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Title: Twilight Hour

Author: Carol Smith

Narrator: Ros Stockwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Erin O'Leary is a journalist sent to Dartmoor to hide from Russian assassins because of her latest controversial story. Surrounded by enigmatic neighbors who all have something to hide, and amidst rumors of a ghost tending its own grave, Erin is eager to hole up for the winter. But when people start getting killed, Erin realizes her winter won't be so boring after all.

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

The ending let me down.

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Title: Diplomatic Immunity

Author: Howard Olsen

Narrator: Howard Olsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-09

Publisher: Big Happy Family, LLC

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Joe Ash is on a mission to save his daughter. The odds are against him and everyone knows it. Everyone.

©1999 Howard Olsen; (P)2009 Big Happy Family

Members Reviews:

Not Too Bad

"Diplomatic Immunity" is a right-wing domestic thriller with some amateurish qualities but also some genuine shoot-em-up, track-em-down excitement. An interesting read.

This book is right to the point.

I couldn't find a lull anywhere in this book. It was nice to NOT have the urge to skip pages because I was beginning to get board. It was exciting all the way to the end.

I couldn't set it down.

The actions in this book are more real than we relize. The things this poor family went through could really happen to any one. I loved it!

A really nice read.

Right to the point. An easy read all the way through and really kept my interest. When is his next book going to be released?

This book never stands still. It keeps moving.

It was nice to read a book that was on the go from the first page to the last.

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Title: Johnny Delgado

Subtitle: Like Father, Like Son

Author: Kevin Brooks

Narrator: Paul Thornley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-09

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The Foster Estate is on the verge of a gang war. But Johnny's got problems of his own: find the man who killed his father; find out why; and get revenge. The truth is out there. Johnny just needs to kick down a few doors to get to it...

©2006 Kevin Brooks; (P)2008 WF Howes Ltd

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Title: Too Close to Home

Author: Linwood Barclay

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-09

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

To find out who killed the Langleys and why, everybody's secrets are going to have to come out. But the final secret - the secret that could save them or destroy them - is in the one place nobody would ever think of looking...

Members Reviews:

Great book

Well written and narrated I have read a few of the authors book and each one just as good as other and I intend to read more of his work.

Very enjoyable book

Easy to listen to, although annoying at times

Would you try another book written by Linwood Barclay or narrated by Jeff Harding?

This is the first Linwood Barclay I have tried, but would try another one. His story despite many red herrings is telescopically obvious which makes it an easy read.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The boy who wrote the original story, around which much of the book was centred. He seemed genuine and truthful, unlike many of the other characters. Although the main character also seemed a decent chap, but seemed like a bit of a fool though for surrounding himself with liars and cheats

What didnt you like about Jeff Hardings performance?

He has a macho swagger to his voice which irked me.

Even when the main character's life and family were at risk, the reader delivered it with a cocky confidence which made the main character seem cold and unsympathetic

Did Too Close to Home inspire you to do anything?

I would certainly look out for another Linwood Barclay book for when I need something not too taxing

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Title: Heat Sync

Author: Wes DeMott

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-09

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Henry (HT) Thompson is a soldier eager to make his way into Special Operations, the best place, he feels, for a man with his skills to make a difference. When a covert military force known as Jaspers recruits him from the Navy SEALs, HT knows he's found his chance. He believes he is being trained to assassinate foreign enemies who pose a threat to this country. It's only when he receives his orders that he realizes what his true mission is - to kill the President of the United States.

©2005 Wes Demott; (P)2008 Books In Motion

Members Reviews:

Good Military Book!

Henry Thompson is a soldier who wants to progress to Special

Operations.He is a Navy Seal who is in training at Coronado.He

is summoned by his commander and introduced to a Colonel Maddigan.Maddigan wants him to join his special branch of the service.This new branch is called Joint Services Personal Warfare School or Jaspers.The training facilities are located at

Camp LeJeune North Carolina.He accepts the new assignment.

When he arrives at the facility he discovers that it is there to train assassins.This elite force is responsible for killing

the enemies of America.Before officially becoming a Jasper he must complete an assassination.His target is Randall Baker an

avowed racist hate monger who resides in Houston.Using a new

biological weapon called heat sync,Thompson carries out the assassination.Colonel Maddigan gives him his new assignment,assassinate the President of the United States.He now

has a decision to make.All of thie makes for an exciting conclusion.This is a very good book.

Suspenseful, Well Written

This is my first Wes DeMott book and it's an excellent, suspenseful, quick read. If you like Vince Flynn or James W Huston you will enjoy this book. It is a story of a US military Special Forces assassin who wrestles with his CO's orders to act as judge, jury and executioner. Check it out

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Title: Road to Nowhere

Author: Paul Robertson

Narrator: Greg Whalen

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-09

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

For years, Wardsville, North Carolina, sat nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a peaceful small town. The kind of place where neighbors care for each other. But that's until unexpected funding arrives to build a road into town. Suddenly, this quiet town becomes torn in two, with everybody looking first to their own interests, and somebody willing to commit murder to make sure things go his or her way.

