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Title: Sore Loser

Subtitle: A Mickey Donovan Mystery

Author: Mike McAlary

Narrator: Bryan Brendle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A New York City police inspector tracks a serial killer who's been murdering sports referees in this spectacular crime fiction blockbuster by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mike McAlary.

They call Mickey Donovan "the Wraith". A sometimes-rogue NYPD deputy inspector who knows the city top to bottom, he clashes against the police brass and the mayor's office as he haunts the streets searching for his heroin-addicted daughter, Dillon. But now a truly bizarre serial killer is forcing Donovan's mind back into the cop game. A very efficient murderer has been targeting the umpires and referees of a variety of sports, both pro and amateur, whose only crimes seem to be questionable calls.

Initial suspicion falls on hotheaded tennis star Ginny Glade, who lost a tournament title thanks to a now-deceased line ump's errant call. Donovan, however, has his doubts - and suddenly a vengeful maniac is causing the deputy's personal and professional lives to collide in very dangerous ways.

The only foray into crime fiction from Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, Sore Loser is a razor-sharp, lightning-paced winner - rich in atmosphere, insider knowledge of New York, and pitch-perfect urban speak - that respects the time-honored conventions of the police detective novel while reconfiguring them in wildly imaginative ways.

Members Reviews:

Great mystery series that pays homage to all NYC boroughs

NYPD Deputy Inspector Mickey "The Wraith" Donovan is working a weird serial killer case. A deranged individual is personally implementing the phrase "kill the umpire" and it is not a William Bendix movie. The first casualty was murdered just after umpiring a softball game near Yankee Stadium. The next victim was murdered just after blowing a tennis call that cost Ginny Glade a victory in a professional tournament. Ginny's former spouse is actually the recipient of a bad call that turns him into the World Series hero. The ump who blew the call was blown away.

The media hangs Ginny since she is the link to at least two of the higher profile incidents. Mike believes that Ginny is innocent and begins a city-wide investigation even as he has to deal with personal problems, mostly caused by his rebellious daughter. An attraction springs up between Ginny and Mike, but before he can fully pursue his feelings, the law enforcement official has to find a killer to bring to justice.

"There's a hold-up in the Bronx; Brooklyn's broken out in fights ...". This little ditty is what comes to mind as Mike runs all over the city bringing the totality of the "Big Apple" to life. That is the core of this exciting novel. Though the characters are well written and the story line moves at a blistering pace, Mike McAlary pays homage to the boroughs, which turns SORE LOSER into a big winner.

Sore Loser's a winner

As a writer and avid reader of mysteries/thrillers, I just want to say I thoroughly enjoyed this start to what I hope will be a successful new series. I loved the characters and the way they interacted, especially the father/daughter exchanges and the mystery itself was fun and delightfully twisted.

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Title: The Dungeon House

Author: Martin Edwards

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-15

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife, Lysette, is having an affair. The Whiteleys are wealthy and live with their 16-year-old daughter, Amber, in the magnificent Dungeon House. When Lysette tells Malcolm their marriage is over, he snaps and takes out the old rifle he has been hiding....

Back to the present day, and Hannah Scarlett's cold case team are looking into the disappearance of Lily Elstone, whose father was Malcolm Whiteley's accountant. Their investigation coincides with the disappearance of another teenage girl, Shona Whiteley, daughter of Malcolm's nephew, Nigel. As Hannah's team dig down into the past, doubts arise about what exactly happened at the Dungeon House 20 years ago....

Members Reviews:

Murder in the Lake District

Martin Edwards is a superior writer, and this book is a superior effort. For me, the fact that all the myriad threads of the story are

fully tied up and off at the end was a major pleasure. Stories with dangling pieces annoy me, but Edwards leaves

nothing for the reader to puzzle over.

Decent Lake District story

I basically liked the book, I always enjoy Martin Edwards' work. But, not enough Daniel Kind, and pretty lame plot device in the save the day clue he comes up with after not really being in the story at all. I like the books better when the characters the reader has come back to read about again in a series actually a) are a primary part of the story and b) their own story moves along. This is a decent stand alone story, but disappointing as a continuation in a series.

If you've never had the good fortune to read Martin Edwards' books

I have followed this writer from his Harry Devlin series, then read the Lake District series, as well as his stand alone novels. He never disappoints! I read The Dungeon House on Labor Day. Just could not put it down. If you've never had the good fortune to read Martin Edwards' books, you're in for a treat and are bound to get hooked!

Five Stars

Martin Edwards always serves up a satisfying read.

