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Title: SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead

Author: John Maddox Roberts

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 124 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Decius Caecilius Metellus, this year's magistrate for cases involving foreigners, is living the good life in southern Italy, happy to be away from Rome, a city suffering war jitters over Caesar's impending actions. He thinks he is merely visiting one of the local sights when he takes a party to visit the Oracle of the Dead, a pre-Roman cult site located at the end of a tunnel dug beneath a temple of Apollo. He quickly learns that there is a bitter rivalry between the priests of Apollo and those of Hecate, who guard the oracle.

When the priests of Apollo are all killed, the countryside looks to explode in violence as Greeks, Romans, and native Italians of several conquered nations bring out old enmities. Decius is caught squarely in the middle, desperate to find a way out that will pacify the district and, incidentally, save his own skin.

Members Reviews:

Great listen

Full of twists and turns. Ending not obvious. As always wonderfully evocative of Ancient Rome.

fantastic

another really enjoyable tale. not as much fighting action in this one but still engaging and a captivating read. solid ending as always!

More Confusing Than the Rest

This book was more convoluted and complicated than the rest in the series. Still good info on Rome and its surrounding provinces. But the legal mystery was a bit confusing to follow. The narration was superb as usual.

This is one of my favorites of the series

This is an awesome book set in campania. I love the characters and the humor. The narration is superb

"Laugh at me would they? We'll see about that."

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

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys unusual murder mysteries, historical fiction and/or has any interest in the lives and society of Ancient Rome. It is full of interesting little tidbits about beliefs and customs at the end of the Republic and the characterisations, especially that of Decius himself, are excellent.

Which character as performed by John Lee was your favourite?

John Lee is the voice of Decius Caecillius Metellus, the somewhat self indulgent, superior but humerous Praetor still travelling in southern Italy who is the teller of this story. And Lee fulfills this role to perfection.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

The intriguing deaths of the priests of Apollo - not only who did it but also how was it done? - combined with the fascinating insights into the Roman provincial lifestyles had me hanging on every word, resentful when I had to turn off my listening device.

Any additional comments?

This series is almost at an end and I have enjoyed it immensely. John Lee has, for me, become Metellus the younger, married to a niece of Julius Caesar, as he rises through the ranks of Roman society at the end of the Republican era, solving mysteries along the way. I will miss my adventures with him and the dazzling mental pictures of Ancient Rome and it's life, good and bad, which were so vividly conjured up by John Maddox Roberts. I wish that the eBooks were also available with Amazon.co.uk

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Title: Dead Line

Author: Jack Patterson

Narrator: Bill Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-13

Publisher: Green E-Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 44 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When veteran NFL quarterback Noah Larson finally guides his team to the Super Bowl, his dreams - and life - are dashed when his six-year-old son is kidnapped for a unique ransom: Lose the game or his son dies. Seattle sportswriter Cal Murphy and photographer Kelly Mendoza get pulled into an FBI sting to help rescue Noah's son in Mexico. But when everything falls apart, Cal and Kelly are left to save themselves, save Noah's son, and save the Super Bowl.

Critic Reviews:

"You can tell Jack knows what it's like to live in the newspaper world... and he's proven that he also can write one heck of a murder mystery. With a clever plot and characters you badly want to succeed, he is on his way to becoming a new era James Patterson." (Josh Katzowitz, NFL writer for

CBSSports.com and author of

Sid Gillman: Father of the Passing Game)

"Jack's storytelling feels as natural as James Patterson's, and the short-chapter setup is the literary answer to Lay's potato chips: you just want one more and before you know it, you've gone through the whole thing." (David Bashore,

The Times-News, Twin Falls, ID)

Members Reviews:

Intriguing story, Journalistic Narrator

Cross the Line was a pleasant listen, but not an exciting one. It was not a bad story, but I simply felt unexcited, which should not be the case for a thriller-type story.

Jack Patterson wrote this story well. It was clear he had done the research and had put a lot of thought into it. I thought the story flowed perfectly. The story let me down because of the dialogue between characters. It simply was unrealistic. A few of the characters often went off on tangents when talking to someone about things they had discovered along the way. These tangents, which clearly were dialogue and not narration, were too-journalistic. I know a few journalists, and even when I get them started on a topic they're writing about, they still don't *talk* like they write. These characters spoke more like they were reading an article, rather than sitting at a table drinking coffee. It just felt unnatural. There were also a few times the characters used rare synonym's to describe things when talking to someone (again not during narration), even during the intense scenes. Most people I know under would go for the easiest word to describe something when under pressure, not the unusual synonym. (i.e., blue vs. azure)

Perhaps all these faults would not have been so disappointing (or rather, distracting?) to me had I read the book vs listened. The narrator was not horrible, he had a pleasant voice. However, the book was simply read to me, not narrated. He lacked the vocal talents needed to pull off not only a book, but especially a thriller. There were no differences between male and female voices, and often I could not tell which character was talking because there was no difference in dialect. The non-American bad characters in this book had normal American voices (even in their home country), and were not frightening or manipulative at all. Another fault, there were two very intense parts of the book that simply require some voice excitement, and there was absolutely none.

