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Motherthing
- De: Ainslie Hogarth
- Narrado por: Adina Verson
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish.
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Mixed feelings on this book.
- De April Ames-Harrison en 01-01-23
- Motherthing
- De: Ainslie Hogarth
- Narrado por: Adina Verson
A great story with horrible narration
Revisado: 09-18-23
I almost turned this audiobook off, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The narration is horrible, but I really liked the book and the story ultimately made it worthwhile.
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W Is for Wasted
- A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
- De: Sue Grafton
- Narrado por: Judy Kaye
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him.
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Well worth waiting for....
- De karen en 10-09-13
- W Is for Wasted
- A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
- De: Sue Grafton
- Narrado por: Judy Kaye
Always a pleasure
Revisado: 01-17-23
Sue Grafton wrote some wonderful novels, and she'll be missed. This is another great entry in the series - you won't be disappointed.
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Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise
- De: Mike Lupica
- Narrado por: James Naughton
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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When a body is discovered at the lake in Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim - the man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him, nor does any neighboring state have a reported missing person matching his description. Their single lead is from a taxi company that recalls dropping off the mysterious stranger outside the gate at the mansion of one of the wealthiest families in town....
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Mailed it in
- De RandallK en 01-24-21
- Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise
- De: Mike Lupica
- Narrado por: James Naughton
Guilty pleasure
Revisado: 01-17-23
The Jesse Stone books by Mike Lupica aren't very well written, but I really like the characters in the Paradise Police Department so I read or listen to them anyway. A kind of guilty pleasure. James Naughton is terrific as the narrator, as always.
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Thicker Than Water
- De: Mike Carey
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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Names and faces he thought he'd left behind in Liverpool resurface in London, bringing Felix far more trouble than he'd anticipated. Childhood memories, family traumas, sins old and new, and a council estate that was meant to be a modern utopia until it turned into something like hell.... These are just some of the sticks life uses to beat Felix Castor with, as things go from bad to worse for London's favorite freelance exorcist. See, Castor's stepped over the line this time, and he knows he'll have to pay. The only question is: How much?
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great story and narrstion.
- De Loretta Sylvestre en 07-14-20
- Thicker Than Water
- De: Mike Carey
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
I really enjoy this series
Revisado: 01-17-23
Another good instalment - I really enjoy this Felix Castor series. This one includes some old family history.
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Only to Sleep
- A Philip Marlowe Novel
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his 72nd year - is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it. For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Zinn - supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife. But is Zinn actually alive?
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Brilliant resurrection of greatest detective in US fiction
- De R. G. Shalhoub en 07-28-18
- Only to Sleep
- A Philip Marlowe Novel
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Really liked this
Revisado: 01-10-23
A good story about Philip Marlowe, in his late 70s, taking on a final case to investigate the disappearance of a man presumed drowned after falling off a yacht. Of course, the truth turns out to be much more complicated. Good vibe, good writing, great narration.
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Devolution
- A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
- De: Max Brooks
- Narrado por: Judy Greer, Max Brooks, Jeff Daniels, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined...until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing - and too earth-shattering in its implications - to be forgotten. In this audiobook, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it.
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Disappointing. Not good.
- De Mr Dangerous en 06-16-20
- Devolution
- A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
- De: Max Brooks
- Narrado por: Judy Greer, Max Brooks, Jeff Daniels, Nathan Fillion, Mira Furlan, Terry Gross, Kimberly Guerrero, Kate Mulgrew, Kai Ryssdal, Steven Weber
Great stories in this terrific novel
Revisado: 01-10-23
This time it's about Bigfoot, not vampires, but it's still a great "first person" account of what happens to an isolated high-tech community when the unexpected happens. As good as World War Z.
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The Rosewater Redemption
- The Wormwood Trilogy, Book 3
- De: Tade Thompson
- Narrado por: Bayo Gbadamosi
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
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Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting. The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. And the city's alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends....
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Excellent reading of a well written work
- De griotspeak en 03-28-22
- The Rosewater Redemption
- The Wormwood Trilogy, Book 3
- De: Tade Thompson
- Narrado por: Bayo Gbadamosi
A lousy ending to the trilogy
Revisado: 01-10-23
The first Redemption book was great, the second was good, but this one is pretty bad. I'll admit to only reading about half of it, because life is too short to read (listen to) bad books. Disappointing.
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The Broken Girls
- De: Simone St. James
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants - the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming - until one of them mysteriously disappears.... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death.
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Drama, Suspense, Intrigue and a Ghost
- De Anna Landry en 04-13-18
- The Broken Girls
- De: Simone St. James
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
Not nearly as good as Sun Down Motel
Revisado: 01-10-23
I really enjoyed St. James' novel Sun Down Motel, so I was really looking forward to listening to this one. Unfortunately is was not nearly as good - a more ordinary murder story, a more boring collection of characters. Not bad, but not very good either.
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The Knowledge
- De: Martha Grimes
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand - a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case. He knew one of the victims, a professor of astrophysics and an expert gambler. Feeling personally affronted, Jury enlists his whole gang of merry characters to contend with a case that involves Tanzanian gem mines, a closed Reno casino, and a hidden pub.
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Drought over!
- De Yankee Bookworm en 04-05-18
- The Knowledge
- De: Martha Grimes
- Narrado por: Steve West
Weird
Revisado: 01-10-23
I found this story kind of puzzling and confusing, involving a hidden and secret pub reserved for London cabbies. It seemed to meander and I kept losing the line.
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The Lady From Zagreb
- De: Philip Kerr
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous propaganda minister - a close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at the propaganda minister's command.
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Narrator John Lee's return makes the difference.
- De Michael J. Svoboda en 04-10-15
- The Lady From Zagreb
- De: Philip Kerr
- Narrado por: John Lee
Love this series
Revisado: 01-10-23
Another great Bernie Gunther novel, this one involving Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry and a famous movie actress. I love these German noir novels.
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