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Title: Run for Home

Author: Sheila Quigley

Narrator: Elizabeth Carling

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-06

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Headstrong, willful, and convinced the police can't help, Kerry sets out on a frantic search of her own. But her hunt takes her to a world she never knew existed: a violent underworld; a sixteen year old murder; and, finally, to secrets about her own past which her mother hoped she'd never have to face. And all the time, the clock is ticking for Claire.

Members Reviews:

Great for a debut novel!

I had never read (or heard of) Sheila Quigley until it was recommended to me. I brought the first book as, although debuts are not always the authors best, they certainly give you a feel for the sort of writer they are.

This book I eventually got round to, and I have to say I am very pleased that I did. The story starts by the reader meeting the Lumsdon family. The main characters seem to be the eldest daughter Kerry, but we also meet all the brothers and sisters, as well as their mother.

When a body is found on the infamous Seahills Estate Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt joins the story. In addition to the body, Kerry's younger sister Claire goes missing and pretty soon Lorraine is trying to solve both crimes.

The writing and characters I thought were great. Before reading this book I had read other reviews and found that some readers didn't like the use of the word "yer". I was a little baffled by this as I take it as a way of the author putting across the kind of characters in the story. I found it was no different to reading books where characters have a cockney accent and letters are frequently missing from words used.

I liked character of Lorraine but found it a little harder to warm to Kerry; having said that, I still enjoyed the book a great deal. The crime element of the story covers the murky world of kidnap and as the story came towards the end, it sped up and we reached what I thought was a pretty good ending.

I would probably say that as a debut this is a cracking book, but I am also guessing that like many authors her work has got better the more she has written. I have already ordered book two in the series and look forward to reading the next one.

Run for home

This modern day crime series is a gritty look at how police endeavour to keep law and order on a council area near Sunderland, in England, where unemployment is rocketing and prospects are few.

Crimes range from the usual break-ins and car thefts, to drugs but that's the background and in the foreground we get a personal case to bring us closer to some of the characters, which involves a murder.

Nice to see a female police officer in charge. We also get a good look at some local families, who are only trying to survive and lead decent lives on minimal welfare. For instance a man who rents a house from the council, but illegally sub-lets it to other families at a profit, reckons that he is doing everyone a favour because the people he is housing do not qualify for council housing. Men know the goods they buy in the pub are stolen, but they don't see any other way to afford Christmas presents.

I think what stops this series from being great, is that there is a total immersion in the atmosphere. While a Council estate series is itself a contrast with many English crime novels, there is little or no contrast within each book.

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Title: Double Cross

Author: Patrick Woodrow

Narrator: Dave John

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-06

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When Ed Strachan's parents were killed in a horrific car crash 18 years ago, they left their son a miserly inheritance: the memory of a mangled nursery rhyme and a cufflink inscribed with a single set of coordinates. But 18 years later, when a beautiful girl tries to poison Ed and steal the cufflink, he guesses it may have greater significance than he had imagined. Christine Molyneux is just the first of many who will stop at nothing to get hold of it. Ed is soon prime suspect in a complicated homicide and immersed in a mystery that goes back way before his parents' death.

©2005 Patrick Woodrow; (P)2005 W.F. Howes Ltd.

Members Reviews:

Not The Best

The story was predictable, lengthy and highly unlikely. The only saving grace was the author's ability to portray the characters. I didn't like the main character but really felt like I knew him.

Excellent!!

I had never heard of this author before so I thought I was taking a bit of a risk with it but I loved every minute of it and having been a member of Audible for the last 18 months I can honestly say it is in my top three - I didn't want this book to end!! The one downside is that it's the only book available by this author so I await any new additions in anticipation.

Absorbed, Hooked, ITS FAB!!!!!

Really loved this book Dave John the narrator is fantastic and brings the story to life. I highly recomend it

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Title: Easy Money

Author: Jenny Siler

Narrator: Betty Bobbitt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-05

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The daughter of a Florida drug runner, Alison Kerry lives from day to day, in seedy motels, surviving on cigarettes and the adrenaline rush of danger. Allie is a runner and her latest job should go down easy: easy pickup, easy payoff, easy money. But in a bar outside Seattle, everything goes horribly wrong. Suddenly Allie has a killer on her trail and she's in for a cross-country journey through the Cascade Mountains to the winding back roads of Montana and into the darkest corners of a country's secret history. Because somewhere a horrifying truth is buried, truth Allie may not survive.

