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The Secret Place
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan, Lara Hutchinson
- Duración: 20 h y 35 m
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A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when 16-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I know who killed him". Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case - beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. The private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.
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Well...I really liked 50% of it
- De Pamela Donaldson en 09-11-14
- The Secret Place
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan, Lara Hutchinson
One of French's very best
Revisado: 02-06-25
as always, French draws her story out to different horizons of complexity, both in terms of story and character. the plot is moderately complex but French is not a plot driven a writer. it's all about moves and emotions, and ways of living and thinking about, pondering, and questioning life. this is a beautifully written novel. poignant and sweet and sad like every entry in the Dublin murder squad series. the narration is also superb from top to bottom. this is one of my favorite audiobooks of all time, in any genre.
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The Last House on Needless Street
- De: Catriona Ward
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 12 h
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In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
- De Brenda en 10-04-21
- The Last House on Needless Street
- De: Catriona Ward
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
didn't love it, didn't hate it
Revisado: 01-15-25
pretty good narration with the exception of the onomatopoetic pronunciation of cat sounds, which became irritating within 15 minutes of the start. this isn't the fault of the narrator so much as of the writer. I can think of about two instances in all of literature where the use of onomatopoeia is justified.
the story is okay, but I think the novel is just too long for the subject matter. I can't really name subgenre without dropping spoilers. it's just not my favorite.
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The Grey Wolf
- A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, Book 19)
- De: Louise Penny
- Narrado por: Jean Brassard
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.
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Authentic accent cannot compensate...
- De Mer en 11-01-24
- The Grey Wolf
- A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, Book 19)
- De: Louise Penny
- Narrado por: Jean Brassard
Not among Penny's best but good
Revisado: 11-22-24
While probably my least favorite in the series, this is still entertaining. I would really like to see Penny write another book in the series that is a nice, cozy mystery. Obviously, she can do what she wants but for my taste this entry in the series has too many thriller elements. Penny even resorts to onomatopoeia on a few occasions - a gun goes off - "Bang, bang, bang!" I'm sorry, but that's just not effective writing. The new narrator is okay, but is my least favorite of the three who have narrated this series. I just found this one to be a bit disappointing, but certainly a must for fans of the series.
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The Spite House
- A Novel
- De: Johnny Compton
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money—it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you.
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FINALLY! A True literary horror/ghost story
- De KristiW594 en 03-20-23
- The Spite House
- A Novel
- De: Johnny Compton
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
good, with shortcomings
Revisado: 10-15-24
this is a good ghost story novel rooted in themes of racism, Justice, punishment, and The elusive nature of redemption. the beginning of the novel is very strong but the story becomes convoluted about 2/3 of the way through. the results of too much explaining rather than showing through dialogue and action. nonetheless, it's an ambitious novel with very well drawn characters. I was also impressed with Compton's successful efforts to address plot points that could have easily become plod holes if unless your hands. the narrator is very good although I think he's better suited to other kinds of stories. for instance, listen to his superb narration of SA Cosby's crime novels.
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Broken Harbor
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan
- Duración: 19 h y 54 m
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Mick “Scorcherˮ Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and thatʼs how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things can't be explained.
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Do they give Oscars for narration?
- De EZ en 10-30-19
- Broken Harbor
- A Novel
- De: Tana French
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan
Complex character development, as always
Revisado: 09-20-24
Tana French is a superb writer. her character development is second to none. in her crime novels plot is important but is always secondary to the characters, and serves only to put them in difficult personal and moral dilemmas, to force them into impossible decisions that have to nonetheless be made. this novel is no different. the only significant shortcoming is a chunk in the middle about an animal in the attic of the murder house that goes on and on and on. it could have been three pages. the length of this stretch is such an interruption to the story and the character development of the primary characters that it ends up detracting from the novel as a whole. that said, once we're through that section the novel rebounds and even with that flaw is still a solid four-star effort. the narrator is superb, perfect.
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Blacktop Wasteland
- A Novel
- De: S. A. Cosby
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Beauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hardworking dad. Bug knows there's no future in the man he used to be: Known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast. He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat.
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Fantastic All Around
- De stuartjash en 07-16-20
- Blacktop Wasteland
- A Novel
- De: S. A. Cosby
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
Sean hits it out of the park every time
Revisado: 09-02-24
Sean Cosby has developed the ability more character development thrillers than one expects of the genre and which most writers of thrillers don't achieve. But beyond that particular bar, Sean's books, including Backtop Wasteland, are filled from beginning to end with complex characters and themes which never interfere with the action, and in fact augment it, raise the stakes, and make the story more thrilling. with no spoilers, I will add the ending of this book is perfect and fits the story, themes, and a question which that proceed it.
