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Title: This Is How It Ends

Author: Eva Dolan

Narrator: Jilly Bond, Billie Fulford-Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-18

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Three hundred gone. Just six left.

The building was once home to families, friends, children, couples, love, life. Now almost every flat is empty, the inhabitants forced out by the developers tearing down the old social housing to build luxury flats.

Only a few of the inhabitants have fought back against the attempts to evict them from their homes and their histories. And they have been joined by passionate student protestor and would-be journalist Ella, who is leading a high-profile media campaign to protect those who refuse to leave.

But Ella is in trouble. Because now there are more than six people in the building, but one of them is lying in a lift shaft with a broken neck....

Critic Reviews:

"Elegantly crafted, humane and thought provoking. She's top drawer." (Ian Rankin)

Members Reviews:

This wasn't for me. . .

EXCERPT: 'I'm going to expose you,' he snarled.

The laughter caught in her throat. It was as if he was there in front of her, face contorted with rage, body blown up and pumped for the fight.

'I know what you did, Ella.'

A man ran up the stairs, clipping her shoulder as he passed, but she hardly noticed.

'And I know how you did it,' Quinn said.

THE BLURB: Ella Riordan is a community activist who became famous when she was beaten by police during a social protest. Now Ella is a squatter in a building where the owners are evicting tenants so they can convert it into luxury condos, and sheâs determined to stay and defend the few holdout tenants, despite death threats.

One night after a rooftop party with her fellow holdouts, Ella finds a horrible scene awaiting her in her apartment. In a panic, she calls her neighbor Molly, who convinces her that the police wonât believe sheâs innocent. Together the two women concoct a gruesome plan to hide the body down the buildingâs elevator shaft.

But the secret wonât stay buried for long. As truth hangs in the balance, a neighbor tells Molly he had heard Ella arguing with a man in the hallway and mistrust grows between Ella and Molly, as repercussions of that night threaten to change both womenâs lives forever.

MY THOUGHTS: I really did not connect with this book. I read it. I finished it. It was okay.

The book is told from two points of view, Ella's and Molly's, over two timelines, then and now. In some cases this works; in this case it doesn't. There should, ideally, be a 'trigger' for the change in timelines for it to flow smoothly. In This is How it Ends, this never happened. The changes appear to have been totally random, with nothing connecting the switch. I spent a great deal of time feeling confused and going back to the previous chapter to try and figure out what precipitated the change. Usually, the answer was nothing.

This is How it Ends failed to keep me interested. I would read a chapter or two, then wander off to look for something else to do.

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Title: The Guilty Wife

Author: Elle Croft

Narrator: Victoria Fox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-17

Publisher: Orion

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Wife. Mistress. Murderer.

If you were being framed for murder, how far would you go to clear your name?

The debut psychological thriller for fans of Apple Tree Yard, Behind Closed Doors and Double Jeopardy.

I'm not guilty of murder.

Bethany Reston is happily married. But she's also having an affair with a famous client. And no one can ever know.

But that doesn't make me innocent.

When Bethany's lover is brutally murdered, she has to hide her grief from everyone. But someone knows her secret. And then one day the threats begin. With an ever-growing pile of evidence pointing to her as the murderer, the only way she can protect her secrets is to prove her innocence. And that means tracking down a killer.

An incredibly taut, tense game of cat and mouse - with a twist you'll never see coming.

Members Reviews:

Great suspense, hooked from the start

Loved the plot and the characters. Narrator was a little fast for my liking but I got used to it.

loved it

took me 3 days! I just wanted to find out more! full of twists to keep you listening!

A Sparkling Little Jewel of a Thriller

The Guilty Wife is a short but very well-formed psychological thriller that crackles along at a quite electric space. An illicit affair turns into a nightmare scenario for a young professional photographer and her situation unravels at a bewildering pace. Its full of twists and turns without ever really getting too complicated. It never worries too much about detail or any great levels of character development. Its a book that I wanted to keep reading and enjoyed very much with a very good narrator to boot.

Its just about perfect if you want a quick-fire piece of escapism and are happy to overlook a few plot holes that do appear, especially in the last part of the book. Possibly not so good if youre looking for something a little more deeper and well-developed. Just have fun with it.

Gripping story, disappointing ending

Great story, really gripping and I wanted to know what happened.

The ending was a bit lacking.