Great writing

I've read all of this series (darn it). Have to wait another year for the next one. This is a lendable book which I've got my brother hooked on now.

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Title: Svigt (Sara Linton og Grant County 2)

Author: Karin Slaughter

Narrator: Louise Herbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Frst kysset - s blodet...

Sara Linton, brnelge og retsmediciner i Heartsdale, Georgia, ved udmrket, hvilke rdsler der kan gemme sig bag lukkede dre i sm lokalsamfund. Men da et sknderi mellem teenagere en lrdag aften i den lokale skaterpark frer dden med sig, og den efterflgende obduktion afslrer beviser for en rituel selvskamfering og seksuelle overgreb - gr det op for Linton, at virkelig ondskab er tttere p, end hun havde forestillet sig.

Sara Linton involveres i efterforskningen tillige med politichef Jeffrey Tolliver. Snart m de se i jnene, at efterforskningen gang p gang forpurres af den kolde tavshed, de bliver mdt med hos offerets familie og venner. Men sandheden kan ikke begraves for altid.

©2012 Hr. Ferdinand / Karin Slaughter (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: Bundfald (William Wisting 2)

Author: Jrn Lier Horst

Narrator: Torben Sekov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Det er midt om sommeren i Stavern. Den idylliske lille by Vestfold er klar til rets indryk af sommergster, da en afkappet fod i en lbesko skyller op p stranden. Senere skyller endnu en op, og i lbet af en uge skyller i alt fire fdder op p stranden - alle sammen venstre fdder. Stammer de fra en ulykke eller er flere personer blevet parteret og dumpet?

Drabschef William Wisting har en anelse om, at fdderne har forbindelse til flere forsvindingssager i omrdet. Flere ldre mnd er sporlst forsvundet fra plejehjem samt en kvinde, der var ansat p et af plejehjemmene. Wisting begynder at trvle trdene op, uden nogen anelse om hvor mange forgreninger sagen har. Grdighed, forspildte liv og hensynsls hvntrst er drivkrfterne i et mysterium, der viser sig at vre nsten bundlst.

Samtidig kommer Wistings journalist-datter Line hjem i forbindelse med en feature-artikel, der handler om rehabiliteringseffekten ved straf og soning, hvori hun interviewer straffede drabsmnd. Line interviewer Ken Ronny Hauge, som er ude igen efter at have siddet inde i seksten r for drabet p en politimand - et drab han for vrigt aldrig tilstod og som stadig er et mysterium. Udviklingen i sagen fr Wisting til at stille sprgsml ved de mest grundlggende forudstninger for sit eget politiarbejde.

©2012 Forlaget Punktum / Jrn Lier Horst (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: Mystery, Ink: Murder by Text

Author: Kelly May

Narrator: William L. Sturdevant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-15

Publisher: Goldminds Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When A.J. Zilchrest, one of Centerville's most prominent philanthropists, dies in a tragic car wreck, lawyer Sylvester (Sly) Jones is assigned to represent the other driver, Jorge Casa, a teenager who is accused of texting while driving. As Sly investigates, it appears that other elements may have caused the so-called accident. With a physical threat to Sly's safety looming, can he solve this mystery before his own life is taken?

Members Reviews:

Mystery Ink

Listened to both mystery ink books makes you see the other side of of a lawyers dedication to finding the truth. Both books were great and the narrator did a wonderful job with all the different voices.

Mystery Ink

This is a good story told in a straight forward way.William L. Sturdevant is a wonderful narrator!His voices are spot on! An accident takes the life of a popular man from town.Since the other driver was a teen from an immigrant family, he I just assumed to be the one who caused it.A lawyer comes in to it and he finds the truth.I was provided this book by the author,narrator or publisher.

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Title: Lost Shadows

Author: Julie Elizabeth Powell

Narrator: Don Warrick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-15

Publisher: Julie Elizabeth Powell

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Not only had Adam lost his parents in a car crash, but he'd also forgotten who he was. Pamela is haunted by the patient who was murdered by her father. Barbara and Mike have mysterious secrets. Harry seeks solace at the bottom of a glass. And why is Mildred so afraid? While Helen's mind gathers dust, Lizzie mourns the loss of her and her husband. Both Penny and Jane are frantic to find their daughters, if in different ways. Rick wonders what to do about his family. And who is William? Most are strangers, all are haunted by darkness. Does this unite them, or is it something they must do that will free them? Will they find what is lost?