©1998 Jenny Siler; (P)2005 Bolinda Publishing Pyt Ltd by arrangement with Penguin Group (Australia)

Editorial Reviews:

As the daughter of a Florida drug runner, Allison Kerry makes her bank on running anything and everything for the seedy characters in author Jenny Silers world. But when the unexpected goes down outside a bar in Seattle, Allison's path gets irrevocably altered. With a stern and energetic performance from veteran Betty Bobbitt, listeners quickly find out nothing is as simple as it appears in Easy Money. What was initially a surefire way to pick up some extra cash quickly turns into a cross-country adventure with a national secret and Allisons life both on the line.

Critic Reviews:

"A terrific thriller." (The Wall Street Journal)

"A triumphant debut." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Do We Really Care About This Heroine?

Alison Kerry is our protagonist, and she makes her living as a courier hauling drugs and other contraband from one crook to the next. Her father is also in the drug business, as is his best buddy, and his girl friend.....etc. An honest guy sneaks into the book, but the author does him in quickly so that he doesn't make the other characters look too tawdry.

So, what's our Key West, trailer trash heroine (with the attractive feminine nickname of "Al") up to? She's moving a computer disc with some Vietnam secrets from one bad guy to the next, and she runs into trouble. There are three ho hum action scenes in the book separated by great gobs of filler.

I didn't care about any of the following elements of the book: the heroine; her friends; her family; the tedious, hackneyed Viet Nam atrocity plot; the soporific action scenes; or the writing. This, indeed, is one of those books that once you put it down, you will have trouble picking it up again.

Great writing, unbelievable plot

If you want to send a computer disc with Vietnam secrets why not US Mail or Fedex - or just telephone the New York Times? If you think you're being framed for murder why not get a lawyer?Flashbacks to cobble the plot and explain obscure motives. But she is a great heroine and the action scenes keep you on the edge of your seat.

A Great Debut Novel from Jenny Siler

Alison Kerry's childhood was anything but normal. Raised in the Florida Keys by her father, a Vietnam vet-turned-barkeeper and smuggler, Allie learned early on the skills necessary to survive on the wrong side of the American dream. As a young girl, she learned how to drink and fight and shoot and joined her father and his partner on their drug smuggling expeditions before falling into the grip of a nasty cocaine habit.

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Title: State of Fear

Author: Michael Crichton

Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.

In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters of New Guinea.

And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.

Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative techno-thriller State of Fear. Only Crichton's unique ability to blend scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to a heart-stopping conclusion.

This is Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. The novel races forward on a roller coaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. Gripping and thought-provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his best.

Critic Reviews:

"State of Fear is one of Crichton's best because it's as hard to pigeonhole as greenhouse gas but certainly heats up the room." (Entertainment Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Crichton provokes skepticism and independent thinking

I didn't realize what I was getting into when I picked up this book recently. I've enjoyed many of Michael Crichton's earlier novels, not onlyJurassic Parkbut also some of his lesser known works such asA Case of Need, one of his very early novels. My impression of Michael Crichton has always been that he brought a certain amount of technical expertise to his writings, along with a level of integrity, that caused them to raise to a level above most other thrillers and similar works.

Reading State of Fear, I found myself confounded by the point of view that began to dominate, that of skepticism regarding the global warming and environmental points of view that I had always more or less taken for granted. Surely Michael Crichton is not suggesting that Global Warming is not a Real Threat?? Can it be??

Well, it's not quite that simple, but first let me comment to the book itself. It's a good read, beginning seemingly as a 'good guy' vs 'bad guy' story with the corporate interests playing the expected role as 'bad guys', but early on there are questions raised about whether or not the bad guys are in fact the corporate interests, or if they are in fact the environmental interests, or are they both equally 'bad'. And then along the way, in the discussions that take place between the characters as they discuss the environmental movement and whether or not it is solidly based on real science and actual data, there is a good amount of real data included, for example charts of the warming trends of cities throughout the world, that do not present the expected evidence of a general warming trend.

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Title: Delicate Indecencies

Author: Sandy McCutcheon

Narrator: Richard Bligh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-05

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Into this sticky web of deceit and intrigue stumbles Martin Teschmaker, a newly redundant insurance investigator who has just been deserted by his wife. Seeking relief from his mid-life crisis, Teschmaker contacts an old girlfriend, Jane Morris. With that one phone call he is plunged into a dangerous underworld where nothing and no one can be taken at face value. As he attempts to remove the masks, Teschmaker realises the truth is more complex and chilling than he could ever have imagined. Somehow he has to bring this treacherous game to its conclusion without getting himself killed.

Editorial Reviews:

Separated from his wife and recently laid off from his insurance firm, middle-aged Martin Teschmaker reaches out to his old flame Jane Morris to spice things up in his life, but little does he know that she'll entangle him in a web of intrigue and espionage in which nothing is quite as it seems.

