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Title: Fire Lake

Subtitle: A Harry Stoner Mystery, Book 7

Author: Jonathan Valin

Narrator: Mark Peckham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A phone ringing after midnight means trouble, especially in private eye Harry Stoner's business. This time the 1:30 call is trouble, all right. A motel clerk wants somebody to pick up the loser registered as Harry Stoner who just tried to kill himself. When the real Stoner gets to the Encantada Motel, he finds his old college roommate nearly dead and too many memories still alive. It's a suicide attempt that forces Stoner back into his own past, where a pretty woman, a brutal murder, and the bitter remnants of the sixties drug culture make Stoner's future look rosy...like flowers on a grave.

Members Reviews:

Pretty darn good

I enjoyed Mark Peckham's voice and the more I listened to the him speak found that I enjoyed the book more and more. I have to admit that at first I didn't think I was going to like the book. I can't really say exactly why I felt that way, but I continued to listen and the longer I listened the more interested I became. Over all I felt the book was pretty darn good.

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Title: The Plague Stone

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Gillian White

Narrator: Jon Caruth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In the quiet village of Meadcombe, three women are making wishes they don't for a moment believe will come true. By the next morning, Constance Law is dead, Melanie is missing and, in her manicured fingers, Sonia holds a cheque for a quarter of a million pounds. Coincidence of course. And so are the terrifying and macabre events that follow...or are they?

Members Reviews:

depressing!!

miserable and depressing,the characters are so unpleasant that you have no interest in what becomes of them!

Didn't finish,managed 6 chapters and had enough.Maybe you'll fair better.Narration ok.

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Title: Deadline

Subtitle: Simon Bognor Mysteries, Book 3

Author: Tim Heald

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When St John Derby, the editor of the Samuel Pepys column of the Daily Globe, is found slumped over his desk, both very drunk and extremely dead, its up to Simon Bognor, special investigator for the Board of Trade, to investigate. But will he be able to make a deadline for murder?

Members Reviews:

simon becomes a journalist to investigate a murder

Any additional comments?

simon has a week to find a murder.

another enjoyable story, well written and perfectly performed by john lee.

at the end of the book is the first chapter of the next story.

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Title: Duffy

Author: Dan Kavanagh

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-14

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Things aren't going so well for Brian McKechnie. His wife was attacked in their home, his cat was brutally killed and now a man with a suspiciously erratic accent is blackmailing him. When the police fail spectacularly at finding out who's after him, McKechnie engages the services of London's most unusual private eye.

Duffy is a detective like no other. A bisexual ex-policeman with a phobia of ticking watches and a penchant for Tupperware. But what he lacks in orthodoxy he makes up for in street-smart savvy and no-nonsense dealings. Intrigued by McKechnie's dilemma and the apparent incompetency of his ex-colleagues, Duffy heads to his old patch, the seedy underbelly of Soho, to begin inquiries of his own.

Helped by some shady characters from his past, Duffy discover that while things have changed in the years since he was working the area, the streets are still mean and the crooks walk arm in arm with the blues. Full to bursting with sex, violence and dodgy dealings, Duffy is a gripping and entertaining crime novel with a distinctly different and entirely lovable anti-hero. Read by Rupert Degas.

Members Reviews:

An unusual mix of thriller and comic novel.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. See below.

What did you like best about this story?

Yes, see below.

Which character as performed by Rupert Degas was your favourite?

Duffy.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

If we were in America, Id go to a private detective. You could try Duffy. He might do a job, if he was free.

Any additional comments?

This is the first Duffy novel by Dan Kavanagh (Julian Barnes). In the light of the attention given to Cormoran Strike, the private detective in The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling), readers should try Duffy. Kavanaghs unusual mix of thriller and comic novel is of a different order from Rowlings derivative excursion into detective fiction. Although very different in tone and setting, Duffy bears comparison with John Banvilles moonlighting as Benjamin Black for his Quirke novels.Duffy is set in a very seedy and intermittently dangerous Soho in the 1970s. While Duffy is honourable to a degree, he is far from Raymond Chandlers knight, making his way down Los Angeles mean streets. Duffy deliberates one evening whether to go to a singles bar for a woman or a man, and although his visits to massage parlours and peep-shows advance his investigation into the increasingly threatening blackmail of a client, hed probably be there anyway. Crooked policemen; an extremely nasty villain; and a dodgy client to whom Duffy gives the advice pay-up or find someone to knock-off the blackmailer these are very mean streets. Where The Cuckoos Calling is over-long and quite contrived in its characterisation, especially of the private detective, Duffy is very tight, getting through its plot with considerable economy while still conveying the mostly internal locations quite memorably and building up great tension. I wonder why Julian Barnes keeps his distance from Dan Kavanagh.

