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Title: Anarchy and Old Dogs

Subtitle: The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book 4

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 228 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

An elderly man has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of 73, Siri is too old to be in awe of the new communist bureaucrats for whom he now works. Before he can identify the corpse, he must decipher a letter in the mans pocketit is written in invisible ink and in code. He was a blind retired dentist, his widow explains, and the enigmatic letters and numbers describe chess moves, but they are unlike any chess symbols Siri has previously encountered. With the help of his old friend, Civilai, now a senior member of the Laos politburo; Nurse Dtui; Phosy, a police officer; and Auntie Bpoo, a transvestite fortune-teller, Siri must solve the mystery of the note to the blind dentist and foil a plot to overthrow the government of Laos.

Critic Reviews:

"A series of terrifically beguiling detective novelsWhimsical, more personal stories that feature Siri and an equally memorable set of supporting charactersA wry, seasoned, offhand style that has been the secret weapon of this unexpectedly blithe and charming series." (New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

spies and shaman/coroner

addictive-series, murder-investigation, humor, laos, spies, history-and-culture, historical-places-events, historical-fiction

A blind man traveling to get letters from a post box, an anarchist plot, more suspicious characters than usual, sneaky old friends, and spies in a refugee camp, all wrapped together with some gawdawful humor. The coroner and his friend hie off to investigate one death and find another that needs solving as well. The policeman and the nurse try to help and wind up investigating in a refugee camp in Thailand. Very twisty and with some insights into the conflicting attitudes toward old regimes and communism. And the coroner discovers that a former student is a very pleasant woman who he never really noticed when his wife was alive.

Clive Chafer continues to make the read easier and more enjoyable for those of us who need a bit of help in thinking some words in an unfamiliar language.

5th Book I've

listened to in this series. I actually love the stories and how the narrator performs the dialogues BUT the narrator brings them all down from 5 to 4 stars because of his boring monotone reading when he's not doing speaking characters. I have such a hard time anchoring my attention to his voice that I can't appreciate the whole story. Such a shame.

CSI: Vientiane, Laos

I used to have a crush on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's Dr. Gil Grissom, so adeptly played by William Petersen. And Petersen as Will Graham in Michael Mann's "Manhunter" (1986)? Based on Thomas Harris' 1981 "Red Dragon" prequel to the book/film "The Silence of the Lambs" (1988/1991), Petersen as a fictional investigator is tenacious and cooly ironic.

Gil Grissom/William Petersen, I'm sorry. I will always admire your entomological wizardry - but my forensic adoration had been replaced with the 1977 version of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 73 year old National Coroner of Laos. Dr.

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Title: One Police Plaza

Author: William Caunitz

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

More than 20 years of experience as a New York City police officer add gritty realism to William J. Caunitzs best-sellers like Chains of Command and Pigtown. In One Police Plaza, he offers an insiders trip through a murder investigation that uncovers dangerous, far-reaching secrets.

Detective Lt. Dan Malone has seen it all in two decades with the NYPD. Even the horribly violated, decomposing body of Sara Eisinger seems like just another standard murder case - until a little gold key leads to an after-hours sex club and some phone numbers in Saras address book connect her to the CIA. Suddenly, Malone is racing against Israeli secret police, Muslim extremists, the U.S Army, and some double-dealing cops to learn exactly what Sara knew that was important enough to get her killed. Filled with unexpected twists, One Police Plaza takes you into the darkest recesses of police work, with Richard Ferrones intense narration highlighting every violent detail.

Members Reviews:

Top Of The Detective Genre!

You can't go wrong with a Caunitz book if police procedure is a genre you enjoy. The author's novels are gritty, authentic, well-plotted, and thoroughly enjoyable. I occasionally re-read this author's books because they are that good.

Excellent Detective Thriller

William J Caunitz Is an excellent detective with the cojones and balls to solve any crime. This novel is full of thriller and action from the beginning to the end and what I also love is his persona and the way he portray his characters with vivid and so much reality. William Caunitz is the master of police Thrillers. The retired Police Detective is also an excellent writer. I give this novel the thumbs up. The Intelligent way he solved the Eisenger Homicide was part of his Detective Lieutenant experience. I believe he was a First Grade Detective. The best detectives of the NYPD; they can solve any crime.

