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Title: Cruel Deception

Subtitle: Detective Jason Strong Book 9

Author: John C. Dalglish

Narrator: Joshua Bennington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-15

Publisher: John C. Dalglish

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Jason and Vanessa are back with a new case, and this one pushes them to the limit. Clues are being left at the scene of the homicides but they can't figure out the meaning.

Frustration mounts, as does the number of victims, but the detectives won't give up. Will they figure it out too late, or are they smarter than the killer gives them credit for.

Members Reviews:

Incredibly good serial murder mystery!

Author John Dalglish packs an excellent suspense mystery into a 2.5 hour novella. Cruel Deception is the 9th novella in the Jason Strong mystery series. I'm listing to several books in the very popular 16 novella series in random order. This is the best one so far.

It seems Real

What did you love best about Cruel Deception?

A fast moving story where the detectives seem like they are real in developing their investigation. The narrator, as he has done before, picks up the pace of the story as he reads the text. Joshua Bennington does his best work when the story flows. The book just ends too quickly leaving me to hope there will be a new adventure available real soon.

Which character as performed by Joshua Bennington was your favorite?

Detective Strong is obviously the favorite as everything revolves around him.

Any additional comments?

Waiting for the next one. I like the concept of 2.5 hour books.

A BLOODY DETECTIVE STORY

Would you listen to Cruel Deception again? Why?

I would listen to "Cruel Deception" again and have it on my best audio books list.

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

Most of the time the story line kept me from turning the story off, I always wanted to hear what was next.

What does Joshua Bennington bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Joshua Bennington's voice reminds me of the men telling stories over the radio I heard as a child. The old mystery/detective stories. The only thing that is missing is the music.

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

The killing were a little messy. But make you want Detective Strong to get the guy even more.

Any additional comments?

I gave this audio book a 5 star review as well as the other book by John Dalglish I listened too because of the performance of the narrator Joshua Bennington. He made the book for me.

A Jason Strong Novel

What made the experience of listening to Cruel Deception the most enjoyable?

The narrator gave the novel a mystery tone.

Any additional comments?

Terrific audio book, you need to add it to your collection of detective mystery books.

A Pure and Clean Detective Story

Would you consider the audio edition of Cruel Deception to be better than the print version?

Almost all audio versions of a book are more entertaining than the printed version plus I can do something else with my hands and eyes. Like drive or cut my grass.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the suspense of the mystery. Mr. Dalglish held off to the end for this who done it.

What about Joshua Benningtons performance did you like?

I have heard other performances by Mr. Bennington and have liked them all. Hope Mr. Dalglish will use him again.

Any additional comments?

I loved this performance and gave it a five star rating. The story was great and the narration was terrific

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Title: You Only Die Twice

Author: Edna Buchanan

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-15

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

What was the nude, recently slain body of Kaithlin Jordan doing spoiling the pristine turquoise waters of Miami Beach - especially when the dead socialite's convicted killer husband is sitting on death row for having murdered her...10 years ago?

Reporter Britt Montero lives for this kind of story. But she may die for this one as well. Because each question raises many others - and every hard-won answer reveals secret passions and explosive truths that could doom an overly inquisitive journalist with a tendency to leap before she looks.

Members Reviews:

Edna Buchanan's You Only Die Twice continues to be just ...

Edna Buchanan's You Only Die Twice continues to be just as entertaining as her previous Britt Montero books. She sustains her colorful characters, while introducing delightful new characters in each book. I look forward to her next one.

Four Stars

Great story line!

Good read

I liked the fast pace and twists and turns that Edna Buchanon is known for! I am enjoying the Britt Montero series!

You Only Die Twice

Enjoyed reading this book,interesting,& informative about Miami life.

Gave it a 5 star review & would recommend this mystery. I have read several of Edna buchanan's book love them all, never a disappointment.

You Only Die Twice

For the Britt Montero fans, this is a thriller. Wish Buchanan would go back to this genre since the character is very appealing.

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Title: Cat and Mouse

Subtitle: Alex Cross, Book 4

Author: James Patterson

Narrator: Jeff Harding, Raj Ghatak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-15

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The fourth heart-stopping novel in James Patterson's Alex Cross series. Just as Alex Cross is beginning to feel that life is good and he is finally coming out of the depression he's been in since the death of his wife, he is called to Union Station train terminal - a man is on the loose, firing at random into the swarming crowds of travellers.

Psychopath Gary Soneji seems determined to go down in a blaze of glory, and he wants Alex Cross to be there. Will this be the final showdown?