Members Reviews:

If you love fantasy books you'll love Lost Shadows

If you love fantasy books you'll love Lost Shadows. Once again, Julie Elizabeth Powell has done it again, another truly great read. It's a wonderful complex story with great characters. In this book a young boy named Adam has lost his memory as well as his parents, his only family. In his quest to find out what happened and why he can't remember we meet other great thought out characters. Some who have also lost their memories. In the end you find out just how truly amazing Adam is and what he's willing to give up to save another. It's such a great story that you won't want to put it down. I know I couldn't.

The narration was great. I enjoyed how animated the narrator was and how it really bring you into the story and makes you feel like you're right there and a part of it all.

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Title: Landfall

Author: Joseph Jablonski

Narrator: Peter Jablonski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-15

Publisher: Peter Jablonski

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

After 30 rough years of adventure on the seas, Jake Thomas makes landfall in a new and quiet life in Oregon - only to discover that the past dies hard. The secrets he's kept, even from himself, won't stay buried.

Forty years earlier, a beautiful, young woman was murdered during Jake's first voyage as a deck cadet on an American freighter. Her children, now grown, want answers only Jake can give. What really happened that terrible night? Did the wrong man go to jail?

In this riveting story-within-a-story, Jake's peaceful routine in Portland, Oregon, stands in stark contrast to his days as a merchant seaman in Subic Bay, when he set off on a journey to discover his dark side. A journey that hasn't yet ended.

Written in a style that compares to Joseph Conrad, Joseph Jablonski drew upon his own years of sea experience to craft a book that is as much a careful observation of human nature and a powerful condemnation of war as it is a suspenseful sea story.

Members Reviews:

but have never been satisfied with the determination of the cause of their mother's ...

Author Joseph Jablonski's recent book, Landfall, is in some sense an extension of his earlier novel, Three Star Fix. Each book is taken from his experiences at sea, first as a midshipman in training and later as an officer and finally as a ship's master.

Three Star Fix was a fictionalized version of the life of a âcadetâ aboard American merchant ships in the late 1960's. While this highly readable work would be of interest to anyone seeking some insight into the world of merchant shipping, Landfall goes much further as a piece of literature.

As someone who spent some two decades at sea myself, I rarely read books about the sea. I find that the vast majority of them romanticize going to sea in such a way that I often find false and overblown. Two examples that come to mind are Nicolas Montserrat and Tristan Jones. While each may be hailed as master's of the written word, their descriptions of the sea, while largely fiction, do not represent life aboard any vessel on which I have sailed.

Landfall's story once again concerns a young officer in training who becomes involved with the wife of a cold-hearted missionary in southeast Asia. The woman is murdered under mysterious circumstances during the subsequent voyage back to the United States. Years later the two young children of the murdered woman have grown up, but have never been satisfied with the determination of the cause of their mother's death. They track down the now grown midshipman who is retired from the sea having been a ship's master himself. They insist that he write out exactly everything that he can remember about that time so long ago; a time he can barely remember and has tried for all those years to forget. He greatly fears what he may recall as he laboriously and painfully searches his memory.

The first half of the book is written in a form of counterpoint. The reader is shown the many pages of the narrative that the lead character, Jake Thomas, writes for the siblings, but we are shown only a page or so at a time as they are written over the course of several months. After each entry Jake, as the book's author and narrator, tells the reader more information than Jake is able to bring himself to reveal to the children of the dead woman.

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Title: Shan Hai Jing - A Book Covered with Blood

Subtitle: The Story of Developers of the Catalog of Human Population (Catalog of Human Souls 5)

Author: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrator: Ali Abadi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-15

Publisher: HPA Press

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In essence, this story is about how a certain person was searching his bookshelf for something to read and in the end found a book, which turned out to be the source, from which it is possible to obtain absolutely any kind of information about absolutely any person. Meaning, information to the smallest particulars and details about what his or her qualities of personality are, how he or she lives, what he or she really wants to achieve, what he or she hides, and much more. And, it does not matter, if the subject is some person, who lived in the distant past or lives in the present or someone, who will live in the future. Since, as it turned out later on, this literary monument is nothing other than the catalog of human population. In other words, the encyclopedia of Homo Sapiens; in essence, the same as encyclopedias, reference books for specialists, which contain complete information about representatives of a particular subspecies of animals, plants, etc.

Although at some point, the course of this story turned banal: bad guys from security services, intelligence services, politics decided to not only use this source of knowledge for their dirty deeds, but also to appropriate it solely for their personal use. And, the way they tried to do this is also banal: by physically destroying the author of discovery of the Catalog of human population and all of his colleagues. However, the ending of this story makes it stand out from the category of ordinary spy stories.

