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Title: Stone, Series 2: The Night (BBC Radio 4: Afternoon Play)

Author: James Rye

Narrator: Hugo Speer

Format: Original Recording

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-11

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The fourth and final episode of Stone, Series 2, a BBC Radio 4 detective series created and written by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Hugo Speer as Stone. The Night was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 20 October 2010.

In the final episode of the series, The Night, DCI John Stone investigates the sexual assault of the wife of one of his team. DI Tanner's wife Karen finds herself in a dodgy hotel after a night out remembering nothing of the night before; she has been assaulted and Stone suspects she has been given Rohypnol. It would seem that this is just the beginning of something bigger and as Stone investigates further he uncovers a dark secret.

Starring Hugo Speer as John Stone, Craig Cheetham as Tanner and Deborah McAndrew as Sue. Also featured in the cast are Kaye Wragg, Eva Pope, Greg Wood and Kevin Harvey. Directed by Nadia Molinari.

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Title: Schemers

Author: Bill Pronzini

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Nameless wasnt supposed to come into the office on Mondays. He wasnt supposed to answer the phone. On this Monday he did both. The call was from Barney Rivera - once a friend, now despised - at Great Western insurance. Against his better judgement, Nameless agreed to meet him. The investigation was relatively simple: a multimillionaire rare books collector had reported the theft of eight volumes, worth half a million dollars. From a locked library. To which he had the only key...

Members Reviews:

Rare Detective Fiction and A Locked Room

Rare detective fiction is missing. To solve the crime, Nameless has to also deal with muder in a locked room. Something about the murder just doesn't ring true. Jake Runyon investigates a family facing threats. But why? Runyon has to delve into the past. Tamara finds a man who makes her happy. Is he everything that he seems? The Nameless series has run for more than thirty years by allowing characters to grow and change. Enjoy.

great story

I love all of the Nameless books and they just seem to be getting better. At first I wasn't sure if I would like the additon of the others in his office, but now I see that they are a good part of the stories. If you haven't read any of Pronzini's Nameless books, I would recommend that you find the older ones and start at the beginning of his story.

"No wonder people are paranoid these days."

In Bill Pronzini's "Schemers," Nameless and the staff of his San Francisco-based private investigation agency are looking into two very different mysteries. One involves Cliff and Damon Henderson, two brothers in their thirties who are being stalked by a psychopath with an unknown agenda. The perp has already damaged their personal property and beaten Damon with a tire iron. The Hendersons have no idea why they are being targeted. Since the police have not been able to help them, they turn to Nameless, hoping that he can find their "faceless enemy" before he escalates his attacks.

The other puzzle is brought to Nameless's attention by his former friend, Barney Rivera, a slimy character who is the chief claims adjuster for an insurance company. He hires Nameless to look into the theft of eight vintage first-edition mysteries, worth half a million dollars, from the collection of sixty-seven year old Gregory Pollexfen. Pollexfen, who is unhappily married to a much younger woman, alleges that the items were taken from a secure library to which no none is ever admitted without his being there. Barney dares Nameless to solve this "locked room" puzzle, and even agrees to sweeten the pot with a hefty bonus if he succeeds.

"Schemers" is an engrossing tale of underhanded, desperate, and mentally ill people who wreak havoc on both the innocent and guilty alike. Working with Nameless are twenty-six year old Tamara Corbin, a computer expert and "human dynamo," and Jake Runyon, a former Seattle cop whose heart was broken when beloved second wife, Colleen, passed away. While Bill's private life has been blessedly uneventful of late, Tamara is all excited about her new beau, Lucas Zeller, and Jake is slowly getting closer to Bryn Darby, a woman who withdrew from society after a stroke left her face partially paralyzed. Jake's relationship with Bryn is poignant and affecting.

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Title: Blood Count

Subtitle: An Artie Cohen Mystery

Author: Reggie Nadelson

Narrator: Elijah Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Mid-December 2008. Barack Obama has just been elected; all New York is ecstatic, especially Harlem. On a freezing night a few weeks later, detective Artie Cohen gets a late call from his ex girlfriend, Lily Hanes, begging for his help. Lily has been living at the Louis Armstrong Apartments, one of Harlem's great buildings, while working on Obama's campaign; now her Russian neighbor, Marianna Simonova, has died, and Lily fears she's at fault and needs Artie's Russian connections.

Over a weekend when the city is locked in by snow and cold, with the financial markets tanking, one after another people at the Armstrong die. Artie, out of his element, a white detective in a black world, is drawn inexorably into the realm of Sugar Hill and the Armstrong, where almost everybody, except for the real-estate developers, seems locked in the past.

