Listen Legally to Popular Titles Full Audiobooks in Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Body Guard

Subtitle: Devlin Kirk, Book 3

Author: Rex Burns

Narrator: Gary Dikeos

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

Kirk watches nervously as a new employee goes undercover with a drug ring. The employees at the Advantage Company have started to steal. They are angrier than they used to be, and also clumsier - accident reports have spiked. To Devlin Kirk, these are telltale signs of on-the-job drug abuse. Hired by Advantage to smash the drug ring thats sprung up inside its factory, Kirk sends his newest employee, earnest farm boy Chris Newman, to infiltrate the company. Newman sees suspicious activity everywhere, but lacks the experience to find hard evidence. Only when Newman is tortured to death is Kirk sure that the kid was on to something. Meanwhile, Kirks partner, Bunch, takes a job working as a bodyguard for a man who claims to be hunted by Japanese assassins. Kirk & Associates has a reputation of doing anything for its clients. In these two cases, the job wants blood.

Members Reviews:

Not worth it!

I found the book boring and tedious. It is definitely not a page turning thriller. I did not even skip to the end as I didn't care how it turned out. My opinion is - choose a different book!

Hören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://hotaudiobook.com

Titel: Nachtfalter

Autor:: James Sallis

Erzähler: Michael Hansonis

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-20-14

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

New Orleans: Lew Griffin hat seine Vergangenheit als Privatdetektiv hinter sich gelassen. Er ist jetzt Schriftsteller und verbringt seine Tage in einem alten Haus im respektablen Garden District - immer darum bemüht, den heiklen Verführungen der Straße zu entfliehen. Doch als seine ehemalige Freundin LaVerne stirbt und ihre Tochter Alouette verschwindet, sieht er sich gezwungen, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Lew Griffin taucht hinab in die schwülen Nächte der pulsierenden Stadt und er weiß, dass es kein Zurück gibt, wenn er sich der Vergangenheit stellt und die Toten wieder sein Leben bestimmen.

>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung wird Ihnen exklusiv von Audible präsentiert und ist ausschließlich im Download erhältlich.

©2014 Dumont Buchverlag (P)2014 Audible GmbH

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Sniper

Subtitle: A Thriller

Author: Vaughn C. Hardacker

Narrator: Christopher Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 77 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, Boston homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate the case. Amidst the blood and terror, Houston discovers similarities, likenesses the killers positioning, his choice of victims, and his code of ethics between the crime scene and his own training as a US Marine scout and sniper. And with the staging of the scene set for prime shock value, Houston has to wonder what it is this murderer intends to accomplish. The connection is confirmed in the worst possible way when the sniper strikes again, this time killing Houstons ex-wife, severing whats left of the bond between Houston and his estranged daughter, Susie. Its personal now, and as the death toll rises, Houston and Bouchard will stop at nothing to find the cold-blooded sniper whos making a mockery of their department. In a final gesture of cat and mouse depravity, the killer kidnaps Susie, luring Houston to an island on a remote lake in Maine for a deadly, sniper-to-sniper showdown.

Members Reviews:

Narration drove me crazy!

Would you ever listen to anything by Vaughn C. Hardacker again?

Don't think so.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Christopher Price?

Not sure however Christopher Price' voice was painful and dull. Drove me crazy and I only made it half way through before I had to give up.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment, the storyline was predictable and slow.

A pleasant surprise

This book turned out to be a great find. I love the discounted books. It gives me a chance to try different authors and this one is a keeper. I am hoping that there are more written by him. The narrator was excellent too. I think it is very difficult to read a book out loud. This guy takes you right into the book.

Lame

What disappointed you about Sniper?

This book was nothing but a collection standard plot devices and story lines. The book was entirely predictable and dull.

Has Sniper turned you off from other books in this genre?

No.

What about Christopher Prices performance did you like?

Price's performance was fine. He did the best he could with what he had to work with.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment. However, I'm thrilled it was a free book and I didn't waste my money on it.

Any additional comments?

You can skip this book. You've already read it or watched it on TV, the characters just have different names.

Unimpressed

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I found the story to be unrealistic. The characters were unintelligent - something very bad when they are law enforcement officials and military personnel.

*** SPOILER****

The Sniper is reported to be in a white van, yet more than once the lead detectives ignore the obvious presence of a white van - one time when it is following Houston from Ann's. She sees the van but doesn't take special note of its presence....really?? Stupidity is a huge pet peeve of mine and its worse when the author tries to say the characters are smart.

Hören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://hotaudiobook.com

Titel: King City

Untertitel: Stadt des Verbrechens

Autor:: Lee Goldberg

Erzähler: Klaus-Dieter Klebsch

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-23-14

Herausgeber: AmazonCrossing

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung wird Ihnen exklusiv von Audible präsentiert und ist ausschließlich im Download erhältlich.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Copper Quarter

Subtitle: A Science Fiction Hardboiled Private Detective Adventure

Author: Richard Stooker

Narrator: Daniel Sattler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-14

Publisher: Gold Egg Investing, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

The friendly man shocks the bar by paying for everybody's drinks with a silver quarter. His ruthless killing in the street outside surprises nobody.