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Title: Cat Deck the Halls

Subtitle: A Joe Grey Mystery, Book 13

Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Christmas in the charming seaside village of Molena Point, California, has always been a traditional affair - but not this holiday season. Instead of singing carols and climbing into Christmas trees, Joe Grey, feline P.I., is faced with his most difficult case yet - and that's saying a lot for a wily tomcat who for years has been solving crimes the police can't even crack. A stranger lies dead beneath the village Christmas tree, with a little child the only witness to the shooting. As the police scramble for leads, the grey tomcat, his tabby lady, Dulcie, and their tortoiseshell pal, Kit, launch their own unique investigation. As they care for the child who may be the shooter's next target, the cats realize they're facing their most heartbreaking case yetand that they must catch a cunning killer if they have any hope of saving Christmas.

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Title: Death in Kenya

Author: M. M. Kaye

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 44 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Written by one of the most gifted storytellers of our time, Death in Kenya is a wonderfully evocative mystery, reminiscent of the best classic novels of Agatha Christie.

When Victoria Caryll is offered a position at Flamingo, her aunt's family estate in Kenya's Rift Valley, she accepts - knowing full well that the move will give her a chance to see Eden DeBrett once again, the man she was previously engaged to. But she doesn't realize that coming to her aunt's home will introduce her to an unstable region still recovering from the bloody Mau Mau revolt, and to a household thrown into grief by a recent murder.

Distinguished by its mystery, romance, and exotic setting, Death in Kenya is as graceful as it is chilling - it is the beloved novel of one of our finest and most accomplished writers.

Members Reviews:

Brilliantly written suspense novel !

M.M. Kaye (who is also author of "The Far Pavillions, among many other other books) has written a tightly-woven tale of murder and suspicion. It takes place in Kenya, just after the Mau Mau rebellion, and tells the story of British colonials who struggle to hold their land and live their lives in the style they prefer, even while surrounded by servants whose loyalty they no longer fully trust.

Into this situation steps Victoria, a cousin and former fiancée of Eden DeBrett, grandson of Lady Emily DeBrett. Lady "Em" is obsessed by her wish to found a dynasty on her land (which she calls "Flamingo."). Victoria arrives from London just after a brutal murder occurs, but this had been only the culmination of some period of time during which eerie events had taken place, even leading the frightened family and servants to believe there existed a poltergeist in Flamingo.

The story unfolds with the introduction of the close friends of Lady Emily, who all become suspects for the murder (as are the servants, based on there having been the recent rebellion.) This book has been compared to the work of Agatha Christie, but at times I had fleeting senses of Henry James ("Turn of the Screw") and Joseph Conrad ("Heart of Darkness"). The mystery is excellent, but the building of strain through atmosphere and suspicions (those of the characters and also the reader) brings a haunting tension to the entire work.

I found this book to be gripping, and was only sorry that it ended. The narrator did a good job with the reading. Highly recommend!

Great Mystery!

Great mystery by M M Kaye, and great reader in Robin Miles. And, I didn't guess the murderer.

Good mystery but dated language.

I like most of MM Kaye's books and this one has a good mystery with lots of suspects and red herrings. For me, the book was marred by racial and ethnic slurs and negative stereotypes of Africans. I know the book dates from the mid-1950s but this language is jarring -- so be prepared. The narrator was very good.

Best of the audio "Death In ..." mysteries

MM Kaye's short mysteries are among my favorite books of all time. Sadly, the audio adaptations are virtually terrible. This one, though, is not. It's not great but neither is it awful. In relation to the others, it's 10 out of 10.

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Title: The Dance of the Seagull

Author: Andrea Camilleri

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 62 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

This latest installment in the Inspector Montalbano series finds Montalbano in search of his missing right-hand man.

