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Title: The Night Visitor

Subtitle: A Shaman Mystery

Author: James D. Doss

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

The morning after the aged Ute shaman receives a perplexing visit from a silent, disheveled matukach "magician," Daisy's neighbor, Nathan McFain, discovers something astonishing buried in the dirt on his foundering Colorado dude ranch: The bones of gargantuan beast from a prehistoric age. It is a find of enormous scientific importance that attracts the attention of a wide variety of individuals: Noted paleontologist Moses Silver and his archaeologist daughter Delia; pillars of the scientific community Robert Newton and Cordell York; an Arkansas sharpie named Flye, an overly interested local antiques dealer and Charlie Moon of the Southern Ute Police Department. At the McFain spread primarily to keep an eye on the disreputable Flye, Moon is curious about the strange old bones ....and wary as well. For things this ancient and rare have been known to inspire evil deeds in the past, including avarice, mendacity, and murder. And, when one of the prime players in this timeless drama vanishes without a trace, Charlie worries that his greatest fears have been realized. But while Charlie investigates the unexplained disappearance - and a very suspicious death that follows soon after - using rational and accepted police methods, his Aunt Daisy is being drawn by forces preternatural into a grimly related mystery. For craven murder is not the exclusive domain of contemporary Man - and a cry for justice from the past has reached Daisy Perika and tow, extraordinary young girls in her care, ensnaring them all in something old, dark, and dangerous.

Editorial Reviews:

The Night Visitor is a gripping mystical mystery, narrated in an inviting alto lilt by Romy Nordlinger.

Nathan McFain discovers a cryptic pile of unidentified prehistoric bones buried on the property of his Colorado dude ranch. This discovery causes a tizzy amongst archaeologists, scientists, and even the police. Everyone wants to know where these bones came from and what they mean - including an elderly Ute shaman/sorcerer.

But some things are best left undisturbed. For great consequence could befall those who disturb the mighty spirits within things we do not understand.

Members Reviews:

Great book, lousy narrative

Doss is a great storyteller. The reader, however, knows absolutely nothing about the area or culture of the Ute or Navajo. The mispronounced words range from propanel and paleontologist to Goddard Street, Archuleta County, and la Veta Pass. These are not author generated errors but a simple lack of doing one's homework.

Wonderful combination of characters and plot

Would you listen to The Night Visitor again? Why?

Yes.

What did you like best about this story?

The humor and the treatment of the supernatural.

Which character as performed by Romy Nordlinger was your favorite?

Daisy Perika. Undoubtedly. She's cranky but she contributes so much to the story.

Any additional comments?

Can we please have more Charlie Moon mysteries? I have the entire series in print and would like to have them in audiobook format.

Too many unlikeable characters

I really couldn't get into this book. There were several story lines initially and way too few likeable characters in any of them to catch my attention.

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Title: Dead Ends

Author: Don Easton

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

Intrepid Mountie Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another. Taggart investigates the murder of someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wiretap information identifies a shadowy gang member known only as Cocktail as being responsible.

Taggart and his partner go undercover to join one of a coalition of gangs who are at war in British Columbia. Their mission is to identify Cocktail and gain evidence to convict him of murder. Taggart soon finds himself knee-deep in drive-by shootings, meth labs, retaliatory murders, and date rapes.

An offer of a truce pact to stop the gang warfare is arranged by Cocktail. Taggart, along with gang bosses, is taken to a remote location to discuss a peace agreement. What they find is that Cocktail has lured them into a trap of torture and murder.

Editorial Reviews:

A brutal saga of murder, conspiracy, torture, and intrigue, Dead Ends follows Jack Taggart as he investigates a shadowy cabal that goes only by the name of Cocktail. Filled with hair-raising suspense and savage acts of violence, Don Easton's Dead Ends is a pause-resisting thriller. David Drummond's performance only enhances the story's already twisted tone. Drummond perfectly captures Jack Taggart's matter of fact persona and drives home each high-octane moment of danger.

Members Reviews:

It was also an easy, pleasant read

This book surprised me. In addition to the ending being a surprise, it brought up some very interesting concepts about "real" justice. The content was deeper than just a mere fiction book. Some of it was even a little disturbing, but definitely thought provoking.

It was also an easy, pleasant read; flowing pretty well. It only took me one day to read it.

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because of the language. I hate cursing. It wasn't outrageous, but a little too much for me.

Winner

Jack and Laura are a great team. I hope they manage to catch all the bad guys before they are caught.

Great read

Very exiting and good read. If you haven't read the previous books in the Jack Taggart series, run and buy, you will not regret it.

