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Title: Double Cross

Subtitle: Noughts & Crosses 4

Author: Malorie Blackman

Narrator: Nigel Pilkington, Nicole Davis, Joan Walker

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-08

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Her boyfriend Tobey is worried about his own future. A nought boy at an exclusive school Tobey hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave the dangerous streets of his childhood behind. But Tobey is discovering that he can't keep clinging to some kind of no-man's land while the neighbourhood around him is carved up by rival gangs. Then he is offered the chance to earn some ready money just making a few 'deliveries'. He doesn't want a part of that world, the world of gangs. But maybe he could get away with it, just this once.

He little realizes how his decision will bring violence down on both himself and Callie and just how far he will go in fighting back....

Members Reviews:

Typical plot rewritten

The series continues with this amazing story. The continuation is thought provoking and touching with twists and turns of emotion. The story is addictive and hard to stop listening to. The story was exciting and full of suspense and anticipation. Throughout the book the now familiar characters are developed and we grow along with them. As the events unfold the excitement and also development of the story carries the listener along with it.

an an improvement over the last entry

the title says it all but the second book was the best

OK OK that is it

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Title: Maelstrom

Author: Michael MacConnell

Narrator: Sean Mangan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-08

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A strong female heroine, a chillingly evil villain and a gripping plot makes for compulsive listening.

Special Agent Sarah Reilly is the daughter of an FBI legend. Her father made his reputation hunting down one of America's worst serial predators. Now it's her turn.

A monster is cruising the east coast. One who has stalked the United States for three decades, claiming countless victims. A chameleon who has found a fatal flaw in the forensic profiler's art.

At the same time, someone is hunting down and eliminating serial killers with mechanical precision. A hunter with uncanny skill, limitless resources and lethal determination.

With the serial killer's interest in her growing, and the hunter drawing closer to his ultimate prey, time is running out. To save what is most precious to her, Sarah will have to enter the maelstrom or face her darkest fears.

Members Reviews:

intelligent female protagonist decides she's in love with an idiot ...

The violet-eyed man--what a villain! He can simultaneously garrotte someone (which takes 2 hands & a strong grip with both) and hold down the firing pin of a fragmentation grenade! (Maybe he has 3 hands?)

Then his perfectly competent, intelligent female protagonist decides she's in love with an idiot who keeps disobeying orders in order to "protect" her, which puts her in danger every time, when she doesn't need protecting. Wow!

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Title: Life to Life

Subtitle: Ashton Ford #4

Author: Don Pendleton

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Soon, Ford found that the lovely reverend was the center of a centuries-old mystical group now threatened by malevolent and divisive forces. Ford had to wage a cosmic battle in a shadowy realm of the unreal and the unearthly - a world that challenges all that we know.

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Title: The Prairie Grass Murders

Author: Patricia Stoltey

Narrator: Beth Richmond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-08

Publisher: Books In Motion

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A Vietnam vet with lingering side effects from the war, Willie finds a body while he's on vacation. When he tries to report his discovery to a deputy sheriff, he is locked up as a vagrant with delusions. Willie insists on returning to the site where the body is hidden before notifying the sheriff.

Soon he and Sylvia discover clues about the murdered businessman, his wife, a tenant farmer, concealed Indian artifacts, and uprooted stands of prairie grass that may help the sexy sheriff find the murderer.

Members Reviews:

Vietnam Vet and Circuit Court Judge meet Killers

When Willie Grisseljon travels by bus from Florida to Illinois to visit the old home place where he and his sister, Sylvia Thorn, circuit court judge grew up on a farm, he never expected to find a dead man under a pile of old raspberry brambles . . . and he sure never thought that an officer of the law would haul him in and take him to psychiatric hospital . . . things get stranger and stranger in this tale of a Vietnam vet, with PTSD who has the power to sense danger, particularly in regards to his younger sister . . . he doesn't drive, but takes public transportation or walks (long distances) to get to where he is going . . . but don't mistake him for a simpleton . . . when his sister, Sylvia joins him in Illinois to try to straighten out the mess and find the dead man (who has mysteriously disappeared, things go from bad to worse . . . and you are never sure who the bad guys are . . . keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way until the very end . . . great story . . . excellent conclusion . . . hoping to see more from this author . . .