Working to solve the murders, Artie tries desperately to win Lily back. Blood Count is a murder mystery, a love story, and a tale about New York, race, real estate, money, and music, with an ending one could never predict.

Members Reviews:

Made me claustrophobic

Having grown up of Russian Jewish descent in the Coney Island /Brighton Beach area I really enjoy Reggie's connection to Brighton Beach. Unfortunately this novel spends way too much time inside one building.As As a former criminal defense lawyer with a Harlem office and a graduate of City College of New York , I am very familiar with Harlem. I enjoyed the desciption of the area but I think Regie beat the building to death . I grew tired of the site description. As much as I enjoy her writings this novel made me claustrophobic. This does not mean that I will stop reading Reggie. I look forward to her next work and hope to see one of her novels as a movie. I put her up there with Block, Connelly, Kellerman and the other greats. She reminds me of Pelicanos because you can sense her life experience as the foundation for her writings. Not her best but even the greats miss once in awhile

Harlem-Obama wins!

More good detective work from our favorite Russian-American,Artie Cohen.This one centers on a murder in Harlem around the time of Obama's 2008 Presidential win.The euphoria is captured,though the story-with its surprises-is unrelated.Questions about local political issues arise,as do moral-legal quandries for Artie himself[Nadelson herself does another terrific job of stepping into her male creation!]Blood Count will be welcomed by those who enjoy following the investigations and flawed personal life of New York's Detective Cohen.

Keep Counting

I found Blood Count to be incredibly boring. It was so slow as to be annoying. This was surprising to me as I usually enjoy the books I pick out, but this one just took forever to get going.

I stopped the count

Couldn't get into this book and I just gave up. I'm also getting real tired of most books using the f word and others in ordinary conversation. About the only ones I hear using this language is typically teens that haven't grown up yet.

Come on you authors surely you can write conversation that's fit to listen to.

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Title: Londongrad

Subtitle: An Artie Cohen Mystery

Author: Reggie Nadelson

Narrator: Elijah Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

E. M. Forster

Through seven previous novels, Reggie Nadelson has created one of the more memorable characters in detective fiction: Artie Cohen, New York police detective and first-generation American with complex ties to his Russian past, especially his close friendship with the enigmatic and flamboyant New York/London club owner Tolya Sverdloff.

Now, in Londongrad, by far Nadelson's most ambitious novel to date, Artie is faced with a murder that strikes at him personally and will ultimately place his best friends life in his hands as it challenges his own loyalty.

In a playground in Brooklyn, Artie is led to a dead girl tied up in duct tape on a childrens swing. He soon realizes the killer murdered the wrong girl - the intended victim was Valentina Sverdloff, Tolya's daughter, long adored by Artie. Artie flies to London to tell Tolya and finds himself enmeshed on his friend's behalf in a maelstrom of Russian money and crime.

Like Berlin at the end of World War II, somebody tells Artie, Londongrad, as its known, has become an offshore island for the new Russian underworld. Over his head, Artie is drawn further in, to Moscow, where, balancing between the old KGB and the new FSB, between the dazzle and grimness of Russia today, he uncovers a painful truth about his past that puts Tolya's life in the balance.

Members Reviews:

ARTIE COHEN STAY IN BROOKLYN

ARTIE COHEN IS AN INTERESTING SERIES.

I THINK IT COULD BE TURNED INTO A TV MOVIE.I WOULD CAST VIGGO MORTENSON AS THE LEAD.

INTERESTING CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK SERIES WITH VIVID BROOKLY N.Y. LOCALES.

page turner

This is the type of book that incorporates a zillion tiny details that only someone who knows the locale intimately would know. Those names and descriptions lend an authenticity to this fictional thriller; makes one a believer from the get-go. Packed full of current details and fictional bits and pieces---the reader is left wondering just what is the 'real deal'. This is a cloak and dagger book in the very best sense; a true page-turner.

Four Stars

Avery good book by this talented author.

Artie Cohen In His Prime

My favorite detective, Artie Cohen, is again at loose in the world. This time in New York, London, and Moscow. The reasons for his wandering are tied so tightly to the plot that I hesitate to spoil it for you by attempting to summarize very much. Suffice it to say that there are multiple murders in all locations and enough twists in the narrative to keep you guessing and engaged. Like me, I suspect you will not be able to put "Londongrad" down. To say that this is a page-turner does not do it justice because its sense of place and character is so strong that you will forget that this is a "just" a thriller and get draw into its literary qualities. Reggie Nadelson's best yet. I can't wait for the next one.

