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Title: A Stolen Season

Subtitle: Alex McKnight #7

Author: Steve Hamilton

Narrator: Jim Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-16-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

He couldn't be more wrong.

It's not enough that Natalie Reynaud, the woman who has become the center of his life, is five hundred miles away, working a dangerous undercover operation in Toronto. Now Alex has even more problems when the men from the boat get tangled up with his best friend, Vinnie. It's all Alex can do to keep Vinnie from killing them or being killed by them.

With Vinnie in danger on one side of the border, and Natalie in just as much danger on the other, what comes next will be the absolute darkest hour of Alex's life, beyond anything he's ever faced before.

Members Reviews:

Good Story; distracting narration

While this is the first audiobook of his that I've read, I'm a fan of Steve Hamilton, and have enjoyed his other books. I still have two to read yet.

I was distracted and annoyed by the narrator's strange dialects for Canadian and Indian characters; even stranger-sounding attempts at female voices.

I would have preferred a straight reading, without the voice "acting". In one instance, dramatic whispers were very difficult to understand, even when I replayed that section with increased volume.

There are a couple more Hamilton books I've been looking forward to, but I have serious doubts of buying audio books of they're narrated by the same person.

easy to listen to

I don't know why this was so enjoyable it may not be the greatest story in the world nor is it a literary tresure. It is some great storytelling.

It didn't suffer from unbelievable plot twists it was a pleasurable experience start to finish. Never slow without forced action. Good character development.... I have to get more from this author.

Repeated a lot of back story

This is number 7 in the Steve Hamilton series and there is a great deal of repetition recapping everything that happened in the first six books. I would have preferred more focus on this story as i have read the first six books...but still a good story a good read.

reLly enjoy this series.

grest read or audio book. Will there be anofher book in tthis series coming outout ?soon I .?love you series.

No Second Amendment

What would have made A Stolen Season better?

I am tired of paying for books that are supposed to be mysteries but turnout to be political positions. This is the case with Stolen Season. Throughout the book the evils of hand guns is pushed. The ending of the book could be a speech given by the anti-gun lobby president.

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Titel: Sakrileg (Robert Langdon 2) [German Edition]

Autor:: Dan Brown

Erzähler: Wolfgang Pampel

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 17 hrs and 32 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-15-08

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Robert Langdon, Symbolologe aus Harvard, erhält in Paris einen merkwürdigen Anruf: Der Chefkurator des Louvre wurde ermordet aufgefunden. Bei seiner Suche nach den Hintergründen der Tat wird er von Sophie Neveu unterstützt, einer Kryptologin der Pariser Polizei und Enkelin des ermordeten Kurators. Von ihr erfährt er auch, dass der Sions-Bruderschaft angehörte, einer Bruderschaft, die seit Jahrhunderten ein dunkles Geheimnis wahrt.

(c)+(p) 2008 Lübbe Audio

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Title: The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

Subtitle: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Davina Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 274 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The fifth novel in New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith's beloved Isabel Dalhousie series has the ethical problem solver from Edinburgh finding comforts in unlikely places.

©2008 Alexander McCall Smith; (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

Members Reviews:

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

Another pleasant visit with Isabel Dalhousie. The narrator, Davina Porter, is absolutely terrific!

Too insecure!

What happened to the confident Isabel? She was so obsessed with Jamie! This was my least favorite book of the series.

Thought provoking and still thoroughly enjoyable.

Such a pleasure to find an enjoyable novel with well drawn likeable characters wrapped in a philosophical discussion. Isabel ponders ideas we all should consider.

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Title: Hunting Fear

Author: Kay Hooper

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 172 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

He's no ordinary cop. Lucas Jordan, a key agent and profiler in Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit, has an extraordinary skill: he locates missing people. But his uncanny ability comes with a price, and his methods rouse mistrust in the hard-nosed cops forced to call him into their investigations.

Now Jordan has come to Clayton County, North Carolina, where the latest in a string of kidnapping victims has turned up dead. Complicating the situation is the presence - and predictions - of someone who's even more of an outsider than Jordan himself: carnival psychic Samantha Burke, a woman out of his own haunted past. Her warnings meet with skepticism from the local police but spur Jordan on to do what he does best: hunt fear.

