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Titre: Nymphéas noirs

Auteur: Michel Bussi

Narrateur: Colette Sodoyez

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 13 hrs and 38 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 01-20-16

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 11 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Tout n'est qu'illusion, surtout quand un jeu de miroirs multiplie les indices et brouille les pistes. Pourtant les meurtres qui troublent la quiétude de Giverny, le village cher à Claude Monet, sont bien réels. Au cœur de l'intrigue, trois femmes : une fillette douée pour la peinture, une institutrice redoutablement séduisante et une vieille femme aux yeux de hibou qui voit et sait tout. Et puis, bien sûr, une passion dévastatrice. Le tout sur fond de rumeur de toiles perdues ou volées, dont les fameux Nymphéas noirs. Perdues ou volées, telles les illusions quand passé et présent se confondent et que jeunesse et mort défient le temps.

©2010 Presses de la Cité, un département de Place des Éditeurs (P)2015 Audiolib

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle :

"Un petit bijou ! Intelligent, classique, classieux, à l'intrigue originale et à la fin surprenante. Ce roman policier est un enchantement qui vous surprendra par son humour et sa chaleur humaine. Derrière une apparente simplicité se cache un suspense qui égale les plus doués."

La griffe noire

Avis des membres:

Great book!

I can usually figure out the solution to most mysteries, but this one kept me guessing until near the end. I really enjoyed this book and its satisfying ending.

Five Stars

Loved this book. Reminded me so much of my visits to Giverny. Great story line.

J'ai juste commence le livre, mais j'aime beaucoup. ...

J'ai juste commence le livre, mais j'aime beaucoup. J'aime le style de l'auteur et comme elle melange le mystère avec l'endroit si connu de Giverny!

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Title: Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles (Dramatized)

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Dinnick

Narrator: Nicholas Briggs, Richard Earl, Samuel Clemens, John Banks, Barnaby Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-15

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Adapted by Richard Dinnick.

Young Dr. Mortimer ventures from Devonshire to Baker Street with news of the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Can it really be that the grisly legend of the hound of the Baskervilles might have something to do with the case?

Holmes will have none of it, but even he must accept that dark forces are at work. Dark forces that, it seems, Dr. Watson must face alone...afoot!

Critic Reviews:

"The real revelation is Nicholas Briggs's performance as Holmes. Confident and assured, yet understated, and shot through with just the right amount of emotion, bravado and eccentricity, Briggs has delivered one of the definitive portrayals of the character...along with Rathbone, Brett and Lewellyn." (Mass Movement Magazine)

"Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl, a formidable, intelligent duo, who make the most of their characters. Watson is especially important in the Big Finish productions, as his narration underpins the story to a greater extent than I can recall in any other such audio drama, and Richard Earl is fully equal to the task. This production of The Hound is nail-bitingly exciting, as it should be...." (The Sherlock Holmes Journal)

Members Reviews:

good

Good book and good darma I liked it a lot and would recommend it to fans of this story

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Title: The Axeman

Author: Ray Celestin

Narrator: Christopher Ragland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Ray Celestin garnered the CWA New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel with this critically acclaimed historical thriller.

New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca, and Ida all draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken, and a great storm will loom over the city....

Members Reviews:

COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, it highlights an interesting era in New Orleans history.

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

No, there were too many disparate story lines. Switching back and forth broke the tension.

How could the performance have been better?

Mr. Ragland did a good job of portraying the different characters. However, many of the unusual names and places are mispronounced. Having been born in New Orleans and being a lifelong resident of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, these mispronunciations take me right out of the story. The author got a few things wrong, too. Angola State Penitentiary is nowhere near Boutte (pronounced Bootee, not Bootay).

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

BEWARE THE AXEMAN!

I listened twice

The book was so interesting I listened twice. The first read I wandered from the mystery so taken was I by life in New Orleans in 1919. The second read I concentrated on following the threads of intrigue. I just might listen a third time.

