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Title: The Green Lama #2

Subtitle: Babies for Sale & The Wave of Death

Author: Beldon Duff, RadioArchives.com

Narrator: James C. Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-13

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

The jade-robed Buddhist priest who battled crime as "The Green Lama" is back! Conceived in 1939 at the behest of the editors of Munsey Publications to compete with "The Shadow," "The Green Lama" was the creation of writer Kendell Foster Crossen, who was asked to think up a hero who could lure mystery-minded readers away from "The Shadow's" loyal legion of followers.

"The basis for the Green Lama came after I'd read a non-fiction book review in the New York Times about an American who really became a lama," Crossen once recalled. "The book was titled, The Penthouse of the Gods."

From that gossamer inspiration, the writer spun an outrageously unique superhero. Returning to the States, young Jethro Dumont assumed an alternative identity of the Buddhist cleric, the Reverend Dr. Pali, then began gathering about him a band of civic-minded citizens to join him in his Buddhistic battle against suffering in all forms - particularly those caused by criminals. And aiding him from the shadows, the mysterious Magga, a woman of many faces who had taken an interest in guiding The Green Lama's campaign against malefactors.

It was an outlandish concept. While The Shadow possessed the power to cloud men's minds after his time in the East, The Green Lama relied on other, even weirder, powers - including the ability to become radioactive and electrically shock opponents into submission! He carried a traditional Tibetan scarf, which he employed to bind and befuddle opponents, and possessed a knowledge of vulnerable nerve centers which he put to good use in hand-and-hand combat. Being a practicing Buddhist, it would not do for The Green Lama pack a pair of .45 automatics à la "The Shadow"!

"The real success of the Lama was because of the mysticism," Ken Crossen recalled. "We received a tremendous amount of mail about the Lama. People would come into the offices of the publishing company asking to see him. If he wasn't there, they'd want to talk with Richard Foster." Foster was the name of the imaginary "author" of the series.

James C. Lewis gives a thrilling performance of the mystical Green Lama for two more exciting exploits, Babies for Sale and The Wave of Death, both set in 1940 Hollywood. Om Mani Padme Hum! The Green Lama knows!

Members Reviews:

Lama hammers ratfinks!

The wisdom and courage of the lama defeat domestic and international evil. But will we ever know Marga's real face?

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Title: Die on Your Feet

Author: S. G. Wong

Narrator: Carol Monda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-13

Publisher: Carina Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

Crescent City, 1934...

In Crescent City, the dead are always close.

At the point of death, people can choose to become Ghosts, tethered to the living. They can remain with their loved ones as invisible companions - or in the case of Crescent City's ghostly mayor, remain in office forever.

Being a P.I. in Crescent City isn't easy or glamorous. Luckily Lola Starke has an edge: her Ghost, Aubrey, who can gather valuable clues from other Ghosts in the Ether. When they accept a simple missing-persons case, they're drawn into a complicated web of lies and double-crosses that involves the most powerful people in the city - including Lola's own mother, Grace McCall, a famous film star and the mayor's former lover.

As Lola races to untangle the deceit ensnaring her, she discovers an old enemy at its center carefully orchestrating the perfect moment to betray Lola and destroy Aubrey forever...unless Lola and Aubrey can stop them first.

Members Reviews:

Immerse yourself in a richly detailed new world

I truly enjoyed entering Lolaâs world - An alternate 1930âs where Chinese culture dominates what is now the U.S South-west coast. The setting is painted for us in delicate brush strokes that hint at the vast depth of Asian culture while not distracting from the fast-paced mystery plot. The ghosts and magic that form an integral part of this world are also gently introduced. As a reader I felt like I was with Lola, taking care of business, which is exactly how I like it. I am eager for more books in this series to see how the setting unfolds as Lola tackles the hidden forces that threaten to destroy what is left of her family.