But the killer he is hunting is hunting Jordan - and he's already several moves ahead in a twisted game whose rules Jordan must learn in order to have a fighting chance. For his psychopathic opponent has extended a very personal challenge, and he's about to threaten the one life the profiler values even more than his own.

Members Reviews:

Always a cliffhanger!

What did you love best about Hunting Fear?

The pace of these Special Unit novels is great. There's always a surprise ending.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Lucas is the brooding hero that makes the romance work.

Have you listened to any of Dick Hills other performances before? How does this one compare?

Dick Hill has the voice to keep one riveted.

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

Not really...I'd rather it went on forever.

Any additional comments?

Kay Hooper does the paranormal better than anyone else.

Great story, but not my favorite performance

Where does Hunting Fear rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Hunting Fear is the seventh Kay Hooper book I have listened to from Audible. The story was just as interesting and compelling as the previous six, but I found the production of this particular book to be less to my taste.

Did Dick Hill do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

The characters were well differentiated - but this was accomplished by giving a lot of characters accents that I personally found very distracting. I just don't think everyone needs an accent. And for a character like Bishop, who has a role in every novel, to suddenly have an accent that he never previously had, is beyond distracting. I don't want to be thinking, "why does he sound like that? what accent is that even supposed to be?" when I should just be enjoying the story.

Details like having the sound change when a character was talking through a phone or listening to a report on the radio were also distracting.

I think I prefer to imagine these things rather than having them explicitly performed for me. I had my own imagined version of Bishop and his team after six books, and this performance clashed with my version to such an extent that I was pulled out of the story by it. I think maybe the reading needs to be a little more neutral, especially when it is part of a series with recurring characters but different readers.

So the performance was a detraction, but even so, I really liked the story and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.

Good filler book

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I listened to the end but mostly because I needed to fill the time. It didn't keep me on the edge of the seat.

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Title: The Fraternity of the Stone

Author: David Morrell

Narrator: George Ralph

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 105 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Drew Maclane was a star agent - until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew, and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses...someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played.

Cast of performers: George Ralph (narrator), Jean Reed Bahle, Christy L. Beatty, Paul Dreher, II, Dale Hull, Jonathon Hull, Brian K. Johnson, Len Kopka, Gladys Long, Michael Page, and Lowell George Seibel.

Critic Reviews:

"As cunningly woven as a spider's web." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Painful to listen to

I read the book in the 80's, enjoyed it. Thought I'd revisit it via Audible. The narration really sucks. The cuts between the voices sound artificial. My guess is that the individual characters and narration were all recorded separately, then some ham fisted editor spliced them altogether, removing much needed pauses between them. The individual bits also sound like they were recorded in different rooms. While a small distraction when you hear that in a book every hour or so, it's very bad when it's every few seconds, and between 2 characters supposedly talking in the same room.

David Morrell should be ticked off and push to get it re-recorded by Scott Brick

Can't get past the narration!

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Someone on meth! The narrator races through the story like he's being paid to screw it up!

If youve listened to books by David Morrell before, how does this one compare?

I really enjoyed Morrell's books in the 80's so I tried "Brotherhood of the Rose" on audio. The narration and the voice work made it a horrible listen. So I see that there is no name for a narrator on this book but Ralph's name is presented on the others so I'm thinking "hmmm, maybe the first book was a performance wash since they wouldn't list the reader's name". I then forged on to try this one.

I was wrong....1 credit wrong! I won't waste money on another and I don't think I can finish this one, the voice work is so terrible.

Would you be willing to try another one of George Ralphs performances?

NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!

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

Anger and disappointment. I've read other reviews so I know I'm not alone in my frustration. Why would you keep compounding your losses?

Any additional comments?

Morrell's books were always a lot of fun and a great distraction from everyday life. They are done a great injustice by the audio performances on the two novels I've listened to. As I see George Ralph's name on other Morrell audio novels it cements my decision to not waste another credit.

Finished listening, but made me nuts!

This book's plot got odder and odder and less believable as it plodded on to the finish. The different characters' voices surprised me each time they came on. I was really relieved when the book was over.