Hardline Police Story.

This is one of the most hardboiled police Stories I've read. Corruption on the highest level. Resolved in a most unusual manner. Hard to put down. Caunitz has every right to be proud of this work.

Really Great

Well written and the suspense was great. It sure gave you an inside look at what being in the police force is really like. Their life's are on the line every day and there isn't much glamour in the job. The politics are everywhere and I'm sure it hampers their job daily. Great read and I'm looking forward to reading more of his books.

Good read

Fast paced page turner. Twisting plot keeps you guessing and looking for more. Ending seems just a little too neat but acceptable. Interesting writing style. I will look for others by this author.

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Title: A Corpse in the Koryo

Subtitle: The Inspector O Novels, Book 1

Author: James Church

Narrator: Feodor Chin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 42 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south.

Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his departments turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Koreas leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murdersand Inspector O discovers too late that he has been sent into the chaos. This is a world where nothing works as it should, where the crimes of the past haunt the present, and where even the shadows are real.

Author James Church weaves a story with beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a country and a people he knows by heart after decades as an intelligence officer.

Critic Reviews:

James Church does a better job of describing the isolated, impoverished, corrupt, and out-of-touch life in the North than anything I have seen. (Newt Gingrich)

Members Reviews:

Raymond Chandler meets Franz Kafka in N. Korea

An amazing and ambitious first novel. Think of it as Raymond Chandler gets hardboiled and eaten cold by a North Korean bureaucracy where the good guys don't just battle crime, but have to fight through a broken, Kafkaesque maze of political nihilism, factionalism, and stoic fatalism JUST to get some gas or a cup of tea.

Church's natural details are amazing, his writing is both polished and crisp, and his story is superbly well-crafted (I can imagine the idea for Inspector O slowly evolving and being worked and turned and rolled-over in Church's creative pocket like an odd, but beautiful piece of dark persimmon wood). Not since reading my first Olen Steinhauer have I been this excited to discover a new (for me) genre writer.

Mediocre North Korean mystery!

The setting of this book really sounded interesting--North Korea. Then add a mystery, and I was really looking forward to reading this book, but it really disappointed me. It's the first book in a series, and "introduces" Inspector O. But that was one of my big problems. I'm one that always likes to read the first book in a series just so I can get a really good feel for the main character. This book is actually told from the perspective of Insoector O being interrogated about a crime. Unfortunately, that left very little opportunity to get any background on Inspector O. The setting was a different matter. I got a real feel for the mountainous scenery and different buildings of the area.

Someone is found dead in a hotel. But inspector O was sent on a diversion assignment to photograph a specific place at a specific time. Many chapters later, we see that all this was a diversion that Inspector O tried to muddle through on his own ethical terms, but the North Korean government wanted to keep their actual crimes covered up. This was not really developed sufficiently in my mind. I found the back and forth between interrogating and first person narrative a bit confusing also.

Though I found lots of potential to like, I think James Church (a pseudo name for an actual North Korean spy) could have done so much more to introduce this character and develop his mystery.

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Title: The Bone Yard

Subtitle: A Body Farm Novel

Author: Jefferson Bass

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-11

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 146 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In this latest thriller from New York Times best-selling author Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Brockton discovers the dark side of the Sunshine state when he's called in to investigate human remains found on the grounds of a boys' reform school in Florida.

The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder.

Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls - ravaged by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of lethal fractures - send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago.

Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic experts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county.

As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets.... and they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous consequences in the present.

Members Reviews:

Call me crazy

It was a time passing book to me.

It bothered me a bit that everyone was getting worked up emotionally about murders that happened so long ago. True professionals - Over acting a little around sensitive issues. A little too angry - A little too sad. I felt like I think they were trying too hard to make us feel empathy for a situation that sucked - But with all the travesty in current events - It would be hard to get that emotional about things from the past - Especially if you are seasoned Cops or Doctors. Their overacting took away from anything I would have felt on my own

Having said that - This book was more than a little predictable - Especially finding that diary.. I didn't hate it - But 5 star reviews? What can I expect though. I'm going back through books like 'The Memory Man" and people are giving 3 stars reviews to a book they say they didn't like - Pushing ratings higher.