Predictable and annoying

I loved the idea of this book. From the description I thought it sounded fab, however half way through I realised that fab it was not. Contrived, overthought and frankly a bit silly. The lead character was distinctly unlikeable and in my opinion got all that she deserved and the twist at the end I saw coming a mile off. Not a terrible book, bit unfortunately not great either. To summarise..All a bit meh.

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Title: I'm Watching You

Subtitle: The Chicago Series, Book 2

Author: Karen Rose

Narrator: Dani Cervone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-17

Publisher: Headline

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When admiration becomes obsession, will it turn to murder?

I'm Watching You is a brilliant thriller from best-selling Karen Rose and part of her Chicago series.

Kristen Mayhew, the Chicago Public Defender's office star prosecutor, is no stranger to success. With success comes danger, though, and it's only a matter of time before she herself becomes a victim.

A secret admirer is following Kristen's every move. He kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop, then sends her letters offering the murders as tokens of his respect. Kristen's life is out of control, and, as the body count rises, the killer's obsessive need for retribution will make Kristen a target, along with everyone she holds dear....

Members Reviews:

Reasonable story, bad romance

I quite enjoyed the crime story which held my attention most of the time. I found the love interest really tiresome. The female defence attorney came across as feeble and the big strong policeman as too masterful! I found the love scenes a bit soppy and yucky. He kept on pulling her onto his lap like a father with his child. She was small and vulnerable and he was big and powerful - awful stereotyping and not very fair to women in responsible professions. It was, however, very well read.

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Title: The Perfect Murder

Author: Peter James

Narrator: Paul Panting

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The Perfect Murder is a suspenseful and gripping audiobook from Peter James, the best-selling author of the phenomenally successful Roy Grace series.

Victor Smiley and his wife, Joan, have been married for nearly 20 years. Victor secretly loathes Joan more and more each day. Joan is bored by Victor, and his snoring drives her mad. Their marriage has reached a crisis point....

Victor decides there is only one way to get Joan out of his life forever, but he's about to get a nasty surprise. As it turns out, Victor's not the only one with murder in mind....

Members Reviews:

Novelty Value is Not Enough

I'm a big fan of Peter James otherwise I wouldn't have bothered with this very short book in the first place. It's a decent short story even if the final twist is something I think a lot of listeners will see coming from a mile off. Peter Panting breathes life into it and does a fair enough job of the narration so James completists will of course want to get this.

For me though next month I will be getting 45 hours of Brandon Sanderson epic fantasy for the same single credit and I can also get any of the full length novels by Peter James including the excellent Roy Grace series. It's a problem with the credit-based system of course but to me if you're going to release something this short it really should be something that's genuinely a bit special or also available for a much cheaper cash price than the fiver it's currently available for.

So, this has novelty value but not enough for me personally.

Not worth it

honestly not worth the credit. I usually love his books. poor story. really disappointed with this one

Disappointing

Unfortunately, not the standard I was expecting from one of my favourite writers I'm afraid.

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Titre: Entre deux mondes

Auteur: Olivier Norek

Narrateur: François Montagut

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 10-05-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Ce polar est monstrueusement humain, "forcément" humain : il n'y a pas les bons d'un côté et les méchants de l'autre, il y a juste des peurs réciproques qui ne demandent qu'à être apaisées.

Fuyant un régime sanguinaire et un pays en guerre, Adam a envoyé sa femme Nora et sa fille Maya à six mille kilomètres de là, dans un endroit où elles devraient l'attendre en sécurité. Il les rejoindra bientôt, et ils organiseront leur avenir.

Mais arrivé là-bas, il ne les trouve pas. Ce qu'il découvre, en revanche, c'est un monde entre deux mondes pour damnés de la Terre entre deux vies. Dans cet univers sans loi, aucune police n'ose mettre les pieds.

Un assassin va profiter de cette situation. Dès le premier crime, Adam décide d'intervenir. Pourquoi ? Tout simplement parce qu'il est flic, et que face à l'espoir qui s'amenuise de revoir un jour Nora et Maya, cette enquête est le seul moyen pour lui de ne pas devenir fou.

Bastien est un policier français. Il connaît cette zone de non-droit et les terreurs qu'elle engendre. Mais lorsque Adam, ce flic étranger, lui demande son aide, le temps est venu pour lui d'ouvrir les yeux sur la réalité et de faire un choix, quitte à se mettre en danger.

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©2017 Michel Lafon (P)2017 Audible Studios

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Title: The Least of My Scars

Author: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrator: Alan Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-02-17

Publisher: Journalstone Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

You haven't heard of William Colton Hughes. Or, if you have, then you're not telling anybody. Not telling them anything, ever. He's not the serial killer on the news, in the textbooks. He's the one out there still punching his card, and a few other people's too. He is a nightmare come to life, waiting in his apartment for you to knock on his door.

