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Title: The Tyrant's Novel

Author: Thomas Keneally

Narrator: Paul English

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-10

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Trapped behind barbed wire in an alien land, a man used to guarding his secrets is compelled to set the record straight....

Imagine a faraway country that was once a friend of the West becoming the enemy, its people isolated and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As one of the country's most celebrated writers and a war hero, the storyteller has a better life than most until he is made an offer he can't refuse. He must write a great novel, telling of the suffering of his people under the enemy's cruel economic sanctions and portraying Great Uncle as their saviour. This masterpiece must be completed in time for its international debut in three months or else. If the writer cannot or will not meet the tyrant's deadline, he and anyone he cares for will pay the ultimate price. Stark, terrifying and utterly compelling, The Tyrant's Novel is both a gripping thriller and a chilling glimpse of a fictional world that seems all too real.

Editorial Reviews:

Thomas Keneally's political allegory follows a writer who must produce a great propagandist novel to please the dictator or else suffer the consequences. This fictional thriller is set in a world purposely similar to Iraq or Afghanistan. Paul English's performance is thoughtful and stark. His British accent lends the tone formality and his clear enunciation engages listeners in this investigation of totalitarianism. Keneally is also the author of Schindler's List; fans of these kinds of hard-hitting, ethically complicated stories will enjoy The Tyrant's Novel.

Members Reviews:

Two thumbs down

I did not like this book. I thought the description of the plot was intriguing - and it could have been a good book - but is not. Long before the end you know you should stop listening to this book, unlike me you should heed that feeling as the story never gets any better, insted in just continues to grind your brain into pulp.

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Title: Blood Red

Author: Quintin Jardine

Narrator: Hilary Neville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-10

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Primavera is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. The attractive single mother and eight-year-old, Tom, son of the late and still lamented Oz Blackstone, are popular figures in the tiny community.

But her close friendship with the parish priest has eyebrows rising and tongues wagging. Then a dispute explodes with a powerful councillor who refuses to allow the village wine fair to go ahead. When his body is found, head caved in, some ominous questions are asked.

Members Reviews:

disappointing

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

A more believable story, a better reader who knows how to pronounce Spanish

Would you ever listen to anything by Quintin Jardine again?

I will have to read the blurbs more carefully

What didnt you like about Hilary Nevilles performance?

The Spanish pronunciation was pathetic

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Anything set in Spain has redeeming qualities

Primavera comes into her own

I wasn't taken with the character of Primavera when she appeared in the Oz Blackstone books but in this new series she is really good. A romp around Spain with her long lost cousin is unputdownable and the sexy honeyed voice of the reader Hilary Neville adds spice to the narrative. Most enjoyable!

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Title: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective

Author: Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-10

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Readers and listeners were first introduced to Jason Bourne's nemesis, Leonid Arkadin, a brilliant Russian assassin and fearless international mercenary, in The Bourne Sanction. His girlfriend was killed during a fight for which an enraged Arkadin blames Bourne. In The Bourne Deception, Arkadin hunted Bourne to take revenge and kill him. Bourne, in a fight for his life, learned that Arkadin's skills mirror Jason's because he received the same original CIA Treadstone training.

Now, in The Bourne Objective, Jason will turn the tables and target Arkadin. Hunter will become hunted.

But revenge can cause great psychological devastation. Has this become too personal for Bourne? Will this hunt be Bourne's downfall?

Members Reviews:

Another Great Bourne Novel

Another amazing novel about the super spy Jason Bourne. I definitely recommend reading as many Jason Bourne books as you can!

I have always like Eric Van Lustbader and his novels set in Japan

I have always like Eric Van Lustbader and his novels set in Japan. I don't think the Jason Bourne series done by this same author are anywhere near as good. If not for remembering Matt Damon's Jason Bourne, I don't think this latest series would be on anyone's wish list. The characters are not developed enough for the reader to become involved and, even though, some of the characters continue from book to book, they never seem to come alive. Worth reading, but not great.

Five Stars

husband likes the book

Jason Bourne lives

Keeping Bourne alive, this book is part of a series in which Bourne and a recurring cast of characters both good and bad go round and round with plans of chaos, murder, and mayhem on a global scale with the characters sometimes aiding, sometimes inhibiting Bourne's journey of reintegration and foiling the bad guys. This is not a bad thing; a common cast through the series helps tie them all together. There is plenty of action, lots of detail and thud and blunder, it's just not Ludlum writing. There is something very hard to define about Ludlum's style, maybe more detail, maybe more getting into characters' heads, I dunno. Still, there is a lot to like about the series and I have them all (I think.)

Wow

You just can't stop reading,there are so many people and levels of lies and relations and who killed who, it's fascinating is not the right word, it's hard to describe. ..... but you can't stop and will buy the next one just to see, if the one guy is really dead this time ....

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Title: The Way Home

Author: George Pelecanos

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-10

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Hidden beneath the floorboards in a house he's remodelling, Christopher Flynn discovers something very tempting - and troubling. Summoning every bit of maturity and every lesson he's learned the hard way, Chris leaves what he found where he found it and tells his job partner to forget it, too. Knowing trouble when he sees it-and walking the other way - is a habit Chris is still learning.