An Unconventional Hero

Canada is a world leader in the exportation of drugs, mostly marijuana and methamphetamine. The criminal gangs gross billions of dollars annually. Their leader's live in luxury mansions rivaling Hollywood celebrities. But our courts fail to take a hard stance, and our government continues a losing war.

Don Easton's deep undercover police officer, Jack Taggart, takes most cops cynical view of the war on drugs, to the extreme by employing his own methodology to solve crime and affecting his own version of justice, both of which catch the reader by surprise on numerous occasions.

Dead Ends reveals something else often overlooked. In war it is called collateral damage, the innocent non-combatants maimed, or killed during combat. In the war on drugs collateral damage is a huge reality, but largely unrecognized and unreported.

Dead Ends draws the reader into this dark world, following Taggart as he deals with the often unseen victimization that makes a good cop use extreme and often unorthodox methods in his pursuit of the villains responsible. Taggart's humanism makes him a compelling character the reader can easily identify with. His choices make him an unconventional hero, one whose choices we may applaud, but not admit to.

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Title: Send in the Clowns

Subtitle: A Paul Chang Mystery, Book 3

Author: J. Gregory Smith

Narrator: Todd Haberkorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

News anchor Laura Stark thought shed seen the last of her devious ex-husband, but a series of sinister pranks has her convinced Max is back - and hell-bent on turning her life upside down. After she broke a controversial story that left her unable to rely on New Yorks finest, Laura turns to a pair of eccentric private investigators for help.

Paul Chang, an ex-cop with a mean streak, and his partner, the near-clairvoyant Nelson Rogers, believe Lauras story - and suspect Max is up to more than just stalking. Laura has been landing scoop after scoop about the mob, a murder, and the mayor of New York, and Chang thinks Max is using the events in Lauras stories to plot a terrifying prank with global consequences. Can Chang and Nelson catch Max before the mad jester turns the city into his own three-ring circus?

Members Reviews:

"Empress Dragon, Tietie"

If you could sum up Send in the Clowns in three words, what would they be?

Clever, fast, adventurous.

Note: I do use new 1.25x speed to match the author's intent

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

yes, and I want to buy book# 2 as I purchased out of order. Thanks to the reviewer, who said #1 too gory, I'll pass on that book. My curiosity about the beginning of this good series, will just have to be forgone as I can't stand gory.

Which character as performed by Todd Haberkorn was your favorite?

Aka MacLoud Andrews who performs Robert Crais's books is fabulous in this book. All his voices including females are very good. He brings all the characters to life.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes as it unfolded cleverly and kept on going to hold your attention.

great read

loved book, well written. characters were very interesting, i'm looking forward to the next book

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Title: Killer Green

Author: David Niall Wilson

Narrator: Tom Pile

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-13

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Killer Green

Quentin Tarantino meets Smokey & The Bandit in this noir, science-fiction thriller. Sometimes, people just need killing.

When Sam West wanders into the Sunny-Side-Up Diner for the last time, hoping for a last slice of Mort's world-class pie, and one last look at a waitress named Delilah, he has no idea he's about to become the instrument of a great, kharmic cleansing. The only thing crazier than the seemingly inevitable trail of bodies following Sam and Delilah south is the fact that - as State Police and local sheriffs begin to investigate - they find no evidence. Nothing. And the missing bodies are just the start, as an unlikely band of companions are drawn together in a scientific experiment more in line with the TV Series Fringe than anything in reality, with the threat of alien probes, local law enforcement, and rednecks around every corner.

Killer Green began life as a joking conversation on Twitter. It became a phenomenon - was written into a screenpaly - shared on the Internet, optioned by a production company, and continues it's social media-born roll toward the Mexican border.

It's ecologically relevant. It's good for the environment. It's a novel you will not forget, that will leave you laughing and hold your attention to the last word.

Wouldn't you rather be green?

David Niall Wilson, author of The DeChance Chronicles, Sins of the Flash, This is My Blood, On the Third Day, and more than thirty other books is a former president of the Horror Writer's of America, multiple winner of the Bram Stoker Award, an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church, and nearly as crazy as his characters.

Members Reviews:

A Real Romp of a story...

"Killer Green" assumes that, indeed,some folks just need killin' and having someone actually do the deed, then grabs the reader by the collar and hauls them on a jolly romp across the highways, back roads and deserts of south Texas while proposing an excellent and useful method of body disposal. Sam West just walks in for a last piece of pie at the Sunny-Side-Up Coffee Shop before heading for the border in his beloved 1966 Ford Thunderbird. He did the aforementioned deed and needs to get out of town. Seems Delilah, SSUCS's delightful to behold waitress feels the same way about her boss. And the game is afoot. Following in the wake of the fleeing couple is a equally interesting group composed of a principled research scientist, his rich and beautiful girlfriend, his research team and their long-suffering truck driver and his wife. Behind *them* are two very tenacious law enforcement types unwilling to lay their careers on the line by calling for backup while following their well-honed instincts to solve a couple of "non-crimes." Oh, and the girlfriend's rich daddy is as tenacious as the cops about keeping his scientific investment and his daughter safe.

