Large Library of Full Audiobooks in Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

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Title: The Big Chihuahua

Subtitle: A Barking Detective Mystery

Author: Waverly Curtis

Narrator: Laura Darrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

P.I. Geri Sullivan and her talking Chihuahua, Pepe, are always hungry to sink their teeth into a new case. So if helping a hapless husband win back his wayward wife means sneaking into a cult of dog-worshippers, porque no?

Inside the believers' rural retreat, Pepe perks up his ears when the charismatic leader pegs him as the next incarnation of the spirit Dogawanda. But the discovery of a body, murdered between mantras, suggests there's more chicanery than channeling going on in this suspicious sect. While wild wolves howl, a killer is on the prowl - and it's up to Geri and her canine compadre to dig up the dirt.

Members Reviews:

Pepe Is My Hero!

I love little Pepe! He is muy macho! I look forward to listening to his stories. Please keep the books coming.

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Title: Dead to Me

Author: Cath Staincliffe

Narrator: Julia Barrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-14

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 51 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A riveting, sharply observed and thoroughly modern police procedural featuring a stellar but unlikely female dectective team, perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Deborah Crombie.

Detective Constable Janet Scott is subtle and reliable, a diplomatic thinker with a wry sense of humor. Shes put in the time and seen it all, but has no desire for the bosss job - she loves her own too much. Rachel Bailey couldnt be more different - shes energetic, impulsive, and ambitious, and has just been transferred to the Manchester murder squad. Their commander thinks Rachels intuition could make her a great cop, but has reservations about her shoot-first-think-later approach, so she partners her with Janet. At first, the match seems to have been made somewhere considerably lower than heaven, but when a teenage girl is found brutally murdered, stabbed to death in her squalid flat on a North Manchester housing estate, both detectives realize they must work together to stop a vicious killer. But the case quickly becomes more complicated than it seems, fraught with dangers neither woman could see coming. Eager to make her mark, Rachels reckless pursuit of the truth could threaten her future on the squad. And an unexpected turn in the investigation forces Janet to face personal demons. No matter the cost, both must race to stop a vicious killer before its too late in this riveting novel from award-winning author Cath Staincliffe.

Critic Reviews:

"It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that." (Val McDermid)

Members Reviews:

Three fascinating women

I do hope that this is the first in a series! The narration is excellent. Three compelling women are the main characters ... All are very human...they have flaws, problems and troubles from their pasts - but they are strong, effective detectives. The story line is good, but the strength of this book is the tightly woven way that the author reveals who these women are and their back stories. I want to meet them again and see how their lives unfold, so..... More please.

Rachel Bailey Need a Good Spanking

I haven't been so annoyed by a main character for a long time. This is my first Scott and Bailey novel, and it will probably be my only one. Rachael Bailey is basically a bitch, undercutting investigations to soothe her own ego, going off on her own and causing problems, and stirring up trouble on the squad whenever she can. I don't know why Scott comes to respect her by the end of the book. I realize this is a "prequel" to an existing series, but I would have booted Bailey off the squad long before it made its way to television. I only kept listening because I found the murder interesting and wanted to know who committed the crime.

The story is told from three view points: Scott, Bailey, and their commander. Part of the time, we are solidly into each characters POV, with internal dialogue making up much of the text. Then, boom, we seem to be in a narrator's POV. Much of the book is made of long, boring suspect interviews that read like a script rather than a story. Every bit of back story about the main characters is thrown at the listener at one time, though often without a good reason. Bailey's obsession with her background and family is tiring. After the third or fourth time hearing about it, it gets very old.

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Title: The Fire Dance

Subtitle: Inspector Irene Huss, Book 6

Author: Helene Tursten

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Detective Inspector Irene Huss hasn't seen Sophie Malmborg for over 15 years, but she's still haunted by the strange young ballerina's role in the fire that killed her stepfather. Why had she refused to speak to Irene and the other case workers? Could an 11-year-old - even one as disturbed and aloof as Sophie - truly be capable of setting her own house on fire?

Irene's questions resurface 15 years later, when Sophie disappears and the charred remains of a dancer are found in an abandoned warehouse. Irene has a startling realization that could shed light on the case that has been lingering in the back of her mind since the beginning of her career.