Chris's father, Thomas Flynn, runs the family business where Chris and his friends have found work. Thomas is just getting comfortable with the idea that his son is grown, working, and on the right path at last. Then one day Chris doesn't show up for work-and his father knows deep in his bones that danger has found him. Although he wishes it weren't so, he also knows that no parent can protect a child from all the world's evils. Sometimes you have to let them find their own way home.

Members Reviews:

An interesting study of human nature

This story evoked many emotions such as happiness, relief, frustration, anger and sadness, just to mention a few.

Great Story

Pelecanos writes realistic believable stories that enable you to engage with the plot and really identify with the characters. This story tends to be a bit flat in places and you are left wondering when the pace will pick up again, but in a way this enhances the realism of the story, because it mirrors real life. At the end of this story you feel like you have listened to something worthwhile and memorable.

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Title: Cryogenic Nightmare

Subtitle: The Penetrator Series, Book 24

Author: Chet Cunningham

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-10

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Frozen assets: Preacher Mann is too much for the FBI and the CIA. He has dual citizenship and friends in diplomatic circles, and he's too powerful for the regular legal channels. He's come a long way: from a pimp in Harlem, he's worked his way to the top of the rackets. He's into international dope, espionage and now, in his orgy palace off the Florida coast, he's onto a new wrinkle!

The most beautiful women in the country are systematically vanishing. And Preacher Mann is holding them on ice literally. He's freezing them until needed to be shipped to the highest bidder. Only one man can defrost the situation: the Penetrator. He must succeed where others have failed. He's one man on a mission that's too cool to handle!

Members Reviews:

"Penetrating" Action and Adventure

This is book #24 in The Penetrator series of 1970s men's action/adventure novels. This time, the Penetrator must foil the plot of Preacher Mann, a pimped-out master villain intent on kidnapping, cryogenically freezing and then selling America's most beautiful women to the highest bidder (presumably he unthaws them after he is paid, LOL). The Penetrator also fights a great white shark, because this book came out after Jaws 2 (besides, it was good enough for James Bond in Thunderball).

If you like The Executioner, The Death Merchant and other action series of this type (lone wolf secret agent against the world), then you should like this.

Trivia: "Lionel Derrick" is a house pseudonym of Pinnacle Books; The Penetrator, like The Executioner (after #38), utilized ghostwriters to crank its books out at a blistering pace of one a month. In the case of #24: Cryogenic Nightmare, the real author is Chet Cunningham, who did many of the books in The Penetrator series along with Mark K. Rogers.

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Title: Fresh Kills

Subtitle: An Artie Cohen Mystery

Author: Reggie Nadelson

Narrator: Elijah Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

One of the best mysteries ever set in New York City, the last in an archipelago trilogy following 9/11, by the acclaimed author of Disturbed Earth.

With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released from the young offenders institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home tohes family and hes the only person Billy cares about; Artie wants desperately to believe that Billy is OK.

As a plane crashes on Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out of the sense that the bad times have passed, Artie begins to wonder. Over four days in Manhattan and on Staten Island there are signs that Shanks family wants Billy locked up for good, and that Billy's mother doesnt want him coming home either. The bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of his own hope and despair, doesnt know what or whom to believe.Reggie Nadelson has created in Artie Cohen one of mystery fictions most interesting and complex characters: tough, unusually sensitive, deeply flawed and human.

Members Reviews:

Great narrator; book not so good.

I have tried several times now to read all three Reggie Nadelson (is this a man or a woman?) books. I love Elijah Alexander. His voice is smooth, textured and gravelly at the same time. He is reading a little quickly. The protagonist is a young NYC detective, Artie, a Russian Jew by descent, who is a decently well-written character. However, almost all of the characters around him sound wrong to me. The giant Tolya is bigger than life in too many ways, so much so that he's preposterous. The annoying Sonny Lippert is so awful that I just can't stand both his dialogue, which is almost always a disconnected, rambling, historical monologue, and how he is voiced, which is nasal. The young Billy is believable, a 14-year-old with a violent history (he killed a man in Brooklyn) whom Artie brings back from his psychiatric placement in Florida. Even Artie's car is wrong: who drives an old Cadillac and lives in a loft in downtown Manhattan? Tolya's daughter Valentina is likewise so beautiful and so world-weary at nineteen that she strains credulity. The plots are dreadful, sensational murders which often involve dead children with severed limbs. Who needs this? All the post-9/11 talk is now dated, the patriotism of Staten Island quaint and boring. These books will not stand the test of time, but I hope Elijah Alexander reads another novelist. I looked at his website: he is a classically trained actor, with a lot of Shakespeare under his belt. I hope to hear more from him.

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Title: Deadly Lampshades

Author: J. G. Goodhind

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-10

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When Honey Driver decided to give the hotel a makeover, she didn't envisage her interior designer, Philippe Fabiere, getting choked to death with an antique lavatory flush handle. When traces of deadly nightshade are found in Philippe's system the finger of suspicion points at others in his profession.

