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Title: The Wings of the Sphinx

Subtitle: Inspector Montalbano, Book 11

Author: Andrea Camilleri

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The Wings of the Sphinx is the 11th audiobook in the wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano series by Italian author Andrea Camilleri.

Things are not going well for Inspector Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he's growing tired of the violence in his job.

Then the dead body of a young woman is found in an illegal dump, with half her face missing. Her identity at first is unknown; a tattoo of a sphinx moth on her left shoulder links her with three other girls bearing the same mark, all recent Russian immigrants to Italy. Victims of an underworld sex trade, these girls have been rescued from the Mafia nightclub circuit by a Catholic charity organization. The problem is, the other girls can't help Montalbano with his enquiries. They are all missing.

As his investigations progresses, it seems that not everyone wants Montalbano to discover what really lies behind the organization's charitable façade. And not only does Montalbano have a case to solve, he has a demanding stomach to feed, and he must save his foundering relationship with Livia....

The Wings of the Sphinx is followed by the 12th gripping mystery, The Track of Sand.

Members Reviews:

Va bene!

Inspector Silvio Montalbano is feeling every one of his fifty-six years. In this eleventh installment in the Inspector Montalbano series, author Andrea Camilleri neither disappoints nor dazzles, instead turning in the journeyman performance expected. If anything, Montalbano, "meteoropathic" (he is profoundly influenced by the weather) inspector in Vigata, a fictional town in Siciliy, goes through his paces: his extravagant lunches at Enzo's, his tortuous conversations with Catarella, the desk sergeant who is the master of the malaprop, his walk to the end of the jetty to contemplate life, his whiskies on his veranda, his perplexing love-life with long time paramour Livia...it's all here. Yet fresh, nuanced.

Montalbano actually flees the scene of the crime that launches this book, the discovery of the body of a young woman, shot in the face and discarded in the city dump, naked. He can no longer deal with death visited upon the young. He is assailed, as are we all, with television's daily diet of death and dismemberment, war and violence visited on young and old. Montalbano still performs his amazing leaps of logic, his finely honed intuition often delivering the necessary bridge needed to solve a crime or determine a motive, yet in this book he leaves much of the work to his more-than-capable assistants, Mimi Augello and Fazio. His investigation wanders through a Catholic charity, private homes, the remains of a burned-out retail business, and prison.

As always, Camilleri creates a sense of place and sets it firmly in time. Through Montalbano he takes his obligatory swipes at Silvio Berlusconi, the web of the powerful who seem to trample through every investigation, and the Sicilian bureaucracy,

While the series isn't great literature, it is a great series. Camilleri keeps his characters fresh, building on them in each subsequent work.

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Titre: La vengeance aux yeux clairs

Auteur: Franck Ollivier

Narrateur: Pascale Chemin

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 11 hrs and 10 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-20-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Olivia Alessandrini, jeune et belle avocate, arrive sur la côte d'Azur armée d'un plan machiavélique pour rendre justice à sa famille assassinée dix ans auparavant. Les événements ne vont cependant pas se dérouler comme prévu. Entre trahison, pièges, crimes et histoires d'amour, Olivia devra faire preuve de courage et de ruse pour mener à bien sa vengeance. Mais est-ce vraiment le meilleur moyen d'honorer la mémoire des siens ?

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©2016 Michel Lafon (P)2017 Audible Studios

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Title: Nameless

Subtitle: Hellbound, Book 2

Author: David McCaffrey

Narrator: Conor Donelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

One serial killer terrified the world. Imagine what an army of them could do....

Former soldier Claire Madden is arrested at the scene of a brutal murder. She will only speak to former crime reporter Joe O'Connell.

Joe's obsession with Obadiah Stark, a.k.a. The Tally Man, cost him everything. He is about to learn that Stark's message did not end with his death.

They believe in what The Tally Man stood for. They believe in what The Tally Man did. But he was one, and they are many. Once they have you, they will never let you go....

Members Reviews:

A portal to doom

I normally don't read books this grusum. The story was well writtem language was rough action was good. It shows how people csm be horrid to othets

Obadiah Stark is one of my favourite serial killers and even though he physically isnât in ...

I am a big fan of this authors books. Obadiah Stark is one of my favourite serial killers and even though he physically isnât in this book, his presence is very much felt. If you have yet to read the authors books, I would highly recommend reading Hellbound prior to reading Nameless with it having Obadiah Stark in it. Plus if anything you seriously do not want to miss out on personally getting to know Obadiah better.