Good Story - Terrible Narrator

While I enjoyed the storyline and the main character(s) were intriguing, the narrator ruined the experience. Other than the dialogue, which he read reasonably well, he read much too rapidly and mechanically.

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Title: Executive Privilege

Author: Phillip Margolin

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-08

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 762 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Includes a teaser excerpt from Capitol Murder, the third book in the Washington Trilogy!

The first book in Phillip Margolins New York Times best-selling Washington Trilogy, a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth.

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to run for her life.

In Oregon, Brad Miller, a junior associate in a huge law firm is working on the appeal of a convicted serial killer. Clarence Little, now on death row, claims he was framed for the murder of a teenager who, at the time of her death, worked for the then governor, Christopher Farrington. Suddenly, a small-time private eye and a fledgling lawyer find themselves in possession of evidence that suggests that someone in the White House is a murderer. Their only problem? Staying alive long enough to prove it.

Executive Privilege, with its nonstop action, unforgettable characters, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, proves once again that Phillip Margolinwhose work has been hailed as "frighteningly plausible" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and "twisted and brilliant" (Chicago Tribune)belongs in the top echelon of thriller writers.

Members Reviews:

A good listen

Okay, the dialogue is not great, but the book is a pretty good read. If you have listened to as many suspense / thrillers as I have, you appreciate a slightly different angle that this book provides with the political involvement. The narration is solid.

Only one part is fiction..

Normally I stay away from legal thrillers, and those that involve politics? Never. But I saw this book listed, and remembered that many years ago, I'd gone to a book signing by Phillip Margolin in Palo Alto. Funny things is, I still remember many of the things Margolin said that night -- it was one of the best author signings I've ever been to.

Unlike many authors who seem to have their main objective as getting done with this event and getting out of there, Margolin seemed to enjoy chatting with readers. Much more than most authors, he talked about himself, offering personal details, how several of his books came to be, how he worked, and more. Then someone asked him what his favorite book was, and noting that he -- like most of us -- had many favorites, he named "Stone City" by Mitchell Smith. I walked out of that bookstore that night not only with several of Margolin's books, but also 'Stone City', which is indeed a very good book.

I'm not sure why, but at some point I didn't keep up with Margolin's books, but now, seeing the Audible edition of 'Executive Privilege'. it was time to jump back in. Glad I did. I listened to this book in just two days -- I should have quit on that second day, done something else, but decided to keep doing household tasks so I could keep listening.

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Title: Dead Time

Author: Stephen White

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 169 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Enlisting the help of friend and detective Sam Purdy, Alan finds himself pitted against new demons and unseen enemies as he tries to uncover the connection between the unexplained disappearance at the Grand Canyon and Merideth's missing surrogate. The clock is ticking, and as Alan's and Sam's investigations take them from New York City to Los Angeles to the cavernous reaches of the Canyon itself, Alan unearths a series of secrets and deceptions that someone wishes to keep buried at all costs.

Critic Reviews:

"White's imaginative and clinical mind seems to know no boundaries in inventing creative plots. And his knowledge of the human psyche provides insights about the workings of a mind skewed by trauma or uncommon life experiences." (Rocky Mountain News)

"Because of its multiple subplots and points of view, many performers might find this story daunting. Not Dick Hill." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

Loved it

I've been a Stephen White fan for years-- his character Alan Gregory is a clinical psychologist who is continually pulled into the middle of gruesome crimes-- not unlike Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware-- except I find White's books more suspenseful, intelligent, and coherent. So I was thrilled to finally see a White book available on Audible! While 'Dead Time' is probably not White's best, I thought it was right up there-- lots of twists and turns, a couple of compelling subplots, and some great nailbiting moments. Unlike the other reviewer, I really like the way White takes his time to develop conversations and settings-- it facilitates the evolution of the characters and their relationships and ultimately just makes me care that much more about what happens to them.

I was a little worried I might not like the way the reader interpreted the characters I've grown so fond of, but he didn't let me down-- and he does an especially good "bad guy" voice!

For me, this was one I couldn't stop listening to until I finished. Please, Audible, let's have some more of White's books on here!