Members Reviews:

Better left unsaid

What did you like best about The Fire Dance? What did you like least?

The new characters were wooden and unsympathetic. The old characters did not grow or develop but seemed stuck in cliches.

What was most disappointing about Helene Turstens story?

No character development and the story was weak.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

The narrator sounded as if she were reading it for the first time.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No.

Any additional comments?

Seems to me this author needs to find a new, strong editor who can red-line uninteresting prose and send the author back to the drawing board, so to speak. I doubt I will be revisiting Irene Huss again.

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Title: Tight Lines

Subtitle: A Brady Coyne Mystery, Book 11

Author: William G. Tapply

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-23-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Hired by a dying New England blue blood, Brady Coyne must locate Mary Ellen Ames, who has run away and to whom the dying woman wishes to bequeath her considerable worldly possessions.

Members Reviews:

Gone Fishing

The Brady Coyne series might not be one of the most complicated lawyer/detective series out there, but it is realistic. The everyday functions of the character are what any average individual can expect or want to do in the course of a working and non-working day. Even the social encounters are real and comfortable to the reader. One can easily identify the geography and the fishing is good. Tight Lines, by the way, is a fishing term. This 11th book of the series is the first where I noted that he pulled a bottle of Rebel Yell off the shelf. This liquor was so intriguing, to me, that I searched for it at a well stocked liquor store. I, at first, thought it was a fictional creation, but it does exist. Inspector Horowitz of the Massachusetts State Police also begins to become a standard in the Brady Coyne novels with this 11th episode. Evie, his steady squeeze in the later novels, has yet to make her appearance. Brady is still scrambling around with Gloria, his X, while searching for a new companion. If a reader gets tired of the latest psychodramas that have hit the shelves in recent months, I recommend this William Tapply series as a refreshing change of pace.

William G. Tapply mysteries are somewhat basic and sometimes ...

William G. Tapply mysteries are somewhat basic and sometimes the senerios may seem repetitive, but he more than makes up for whatever shortcomings the storyline may lack, with his descriptive knowledge of the local Boston area, where the mystery occurs. All-in-all, I find his books provide very entertaining reading.

I am still reading the Brady Coyne series and find ...

I am still reading the Brady Coyne series and find Mr. Tapply's characters interesting and believable and his writing very entertaining.

Five Stars

A complex missing person plot with many twists and ending.

a great Brady Coyne mystery

As usual, a great Brady Coyne mystery!

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Title: A Chili Death: A Classic Diner Mystery (The Classic Diner Mystery) (Volume 1)

Author: Jessica Beck

Narrator: Lisa Cordileone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-13

Publisher: Cozy Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Husband and wife team Victoria and Greg run The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, along with the rest of her extended family. Greg's in the kitchen at the grill while Victoria runs the register and takes care of any trouble that comes their way, something that happens all too often. When a stranger shows up one day and tells Victoria that he owns the land the diner was built on, there's a scramble to dig up secrets from the past that lead into the present when the stranger is found murdered in The Charming Moose's freezer! Victoria and Moose make an unlikely sleuthing team at first, but they soon learn how to work together to track down a killer. Recipes for real Diner comfort food are included!

Members Reviews:

Easy listening without needing all your attention

Good quick book. Would listen to the next one too.

Doesn't need full attention to keep up.

Don't bother with this one

If you want a cozy mystery with interesting and realistic characters and a funny and complex mystery plot don't get this book. I could not get past the first five chapters. It was predictable and and the characters were one dimensional. The dialogue was also choppy and corny. The characters appeared to be to perfect. Don't waste your credit.

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Titel: Empfindliche Wahrheit

Autor:: John le Carré

Erzähler: Matthias Brandt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 16 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-02-13

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

John le Carrés neuer Roman ist hochaktuell und brisant.

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Und wie geht's weiter?