I could easily relate to Joeâs obsession with Stark. He is a character that truly fascinates me. Even though Stark is dead, his legacy lives on through a cult. This isnât some hippy type commune, this cult is a very dark and disturbing one to be part of. You certainly would never want to come across any of their members and definitely donât want to be within their commune whatsoever! The stuff that goes on between those walls is like something out of a horror film. There are certainly plenty of cringe worthy moments when poor innocent victims were getting slain and I kept curling up even tighter into my chair to try and distance myself to what was happening. Not that I wanted to at all, as I was devouring every moment of it.

Nameless is a great addition to the Hellbound series. It gives the reader an insight into one man and his seriously horrifying legacy. There are plenty of twists and turns as well as being an over all very dark and gripping read. Obadiah is definitely a character I canât get enough of and really hoping the author adds another book to the collection.

Excellent writing and the storyline kept me caught up

Excellent writing and the storyline kept me caught up all the way through, I found it gripping and exciting and I couldn't wait to find out what happened. I liked all the main characters, well the good guys anyway, which made me care about what happened to them. However I was a bit disappointed with the ending. On the one hand because of the gullibility of the hero, after all he has been through and after all his experience as a tough investigative reporter, I would have expected him to act a bit more intelligently at the end and to keep his guard up a bit more. And I also found the ending disappointing because the storyline and the issues brought up in the book are not resolved, and you have to continue on to the next book to find out what happens to the hero. I don't mind a book that ends on a cliffhanger, but I do like the storyline of the current book to be resolved. And if there is a cliffhanger, I like it to be an event that begins a whole new story, which would be developed in the next book in the series.

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Title: God's Assassin

Subtitle: Jack Carson Thriller, Book 1

Author: Bruce Savage

Narrator: Daniel Adam Fakih

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-17

Publisher: BRUCESAVAGE.COM

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The secret world order...

Jack Carson thought that his days of being an assassin were over with. Nothing ahead of him but a simple life with his wife and daughter. No more secrets. No more lies. That is until his past caught up with him and his wife and daughter were killed and he was knocked unconscious by a car bomb that was meant for him. He wakes up to find himself in a strange place and that the world he thought he knew was only a curtain hiding the real truth about what was going on.

Now he has been recruited by a secret organization named G.O.D - the Global Order Directive - that manipulates the world in order to save it from destruction by ancient aliens. It's up to him to fulfill his agreement with G.O.D and find the man responsible for the death of his wife and daughter...and save the world from total destruction. Good luck with that Jack!

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Title: Playing with Death

Author: Simon Scarrow, Lee Francis

Narrator: Katherine Fenton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-17

Publisher: Headline

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Playing with Death is a gripping, edge-of-your seat contemporary thriller that marks a new direction for legendary historical novelist Simon Scarrow, writing with exciting new talent Lee Francis. Not to be missed by fans of David Baldacci and Michael Crichton.

Sometimes, the monster wins....

And FBI Special Agent Rose Blake knows it more than most. Haunted by a failed undercover mission, she is finding it hard to shake the memory of her close encounter with a ruthless serial killer - one who is still free and could come for her at any time.

The call to investigate a suspected arson attack is a welcome distraction. It's not the kind of case usually assigned to the FBI, but nothing about this crime is usual. As Rose digs deeper, she finds herself confronting the kind of imagination her son might see in the fantasy worlds of his video games.

And when your opponent is a killer, nothing feels like a game....

Members Reviews:

Average thriller with obvious plot

Good attempt by Scarrow to write something departed from the excellent Macro and Cato series. However while the concepts in this not-too-distant cyber thriller are interesting, the execution isn't great. There are some glaringly obvious plot 'twists' - 'Skin' being advertised in media, but none of the FBI guess that the victim is wearing one... As well as a few gaping holes in the story - Where did the fire that killed the first victim come from?

I don't read many crime thrillers, preferring historical fiction, but I was able to guess the majority of the story from fairly early on. Diva is an interesting 'character' though if Scarrow is planning to continue this into a series of books 'she' has far too much power. One phone call from Rose and pretty much any bad guy can be located...

In summary it was an interesting listen, but I won't rush to listen again. Back to Macro and Cato!

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Title: Dark Chapter

Author: Winnie M Li

Narrator: Laurence Bouvard, Kevin Hely

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-17

Publisher: Avid Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager living a neglected life on the margins of society.