Definitely not my favorite...

I am a big Stephen White fan but this is one of my least favorite books that he has published. I kept waiting for it to get more exciting and found some of the dialogue between Alan and Sam to drone on and on unnecessarily. When the climax does come in the end and you find out "who done it" it didn't get any better for me. I found it too predictable. I still listened all the way to the end but if this had been my first book of his I would not have read any more of his books. Big disappointment after such books as Dry Ice and Cold Case etc.

Very good listen

"Dead Time" is the first book of Stephen White's I've read with the main character of Alan Gregory. He's a thoroughly likable person - and funny. It's not a funny book but Gregory's self-examination and thoughts make it so at times. He's totally unassuming, thoroughly human and smart. I'll read other books with Alan Gregory soon. Enjoy.

too many irrelevant detils

some chapters dragged on with minutiae. plot was great, though. oh, the tangled web we weave...

Boring and Confusing

I've liked other of Stephen White's books.

For me, there were too many characters, who popped up here and there to explain the story, but whom we never got to know except as placeholders.

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Title: Curse of the Spellmans

Author: Lisa Lutz

Narrator: Ari Graynor

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-08

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 239 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times best seller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly funny story of suspicion, surveillance, and surprise.

When Izzy Spellman, PI, is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as a job hazard. She's been (obsessively) keeping surveillance on a suspicious next door neighbor (suspect's name: John Brown), convinced he's up to no good - even if her parents (the management at Spellman Investigations) are not.

When the (displeased) management refuses to bail Izzy out, it is Morty, Izzy's octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defense, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and diner sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth - as only she, a 30-year-old licensed professional, can.

When not compiling Suspicious Behavior Reports on all her family members, staking out her neighbor, or trying to keep her sister, Rae, from stalking her "best friend", Inspector Henry Stone, Izzy has been busy attempting to apprehend the copycat vandal whose attacks on Mrs. Chandler's holiday lawn tableaux perfectly and eerily match a series of crimes from 1991-92, when Izzy and her best friend, Petra, happened to be at their most rebellious and delinquent. As Curse of the Spellmans unfolds, it's clear that Morty may be on retainer, but Izzy is still very much on the case...er, cases...her own and that of every other Spellman family member.

(Re)meet the Spellmans, a family in which eavesdropping is a mandatory skill, locks are meant to be picked, past missteps are never forgotten, and blackmail is the preferred form of negotiation - all in the name of unconditional love.

Members Reviews:

What a difference the narrator makes

I listened to these books out of sequence, I first listened to the later books ready by Christina Moore. The story and maybe more importantly the performance of these books was hilarious. Ms. Moore;s dead pan deliver is spot on for this character. Now, we come to Ari Graynor, who sounds like a high school English Lit student reading her paper aloud to the class. No inflection, no dramatic performance, just....blah. i made the mistake of purchasing these two books without listening to her. Lesson learned. I don't know if I'll be able to finish them.

Great fun

I think the Spellmans are great fun. I read the first book, thought it was hilarious, and wondered whether the reader of an audiobook would do justice to the quirky characters. I was pleasantly surprised; the reader does a superb job, and the second book is just as funny as the first. Recommended light reading.

But why?

Why abridged? Why this terrible narrator? I love this series and I've listened to it several times since I purchased, regularly skipping over this book and the next because the performances are so terrible. I listened to it recently just to give it another shot. Unbearable. Luckily I was able to find at least book 3 (Revenge of the Spellmans) read by Christina Moore on Amazon. Loading up the 8 CDs worth of tracks is worth it to not have to listen to Ari again. If a Christina Moore version of this book exists, please please please make it available.

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Title: The Run

Author: Stuart Woods

Narrator: Ken Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-07

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 165 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous and deadly than Will and his wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine. A decent, courageous, and principled man, Will soon learns he has more than one opponent with whom he must contend. Thrust into the national spotlight as never before, he becomes the target of clandestine forces from the past who will use all their money and influence to stop him dead in his tracks. Now Will isn't just running for president...he's running for his life.

Filled with all the suspense and roller-coaster plot twists that have become Stuart Wood's trademark, The Run is this master storyteller at his best.