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Title: Operator #5 #7 October 1934

Author: Curtis Steele, RadioArchives.com

Narrator: Milton Bagby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-15

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A powerful army of invasion - armed with the most ghastly modern weapons: bacteria, plagues, hideous diseases - lay carefully hidden within the borders of the United States, ready to strike at the heart of the nation, to kill, pillage, demolish.... A foreign demagogue, mad-drunk with power, greed, and lust, planned the slaughter of a million helpless men and women, to state his twisted, race-proud ambition. Belligerent nations watched and waited, sighting America helpless before them. One man - Operator #5 - read the crimson writing on the wall - and he alone was left to battle the frightful odds!

From from Operator #5 magazine steps a dramatic hero who pits himself against threats to national security from all origins. Whether it's a subversive internal threat, or a full-scale invasion from an enemy land, James Christopher stood ready and resolute to defeat it.

James Christopher did not technically belong to the US Secret Service. He was a top agent for an America's unnamed Intelligence Service. It was in his blood. His father, John Christopher, retired from the same agency years before. Answerable only to his superior, Z-7, and carrying a letter from the President of the United States identifying him as Operator #5, Jimmy Christopher played for keeps. He carried a rapier sewn into his belt, and in a golden skull hanging from his watch-chain was a reservoir of poison to be taken in the event of capture.

Aided by a small group of trusted assistants, ranging from his twin sister Nan to scrappy street urchin Tim Donovan, Jimmy Christopher was a one-man defense force. Proud and patriotic, expert marksman and swordsman, he is the best America has to offer in a time of severe trial.

Invasion of the Dark Legion is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the October, 1934 issue of Operator #5 magazine.

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Title: The Angel of Eden

Subtitle: Book Three in the Mesopotamian Trilogy

Author: D. J. McIntosh

Narrator: James Yaegashi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The thrilling conclusion to the Mesopotamian trilogy about the origin of angels and the real location of the lost Garden of Eden.

In 2011, D. J. McIntosh took the book world by storm with her best-selling debut novel, The Witch of Babylon. Praised by The Globe and Mail for its "stellar research" and "superb writing", it introduced its audience to John Madison, a rakish New York art dealer who uncovered a fabulous treasure trove of antiquities in the hills outside Baghdad and the truth behind a famous story long believed to be a myth.

In this highly anticipated conclusion, Madison is hired by a famous magician to find a rare 16th-century book on angel magic and the former assistant who stole it 35 years ago. Madison's quest leads him from the great mosques and churches of Istanbul to the ruins of Pergamon and the temples of the ancient Near East, where he discovers the true location of the Garden of Eden, the nature of angels, and the dark story of his birth.

Members Reviews:

"A solid tale that is both rooted in fact and intriguing."

Full disclosure: normally, archeological action novels are not my first choice of reading material. All too often they are poorly researched and casually written, the plots taken a step too far for credibility, and substituting mindless action involving two-dimensional superheroes for more nuanced treatment, often with banal dialogue (though perhaps it simply fits the characters). For me, one of the great appeals of good crime fiction is the puzzle at the heart of the tale, challenging readers to match wits with the author, in a contest of reasoning and logic. For these reasons you wonât find me praising the questionable virtues of such best-selling authors as Dan Brown, and his legions of imitators.

That said, Canadian author D. J. McIntosh has recently completed the latest in her series of tales featuring antiquarian art dealer John Madison, as he tackles yet another puzzle rooted in the often mystical traditions of the Ancient Middle East. These are thoughtful and well-constructed stories that will appeal to a wide audience, including readers who are reluctant to lay reason aside and delve into the murky realms of the unknowable.

Her story begins in northwestern Iran, near the border with Turkey, in 1970. A young woman is being urged by her father to flee their home with her baby and seek refuge in the city of Tabriz. The cause of his concern soon becomes clear: her father possesses a book that evil men will do anything to acquire, and they have already killed at least one man for it. She mounts a horse guided by her brother, and leaves the only home she has ever known, realizing sheâs seeing itâand most of her familyâfor the very last time.

Thirty-five years later antiquarian John Madison is resting in a borrowed Manhattan apartment, savouring a box of chocolate truffles that has been delivered for Valentineâs Day. The sender, a stranger named Margaux Bennet, asks in return that he meet her to discuss a project, and he agrees. When he goes to her flat Madison learns that she is a ghostwriter, and is working on an article about him. Sheâs been hired by a man named Lucas Strauss, a Harvard-educated illusionist interested in tracking down a rare book stolen from him by a man named George Helmstretter. The man had claimed he was descended from none other than the real Dr.