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Title: The Victim

Author: Jane Bidder

Narrator: Meriel Scholfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-16

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A kindly voice from the 'lost or stolen' option at the other end of the phone confirmed that no one had taken money from her cards in the short time they'd gone missing. Thank heavens. She decided there was no need to cancel them.

When Georgie Hamilton's car goes missing and then reappears outside her house hours later, her family is convinced she must have left it there - after all, her handbag is still on the backseat. But as her bank accounts start being emptied and her husband's and clients' funds are raided too, it's clear someone has stolen her identity and is playing fast and loose with it.

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Titel: Das Geheimnis der Schwimmerin

Autor:: Erika Swyler

Erzähler: Sascha Rotermund

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 50 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-17-16

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Das SALZ DES MEERES und der RUF DER WELLEN sind ihre Bestimmung.

Simon Watson lebt allein in einem alten Haus an der Küste Long Islands. Ein altes Buch, das er vor seiner Tür findet, zieht ihn in seinen Bann: Es erzählt von einer großen Liebe, dem dramatischen Tod einer Schwimmerin und dem tragischen Schicksal einer ganzen Familie - Simons Familie. Wie es scheint, finden Watson-Frauen seit 250 Jahren im Wasser den Tod - immer am 24. Juli. Auch Simons Mutter ertrank. Als seine Schwester zu Besuch kommt, scheint sie seltsam verändert - und der 24. Juli steht unmittelbar bevor...

Einfühlsam und mitreißend gelesen von Sascha Rotermund.

©2015 / 2016 Erika Swyler / Limes. Übersetzung von Werner Löcher-Lawrence (P)2016 Random House Audio

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Title: A Pocket Full of Rye: B2 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Jane Collingwood

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter, with the language targeted at learners of English.

Rex Fortescue, the boss of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his office when he suffered a painful and sudden death. When the police checked the victim's pockets, they found grain. Miss Marple knows one of the servants in Rex Fortescue's house and comes to help solve the mystery. She soon starts to suspect that she is dealing with a case of crime by rhyme....

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Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: B2 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Roger May

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter, with the language targeted at learners of English.

Roger Ackroyd is a man who knows too much. He knows the woman he loved poisoned her first husband. He knows someone was blackmailing her - and now he knows she killed herself. When Roger Ackroyd is found murdered, famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called in to find out who the killer is.

Members Reviews:

Her Most Famous Murder Mystery

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The narrator, James Sheppard M.D., tells about the little village of Kingâs Abbot. Widow Ferrars died in her sleep from an overdose of veronal, a drug to induce sleep. Her husband died a year earlier - gossip said he was poisoned. Roger Ackroyd, an immensely rich manufacturer had thoughts of marrying widow Ferrars (they would be richer). Ackroyd was a widower without a child (Chapter 2), and lived in a mansion with relatives and servants. There is a new arrival, a stranger named Hercule Poirot. Conversations tell about the people and personalities. Later Dr. Sheppard visits Roger Ackroyd. A letter from Mrs. Ferrars brings shocking news: she poisoned her husband and was being blackmailed! Dr. Sheppard leaves Ackroyd and returns home. Later a telephone call sends him back to find Ackroyd was murdered! The police are summoned, and Poirot begins his parallel investigation. The chapters tell of the investigative procedure. Everyone connected has something to hide, and Poirot (aided by Dr. Sheppard) finds out what the secrets are.

The usual convention is to plant little clues throughout the story so an attentive reader can figure out the mystery before the last chapters. Did you? The first time I read this book I had a hunch, but it seemed crazy. Is the first clue in Chapter 3? Is there another in Chapter 17 or Chapter 24? As the suspects are eliminated who will be left? Were you shocked and surprised at the conclusion? Christie examined the fictional lives of the upper class in a small English village. Do the sins of Ralph and Flora reflect the morals of the aristocracy? Are they like the people in a TV show? Fiction must reflect reality to be believable. Reading this again after forty years I noticed the feminine characteristics of the killer. Was this symbolic for a personality that could not be mentioned? This was not her first novel but the one that made her famous. Afterwards she disappeared for a number of days. Personal problems? Mary Roberts Rinehart famous earlier novel âThe Batâ had a similar plot.

The lifestyles described here were damaged by the Great Depression, and mostly killed off by WW II. Inflation has made the monetary figures far out of date. They had automobiles and telephones, but no radio [electricity?]. The comments about coldness say there was no central heating. Do the marriages without children have some hidden meaning? Or merely a way to simplify the story? There is one problem in this story. How did the killer know beforehand that an alibi was needed for the murder?