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Titre: Travail soigné (Camille Verhœven 1)

Auteur: Pierre Lemaitre

Narrateur: Jacques Frantz

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-19-15

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Le premier roman de Pierre Lemaitre : un polar qui manipule autant ses personnages que ses auditeurs.

Dès le premier meurtre, épouvantable et déroutant, Camille Verhœven comprend que cette affaire ne ressemblera à aucune autre. Et il a raison. D'autres crimes se révèlent, horribles, gratuits...

La presse, le juge, le préfet se déchaînent bientôt contre la "méthode Verhoeven". Policier atypique, le commandant Verhoeven ne craint pas les affaires hors normes mais celle-ci va le placer totalement seul face à un assassin qui semble avoir tout prévu. Jusque dans le moindre détail. Jusqu'à la vie même de Camille.

©2006 / 2015 Pierre Lemaitre / Éditions du Masque, département des éditions Jean-Claude Lattès (P)2015 Audiolib

Avis des membres:

Detective meets his adversary through the novels read by the killer

Or âWhoâs following whom?â The killer now turned journalist follows dwarfish Detective Chief Inspector Camille Verhven in the writings for the newspapers while the detective follows the âNovelistâ through the Roman noir style of bloody murders.

Bon début d'une trilogie

Cette fausse trilogie de Pierre Lematre (qui comprend en fait 4 livres) est très bien écrite. Les personnages sont bien campés, toujours intéressants et en particulier Camille est très attachant. Sa vie privée évolue parallèlement à l'intrigue policière, alors que dans la plupart des romans policiers on a fort peu de détails sur l'enquteur. Bien sr ce genre de livre n'a pas le niveau du petit chef-d'oeuvre de Pierre Lematre, Au revoir là haut, mais c'est un livre qui tient en haleine et qu'on peut recommander sans arrière-pensée.

NOT WORTHWHILE

Based on the Black Dahlia murder of 1947 in California but transposed to France. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to just fill in the blanks with Paris landmarks and try to pass it off as original. There is even a long section quoting old news stories about the murder. If this isn't bad enough there is a scene at the end of chapter 8 where the detective's wife gives him a book of Caravaggio's paintings. He especially likeS the one of GOLIATH HOLDING DAVID'S HEAD. : "GOLIATH TENANT LA TETE DE DAVID!

J'adore!

Pierre Lematre porte bien son nom; un vrai matre! Quelle écriture, quelle imagination et quelle faon poignante de décrire les faces peu honorables de notre société. J'adore!

Ca c'est du policier! Fantastique. superbement ecrit, ...

Ca c'est du policier! Fantastique. superbement ecrit, captivant, horrifiant aussi, un des rares policiers ou l'emotion m'a submerge a un point de l'histoire. Une premiere. ;) Au top a cote de Vargas.

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Title: No Comfort for the Lost

Author: Nancy Herriman

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In this atmospheric historical mystery series debut, a courageous nurse and a war-scarred police detective in 1860s San Francisco champion the downtrodden and fight for justice.

After serving as a nurse in the Crimea, British-born Celia Davies left her privileged family for an impulsive marriage to a handsome Irishman. Patrick brought her to San Francisco's bustling shores but then disappeared and is now presumed dead. Determined to carry on, Celia partners with her half-Chinese cousin, Barbara, and her opinionated housekeeper, Addie, to open a free medical clinic for women who have nowhere else to turn. But Celia's carefully constructed peace crumbles when one of her Chinese patients is found brutally murdered, and Celia's hotheaded brother-in-law stands accused of the crime.

A veteran of America's civil war, detective Nicholas Greaves is intent on discovering the killer of the girl, whose ethnicity and gender render her as powerless in death as they did in life. Nicholas' efforts are complicated by Celia, who has a knack for walking into dangerous situations that may lead to answers or get them both killed. For as their inquiries take them from Chinatown's squalid back alleys to the Barbary Coast's violent shipping docks to the city's gilded parlors, Celia and Nicholas begin to suspect that someone very close to them holds the key to a murderous conspiracy.