Members Reviews:

Sandy McCutcheon.....a master story teller!

I love all of Sandy's novels which always have a wonderful plot based on his incredible depth of knowledge about the locations he chooses. "Delicate Indecencies" is true to form. An intriguing plot set in a location so well described, he must have been there! The big problem is that most of his works are in short supply and deservedly becoming collector's items with a high price tag. I would buy them all if I could as I have become a huge fan of this author!

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Title: Sins of the Mother

Subtitle: An Allison Young Thriller

Author: Cheryl Saban

Narrator: Jill Eikenberry

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Alison Young seems to have it all - a brilliant career, a beautiful San Francisco townhouse, a loving husband, and a talented teenage daughter. But for 18 years, Alison has kept a terrible a secret. She was the victim of a violent rape, and her daughter is the result of it. Unable to bring her attacker to trial or get a legal abortion, Alison left her hometown, reinvented her past, and built a new life for herself. Now, however, someone threatens to destroy all that Alison has achieved. Country Davis - rapist, convicted felon, and career criminal - is getting out of prison and heading for California, where he plans to claim his place beside the woman and child he calls family.

Members Reviews:

A very touching and powerful story

Alison Young has a secret and has lived her life behind a curtain so to speak. Everyone believes they know who she is but only her and the reader knows. Becoming a mother at a young age, she finally finds heaven a wonderful husband and a career worthy of anyone person. However, something from her past comes to haunt her- not only does it haunt but it brings up feelings that she had hoped to leave behind.

I am leaving things out on purpose. However this book is very heartfelt and a emotional roller coaster. Saban is able to pull the reader into her story and make her feel the very things that most would feel if this person was sitting right across from you. She talks about a very touchy, sensitive, and controversial subject but writes it so well that you are able to get through the book without putting it down.

I didn't cry in this book and at times I felt the character helplessness was sometimes aggravating but then when Alison's secret is out you are saddened and understand why it took her so long to tell it. The reactions were all horrific but all REAL.

I recommend this book for anyone looking for a nice fictional but supsense book.

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Title: The Devil's Feather

Author: Minette Walters

Narrator: Saskia Wickham

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Two years later in Iraq, the consequences of her second attempt to expose him are devastating. Terrified, degraded, and destroyed, she goes into hiding in England and tries to rebuild the person she was before being subjected to three days of conditioning in a Baghdad cellar.

In the process, she strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire, a loner whose reclusive nature has alienated her from the rest of the Dorset community where she lives. Seeing parallels between herself and Jess, Connie borrows from the other woman's strength and makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer...knowing he will come looking for her.

Critic Reviews:

"Walters...delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and 'the secret of freedom, courage.'" (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Brilliant writing and narration

Saskia Wickham is a fantastic narrator, using just the right pitch and expression. Minette Walters never fails to impress me .

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Title: Acid Row

Author: Minette Walters

Narrator: Lesley Manville

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

"Protecting Amy" becomes the catch-all defence for the terrible events that follow. And if murder is part of it, then so be it. But is Amy really missing?

Members Reviews:

Vey plesantly surprised

I only chose this book because it was cheap and I had run out of credits, but I think it is possibly the best I have listen to so far. The twists of the story and the interesting thoughts behind the plot line are so well researched. To add to this the narrators voice is relaxing, but without being a drone that just sends you to sleep.

Unflinching social realism. - lacks integrity.

Searingly grim depiction of mob rule on a run down housing estate in the noghties.

So good, I had to read the Unabridged version

I have only recently started listening to Minette Walters books and am now addicted. This book was so good, I had to track down the unabridged version. Lots of twists and turns in the story and the characters. A great listen!

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Title: The Brutal Art

Author: Jesse Kellerman

Narrator: Trevor White, Lorelei King

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-09

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Nobody can tell Ethan much about the old man, except that he came and went in solitude for nearly forty years, his genius hidden and unacknowledged. Despite the fact that, strictly speaking, the artwork doesn't belong to him, Ethan takes the challenge and makes a name for the old man - and himself. Soon Ethan has to congratulate himself on his own genius: for storytelling and salesmanship.

But suddenly the police are interested in talking to him. It seems that the missing artist had a nasty past, and the drawings hanging in the Muller Gallery have begun to look a lot less like art and a lot more like evidence. Sucked into an investigation four decades cold, Ethan will uncover a secret legacy of shame and death, one that will touch horrifyingly close to home - and leave him fearing for his own life.

Members Reviews:

"The Genius" under another title.