Before leaving for vacation with Livia, Montalbano witnesses a seagull doing an odd dance on the beach outside his home - and then the bird suddenly drops dead. Stopping in at his office for a quick check before heading off, he notices that Fazio is nowhere to be found and soon learns that he was last seen on the docks, secretly working on a case. Montalbano sets out to find him and discovers that the seagulls dance of death may provide the key to understanding a macabre world of sadism, extortion, and murder.

Members Reviews:

This is a pretty good read

The Dance of the Seagull is one of my favorites of the Montalbano movies. Mainly because of the Fazio abduction part of the plot and the wonderful scene where Salvo saves Fazio (oh dear. Is this a spoiler?). In the movie you know that they can't get rid of Fazio, so you just know he'll survive, but it is still tense and such a great release when they do rescue him. It is a fabulous scene and incidentally, shot in an incredibly beautiful location. The movie is one of the best of the series. At any rate, I tell you this because I come pre-disposed to liking this book. Granted, I have written a few harsh reviews lately because of how the Montalbano character is becoming less interesting and attractive to me. In the case of this book, although he's still pretty much a jerk, he is thankfully not whining too much about getting old. There's still some of that going on, and my tolerance for it hasn't changed, but it seems fairly under control. The goofy "Montalbano One" and "Two" have only minor appearances thank goodness. The plot is a good one (there's much more going on than the abduction) and it is complicated enough that my attention doesn't wander. There's one sort of odd bit near the end where Camilleri writes himself in (we've already learned that Montalbano the character in the book has become famous, and there's a fictionalized TV show about him (he's played by a bald actor - hahah)... so we get a fiction within a fiction), and so it all gets a little bizarre.

I keep wondering (have I written this before?) if Salvo is Camilleri's Mary Sue. Those of you who follow fan fiction will know what I mean. I suspect as the books have progressed that this is the case. Maybe it always has been. I saw an interview with Camilleri and found him rather annoying -- just like Montalbano.

What else? Well, Mimi gets to be a little clever despite constant belittling and haranguing by Salvo (poor Mimi does not fare as well in the books as he does in the movies). Livia doesn't really make any appearance whatsoever (which is okay by me as I think Camilleri has no idea what to do with her -- or possibly any female characters). Fazio spends most of his time in the hospital. So this book is pretty much all Salvo, all the time -- but a Salvo that isn't too pathetic and is in fact quite brilliant. And like I said, it could be worse. I give it four stars because I didn't hate it and enjoyed reading it.

Always on Target

Camilleri's Montalbano is not a super hero; he is a very flawed human being. He suffers the same weaknesses the rest of humanity suffers.

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Title: A Deadly Mission

Subtitle: An Olympia Brown Mystery, Book 1

Author: Judith Campbell

Narrator: Lois Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-13

Publisher: Judith C Campbell

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Professor and college chaplain Olympia Brown learns that one of her students is being recruited by a shadowy religious cult. She and colleague Father Jim Sawicki join forces to infiltrate the group and rescue the girl before she becomes another victim of their deadly mission.

Assisted by Olympia's resident house-ghost, the spectral Miss Winslow, the two unorthodox clerics encounter a menacing tangle of religious hypocrisy woven against the dark side of human nature as they race against the clock to expose the cult's bloody underbelly and stop them before they kill again.

Members Reviews:

Couldn't put it down!

I heard about this series from the UUA World weekly e-newsletter I receive. The $.99 for the Kindle Edition turned out to be money very well spent.

The heroine of this series, Olympia Brown, is a college professor and a Unitarian Universalist minister. A Deadly Mission begins with Olympia hearing about the death of a of a student at her college. The girl had been involved with a group called the Boston Fellowship. Olympia had noticed the girl's behavior change, and her weight loss, and felt guilty that she hadn't tried to do more to reach out to her.

The start of the book is a little slow. The author spends some time establishing the world her characters live in, a small academic community in New England. We find out about her family and friends, etc. There's a long break between finding out about the girl's death and finding out any information about the Fellowship.

The book picked up the pace with the introduction of a new student at Olympia's college, Bethany Ruth. Bethany is a sweet girl from Oklahoma who comes from a very conservative Christian family. Olympia befriends the homesick girl and is alarmed for her when she finds out the bible study group she had encouraged her to attend led her to meeting members of the Boston Fellowship.

The story gets much more focused at this point, everything moves around how to save Bethany. Olympia's son tries to find out more and Olympia is threatened when the Fellowship finds out who he is. Olympia's priestly friend Father Jim discovers more deaths of college students in the area. These deaths all seemed like accidents at first, until further research reveals they all at the same cause of death, and were all members of the Fellowship who were trying to leave.