Critic Reviews:

"Woods is a no-nonsense, slam-bang storyteller." (Chicago Tribune)

Members Reviews:

Kinda predictable Stuart Woods. There is a bonus.

Stuart Woods began the saga of Will Lee in his first book, Chiefs, which is, IMHO, way better than The Run. By the time of this book Mr. Woods had been cranking these out at a really fast pace, and the relationship between quality and quantity is inverse, if I may be slightly obtuse. Mr. Woods knows how to tie the maiden to the railroad tracks, and start the train huffing down at her. He even creates a good Snively Whiplash, for those of you who remember Bullwinkle the Moose. I'll stop being obtuse. By now Senator Will Lee is in his second term as the senator from Georgia. His wife Kate is rapidly rising in the ranks of the CIA. The president falls and slips into a coma. Joe Adams, the Veep, has early Alzheimer's disease, a fact known by only a few Washington insiders. So, Will decides to announce his candidacy for the presidency. Political infighting of the highest order ensues. Senator Lee's life is endangered by a small group of right-wingnuts ensconced in your typical bomb-defense-enforced cabin in the Idaho woods. Political terrorism ensues. This kind of plot is a thing which is being cranked out by the bushels by the Nelson DeMilles and Brad Thors of the world, and fine writers they are. It sells copies. It's not bad writing. Maybe it's just that I recently read All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, and this stuff, by comparison to that, is thin gruel, indeed.

The bonus, quite unexpectedly, is that the narrator of this book is not Ken Howard, but Frank Muller. This is just about the only reason I would buy a book like this. Having listened to so much of Frank's truly marvelous work, I'm afraid I am down to stems and seeds now, if you know what I mean. Frank is a little rushed here by the production people, which happens when he is forced to read sub-par writing, but even this pressure can't push his immense talent down. He makes this stuff exciting, even though we all know that the good guys will win, and the truly sleazy bad guys will lose. Why else do we read? (Wait, There must be a better reason than that.) The secret service intrudes on the lives of Will and Kate, the plot accelerates to the screeching point, and everyone, I guess, is satisfied. If this is the kind of stuff you take to the beach, go right ahead. Don't forget the hat and suntan lotion. Or maybe just fall asleep for a couple of chapters.

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Title: Interred with Their Bones

Author: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Narrator: Kathleen McNenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-07

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 82 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a killer and decipher a tantalizing string of clues, hidden in the words of Shakespeare, that may unlock literary history's greatest secret.

Critic Reviews:

"Agile...this spirited and action-packed novel delivers constant excitement." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

disappointing narration

I think this was a good book, but the narration was so bad that it ruined it for me. I stuck with it due to the story, but it was sometimes a difficulty. I think it was just a very bad match of narrator to book.

scholarly but uneven

There are parts to this story that are exciting in the best tradition of an "on the run" thriller. There are too many other parts where the author seems to argue an academic thesis through the medium of a thriller. The story drags at these points which far exceed the rapid-paced action sequences.

The heroine is an American, so it makes sense to have an American narrator. However, so many of the characters are British (and the text describes their regional accents), which throws into sharp relief the inability of the narrator to create credible males accents from Britain.

Trimmed to half the length and with a co-narrator to do the many British male voices, this might have been a top-class listen

Interred With Their Bones

I actually read this book first but it was so full of twists and turns and details about Shakespeare, I missed some the first time around. I still couldn't put it down listeneng to it. For anyone who loves murder mysteries combined with history, and is tired of figuring out the villian half way through the book, this is a challenge!There is nothing predictable about it. I hope there are more books from this author in the future.It was a great first book and I am anxious to see how she outdoes it.

Just what you would expect

I like these "what if" kind of books, and this one was no exception. You get exactly what you would expect -- a relatively quick paced, globe-trotting type of adventure. But, with that you have to excuse the characters' superhuman leaps of logic that just about always turn out to be true. Sometimes these can be silly, but I would rather accept it than listen for extra hours of wrong turns and dead-ends. Overall, a fun book to listen to, the narrator was pretty good. I would get the sequel.

A lot of fun

... and boy! does the author know her way around Harvard! A great read for a winter's day.