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Title: Sorry

Author: Zoran Drvenkar

Narrator: Robin Bowerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Saying youre sorry may not save your life.

One. Two. Three. Thats all it takes to drive the nail into her head, to leave her hanging on the wall. She deserved to die. Now all he needs is absolution for his sins. And he knows just the people who can help. If 'sorry' seems to be the hardest word, then let us say it for you.

Kris, Tamara, Wolf and Frauke. Four friends with one big idea: an agency called Sorry. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused: everyone has a price, and Sorry will find out what it is. Its as simple as that. But they didnt count on their next client being a killer. Standing face to face with a brutally murdered woman, the philosophy that has brought them so much success sounds hollow. But who is the killer and why has he killed her? Someone is mocking them for playing God - and hell is only just beginning.

Critic Reviews:

"Sorry is the kind of thriller, the kind of novel, that doesnt come along every day. Sorry thrills, and it thrills immaculately. Its that oft-cited but very rare species of novel we call a page-turner, and it brilliantly achieves this because Drvenkar knows how to use all the tools at his disposal, to excellent effect." (New York Times)

"This thriller breaks with all conventions, topping all expectations. Drvenkar has taken the well-known theme of guilt and atonement and turned it upside down, playing a morbid game with his protagonists and the reader. Fast paced and in deadly good style. A joy to read, a piece of art." (Die Welt)

Members Reviews:

Too disturbing for me

This is an unusual novel in number of ways - which would normally be a good thing. It is told with a mixture of first, second and third person, with both the present and past tense, which was not to my taste as I thought it was trying just a bit too hard.

But it is not the narration style that turned me off this book, it was the darkness of the story. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive because the scenes we no more gory than expected. It was the characters that, while interesting, were too damaged for me enjoy spending any time with. I thought about giving up several times, and now wish I had.

It is hard one to score - I regret buying it - but maybe that is because it is very good at what it is trying to do.

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Title: We All Fall Down

Subtitle: P.I. Michael Kelly, Book 4

Author: Michael Harvey

Narrator: John Chancer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Chicago: A biological weapon is set off in the subway and quickly spreads through the city's West Side. Michael Kelly, PI, goes into the subway with a team trained in microbial forensics (essentially the next generation of CSI) and gets a hard lesson in biological warfare.

Meanwhile, the pathogen spreads. The government is forced to quarantine sections of the city. Fences go up, and soldiers in bio-hazard suits take to the streets. Gangs take over day-to-day law and order in the sectioned off hot zones and society generally begins to unravel. Kelly, of course, is in the middle of it, tracking down the bad guys while his city teeters on the precipice.

Members Reviews:

Read The Others In The Series First!!

The fourth installment in Harvey's Chicago-set Michael Kelly series starts up almost immediately after the events inThe Third Rail (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard). And though the plot initially seems connected, it is actually surprisingly separate. Like the mass terror in the previous novel, this biological hazard-based plot is quite terrifying - even more so when living in Chicago! Harvey widens his perspective of the city, with its first real focus into non-Northside locales. The pacing is even faster than normal, giving the ending an almost rushed feeling.

Despite its frightening storyline, this is probably my least favorite book in the series. The plot leaves a lot more loose ends and has a much messier feel to it than some of the more neatly complex plots. The personal relationships between Kelly and others devolve here, too, and the book lacks those moments of humour that breaks up the tension so perfectly. The shifting perspective, though it does allow for more of Chicago to be captured, softens the focus of the novel too much and doesn't benefit the overall plotline enough. This novel approaches sloppy when compared to some of Harvey's other novels. Still, I plan on continuing with the series - it is a dark, but entertaining series and it adds to the fun to see Chicago captured so well (though it sort of bothered me that this book mentions the Daley center - in Harvey's Chicago, it hardly seems possible to have had a real Daley...).

All of Harvey's books are great and I learned a ton of things about the ...

All of Harvey's books are great and I learned a ton of things about the Chicago area. A fine read for late at night when the cold winds howl!

The Implausible Often Becomes The Possible

Michael Harvey's fourth installment of his Michael Kelly series, "We All Fall Down" begins where "The Third Rail" left off. A bioterrorist has left two light bulbs in the Chicago subway tunnels that may or may not contain deadly anthrax pathogens. When an outbreak of bioterriorism occurs in Chicago, Kelly is enlisted by the mayor and Homeland Security to provide "security" in the tunnels because of his recent experiences with the possible culprit.