Poor reading

Useless book no storey just goes on and on worst book I've reaD in 20 years - 1star too much

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Title: The Scorpions Sting

Subtitle: A Magdalena LaSige Novel

Author: J. D. Masterson

Narrator: J. D. Masterson

Format: Abridged

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-11

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

"With all my degrees and knowledge, how could I have lived with my head in the sand for so long? I'm thinking of nicknaming myself 'Ostrich'... head in the sand, backside flopping around in the air, going around in circles, tripping over my own long legs and awkward feet, never getting anywhere at all. It certainly seems an appropriate label, especially given the latest mess I'm now working my way through."

Dr. Magdalena LaSige, a 33-year-old criminal archepsychologist, throws herself headfirst into finding a kidnapped Carmelite nun - the sister of her former professor, the handsome and wealthy Dr. Peter Janus. She is given ancient pictures and symbols sent from the kidnappers, clues in an archetypal trail of deceit. The Pyramids of Giza, DNA codes, constellations, medicine, money - these symbols, stories, and legends all combine to challenge everything Magdalena has taken for granted as truth. And the truth seems to be the last thing Dr. Janus wants to discuss. What is his connection with the pharmaceutical companies he consults for, and how does that play into the kidnapping? Is the 'scorpion's sting' a medical project or something much more sinister?

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Excellent!

Sweet mystery

I am not sure is Mags is a continuing character but I was surprised by her humanity.. She is not a super hero but a common lady weaving her way through liffe

Bravo my dear, 6 stars. Mags rocks!

Well, this was an all out page turner for sure, both forward AND backward. One moment I'm subconsciously needing to devour the remaining chapters before they mysteriously disintegrate into an ancient relic dust with all the clues vanishing for eternity through my fingers. The next, Im paging back to re-process all the historic and scientific details thrown at me from some universal higher power saying, "forget everything they taught you in school kids".

JD Materson sublimely challenges the reader into looking at the world from outside the box, like some ignorance vaccine, with witty dialogue and imaginative sci fi thrown in just for good measure.

Heart wrenching cliff hanger. Cant wait for Mags to rip the CIA and Wall St. a new one now!

The reviews are coming in for this book and are excellent! See some below!

From A Roman Catholic Nun who did leave the church, who is reading it a second time so as not to miss anything...

"Your background and your knowledge are so incredible....I know nothing about the Amplified Bible and very little about the Bible, so this will need more attention from me, but in general I found it most enlightening. I loved the part about caring for dying children and their parents, and was moved by your reason for giving up psychology. The main theme about the medical pharmacalogical groups promoting the unnecessary and harmful vaccines and excessive use of prescriptions was most enlightening. It gave me new thoughts abouth the fourteen or more pills I take each day. You did a great job on the Catholic Church, which I was happy to see. And even though people like me find it hard to digest, I'm very glad you've added writing to your very varied career! F.O. AFTER HER SECOND READ: "I think it is truly an amazing book.

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Title: Dead Man's Hand

Subtitle: A Freddie O'Neal Mystery, Book 7

Author: Catherine Dain

Narrator: Andrea Bates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-11

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Dead bodies, suffering souls Freddie didnt mean to kill the mugger she barely had time to think. But when it was over, her boyfriend was in the hospital and the teenaged assailant was dead. Now, trying to cope with aggressive reporters, inquisitive cops, concerned relatives, and her own nagging conscience, Freddie finds one source of solace: the strength and comfort offered by Mike Danken, an ex-cop-turned-minister.

But when Danken suggests that Freddie can soothe her guilt feelings by using her P.I. skills to help out a member of the dead muggers family, she suddenly finds herself involved in a murder and wondering if its true that no good deed goes unpunished.

Members Reviews:

Freddie plays a dead man's hand

Freddie O'Neal, Catherine Dain's dauntless plane-flying, keno-playing Private Investigator, finds herself surrounded by survivalists, clergy, mothers, and the sights and sounds of Christmas in what is hopefully not the last of this wonderful series. When Freddie's boyfriend is accosted at a Reno shopping mall, Freddie, defending him, shoots and kills the assailant. With her boyfriend in the hospital, her mother and his converging on Reno for the holidays, and even her buddy Deke in a testy mood, Freddie is not in the mood for Christmas. This increases when a clergyman asks Freddie's assistance in unraveling a crime that involves -- you guessed it -- the teenager she shot at the mall. As are all of Dain's mysteries, Dead Man's Hand is smoothly written and addictively readable. I neglected every aspect of my life for the day it took to devour Dead Man's Hand. If there is any flaw with this book, it is that the mystery is transparent to alert readers, and that, if rumours are true, it may be Freddie's last transcribed case.

Freddie O'Neal mysteries

I have enjoyed every one of the Freddie O'Neal mysteries. The only problem seems to be that they are very difficult to find.

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Title: Port Mortuary

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Narrator: Kate Burton

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-10

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of virtual autopsy - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpettas home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler.