William Colton Hughes is living his fantasy: his victims are delivered to his apartment every few days. But when he's suddenly alone, no visitors, nobody to talk to but himself, he begins to lose what little of his mind he has left. Has his benefactor, his employer, been his prison warden all along? His apartment complex a hospital? Is he going to have to go back to heaving dark plastic bags into dumpsters when nobody's looking?

Or will Dashboard Mary, a mysterious woman hell-bent on revenge, get to him first?

This is William Colton Hughes. Come and knock on his door.

Members Reviews:

Confusing & Intriguing

I was lost most of the time. Almost all of it is just an off kilter stream of consciousness of paranoid, sick, middle-age killer, Billy (William Colton Hughes). I thought I caught up in the last 1.5 hrs of the book, but then I got lost again. One moment to the next I wasn't sure who was real or in Billy's head and who was dead or alive. I'm still left scratching my head. I continued to listen because the narrator was so good, and I kept thinking I would catch up. In spite of everything, I was still curious and intrigued. And it's so rambling, as a stream of consciousness, I couldn't skip to the end and hope to understand anything. Other than the narrator and the effective strangeness of this book, it also was humorous in a sick way, at times, like the nicknames he called some of his victims and enemies.

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Title: Hard Targets

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Paul Thornley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-17

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Dan Shepherd stared at the canvas ceiling above his bed as the dawn light slowly strengthened. His tent was pitched on the edge of the airfield outside Sarajevo in Bosnia.

1995, and Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is on active service as a paratrooper in war-torn Sarajevo. Frustrated by the army, when he is tasked with accompanying an SAS patrol in the area, he realises that the SAS is where he belongs.

Members Reviews:

Another short story by Stephen Leather

Hard Targets was just released this week, but it is set in 1995 early in Dan 'Spider' Shepherd's military career before he joined the British Special Air Services group. It is set in Bosnia where the British troops are attempting to protect the Muslim Bosnian people from Serbs in a (mostly) civil war. The ending of the story is especially clever.

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Title: Off Reservation

Author: Bram Connolly

Narrator: Nick Farnell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Australian Special Forces commander Matt Rix is back in another action-packed adventure.

Disgraced and discarded, Matt Rix is no stranger to having the deck stacked against him - and just when it seemed things couldn't get any worse, he is given an ultimatum that brings the heavens crashing down around him.

What follows is the frantic pursuit of Faisal Khan, the recently escaped, ingenious Taliban commander who has taken receipt of a deadly weapon of mass destruction.

Chasing Khan across Turkey would be the easy part. Stopping the weapon from falling into the hands of any number of organisations hell-bent on securing it for their own devious plans - that's going to be the hard part.

Members Reviews:

Disappointing.

A disappointing sequel to the The Fighting Season by the same author. The Fighting Season was a vivid account of war in Afganistan with well drawn characters and a fast-moving but plausible plot. Off Reservation is like a copy of the American Mitch Rapp novels with an adventure comic plot and little besides lots of violent action.

Great Listen

Thoroughly enjoyed the second Rix instalment. Well written with a interesting plot, a few twists and turns thrown in for good measure.

I love how the Aussie sense of humour comes through the written and is not lost in narration (pun intended)

Great job by Bram and great job by Nick Farnell as narrator

A good yarn

Enjoyed this read immensely, just a good old fashioned yarn set in the modern world

Top Aussie Mil Drama

Loved every second of it.. looking forward to the next book.

Would love to see it more focused on the Australian Army, more so than the spooks.

No reservations about reviewing this book ...

The voice of the reader was pleasant to the ear and had great range of credible English and Australian accents that added to the enjoyment of the story.

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Title: One Little Mistake

Author: Emma Curtis

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-17

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

You trusted your best friend.... You shouldn't have.

Vicky Seagrave is blessed: three beautiful children, a successful, doting husband, great friends and a job she loves. She should be perfectly happy.

When she makes a split-second decision that risks everything she holds dear, there's only person she trusts enough to turn to.

But Vicky is about to learn that one mistake is all it takes - that if you're careless with those you love, you don't deserve to keep them....