Critic Reviews:

"Brilliantly terrifying...so exciting I had to stay up all night to finish it." (Daily Mail)

Members Reviews:

Horrific narrator

The slow drawn-out drawl absolutely ruins it for me. I couldn't listen to it for more than an hour. Guess I'll have to read the book.

superb

great book. I'm not a big reader so thought give audio books a whirl. loved this book from start to finish would highly recommend to anyone. great story to it

Jeff Harding Awesome

What made the experience of listening to Cat and Mouse the most enjoyable?

Jeff Harding's entertaining narration.

What did you like best about this story?

I enjoy Alex Cross books and the story was very good.

Any additional comments?

Raj Ghatak was very poor, with robotic, bland narration.

Long and Tedious

Not the best storyline from Patterson. Really two stories strung together for over 120 chapters!

Alex Cross role seems to have been as the storyline punchbag.

Little suspense but overdone gruesome murders ugh!

Exciting tense Thriller so typical of James Patterson

Love Alex Cross he always solves his cases he always keeps his cool brilliant listen

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Title: Cooler than Blood

Author: Robert Lane

Narrator: John Martin Byrne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-15

Publisher: Mason Alley Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Jenny Spencer is missing after a violent encounter on a beach. Her aunt, Susan Blake, asks wisecracking PI Jake Travis to intervene. Susan and Jake spent only one dinner together and both felt an instant attraction. Jake walked away. He was, and is, committed to Kathleen.

As Jake and his partner, Garrett Demarcus, close the circle on finding Jenny, they discover that Kathleen's past ties to organized crime and Jenny's life are strangely entwined. They fight a two-front battle to find Jenny and to protect Kathleen.

But by protecting Kathleen, will Jake become the type of man that she could never love? Does he have a choice?

Robert Lane's second standalone Jake Travis audiobook delivers a tour de force of suspense, intrigue, and humor, deftly wrapped in Lane's trademark literary overtones.

Members Reviews:

Good beach read

Being a resident of Fort Myers Beach, this was a very enjoyable read because of the accuracy of the various locations mentioned by name. Not just some generalized locations, but real establishments on the island.

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Title: NYPD Red 3

Author: James Patterson

Narrator: Jay Snyder, Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Businessman Hunter Alden, Jr., thinks he has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful teenage son, and billions in the bank. However, his life is turned upside down one night when he finds the severed head of his chauffeur stuffed into a bag painted with his son's initials in blood.

But the price to get him back might be too high - even for one of the world's richest men.

Members Reviews:

Red 3

This was a good continuation on the series, however if they made them a bit longer it would be better. Just like the first 2 it's action packed and filled with a bit of partner tension. It's a good series!

Decapitation, murder, kidnapping? Yes, yes, yes!

I enjoyed the relaxed storyline and easy read style of this book. Plenty of action but also plenty of time to relax while still keeping your attention as to what is going to happen next. A few nice twists to keep you guessing and also twists in their personal lives to keep you on your toes as to who is sleeping where and with whom.ñ

brilliant

awesome book so many twists and turns made it so exciting to listen to would definitely recommend

Red Hot

Gripping, loved it from start to finish. So my story's & all perfectly rounded off like only James P can do

Great story let down by Zach & Kylie character

Story was fantastic and surprised me throughout with twists and turns. My is with Zach and Kylie. She is too overbearing, treats Zach badly both personally and in their work life yet weak Zach just takes it. He still loves her yet has another woman. He is too much of a wuss to be a successful detective in this elite police squad.

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Title: A Colder Kind of Death

Subtitle: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

Author: Gail Bowen

Narrator: Lisa Bunting

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-13-15

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician husband, Ian, in a seemingly senseless act alongside the TransCanada Highway.

The haunting takes on a more menacing cast several days later when Tarpley's sinister wife, Maureen, is discovered dead in a snow-swept Regina parking lot. A brightly colored scarf is found wound tightly around her neck, a scarf that belongs to none other than Joanne Kilbourn. Soon this single mother, author, university professor, and TV-show panelist is deemed the number-one suspect in Maureen Tarpley's demise.

Joanne knows there has to be a connection between these two murders. But what is it? A cryptic letter sent to Joanne by Kevin Tarpley just days before his death intimates that Ian Kilbourn's killing may not have been as senseless as first assumed. In fact there are hints that some of Ian's political colleagues may have been involved. But how deeply and in what way?

Then there's the faded photograph of a pretty young woman and her baby that Joanne finds tucked in the wallet of her dead husband. Does it offer any clue to Ian's murder or to the deaths of the Tarpleys? Warily, Joanne Kilbourn is forced to follow a tangled trail deep into a heartbreaking past she never knew existed.

