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Title: Cries and Whiskers

Subtitle: A Theda Krakow Mystery

Author: Clea Simon

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Theda feels moved to help out with the effort. But as she and her buddy, Violet, race to save the half-wild felines from the freezing New England winter, they uncover simmering tensions among the extremist organization that make the activist's death seem more than accidental. Theda tries to hang on to her journalistic objectivity, but when the threats become more personal, and her beloved cat, Musetta, goes missing, she will risk her reputation, her career, and possibly her life to solve these mysteries once and for all.

Critic Reviews:

"Simon has written a fast-moving story full of lively characters, both two- and four-legged. This series is highly recommended for mystery fans who love cats but who prefer to leave the crime-solving to humans." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Great story, great narrator

An unexpected delight! It seemed like an ordinary mystery-with-cats. But within the first few pages, you and the author have become co-conspirators in the enjoyment of a well-written, intelligent mystery read by a perfectly-matched narrator. It's set in Cambridge, MA (okay, Cambridgeport, an entirely different place than Cambridge, despite being part of the same city), primarily in the garage-band club scene, with cat-rescue being another thread in the story. The characters are well-drawn, the plot not predictable and all the subplots satisfactorily tied up at the end. The writing itself (apart from the plots and character crafting) is a pleasure to read, and the narrator enhances it beautifully.

Not the Cat Mystery I expected

Would you try another book from Clea Simon and/or Tavia Gilbert?

Simon was an author who came up in my search for cat mysteries. However, I would not really call this a cat mystery. I will dispute both cat and mystery. The person who dies in the beginning of the book is trying to relocate a feral cat colony, and the main character Theda has a cat she talks about a lot named Musetta. We hear about how cute Musetta is and get long descriptions of the two playing with a foil ball and such. But there is nothing else cat about the book. And as far as the mystery, we solve the mystery of the cat relocators death at the end of this book, but Theda isn't actually investigating it. She's doing a lot of different things in her role as a freelance writer but I wouldn't say she was investigating this. The plot is so all over the place I am not sure what this book is about. And truthfully, I really don't like Theda very much. She's 33 years old and hasn't really grown up. Her main source of income is a column she writes for the newspaper called "Clubland" about the local music scene. So her "job" is mainly to hang out at clubs - but she isn't even a real rock critic. Her cop boyfriend seems too good for her, and her friends are just people I can't relate to at all - a lesbian punk rocker who also runs a shelter and a Wiccan named Bunny. And Theda is very pushy and nosy, but also annoyingly naive. Like she refuses to believe a person could have been slipped a drug at a club - insisting it must be a virus. Part of it may be the narrator, but I am thinking the narrator is probably doing a great job - that I just don't like Theda.

I learned this is book 3 in a series of a bunch of these. Now I feel extra disappointed that I don't like this book.

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Title: Not Safe after Dark, Volume Three

Author: Peter Robinson

Narrator: Robert Glenister, David Shaw Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-08

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places - only to make us wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the safety of the dawn.

This is the final volume of a three volume audio series.

Members Reviews:

Not Robinson's best work

Despite the odd interesting experiment ("The Duke's Wife" in Volume Three, for example, a short story of murder featuring the characters from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure) and brief interludes filling in the gaps between the Inspector Banks novels, this collection is a slightly disappointing one. The stories are frequently predictable, unlike the full-length Inspector Banks novels, and certainly not up to Robinson's usual standard.

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Title: Not Safe after Dark, Volume One

Author: Peter Robinson

Narrator: Robert Glenister, David Shaw Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-08

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, and lure us to new, exotic places - only to make us wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the safety of the dawn.

This is the first volume of a three-volume audio series.

Members Reviews:

Not for me!

Very mediocre, quite bland in places, with only a little excitement to keep me switched on.

Not Robinson's best work

Despite the odd interesting experiment ("The Duke's Wife" in Volume Three, for example, a short story of murder featuring the characters from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure) and brief interludes filling in the gaps between the Inspector Banks novels, this collection is a slightly disappointing one. The stories are frequently predictable, unlike the full-length Inspector Banks novels, and certainly not up to Robinson's usual standard.

Bit cheeky stretching the book over three audiobooks, too!

