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Title: Wild Turkey

Author: Michael Hemmingson

Narrator: Robert Keiper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-11

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Phil Lansdale has problems. He's out of a job, his son's a pyromaniac, and his wife is running out of excuses as to why she comes home six hours late from work every night. In his newly appointed house-husband position, Phil learns that when you have a lot of time on your hands, you begin to notice your neighbors, their intricate nuances, and the discord created by someone who doesn't follow the normal routine-like the long and sexy neighbor across the street, Cassandra Payne.

Phil and his new found friend, Bryan, an ex-detective who lives next door, have been keeping tabs on Cassandra. But when Cassandra's husband is gunned down, Phil and Bryan realize that the beautiful Cassandra might be hiding more beneath that eensy-weensy miniskirt than meets the eye, and Phil finds himself drawn into the dark and mysterious world of Cassandra Payne. With a bottle of bourbon and a full tank of gas, Phil sets out to find the gunman and discovers the truth in a world where some men are men, some are wild, and some are only turkeys.

Critic Reviews:

"Within Hemmingson's fiction is an oddly twisted brand of sin and redemption. His characters are over-whelmed by their sins and bring out justice upon themselves, or other characters enact the karma for them." (American Book Review)

"Wild Turkey deals up one nasty shock after another. Its just what thriller addicts crave. (John Clarkson, author of Reeds Promise)

Wild Turkey is a quick slice of suburban noir that packs quite a wallop. (Deadly Pleasures)

Members Reviews:

Wild Turkey Wild Noir

What did you love best about Wild Turkey?

This is true noir at its very, very best.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Wild Turkey?

A confrontation scene in the desert near Las Vegas near the end of the novel; sorry can't be a spoiler.

What didnt you like about Robert Keipers performance?

This is very difficult to say. This short noir novel is stunning. The narrator/performer has a very mature and gravelly voice. For some characters, it was good, or maybe okay. For the female characters it was horrifying and creepy to listen to. Robert Keiper delivered much of the lines as shouts and they hit like blows. It would have been doubtful that dialogue bewtween friends would sound so loud and angry. This is a very artful crime novel and I wonder if the narrator was selected to give it an unworldly edge. I suspended disbelief and went with it.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Fatal Obsessions

Any additional comments?

This is well worth your time and money. I highly recommend this very exciting and interesting noir novel. It's short, just over 4 hours of constant movement and action. The character development is very solid, no cartoon characters in this novel.

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Title: Sweet and Lowdown

Subtitle: Doris Lennox Mysteries 2

Author: Lise McClendon

Narrator: Mark Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-11

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In this sequel to One O'clock Jump, featuring Kansas City private detective, Dorie Lennox, it's 1940, FDR is running for a third term, France has fallen, and the Nazis are bombing London. In Kansas City, PI Dorie Lennox and her partner, Amos Haddam, are tailing Thalia Hines, the wayward 21-year-old daughter of a prominent local family. Dorie takes over investigating the men in Thalia's life after Amos becomes preoccupied with a refugee from London and a series of anonymous threats to the Negro League Monarchs baseball team the week before a postseason game against the KC Blues. When someone tries to kidnap Thalia and a dead body turns up, Dorie gets caught in the backlash. Meanwhile, as the pressure on the Monarchs builds, race riots may break out at any time.

Critic Reviews:

"McClendon lightly handles all the threads, using a taut, staccato style that perfectly complements her edgy, skittish heroine." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

A not so usual time and place

This is refreshingly not Los Angeles nor yet New York of the Forties, but Kansas City in that era. It's really fun to see KC as it may have been, who knows? But the author paints it convincingly and I believe it. I had a lot of fun with this book.

The characters are unusual as well. There's just enough dirty past to make me believe they'd do this work and just enough involvement one with the other to make us care. The drinking, the cigarettes, the music and dancing, it's all part of a bright cocktail that ends too soon.

I liked this book well enough that I bought another by the same author about the same characters and then yet another with a different setting and detective. You can't get a better recommendation than that, surely?