©2008 Paul Robertson; (P)2008 Oasis Audio

Members Reviews:

Book 2 in the Patchwork Circle Series

This takes up where Book 1 left off with the main character in focus this time being Maggie and her hunt for a husband. Set in Northern Oregon in the 1800's, Maggie has her sights on Colby, but is going to have to impress his mother with her quilt making skills which are not up to par because she is much more of a tomboy. Maggie enlists the help of a former classmate Evan who is now a lawyer to help Tommy get out of jail on murder charges for killing his father. A good christian book with good moral standards and a few words of wisdom as a bonus. A must read for any quilter who likes the Jennifer Chiaverini books.

Five Stars

Great.

Heartwarming

I enjoyed the characters as they grew and discovered life. It was a time passed that is missed. Good read.

Sisters Choice conclusion puzzle

I really enjoyed the second book, Sisters Choice. It had great heart. I do hate so much when there is a theme in a book, and at the end of the book the mystery isn't solved. The reason her mom and another lady were at odds with each other, and they would take it to the grave, should have been somehow revealed at the end of the book for is was a big part of the quilting club characters. It was only a disappointment, but by no way spoiled the book. You will enjoy seeing Maggie grow up.

Five Stars

Good book

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Title: Red Skies

Subtitle: T.C. Bogner, 2

Author: R. Karl Largent

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The cutting-edge Russian SU-39-Covert stealth bomber, with fighter capabilities years beyond anything the U.S. can produce, vanished while on a test run over the Gobi Desert. Half a world away, a dissident faction of the Chinese Red Army engineered an abduction of a top scientist, the one who developed SU-39, while he was visiting Washington. Now, Commander T.C. Bogner has his orders-retrieve the fighter and its designer within 72 hours-or else.

©1996 R. Karl Largent; (P)2008 Books in Motion

Members Reviews:

Good but not great

The title is a bit odd but after reading the book, it is referring to Red China and Russia and a rogue group of Chinese Communist attempting steal the new soviet SU-39 which apparently can outperform the US F-117. If it does, you never know about it.

The premise for the book was intriguing, but alas, that is where it stopped. Publishers Weekly made the comment "for Tom Clancy to step aside." I think not. The story could have really been good but the author made it a point to keep jumping back an forth with all of the "author generated" excitement. Mr. Largent keeps pushing the story instead of letting it develop on its own.

In short, rogue elements in China and Russia have ideas of grandeur. They plan on bringing down the main paties and inserting their own people in power to regain the hard line communist ideology. Along with that there is a defector in the US ranks who will do anything for money. Not a bad idea, just poorly executed.

Talking of executing, one of most glaring, ridiculous story lines occurs when two of the characters are seriously wounded. They put James Bond to shame on how they survive. It was completely unbelievable and kept draggin on.

I don't know when I bought this book, I just hope I didn't pay the list price of $6.99.

A waste of time and money

I gave up this book after about 20 pages the first time, after forcing myslef to pick it up again I managed to read it thru the end, but it just was a waste of time. I urge Mr. Largent to find another line of work.

pure excitement

looking for a great action adventure novel look no further read red skies you wont regret it

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Title: The Unpossessed City

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Jon Fasman

Narrator: John Farrage

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-08

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

He uses his Russian-language skills (learned from his emigre grandparents) to cadge a job in Moscow finding and interviewing survivors of the Gulag. At first, he only finds that they are well hidden and leery of sharing their horrific stories, but he also discovers that he's falling in love with their homeland. He is intoxicated by Moscow's brooding, ironic atmosphere, its vast reservoir of entrepreneurial energy, its otherworldly churches and majestic subways. On any given day, petty indignities are more than offset by random acts of kindness.

Jim's taste for gambling is satisfied merely by living in a city that teems with risk and promise. So he blithely accepts a big win when a chance meeting with a lovely aspiring actress leads not only to romance but also to her grandfather, a concentration camp survivor who does actually want to share his story. Soon Jim is on a roll, scoring interviews with other survivors, learning harrowing and fascinating things about bygone atrocities and feeling like he has finally found where he belongs.

But his apparent success has earned him the attention of Russia's Interior Ministry and CIA. Jim has become an unwitting cog in a scheme to spirit Soviet scientists and their deadly secrets out of Russia and into the hands of the highest bidder.

Pursued ruthlessly by both sides, he must flee again, this time to the lawless border country, where an economist-cum-mobster is preparing to peddle the world's most dangerous technologies to whichever terrorists can muster the cash first.

Members Reviews:

"Whose plan is it for us to be dragged back rather than forging forward?"