When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, Scarpetta realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out....

Members Reviews:

Not one of her best!

While I have read and enjoyed all of Patricia Cornwall's books through the years this was a disappointment as an audiobook. It may have been due to the style and tone of the narrator - it appeared to drag on.

An author running out of ideas

This book by Patricia Cornwell falls well short of her best writing. The plot is threadbare and there is so much padding that long before the midpoint I had lost interest. There is no further development of the characters which are central to the Kay Scarpetta books.

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Title: The Fifth Floor

Subtitle: Michael Kelly, Book 2

Author: Michael Harvey

Narrator: John Chancer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Michael Kelly, a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator, is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband. But what looked like a bread-and-butter domestic dispute turns out to be more than he bargained for. The tail leads him to an old house on Chicagos North Side. Here he finds a body and what looks like the answer to one of Chicagos most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and why.

As he explores further he is drawn into a web of corruption and intrigue that reaches right to the top. And soon Kelly finds himself in the last place he wants to be City Halls fifth floor, where the Mayor of Chicago is feeling the heat and looking to silence any investigations.

Members Reviews:

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!

Michael Harvey's Second PI Michael Kelly Chicago Murder Thriller

Michael Harvey's second fictional thriller, The Fifth Floor staring former cop turned Private Investigator Michael Kelly is set in Chicago in 2008.

Kelly's former girl friend Janet is married to her second husband, Johnny "the fixer" Woods--a wife beater--working at the City Hall/Cook County Building for "The Fifth Floor" office of Chicago Mayor John J. Wilson.

Janet hires Mike to investigate and document her husband abuse. It had reached a stage where Johnny's 14 year old step-daughter, wants Kelly to kill him.

Michael Kelly understands abuse having grown up with a cowardly drunken father who beat him and his older brother, Phillip daily until they grew up. Like Taylor, he would have like to see his father dead.

Observing Woods enter and quickly leave the Bellinger Cottage at 2121 North Hudson with his face white from fear, Kelly enters the building and discovers the dead body of amateur historian, 75-year-old Allen Bryant, great-great-grandson of the home's original occupant, police officer, Richard Bellinger, who saved the building from the Chicago Fire in October of 1871.

From that point on the story takes the reader on a roller coaster ride full of twists and turns through the origins of "a gang of thieves, also known as Chicago's founding fathers," dirty tricks, patronage politics, graft and murder.

The author spends a great deal of time presenting a variety of alternative theories to O'Leary's cow as the cause of the Great Chicago fire. One theory presented on April 1, 1978 by Sun-Times reporter, Rawling "Smitty" Smith as an April Fools article landed him in jail after police stopped him claiming he was drunk while planting drugs and a gun in his car and forcing him to make a deal with then prosecutor, now District Attorney Gerald O'Leary in exchange for not charging him with armed robbery and rape based on the photo lineup testimony of a hooker. The deal was that "Smitty" resign and leave town.

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Title: Hard Evidence

Author: Mark Pearson

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Jackie Malone has been murdered. Her body lies in a pool of blood in the north London flat where she worked as a prostitute. Deep knife wounds have been gouged into her corpse and her hands and feet are tied with coat hanger wire.

For Detective Inspector Jack Delaney this is no ordinary case. He was a friend of Jackies, and she left desperate messages on his answer phone just hours before she was killed. Despite no immediate leads and no obvious suspects, the fear in her voice tells him that this was not a random act of violence.

Just as Delaney begins his investigation, a young girl is reported missing, feared abducted, and he is immediately tasked with finding her....

Members Reviews:

Great thriller

I've been needing to read a good thriller and this hit the spot. I flew through it because the story hooked me right away and kept me going until the end. Now I need to get the next book.

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Title: The Cutting Room

Subtitle: A Novel of Suspense

Author: Laurence Klavan

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Roy Milano is no Sam Spade. But when this divorced movie geek stumbles onto the trail of Orson Welles' long-lost masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons, he can't help but take the case. The usual suspects prove to be anything but - a bodybuilding film fanatic obsessed with bizarre rumors about an A-list actress; a rotund reporter who holds Hollywood in thrall via Internet dispatches from his parents' basement; and a starstruck street punk with a thousand voices. And then there's the transatlantic love triangle that finds Roy caught between his very own Gal Friday and a sultry Spanish siren with a stunning secret. But when the bodies start falling, Roy must cut to the chase in his quest to save the Holy Grail of cinema before everything fades to black.

Members Reviews:

Narrator - yes, plot - not so much

I liked the protagonist well enough, but the story was a bit all-over-the-place for me; I had to suspend disbelief to get through some of Roy's less-credible escapades. I'm considering listening to the sequel for the narrator; I doubt I would've finished this one in print.