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Titre: Cinq francs pièce (Commissaire Adamsberg - Nouvelles 3)

Auteur: Fred Vargas

Narrateur: Jacques Frantz

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 39 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-19-15

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Le commissaire Adamsberg a affaire à un homme de la rue qui n'a pour seul compagnon que Martin, un chariot de supermarché lui servant à transporter un chargement d'éponges trouvé au rebut et qu'il s'efforce de vendre, cinq francs pièce.

Cette nouvelle est extraite du recueil Coule la Seine, également disponible en version intégrale chez Audible.fr.

©2002 Éditions Viviane Hamy (P)2015 Audiolib

Avis des membres:

Une histoire simple

Du Maigret moderne. Pour ceux qui ont la nostalgie de Simenon. On est loin des sempiternelles histoire d'horribles tueurs en série. Rien qu'une histoire simple très bien écrite.

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Titre: Le poisson mouillé (Gereon Rath 1)

Auteur: Volker Kutscher

Narrateur: Éric Herson-Macarel

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 18 hrs and 54 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-11-15

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Berlin, mai 1929. La ville est en pleine ébullition et la police a du mal à être sur tous les fronts à la fois - combats de rue entre forces de l'ordre et communistes, criminalité grandissante et night-clubs clandestins. Et puis il y a ce cadavre repêché au fond du canal et dont personne ne semble connaître l'identité. Sauf Gereon Rath, qui l'a croisé quelques jours avant sa mort. Ce jeune commissaire originaire de Cologne qui travaille pour la brigade des mœurs brûle de résoudre seul cette affaire dans l'espoir d'être intégré à la Criminelle. Car cette enquête risque de rejoindre les dossiers des affaires classées non élucidées appelées "les poissons mouillés".

Ce roman, le premier d'une série mettant en scène le commissaire Gereon Rath, dresse un fascinant portrait politique et social du Berlin des années vingt avec ses aspirations contradictoires - rêve de régime autoritaire ou soif de dissipation.

©2010 Editions du Seuil (P)2013 Sixtrid SAS

Avis des membres:

Four Stars

Bon mais long et petite écriture..je préfère Philip Kerr

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Title: Who Spies, Who Kills?

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery Queen

The horribly crushed body that crashed onto the Manhattan pavement has at least two names, several passports, and an address book full of important friends - among them, a millionaire roué; his exotic, deadly mistress; and his coolly beautiful wife - all of whom seem to have forgotten him very abruptly when he became a corpse. No one is talking, so it is up to Captain Corrigan, the man with the eye patch and a way with crime, to solve a violent puzzle of lust, greed, high espionage - and the worst kind of murder.

Members Reviews:

who spies,who kills

I was very pleased to receive my selection so quickly and at such a low price.I was told that I would get an "acceptable" copy,so I was greatly surprised by the quality of the book. There was just a little wear on the spine, otherwise,it looked like it had never been read. Thank you for making this such an exciting experience.

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Titre: Sous l'emprise des ombres (Charlie Parker 13)

Auteur: John Connolly

Narrateur: François Tavares

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 12 hrs and 59 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 03-31-15

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Alors que le Collectionneur, qui a tué l'un de ses proches, court toujours, le détective Charlie Parker doit s'occuper d'une nouvelle affaire : un SDF de Boston s'est suicidé après avoir tenté de prendre contact avec lui pour retrouver sa fille héroïnomane. Sa dernière destination connue étant la petite ville de Prosperous dans le Maine, Charlie Parker décide de s'y rendre. Bien vite, il découvre que la ville est bâtie sur un sol "sacré" et qu'elle est régie par une secte adoratrice d'un dieu païen, qui organise chaque année un sacrifice humain...

La fille du SDF a été tuée en tentant de s'enfuir et le Conseil des Anciens, mené d'une main de fer par Hayley Connier, la matriarche de la ville, exige qu'une nouvelle victime soit trouvée. Charlie Parker, en danger de mort, fait appel à ses amis Angel et Louis.

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©2015 Presses de la Cité. Traduit de l'anglais par Santiago Artozqui (P)2015 Audible FR

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Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Monroe Clark McBride

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-15

Publisher: Cherry Hill Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson chronicles some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as he does while the evidence is collected - then marvel at the impeccable observations, remarkable insight, and doggedness which Holmes displays as he teases apart the tangled clues. Packaged as 12 distinct cases, by the end of this audiobook your own senses of observation and deductive reasoning should be improved!