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Title: Remote Control

Subtitle: Nick Stone, Book 1

Author: Andy McNab

Narrator: Jack Davenport

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-08

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

On his own, Stone stands a chance of escape. But he needs to protect the girl and together they plunge into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friend cannot be told from foe. As events draw to their blazing and unexpected climax, Stone discovers the shocking truth about governments, terrorism, and commerce: and the greed that binds the three together.

Remote Control is a new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid, and menacing, with a pace that never lets up. Other thriller writers talk the talk. Only McNab has the walk.

Critic Reviews:

"It's a corker." (Independent)

"An enjoyably gritty thriller." (The Scotsman)

"Proceeds with a testosterone surge." (Daily Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Great read

My first Andy McNab book but it will not be the last I was gripped right from the start .

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Title: Obsession

Author: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-07

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

At 40, Patty Bigelow thought she'd finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on Patty's doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware's counseling. Now, 15 years later, Tanya is back in Alex's office. Patty has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession, but it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex's help.

©2007 Jonathan Kellerman; (P)2007 Isis Publishing Ltd

Members Reviews:

Another great book..Jeff Harding is Superb

I really enjoy Jonathan Kellermans books and style of writing. The themes and characters are great but made real and enjoyable by Jeff Hardings super narration. This is yet another great book with great delivery

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Title: Shot

Author: Jenny Siler

Narrator: Humphrey Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-07

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When journalist Kevin Burns gets a call from former schoolmate Carl Greene, he's surprised. They weren't that close at school and the temperature cooled even more when Carl married Kevin's girl, Lucy. Carl, a scientist, sounds anxious and afraid. They arrange to meet at a baseball game in Denver but Carl never makes it. Someone kills him first. Soon after, Lucy surprises a masked figure prowling Carl's study. Whatever her husband was working on, a lot of people want to get their hands on it. Some are clearly prepared to kill for it, though not the prowler from the critically acclaimed author of Easy Money, Iced and Flashback.

©2002 Jenny Siler; (P)2006 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

Critic Reviews:

"Humphrey Bower's voice grabs listeners and doesn't let go. Blackmail, deadly designer germs, high-speed chases, a too probable conspiracy theory, and Humphrey Bower's reading make this one you won't want to miss." (AudioFile Magazine)

"Equipped with quirky characters, a quicksilver plot and chase scenes aplenty." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

Not as good as her other novels.

A Journalist and a Widow Combine Forces to Unlock the Secret of a Company Called Bioflux

Kevin Burns is a journalist who has just lost his job with MSNBC for faking a report. He's trying to determine what he should do next when out of the blue, he's contacted by an old high school acquaintance named Carl Greene. The call is something of a surprise because Kevin and Carl were never close and Carl wound up marrying Kevin's old girlfriend, Lucy.

Carl insists that he has a very important story that Kevin needs to hear. Naturally, since this is a thriller and not real life, Carl refuses to give Kevin even a hint over the phone but insists that they meet at a baseball game in Denver. And, of course, since this is a thriller and not real life, Carl will die in a mysterious car crash before he can meet with Kevin. But the appointment does serve to brink Kevin back to the Denver area where the three grew up.

Shortly after Carl's death, an intruder breaks into his house where Lucy, now his widow, is sleeping. Lucy wakes up and finds the intruder riffling through the files in Carl's study. She chases the intruder off and assumes it was simply a burglar, even though the intruder bypassed several very valuable items on the way to the study.

Of course the reader knows, as Lucy should know, that something much more sinister is going on here. Kevin and Lucy reconnect and the files in Carl's study are removed by a couple of guys from Bioflux, the company he works for. Shortly thereafter, the intruder returns and is extremely upset to discover that the files are gone.

Naturally, very dark and mysterious things are going on here. (How could they not be when you're dealing with a company called Bioflux?) Lucy, Kevin and an associate that I won't name for fear of giving away a plot point, join forces and go on the road in pursuit of whatever the secret was that Carl had uncovered. Very bad people will attempt to prevent them from succeeding in their mission.

I'm a huge fan of Jenny Siler's first two books, Easy Money and Iced, which both have very gritty, realistic plots and feature tough, edgy female protagonists. Shot is not a bad book, but it pales a bit by comparison to Siler's first two novels.

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Title: Temple

Author: Matthew Reilly

Narrator: Steven Pacey

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The only clue to the idol's final resting place is to be found in a 400-year-old manuscript - which introduces Professor William Race, a mild-mannered but brilliant young linguist, who is unwillingly recruited to interpret the document that could lead the US team to the idol itself.