Before long, Kelly is knee deep in a multilayered scheme that incorporates the usual corrupt Chicago public officials, "black biologists" who play God in their efforts to out-rival foreign counterparts in creating the ultimate biological weapon, street gangs, corrupt cops, the Chicago mob, and just about any edge or fringe group possible that might gain by a controlled release of a deadly toxin in one of America's largest cities.

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Title: The Fourth Door

Author: John Russell Fearn

Narrator: Claire Christie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Jessica Standish is fatally stabbed with an oriental dagger in her own bedroom. Her murderer is seen escaping from the scene by her brother, who identifies him as her former fiancé, Arthur Caldon. Later that same night, Caldon's cottage burns to the ground, but he's not inside. Instead, he vanishes.

Inspector Betteridge, the chief investigator of the murder, learns that the dagger had definitely belonged to the missing man; but he also uncovers many puzzling strands to the affair. Arthur has an estranged twin brother, Drake Caldon, owner of the nearby Caldon Manor. The inspector's suspicions and inquiries encompass not only Drake, but also his new and beautiful wife, Elva, and his estate manager and cousin, Barry Wood. Then Elva disappears....

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Title: Serpent's Tooth

Subtitle: A Victoria Sears - Lynn Hanson Mystery, Book 1

Author: Michael R. Collings

Narrator: Tamara Marston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A young man, relatively new to Fox Creek and living with his elderly grandmother, is discovered dead in his bed after having been severely beaten. Unfortunately, the first person to see the body is Carver Ellis; and the first police officer on the scene is already convinced that young Ellis not only found the body but murdered the victim.

It's up to Victoria Sears and her new best friend from down-mountain, Lynn Hanson, to work hand in hand with Chief Deputy Richard Wroten not only to clear Ellis of any complicity in the death, but to join together a tortuous series of clues to uncover precisely how and why Eric Johansson died. Can they do it before a crucial piece of evidence disappears?

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Title: Death in the Square

Author: Ardath Mayhar

Narrator: Dorian Missick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The upper-class inhabitants of the locked-gate community called Holroyd Square in Templeton, Texas, are used to their sedate, private lives - and the equally private secrets that each of them keeps hidden from the others. But when a vicious blackmailer rudely interrupts their existence, and then is found murdered in the Square, the police must be called, and only Assistant Chief Wash Shipp can uncover the killer and save their tattered reputations.

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Title: Flamethrower

Subtitle: A Ruby Murphy Mystery, Book 3

Author: Maggie Estep

Narrator: Mia Barron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In the newest Ruby Murphy mystery, New York's inadvertent sleuth discovers more about her shrink than she could have ever imagined as the doctor turns the tables, enlisting her help in the hunt for a one-legged man who's been kidnapped and hidden in the Rockaways. Life gets even stranger when Ruby is inexplicably fired from her job at the Coney Island Museum, her friend Violet's best racehorse is suddenly put up for sale, and a blue Honda begins shadowing Ruby's every move as she journeys into the wilds of Pennsylvania in search of the woman she always thought had all the answers.

Between her apartment that is spitting distance from the Cyclone rollercoaster, the barn deep in a no-man's-land where she stables her horse, and the racetrack that is consuming her boyfriend, Ruby already knows her share of eccentric New York misfits. But in Flamethrower, she may have finally met her dangerous match.

Members Reviews:

Meh

The story was drown on with little in the actual way of story. The ending seems superfluous; why not just end it at the track, why continue to drag it on? Ruby overall was underdeveloped and started as a character with sarcastic pessimism but became the lack luster did with no personality. We were beaten over the head with the introvert animal lover role. It was very straight forwards.

In regards to the performance, it was fine. I truly do not understand why some of the characters, particular Tobias, had to talk so slow. It gave the reader an impression that he was cognitively impaired. Reading speed and articulation was good.

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Title: Eve ver. 2.0

Author: Doyle MacBrayne

Narrator: Erin Novotny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-12

Publisher: Murphy Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

What would Eve do if given a second chance? Would she share all knowledge this time? Sara Waters finds herself in that very position after working on a way to encrypt data she finds herself writing the perfect program for hacking in anywhere, anytime, completely undetected. Can she use it for good or should she destroy it?

Members Reviews:

Unusual heroine hacks computers and fights bad guys

I don't quite know what Eve has to do with this tale of hacking and mayhem, but Sara Waters is a first-rate protagonist. Weeks away from her PhD, Sara is questioned by the NSA about the disappearance of a colleague. When Sara admits to having hacked into the CIA, NSA forces her to sign a two-year contract to avoid felony charges, and to help them find the missing colleague. Sara, who teaches Tae kwon do classes for fun, has no intention of doing anything that can't be handled behind a desk, but life and the NSA think otherwise. With two batches of bad guys after her Sara ends up using her computer and martial arts skills about equally, while trying to decide whether to fall in love with NSA agent Thomas Smith. The latter remains unresolved.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book - however, from about midpoint on the spelling errors and grammatical mistakes became sufficiently serious for me to subtract a star.