On a bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, their paths collide during a horrifying act of violence.

Inspired by true events, this is a story of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives.

Critic Reviews:

"An important and moving book." (Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love)

"Complex and rewarding...an important book." (Stylist)

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Title: Ghost of the Karankawa

Subtitle: The Bill Travis Mysteries, Book 10

Author: George Wier

Narrator: Frank Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-17

Publisher: Flagstone Books

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

What are these shrieks in the night in the small, historic Texas Gulf Coast town of Anahuac, and what is the Ghost-killer? Worse yet, why is the last person to hear the shriek dead, his body now as devoid of moisture as a 3,000-year-old mummy? Sometimes doing a favor for a friend and client can wind Bill Travis hip-deep in trouble, and this time is no exception. To get to the heart of the matter, Bill must take his wife and his dog along for the trip and make contact with Wolf Dillard, a self-styled Sasquatch hunter who has a story to tell that is beyond belief.

This edition also contains the short story "The Woodsman" at the end.

Members Reviews:

Hitting the trail with Bill Travis in "Ghost of the Karankawa: A Bill Travis Mystery" by George Wier

In a mystery series that started with The Last Call several years ago, Bill Travis has been known to get involved one way or another in some very strange situations. Often he gets into cases where one can almost hear the Twilight Zone theme music playing in the background. Such is the case here with the Ghost of the Karankawa.

Bill Travis handles money and Evanston Cooper is one of his clients. At least he was until he pulled most of the money awhile back. Now Evanston wants to pay Travis to go from Austin down to the small and isolated town of Anahuac and see Evanstonâs sister, Catherine. She thinks a ghost is going around there murdering people. Anahuac is located on the north side of Galveston Bay and, because of the murdering ghost, his sister is threatening to leave town. Evanston is afraid she might come to Austin and he does not want her anywhere around him or any closer to Austin than she is now. To keep her down there he is willing to throw money at the problem by hiring Bill. All Bill Travis has to do for the money is drive down there and calm Evanstonâs sister down.

After enlisting Billâs wife, Julie, into the deal, Bill is forced to agree to do as Evanston asks. Before long and with the kids safely accounted for, Julie, Bill and their dog, Franklin, are taking a road trip south to Anahuac. After all, just because Bill has turned fifty and is contemplating what that means, it does not mean one should ignore a scream in the night, a mummified body, and one heck of a road trip without the kids.

Ghost of the Karankawa: A Bill Travis Mystery is the tenth book in this long running series. As such the characters of Bill Travis, and his wife, Julie as well as other regulars in the series were fleshed out long ago. The focus is on the mystery, Texas history and legends, and things that go bump in them night as they often are in this series. As one expects, author George Wier again strains reader suspension of disbelief at a couple of points, but the read is very well worth it.

The e-book also includes the entertaining short story The Woodsman as it plays a key role in the novel.

Material to read and review was purchased last February by way of funds in my Amazon Associate account.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2016

AWESOME!!

I recommend this book to everyone. I strongly suggest you read the series in order, simply because you will understand the characters more fully that way. They can be stand alone books but when you are reading an author of this caliber, why miss a thing? It will be a sad day when this series is complete.

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Title: Cold Monday

Author: Terence Strong

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-17

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Haunted by the brutal killing of his UN interpreter wife in Bosnia, ex-SAS operative Ed Coltrane is consumed with the need to hunt down her murderers. Drinking too much and spending too much on his search, his life is going into meltdown.

Just as it seems he can fall no further, a former colleague informs him that one of his wife's killers is in London, as a guest of the British government. Certain unofficial figures in the corridors of power would like to see this man disappear, and they'd like Ed Coltrane to accept the contract.

Critic Reviews:

"Tension ratchets up wickedly - a strong sense of reality is reinforced with powerful emotion and gritty characters." (Daily Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Treachery, suspicion and more...

Ed Coltrane is an ex-SAS operative who has been trying to hunt down those who murdered his wife Astrid Kweiss in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They are Brigadier Domedzic and Zoran Mihac. An old colleague of Coltrane's tells him that Domedzic is now in London at a British intelligence "safe house". Coltrane quickly senses that he can't miss this last chance to take revenge. But to achieve his aim, he will have to compromise and even face an act of national betrayal... A fast-paced adventure story in Mr Strong's traditional style.

Great first discovery from Terence Strong.