I enjoyed Fasman'sThe Geographer's Library, and so was pleased to see he had written another book. For most writers, the second novel is a "make-or-break" endeavor. I was pleased that _The Unpossessed City_ exceeded my expectations. The story itself is part thriller part mystery, the plot reminiscent ofThe Third Man [Blu-ray] (or, for Gen-Xers,The Man with One Red Shoe). The listless protagonist, Seamus "Jim" Vilatzer, his life adrift takes a job in Moscow recording the reminiscences and stories of Russians who were exiled during Stalin's terror (much as the WPA did during the Great Depression,The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives). However, digging into the past (especially in Russia) can be a dangerous thing - as Jim soon finds out.

While I enjoyed the story immensely, it was Fasman's writing about Moscow (and Russia and Russians) that made a good story a great book. In fact, the city is as much a character in the novel as Jim himself. Describing Moscow, Fasman writes, "(Moscow) constantly challenged its denizens to survive it unscathed. These challenges superseded mere crime, chaos, culture or language. ... What it came down to, really, was finding a way to feel human in a city designed to make one feel insignificant: everything was outsized, immense, deliberately imposing, rough, grey, cold.

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Title: The Sea

Author: R. Karl Largent

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The Danger: The impenetrable darkness of the Sargasso hides more than the submarine's priceless cargo. It hides secret agendas, unrevealed motives, and unbelievable dangers - some natural, others decidedly man-made. But before this mission is over, Elliot Wages will learn firsthand all the deadly secrets cloaked in the inky blackness of...The Sea.

Members Reviews:

Adventurous Mystery Novel Falls Short

Sometimes I like to abandon any plans or strategies for what I want to read next and just go to my huge collection of unread books I have on my shelves and grab one at random. I had received this one in a big bundle of free books I got from my co-workers when I was departing a job many years ago. They knew I wanted to open my own used book store someday so they all cleaned off their personal bookshelves and gathered together more than 700 paperbacks to help me with my startup. Many of those I did later sell but I saved far too many for my own reading pleasure simply based on the cover art or blurb or subject matter.

So I came to this one with no particular expectations. I had never heard of the author and did not check any ratings or reviews anywhere before reading it. It is a story of a search for a sunken German U-boat which was supposedly carrying tons of Nazi gold. Unfortunately, its reported location is in the Sargasso Sea, deep within the Bermuda Triangle. The story is told from the first person POV of Elliot Wages, hired to join a salvage mission to retrieve the lost gold. As the story progresses it becomes apparent that not everybody on the mission has the same goals and are even willing to kill to achieve their aims.

I found the writing style enjoyable at first as Elliot is a witty, roguish fellow who is happily sarcastic from time to time sort of like most Floridian private investigators one comes across in many a novel. The plot was reasonably good but not all that original and the first half of the book contained far too much diving terminology and methods for my taste. We are also introduced to way too many characters to keep track of and most were never developed at all so there wasnât much to make me care about who the god guys and the bad guys might be. In the end, the surprise reveal was no surprise at all and was all too obvious from near the very beginning of the story.

I think the book also suffered from not knowing what it was really trying to be. Itâs mostly an adventure mystery novel but due to the location being in the Bermuda Triangle, an element of the bizarre snuck in all over the place but ultimately mattered little. Encounters with prehistoric sharks many times larger and more dangerous than ever recorded really elevated the eye-roll factor. In addition, members of the crew kept getting killed one by one and I was starting to think I was reading a repeat of Agatha Christieâs âAnd Then There Were Noneâ except on a stranded salvage ship in the sea.

I now know that the author has a number of other books and series out there. While this was an âOKâ read, I donât think I will be specifically seeking out more books by this author. If I had another free one handed to me thoughâI would very likely read it.

Another Would've Been Better In Third-Person But Still Good Fun

This is another case of one of my favorite authors switching to first-person and almost ruining a great story.

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Title: The Chaos Code

Author: Justin Richards

Narrator: Russell Boulter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Soon Matt is crossing continents, deciphering codes and exploring ancient ruins - with monstrous enemies hot on his heels. If Matt wants to see his dad alive he's got to get to the treasure first. And all paths lead to the same place - a magnificent pyramid hidden in the Peruvian jungle.

Members Reviews:

Good action, easy listening

For all those who like legend mixed with mistery and action. Easy listening, for all fiction fans.

think this is a good teenage read

i love the archaeological mystery genre which is why i chose this book. i enjoyed it and the narration was excellent but it was definitely for the "younger reader" or teenager. reminded me of anthony horowitz's alex rider series. totally inoffensive tho, so i gave it a high rating

The Chaos Code

Enjoyed the reading very much would buy another from this Author

A gripping, if strange and disturbing book.

What did you like best about The Chaos Code? What did you like least?

Nothing in particular.

Would you be willing to try another book from Justin Richards? Why or why not?

Yes, out of curiosity.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

When the creator of the chaos was killed in his own house by his own code.

Did The Chaos Code inspire you to do anything?

No.

Any additional comments?

I wasn't at all impressed by either of Matthew's parents, though their lack of care made for an interesting adventure. I also found the idea that some of the characters had a strange spell on them so they couldn't age weird, along with the idea that someone could make the 4 elements turn into shapes that move and create destruction far fetched. Still, it was different!