When private detective Crain Dalton seeks out the beautiful widow, he uncovers a plot to buy local elections with the only kind of money worth anything anymore - silver and gold, once again illegal to own.

Down the mean streets of the near-future, a man must go...

Welcome to the future of the United States:

Economic malaise and poverty and want for the vast majority of people.

Ecological decay.

Lots of paper money that buys nothing.

Criminal gangs and politicians cooperate to run the government, and split the swag.

Big cities deteriorating into hellholes.

A lot like the present, only worse...

Yet, as the world grows more and more amoral, Crain battles the powerful in defense of humanity dignity.

Members Reviews:

Only 10% is the story

Fairly good story. The bad part is that it is only 10% of the estimated pages. The other 90% is the first 13 chapters of a totally, totally unrelated story.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Badge to the Bone

Subtitle: Cooper Collection, Book 130

Author: Bill Bernico

Narrator: Ron Copeland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-13

Publisher: Downwind Publications

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

Elliott and Matt are hire by the police to handle the leg work for them on a kidnap case that has brought in the FBI. The two private eyes have to check area body shops, machine shops, fabrication shops and any other place capable of manufacturing a fake U.S. Mail box, used in the ransom drop.

The Cooper Collection consists of 129 stories and one retrospective with index.

Members Reviews:

good

Read all the multi-packs and shorts packs long ago, since 2012. The author has gotten better with age/practice. I've read almost all of the Cooper stories (1 - 230) and several of Mr. Bernico's short stories and most have not disappointed me. You'll find some poorly written or predictable stories, but for the most part they are fair to good. The Cooper series are better, but there's a few stinkers, too. They're great for a coffee break or a few minutes to relax.

cooper collection

i have enjoyed 132 cooper collection stories, hope bill bernico continues to write more family stories, i appreciate the good clean stories

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Rage

Subtitle: Faces of Evil, Book 4

Author: Debra Webb

Narrator: Carol Schneider

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-13

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

When Jess Harris moved back to her Alabama hometown, she thought she'd left her past behind her. But the blood bath the new Major Crimes deputy chief finds at a murder scene is beyond even the savagery of Eric Spears, the serial killer who now haunts Jess's life with terrifying text messages. Amid eerie echoes of the Charles Manson - like massacre, Jess investigates the dismemberment of a cop's wife, carried out while the woman's baby lay sleeping down the hall. The discovery of two more headless victims makes Jess wonder if it's a gang-related slaying, a personal vendettaor something else. And the sudden reappearance of her ex-husband makes her question her future with Chief of Police Dan Burnett. As the net widens to include a shocking suspect, Jess realizes that the identity of the killer may lie with an autistic eight-year-old boy. With inner-city tensions at an all-time high and the community calling for blood, Jess must race to save an innocent child-and prevent a final, horrifying act of rage.

Members Reviews:

good story, narration not so great

If you could sum up Rage in three words, what would they be?

The narration akmost takes away from the story. The "accents" she tries are terrioble. One if ther characters is Hispanic and the accent almost sounds Scots. Her Southern is bad as well. Need to find a new narrator,

How could the performance have been better?

Quit with the accents. You cant so them well

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Epitaph for Emily

Subtitle: A Jim Wolf Mystery, Book 2

Author: Tim Wohlforth

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

While at a reading of a Kurt Vonnegut biography, private investigator Jim Wolf senses someone watching him. He catches sight of a young woman, maybe mid-twenties, who is short and has straight, straw-colored blond hair, granny glasses, and freckles. Her figure is more boyish than that of a grown woman. She wears jeans and a man's white dress shirt, and a cheap necklace of amber-colored beads with silver disks circles her neck. Her name is Emily.

They escape the crowded bookstore and head for Wolf's boat - a simple romantic rendezvous that Emily assures Wolf they both want. In the morning Wolf wakes as two Oakland detectives land on his deck. Emily had left during the night, and their simple tryst has suddenly become complicated. Emily is dead - and Wolf is charged with her murder.

With his own life in jeopardy, Wolf must find the killer. His quest leads him to the Cal campus, a bearded expert on Vonnegut who was sleeping with Emily, and a retro-sixties bash called the Commie Café, where the past becomes the murderous present.

Members Reviews:

Bring back the Lightness and Love.

I gave Tim's first book in the series a 5star rating but this time I found the book dark without the usuallight parts as in the first book when the hero is looking for the killer in the desert. He is taking a nude bath in a desert lake. Momentarily he is joined by several nude lesbian motocycle drivers also trying to cool off. it was a hilarious scene, cooling off the heavy (but good) parts of the book. he is a wonderful writer because he seems to blend the horror of the whatever killings taking place with romance or comedy. Maybe next time he will return to his art that he can handle sooo well.