A Colder Kind of Death is the fourth novel featuring Gail Bowen's reluctant sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn. With its deft mix of wry humor and mayhem, closely observed family scenes and gripping suspense, warm characterization and betrayal, it confirms Gail Bowen's stature as one of the greats of mystery fiction.

Members Reviews:

Excellent

Lisa Bunting is perfect as the narrator of this well woven story. So enjoy Gail Bowen's writing.

Devious murder & hidden secrets!

Note: While this is Book 4 in the series, it works mostly well as a stand alone. There are definitely some character backstories that I was a bit muddled on, but in regards to the main plot, they dd not matter.

Set in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Joanne Kilbourn is a parent, a professor, a TV panelist, and a widow. Now her past comes back to her with the news that Kevin Tarpley, the man who killed her husband, Ian, six years ago, was shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan prison. Odd as that is, it pales in comparison to the unexpected photo of a young mother with her baby in Ians old wallet. Then Maureen, Kevins wife, shows up for cocktail drinks at one of Joannes local haunts and ends up dead. Joanne starts digging into her husbands past in order to unravel her current mystery.

I can see why this series is so popular! I really enjoyed this Canadian mystery. Joanne is a very interesting character with her multiple professions and her single parenting skills. Toss in the 6-year-old case of her husbands murder with the recent death of Maureen, and you have quite the engaging story. Joanne was really caught in this balancing act does she ask the questions and possibly dig up hurtful information or does she let things lie and cherish the memories of the husband she knew?

Even though Maureen ends up dead in the first quarter of the book, I found her character rather seductive. She obviously has quite the ego on her.

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Title: The Girl with Nine Lives

Subtitle: The Adventures of Benedict and Blackwell

Author: E. Earle

Narrator: Anna Parker-Naples

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-15

Publisher: Elizabeth Earle

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

If you are a fan of cozy mysteries and have a soft spot for talking cats, you will love E. Earle's The Girl with Nine Lives.

What do you do when friends start going missing and all signs point to your boss being a crime lord?

Nothing is going right for Ellena Blackwood. She is failing at life and teetering on an emotional collapse. When she accidentally discovers a secret at work, a secret the Home Office is willing to keep at any price, she has must rely on her wits to save her own life.

The mystery and danger only deepen when friends begin to disappear and Ellena's boss turns out to be a big time crime boss. Even the local police seem intent on keeping Ellena quiet. The only one she can depend on is her cat Ben, who has no trouble telling Ellena when it's time to end the pity party.

Will Ellena and Ben have what it takes to unravel the twists and turns before it's too late?

Elizabeth Earle is the author of four books, including three Adventures of Benedict and Blackwell books. She studied at the Norwich University College of the Arts after studying a National Diploma in Fine Art. After a switch she earned her BA (Hons) in Creative Writing and began her writing career.

Members Reviews:

Fab story.

love the voice reading the story...she rely brings the amazing story alive!

a highly rated listen/read.

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Title: High Spirits

Subtitle: Five Star Expressions

Author: Alice Duncan

Narrator: Denice Stradling

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-15

Publisher: Alice Duncan

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Daisy Gumm Majesty, spiritualist to folks with more money than sense, can scarcely believe that her best client wants her to get her spiritual control, Rolly, to appear at a séance in a speakeasy. Bad enough that Daisy made up Rolly when she was ten, but now Rolly has to perform at a séance for a bunch of murdering gangsters?

When the place is raided, Daisy's troubles multiply.

Add to the mix Daisy's nemesis (and her husband's best friend) Detective Sam Rotondo; Vicenzo Maggiori, leader of the bootlegging racket in the area; and Flossie Mosser, befuddled floozy; and you have a rollicking adventure that Daisy isn't sure she's going to survive.

Members Reviews:

Super new characters

I did enjoy this one - especially Flossie's story. I really enjoy how Duncan's main character, Daisy, carries herself. She has such high morals for such a young lady in the most difficult of marital situations, but she has such an innocent conscience that she gets herself into so much trouble. At first, some of her trite repetitions were annoying, but then, as one gets into the 'spirit' of the Prohibition Era, it makes sense, as that is precisely how we can imagine her speaking. What would she have done in the age of computers!!! Yet she is thorough and does her research well, courtesy of her local library!

Duncan does a great job of quickly bringing her readers up to date as to Daisy's situation, in each of her Daisy Gumm Majesty books. Someone starting , even with this one, has a grasp of things immediately, while those of us who are enrapt with the whole series get a quick refresher - a good thing if you aren't reading them back-to-back - which I must admit I am doing.

