance, Sue McEwen, the daughter of the man sworn to capture him, his own boss, Lt. Detective Gil McEwen. Created by pulp author Frederick C. Davis, the Moon Man's exploits appeared in the pages of "Ten Detective Aces" for 38 stories from 1933-37. I wish someone would reprint these classic stories in a more economic volume. The 2 volumes from the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box are pretty pricey.

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Title: The Prisoner of the Riviera

Subtitle: The Francis Bacon Mysteries, Book 2

Author: Janice Law

Narrator: Paul Ansdell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Peace has come to England and the blackout is over, but the gloom has yet to lift from London. One night, leaving a gambling club where he has run up a considerable tab, the young painter Francis Bacon, accompanied by his lover, sees a man gunned down in the street. Soon afterward, Bacon receives a strange offer from the club owner: He will erase Bacon's debts if the painter delivers a package to the dead man's widow on the Riviera. What gambler could resist a trip to Monte Carlo? The Riviera may be lovely, but in 1945, its sun-drenched beaches can be just as dark as the back alleys of London.

Members Reviews:

Entertaining

*Book source ~ NetGalley

WWII is over and Europe is trying to rebuild. Painter Francis Bacon and his lover witness a shooting while leaving a gambling hall and then, a few days later, heâs asked to take a packet to the widow of the man he tried to save. In exchange, the owner will forgive his losses from that night. Finding this a strange request, he decides to do it since heâs heading to France on vacation anyway. But a task that should have been simple turns out to not be and Francis soon finds himself neck deep in post-war intrigue.

At times this mystery can be a bit tedious going, but for the most part it flows from one incident to another with poor Francis stuck smack dab in the middle with not much choice but to go along for the ride. It has its moments of being a bit hard to believe and at times the plot is bit too twisty to follow. However, it did entertain me and Francis is quite the character.

Gritty, fun post-WWII mystery with unusual setting and wonderful narrator

Last year I read and adored Janice Law's previous novel featuring 20th century painter Francis Bacon, Fires of London. (It made my top ten of 2012!) I loved it for its dark and slightly raunchy tone, for being gritty and gay (homosexual, not cheerful), and for being atmospheric and escapist.

I hadn't realized there was a chance of more Bacon so when I learned Law had written a second novel featuring him, I was over the moon. To my delight, the novel opened (literally, the second line!) with the same flippant seediness I loved in the first book.

The war is over, and Francis is ready to leave post-war London, with the food shortages and lingering stink of war. He rallies his childhood nanny, who is nearly blind and deeply devoted to him, and his respectable lover Albert, for a trip to Monte Carlo. But after witnessing a man getting shot outside a club in London, Francis is tasked with taking the man's effects to his widow who just happens to live on the Riviera, and the endeavor proves more complicated than he anticipated.

Francis narrates the story, and in Law's hands, he's wry, pithy, and sarcastic. Coy, too, for he sadly never dishes details on his liaisons. His voice is what makes these books so captivating: he's a reliable narrator who prefers night to day, the grotesque to the beautiful, the luxuries of life while slumming it. Law evokes the post-war Riviera in its complicated contradiction -- gorgeous beaches and sunny vistas, Vichy collaborators transforming themselves into Allied supporters -- and it makes a fascinating backdrop for a murder mystery.

Fans of WWII settings will enjoy this one; the inclusion of a gay lead makes it all the more novel and interesting.

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Title: Domino Lady, Volume 1

Author: Greg Hatcher, Gene Moyers, Tim Bruckner, Kevin Findley

Narrator: Kalinda Little

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-16

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Pulpdom's sexiest avenger!

The Domino Lady first appeared in the pulps in 1936. After graduating from the Berkeley College in California, Ellen Patrick goes off to Europe on a joy-filled jaunt. Her trip is cut short when her widowed father, DA Owen Patrick, is murdered by gangsters. Upon her return home she learns the corrupt authorities have no intention of finding her father's killers. Thus she puts on a domino mask and a backless white dress to avenge him. Though arming herself with a small .22 automatic and a syringe full of knockout serum, the Domino Lady's most effective weapon was her sensual beauty, which often distracted her opponents until she could turn the tables on them.

Now new pulp writers, Greg Hatcher, Gene Moyers, Tim Bruckner, and Kevin Findley offer up four brand new adventures of Los Angeles' most notorious, and sexiest, crime-fighter of them all, the Domino Lady!