Atmospheric, Well-imagined Noir

Haunted PI Lola Starke takes us through the seedy underbelly of 1930's Crescent City, the Chinese settled movie making capital of the western US. This story has as many layers, twists, & turns as a mah-jonng set has tiles. A promising introduction to what I hope will be a long running mystery series.

I like my glamour hard-boiled

This stylish mystery made me feel like I had been dropped into a classic Bogie and Bacall movie -if Bacall had been the tough one. Lola Stark is everything I look for in a leading lady- smart, sarcastic and strong. The more fantastical elements (characters having personal ghosts and magic civil servants) are fairly subtle, and the alternate universe of Crescent City is so well constructed - that you don't have to work to suspend disbelief. Once I was able to settle into to pulp-fiction lingo- I was hooked. Can't wait for the next book!

Excellent noir mystery--with ghosts!

Excellent noir mystery. Lola Starke is one tough chickie: she can take a beating and dish it out. Good pacing, a twisty plot and a worthy adversary, Lola's old schoolmate Amber Jade, kept the book ticking along. Set in an alternate history Chinese-dominated 1930s Hollywood, the fantasy element at first seemed to be fairly light--many people, including Lola herself, have Ghosts tethered to them--but as the plot rolled forward we learned about Conjurers and Wards. And the end had some Very Interesting revelations.

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Titel: Zwischen Himmel und Erde (Vango 1)

Autor:: Timothée De Fombelle

Erzähler: Rainer Strecker

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-11-13

Herausgeber: Hoercompany

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Paris, 1934. Zusammen mit vierzig anderen weiß gekleideten Männern wartet Vango, 19 Jahre, ausgestreckt auf den Pflastersteinen vor Notre-Dame auf seine Priesterweihe. Doch dazu kommt es nicht. Vango muss fliehen. Mord wird ihm vorgeworfen. Eine waghalsige Verfolgungsjagd beginnt, die Vango über die Dächer von Paris bis an den Bodensee und an Bord eines Zeppelins nach Sizilien führt, weiter auf die äolischen Inseln seiner Kindheit und schließlich nach Schottland zu seiner großen Liebe, der geheimnisvollen Ethel. Immer auf der Flucht und getrieben von der Frage: Wer bin ich? Denn seine Herkunft ist auch ihm selbst ein Rätsel... und scheint doch der Schlüssel, um dahinterzukommen, wer genau ihm nachsetzt und vor allem warum seine Verfolger so unbarmherzig sind.

©2012 Gerstenberg Verlag (P)2013 Hörcompany

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Title: Made of Stone

Subtitle: Mangel, Book 5

Author: Charlie Williams

Narrator: James Clamp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

Theres bad stuff out there. Folks reckon things like vampires don't exist, but they does - Jock from the burger van told me. Plus I found an actual one of em, sleeping at the time in the back of a hearse I nicked that first morning. That's how me and Jock got to setting out freeing the world of em, using his bag o wooden stakes and special bottles of whisky. Course, I knowed that vampires didnt exist, not when I stopped and done some thinking. And I knowed Jock had mental wossnames, what with his son falling off that roof and him reckoning them immigrants pushed him. Its just that I didn't get much time for thinking, not with the coppers on our arse. Jock were off...and me with him.

Members Reviews:

Please let there be more Mr. Williams!

Good ol' Blakey...

All he wants is some scram, a shag, and a few pints.

Nothing less will do for the hardest door man in Mangel.

All I want is more Royston Blake!

Oh and i forgot to mention whossiwhatshis name....?

You know, the story reader guy James Clamp.

Soz about that Clampy!

We need yous as well.

Ta!

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Title: Counting Down the Stars

Author: Anne Baines

Narrator: Dan Boice

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-13

Publisher: Doomed Muse Press

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

They say when you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. For Patty Halbrook, two graves won't be near enough. Patty returns to the dysfunctional hometown she thought she had escaped. While she meant to leave forever, she never meant to abandon her twin sister to a twisted world of drugs and abuse. And when she's finished getting answers about her twin's suicide, home will never be the same. A short story by Anne Baines, author of the thriller Hunting Delilah.