As much a novel as a mystery -- very well written, takes you back in time

I normally don't like period mysteries, in part because many of them are not very well written and/or because the "let's remind you what time it is" becomes forced (little lessons about what people wore, traveled, social relations, etc.) This is the second book in this series that I've read, and because I'd read another in the series, I was more prepared for the style and enjoyed it from the beginning.

Dorrie Lennox is a tough young female private eye who lives in Kansas City around the beginning of World War II. The book begins with her tailing Thalia, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy woman who is dying of cancer. Thalia's mother fears for her daughter's well-being, given the fast life this girl is living. Dorrie begins to suspect that the choir director of the choir that this night-clubbing young woman belongs to is not on the up-and-up. She starts checking into him further.

All this is hindered by the fact that she's on parole for stabbing a man who couldn't take no for an answer, and she can no longer carry a weapon -- her trusty switchblade -- so when she runs into nasty people, she is vulnerable. Additionally, the police are giving her grief and haul her in from time to time.

This is one of those books that absorb you into another world, and without explicitly describing how it was different then, you get the feel for the time and place.

I am looking forward to reading the next book in this relatively new series. I'd like to find out what happens next to Dorrie.

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Title: Video Cowboys

Subtitle: A Georgia Barnett Mystery

Author: Yolanda Joe

Narrator: Sharon Washington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Georgia Barnett novels, including Hit Time, keep Yolanda Joes name at the top of Blackboard best-seller lists. In Video Cowboys, the Chicago TV reporter is thrust into a very perilous spotlight. A bomber has taken hostages at a local bank. If Georgia cant get his videotape of demands on the major networks, people will die. Georgia needs the help of the Video Cowboys - fearless camera crew willing to do anything to get coverage.

Critic Reviews:

[A] protagonist with just the right combination of guts and compassion. (Detroit Free Press)

Members Reviews:

Video Cowboys to the Rescue

Television News Reporter and amateur sleuth, Georgia Barnett is back in Yolanda Joe's newest novel Video Cowboys. This time the case she is following is personal, as her best cameraman and friend, Zeke is being held hostage with an unstable gunman whose only demand is for the police to find his daughter. Georgia has just hours to meet the demands of the gunman or Zeke and the other hostages could meet an untimely demise. Hardnosed police commander, Wild Bill Whelk is standing in the way, undermining everything Georgia needs to do to help free the hostages. With the help of the video cowboys, retired cameramen Choke, Paulie and Gunner, they criss cross the city of Chicago hoping to find the wayward daughter. Their journey takes them to a mental hospital for history on the gunman, then on to the apartment of the daughter only to find a dead Parole officer. In their search, they find themselves mixed up with the mob and drug dealers because they are all looking for the same person. What could have been a quick bring my daughter home turns into a dangerous adventure for Georgia and the video cowboys.

I found this book to be funny and was amused by the adventures of the video cowboys and Georgia Barnett. There were parts that had me laughing out loud and other parts that had me on the edge of my seat. This novel was not a literary masterpiece, nor do I think it was supposed to be, it is a for entertainment purpose read. And because I was entertained I think Ms Joe did an excellent job of providing me with an easy, relaxing reading experience.

Jeanette

APOOO BookClub

action packed crime caper

After covering a news event, television journalist Georgia Barnett and her cameraman Zeke Barnett stop at the bank to withdraw money when a shot rings out. A man holding a bomb and a gun tells them they are hostages until his daughter Mandy is returned to him. He has Georgia run a tape of him asking for Mandy to be brought to him and then goes on to tell everyone she could be found with a criminal (he shows a wanted picture of the person on the tape).

He has one of the female hostages deliver the tape but the police officer in charge of the case, Wild Bill, won't let it be shown because it will look as if he is soft on crime. Georgia gets Brett the gunman to trust her after swearing they will communicate by tapes played on television. Georgia has the tape aired and leaves before the police arrest her for obstruction of justice. She and the VIDEO COWBOYS, former employers who were let go from the television station, look for Mandy, and dodge the police, the mafia, drug dealers who don't want the girl and her companion Merc found.