Members Reviews:

Domino Lady

Even though the Domino Lady seems to have had quite a resurgence in popularity in recent years (with reprints of the original stories, new stories and even comics being published), I have to admit that before picking up this collection I had read none of the previous material and knew very little about the character. And now I'm quite intrigued. The Domino Lady is quite unusual for a pulp hero: first, she's a woman, and second, instead of being some kind of elaborately disguised bad-a** toting a pair of .45s or a utility belt, she wears a cloak, a slinky evening gown and carries a small handgun and a syringe to knock out potential opponents. She does know judo, but mainly she just relies on her intelligence and cunning (which includes taking advantage of her good looks) to bring down her foes. She's also a bit of a Robin Hood, stealing from the crooked and giving to charity. It's quite a clever concept, and the four stories in this book make great use of these storytelling devices. Another thing I like is that unlike a lot of the pulp heroes, or later superheroes, she's not infallible or invincible. Rather, she makes mistakes or sometimes misjudges situations (this comes to the fore in the stories by Hatcher in particular, as well as the contribution by Findley), but then learns from this and moves on, and this makes her more relatable. All in all, I recommend this book to any fans of pulp and/or the Domino Lady, and I look forward to reading future stories featuring the character.

Hatcher's tale is easily the most intellectual of the books

In the interests of full disclosure, I have to admit two things: 1) I've never been particularly interested in pulp novels and had never heard of the Domino Lady before reading this; and 2) one of the authors in this collection is an old friend.

That said, I found this collection of short stories immensely entertaining. Each author brought something different, a unique voice, to the character. Hatcher's tale is easily the most intellectual of the stories, and manages to embed his progressive 21st century mentality in a much earlier setting. He manages to capture the Domino Lady's sexiness without being overly salacious, and makes her acceptance of a character's homosexual relationship believable in an era in which such things were not as openly acknowledged.

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Title: Spyfall

Subtitle: A Stan Wade LA PI Novel

Author: John Hegenberger

Narrator: Ron Welch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-16

Publisher: John Hegenberger

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In October 1959, someone is out for revenge against young LA PI Stan Wade, who has solved a few cases for his main client, Walt Disney. When a CIA agent mistakenly dies in Stan's place, Stan initiates a revenge investigation that leads him outside the country, and his own comfort zone, to stop a nuclear threat to Europe that will remain classified until 2012.

Members Reviews:

An enormously entertaining novel

It's 1959 and Los Angeles private eye Stan Wade is living in a world populated by the rich, famous, and notorious.

He rubs shoulders with Walt Disney, for whom he sometimes does some investigative work; knows gangster Micky Cohen; has an office in the rear of the famed Brown Derby restaurant; has played bridge with Noel Coward; and knows his way around the mean streets.

So when Disney asks him to meet with former British-intelligence-officer-turned-author Ian Fleming, who has lately run into some trouble with the mobsters he keeps inserting into his James Bond novels, it doesn't seem like that big a deal. All he has to do is convince Fleming to write more about spies than gangsters and then square things with Cohen.

If only life were that simple.

Author John Hegenberger has crafted an enormously entertaining novel in "Spyfall," a semi-noir romp that takes Wade from the sunny streets of Hollywood to Jamaica, England, Germany (both East and West), and France as he, Fleming, Disney, and their erstwhile companions try to track down secret Soviet plans and rescue a captured American agent.

Wade is an interesting character. An orphan, Disney has kept an eye on him throughout much of his life, honoring a promise he made to Wade's parents before they died. He has a beautiful girlfriend, lives on a boat, is making enough money to get by, and generally keeps his nose clean. He can be a little dense sometimes and he's prone to lose his temper on occasion, but basically he's not a bad guy. He finds himself in the middle of an international espionage case almost by accident and is astonished when he learns that "Uncle Walt" has been working for the U.S. government for many years in an effort to root out Soviet spies.

That, however, isn't the only surprise in store for Wade but I'm not about to spill the beans here. Suffice it to say that there are plenty of twists and turns in the plot of this novel along with some thrill-a-minute chase scenes and more than one gun battle.

Hegenberger's narrative is a little choppy in places but it's easy to forgive that because the story moves along at a rapid-fire pace and is filled with film references and cameo appearances by a lot of entertainment VIPs ranging from Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward to a young GI named Elvis Presley, who helps Wade out of a tough spot.

The verdict: A really good story filled with all sorts of interesting characters and a novel I highly recommend.

