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Title: The Dark Inside

Subtitle: Charlie Yates, Book 1

Author: Rod Reynolds

Narrator: John Moraitis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-15

Publisher: Whole Story AudioBooks

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Texarkana, 1946. Disgraced New York reporter Charlie Yates has been sent to cover the story of a spate of brutal murders - young couples who've been slaughtered at a local date spot.

Charlie finds himself drawn into the case by the beautiful and fiery Lizzie, sister to one of the victims. But Charlie has his own demons to fight, and he discovers that the people of Texarkana have secrets that they want kept hidden.

Members Reviews:

Gripping - you will be thinking about the story...racing to get back to it!

This novel has so many twists and turns....I loved it. One of those books you find yourself thinking about and wondering when you can next get back to reading it! A great read! Looking forward to the next one!

Thriller set in small town America (where all is not as it seemsâ)

It must be fateâ The Dark Inside is the third US based debut novel by a British writer that I have read in the past few months. Why the fascination? The other two were the excellent The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty and the equally excellent The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock. If the standard were to be kept up I would be in for a treat â and I was.

âI arrived in town four days after the latest killings. Tall pines lined the road in. They only petered out the last mile, where the Texas-Pacific line ran parallel to the blacktop, gunmetal rails running off into the distance. A sign at the town limits read TEXARKANA, USA IS TWICE AS NICE. A dog cocked its leg and took a piss against it as I passedâ. The words of disgraced New York journalist Charlie Yates as he drives into town to investigate the horrific murders of courting couples â each in a car on a Saturday night in a secluded âloversâ laneâ. Charlie does not remotely wish to be in Texarkana on the Texas / Arkansas border (almost anywhere else on earth would be preferable), the assignment is punishment for falling out with his editor. He works out of the local newspaper offices where he is not exactly made welcome by the local editor and staff. Texarkana is a strange place where the paper prints what it is told to print by the local police department, and where corruption and hidden influence is rife. Not the place for an essentially honest reporter â and Charlie soon makes enemies. He works with the sister of a girl who just survived the first attack (but is now traumatised in hospital) to try and get to the bottom of what is happening â and to prevent more murders. The Dark Inside is a real page-turner with thrills a plenty as the story progresses. I patted myself on the back for spotting the murderer about 100 pages from the end but the final denouement was far more complex and clever than I had expected it to be. A really well thought through and well constructed plotâ

The copy of The Dark Inside that I read had a flash on the cover telling me that the book was âFor Fans of True Detectiveâ. This really drew me inâ (as indeed did the excellent cover itself). True Detective (especially Series 1 with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson set in Louisiana) is quite brilliant television. But a lot depends on the relationships, at times somewhat complex, and on the crisp dialogue between the two sets of detectives. That is hard to reproduce in a novel â and I donât think Reynolds actually tries that hard at characterisation. He is content with the pace and excitement of the book.

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Título: El mapa de un crimen [The Map of a Crime]

Autor: Paco López Mengual

Narrador: Antonio Ramírez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 30 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 09-01-15

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Resumen del editor:

Más allá de una trama apasionante que mantiene al lector enganchado literalmente hasta la última página, El mapa de un crimen nos ofrece el retrato de una pequeña ciudad y el ambiente de España el franquismo.Una novela muy lograda de un autor sorprendente, ambientada en una pequeña ciudad durante la posguerra. Esta obra es un auténtico descubrimiento.

Un domingo de mayo de 1952, la navaja de un barbero cortó el aliento de un tranquilo pueblo del Levante español: ese día, un farmacéutico apellidado Maqueda murió asesinado ante un numeroso grupo de testigos que a esa hora paseaba por la calle principal del pueblo. El Garra, el mozo de barbería que cometió el crimen, estaba enamorado en secreto de Isabel, la hermosa mujer con la que el boticario iba a contraer matrimonio. Medio siglo después, el narrador de esta historia, obsesionado por el enigmático crimen que tantas veces oyera narrar desde niño, decide bucear en el pasado para desvelar sus entresijos. Capítulo a capítulo, va descubriendo las claves que hacen que la historia final resulte muy distinta a la que su madre cada tarde le contaba mientras le daba de merendar.

El mapa de un crimen es un triángulo amoroso ambientado en los duros años de la posguerra, donde sus protagonistas viven marcados por los sucesos ocurridos quince años antes, durante la Guerra Civil.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Hatter

Author: Mark Wells

Narrator: John Maddaloni

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-15

Publisher: Mark Wells

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A thriller about a fictional serial killer who came before Jack the Ripper. This story contains factual and fictional characters, factual and fictional places, mild sexual references, and some violence.