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Title: The Winter Children

Author: Lulu Taylor

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-16

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The Winter Children is a haunting mystery from Lulu Taylor, author of The Snow Angel.

Behind a selfless act of kindness lies dark intentions....

Olivia and Dan Felbeck are blissfully happy when their longed-for twins arrive after years of IVF. At the same time, they make the move to Renniston Hall, a huge Elizabethan house that belongs to absent friends.

Living rent-free in a small part of the unmodernised house, once a boarding school, they can begin to enjoy the family life they've always wanted. But there is a secret at the heart of their family, one that Olivia does not yet know. And the house, too, holds its darkness deep within it....

Members Reviews:

Not really a book I enjoyed

I found it quite hard to actually like most of the characters as they felt s little unreal. The narrator was very good but not a book I would probably recommend

I just don't understand the positive reviews

What disappointed you about The Winter Children?

Well... I have been thinking about this. On the positive side it was well written in terms of the prose flowing, no irritating illogical words thrown in to distract (such as one book where everyone 'went' instead of 'said') and I did listen to the end which I can't say for many of the books I have disliked.

The issues:

- it is very, very, slow. The author seems to use 100 words when 5 would have done. I love atmospheric, descriptive books but this is just more like a long series of actions and unnecessary additions: 'then Olivia walked around the room and picked up the baby then put his little shoes on him and then his little bonnet that she got from that shop in London when they were newly married....' of course this is a made up example but it drove me mad. There was a mildly interesting opening paragraph which is a pretty unlikely seeming situation but makes you want to see where it goes, then it literally stops. There is endless information about the lives of the characters without really going anywhere or sparking any interest. You do learn about their history but it is not very surprising and I found it difficult to really even care what happened to any of these people.

- So much of the book is about motherhood. It is about the feelings of the various women for their children and lots of descriptions of the various children and their relationships. I wondered if perhaps this is why I seemed to find the book so dull compared to most of the reviewers. Not being a parent myself perhaps it is difficult for me to relate to any of this. Some of it was borderline cringe-inducing (she is a fierce goddess defending her children, as one example - I don't recall the exact quote but along these lines.)

- There was a scene towards the end when I wondered if I was going to change my mind (the last scene with Dan and Cheska) when I suddenly started to feel so much more sympathy for the characters, but even that was ruined by Cheska suddenly becoming improbable and unlikeable again.

- There really wasn't any mystery.

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Title: Neon Nights

Subtitle: Daymond Runyon Meets James Ellroy in the Nevada Desert

Author: John Hudson

Narrator: John Hudson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-16

Publisher: Hudson Communications

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Las Vegas in 1949 was a vastly different city than the one of today. In 1949, Las Vegas was a bus-stop that made its living from selling tax-free cigarettes. The few casinos that existed were old west saloons. This all changed when Benjamin "Bugsy" Segal built his glitter palace - the Flamingo Hotel. In the ultimate hostile take-over in 1947, "Bugsy" was murdered and new management took over the hotel. The town braced itself for a possible all-out mob war. The war never happened and tensions eased until in 1949 mobster Johnny Del Rio was found murdered execution-style.

State Patrolman Kelly O'Brian and Clark County Sherriff's detective Dick Pearson were assigned to investigate Del Rio's murder. Dick thought it was mob related but Kelly wasn't so sure after he talked to a string of hustlers, hookers, hypes, and hop heads that lived in Johnny's world. Whoever was right about Johnny's death - one thing was clear they had to be careful. The closer they got to the killer the more danger they would be in. What Kelly didn't know was the real danger was much closer than he imagined and it would take all the skill, guts, and luck he could muster as he navigates the neon nights of Las Vegas.

Members Reviews:

Interesting but a trudge.

Good story but terrible typos and really could have used an editor or proofreader. Other than trying for a style, no idea how Damon Runyon or James Ellroy come into this.

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Title: The Verdict

Subtitle: BookShots

Author: James Patterson

Narrator: Rupert Farley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-16

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

James Patterson's BookShots. Fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.

A woman violently attacked in her bed.

A billionaire businessman on trial at The Old Bailey.

As the world's press gather outside London's luxurious Tribeca hotel, can Jon Roscoe protect his own family from the terrifying consequences of the verdict?

Members Reviews:

Not what I am used from Patterson

I normally like the Patterson books a lot, but these short stories are not in the same league. Perhaps because of the shortness, but these stories are too easy.