Put me in the corner - I'm not playing well with others today.

For what its worth. J

Jefferson Bass is a great author!

This is the thrid book I have read by Jefferson Bass. If you are in to forensic-style crime books, I highly recommend his books! In this book, I kept feeling like I had figured out the story and then he threw in another twist to shake up the plot.

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Title: So Close the Hand of Death

Author: J.T. Ellison

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 162 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Its a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back and hes got helpers.

As The Pretenders disciples perpetrate their sick homages stretching police and FBI dangerously thin Taylor tries desperately to prepare for their inevitable showdown. And she must do it alone. To be close to her is to be in mortal danger, and she wont risk losing anyone she loves. But the isolation, the self-doubt and the rising body count are taking their toll shes beside herself and ready to snap.The brilliant psychopath who both adores and despises her is drawing close. Close enough to touch

Members Reviews:

Great thriller

Kept my attention...narration was good and story was ok. Wan't the best read ever but it wasn't bad.

Another slam dunk!!!! (:

A roller-coaster ride of a book. Full of suspense and twists and turns... anti up your credit I promise it's well worth it. It's gonna be a loooonnng wait until the next installment of this series. I don't know how J.T. will top it but she will!

Really good read

This book was a good fast paced thriller that kept you wanting more. I enjoyed each of the characters and found it to be worth listening to.

Love JT Ellison

What did you love best about So Close the Hand of Death?

The story keeps you guessing!

What did you like best about this story?

The entire book was loved!

What about Joyce Beans performance did you like?

Joyce keeps you in touch with the entire book!

Any additional comments?

This book got me in trouble, I listen while on my way to work and was at a part in the book that I just wanted to hear and before I knew it I was late clocking in..... Well worth the "talking to that I got!!!"

Interesting until the finish

This author kept me interested all the way through. There is another book with the herione available, and I will certainly be purchasing it. If you like Patricia Cornwell, espeially her earlier books, this book is in that style. A good listen.

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Title: Encore for Murder

Subtitle: The New Adventures of Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer, Vol. 3

Author: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Mike Hammer, the toughest PI of all, draws a seemingly routine assignmentplaying bodyguard to diva Rita Vance on the eve of her big Broadway comeback. But Rita is an old flame of Hammers, and when their romance is rekindled, the detective finds the actress facing death threats and himself the target of one hit man after another. When the actress disappears, the show must go on, which, with Mike Hammer, means swift, violent retaliation.

While the cops and feds go down a false trail, Hammer seeks to make a rescue before Ritas curtain comes down. But first he must make sense of a mystery that takes him from a Soho art gallery to a mountain lodge, from Little Italy to a waterfront confrontation that is way, way off Broadway.

Working from the plot for an unwritten novel found in the files of the late Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) has fashioned a compelling noir thriller that is vintage Mike Hammer all the way.

Members Reviews:

Superb Hammer

A really well told story full of amosphere, the voices were excellent, brilliant Stacey Leach.

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Title: Wolves Eat Dogs

Subtitle: An Arkady Renko Novel

Author: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-11

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 363 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In Wolves Eat Dogs, beloved detective Arkady Renko enters the privileged world of Russia's new billionaire class. The grandest of them all, a self-made powerhouse named Pasha Ivanov, has apparently leapt to his death from the palatial splendor of his ultra-modern Moscow condominium. While there are no signs pointing to homicide, there is one troubling and puzzling bit of evidence: in Ivanov's bedroom closet, there's a mountain of salt.

Ivanov's demise ultimately leads Renko on a journey through Chernobyl's netherworld. The crimes he uncovers and the secrets they reveal about the New Russia, make for a tense, unforgettable adventure.

Critic Reviews:

"Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Overwhelming

What made the experience of listening to Wolves Eat Dogs the most enjoyable?

Arcady Renko never disappoints and this book is one of the best!! Set in post-meltdown Chernoble, it is stark, disturbing and oh so beautiful.

What other book might you compare Wolves Eat Dogs to and why?

Unlike some of the other more recent Renkos, this book is set outside the grime of cities. For a real experience, go to the author's website - he has photographs there of his own trip to Chernoble, which he has painted in lush richness for us in words. How can something be at once lush and stark?? I don't know but MCS does it.