I've read "The Genius" and was annoyed to find this is the same book by a different title. I should have read the reviews. I really like Jesse Kellerman's writing style. It's more complex than most thrillers. I read "Trouble", "Sunstroke" and "The Executor" and enjoyed them so I was looking for more of his novels. I didn't read the reviews before I ordered this book because they tend to be very mixed, probably due to expectations that have to do with his parents. I had not read his parents' novels before I read Jessie's and think it's unfair to expect the same from him. He is a different writer. I have since read a few of Jonathan's and prefer Jessie's complexity and pacing. I haven't tried to read any of the books co-authored by them yet. So five stars in spite of the annoyance about the two titles for one book. By the way, Stephen King's son, Joe Hill, doesn't promote his parents on his book covers. I don't understand why Jessie does.

Beware: This is same book as The Genius!!!!

Apparently this is the British name for Jesse Kellerman's book "The Genius." My husband and I both loved "The Genius" and thought we were finally getting to read another Jesse Kellerman book. Nope, just getting a copy to give to a friend, which isn't a bad idea because all his books have been great, especially Sunstroke, Trouble, and The Genius. I like character development, and Jesse's characters are all wonderfully alive. When the protagonist in The Genius interviews random neighbors in the Project, you get a delightful sense of each interviewee in just half a page. I never find myself saying, "he/she would never do that."

Two Stars

I would not choose a book by this author again

worth a read

I started this review with a cynical attitude because I felt that Jesse Kellerman would have had no problems getting his book published no matter what the quality, given his famous writer parents. I thought that certainly he would not have gone through the standard twenty-five rejections and a stab at self publishing that a lot of writers have to endure before their book gets into print. However I did read the book very closely and apart from some self indulgent drivel by the hero, I felt it was a well written and intriguing story. My cynicism peeled away, page by page and I enjoyed the mystery and the misery of the family relations.

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Title: Iced

Author: Jenny Siler

Narrator: Betty Bobbitt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-05

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

On the Jeep's backseat is a mysterious briefcase that is the catalyst for setting off a chain of events: A small-time Russian thief steals the briefcase. Then a knife wielding, tattooed lady comes looking for it. A scared Native American girl is in jail because of it. And lastly, a brutally delivered message tells Meg to find the damned case or her boyfriend dies. Suddenly her rosy-colored future is shattering like an ice statue hit by a sledgehammer. Desperate to protect what little she has, and driven by ghosts from her own past, Meg plunges ahead, and finds herself involved in a dangerous web of infidelity, greed, and murder.

Editorial Reviews:

Meg Gardner has served her time and is doing the best she can to get re-acclimated to society. She's got a new boyfriend, a comfy cottage, and one of the few jobs ex-cons can easily get in Missoula, Montana: repo lady. Though, as listeners soon find out in this thrilling audiobook from Jenny Siler, Meg's next job might be her last. What starts out as just a misplaced briefcase in the back of a jeep Meg repossess, quickly turns into a complex nightmare. Performed with a tight and energetic delivery by veteran narrator Betty Bobbitt, Iced is a dangerous tale of greed, disloyalty, and murder.

Critic Reviews:

"This is poetry with attitude." (The New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

Jenny Siler book "Iced"

I liked this book because we had someone who was not perfect with flaws like all of us. Looking forward to ready her other books.

This Book Is ICE COLD

Iced is a murder mystery that I highly recommend. This story is a fairly easy read and it is not too complicated. Even though the plot is very simple it also has a very interesting story line. I liked this book because it had a very good mystery plot with a modern day spin. I do not really like old books because they do not have a good sense of humor.

Meg Gardner was a girl with a life of crime. It probably all started out with the bad relationship she had with her parents. She was thrown into a New Mexico State penitentiary and had to stay there for 18 months. When she got out of jail she was offered a great job that was only offered to ex-cons. The job was to be a repo-woman. The job was to go out and to repossess cars from people that did not keep up with payments. Everything was going fine for her until she had to repossess Clay Bennett's Jeep Cherokee because the person who was paying for the car died. Inside of the vehicle was a locked briefcase. When she was about to take the suitcase out Ivan, a well known murderer but the police never had evidence to lock him up, and his thugs order that Meg has to give over the briefcase. So Meg ended up giving it up. A few minutes later a police chief came by and interrogated Meg. She found out that the payer of the Jeep died in a plain crash a few years back. After a few weeks passed, somebody threatened to kill Meg's boyfriend and also Clay Bennett's friend turned up dead. Meg figures if she wants to stay alive, then she will have to figure out what is going on.

The author uses a lot of sensory details to explain what is going on and you can almost imagine you in Meg's position.

BY MICHAEL M.

great drama

After spending eighteen months in a New Mexico State penitentiary, twenty-nine-year-old Meg Gardner returns to her home in Missoula, Montana.