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Title: The Rule of Four

Author: Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

Narrator: Josh Hamilton

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-06

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Five hundred years later, Princeton student Tom Sullivan is haunted by the violent death of his father, an academic who devoted his life to unlocking the book's secret. With his roommate Paul, Tom discovers a long-lost diary that holds the key to the puzzle.

But when a fellow researcher is murdered only hours later, the two friends find themselves in great danger, working desperately to break the book's code and uncover a Renaissance tale of passion and blood, a hidden crypt, and secret worth dying to protect.

Members Reviews:

One Star

I thought the storyline was esoteric and I didn't much care for it.

Outstanding!

Thought provoking, well developed plot and characters. Commendable attention to details in settings and historical content. Interesting and unexpected twists of plot make this an enjoyable read.

Great book. Kept me on the edge of my ...

Great book. Kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Very descriptive and full of plot twists. Incredibly well written novel.

More than meets the eye

Great book that makes you reflect on yourself and history. An action novel that really is not but makes you look at your life.

Too wordy

I listened to the unabridged CD's and found them a little tedious. I would have given up on reading the book after a couple of chapters. It's basically a good story,brilliant in places, but the whole thing needs serious editing. It's too full of under-graduate tittle tattle. The first 10 chapters could easily be compressed into 2 without loosing any of the essentials. I read a review comparing it to 'The da Vinci Code'. It bears no comparison. The 'da Vinci Code' is several magnitudes better. It's a more exiting story and infinitely better written.

Sorry about this. A noble effort but too much unnecessary detail.

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Title: The Bancroft Strategy

Author: Robert Ludlum

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-06

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Meanwhile, hedge-fund analyst Andrea Bancroft gets a surprising call. She is to receive $12 million from a cousin she never met, but with one condition: she must agree to sit on the board of the Bancroft family foundation, a charitable organization that is run by the family patriarch, Paul Bancroft. Having never been involved with, or even having met, her family (her mother was briefly married to a Bancroft and cut off all contact years ago) Andrea is intrigued. But the foundation, which is dedicated to doing strategic good deeds, appears less and less benign the more deeply involved she gets. What exactly is their involvement with the "Genesis", a mysterious individual working to destabilize the geopolitical balance at the risk of millions of lives? As events escalate, Todd Belknap and Andrea Bancroft come together and must form an uneasy alliance if they are to uncover the truth behind "Genesis" before it is too late.

Members Reviews:

Only so so

a typically predictable ludlum story

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Title: The Double Eagle

Author: James Twining

Narrator: Andrew Wincott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-06

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In Paris, a priest is murdered and dumped into the Seine. But he has taken a secret with him to his death - a secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and reawakens dark memories. Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent, is assigned to the case. This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgment three years before. Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox, and Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief, is the prime suspect. Tom, caught between his desire to get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, faces a thrilling race against time to clear his name. It's a race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle.

Critic Reviews:

"A worthy successor to Forsyth, Follett, and Higgins." (Christopher Reich)

"An international thriller in the Robert Ludlum mode, with hints of The Da Vinci Code." (Financial Times)

Members Reviews:

Another narrator distraction

I'm only a couple hours into the audiobook, and I'm thinking, "why didn't I listen to a sample before buying it?".

The story so far is quite well-written... but the narrator has a strong English accent and uses frequent English pronunciations. This isn't a problem -- aside from the oddity of much of the story being about the FBI and set in the USA -- until he attempts American accents; the results are distracting to say the least -- often becoming cartoonish. I keep visualizing Yosemite Sam when he voices one of the characters.

More straight reading and less acting would be appreciated.

I should add that there's a spoiler at the beginning of the audiobook; for some reason the outline of the story is read first -- needlessly revealing several plot points. I don't appreciate this in movie 'trailers'; I don't appreciate it here.