Is this a case of professional jealousy, or is there something more sinister afoot? And what have the Russians at St Margaret's Court Hotel got to do with it? Why have they cut the wires on the security cameras on the cottage opposite their main gates? And what about the German couple who sit around reception, him helping out the workmen whilst his wife sits knitting? Who is it that's so fond of deadly nightshade?

Members Reviews:

J. G. Goodhind - always a great read!

I never miss a chance to stay caught up on the Honey Driver Series. Goodhind knows her stuff and can always be depended on for a good read.

good comeback

Philippe Fabiere may have been born George Theodore Washington in London's East End, but there's nothing common about him now -- in any sense of the word. With a new fake French accent and bleached-blonde hair, the flamboyant interior designer has become the top designer for hotels in the United Kingdom, and Honey Driver, owner of the Green River Hotel in Bath, is only too happy that he's updating her hotel. But Fabiere's murder in a locked hotel room at another job site, St. Margaret's Court, cuts that elation short.

Once again, Honey, police liaison for the Bath Hotel Association, assists her love interest, the macho Detective Inspector Steve Doherty, with an investigation. And there are no end of suspects: Fabiere's business partner, his interior design rival, the suspicious Russian oligarch who owns the stately St. Margaret's Court hotel, any of several contractors working on the St. Margaret's Court job. Or could it be another person altogether?

After the disappointingMenu for Murder (Honey Driver Mysteries), J.G. Goodhind makes a great comeback with Deadly Lampshades. Even though I began to suspect the murderer three-fifths of the way through the book, I still enjoyed going along for the ride with the intrepid Honey Driver.

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Title: Simple Simon

Author: Ryne Douglas Pearson

Narrator: Joe Morton

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

An autistic teenager. A ruthless assassin. An FBI agent who must risk everything to protect an innocent person from a savage.

All three are thrust together when Simon Lynch, a 16-year-old savant, unknowingly breaks the newest, most secure code developed by the National Security Agency. Corrupt elements within that government behemoth, determined to protect their creation, send Keiko Kimura, a beautiful and brutal terrorist, after the young man. Only FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson stands between the killer and her prey.

As though they were father and son, the bond between Art and Simon turns out to be as crucial to their survival as Art's decades of experience in the FBI. Together, they must evade their pursuers who track them through cyberspace and dog them at every turn.

The action in Simple Simon never lets up until its final, explosive conclusion.

Members Reviews:

The movie is much better

What disappointed you about Simple Simon?

This is a case where the movie, 'Mercury Rising' with Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin far outshines this very short novella. The movie wasn't all that great and it shows up regularly on the Encore type cable channels. This book is a slow read and having seen the movie first, it offered some rather gory and sadistic twists that the screen writers thankfully chose to ignore. I would save the credit cost and skip it.

Has Simple Simon turned you off from other books in this genre?

There is another book by this author that I will give a listen to but if it isn't any better then I'm going to give him the Big X.

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Title: Hinterland

Author: Max McCoy

Narrator: Cameron Beierle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-10

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

What would domestic terrorists do with a couple of nuclear bombs? Andy Kelsey is a reporter who may have just stumbled on the story of a lifetime. He's infiltrated a white separatist group in the Ozarks, an underground organization ready to fight and die - and kill - for their extreme beliefs. The deeper Kelsey gets in the group, the more he's trusted, and the bigger his story becomes. Until he realizes the shocking extent of their scheme.

The separatists have finalized plans for a spectacular cataclysm that they hope will bring about Armageddon. What terrifies Kelsey is that they have the weapon and the means to achieve their mad goal. Will he be able to fight them from the inside without being discovered? Or has he gotten in too deep to ever get out?

Members Reviews:

Awful narration

This is an early review as I'm not sure I'll be able to last through the entire novel. Seems to be a great tale but OMG, Cameron Beierle reads word for word like a twelve year old reading aloud. No conversational or real feeling to it. The constant A as in age and THE as THEE is most annoying. I hope it gets better.

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Title: Constable Beats the Bounds

Author: Nicholas Rhea

Narrator: Nick McArdle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-10

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When Constable Nick leads the long-established procession of villagers around Aidensfield's ancient parish extremities, he realises his duty as a rural bobby comprises lots of boundaries over which he should not cross.

Nonetheless he must occasionally ignore such restrictions to fulfill his role as village constable satisfactorily. Far beyond the call of duty are his efforts to get a bride to the church on time and the occasion he finds himself defending a youth charged with a public order offence.

But when St. Aidan's Well almost dries up as a body is found on the moors above Aidensfield, Constable Nick knows he is duty bound to continue his individualistic performance of wide-ranging constabulary responsibilities.

Members Reviews:

Delightful story telling

The whole Constable series is an experience in gentle, fun, delightful story telling. This reader, Nick McArdle is a perfect fit for the tone of the tales. Audible, please get more of the Constable books on audio!!

Disappointing performance

The reader somehow makes Nicholas Rhea appear cold & judgmental - even giving the impression he's mocking those he writes about. I miss the old recordings by Christopher Kay.