After having picked up and put down my Kindle several times over the past couple weeks, I got hooked in and stayed up til midnight last night to finish the story. The story is tragic in parts, exciting in others, and all too realistic. The hero characters (Olympia and her friends) have depth and history that drive them to help others, but they do this without immense wealth, magic or super powers. They are just intelligent people who care about others and have the courage to take action.

Appealing Protagonist

Olympia Brown is an earthy, realistic, refreshingly unglamorous college professor and chaplain who is a delight to get to know. When one of her students dies in what is deemed an accident, Olympia is suspicious because the student belonged to a mysterious religious group. When other students who belong to the group also die accidentally, Olympia and her priest friend Jim begin to investigate.

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Title: Murder Takes a Break

Subtitle: Truman Smith Mystery Series, Book 5

Author: Bill Crider

Narrator: Michael Ray Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-13

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Truman Private Eye Series: Truman Smith operates on Galveston Island, not far from Houston. The first book in the series, Dead on the Island, was nominated for a Shamus Award by the Private-Eye Writers of America.

In Murder Takes a Break, Galveston, Texas principal investigator Truman Smith loathes missing person cases because they either end up badly for his clients, or the person does not want to be found. So only as a personal favor to his friend Dino would Tru accept the case of missing college student, Randall Kirbo, who disappeared in the area while on Spring break nine months ago.

After sifting the facts from the very minimal police investigation on the case, Tru tracks Randall to a house owend by a local vice queen, Big Al. Another kid who attended the same party was later found dead on the beach As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that this is anything but a typical missing person's case, and the party - and it's attendants - hold the clues to a killer, and his case.

Members Reviews:

The series is great

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

Already have recommend to friends.

What did you like best about this story?

Attention to surroundings detail. You can almost smell the salt air and hear the waves.

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

Didn't know the answer of who did it until almost the end.

Any additional comments?

I have read the entire series and would enjoy the rest on audio if they were available.

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Title: Web of Deceit

Subtitle: Detective Ella Marconi, Book 6

Author: Katherine Howell

Narrator: Caroline Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When paramedics Jane and Alex encounter a man refusing to get out of his crashed car with bystanders saying he deliberately drove into a pole, it looks like a cry for help. His claim that someone is out to get him adds to their thinking that he is delusional. Later that day he is found dead under a train in what might be a suicide, but Jane is no longer so sure: She remembers the terror in his eyes.

Detective Ella Marconi shares Jane's doubts, which are only compounded when the case becomes increasingly tangled. The victim's boss tries to commit suicide when being questioned, a witness flees their attempt to interview her, and a woman is beaten unconscious in front of Jane's house. Ella is at a loss to know how all these clues add up and then a shocking turn of events puts even more people in danger....

Members Reviews:

Best Series on Audible

This volume, probably the best in a stellar series that just keeps getting better with each installment, made me realize just how great the authors achievement is, and how much I am going to miss the series when I finally reach the end of it. With only a few volumes left, apparently, that day is coming soon. What will I do when that day finally comes? Theres NO other mystery/detective series Ive found with the quality of the writing consistently this high, the pacing perfect, with each volume able to stand alone as its own self-contained novel, characters so well-drawn that you miss them when theyre gone, and action so intense that you can absolutely COUNT on being sucked into the story in the VERY FIRST CHAPTER. Another unique feature of the series is the way it effortlessly blends medical mystery and police procedural by allowing paramedics to be central characters in each novel, and bringing in detective Ella Marconi, her partner Murray Shakespeare, and other investigators only AFTER the central mystery has been established. And I love how theres almost always a sub-theme, or more than one, woven throughout the background of the various entwined mysteries. In this volume, the theme of troubled romance was highly entertaining, and the theme of BAD BOSSES was riveting. Anyone whos ever had a bad supervisor or manager will instantly relate to Ellas mounting fury and frustration as new director Langley repeatedly and almost willfully thwarts her investigative instincts and forces her to go outside the bounds of the law and established procedure to track down the real killer. Add to all this a performance by the great Caroline Lee and you have entertainment which, as my husband noted, is interesting even to people like him who havent been following the story closely but happen to overhear only random, isolated passages here and there. The only flaw in an otherwise perfect book is the way the ending requires one or too too-tidy coincidences, but that is true of most mysteries, in my experience. Grade: A

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Title: Cat Raise the Dead

Subtitle: A Joe Grey Mystery, Book 3

Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 66 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Joe Grey can't believe his human housemate, Clyde, would even consider volunteering him for the Animal Therapy program at the local nursing home - just when Joe was on the verge of solving the string of burglaries that has Molena Point residents shaking in their collective boots. But it turns out it's Dulcie, Joe's pretty little cat-friend, who came up with the idea of subjecting Joe to the cooing attentions of a bunch of doddering old coots. Dulcie believes there's more going on at the old folks' home than the care and feeding of lonely seniors. And she needs Joe's help in getting to the bottom of a conspiracyand a very suspicious set of deaths.