Definition of Thriller

This book is exciting, pacy, driven and intensely thrilling. Its a genuinely good heist story with a crackling dynamic between dashing ex thief and vibrant FBI agent. I love the spark and tension between these two and all the other brillant myriad of characters. Its just plain fun to listen to when these days thriller writers tend to lose their way by being over complicated, over dramatic, patronizing, psychological cliche drivel which no one really enjoys. What people want is a good story and this is it!

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Title: Whales for the Wizard

Author: Malcolm Archibald

Narrator: Robbie Macnab

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-06

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Returning to the Dundee of 1860 after years in the army, Robert Douglas finds employment with George Gilbride, a whaling-ship owner known as the Wizard. Drugged by sinister gangster John Wylie, Douglas wakens on board the steam-whaler Redgauntlet bound for the Artic, and discovers that his companions believe the ship is haunted and do not expect to return. After an initial clash, Douglas befriends the ship's mate, "Bully Houston", and together thay begin to unravel a year-old mystery.

©2005 Malcolm Archibald; (P)2006 Oakhill Publishing Ltd

Critic Reviews:

"It has a jolting opening, an unashamedly fast pace, and a compelling hero in Robert Douglas." (The Scotsman

"The author's imaginative emapthy for his subject...creates a pleasurable sense of historical authenticity in his novel...without clogging the arteries of adventure." (Sunday Herald)

Members Reviews:

Pure enjoyment

I guess I'm a sucker for any historical 'who dunit', but this was certainly one of the better ones. Well read, it had me looking forward to my long drive to work in the morning and early evening so I could get back to listening to this thrilling tale. I will certainly be keeping my eyes open for any follow up, should there ever be one!

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Title: In the Forest

Author: Edna O'Brien

Narrator: Stephen Rea

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-06

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In the Forest, set in the west of Ireland, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is "not all there in the head" as one character puts it. By puberty, he is already committing petty crimes, ending up in borstal. By the time he is back home he has also served time in a British jail and is an institutionalised criminal. His sexual fantasies, revolving around women in the village, eventually centre on Eily, an artist and single mother, who lives with her son Maddie. One day Mich pounces, and orders Eily to drive them to the woods nearby.

©2004 Edna O'Brien; (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Miss

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

Research the actual events before you listen to it.

What was most disappointing about Edna O'Briens story?

This book was a very detailed story that could have been much bettter if the author let you know right up front that it is based on a true story. More depth into the people would have helped.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Narration was fine

Not sure how I felt about this

I've read her work before, and this was good, but it was so closely based on a true story that I felt uncomfortable reading it as fiction.

Comprehending Evil

I came upon this book quite innocently. I'd heard Stephen Rea reading a couple of poems on the radio and fell in love with his voice. I searched his name on Audible and ordered the title without even reading the synopsis. I hadn't read anything of Edna O'Brien's since the 60s when she was still writing lightsome romances about convent girls busting out into the naughty wide world.

It wasn't until I'd finished listening to the whole story that I realised it was closely based on a real-life multiple killing and then read of the controversy over her use of these appallingly tragic events as a basic for fiction.

In my view O'Brien has given us an extraordinary insight into the mind of her main character. I have read all of Dostoevsky and find this novel no less moving and profound an account of an injured and insulted human being than anything produced by the Russian master.

Stephen Rea captures every nuance of this anguished, often transcendently lyrical text in a reading which at times left me sobbing in my armchair.

Blood-curdling Horror

One of the most horrifying tales I've ever come across.

'eyes like holes filled with vistas of nowhere...'

Brilliantly read.

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Title: Fever

Author: Sean Rowe

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-06

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In the novel's explosive opening, Shannon's stepbrother, Jack Fontana, puts his back against the wall. At a waterfront reunion, Fontana gives Shannon what looks like a game controller, and before he knows what he's done, Shannon has sunk a freighter in Miami's shipping lane and his fingerprints are all over the device that sent the signal. Only once he's cornered does Shannon learn his stepbrother's real plan, a cruise ship job that could make enough money to last their lifetimes. Shannon thinks he's only providing backup and intelligence. And by the time he learns what's really going on, he's in too deep: the cruise ship has been hijacked and several people are already dead.