A Quick Read - Fun - Nostalgic - Different - Definitely Interesting

Okay, I admit I bought this book some time ago as a gift to my husband and didn't plan to read it as I had too many stacked in my office at home already throwing a guilt trip on me. My husband took forever to read it (he's not into books in the way I am). He loved it.

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Title: The Mirror Was Bleeding

Subtitle: Ladies In Danger Series, Book 3

Author: Deborah Diaz

Narrator: Samuel E. Hoke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-16

Publisher: Chong Teck Chuan

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

About Ladies in Danger series

This series is about the adventures of the marquess of Southgate named simply as "South" as he unravels the mysteries of the regency era.

South, the Marquess of Southerton, is on quest to retrieve some love letters from a Duke's past lover. Bored to go through another season, he goes to the Lady's house and finds a way to be invited to stay. The Lady is married to a man who looks like a scholar and very genteel but she seems to be intensely unhappy. After a while, South finds out some strange happenings in the house. What is the mystery of the bleeding mirror?

Members Reviews:

The Mirror was bleeding

I wasn't really enamored by this book.I tried.The narration by Samuel E Hoke had me aware of every mispronounced word.The story was mediocre.Maybe I needed to read the first two first.I was provided this book by the author, narrator or publisher.

Pretty good story, narration was weird at times

What made the experience of listening to The Mirror Was Bleeding the most enjoyable?

Listening to it was actually hard to get into because of the editing.

What did you like best about this story?

I like the character twists even though I could see some of them coming.

What does Samuel E. Hoke bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

His narrating voice was good, sometimes a tad too thick but not distracting. What was distracting was the recording and editing. There were so many abrupt stops and pick ups that really took me away from the story. There were lots of times when sentences were run on top of each other or the flow was stopped abruptly in the beginning.

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

"Murder. Treason. Romance." thanks deby

Any additional comments?

The story is a good murder mystery of trying to find out who did it with a good twist but overall lacking in originality, not bad but also nothing new.

"I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator in exchange for an unbiased review via Audiobook Boom."

A Well Developed Mystery..

Any additional comments?

This was a well written mystery with a few twists.

The story line kept me guessing to the very end and was an overall engaging read.

I am very interested in the rest of the books in this series.

Samuel E. Hoke did well with the narration.

Note:

"This audio book was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review."

Scarry and Exciting!!!

A interesting occourance of a bleeding mirror.. wonderfully suspenseful and mysteriousI received a free copy of this book and voluntarily decided to review."

Twists and turns make a good mystery.

Where does The Mirror Was Bleeding rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

3/5

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Secret passages and tunnels always create suspense.

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

I liked the cadence and knowledge of the characters.

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Title: The Turquoise Cross

Author: Sandra Olson

Narrator: Ayelet Sror

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

Publisher: Sandra Olson

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Marcie Fields returns to France for the reading of her grandfather's will. Not only does she inherit a castle and the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance, but she finds the man of her dreams. Marrying Pierre Jardin starts a chain of events that not only threatens her life but the lives of her twin infants.

When Nadine L'Orange RN learns that the adoption agency where she works is selling infants on the black market she is outraged. When she learns that two of the babies have been kidnapped from their mother, she risks her life to save them.

Set in France, The Turquoise Cross is every mother's nightmare. As her husband works with local police to find her kidnapped twins, Marcie Jardin's life is threatened by a vindictive woman from Pierre's past.

Set in post-World War II this novel of romance and intrigue gives the listener a vivid description of the landscape and culture of this wonderful country.

Members Reviews:

Fun read for lovers of mystery and romance

This was a fun book, and I liked it. I would consider it a romance thriller. I have to admit that the love-at-first-sight romance between the two main characters did seem a bit rushed and improbable. I do appreciate that it is a "clean" romance. The story takes place in a castle with hidden secret passages - what's not to like about that? I liked that the mystery involved multiple generations of a family and was shocked to learn what happened to the grandmother.

I listened to the Audible audio version of this book narrated by Ayelet Sror. I thought she did pretty well. She gave unique voices to each of the character, had good pacing, and sounded very "French" for the French characters. There were a couple times when she sounded a little robotic and her pronunciation of a word was strange (ex. the word "swathed" was pronounced "SWAY-th'd". Other than that, she was fine. I have heard better, but I have heard many more that weren't as good.

Overall, this was a good book. I enjoyed it and I would read more by this author. If you like romance and mystery, this would be a good choice for your next read.