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Title: Torch

Author: Deanie Francis Mills

Narrator: C. J. Critt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Deanie Francis Mills is praised as a fresh voice in suspense. Says best-selling author Dean Koontz, "Deanie Mills is Mary Higgins Clark with an edge." Torch ignites in the opening chapter and blazes through a gripping tale of physical and psychological terror.

An investigative reporter sensing a big story, Jillian Ross drags her friend Randi into a rough Dallas neighborhood to cover a political rally. When a riot breaks out, Randi is gruesomely murdered. Feeling responsible, Jillian descends into a lethargic depression. Her friend Ash McGraw, a fire investigator, gets her moving again when he enlists her help to find a serial arsonist. But the arsonist is always a step ahead--almost as if hes inside Jillians head.

Torch crackles with tension and keeps listeners on the edge of their seats. Narrator C.J. Critt delivers an incendiary performance that captures the grit of two strong people fighting to stop a madman.

Members Reviews:

Excellent book

I like books on serial killers. Just reading how sick their minds are. This book was fun. There's a series of arson fires and people dying. A reporter and Arson investigator team up in a round about way a discover there's more to the arson that they originally thought. You know who the bad guy is through the whole book and you know why he is one step ahead of them. You have fun trying to figure out how they will catch him. Enjoyed reading this exciting story.

EXCITING, AUTHENTIC AND ENGROSSING

This is an extremely accurate mystery about fire and arson investigation. It will take you into the way things are truly done, within the confims of a fictional book. The book is loaded with twists and turns, and has a major shock right in the begining. It was hard to put down, and I enjoyed every minute of it...even after the 3rd reading. I was one of Ms. Mills technical advisors, and can testify to the time taken with research. An excellent read.....buy it and enjoy!!!!

A Typical Serial Killer Tracker Novel!

Being on a long airline flight, I was desperate to read something and I picked this book up at a local airport. Well, I was kinda disappointed. This book isn't anything neat at all, but it is not bad though. It is a very predictable novel of tracking a serial killer who is an arsonist and loves to hurt, burn, and kill people. I would save my money and buy a book that would make you think for awhile!

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Title: The Red Shoelace Killer

Author: Susan Sundwall

Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-14

Publisher: Susan Sundwall

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

First in the Minnie Markwood Mysteries: Minnie Markwood can out-sleuth Miss Marple any day of the week - in her imagination. But when a real killer begins to target Minnie and her young sidekicks, reality trumps imagination big time. Who's buying up all the red shoelaces at the mall and stalking a cashier? Is it the killer who terrorized Minnie on the highway and kidnapped her coworker? It soon becomes frighteningly clear that Minnie's onto something, and The Red Shoelace Killer's days are numbered.

Members Reviews:

A Delightful Mystery

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

Yes. I think most people will find this story an easy listen that is quite enjoyable and totally unbelievable.

Have you listened to any of Lee Ann Howletts other performances before? How does this one compare?

Haven't heard Howlett before but her voice is well suited to this type of story.

Any additional comments?

I received this audiobook as a promotional gift from the narrator and audible.com Thank you.

Cute and cosy

This is a very light and fluffy mystery, but a fun way to spend a few hours. The smart older lady with the sweet-natured bimbo sidekick make a very enjoyable sleuthing pair. There are quite a few holes in the plotting, but it's frothy and likeable. I found the narration ponderous, but cranking the speed up to 1.25 fixed that.

Couldn't finish ... Will have to buy the book.

Any additional comments?

The narrator seemed too monotone for me. During dialogue her voice was fine, but the rest of it turned me off. But the story idea still intrigues me so I'll have to get the paperback when I can afford to.

Decent Story...Could Use Better Narration

For this being a self-published book, I must say that I am impressed. It appears that this is the first book of this nature for author Susan Sundwall, and she did a pretty good job!

I always think that I want humor while reading a mystery, and if that's the kind of book you like, then you should like The Red Shoelace Killer. It was hard at times to take the book serious though due to the funny content of the book!

I didn't care for the narrator, Lee Ann Howlett, too much though! I would have taken her to be quite a bit older than what her picture appears based on the sound of her voice. Maybe it's that she doesn't typically read mystery books...I don't know, but I wasn't impressed.

I felt that Sundwall did a thorough job of creating solid characters throughout the book, it was just the story that I had my dislikes with. I am a fan of hard-core mystery books, and this just doesn't fit within that category. Yes, I do venture beyond my typical likes, I just cannot say that this is a book that I really liked!

Overall, I think that Sundwall did a good job with what appears to be one of her first major writes! I also think that practice makes perfect and that this has the potential to be a decent series, should she pursue the series in the future!

An enjoyable cozy mystery!Q

Would you listen to The Red Shoelace Killer again? Why?