Which scene was your favorite?

The ruined amusement park, reminiscent of the ferris wheel scene in Gorky Park, is particularly evocative.

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

The setting, and Arkady's equally bleak, resigned, but still vitally alive response to it, are the most moving aspects of this book. As with all these books, the plot is intricate and satisfying in both its complexity and its economy. Every detail is significant. And in this book we meet Yeva, and with her a new opportunity for Arcady to try to construct a meaningful inner life for himself.

Any additional comments?

I cannot think of a better way to immerse yourself in Arcady Renko's world than with this audiobook. Arcady's personality emerges so intensely thru the expert reading by the narrator, Henry Strozier. Any reader who has not experienced this series of books has an incredible experience awaiting him!!!

Thrilling; genuinely Russian. Cruz Rules!

For those of you already familiar with Arkady Renko, this book will not disappoint. He is a unique creation in fiction, and I cannot wait for Martin Cruz Smith to re-create him. Henry Strozier is also a great narrator. The combination will provide you with many hours of entertainment. Being in Renko's company is like seeing the world through the eyes of a master detective, cynical on the surface, romantic underneath, masterful in skill. To set this novel in Chernobyl reflects the author's courage. Cruz Smith's research and attention to detail is unknown in this genre: the truly real historical fiction but-really-not-fictional mystery. He takes you to places you've never been (unless you are a real Russo-phile) and he shows you how the people live in a way that is unmistakably true. Renko stumbles into a substitute father-son relationship with Zhenya, a master teenage chess ace, who lives on the streets and hustles chess for a living.

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Title: Stalin's Ghost

Subtitle: An Arkady Renko Novel

Author: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-11

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 173 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station.

The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians, Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy.

The investigation leads to the fields of Tver, outside of Moscow, where once a million soldiers fought. There, amidst the detritus, Renko must confront the ghost of his own father, a favorite general of Stalin's. In these barren fields, patriots and shady entrepreneurs - the Red Diggers and Black Diggers - collect the bones, weapons, and personal effects of slain World War II soldiers, and find that even among the dead there are surprises.

Members Reviews:

Russian Ghosts

The story line takes place in Moscow and Tver, a Russsian city where the battle of Moscow took place. There a series of seemingly unrelated events that occur, and in the end Cruz Smith, like a Russian egg, fits them all together magically and seamlessly.

First there are sightings of Stalin at an old Subway station. Renko is asked to investigate.

Then a black beret-Kuznitsky is found with a meat cleaver in his neck by his wife who is inebriated. The investigators are Itzakoff and Oordman former Black Berets, in Chechnia.

Then there is Eva, a doctor shared as a lover by Renko and Oordman. Then there is the killing of a pizza delivery man by a Black Beret with the story of a terrorist battle in Chechnia brought out at the trial. There is a thread about Jenia an abandoned boy of 11, who is a chess genius and to whom Renko becomes a guardian. There is an old chess master who remains a staunch communist. There is a Russian and American film crew in Moscow and Tver. who manage Itzakoff's campaign for the Senate on the rogue National Patriots Party ticket(the party of Stalin's ghost).. There is Ginsburg a hunchback investigative reporter who takes pictures of the battle in Chechnia. A good part of this book is spent with the battlefield diggers of Tver. and it is here that everything gets resolved.

Along the way Renko gets garroted by a beautiful Russian harpist, shot in the head point blank by Jenia's father, hit in the head with a shovel and knifed. That he survives these catastrophic events and keeps on coming is the weakness (? strength) of this book. To give more information- and there is much more- would spoil it for virgin listeners.

The strength s of this book is the sparse but effective language, the irony, and most of all the humor. At times things are so absurd that I burst out laughing. The reader, Henry Stozier is excellent. This book is also a lesson in recent and World War II Russian history.

In the end it all hangs together

Wonderful read!

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

As a longtime Arcady Renko fan, I was expecting to like this book, but just how great it was took me by surprise.

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Title: A Nose for Justice

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Rita Mae Brown

Narrator: Johanna Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 90 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Co-author of the best-selling Mrs. Murphy novels, Rita Mae Brown launches a new series with this first mystery featuring Baxter the wirehaired dachshund.