Four Stars

Lots of twists!

A Realllllly great book!

It was interesting, fast paced, wonderful, and more adjectives than I can think of!!!!!!!!

Buy it - Buy it - Buy it

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Title: Sins of the Flash

Subtitle: A Tommy Doyle Mystery

Author: David Niall Wilson

Narrator: Mitch Urban

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-12

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Christian Greve is a photographer. He waves teddy bears at little children, arranges families like vases of flowers, and records graduations and dances for posterity. As a child, he was raised by a mother who thought he made a good mannequin to practice her makeup on... and a good plaything for her tricks.

Then Christian decides his fame as a photographer has been sabotaged by his models. They conspire against him, moving just enough to throw off his shots - laughing at him behind his back. When a chance encounter with two teenagers on the street escalates out of control, he takes matters into his own hands. People start to die.

Detective Tommy Doyle, known to the citizens of San Valencez California as "The Psychos 'r' Us" cop, finds himself with a growing string of dead bodies, some of the strangest clues he's ever run across, and very little time to find and stop a killer before the death toll rises.

This is the first full-length Tommy Doyle novel, following on the success of his debut in the novelette "Burning Bridges", published in the anthology All Hell Breaking Loose.

Members Reviews:

Creepy

I didn't get much past chapters two or three in this book. But not because it was a badly written book. Much to the contrary, Wilson is such a good writer that I was totally creeped out by the time I put it down, knowing I really didn't need to finish it because creepy things stick in my brain. If you have a strong constitution, I recommend this book. Someone can give me a spoiler by telling me how it ended.

Smile for the Camera, My Pretty

In a squalid little town in California lives an unhinged serial killer, a cocky entertainment provider and a determined detective. When these three come together, all hell breaks loose. This riveting novel will suck you in, make you part of the story and keep you there until the very end. David Niall Wilson paints his characters in ways that bring them to life. They get inside your head and live there, long after the book is finished.

Christian Greve is a demented photographer. He sees "visions" of his "models" in ways that will make you think twice before posing for pictures with just anyone. In his search to bring his perfect vision to life on camera, he comes across Hiram Gates, a rich, greedy man known for playing with the more demented side of life. Gates eventually provides Christian with models, which Greve kills to attain his perfect masterpiece. Only in death can he control them. Stakes rise when Hiram realizes his love for his long-time secretary and Christian realizes she is the epitome of perfection. Only through her can he achieve the vision in his head. She will make him famous.

As Christian kills, Tommy Doyle, a detective with a life-mission to hunt down the worst of what humans can do, and a determined, almost bull-dog mind-set, chases him. Christian has never been in trouble with the law. He taunts Doyle by leaving his fingerprints and DNA everywhere. Tommy cannot catch him. He stays one step behind. This just makes Tommy more tenacious. By the time he catches Christian, he is ready to just off the guy. He's prepared for the backlash. He's been through too much and Christian has tested his limits.

Sins of the Flash is well written.

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Title: All He Saw Was The Girl

Author: Peter Leonard

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Rome: McCabe and Chip, two American exchange students, are about to become embroiled with a violent street gang. Detroit: Sharon Vanelli's affair with Joey Palermo, a Mafia enforcer, is about to be discovered by her husband, Ray. Brilliantly plotted and shot through with wry humour, All He Saw Was the Girl takes place as these two narratives converge in the backstreets of Italys oldest city.

Members Reviews:

Enjoyable book great narration

I enjoyed this story, the way the two aspects of the book coordinated was excellent but the ending let it down, is there going to be a sequel ? Would be nice to find out what happened next.

Action and grit.

One again Jeff Harding has bought the story to lfe, and the discription of Rome was as If you were transported over there. The cafe's and the shops and hotels... Brilliant.

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Title: Ninth Life

Subtitle: A Charlie Gamble Mystery

Author: Don Matheson

Narrator: Peter Waldren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Charlie Gamble is a scam artist, but he does have his loyalties, among them Rosy Marlette and the principle of helping a friend in need. Rosy is caught in an art swindle masterminded by B. Ansley Sams, a former Wall Street inside trader and ex-con. Sams has only one asset: a slow-witted but very mean enforcer. Brakebill is his name and he is meaner than Hitlers priest, so they say. When Charlie goes up against Sams and Brakebill, its an alley-cat fight to the finish, with Rosy and survival the two prizes.