5 Star Value

Great Value for a great book. would purchase more from this seller

Five Stars

loved it

Four Stars

Satisfactory

Pattersons going great

terrific story

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Title: Cry for Help

Author: Steve Mosby

Narrator: David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-16

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Dave Lewis is a man with a history. Haunted by his brother's murder when they were children, and scarred by his parents' grief, he's built a bitter life denying everything they ever stood for. He spends his time working as a magician, running a cynical magazine that derides his parents' New Age beliefs and drowning his sorrows over his lost love, Tori. He's trying to convince himself the past is the past. A promise he made to Tori has got him into trouble before, and Dave's determined to move on and not let that happen again.

Detective Sam Currie is a man with a past. His failure to prevent his son's death has ended his marriage and cast a shadow over his life and career. He's directed his hatred towards the one man he sees as responsible, but he has other priorities right now.

A killer is stalking the city, abducting girls and sending texts and emails to their families before he kills them. When Dave Lewis appears to connect both investigations, it's an opportunity Currie can't resist....

Members Reviews:

Disappointment

This was a huge disappointment! I really thought it was going to be a good, gripping mystery but it just doesn't happen, by half way I was getting bored it just wasn't moving anywhere, and finally I just put it down I couldn't keep interested in it, nothing happens for pages and pages and then maybe one page an 'event' will happen and then more pages and pages of nothing and sometimes the story is so mixed up you just have to remember where you are, are you in the present or in the past with this character or that character then back to the present or back to the past--I just found it to be boring.

just okay

This writer just does not do it for me-it was just okay.

Gripping

Would you feel guilty if your friend was found dead having been bound to a bed and left to dehydrate? Should you have touched base?

This is scarily realistic because of the age we live in; mobile phones, text messages, e-mail...would you be able to tell if it wasn't your friend who text you back saying that they were busy but would be in touch soon?

Mosby has a knack of making his characters realistic...albeit loners sometimes...and although I liked them, they have a dark tinge to them.

The book is partly written in the first person from the mouth of Dave Lewis who has a history with a few girls and works with his mate Rob on their monthly magazine 'Anonymous Skeptic'. The rest of the time it's a third person account of the action which also worked well and both styles kept me glued to the book, waiting to see what Dave was thinking and going to do next.

All in all a tense read that has you suspecting who the murderer is, only to make you change your mind in the next chapter.

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Title: Dr. Knox

Author: Peter Spiegelman

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-16

Publisher: riverrun

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Dr. Adam Knox returns from serving with an NGO in the Central African Republic in disgrace. His attempt to protect patients from a brutal militia ended in disaster. He's a little rougher, a little wiser, and a lot more cynical.

His new clinic tends to the vagrant, vulnerable and victimized of LA's streets. It earns from the villains willing to pay for discretion. His cynicism remains until the night a beaten Romanian woman abandons her son on his operating table. She seems to be on the run. And in trying to return the boy to her, Knox can't help but try to figure out from whom she's running. He's going to wish he hadn't.

Helping other people won't help him much when his struggle to rescue the woman and her boy leads Knox into a tangle of human traffickers and Russian mobsters and directly into the cruel business of LA's most powerful family.

Members Reviews:

Great read!

Fantastic little read - a good piece of escapism with an engaging plot and plenty of action. It's not going to win the booker prize but it is what is and it's very good at it!

Of course the fabulous narrating skills of the wonderful Jeff Harding, the best narrator in the business, does his usual job of elevating the story through his outstanding performance.

Hopefully this will develop into a series from the author.

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Title: Undertow

Author: Elizabeth Heathcote

Narrator: Genevieve Swallow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-16

Publisher: Quercus

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A heart-pounding psychological thriller for fans of Disclaimer and Apple Tree Yard.

My husband's lover. They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them...until now.

Carmen is happily married to Tom, a successful London lawyer and divorcé with three children. She is content to absorb the stresses of being a stepmother to teenagers and the stain of 'second wife'. She knows she'll always live in the shadow of another woman - not Tom's first wife, Laura, who is resolutely polite and determinedly respectable, but the lover who ended his first marriage: Zena.

Zena, who was shockingly beautiful. Zena, who drowned swimming late one night.

But Carmen can overlook her husband's dead mistress...until she starts to suspect that he might have been the person who killed her.

Members Reviews:

Good narration. Predictable ending.

I enjoyed the narration but the story line and ending was a little bit predictable.

Not terrible, but not good.

Any additional comments?

The narration is extremely good and I think that kept me going as far as chapter 17. The characters are not developed enough for me to really believe them. Carman, just about, but certainly not any others. I was bored at times, but ploughed-on. Then the decision taken by the central character in chapter 17 seemed so unlikely that I threw in the towel. I will now return it.