Members Reviews:

Talking, sentient cats begin new investigation

In Shirley Rousseau Murphys third Joe Grey and Dulcie book, we find our human friends Wilma still happy at the library, Clyde fixing cars. Wilmas niece Charlie has been evicted and is overflowing with work for her fix it/clean it business with not enough employees to do the jobs, making her day longer and longer.

They are also watching their felines -- Joe Grey, owned by bachelor Clyde Damon, and Dulcie, owned by Wilma Getz -- beginning to follow a new investigation. The new skills of speech and sentience they acquired not even a year before enable them to participate in various crime investigations without revealing themselves. We are privy to their private conversations regarding a plain, old woman who is successfully cat-burgling a variety of homes. We hear the burglars thoughts that she doesnt need the items she steals nor the money she gets fencing the items; she does it all for the thrill. Shes already burgled towns south, so who is she?

Joe is tracking the cat burglar when Clyde brings up his participation in the Pet-a-Pet program at the local senior home. Two afternoons a week a dozen or so pets gather with their owners and provide some pet therapy for residents of Casa Capri. Clyde finds out that it is Dulcie and Wilma who already participate that push Joe to join them. At the first visit a very young teenager named Dillon brings up her attempts to visit her friend Jane who was a resident in the home but then apparently had a stroke which necessitated her move to the medical wing where no visitors are allowed. However, with no family, Dillon says she should be allowed to visit or at least to have a letter delivered. The answer was always no.

Then one day an obscure cousin of Janes wants to visit. The nurses bring belongings and quilts and things youd find in a typical room into the room Jane used to live in but which has remained empty since her stroke. Best foot forward in the appearances to the families. During this visit, Dillon is at Casa Capri and sees a laptop writing desk put into Janes closet. Dillon recognizes that and sneaks into the room when they remove the patient (is it even Jane?) to take back to the medical wing. Inside the desk Dillon finds a doll which Jane had made. She takes the doll to another resident who is asking about Jane. They could feel a lump under the dolls dress which is a ragged line of stitching, not Janes beautiful work. Inside the doll under those sloppy stitches is a note from Jane to her friend confirming their fears; Jane had been moved against her will and essentially held prisoner in the medical wing.

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Title: Blood Money

Author: James Grippando

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-13

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 84 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

What's it like to be Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck? Simply imagine that your father is Florida's governor, your best friend was once on death row, and your love life could fill an entire chapter in Cupid's Rules of Love and War (Idiot's Edition). Throw in an indictment for murder and a litany of lesser charges that could easily get a lawyer disbarred, and believe it or not, you're only scratching the surface.

Members Reviews:

I don't know....

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes because I love James Grippando & the Swytech series...

What was most disappointing about James Grippandos story?

the story was a little over the top...at some points it felt left a bad soap opera.

It started out really well but then it took a weird turn: I did a lot of eye-rolling

Have you listened to any of Jonathan Daviss other performances before? How does this one compare?

I love Jonathan Davis as a narrator; he did a great job on this one as he does on everything else I've heard him read

Any additional comments?

James Grippando is my favourite author; I look forward to every book he writes (the way between books is just too long) but this is not his best. But still I'm looking forward to the next installment of the Swytech series

Disappointing

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No. Did not hold my attention.

What was most disappointing about James Grippandos story?

I bought this recording without knowing any details about story. That is because I have read all of the other Swyteck books & they are great! I was initially disappointed when I realized this was going to be a rehash of the Casey Anthony case but I put that aside, confident that Grippando would add a twist that would make it worth it. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Frankly, I was bored. The story moved excruciatingly slowly, was slightly illogical and I found that at certain points in the story I forgot who the different players were - this is VERY unusual for a Grippando book.

Any additional comments?

I am still a huge Swyteck fan but I can not recommend this one.

Starts a little slowly...

...but gets interesting quickly. Jack Zwytek can find more trouble than most other characters combined, and has enough foibles to make him interesting and human. I'll be looking for the next book to come along to see what else can happen. Worth the credit.