Members Reviews:

No Feel for San Francisco

This is an adequate mystery with stock characters and no sense of place. Aside from some street names and a couple of inaccurate landmark references, this story might have been set in any 19th Century American city with a Chinese population. There is barely a hint of San Francisco in this novel which is disappointing since it's billed as a story of old San Francisco.

Unfulfilled hopes

This sounded like a story I'd enjoy, old San Francisco, medicine and nursing with a mystery driving the plot. It had the ingredients but failed miserably in narration and story. I couldn't finish! And I am practiced in sticking with a story until it grabs my attention. I can set something aside and return later when my mood is right to try it again. I wanted this to work, always looking for new series to get into. So I am sorry I didn't find it here.

Transports you to another time!

I enjoyed the descriptions of old San Francisco and the historical aspect of this novel. Whenever I would listen to it, I found myself transported to another place and time. The story was interesting and kept me intrigued throughout. Well done!

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Title: Death on the Cherwell

Author: Mavis Doriel Hay

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-15

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students and bad publicity for the college.

So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon only to find the drowned body of the college bursar floating in her canoe.

The police assume that a student prank got out of hand, but the resourceful Persephone girls suspect foul play,and take the investigation into their own hands. Soon they uncover the tangled secrets that led to the bursars death and the clues that point to a fellow student.

Members Reviews:

Oxford in the 1930's

This mystery is set in an Oxford women's college. Interestingly enough, it was published the same year as Dorothy Sayers' well known Lord Peter/Harriet Vane novel, also set in a fictional Oxford women's college. This is a shorter and much less complex novel, and I would never say that Hay was as good an author as Sayers, but I found it an interesting read/listen, for those interested in Golden Age mysteries and who would like to compare this version of Oxford with that in Gaudy Night. I have enjoyed the British Library Crime Classics series, and hope that more will be made available as audiobooks, hopefully Wispersinc for Voice compatible with the Kindle version.

Golden Age Detective Story

This book is one of the series of classic crime novels being issued by the British Library. It is set in Oxford and is very much of its period. Accept the world was different 80 odd years ago and you can enjoy it. It is well written and I definitely wanted to know what happened. It was not difficult to guess who had done it but that did not spoil the story.

Death on the Cherwell

I really like these 'between the wars' mysteries reissued by the British Library and Mavis Doriel Hay is a good example. She only wrote 3 books of which this, in my view, was her best.

The spoken word version is well produced and the reading is excellent. It captures the period very well and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Perhaps not to everyone's taste and to modern ears and may seem a bit anachronistic. But so it goes......

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Titre: L'homme qui souriait

Sous-titre: Une enquête du commissaire Wallander

Auteur: Henning Mankell

Narrateur: Marc-Henri Boisse

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 11 hrs and 55 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-03-15

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Une chaise au milieu de la route, dans le brouillard. Et sur cette chaise, un mannequin de taille humaine. Le vieil avocat Gustav Torstensson freine brutalement, sort de sa voiture. Ce sera son dernier geste d'homme vivant. Pendant ce temps, le commissaire Kurt Wallander erre sur les plages infinies de l'île danoise de Jylland. Il est venu là pour prendre une décision : quitter définitivement la police. C'est alors qu'une vieille connaissance, l'avocat Sten Torstensson, fait irruption dans sa retraite de vent et de dunes. Son père est mort sur une route aux environs d'Ystad ; il refuse de croire à la thèse de l'accident. Wallander, lui, refuse de l'aider.

Mais le jour où il retourne au commissariat pour signer enfin sa lettre de démission, il apprend l'assassinat de Sten Torstensson. Wallander déchire sa lettre. Dans la traque qui s'engage alors, il découvre un réseau criminel de nature effrayante. Derrière, tirant les ficelles, se profile un homme singulier. Un homme élégant et sûr de lui, habitué à ce qu'on lui obéisse. Un homme qui sourit toujours.