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Title: The Gun Brand

Author: Wayne C. Lee

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-15

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Dan Blake arrived in Winner as a man bound on a mission.... This is the story of a man driven by hate, with a lust for revenge.

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Title: Outlaws All

Author: Wayne D Overholser

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-15

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A Western trio of renegades, outlaws and the Alaskan gold rush days of the 1890s.

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

Slow read

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Title: The Eye of the Hawk

Author: P. A. Bechko

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-15

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When renowned gunslinger Ethan Torregrossa loses his memory after an ambush, his instinct takes him to California. Can he help Rona Burr overcome a murderous rival? Will he even remember her?

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Title: The Cañon of Maverick Brand

Author: Frank Bonham

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-15

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Here are three novellas - tales of adventure and intrigue, action and emotion - all set in the sweeping landscape of the Old West that Bonham has made his own.

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Title: The Beast in Cañada Diablo

Author: Les Savage Jr.

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-15

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A trio of short stories from the incomparable Les Savage, Jr., the title story of which combines the thrills and action of a traditional Western with a tale of gripping horror.

©2004 Golden West Literary Agency (P)2015 Isis Publishing Ltd

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Title: Love and Treasure

Author: Ayelet Waldman

Narrator: Jonathan Davis, Paul Hecht

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-15

Publisher: Lamplight Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Three men - an American infantry captain in World War II, an Israeli-born dealer in art stolen by the Nazis, and a pioneering psychiatrist in fin-de-siècle Budapest - find their carefully wrought lives turned upside down by three women. A mystery: Where does the worth of people and its treasures truly lie? What is the value of a gift when giver and recipient have been lost - of a love offering when the beloved is no more?

Critic Reviews:

"Waldman skilfully interweaves this striking and enigmatic object - a symbol, as the book progresses, of fatal bad luck - into an ambitious sweep of history." (New York Times)

"Love & Treasure is like the treasure train it chases: fast-paced, bound by a fierce mission, full of bright secrets and racingly, relentlessly moving." (Lemony Snicket)

Members Reviews:

I was disappointed in this novel and it became a chore

I was disappointed in this novel and it became a chore, instead of a pleasure, to read. The plot was rambling and the characters poorly developed. I found the three time periods disjointed and not nearly as well-handled as the author of âThe Last Painting of Sara de Vosâ.

The first part of the novel, describing Jack Wiseman and his moral dilemma with the contents of the Gold Train, was long-winded. I wanted to like Wiseman but his weakness turned me off â he offered no protest to the continual looting of the train and eventually succumbed to the temptation himself. Likewise I found his obsession with Ilona to be limp-wristed and I believe she also found him this way, otherwise she may have not left him and travelled to Israel. And her exit from the story did not feel complete â I was expecting her to reappear later in the story.

I also did not connect with the second part of the novel, with Wisemanâs granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and her search for the owner of the pendant. The art wheeler and dealer seemed to fall head over heels in love with her very quickly.

The third part of the novel began well. Here, I thought, the novel will take the reader finally to the climax and we will discover the owner of the pendant. However, this ownership was revealed quite early and, instead of developing the fascinating owner, the dwarf Gisella, her friend Nina somehow became the focus. I thought Gisella should have been the protagonist. As for Dr Zobel, he wavered between sexual predator and unconvincing kindly uncle. He was two-faced, on one hand telling Nina he agreed with her sentiments about the treatment of servant girls, but on the other, revealing that his sympathies really lay with the young men and had used a serving girl himself in his younger days.

Finally, it seemed a travesty that the reader knew Natalie had returned the pendant unwittingly to the rightful heir yet Natalie remained unaware of it.

too convoluted -- too long

Not my favorite read this summer ... I am an avid reader of all things connected to

WWII -- this is a let down -- the female protagonist is a disappointing cardboard cut out

The main threads get lost in the overall tapestry, which ultimately does not hold together that well at all.

Awkward, forced constructs and characters - yet ultimately a brave work

This is a very courageous, sweeping and ambitious novel by Ayelet. The novel has many aspects that are laudable - most obviously an imaginative re-working of the topic that non of us - Jew or gentile or whatever - should ever forget.

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Title: Death Rides the Denver Stage

Author: Lewis B. Patten

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-15

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Against the backdrop of civil strife and treachery, men and women alike are caught up in the desperate drama of war.

Members Reviews:

Not Great, but Not Bad either

Set in the run up to the Civil WAr in Colorado, this novel is a revenge yarn that reads like it was too padded. At least, for my tastes. The central character spends an awful lot of time recovering from injuries and this strikes me as an over used plot device in this instance.

A bit strong on the lusty woman side of things for some, I would imagine, but nothing blatant either.

Worth a read, but it's an average book.