Members Reviews:

Easy Listening American Accent

Mcbride's pleasant voice and American accent are a nice change from the typical British accent narrators for Sherlock stories. Wonderful pacing and good phrasing are an enjoyable variation for this set of Sherlock Holmes stories. This easy listening collection contains the same set of 12 stories as the audible book by same title narrated by Edward Raleigh. A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", "A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet", and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches".

Interesting to have an American Narrator!

McBride's voice is deep and warm and American! It was fun to listen to the Adventures of Sherlock Homes with an American narrator.

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Title: Dead Man's Gate

Author: Sapper

Narrator: Barnaby Edwards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-14

Publisher: PIQWIQ

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

For most men, the trenches and mud of Flanders were a place of gruelling dread. For Captain Hugh Bulldog Drummond, DSO, MC, they were an addiction.

Returning to civilian life after the end of the war, Drummond drifts in ennui, craving the excitement, until in desperation he places and advert in The Times... and very soon he finds himself chasing the spectre of a criminal mastermind through international conspiracies and old treasures hidden for hundreds of years. In this thrilling new adventure, Bulldog Drummond infiltrates London anarchists and Bolsheviks to thwart a master-criminal's plan to crash an airship into the Houses of Parliament and steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

Members Reviews:

If you need a Bulldog Dummond fix

The story start a little slow and the writer doesn't have Sapper's style quite right. But it is a good read and I would get his next Bulldog Drummond book.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston: The Deadwood Stage

Author: Mike Hogan

Narrator: Martyn Clements

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-14

Publisher: Apley Media

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Spring 1887. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson find a cuckoo in their comfortable nest at 221B Baker Street when, after a chance encounter in Hyde Park, 12-year-old Winston Spencer-Churchill is dumped on them by his far from doting mother, Lady Randolph. Winston blossoms under the affectionate, if occasionally jealous care of Watson. His developing detective skills and connections in Society are combined with a capacity for creating mayhem. Add in pack of Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and a homicidal pork butcher with an axe, and as Holmes says of this first in a series of adventures "I dare say these experiences have done him a power of good. He will be much better prepared for daily life at his public school".

Members Reviews:

The Best Of Times

Often I believe there are executives at Amazon giggling because of customers like me. There's something magnetic about seeing the phrase 'Those who selected ******* also selected *****, *****, and ******. Some times my will power resists for a while but pretty soon the will power collapses. That is what happened with the new Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston books. For months they would pup up on my screen with not so subtle reminders they existed. Finally...the rest is history.

Simply stated, this is a stunning accomplishment. The taut, relentless narrative keeps you spellbound and the descriptions of the various settings and characters are marvelous to say the least. The author keeps a spell binding plot while providing details of realms where life is indeed 'nasty, brutish and short.' Oe item of the many done well is his handling of the characterization of Dr Watson. The Sherlock Holmes movies featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce tended to paint Dr Watson as a buffoon and unfairly o. This book treats him as i feel he should have been treated all along: He's a conservative, patriotic servant of the queen who served the empire faithfully as a soldier and, understandably, is somewhat bewildered by his close companion and roommate, Sherlock Holmes.

Another plus for the book is the bursts of humor that suddenly appear. The reader will find him/herself chuckling over some humorous aspect that found its way into the narrative. Some of them were Hitchcock like where you found yourself laughing out loud while riveted by the narrative. What is astonishing is this is Mike Hogan's first foray into the Sherlock Holmes genre and it is with some glee that I have the next two volumes of the series by my chair. Marvelous job, Mr Hogan, and the amazon executives can keep chuckling because from here out anything I see with your name on it is going straight into the shopping cart.

The Game is Afoot!

Mike Hogan has written an excellent very readable and enjoyable book. Sherlock and Watson come alive on the pages. Placing young Winston Churchill in the book was an excellent choice. Young Winston appears at first to be representative of the upper class but proves to be a worthy companion as he assists the detectives in their cases. I think that this would make an excellent tv movie. I loved this book so much I have also purchased the second in the series anticipating great reading.

Sherlock meets Churchill

I wasn't sure at first, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was believable and a fun read.