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Title: Neely Jones

Subtitle: The Medusa Pool

Author: M.K. Wren

Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Neely Jones, the only African-American member of the Taft County police force, has been elected sheriff on a write-in ballot. Her prejudiced co-workers resent her, and many in the community are intolerant. But soon, Neely is facing more than just racial slurs. Her boyfriend is murdered, and Neely must find the killer while navigating the pitfallsof her new job.

Members Reviews:

Oregon mystery

Good book by a great author. M K Wren writes a good story about the Oregon coast towns with lots of good descriptions of people.

excellent writing

African American Neely Jones leaves her San Francisco police officer job to accept a deputy position in the sheriff's office of Taft County, Oregon. She moves because her significant other Jan Kato works at the nearby Westport Oceanographic Center. However, the white male department refuses to take seriously their new black female token. To them she is a double token to satisfy blacks and females. Her lowly situation changes when she unseats the present sheriff, Gill Willis, in a write-in campaign. Surprisingly, Neely did not run for office nor wants the job. However, an irate Gill immediately quits to protest Neely's election.

When she takes office, Neely learns that Gill was on the take as someone left an envelope filled with money for him. She receives anonymous calls warning her of the consequences if she fails to resign. She ignores the threats until Jan is found dead in a pool of jellyfish. She deeply grieves her loss even as she feels guilty by not acting on the personal threats. Still, a determined Neely plans to uncover the identity of the killer regardless of whether she obtains any cooperation from her own staff.

M.K. Wren,s new series is a twenty-four karat winner that reads more like a suspense thriller than a police procedural. Readers see bigotry operate in a de facto open manner as well as hidden in the shadows. The heroine is a strong person who bends but becomes more powerful as she refuses to allow narrow minded individuals to stop her from accomplishing her job. NEELY JONES: THE MEDUSA POOL is book one of what appears to be a dynamic series that looks like it's heading for a wonderfully long run.

Harriet Klausner

A series with potential

I liked this book. I think Neely Jones is a very likable new mystery heroine with lots of promise. However, I did find the author's use of racial slurs to be over the top. Don't get me wrong. Racism is alive and well in America. But, as an African-American, I can honestly say that I've experienced less blantant racism during my entire life than Neely experiences in just one page! I hope MK Wren can tone that down in the next book. I look forward to reading about Neely's further adventures.

Excellant Read

I didn't want to put the book down. "Neely Jones" captured me from the beginning & held me all the way through. Neely is a strong & determined sista who puts up with too much stuff & still handles it with grace & dignity. This is a read thats wellworth purchasing.

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Title: The Colour of Death

Author: Michael Cordy

Narrator: Robert G Slade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-11

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In a residential neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, an unknown young woman uncovers a shocking crime scene by inexplicably sensing the evil within its walls. To the police, she is a mystery. She can't even tell them her own name. They christen her Jane Doe. Suffering terrifying hallucinations, Jane is assigned to Nathan Fox, a forensic psychiatrist struggling with his own demons. Together they must piece together the jigsaw that is Jane's identity.

Then a sequence of brutal killings terrorizes the city and Fox learns Jane is the only cryptic link between the unrelated victims. To solve the murders, Fox must discard his black and white preconceptions, look beyond the spectrum of normal human experience and confront the dark truth of her past...and his own.

Members Reviews:

Absolutely brilliant.

Brilliant author, story and reader.

But why hasn't audible got, The Lucifer Code by Michael Cordy because it has been made, and is one of my favourite books? Please add ASAP.

Another great book from a master

Michael Cordy continues to create incredible stories. if you are after a great book to read or listen too then this will not let you down. Michael is a truly talented writer and his stories will really pull you in.

Cordy at his best

Really excellent, both story and reader. Definately a great one for your library. More Cordy's please.