I must say that this was a great read. It was relly well written and researched. I had a very hard time putting this book down. I did find myself laughing at times and found these times appropriate. The story itself is worrisome when you actually remove some of the fiction and think about it. This is the first book I have read by Terence Strong and look forward to reading more of his work. I would and have highly recommend this book.

A Political Tract

On the face of it an adventure story. Ex-SAS man trapped into a chase which is actually designed to lead to his own death. Nail-biting stuff to the end.

Actually, a political tract with a decidely anti-EU message. There is even a tag at the end of the book to tell you where you can find out more about the threat which the EU. according to Mr Strong, represents.

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Title: Sacrifice

Subtitle: Thirteenth Legion Series, Volume 3

Author: Eric Gardner

Narrator: Meral Mathews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-17

Publisher: Eric Gardner

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Promises of peace, stability, and happiness are lies...war is coming. The thin veil that separates the demonic hordes from humanity has been torn open. For Gabriel and his small group, their race from Afghanistan is nearing its end. However, darkness and fate will not give up so easily. Even though Gabriel cannot see what evil lurks around the next corner, he knows that, ultimately, all great moments are born of sacrifice.

Meanwhile, in the quiet reaches of the American Northwest, Detective James must solve a string of ritualistic murders before they kill again. His moral conviction driven to the edge of sanity by the brutality perpetrated on the innocent has given him a clear conscious to do what is necessary once he finds the perpetrators. Justice dances with revenge as the devil plays on.

The cabal known as the Assembled moves closer to open domination of mankind as global chaos takes hold with the arrival of a demonic envoy. However, two compromising factors still linger. Gabriel Willis and Othia Morgan must die. Their twisted faith to see the dark deed through will shred the very fabric of our reality. Humanities end is inevitable, only the hour of our demise is debatable.

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Title: Skitter

Author: Ezekiel Boone

Narrator: George Newburn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-17

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Tens of millions of people around the world are dead. Half of China is a nuclear wasteland. Mysterious flesh-eating spiders are marching through Los Angeles, Oslo, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and countless other cities. According to scientist Melanie Gruyer, however, the spider situation seems to be looking up. Yet in Japan, a giant, truck-size glowing egg sac is discovered, even as survivors in Los Angeles panic and break the quarantine zone.

Out in the desert, survivalists Gordo and Shotgun are trying to invent a weapon to defeat the spiders. But even if they succeed it may be too late, because President Stephanie Pilgrim has been forced to enact the plan of last resort: the Spanish Protocol. Every country must fight for itself. And the spiders are on the move....

Members Reviews:

Great book but second part of a trilogy

This is the second part of a trilogy. First listen to The Haching by the same author.

Great sequel to the first book

I always worry about sequels to a great first book but this one is well worth a listen the characters are engaging and the storyline is interesting I will definitely buy the third book in the series as soon as it is available.

Gripping and entertaining

When I started this book I was unaware of was a sequel. Once I realised I went back and listened to the first book before carrying on with this one. But actually this is all written and easily works as a standalone book. As a sequel it's great and continues the story with the characters from the first. It's fun, a bit grim and leaves you feeling itchy and checking for spiders before you go to sleep.

A Series that needs a Big Ending!

This is the second book in Ezekiel Boone's arachnid apocalyptic series following on from The Hatching. There is a lot to like about what he's done, a big cast of globe-spanning characters, some pretty chilling horror scenes and some inventive thinking that make his spiders just a little different. The book is written on a grand scale and personally I feel invested enough into what he's unveiled so far that I'll be picking up the final book. Boone tries to imbue each character with detail, even the ones that only play a small part in the book. I particularly enjoyed one Japanese scientist lamenting how he got himself into a rather precarious situation with nothing but some rubber between him and a nasty concoction of nastiness.

All these characters and the detail they are given is great but it does create a possible issue for the reader. These aren't the longest of books so with all the characters to deal with there wasn't time to progress the main plot an awfully long way. Boone does a very decent job of pulling it together but occasionally it felt as though things were being shoe-horned in rather than genuinely adding to the story. For that reason I really do think that if, as the author has suggested this is a trilogy, then the final book really needs to leap forwards and bring it to a stunning conclusion.

The job of narrating Skitter is one hell of a tough gig with characters from here, there and everywhere. George Newburn rises manfully to the task and gives a very credible performance in the circumstances.

So, the inventiveness and character clarity adds some real meat on the bones of this series but for my personal tastes it really needs a kick-ass finale that delivers the goods for it to be a great one. Over to you Mr Boone!

Awful

Utterly boring.