Full of witty puns and references to movies, etc.

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Title: Three Can Keep a Secret

Subtitle: A Joe Gunther Novel, Book 24

Author: Archer Mayor

Narrator: Tom Taylorson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

Archer Mayor's New York Times best-selling Joe Gunther series returns with a complex case involving two corpses, one escaped mental patient, and a long-held secret that binds them together.

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." (Ben Franklin)

Joe Gunther and his team - the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) - are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and backup. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd and seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen-year-old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.

At the same time, an old retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn't murdered. And, a patient who calls herself the Governor has walked away from a state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out she was indeed once "Governor for a Day," over forty years ago, and she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her from revealing something she saw all those years ago. Amid the turmoil and the disaster relief, it's up to Joe Gunther and his team to learn what really happened with the two corpses - one missing - and what secret the Governor might have still locked in her brain that links them all.

Members Reviews:

Okay (barely) after a really slow start

Archer Mayor has been writing novels, one every year, in the Joe Gunther beginning in 1988. Three Can Keep a Secret is the 2013 edition, number 24. Like the others it is a police procedural set in Vermont. It is a good story, but is nothing special. The three that kept the secret are adult siblings.

The narrator read as if lethargic for the first half of the book but then changed into a good narrator.

I came very close to quitting the book as I neared the mid-point. I still have mixed feelings about whether listening to the novel was worthwhile.

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Title: Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire

Author: Malcolm R. Campbell

Narrator: R. Scott Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-13

Publisher: Vanilla Heart Publishing

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

Mainstream humor with a dash of mystery A throwback to Hollywood's film noir reporters, Jock Stewart is out of touch with the looming world of digital journalism. While he goes out of his way to mock those in authority by pretending to kowtow to them, he admits he does his best work by being an a-hole.

A mix of Don Rickles and Don Quixote, Stewart is the man for the job when the skirts are up and the chips are downHard-boiled reporter Jock Stewart wakes up on the morning after the Star-Gazer office party with a hangover and an old flame in his bed and he cuddles up with the mayor's wife in the back seat of a 1953 Desoto.

Between these defining moments, he investigates the theft of the mayor's race horse Sea of Fire and the murder of his publisher's girlfriend, Bambi Hill. Stewart discovers the truth for his news stories via an interview style based on lies, pretense and audacious behavior

Members Reviews:

Fast-moving & Fun read. It's Film Noir for the 21st century.

The story is as interesting as its title suggests. How does a Sea of Fire go missing? Easily enough if it's the name of a race horse. Jock Stewart is an old school journalism kind of reporter, cut from the same cloth as Sam Spade and other film noir types. He's got sarcasm oozing from every pore, and as often as not, it gets him into lots of trouble with just about everyone, which makes for lots of plot twists and turns. Plenty of memorable characters reside in Jock's home town, like a perpetually doughnut-eating cop by the name of Kruller. Those kind of little word plays and the intentional use of old clichés will make you laugh out loud. Jock projects himself as a hard core kind of guy, but deep down he's a softie. If you're looking for something different to entertain you, check out Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of FIre.

Had Me Laughing on First Page

Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire is the first novel starring the wise-cracking journalist who heretofore has appeared in the Morning Satirical New blog and in the satire news article collection The Worst of Jock Stewart. (Jock Stewart is rumored to be the alter-ego of author Malcolm R. Campbell.) Jock Stewart is an old school journalist who started his career by handsetting metal type and doesn't appreciate the nuances of the upcoming digital news age as much as his editor wishes he would. As the Star-Gazer newspaper transitions toward a paperless future where Jock will no longer "report" the news, but merely "facilitate" discussion between (unpaid) bloggers and Internet users, Jock struggles to complete his one last, real news assignment. Unfortunately, the missing race horse Sea of Fire just refuses to turn up; his owners can't even commit to admitting he's been stolen, and the #1 suspect is Jock's on-again-off-again girlfriend, last seen leaving Jock's house without her little black dress. Then, there's the murder ...

First of all, I have to say that you shouldn't read this book for the mystery. I couldn't summon much concern for a race horse that may or may not have been stolen, and I never had any doubt about the mastermind behind the murder. The pleasure in reading this book is in the humor - rather in the vein of Joan Hess's Maggody series.