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Title: Naked Cruelty

Author: Colleen McCullough

Narrator: Charles Leggett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Locking your door wont help. Hes already insideAmerica in 1968 is in turmoil and the leafy Holloman suburb of Carew is being silently terrorised by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When finally one victim finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the rapist escalates to murder.For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to be a case with no clues. And it comes as the Holloman Police Department is troubled: a lieutenant is out of his depth, a sergeant is out of control, and into this mix comes the beautiful, ruthlessly ambitious new trainee, Helen MacIntosh, daughter of the influential president of Chubb University.

As the killer makes his plans, Carmine and his team must use every resource at their disposal including a highly motivated neighbourhood watch, the Gentlemen Walkers.

Critic Reviews:

"Very much in the tradition of P.D. JamesMcCullough is a tremendous storyteller." (The Times)

"Compelling, passionate and gritty." (She)

"McCullough piles on the drama." (Daily Mail)

Members Reviews:

Love McCullough and love Delmonico

Love McCullough and love Delmonico. Desdamona too. The majority of the characters are very believable and interesting, the story is good and keeps you wanting more and Delmonico's push over with the animals is just perfect. A really good read.

One of the things I love about Colleen McCullough is the different genres that she ...

One of the things I love about Colleen McCullough is the different genres that she writes, and the beauty with which she writes. This murder mystery is no exception and I look forward to reading more of the series, and more of her writing.

McCullough, My Favorite Author

I think I have the majority of books written by McCullough. I always look forward to her Carmine Delmonico mysteries. I hope there will be more. This author does not spare the reader's sensibilities. She tells it like it is. There is always the shock value, especially when she gives us a surprising ending. I usually read the entire book at one sitting. I just can't put it down.

Although interesting, this was the 3rd in the Carmen ...

Although interesting, this was the 3rd in the Carmen Delmonico series. Definitely not as well written as the first two in the series and it seemed that a new plot twist had to be added at the last minute to explain the ending..

Vacation read?

An easy vacation read I suppose. McCullough will make no demands on your intellect with this book, but it's inoffensive ... despite its premise as a murder mystery :-).

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Title: Murder in Mykonos

Subtitle: A Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mystery, Book 1

Author: Jeffrey Siger

Narrator: Koullis Kyriacou

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-11

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Mykonos has always had a romantic reputation, until the body of a blonde female tourist is discovered on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. When the island's new police chief - the young, politically incorrect, former Athens homicide detective Andreas Kaldis - starts finding bodies, bones and suspects almost everywhere he looks, he's forced to admit that the island paradise is harbouring a ritualistic serial killer. Mykonos's character is at stake, but political niceties no longer matter when another blonde vanishes. Andreas must delve into ancient myths and forgotten island hideaways as he races against a killer intent on claiming a new blonde victim - who is herself determined to out step him...

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Title: Anger Mode

Author: Stefan Tegenfalk

Narrator: Alex Warner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-11

Publisher: Massolit Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Two cars are involved in a head-on collision on a country road with no traffic. The collision is violent. Ten year-old Cecilia is catapulted through the windscreen and killed instantly.

Five years later, Detective Inspector Walter Grohn gets a perplexing case on his desk - one dead taxi driver and a killer who has no idea why he committed the crime. The first murder is followed by others, all equally as brutal and inexplicable. Together with his talented assistant, Jonna de Brugge, he untangles threads that lead into the very heart of the Swedish justice system.

Critic Reviews:

"Thrilling, complex and intense. Swedish crime fiction at its best." (Ian Samson)

Members Reviews:

There's a good story in there, trying to get out

Did something get lost during the translation from Swedish to English? I don't know, but you can tell there is a really good story here. It's just that large parts of the writing really let it down, at least in this English-language version.

Certainly the overly 'voice-over' narration didn't help. I made it through to the end of this first book in the trilogy, but it was hard going in places. Hard enough that I'm not tempted to come back for more.

Sorry I bought it

Not everything coming from the Nordic crime writers can be good and this book proves it. As I said in the title I was sorry I bought it. It goes under the mystery and crime header but could just as easily be science fiction. The plot is just ridiculous, and falls back on the stock villain, the mad scientist, having first tried the current favourite bogeyman, the Islamic terrorist. I am pretty sure this was first self published as a Kindle book although it now shows as available in paperback, but everything about it suggests self published.