Critic Reviews:

"A compelling page-turner which kept me reading well into the night. This book will make any woman look at her best friend with more than a touch of suspicion...." (Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife)

"A brilliant, gripping read. I couldn't put it down." (Claire Douglas, author of The Sisters and Local Girl Missing)

"A page-turner that explores how friendship, mothering, marriage, and events in the past can collide in unexpected and tumultuous ways." (Beth Miller, author of The Good Neighbour and When We Were Sisters)

"A tense and utterly engrossing story." (Tammy Cohen, author of When She Was Bad and The Broken)

"Intriguing and meticulously crafted...the gradual unfolding of consequences is beautifully done.... An accomplished novel by an imaginative story-teller." (G. J. Minnett, author of The Hidden Legacy)

Members Reviews:

Made one little mistake? Return to Audible!

The reviews for this title were very good, so it was an easy decision to make to buy it. Unfortunately I have no idea why the reviews were so good. I've given it three and a half hours, and am returning it.

I find that I don't really care what a few middle class Londoners think about getting on the property ladder. I find the narrator's voice jarring, especially her rendition of Amber. In fact I'm so bored by the whole thing that I can't even be bothered to write any more of ...

Brilliant story, well written

I loved this book and could not stop listening to it. I will definitely look out for more books by Emma Curtis.

brilliant from start to furnish

narrated beautifully kept you very interested right from beginning to the very end excellent read

addictive and very gripping

Thoroughly enjoyed this book nd was unable to.stop listening or thinking about it.

hoping there is a follow on as left with a few questions.

Good start but degenerated rapidly

I thought this book went off to a good start but without wanting to give the plot away, halfway through started to degenerate into chick flick implausible rubbish. I gamely stayed with it but having foreseen the predictable ending, found this hard work.

I don't understand why authors have to introduce a "dark past", usually run parallel to the main "good" storyline, where both come crashing together in the end with the usual fallout but good versus evil winning out as always. I would have returned this book but having managed (against my better judgment) to stay with it felt this would be unfair. I was not impressed; however although the narration was very good.

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Title: President Down

Author: Terence Strong

Narrator: Martyn Read

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-17

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Former intelligence officer and one-time instructor at the British Army School of Sniping, Phil Mason is struggling to make ends meet as a private investigator when he's contacted by his former MI5 liaison officer. The overstretched security service needs all the help it can get hunting down members of al-Qaeda terror cells in the UK - and Mason needs the cash. But in the murky intelligence world, nothing is what it seems.

As a routine operation escalates into an international crisis, Mason must come to terms with the unthinkable: there must be a traitor within Britain's security forces. Entering a desperate race again time to avert a major terrorist threat, Mason must hastily re-hone his old skills as he returns to the business he swore he had left behind forever.

Members Reviews:

A good story with plenty of false leads ( I was ...

A good story with plenty of false leads ( I was Wrong till almost the end) It was an easy going read but with a clever plot and sub plots a real good who is it, it meandered on its way leaving plenty of calling cards along the way with a considerable number of bodies. It was cleverly put together and while there were plots and sub plots it was always easy to remember the story line. At one point I asked myself am I reading the correct book as the title did not seem to fit until well on into the book. Then when it was revealed the story line was very good until it's conclusion

A great read

Excellent story. First I've read by this author. Kept me interested throughout. Looking forward to reading more of Terence Strongs novels.

The spies in England

`President Down' is an English book that unless you are familiar with some of the British military terminology you might need translations: DPM - disruptive pattern material - what we would call camouflage, when the agents talk about visiting Grosvenor Square they are going to the American Embassy, GCHQ is their intelligence headquarters. Terence Strong really does very little translating for his American audience and some are not easy to figure out or familiar to Americans, some like MI5 or MI6, the tube might be more well-known.

There are also some interesting insights to the British view of the war on terror and of President Bush, who is the president in the title. However there is very little of the president in here. Some of the statistics mentioned, like US aid to Israel are questionable - so know that some tolerance for these factors are going to be needed to enjoy reading this; as is a lot of the radical Muslim rants about "the most evil man in history".

There is really no mention of the president until page 286. There are over 500 pages in the novel, it is somewhat drawn out in places. There is a double twist at the end, that I never saw coming - either one, and usually they are pretty obvious to me. For most of the book the settings are realistic, however it ends at a non-existent RAF/USAF Airbase.

If you make it through the 500 pages and the British military information, you can still smile at the hero and main character, a former British marine sniper, who after a botched break in, waits for the authorities and makes a cup of tea for everyone.

So... for those of us that enjoy political/military/suspense you might appreciate this English author and this book.

A bit anti American

I have enjoyed other Terence Strong books and assumed this one would be no different.