Members Reviews:

Unique

This audiobook is only thirty five minutes long and is definitely on the harsh side. A girl returns to Nowhereville and thoroughly avenges her sister's death; she basically empties the trailer park. I would hesitate to say that I enjoyed this small slice from Quentin Tarantino land but it was quite different and was definitely the time and the price.

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Title: Ace of Jades

Author: Stuart Palmer

Narrator: Emily Taplin Boyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1931, this mob-based mystery story follows a young girl who takes a job as a dancer and falls in with a dangerous crowd. While at a party, she gets pinned for the murder of another girl and now must clear her name. This pulpy action/drama was one of Stuart Palmer's first efforts.

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Title: Little Odessa

Author: Joseph Koenig

Narrator: Alexandra Harris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

This crime thriller from the author of "Floater" takes the reader on an entertaining tour of New York City's sleazier side. It centers around Russian-born Kate Piro, who has no difficulty attracting men, but soon finds that they are about to lead her into some complicated trouble.

Members Reviews:

It wasn't always believable and the plot was a bit ...

It wasn't always believable and the plot was a bit insane but I still read it to the very end wondering where Kate would end up and with who.

Four Stars

Nice read

Old Fashioned Noir-and I loved it

I have found a new author to follow. This work was like an excursion to the Brooklyn of my youth with its description of the Brighton/Coney Island places I frequented. It was even better to be accompanied by a noir style story with the requisite flawed characters, dark themes and taught, but occasionally humorous writing. I can't wait to get more of the authors works.

enjoyable

Enjoyable read, a little different than everything else. The main woman character was so dumb, it was kind of a turn off, but I guess that dumb people are out there...

Three Stars

OK book.

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Title: The Low Road

Author: Chris Womersely

Narrator: Dan Wyllie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

A young petty criminal, Lee, wakes in a seedy motel to find a bullet in his side and a suitcase of stolen money next to him, with only the haziest memory of exactly how he got there. Soon he meets Wild, a morphine-addicted doctor who is escaping his own disastrous life. The two men form an unwilling, unlikely alliance and set out for the safety of a country estate owned by a former colleague of Wilds named Sherman.

As they flee the city, they develop an uneasy intimacy, inevitably revisiting their pasts even as they desperately seek to evade them. Lee is haunted by a brief stint in jail, while Wild is on the run from the legacy of medical malpractice. But Lee and Wild are not alone: they are pursued through an increasingly alien and gothic landscape by the aging gangster Josef, who must retrieve the stolen money and deal with Lee to ensure his own survival. By the time Josef finally catches up to them, all three men have been forced to confront the parts of themselves they sought to outrun.

Part classic film-noir crime-thriller, part modern tale of despair and desperation, The Low Road seduces the reader into a story that unfolds and deepens hypnotically. This is a brilliant debut novel.

Members Reviews:

Great wordsmith

A gritty, sad and at times shocking tale. I enjoyed the authorâs use of language and also the novelâs cast of tragic characters whose flaws are entirely and at times delightfully exposed throughout the story.

The road to ruin

Chris Womersley takes us down the low road - the road to ruin. At various stages all the main characters have choices - the low road or the high road. The consistently make the choice that can only lead to pain and despair. The book is beautifully written, the locations are vivid even if they are ugly or desolate places, and the characters are fully fleshed even if the flesh is rotten. It is mix of road story and gritty crime but the story transcends genre to say something more about human weakness.

The darkness keeps spreading

If you close your eyes you cannot only visualise the desperation and loathing, you can actually smell it. Wild, Lee and Joseph, great characters, a little more Joseph wouldn't have hurt, a novel on his own.

Great book.

One of the best books I have read for sometime. Sad and challenging, with real characters and real issues. Worth reading.

Boring and Poorly Paced Australian Crime Novel

I picked up this Australian crime novel largely based on the cover tagline: "Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction." I read a ton of crime fiction, and especially enjoy writers from other counties. However, fifty pages in, I was really questioning whether or not I really needed to read this book. I gave it another 75 pages, and just set it aside for good.