A smashing story a great listen.

This is a smashing listen, well translated and read by Alex Warner, a story that twists and turns and keeps you thinking.

Watch out though because some of this authors books are not translated.

Narrated by a SatNav

I'm not really sure if this was a good book with poor narration or a bad book and bad narration, either way the storyline was as if the author was making it up as he went along, I'm not sure how it ended, I only managed to struggle through the first part. As for the Narrator, there is a difference between reading words off a page and reading a story but perhaps the narrator was as bored as I was as he only used a monotone throughout and the gaps between one paragraph and the next were so long, I thought my battery had died on the MP3 player and checked it more than a few times!

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Title: The Speaker of Mandarin

Author: Ruth Rendell

Narrator: George Baker

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Another Wexford mystery read by George Baker and available for the first time on digital download.

China both delighted and frustrated Wexford; the beauty, the history, all of that brought immense pleasure. But the unending attention of Mr Sung of the Chinese Tourist Board was hugely irritating and that an old woman with bound feet should haunt him was puzzling and slightly frightening, without explanation. Back home, he found an answer to the last and then a whole new mystery opened up when he found himself in charge of yet another murder investigation, this time of one of his fellow tourists. And suddenly an apparently accidental death in China no longer seemed so accidental.

Members Reviews:

I liked the location change for Wexford on his trip to ...

I liked the location change for Wexford on his trip to China. And continued when he got home. Complex plot and surprising twists.

I am a loyal fan of Wexford and Rendell, and enjoy a good mystery as this was.

I enjoyed this book

I enjoyed this book, but it didn't have me riveted like some of Ruth Rendell's other books. But it might be due to that I was only able to read this book in snippets. I absolutely loved some very funny descriptions of Inspector Wexford's observations.

Five Stars

great book, good service, arrived just as described

My least favorite book of the series

Books in the Inspector Wexford series have provided many hours of enjoyment for me, but this book was an exception. There was a large cast of characters introduced in the early chapters, but they weren't fully developed. Hence, when one of those thinly drawn characters turns up dead and others in the group are accused, it doesn't much matter about the death or who did it.

Speaker of mandarin

I enjoyed this book because it was a murder mystery but also a travel log of wexford travels to China and the discretion s of China were very good

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Title: A Darker Shade of Blue

Author: John Harvey

Narrator: Amy Shindler, Colin Mace, Gordon Griffin, Matt Bates, Nick Boulton, Paul Thornley, Chris Pavlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East Anglia, this is a world of broken families and run-down estates, revenge killings and prostitution, drugs, guns and corruption; a world of overstretched police forces and underpaid detectives, men and women who strive nonetheless for a kind of justice; a world in which everything, even friendship, has a price. Featuring familiar characters including Frank Elder and Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, John Harvey's stories perfectly encapsulate life in the badlands of modern Britain.

Members Reviews:

Short story, horror production

Any additional comments?

The stories are fine as are the narrators. What sucks is the WOEFUL lack of breaks between stories and/or any indication that the story title is not a random phrase out of context.

No time to breathe

This is the worst audio recording I have ever listened to. Each short story runs straight into the next one, without so much as a pause for breath, let alone the chance to reflect on the story just listened to. I don't expect much, but a few seconds grace would at least allow me to realise that the tale has finished. As it was, I was well into the next part before I knew it, leading to confusion and frustration. The stories themselves were unsatisfactory, but it was the presentation itself that meant that I couldn't bear to listen to part two. Modern devices go straight from one track to the next, so audible should consider this when releasing short stories, and plan a gap between them. I shall be very wary of buying short story collections in future.

badly compiled

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I agree with the other review; it's so bad that there must be something wrong with this publication. Not only do the stories just run into one another but the narrative doesn't make sense. Some of the hanging endings might be a narrative device but after listening to several I'm left feeling that the final minutes of the stories are actually missing.