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Title: First Daughter

Subtitle: A Jack McClure Thriller

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-08

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Jack McClure lost his daughter. Now it's his job to make sure the president-elect doesn't lose his. For eight years, America has been led by a president hell-bent on aggressive foreign policy and rebuilding the nation on Christian values. A new administration is on its way in, but the president has a few power moves left to see his legacy solidified. Moderate conservative Edward Carson is taking the reins, hoping to set America on a new course. But weeks before Inauguration Day, Carson's daughter, Alli, goes missing from her college dormitory.

Jack McClure is an ATF agent who recently lost his daughter in a terrible accident...and Jack's daughter was Alli's roommate. When the president-elect chooses him to lead the search for the first daughter, Jack approaches the quest fiercely. The investigation leads him onto the path of a dangerous and calculating man - someone whose actions are as cold as they are intelligent, a man whose reach is seemingly infinite.

Faith, redemption, and political intrigue play off one another as McClure journeys into the path and mind of a calculating genius who always manages to stay one step ahead of him. And Jack will soon discover that this man has affected his life in more ways than he ever realized.

Critic Reviews:

"Rarely have I read a book that grabs you so fast in the opening scene (and, oh, how it grabs!), then keeps up the pace until the very last page. Goodbye sleep; hello First Daughter." (Jeffery Deaver)

Members Reviews:

Seems like just another swipe at Christians

What disappointed you about First Daughter?

Jack McClure has a flashback during a flashback. While I like a story with a twist this one twist back on itself so many time I am still not sure who the author wants the good guys to be.

What do you think your next listen will be?

No

How could the performance have been better?

It seems the author is prejudice towards "fundamental Christians" without knowing what the majority of "fundamental Christians" believe. I like stories where it is clear the author know the facts and can spin them in to a plausible fantasy I did not find this story either plausible or factual.

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

He sounds like he is reading an old Mickey Spillane detective novel. I find it old and tiring.

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Title: The Dark of Day

Author: Barbara Parker

Narrator: Elisabeth S. Rodgers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When Alana Martin is found dead and C. J.'s investigator implicates Rick Slater, C. J. is slammed between the media and the need to defend a client she no longer trusts. Then he delivers a bombshell: C. J.'s daughter, Traci Willis, the child she gave up for adoption 17 years ago, was a friend of Alana Martin's. Traci has information that could save Rick Slater, but at the same time reveal a devastating secret that would put C. J.'s career, and even her life, on the line.

Members Reviews:

I loved her Suspicion of

I loved her Suspicion of ... series. Barbara Parker was a wonderful writer. But with this one, I just didn't like the main characters very well, and I didn't enjoy the story as much as the others. In its favor, I will say that this book didn't have the OCR errors that plagued the Suspicion series books.

Ok

Ok

Not her best

I just recently finished Barbara's Parker new book "The Dark of Day".

It is not part of her on-going series featuring Gail Connor, a Miami attorney. I knew that when I purchased this book but believed that I would love anything she wrote.

Well, this book just did not thrill me like her other books have. The main character is another Miami lawyer, but does not have the depth of her previous efforts. The characters were a bit one dimensional and predictable. I was saying to myself "oh, please!"..when reading some of the dialogue. I did not feel a bond to anyone except perhaps the male criminal suspect and the lawyer's ex father in law.

I was able to put this book down over a period of days, when I usually have read her previous books in one sitting.

The book had a lot of potential, but it just fell short of the mark for me. I would give it a 3-1/2 stars instead of 3, but it was not possible with this rating feature.

Would I have bought this book if I had known this? Probably...I like to judge things for myself! But...I would have waited and bought it used when the prices came down a bit.

What excitement to keep your interest

I love this author's writing of love and mystery. I have fallen in love the characters.I get sad when the book is coming to an end. I hate this is the last book.

Four Stars

I liked it a lot. Moves fast and has lots of surprises!

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Title: The Promised Land

Author: David Hewson

Narrator: William Hope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-08

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Unexpectedly released moments before his execution, he teams up with the beautiful, feisty, half-Chinese Alice Loong, who is seeking answers to her own troubled past and the death of her mother on that same day in 1983.

Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more than he is telling about his wife's death, the pair embark on a dangerous race against time to uncover the real truth about the events of that fateful day...

Members Reviews:

The Promised Land

The premise of the book was good; however I was disappointed in the development of the plot. Reader was fair.