So begins the mission that will lead Race and his armed companions to a mysterious stone temple hidden in the foothills of the Andes. This is a carefully contrived sanctuary seething with menace and unexpected dangers. But it is not until the silence of the temple is breached that Race and his team discover they have broken a golden rule....Some doors are meant to remain unopened.

Members Reviews:

A boys book

I bought this book because it was read by Steven Pacey who I really enjoy listening to and it seemed a mystery book.

There is a little mystery but it is engulfed by bishy bashy boys talk about gun numbers and people being blown up by 100 different ways. It reads like a boys picture comic.

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Title: You've Been Warned

Author: James Patterson, Howard Roughan

Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-07

Publisher: Headline Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Nanny and amateur photographer, Kristin, is plagued by a horrifying recurring nightmare. In the nightmare, she arrives at the aftermath of a shootout where she spies four bodies and a detective, and she can't help but photograph the ghastly scene. The following morning, Kristin is greeted with this very same scene as she walks to work. And she is terrified by the realisation of her dream.

Kristin's life is complicated: her lover, Michael, is married, and the father of the children she looks after. His wife is a nasty, icy woman. But things are set to get worse. She starts seeing people on the streets of New York whom she knows are dead: her grandfather, a local from her home town. And when she studies her photographs of these people, their bodies appear to be transparent, just like the bodies in the photographs of her nightmare. Kristin feels like she's going mad; nothing seems to make any sense.

Members Reviews:

You've been warned

Not my best I have read from James Patterson, felt could not decide between being a normal story or a supernatural.

Rubbish

Would you try another book written by James Patterson and Howard Roughan or narrated by Ilyana Kadushin?

I would not try another book written by these two authors together although the narrator, Ilyana Kadushin did OK with a ridiculous story.

What was most disappointing about James Patterson and Howard Roughan s story?

I have loved all James Patterson Books, and although I saw this was written jointly with Howard Roughan thought it would be as good. Nowhere does it say its a supernatural novel (I am not a fan of this genre with the exception of Stephen King who is the master at it). If you are a fan of James Patterson and loved his Murder Club novels, Alex Cross and his other stand alone novels do not bother with this one - complete waste of time.

What didnt you like about Ilyana Kadushins performance?

She was Ok but my dislike was coloured by the story

What character would you cut from You've Been Warned?

All of them - book was a waste of time

Any additional comments?

Very disappointing having been a fan of James Patterson for many years. I feel the write up on Audible's website should have denoted the fact that this is a supernatural novel - it was very misleading.

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Title: Plunder

Subtitle: The Specialists, Book 1

Author: Chet Cunningham

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-07

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When an American dies under suspicious circumstances in Berlin, the Specialists are called in to investigate. The victim was trying to track down a missing fortune that belonged to his Jewish grandfather during World War II. It was part of a secret stash extorted by a corrupt Nazi unit offering escape to Jews bound for concentration camps. Except the Nazis kept the loot and sent most of their prisoners to their deaths. After the war, both the Nazis and the fortune disappeared.

Members Reviews:

Terrible

Forget this one. Simplistic and devoid of any imagination. The narration stunk-bad German accents. Cant figure out how it was published other than who do you know.Waste of time and money. I suppose my hats off you managed to hook me for the cost of one but I would not read any more.

The set up is some special group selected top of their craft experts yet they are like Keystone Cops really.It was almost embarrasing to read.

Not worth it

Same ole boiler plate, that has been done much better by other authors. Beyond the old premise the story isn't even that good.

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Title: Blood Hunt

Subtitle: Jack Harvey, Book 3

Author: Ian Rankin

Narrator: James Frain

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-07

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Once back in Scotland, he finds out that there have been more visitors than usual to his house, and his home has been bugged by professionals. But Reeve is a professional too. Ex-SAS, he was half of a two-man unit with someone he came to fear, then to hate. It looks like his Nemesis is back. The horror has just begun.

Members Reviews:

Buchan-esque

A thoroughly exciting yarn - the exposition is detailed without being dull, the middle doesn't lag and the final third when event's return to the protagonist's native Scotland are reminiscent of Buchan's finest moments in The 39 Steps - but with added blood and guts. Splendid stuff.