John le Carré liefert - wie immer - gute Arbeit ab. Auch hier: Ein flotter Plot, nachfühlbare Charaktere, die Abgründe von Verrat, Skrupellosigkeit, Verantwortungslosigkeit und der moralischen Verkommenheit staatlicher und halbstaatlicher Akteure. Gut zu lesen. Einen Stern Abzug gibt es, weil die Story etwas unvermittelt endet. Man wüsste natürlich gern, wie es mit der Hauptfigur jetzt weiter geht. Ist sie ruiniert oder wird sie rehabilitiert oder etwas dazwischen? Aber man kann nicht immer hoffen, dass das Gute siegt und das Böse unterliegt, auch wenn es für den Moment so aussieht, wie wenn jetzt wenigstens die Wahrheit an den Tag käme ...

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Titel: Totensonntag (Kommissar Wallner 5)

Autor:: Andreas Föhr

Erzähler: Michael Schwarzmaier

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-21-13

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 4 Stimmen

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Herbst 1992: Clemens Wallner ist frischgebackener Kriminalkommissar und landet mit Polizeiobermeister Kreuthner auf einer Party im Hirschberghaus. Doch das zünftige Berghütten-Besäufnis endet in einer dramatischen Geiselnahme. Während Wallner und Kreuthner alles dransetzen, den verwirrten Geiselnehmer zu beruhigen, erzählt der ihnen von einem verborgenen Skelett mit einer Kugel im Schädel - und Kreuthner alias "Leichen-Leo" macht sich auf die Suche nach seiner ersten Toten.

©2013 Knaur Verlag (P)2013 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin

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Einen neuen Dialekt verstehen

Es ist ok aber als Deutsche die schon seit 20+ Jahren im Ausland lebt kann der bayerische Dialekt schon ein Problem sein - ansonsten gehts.

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Title: The Widows of Broome

Subtitle: An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, Book 13

Author: Arthur Upfield

Narrator: Peter Hosking

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Broome is a small, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia. It's small enough that everyone knows everyone else's business. How, then, did someone murder two widows in similar fashion and not leave any clues?

It's a case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who arrives on the scene incognito. He's barely begun his investigation when a third woman is killed. Bony realises that he is dealing with a madman, and that time is running out to stop a forth murder.

Critic Reviews:

"Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives" (BBC)

"The complex Bony is, I think, my favourite fictional detective of the past twenty years". (Anthony Boucher, The New York Times)

"Highly Entertaining". (Glasgow Herald)

Members Reviews:

Love Arthur Upfield!!

Arthur Upfield's books as read by Peter Hosking are always delightful. They keep me listening to the very end, with never a dull moment. Upfield's descriptive talent is unbelievable - his Australia is so vivid. He's witty and charming, just like his main character, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Upfield is a master of character development, at least with the primary characters in each story. Besides Bonaparte, there's always at least one character that is sketched in high relief, and the reader always gets a good feel for even the minor characters.

But Peter Hosking - he MAKES the audiobooks. What a talented narrator and what a pleasure it is to listen to him!

Widows of Broome is not my favorite Upfield book - there are others that are more captivating, descriptive, involved - but it's still quite good and worth every minute.

Would love to see more of Arthur Upfield's books read by Peter Hosking available on Audible!

Practice before recording.

The Upfield stories need no embellishment, nor do they need incorrect pronunciations. It is not hard to ask someone if you are not sure how to pronounce a particular word, name or place. Please, more care.

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Title: Book Club

Subtitle: Bibliomysteries, Book 8

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

When a bibliophile is murdered, it takes a bookseller to solve the crime.

Good Advice, New Mexico, is a sunny town with a gloomy bookshop. The store's eerie corridors are the province of Avery Sharecross, an ex-cop who has made the transition from chasing killers to tracking rare books. One afternoon, the local sheriff interrupts his book club meeting, and Sharecross's old career collides with his new one.

The area's premier book collector has been found bludgeoned to death on the floor of his family library. A fifth-generation resident of Good Advice, Lloyd Fister devoted his life to books, accumulating a collection of local history that date backs to the 16th century. In his library, a single volume is missing: a Spanish book with a sinister past. Is the missing volume a clue, a motive, or a murder weapon? It will take a collectors eye to decide.

Editorial Reviews:

When Good Advice, New Mexico's Lloyd Fister is found murdered on his library floor, ex-detective turned rare book collector Avery Sharecross is called upon to assist with the investigation, but he only has one clue to work with: a missing volume of a Spanish book with an intriguing past.