Normally I review a book upon completion, but am embarrassed to admit that I have not been doing so here. It almost bit me on this one as I don't like to reveal too much about a book so that review readers don't get too much of the story which could spoil it for them. Yet, I have just started Book 6 - and I continue to be intrigued with each one, and have to stop myself from revealing too much.

If you are looking for a relaxing, refreshing read - be sure to read this whole series. We need heroines and a character list such as these - and thank you, too, Alice Duncan, for letting us revisit the new friends as they appear from book to book!

A make-believe psychic takes on 1920s gangsters

The Daisy Gumm Majesty books are lighthearted reading, written first person in a chatty style with a sense of humor. Daisy is a business woman and a working wife during the 1920s when women were not encouraged to be either.

Time and place: 1921, Pasadena, California. Password to the speakeasy just outside the city limits: "Oh you kid."

Think of HIGH SPIRITS as a memoir. Make-believe psychic Daisy Gumm Majesty recalls a spectacularly bad month that starts with a séance in a speakeasy and goes downhill from there.

Daisy's regular clients don't hang out in speakeasies. More likely they can be found in a séance. In this case, the séance takes place in a "speak" and Daisy must do her work seated between two hoods.

It's a disaster waiting to happen but Daisy can't resist the piteous pleas of her best customer, Mrs. Kincaid, whose willful daughter Stacey hangs out at the speakeasy.

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Titel: Grablichter (Pia Korittki 4)

Autor:: Eva Almstädt

Erzähler: Anne Moll

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-29-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 7 Stimmen

Kategorien: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Bei Probebohrungen für die geplante Umgehungsstraße stößt man auf ein Skelett ohne Kopf. Im Dorf scheint niemand den Toten zu kennen, der mehr als ein Vierteljahrhundert in seinem flachen Erdgrab ruhte. Dann stellt sich der tödliche Reitunfall einer Journalistin im nahe gelegenen Wald als heimtückisch geplanter Mord heraus. Kommissarin Pia Korittki und ihr Team ermitteln mal wieder auf dem Land...

>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung wird Ihnen exklusiv von Audible präsentiert und ist ausschließlich im Download erhältlich.

©2008 Bastei Lübbe AG (P)2015 Audible GmbH

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Fantastic

great story and thrilling till the last page. This series is growing on me. Thank you

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Title: The Jigsaw Man

Author: Elena Forbes

Narrator: Ric Jerrom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

DI Mark Tartaglia spends a night in a west London hotel with a woman he has just met. When he is called out to the same hotel the next morning to investigate a murder, he realises it must have taken place while he was there. If things weren't already complicated enough, the investigation takes a new and horrifying turn when he recognises the young female victim.

Still reeling from the shock, he learns that another case he has been investigating - the body of a homeless man found in a burnt-out car - is also not what it seems. Tests reveal that the corpse has been assembled from the body parts of four different people.

Under mounting pressure from the media and unsure where his loyalties lie, Tartaglia must solve this new macabre puzzle before the Jigsaw Killer strikes again.

Members Reviews:

Very good police procedural

This was my first Elena Forbes book but I'm sure it won't be the last. I enjoyed the police characters and even the villains were fairly interesting characters.

I'm going to check on the book before this because there were references to events that took place the year before. This book actually included a villain who escaped from those events and turned up again here. No escape this time!

Not As Well Plotted As I Expected

I've listened to the three prior DI Mark Tartaglia books. I think the last one was released in 2011. I immediately bought the current book when I saw it listed on Audible. However, I was a bit disappointed in this police procedural.

DI Mark Tartaglia is awoken by the news that there was a murder in a upscale hotel, a hotel where he has just engaged in a one night stand. I'm not sure why that is even brought into the book because it shortly becomes clear that his sexual escapade has nothing to do with the murder.

Complications though ensure that Tartaglia's group instead are set to investigate the body of a man found in a burning car rather than the body at the hotel.

My frustration with this book had a lot to do with the plotting. Someone would be interrogating a witness and then would stop one question short-- the question that would have arose naturally from the previous responses. I might have forgiven this once, but it began to look like the author's method of sustaining suspense. Instead it points the reader toward the resolution.

I'm also not particularly fond of the narrator. He has read all of the Elena Forbes books and while I don't think his performance detracts from the books, I don't think it contributes to it either.

Engaging and beautifully read.

An engaging novel of detection and intrigue with well drawn characters whose enchants for good or evil result in a good tale, which is enhanced by excellent narration. The author portrays the villains with subtle understanding, they are both plausible and vile and the goodies flawed, real characters who you can see.