Page turner

Wohlforth's Jim Wolf is a cross between romantic liberal and no nonsense PI. In this second of his Jim Wolf mysteries, Wohlforth displays his skill at creating the Oakland scene and his knowledge of the protest movements during the Viet Nam war period. Wolf brings together threads from the past and the present that not only help him to solve the mystery but also reveal how he has come to be the kind of man he is. A good read, especially for fans of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, which figures prominently in the plot.

Great mystery (yes)

A great mystery that I enjoyed from front to back. Got a bit complicated in spots where two other episodes interrupted the main story but then three mysteries in one is not so bad. I recommend it and guarantee you won't get bored.

Twisted

Noir at its best! Oakland P-I Jm Wolfe, uncovering a horrifying murder, almost metes his end, himself, in this moving, atmospheric, action-packed novel of twisted love and death.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Imposter

Subtitle: The Protectors, Book 1

Author: Karen Fenech

Narrator: Andrea Bates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-13

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

The protectors: Though they work independently and at times are oceans apart, their ties to one another remain strong. Theyre related by blood or bond - this group of men and women in law enforcement, government intelligence, and the military who do what others cannot to serve, defend, and protect.

Imposter: Chemist Dr. Eve Collins, wrongly accused by the CIA of developing and marketing a chemical weapon, learns she has been set up as a scapegoat by someone seeking to hide his own guilt. That "someone" wants her dead. Her life depends on making no mistakes - like trusting the central intelligence agent assigned to her case, a man shes falling in love with. CIA Operative John Burke doesn't believe her claim of innocence. When an attempt is made on her life, he believes her accomplice has turned on her. But something doesn't add up about Eve and her role in this crime she's accused of. Burke has too many questions, including - has his judgment been compromised by his fierce attraction to her? Its a question Burke asks himself again and again but when he learns Eves would-be assassin is close, he goes on the run with her. It's a temporary solution - running will not keep her safe. Burke must find the assassin - or die trying.

Members Reviews:

Worth reading

It's a clean book with a little bit of mystery. I do think the characters were "in love" a bit quick but I enjoyed otherwise

Short Listen, Annoying Narration

Would you ever listen to anything by Karen Fenech again?

Doubtful since the writing was juvenile with absurd dialogue and behavior from both protagonists that was inconsistent with their supposed characters. The villain was absurdly trite, with no interesting motivations. The male and female leads fall in "love" without any real reasoning. There is no true sense of them getting to know one another and liking what they learn. There's not even any irresistible, overwhelming attraction that leads them to fall in bed together. It just felt like two strangers who decided to have sex then were magically in love for all time. It made no sense for either of them.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Andrea Bates?

I spent the entire book thinking about how the narration reminded me of a high school English teacher I'd had who was notorious for her monotonous reading. Ms. Bates wasn't quite as bad as that teacher, but her skill left much to be desired. Her shifts between characters were indistinguishable, making it difficult to determine who was "speaking" sometimes. Her pronunciation of some words was off as well. One example: mete, pronounced as though it was "met" when it should have been "meet." In an audible book, pronunciation matters.

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

No. I knew who the "bad guy" was almost immediately.

Any additional comments?

Honestly, I'm grateful this was as short a listen as it was. I was tempted to stop mid-way through, but decided to finish it since it was so short. It's definitely not a good thing when I sigh with relief as I hear the music signaling the end of a book.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Skin

Author: Mo Hayder

Narrator: Andrew Wincott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-13

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 120 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of suicide. But Jack Caffery is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city.

Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someone - or something - that can disappear into darkness and slip into houses unseen. Working alongside Caffery is rough-and-tough police diver Flea Marley, but while pursuing her investigation, she stumbles upon something far too close to home that no one - not even Caffery - can help her face.

Critic Reviews:

"Hayder captures the claustrophobia of Flea's dives in unsettling detail and continues to build on her two damaged heroes." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)

Members Reviews:

Suspension of disbelief is one thing...

...improbable coincidences that serve to tie together loose ends of a story are something else again. I am fond of this series and especially like the moral ambiguities that Jack Caffery and now Flea Marley are faced with. They are believable characters. The series of contrivances that brought this story (which began in the last book, Ritual) to a close are not believable, however.

Having said that, I could not stop listening during the last few hours of the book and actually spent the day baking so I would have an excuse to listen! I simply wanted to know how it would end - something that is all too predictable in many of the books I read.

I woiuld also add that the narration is flawless and adds greatly to the enjoyment. Although I was not much impressed with this book, I'll surely carry on to the next.

Dark and Grizzly - LOVE Detective Caffery

If you do not like dark and deviant characters and aberrant, twisted, violent plots and a well written series of characters you will love and hate - don't even think about this series. The low ratings are almost always from people who've been scarred by the first few pages. Mo Hayder is a wonderful writer and though the narrators change in different books - I really don't like that - they are solidly good.

not my favorite but still great!

It wasnt as chopped , cut and dried as her previous novels. I got a bit lost at times and the antagonist (skin guy) wasn't as clear I'm either character or motive. I did not feel like I knew him at all. But it was still a good listen.