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Title: Big Lake Lynching

Author: Nick Russell

Narrator: Bruce Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-13

Publisher: Nick Russell

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

When a young Apache man is found hanging from a tree on Cat Mountain, Sheriff Jim Weber and FBI agent Larry Parks go on the hunt for the killers and by the time their investigation is over, the idealistic cover is ripped from the little mountain town of Big Lake, revealing old prejudices, resentments, and hatred. In their search for justice, Sheriff Weber and Parks encounter Native American activists, a kinky couple whose passion burns as hot as their tempers, a teenager with excess baggage, and a father and son team of small town bullies, to name just a few. Many of the characters that made the original Big Lake audiobook are back, along with some new ones listeners will remember for a long time.

Members Reviews:

Loved it

I'm normally a horror/ghost story fan and haven't tried this sort of book before. All I can say is, what a breath of fresh air.

The characters are well developed and entertaining, there is a nice balance of storyline, action and humour. An altogether entertaining experience.

Reading has become more of a challenge for me due to failing eyesight, so I went for the audio book version. It was perfectly read/acted and added to the story.

As you may have guessed, I loved it.

Looking forward to the next one.

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Title: End Of An Era

Subtitle: Cooper Collection 041

Author: Bill Bernico

Narrator: Ted Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-13

Publisher: Downwind Publications

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

It's 2002 now and Matt's 91. Clay is 52 and his grandson, Elliott is 22. Elliott wants to be a writer and has asked grandpa Matt if he and his private eye exploits would like to be the subject of his first book. Matt agrees and tells Elliott the story of how it all began back in the 1930s.

This story starts in 1934 and has Matt telling of his beginnings in the Chicago Police Department, his move to Los Angeles, his beginnings in the Los Angeles Police Department, his first marriage to Stella and life after her death.

If you've been following the Matt Cooper series, this story may help fill in some of the blanks you may have been wondering about (I've been wondering about them myself).

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Title: The Dog Who Bit a Policeman

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: John McLain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

An international gang war chooses Moscow as its battlefield.

Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has adapted well to life without communism. But under the Soviets, blood feuds were pursued in the dark halls of bureaucracy, and now they take place in the streets. An international drug ring has chosen Moscow as its next port of call, and the only thing standing in its way is the budding Russian mob, headed by a young man whose brutality is matched only by his madness. In a gang war of this magnitude, no civilian is safe.

As Rostnikov tries to stop an army of two-legged killers, his cohorts at the Moscow police department take on the four-legged variety. Dogfighting in Moscow is big business, and interests in this illegal sport stretch to the highest reaches of their corrupt department. In the new Moscow, death and profit go hand in hand.

Members Reviews:

Unable to play this on any of my media players..

What disappointed you about The Dog Who Bit a Policeman?

Unable to play this on anything I currently own. not this computer, not my cd player(s) nothing very sad..will not order again from Amazon..not buying new equipment..living on very fixed income..(until SS is taken away by Mr. Trump)

What could Stuart M. Kaminsky have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Nothing I love his books

How did the narrator detract from the book?

How would I know..see heading

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

frustration..gave up trying to listen to it.

Any additional comments?

Can I send it back to you??? never used if you read above

Enjoy Rostnikov stories, not so much this topic.

I'm really enjoying the Inspector Rostnikov series about the Russian detective, but I had a hard time reading parts of this one since one of the main topics was catching a dog fighting ring and it had some dog fight scenes. I would have liked a different topic.

I think that dog fighting is horrific and would not have read this book if it had not been a Rostnikov story.

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Title: Rostnikov's Vacation

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: John McLain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Police Procedurals

Publisher's Summary:

In the faltering Soviet Union, the KGB will do anything to hold on to power.

A Jewish man in a squalid government flat finds a killer in his shower. A young punk girl hurtles naked through the window of her apartment. And in the Crimea, at a health retreat for mid-level functionaries, an aging policemans death is made to look like heart failure.

Its this last murder that catches Porfiry Rostnikovs attention. The inspectors wife is recovering from brain surgery, and his superiors at the Moscow police insist he accompany her to the Crimea. There he meets Georgi Vasilievich, a former colleague suffering from emphysema, a bad heart, and an inability to stop working. He is investigating a high-level conspiracy when he dies, and Rostnikov inherits the case, putting him on the trail of a gang of hardline security men who refuse to give up the Soviet dream - and who will go to murderous lengths to ensure that perestroika never comes to pass.

Members Reviews:

As always Kaminsky delivers

This is a convoluted story about a plot to murder Russian leaders. Rostnikov, as always is able to unravel the knot, For those us who have grown fond of the protagonist, it is a very good listen. I would advise the reader to enjoy earlier books in the series, before listening to this one.