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Title: The Angel Court Affair

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Deirdra Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-14

Publisher: Headline Digital

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The 30th novel in the popular series from the master of Victorian crime, featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt along with favourite characters Vespasia and Narraway.

When Commander Thomas Pitt is ordered to protect a young woman visiting London from Spain, he cannot see why this is a job for Special Branch. When she disappears in the dead of night from Angel Court, however, he is faced with a dangerous mystery. Sofia preached new, and some say blasphemous, religious ideals, and her life had been threatened. But Pitt senses there is some deeper and more dangerous reason for her kidnap - if that is what it is.

Three men are caught up in the hunt for Sofia - her cousin, a banker for the Church of England, a popular and charismatic politician, and a journalist who seems determined to goad Pitt to the truth. Each seem to be hiding something, and as the search for answers stretches from London to Spain, Pitt knows that time is running out, and the nation's security could be at stake....

Members Reviews:

Not my favorite by a long shot

I have read all of Anne Perry's Pitt and Monk novels and enjoyed most of them greatly. This one falls flat. I actually told my husband I was bored halfway through. I did finish it, but there was no surprise twist at the end; just a rather bland last few sentences. Very unusual for a Perry novel. As others have mentioned, the characters we have known and loved for years seem muted and one dimensional. This novel is just not up to Anne Perry's remarkable story telling abilities. I will probably stop this series with this book and stick with Perry's William and Hester Monk novels. Those are still worth reading.

A disappointing book from my favorite writer

Not as interesting as previous books. I found it unbelievable that Jemima would become so emotionally involved in the religious issue--the Pitt family has never seemed to be particularly devout in the earlier books. The entire plot seemed rather weak and contrived. The time was not the Middle Ages, but was relatively modern, just a few years before World War I. Not Perry's best work.

Not for me. I was very disappointed.

I usually loved my Anne Perry novels. However, lately I'd say her characters are not as deeply developed. The dialog is statement, restatement and on and on and on...

I'll not go into the plot as I've owned this book for months and I've delved and discarded any semblance to interest.

I have absolutely *ALL* of her English police novels and have usually read straight through. I'm just not interested in this one and will probably take a long vacation from the Anne Perry novels.

Don't read Angel Court Affair ! Totally Boring !

I have read all of Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries, I loved everyone of them. all excellent. Until The Angel Court Affair. It was drawn out, boring, slow moving ,,morbid, and dreary. I read it until the end because I did not want to miss the good part, which never came.. I would swear that Anne Perry did not write this novel. I sincerely hope this doesn't keep up, since they are among my favorite characters.

Another great suspense

Anne Perry takes you back in history, while also keeping you in the present. She is masterful at keeping her story moving forward and drawing you in.

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Title: Swamp Walloper

Subtitle: Fight Card, Book 2

Author: Paul Bishop

Narrator: Duane Sharp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-14

Publisher: Paul Bishop

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Patrick "Felony" Flynn is back! And this time, he's in way over his head. New Orleans, 1956. When the battered body of boxer Marcus de Trod turns up on the edge of the Bayou Sauvage outside New Orleans with the words "Get Felony Flynn LAPD" tattooed in his armpits, Hat Squad detective, Patrick Felony Flynn, knows he is in for the fight of his life. Far from the hardboiled streets of Los Angeles, Flynn and his partner Tombstone Jones are on a two-fisted rampage to find a killer. But hiding in the swamp, deep inside the walls of the Bayou Sauvage Federal Penitentiary, the killer patiently waits to crush his prey with razor sharp teeth and deadly jaws.

After taking down gangster Mickey Cohen's championship prospect Solomon Kane in Felony Fists, Patrick Flynn triumphantly returns in Swamp Walloper, facing an even more dangerous foe - a killer fueled by voodoo and revenge.

Members Reviews:

Voodoo Boxing Magic

Any additional comments?

In case a boxing detective was not enough. Add in voodoo magic, corrupt prison bosses, mob bosses, and a corrupt New Orleans police chief and you got your self a swamp walloping adventure.

This is a fun book, if a little silly with the voodoo magic portion of it, that takes you on the adventure of Felony Flynn as he continues to figure against corruption using his awesome boxing skills.

If you like boxing and detective work, then this story is for you.