Finally, the narrator also is perfect, as he has been with other of Sean's novels.
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The Given Day
- De: Dennis Lehane
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 23 h y 47 m
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The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.
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As Good As It Gets
- De D. Jay Ritt en 02-02-09
- The Given Day
- De: Dennis Lehane
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
one of his best
Revisado: 05-14-24
while within the crime milieu were used to seeing Dennis Lehane work within, this is a completely different kind of novel compared with the ones that take place in contemporary Boston. I can't imagine the amount of research he must have done for this book. he situates it so well within historical events it seems like historical fiction, and I guess it is. the characters are as richly developed as usual, and even tertiary characters are three-dimensional and have their moments. it's a sprawling story, and in the beginning it's hard to imagine how Lehane is going to weave each character's separate story into one, but of course he does it in splendid fashion. it's a satisfying, self-contained novel, though part of a series. narration is also superb.
my only complaint about the audiobook presentation is that the producer decided Lehane's writing just wasn't quite good enough and that it needed interstitial, cheap and overly loud segue music between random sections. the hubris behind this kind of decision is sort of jaw-dropping when you consider the writer we're dealing with here. the awful music is disruptive for 60 or 75 seconds seven or eight times throughout the audiobook.
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All the Sinners Bleed
- A Novel
- De: S. A. Cosby
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes.
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Visceral, gripping, thrilling and entertaining
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 06-26-23
- All the Sinners Bleed
- A Novel
- De: S. A. Cosby
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
Sean does it again
Revisado: 08-05-23
while in some ways I liked razor blade tears a little more, this is nonetheless another very good novel and when I would certainly listen to or read it again. as with razor blade tears, the characters in this story are well written and compelling. I could read an entire series of stories with the main protagonist of this one in the lead. the reader is very good and his style and voice match the characters. as with Cosby's last novel, this one is deeply thematic, and centered around prejudice and bigotry, but also family and loyalty.
as a side note, a couple of years ago at a writer's conference I saw Dennis Lehane interview Sean Cosby. it's so wonderful to see a really decent guy from humble roots make it big.
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The Trolley to Yesterday
- The Johnny Dixon Series, Book 6
- De: John Bellairs
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 3 h y 35 m
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Johnny Dixon is worried about Professor Childermass. The professor has always been an odd duck, but lately his behavior has been positively bizarre. He’s been talking to himself and stalking down the street with his collar turned up and his hat over his eyes, and now he won’t return Johnny’s calls. Johnny’s afraid that the professor’s old age is starting to get to him, but he will soon find it’s something far more amazing—and far more dangerous.
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Wonderful book
- De jennifer Northcutt en 11-30-22
- The Trolley to Yesterday
- The Johnny Dixon Series, Book 6
- De: John Bellairs
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
not the best in the series
Revisado: 07-03-23
JB's foray into science fiction fantasy is not among his best work. too many deus ex machina moments, with a plot that is just too haphazard. I love the guy's writing and his storytelling, but this one just didn't do it for me. Not terrible, just a bit tedious and too far-fetched even within the context of the genre.
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Nine Princes in Amber
- The Chronicles of Amber, Book 1
- De: Roger Zelazny
- Narrado por: Alessandro Juliani
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
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Amber is the one real world, of which all others including our own Earth are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne.
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Great book, lame deal!
- De Robert en 08-13-12
- Nine Princes in Amber
- The Chronicles of Amber, Book 1
- De: Roger Zelazny
- Narrado por: Alessandro Juliani
enjoyable nostalgia trip, terrible reader
Revisado: 06-17-23
read these 35 years ago. fun and imaginative story, but audible did a truly terrible job of choosing a reader. it's amateur hour. this guy makes all of the most obvious mistakes. he abused too much of his own lame attempts at creating character by trying to act the story through different voices for each character. the gruff voice for one character is laughable and the kind of thing you would expect from a 10 year old playing with action figures. she also does terrible, pointless faux "Scottish" (?) accents and faux "French" (?) accents and ridiculous female accents. I guess I have heard worse but not by much. whoever did the casting of the reader for this book ought to be fired. he literally sounds like an inexperienced 19 year old.
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