L. J. Ganser's nimble, stirring performance perfectly captures the humble small-town spirit of Good Advice and enlivens Estleman's lean, hard-boiled prose in this thoroughly engrossing short story.

Members Reviews:

Impressive Mystery

I am still a little amazed at how a twenty one page story could possibly manage to be one of those gripping mysteries meant to be read on a rainy day, curled up with a cup of hot chocolate, but 'Book Club' was certainly that. This turned out to be a good old fashioned murder mystery revolving around retired detective Avery Sharecross, who is called upon to do some amateur - though very competent - sleuthing when his friend and fellow bibliophile is found dead. With some astute bits of reasoning, we are led on a short but altogether satisfying cerebral hunt for the killer. There was actual depth to the plot and characters - even the bookstore itself was a character in its own rights, and the undertone of humour here made it all the more enjoyable. So don't let the length fool you... this is one to be savoured. And I loved it right down to the last sentence.

A well-crafted short story for those who love books and crime

I stumbled across this short story while looking for something else, and the line "Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books" -- and its price-- sold me. "Book Club" is a neatly crafted and swiftly moving tale that will please any book-loving sleuth. How could you not be lured in after reading one of the descriptions of the bookshop:

"Generations of children had dared one another to approach the place after dark, when the ghosts of William Shakespeare and Mark Twain prowled among the stacks (or during the day, when the proprietor did the haunting); none accepted. Even at high noon, a visitor needed a flashlight to explore the place without running into Thackeray or Gibbon and cracking a tooth."

I really enjoyed watching Sharecross spot evidence and put the clues together. Combine the little mystery with the author's obvious love of books, and this story is a winner.

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Title: The Scroll

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Alan Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors

An ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery.

Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of something impervious to modern technology. As the scrolls mystery enchants him, this hapless bookseller falls into a cutthroat conspiracy that he may never escape.

Soon a dead-eyed old man and his granddaughter come calling for the scroll. Danforth refuses to sell them the manuscript, but they will not be the last to demand it. Powerful forces crave the secrets locked within this ancient document, and Danforth will survive only if he can master its power.

Editorial Reviews:

The discovery of ancient tomes with magical power seems to be a subgenre of its own. In this short audiobook of Anne Perrys mystery The Scroll, an old vellum manuscript is uncovered by a bookseller. In a classic British accent that seems to roll along a gravel road, Alan Robertson relates the mysterious properties of the scroll and the horror it seems to summon. Strange characters and powerful forces seek possession of this seeming relic, and one mans courage and nerve is tested. At just over an hours running length, The Scroll is for those who like a little shot of the willies before bedtime.

Members Reviews:

Supernatural book mystery by Anne Perry

I have read several of the various bibliomysteries. Each is by a different famous author. I have enjoyed every single one of them. This one is by far the best. Due to medical issues with my eyes I am on medical orders to listen to audio books instead of reading books. This is the only one I have listened to being narrated.

I have read Anne Perry's books almost from the very start of her publishing career. I have read Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries, William Monk mysteries, her WW1 novels, her Christmas novellas, and one other short story by Anne Perry (a very memorable short mystery in which she wrote herself in as one of the characters, as well as her mother, all the pets and domestic animals in the area where she lived, and in which the animals solved the mystery). So, I am acquainted with the full variety of her published work. This (as well as the animal short mystery) is quite different from her other work, and yet it too, is marked by her distinctive style. I know of the tragic event that marked her teenage years. This is a woman who writes of good and evil in all of her novels, with knowledge from her very soul.

What makes this one the best I have read so far? It is very eerie (I think E.A. Poe would have liked it) and, actually, I do not like eerie fiction or TV or movies normally. Yet, even though this is way beyond the weirdness I can normally tolerate, I liked it. I liked Monty and his friend, Hank. Monty finds himself on the horns of a dilemma, a very uncomfortable spot and a very uncommon spot too. Unlike some of the readers who have reviewed this bibliomystery (see book reviews on Amazon.com), I did not find the end unsatisfying. Anything more would have been too much. I liked that the plot was thought-provoking; I do not remember any of the other bibliomysteries I have read being as thought-provoking as this one is.