Fever is the story of Shannon's race to unravel the deadly labyrinth that's grown up around him. With the help of a mysterious woman and his own instincts, he might find the one path that could allow him to survive.

Critic Reviews:

"Dufris, an award-winning narrator with more than 200 audiobooks to his credit, transforms much of this unabridged production of Rowe's striking debut fiction into riveting sequences that come close to simulating a full-cast recording." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Mediocre

After having tortured myself by sticking with this book to the inept end, I am writing to spare the unsuspecting. The premise sounded intriguing, but the actual plot, and I use the term very loosely here, was dull, had poor focus and little substance. The ending read like the author suddenly tired of writing the book and just abruptly finished it off. Instead of a mastermind, Mission impossible like plan that would actually be needed to take a major cruise liner, especially after the Achille Lauro, this book describes essentially a walk onto the ship that you'd have to be brain dead to believe. Fast paced? Unh,unh. Thriller? I don't think so. Put this on your 'avoid' list.

Poorly formed

I found this book extremely difficult to get through. The characters were very poorly formed or developed and the plot was outlandsih.

When's the movie?

First of all, the narration is excellent. I am looking forward to searching out other titles read by this actor. The plot is interesting, has a couple of good twists, but there's a little too much of it for a book of this length. The main characters are intriguing. Some of the secondary characters are two dimensional. I'm guessing this is an author who enjoys going to movies. I'd rather see this on the screen than save the book on my shelf.

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Title: O Bed! O Breakfast!

Author: Robert Dalby

Narrator: Jonathan Marosz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When the queen of the tabloids, Juliette Cadbury, decides to film a movie in Fort Rosalie, Mississippi, local Tourism Bureau executive Mary Dell Hoskins is given the unenviable task of setting up a whirlwind inspection tour of the town's three bed-and-breakfasts, only one of which can win the right to host the outrageous actress and her hunky actor boyfriend during their three-month location shoot. All genteel hell soon breaks loose as a local ladies' group organizes a protest against the "Hollywood morality" of the live-in couple, and the competition among the quirky bed-and-breakfast owners takes on a life of its own. Sparks fly, tempers flare, and all sorts of people fall in and out of love as Hollywood's fast-lane meets Deep South hospitality.

©2000 Robert Dalby; (P)2001 Books on Tape, Inc.

Members Reviews:

OBed! O Breakfast!

Having read several other books by Robert Dalby, I was anxious to read this one and was not disappointed. Being from the south, it is like reading about my own home town.

Don't judge this one by its cover.

Don't be fooled by the silly title or the droll cover of this book, for inside its pages is a real treat. There is a movie being made in the small town of Rosalie, MS and the owners of the three local bed and breakfasts are all vying to play host to the famous actress who will portray the starting role. As they each woo her in their own way over the course of one weekend, they are up agaist a band of conservative old bitties who form the "casserole patrol" to picket and protest against the film being made. In the end, each player gets their due and the Hollywood actress learns a thing a two about the way things really are in the South. This book pokes fun of the sterotypical Southern characters we often see and is all the more entertaining for it. I would recommend it as a quick and very light read to fans of Southern ficion.

An insult to my intelligence

I picked this up to read before heading to a B&B on vacation.I don't know what possessed this author to write this particular story, but it certainly wasn't any knowledge of the movie or hospitality industries. The characters, who spout platitudes right and left, are barely 2-dimensional stereotypes. The title is cute, but don't be fooled.

Hilarious Tale

If you are looking for a serious novel, this one is not for you. However, if you are looking for a well ploted story with great adult humor and full of fun, this is exactly what Robert Dalby delivers.

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Title: Once a Thief

Author: Michele Hauf

Narrator: Debbie Irwin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-05

Publisher: Harlequin Books S.A.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

1. The priceless gem she's providing security for has disappeared.

2. If anyone looks into her background, they'll discover she was once a thief.

3. The person who has the gem knows exactly who she is...

...Because he's the man who raised her, and trained her to be a cunning thief. She'd fled and made a new life for herself, determined to use her unique skills for good. But to retrieve the stolen gem and keep everything she's fought for, she's got to turn the tables and prove the student is now the master.