The story revolves around three men on the downslope of life. Lee is a young ex-con on the run, lying in a seedy motel room with a suitcase with $8,000 and a gunshot wound in the gut. Wild is a morphine-addicted doctor on the run, a recent arrival at the same seedy motel after fleeing his family and the police. Their two fates become intertwined, along with that of the third man, middle-aged Josef, who vouched for Lee with his boss, and now has to track him and the $8,000 down and deliver some punishment.

All of this is perfectly fine as a setup, but the execution lies pretty dead on the page. I'm totally fine with dark, grimy, nasty stories, but they need to be engaging.

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Title: Face Blind

Author: Raymond Benson

Narrator: Tamara A. McDaniel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-12

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Publisher's Summary:

From Raymond Benson, author of the acclaimed James Bond continuation novels between and other works of suspense, comes a new and edgy noir thriller.

Imagine a world where you don't recognize the human face. That's Hannah's condition - "prosopagnosia", or "face blindness" - when the brain center that recognizes faces is inoperable. The onset of the condition occurred when she was attacked by an unknown assailant in the inner lobby of her New York City apartment building. And now she thinks he's back, and not just in her dreams.

When she also attracts the attention of a psychopathic predator and becomes the unwitting target of a Mafia drug ring, the scene is set for a thrill ride of mistaken identity, cat-and-mouse pursuit, and murder.

Face Blind is a twisting, turning tale of suspense in which every character has a dark side. The novel will keep the reader surprised and intrigued until the final violent catharsis.

Members Reviews:

It's OK

The premise of the story was clever and made for a great commercial for the book. But the story itself fizzled out for me with the stupidity of the main character who had the face blind problem. Her obsession with Jack Daniels as a stress reliever got old. I was glad when I finished the book and could archive it.

Great

Benson writes some good thrillers, a little different twist. If something catches my attention and I look for more by the same author I will rate as a 4 or 5, meaning for that genre, not necessarily world class fiction...I like his books

Who done it?

This was a great mystery/suspense book. It kept me guessing all the way through page after page. Too many suspense books are predictable, this wasn't. Loved it.

A fantastically woven tale with research that shows through the pages!

I'll start off by saying that I have prosopagnosia. In fact, I've had it for as long as I can remember. Mine was one of the first personal web sites on the web which discussed it. Anyway, I have some authority to write this review, both as a reader and as an interested person.

That being said, it is often extremely difficult to communicate some of the subtleties involved in living with prosopagnosia. Benson managed to vividly capture some of those difficulties in this book. I almost found myself literally crying with the sincerity of some of the descriptions of situations Hannah experienced. Most people have a very difficult time grappling with the social nuances of "not being able to recognize people", but Benson did a masterful job of this through relating some of Hannah's day-to-day struggles as well as those exceptional circumstances which arise throughout the book.

For those who are interested in just a glimpse of what life can be like for a person with prosopagnosia, this is a magnificent starting point. True, it is a work of fiction, but I can tell that it was also a work of sincere care crafted by Benson. If you want the real deal about "life with prosopagnosia", even though the story is fiction, BUY THIS BOOK, because the experiences could just as easily have really happened.

Really Good!

This is my first book I've read off of Raymond Benson's James Bond novels but I wasn't disappointed!

It tells the story about a woman named Hannah McCleary who has "prosopagnosia", a real life condition where you can't recognize human faces.

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Titel: Das Paradies der Diebe (Pater Brown)

Autor:: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Erzähler: Ernst-August Schepmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 49 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 06-13-12

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Noir

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Auf einer Italienreise wird die Kutsche des englischen Bankiers Samuel Harrogate vom berühmten Räuberhauptmann Montano entführt. Pech für den König der Diebe, dass in derselben Kutsche ausgerechnet Pater Brown sitzt, dem diese Entführung irgendwie merkwürdig vorkommt...

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