I would definitely read The Red Shoelace Killer again.

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Title: Decker P.I. Smugglers' Blues

Author: Bill Craig

Narrator: Daniel Sattler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-14

Publisher: Bill Craig

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When her baby sister shows up on Scorpion Cay, Police Chief Monica Sinclair is initially pleased. Until she finds out that her sister is on the run from a drug deal gone bad in Columbia. Monica knows she needs unofficial help if she wants to keep her little sister alive and out of jail. Monica does the only thing she can and enlists the help of her former lover, Ex-DEA agent turned Private Investigator Sam Decker to help her sister out of her deadly fix.

Pursued by Columbian hit men sent to recover the drugs or the money, Decker and Julia Sinclair must track down her wayward boyfriend who has disappeared with both, leaving Julia holding the bag. With the help of his Cuban friend Rafael Cortez, Decker winds his way through the underbelly of the drug trade from Key West to Miami to keep Julia Sinclair from singing the Smugglers' Blues or wearing a Columbian neck-tie!

Members Reviews:

Love the book

Love the book. Bill Craig is the read deal. If you love Key West based fiction, Decker is the guy for you!

Smugglers Blues

good light travel reading Well recommended Fast and well moving story with interesting players

well thought out plot set in south Florida

Decker PI

All of the Decker series are just fun reads. Helps relax and get mind away from the troubles of the day. Good development of story.

I have read and enjoyed them all

Luv the Decker P I books

Hope he will write more in the future !

I have read and enjoyed them all !

Five Stars

Another solid book in the series! Keep 'em coming!

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Title: The Boys of Sabbath Street

Subtitle: A Crime Novel

Author: Shelly Reuben

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When Artemus Ackerman, retired magician and mayor of Calendar, hears about the first fire on Sabbath Street, he sends his publicist, Maggie Wakeling, to the fire department to find out what caused it.

Artemus, who still performs conjuring tricks for his constituents, has his heart set on turning the shabbily elegant Baldwin Theater into a museum of magic. All he has to do is convince wealthy widow Claudette Goodwin to donate the Baldwin to his beloved town.

But the theater is located on Sabbath Street, where that first disastrous fire occurred. Then there is a second fire on Sabbath Street - and a third....

Certain Claudette will never invest money in such an incendiary location, Artemus orders Maggie to follow the trail of char, first to Fire Marshal George Copeland, then to the Boys of Sabbath Street, who had so valiantly saved occupants from two fires. And finally to?

Add to the mix Mayor Ackerman's romantic attraction to Claudette, Maggie's determination not to be attracted to Fire Marshal Copeland, and the idiosyncratic residents of Calendar, and the result is a happy romp through the world of fire investigation and an introduction to people you will wish lived across the street instead of only in the pages of this enchanting book.

Members Reviews:

Shelly Reuben Does It Again

Albert Jay Nock, in his "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" wrote: "History, Aristotle says, represents things only as they are, while fiction represents them as they might be and ought to be."

Shelly Reuben's latest book is a quintessential example of this idea. She brings the fictional town of Calendar to life and populates it with a panoply of wonderful people and magical situations.

Along the way, you'll meet magician, and now Mayor of Calendar, Artemus Ackerman, and his aideâdeâcamp extraordinaire Maggie. And, after two suspicious fires, Fire Marshal George Copeland gives readers, and Maggie, a fascinating course on how to reconstruct a fire scene...something our fire investigator author knows quite a bit about.

The suspense builds slowly as the mystery deepens and darkens on its way to an excellent conclusion--one which could only happen with the sensibility of a small town like Calendar and an author like Shelly Reuben.

Bravo.

Magic! Pure Magic!

I wanted to tell you how much I loved your book, The Boys of Sabbath Street!!! Besides the fact that you brought back your arson investigation, the fact that it was coupled with magic made it even more spectacular to me! I grew up with an aunt and uncle (Jim and Judy Marshall, AKA Dr. Evil) who spent their lives doing magic shows on the east coast, coupled with monster movie matinee. My uncle used to create monsters he would sell (or so he told us) to movie sets, the movie would come out and we would sit in the dark theatre and watch the scary movie....and the actual monsters came out of the dark into the theatre.