©2005 Éditions du Seuil (P)2011 Sixtrid SAS

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Titre: Les neuf dragons (Harry Bosch 15)

Auteur: Michael Connelly

Narrateur: Éric Herson-Macarel

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-02-15

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Rendez-vous donc service, Bosch, et laissez tomber. Nous sommes nombreux. Laisser tomber, bordel." Au commissariat de police de Los Angeles, ce genre d'appel anonyme ne surprend personne, et surtout pas Harry Bosch : dépêché depuis peu sur une affaire de meurtre dans le quartier chinois, il soupçonne des activités de racket des triades locales. En raccrochant, il est convaincu d'avoir vu juste. Reste à le prouver... Le principal suspect s'obstine dans son silence, et l'inspecteur Chu, son coéquipier détaché de l'Unité des Crimes Asiatiques, ne lui semble pas franchement digne de confiance.

Préoccupé par l'enquête, Bosch n'a pas trouvé le temps de lire le message vidéo envoyé par sa fille la veille au soir. Elle a 13 ans et vit justement à Hong Kong, avec sa mère. L'écran du portable s'allume sur une vision d'horreur absolue. L'appel anonyme et le message de sa fille se télescopent soudain : le pire cauchemar de sa vie vient de commencer.

©2011 Éditions du Seuil (P)2011 Sixtrid SAS

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Titre: Le verdict du plomb (Harry Bosch 14)

Auteur: Michael Connelly

Narrateur: Éric Herson-Macarel

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-16-15

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

La situation commence à s'arranger pour l'avocat Mickey Haller blessé à la fin de La Défense Lincoln. Après deux ans de soins, il hésite encore à reprendre du service lorsqu'il se retrouve à la tête du cabinet de son ami l'avocat Jerry Vincent, assassiné. Haller hérite d'une énorme affaire, la défense de Walter Elliot, un magnat du cinéma accusé davoir tué son épouse et l'amant de cette dernière. Mais alors qu'il se prépare pour ce procès qui pourrait faire de lui une célébrité, il découvre que lui aussi est en danger.

Entre alors en scène un Harry Bosch qui, comme à son habitude, est prêt à tout, y compris à se servir d'Haller pour arrêter le meurtrier de Jerry Vincent. Mais, les enchères montant, tous deux comprennent que, malgré ce qui les sépare, ils n'ont pas d'autre choix que de travailler ensemble.

©2009 Editions du Seuil (P)2009 Sixtrid SAS

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Title: Murder on the Orient Espresso

Subtitle: A Maggy Thorsen Mystery

Author: Sandra Balzo

Narrator: Karen Savage

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-15

Publisher: Sandra Balzo

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse Uncommon Grounds, is in South Florida at an annual crime-writers' conference. She's attending with her beau, local sheriff Jake Pavlik, who is due to speak as a forensics expert.

But Maggy's pledge to behave solely as a tourist becomes much trickier than she anticipated. The conference's opening night event turns out to be a re-enactment of the Agatha Christie's classic, Murder on the Orient Express. As Maggy and Jake reluctantly set off on the night train into the Everglades to solve the literary crime, they soon find themselves embroiled in a real-life murder mystery as creepy and baffling as any work of fiction.

Members Reviews:

Disappointing

I really like this series, but the storyline in this one is not believable and somewhat gross with all the pythons and gore. Some may like it but I found it to be far from a cozy mystery. Return to your coffeehouse in Wisconsin and leave the snakes behind. I don't know why I even finished it. Definitely not what I expected from the author!

It was okay

I kept waiting for it to get better but it didn't. It was an okay mystery but not as good as the others in the series. Hopefully the next one will be better.

dreadful plot.

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

A different plot.

What could Sandra Balzo have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

The reading of the story was good.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Karen Savage?

The narration was good. The story was fairly unbelievable.

What character would you cut from Murder on the Orient Espresso?

The characters were not particularly well drawn but their actions were illogical and farfetched.