Members Reviews:

So So

I usually like these sort of stories.. Kick butt female hero confronts the world. But I confess Rachel Blu left me cold. As a heroine I just had no empathy for her. I know she was raised to be an uber-thief, have no emotions, be self-sufficient etc. But somehow all this training left me with a heroine I just didn't care about. Likewise I'm not a big fan of stories involving thievery an occupation. Perhaps if Blu had been several years into her new career and developed some humanity I could be interested in her. But, her lack of emotional development, actual age, and inexperience in human relations made her sexual encounters uninteresting and virginal.

I do think Hauf's writing is technically quite good. She does a great job with description and plot... But her characters seem to be emotionless mannequins, of the James Bond variety.

2 Stars.

Too much action

I agree with the previous review where it says this is like a James Bond movie. It is a series of fight scenes joined together with a single plot. I like the way the character develops. I don't like that there is no relief from the battles. Every time Rachel Blu conquors an obstacle, a bigger one appears immediately. She gets no rest, yet keeps on fighting. It's just too much. The ending doesn't fit the rest of the story, either. It's like the author got tired and just wrapped it up.

Mixed Feelings

Interesting premise but way too much angst from the heroine. At times seemed to drag because she just kept talking to herself, pumpinig herself up, etc. Romance is minimal, but action is good and realistic for the most part given the premise. I'd be willing to go with this author again but it wouldn't be my first choice.

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Title: Cause for Concern

Author: Margaret Yorke

Narrator: Sheila Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-05

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When Martin Trent rings home to announce his return from an assignment as a tour guide in Venice, Susan is filled with fear, a fear based on what has happened before, and her dread of further violence. Why does Susan put up with Martin's treatment? Though neighbours suspect what is going on, Susan covers her bruises with make-up and pretends that nothing is wrong and, despite everything, she loves Martin. But what is the truth about the relationship between Susan and Martin?

Members Reviews:

An eye for the human condition of being vulnerable

If you could sum up Cause for Concern in three words, what would they be?

Insightful. Thoughtful. Chilling.

What other book might you compare Cause for Concern to, and why?

Ruth Rendell's 'Harm Done.' The characters are believable and the storyline easy to grasp and yet captivates and entertains. The observations of human emotions and especially power imbalances are insightful. Unashamedly goodreads without any pretentious flummery.

Which character as performed by Sheila Mitchell was your favourite?

The policeman.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Sad but thought provoking.

Any additional comments?

This book started my now almost complete Margaret Yorke collection.

Brilliant

Great story - well told - well worthy my time!

I will read more books by Margaret Yorke.

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Title: Safe Haven

Author: Sandy McCutcheon

Narrator: Richard Bligh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-05

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Betrayed by the governments who used his skills, freelance agent Oscar Reilly has only one choice if he wants to live: to take the authorities offer of safe haven. The catch is, he has to accept a wife as part of his cover. Anna is a young woman with a past of her own and secrets she has no intention of sharing with a stranger. Unexpectedly, she finds herself responding to this mysterious, attractive man. But is her trust misplaced? The past cannot be kept at bay for long and Oscar realises that his enemies are trying to flush him out. Determined to avenge the murder of his colleagues, Oscar embarks on a mission which may cost him his own life.

© Sandy McCutcheon; (P)2005 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Editorial Reviews:

Rife with nail-biting suspense and political intrigue, Sandy McCutcheon's gripping novel tells the story of Oscar Reilly, an agent manipulated into accepting safe haven by his government after some of his colleagues meet unexpected fates abroad.

Richard Bligh's emotive, robust baritone suits the urgency and assertiveness of McCutcheon's lean prose, and Bligh shows off impressive range in his convincing portrayal of the complex and often contentious relationship between Oscar and Anna, the woman he's forced to "wed" as part of his imposed cover.