I made this comment before but my biggest complaint is that this book was not listed as part of the series in audible so I listed to this book before listening to felony fists. This is book 2, felony fists is book 1.

Brawlin' on the Bayou

Would you consider the audio edition of Swamp Walloper to be better than the print version?

I have not read the print edition, but I think it is safe to say that the audio edition of Swamp Walloper offers an equally exciting experience to the print edition. And with Duane Sharp's pitch-perfect narration, which fully captures the voice of Patrick "Felony" Flynn, I dare say it might even be the preferred way of experiencing the story.

What did you like best about this story?

While I have an aversion to fighting, for sport or otherwise, I enjoy watching it. But I haven't read a whole lot of fiction that is heavy on hand-to-hand combat, at least outside of the occasional novel by Jonathan Maberry and Joe Lansdale. So for me, the deftness by which Paul Bishop presents the fights in this story is just about all you could ask for. He gets in the guy's head and does so much more than deliver a blow-by-blow account. The emotion and the ramifications of the fight are all there in full spendor.

Which character as performed by Duane Sharp was your favorite?

He didn't appear a whole lot in the story, but I quite enjoyed Tombstone Jones, as the kind of guide for Flynn through the ways of New Orleans once they arrive to begin their investigation. A little gruff, a little coy, he was a great character with which Flynn could exchange thoughts and ideas through the book.

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

Swamp Walloper harkens back to those beloved pulp stories of the mid-20th century from the likes of Robert E. Howard and others who enjoyed a generous dose of fisticuffs with their fiction.

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Title: The Black Stone: A Detective Novel of 1930

Subtitle: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery, Book 6

Author: Edward Cline

Narrator: Gregg A. Rizzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-29-14

Publisher: Edward Cline

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In The Black Stone, the sixth adventure of Cyrus Skeen - private detective and socialite in San Francisco - it is February 1930, marking the end of the Roaring Twenties and the beginning of the Depression and the "Red Decade" when Soviet spies and Communist fellow travelers have begun to infiltrate the government and the culture.

In The Chameleon and A Crimson Overture, Skeen tangled with Nazi plotters and Communist spies. In this new case, he confronts a new kind of nemesis that has been gestating in the Middle East for centuries and is now being enabled by oil companies and careless foreign policies: Islam.

While investigating three murders whose savagery is unprecedented in the annals of San Francisco crime, he begins to understand that nemesis and the threat it holds.

In a world slowly descending into the swamp of the approximation, the equivocal, and the pragmatic, Skeen stands out as a beacon of rationality and moral rectitude. His only allies are his painter wife, Dilys, and an intrepid newspaper reporter, Mickey Kane.

Members Reviews:

A vivid story of courage and persistence in a world threatened by predators

My main criterion in reading--and rereading--fiction is saying "yes" to this question: Would I want to be alive inside the world this novelist has created? Would I want to be alive on this story's dark streets of San Francisco in 1930, the first year of the Great Depression?

Yes.

The plot moves from point to point, slowly accelerating. The characters are vivid and distinct. The writer's style is clear and concise, though often understated. (This is an action story, but one with wider messages.) The theme, as I read this story, is ethical: We live in a jungle, with some of its inhabitants being peaceful and productive, but others (too many) are predators. Persistence and courage, the book says, are necessary for protecting the peaceful from the predatory.

The story also sends readers historical messages as well, messages about what might have been done and should have been done in 1930 to make that world--and our world today--a better world.

(I hesitated between a four-star rating and a five-star rating. Half a star off, if it were possible, would denote the occasional unfortunate touches of literary naturalism. For example, does the reader need to be told what the protagonist is eating for breakfast?)

I am looking forward to reading more of the episodes in the Cyrus Skeen series.

The Fascinating Cyrus Skeen Series Continues

Drawing its power from the atmosphere of the 1930s and the rational presence of the heroic Cyrus Skeen, "The Black Stone" takes Skeen into a mystery that has him completely stymied at the beginning. As Mr. Cline says in his Foreward, "...he runs head on into a wickedness he could never have before imagined."

As always in the Skeen series, I enjoy taking armchair detours to the enticingly described historical locales, and researching the classical subjects of the continuing series of paintings that Cyrus's delightful wife Dilys has in progress. And, in counterpoint to Mr.