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Title: Angel's Gate

Subtitle: A Shortcut Man Novel

Author: P. G. Sturges

Narrator: Preston Sturges

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The latest rousing tale of sex, sleaze, and salvation in the City of Angels, featuring Dick Henry, the Shortcut Man, by p. g. sturges, whom Michael Connelly calls a worthy successor to Chandler. In Angels Gate, Dick Henry is drawn into a case involving an aging but still amorous Los Angeles movie mogul named Howard Hogue, who keeps a stable of twenty-plus young starlets available for his highly ritualized and private attentions... Henry is retained by the sister of a young woman who has gone missing and soon he is becoming friendly with Devi Stanton, the housemother to the starlets. Despite Devis morally questionable responsibilities, she is willing to help (and enjoy the company of) the Shortcut Man, a relationship that will be crucial to his survival. After Hogues star director batters one of the starlets in a drug-fueled romp, Henry is drawn into a deeper mystery from years past involving a haunting death on a boat and a missing screenplay written by what appears to be a local homeless man. As he peels back layer upon layer of sordid Hollywood history, Dick Henry must contend with crazed drug dealers, Hogues personal doctor, crooked cops, private security henchmen, and Hogue himself, who is so powerful and bunkered in his movie-biz millions that he is not intimidated by the ever-resourceful Henry. Amid a final showdown and genius plot twists, the Shortcut Man must outwit his opponents if he is to have any chance to survive.

Members Reviews:

Number Three Hits the Spot!

Where does Angel's Gate rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Of the HUNDREDS of audiobooks I own, seriously, I stopped counting at 280, this is in the top ten favorites list!

What other book might you compare Angel's Gate to and why?

You can't compare stories. I would say that the character Dick Henry (P.G. Sturges), though not similar, has the same appeal as the characters James Bond (Ian Flemming), Lisbeth Salander (Stieg Larsson), and Eve Dallas (J.D. Robb). You just want to hear more from this character!

Which scene was your favorite?

When the ex-marine house mother explains to Dick Henry exactly why she needs his help!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I'm usually a "good triumphs over evil" person, so I would have to say that when the really, really, sleazy guy is arrested for murdering the really, sleazy guy, and Dick Henry's ex-partner gets the credit - it made me feel good!

Any additional comments?

The story line was amazing! Sad but true, meets ego central! Can't wait for the next Shortcut Man story!

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Title: A Village Shattered

Author: Jean Henry Mead

Narrator: Chelsea Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-14

Publisher: Medallion Books

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Valley Retirement Village is the scene of a serial killer's revenge. Who is alphabetically killing Sew and So Club members, and why? When the newly-elected sheriff botches the investigation, Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty, widows living in the village, decide to solve the murders themselves. Dana, a mystery novel buff, and Sarah, a private investigator's widow, soon make a sobering discovery: They are also on the killer's list. Dana's beautiful daughter Kerrie, a news correspondent, arrives, complicating matters, but she quickly proves her value in the investigation. San Joaquin Valley fog hides the killer as well as hindering the murder case. The plot is sprinkled with romance as well as humor in this first novel of the Logan and Cafferty senior sleuth series.

Members Reviews:

The First in an Excellent Series

A VILLAGE SHATTERED

By Jean Henry Mead

Reviewed by Earl Staggs

This novel has everything amateur sleuth mystery readers want. First of all, there's no dilly-dallying around waiting for a crime to happen. A murder victim is discovered on the first page. When Dana and Sarah, two fifty-nine-year-old widows, arrive at their friend's house for a meeting of the Sew and So club in the Valley Retirement Village, the friend is dead. Real mystery readers also want protagonists they'd like to tag along with in the search for the killer. Dana and Sarah are like old friends of yours from the first chapter and you'll feel you're right there with them as they discover more Village victims, follow clues, and bicker as only bonded pals can do. You'll enjoy following the killer's trail hip to hip with them through each surprising twist and turn of this well-developed and smoothly written story.

Jean Henry Mead is one of those accomplished writers who can blend it all together - mystery, suspense, a compelling plot, real people, real situations, natural humor - in a story that will keep you guessing at the edge of your seat until the last page. . .and then leave you hoping there are more books with Dana and Sarah. Fortunately, there are two more in this excellent series: DIARY OF MURDER and MURDER ON THE INTERSTATE

Two Spunky Seniors

Normally, I prefer to read a mystery series in order but sometimes things don't work out that way. I had read a few books in Jean Henry Mead's Logan and Cafferty series before I realized that I'd missed the first one. I enjoyed those books so much that I had to go back to read "A Village Shattered" and I'm glad I did.

"A Village Shattered" introduces Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty, two spunky seniors who live in the Valley Retirement Village. Sounds peaceful, doesn't it? And it is until a serial killer begins to murder residents one by one and Dana and Sarah decide to try to find the killer before it's their turn.

What an exciting book, you won't want to miss this one.

She is a great writer, I love how she can pull you in a book. It feels like you are there with them. I couldn't put the book down until the end. It was a great story and I can't wait to read the last one she written. All her books keep you on your toes. You will never be bored.

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A Unique Story

When the Valley Retirement Village in San Joaquin Valley becomes the scene of a murder, amateur sleuths, Dana Logan and Sara Cafferty, attempt to solve the crime.