When Baxter and his owner, Mags, leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered mans bones - dating back to the 1800s - are unearthed in a barn owned by Mags great-aunt. As Mags attempts to put the pieces together, Baxter readies himself to protect her at all costs.

Members Reviews:

A Nose For Justice: A Novel

Johanna Parker did a great job narrating this book. This is a change for Rita Mae Brown and I hope maybe a new series. I read Brown for her interesting animals trying to led the humans to the answer of a murder and her intertwining history into the story. Over the years she seems to get on a soap box over political issues. The political message in this book is an important one of water usage and conservation. Her other books take place in Virginia but this one takes place in northern Nevada, an area I know the history and geology. So I did catch an error in geography. This story is short and makes a nice break between longer and more intense stories.

Bring back Sneaky Pie...

I am a huge fan of Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy series, but I haven't been able to get into any of her other books. This one is no exception. The characters didn't have the depth and richness that I have come to expect (attributed to Sneaky Pie's influence!) and the plot wasn't as interesting. The narration was fine but not outstanding. Sneaky Pie is obviously the superior writer!

It's greatI.

What made the experience of listening to A Nose for Justice the most enjoyable?

I loved the dogs! So Clever. Also the history. What a lot of research on Nevada History, , WACs, water rights issues, world wars and history and Wild Bill's Wild West show - then to put it all together in a double mystery story with a romance thrown in!

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Nose for Justice?

The Ball with the list of characters, all those descriptions of the people in attendance and the whole idea of such a party in the doldrums of January.

Any additional comments?

This was the first Rita May Brown book I've read since I finished the Sneaky Pie series many years ago. Nice to find an old friend again.

Wavering

Overall I found that there was just too much detail given about Nevada and water rights and that the main character was a little washed out. I would also like to see the dogs have a bigger role.

However it was still a unique and well-written book and I look forward to the next.

loved those dogs!

As the owner/rescuer of many dogs and cats over the years, I have often considered what my critters might be thinking or saying. Usually I think they might be laughing at me. I totally enjoyed this book as it was much lighter than my usual reading.

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Title: North of Nowhere

Author: Steve Hamilton

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 83 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Lying face down on the floor with a gun to the back of his head is where Alex McKnight finds himself after a game of cards turns into a professional heist at the home of local developer Win Vargas. When the dust settles, McKnight is one of police chief Roy Mavens lead suspects. Worse, Vargass own sense of vigilante justice has targeted the former private eye as well, and the brash millionaire may be responsible for the sudden disappearance of Alexs best friend Jackie.Now, with officials pointed in the wrong direction and his closest allies either missing or in jail, Alex knows he is the only one who can uncover the truth. But McKnight cant possibly know how dark this conspiracy truly is or how close to guilt he actually stands.

Critic Reviews:

Agreeable plot twists (the revelation of whodunit really is a surprise) and thoughtfully engages some larger questions about wilderness real estate developments and the limits of friendship. (Washington Post)

Members Reviews:

Justin Verlander pitches in AAA

By which I mean the narrator is overqualified for the material.

This is an OK mystery, but I had the feeling Steve Hamilton didn't put his all into it. Some of the scenes and plot elements seemed contrived, the dialog sounded a little stilted, and the denouement was vaguely unsatisfactory. I had no trouble putting it aside when something else wanted my attention. If you can apply the expression "page-turner" to an audiobook, this wasn't one of those. Nonetheless, it keeps the Alex McKnight series moving right along. And it's a sight better than that strange Hamilton novel (and Edgar winner!) "The Lock Artist".

Dan John Miller has risen rapidly up my list of favorite narrators. He and Grover Gardner are excellent at portraying the classic private eye, like Philip Marlowe or Nate Heller. Miller's talents are a bit wasted on this particular work, but that means he probably boosted the overall ranking up from 3 stars. On the down side, I don't really know the Canadian accent, and I'm not sure Dan John does either. Isn't there more to it than pronouncing "about" as "aboot"?

I was a little curious about the title. It comes from one line in one of the book's sub-plots, but it doesn't really have much to do with the main plot. It is sort of catchy sounding though, so maybe that's why.

You won't be disappointed, just not thrilled. It's worth a credit.

disappointing

Story elementary, narrator voices more suited for children's books. Took weeks to struggle through.