A thriller that makes you want to listen

I've enjoyed David Hewson's Rome series of detective novels and so was expecting to enjoy this audio book, which I did from the first riveting chapter. It's a different style of book to the Rome series, which comprise intricately constructed webs of clues often linked to some historical artifact or painting. The 'Promised Land' reminded me more of a Robert Goddard thriller with twists and turns and double-crosses. It has a touch of The Fugitive (the TV series starring David Janssen in the 1960s for those of us of a certain age!) in that a man has been imprisoned for apparently killing his wife but the twist in this book is that he can't be sure and neither is the listener until the end of the book.

compulsive listening

I enjoyed this book immensely. It took a little time to get into as I had to get used to the narrator's accent but then I was hooked.There is a lot of very droll humour as well as twists and turns galore.The huge leaps forward in technology we take foregranted over the past twenty years are very obvious when we see them through the eyes of a 'dinosaur' who has been in prison as the rest of the world moved ahead without him. Thanks to this technology I was listening into the early hours as I HAD to know 'who dunnit'.Loved it.

Slow but gets there

As my title suggests, it is a VERY slow beginning, but persist and you'll find a nice, wee thriller. A cop is on death row, convicted of murdering his wife and child. He still proclaims his innocence, having been knocked unconscious at the scene. Days before the death date, he is released after a felon apparently confessed to the crime, but now various shady characters are after him and he doesn't know why or who to trust.

Brilliant

This is such a good buy. The narrator,sorry forgot hs name, but I'm going to check back and look for books read by him. He did a great job to a great who dunnit. Buy this book and you won't be disappointed.

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Title: Montmorency on the Rocks

Author: Eleanor Updale

Narrator: Stephen Fry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

1885: Five years after his release from prison, Montmorency is working undercover for the government. But his life, and national security, are threatened by his addiction to drugs. Can his friends restore his health in time to discover who is bombing London, and why, on the Scottish island of Tarimond, a whole generation of children has died?

Members Reviews:

An excellent listen

This is the second installment of the Montmorency story. The first instalment is not unfortunately available with Audible yet. Stephen Fry's beautiful reading of this epic tale is brilliant. However, I would advise that you either read or listen to the first book before purchasing this title, as the characters introduced in the first book are central to the story of the second. Perhaps Audible can obtain the rights to the first book as well...

montmorency on the rocks

THis was an excellent listen. We listened to it as a family age range 9-45 and it entertained us all. Stephen Fry reads brilliantly. The plot was intruiguing and kept us involved unitl the end.

Light and Fun

If you enjoy being read to by Stephen Fry you will not be disappointed. Light and Fun this entertaining read is one to enjoy when you are doing a tedious task like the ironing and very safe to listen to with the family around. I will definitely purchase any more Montmorency titles if they become available on Audible if they are read by Stephen Fry.

Enjoy a light listen?

Any additional comments?

This was a really fun book to listen to, a light listen, I thought. It was also restful to hear Stephen Fry's excellent interpretation as he read. Try it!

Listen and relax on the beach

Would you consider the audio edition of Montmorency on the Rocks to be better than the print version?

The audio version of this book is great. I don't think that the written version would be half so good. It was greatly enhanced by Stephen Fry's interpretation.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

It tied up some of the loose ends but was too abbreviated and left some story lines hanging in the air.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

The scene where Montmorency was chasing the crook through Kew Gardens Greenhouse

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes but it is too long for one sitting

Any additional comments?

The book was greatly enhanced by the reading of the story by Stephen Fry. His use of accents and different voices turned it into a performance. I have not read anything written by this author before but will look out for any other audible productions of her stories

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Title: The Rubber Woman

Author: Lindsay Ashford

Narrator: Cait Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-08

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The world of Cardiff's sex trade hits the headlines when a woman is butchered and left for dead. Pauline distributes condoms to the women of the red light district and is known locally as "the rubber woman". She and Megan, a forensic psychologist, make it their mission to stop more women from becoming victims. They don't know it yet, but one of them is already marked out for death.

©2007 Lindsay Ashford; (P)2007 W F Howes

Members Reviews:

Hopeful -

I tend to choose "offbeat" books and this one was a little to 'off beat' for my liking. But is had a decent, moral message which always gets points with me.

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Title: Blindsighted

Subtitle: Grant Country, Book 1

Author: Karin Slaughter

Narrator: Judith Ivey

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-08

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver - Sara's ex-husband - is in charge of the investigation, and when a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, both Jeffrey and Sara have to face the fact that Sibyl's murder wasn't a one-off attack. What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator. A violent serial killer...

Members Reviews:

great suspense and characters!

loved this book plot,suspense and character development, great voice acting bringing it to life I'm looking forward to the rest of the series