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Another Girl
- A Kings Lake Investigation, Book 5
- De: Peter Grainger
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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She's just watching, thinking about it again, when a big flash car pulls up outside. No one gets out. Then the doors of the bar open and people appear. Two men and a youngish woman, and one of the men has a hold on the woman's arm. It looks as if they're having words. Then this all happens quickly—they push the woman towards the car, one of the back doors opens, and they manhandle her inside. Sarah hears a muffled shout from the woman and the car pulls away. It's all over in a few seconds.
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I Buy Everything Peter Grainger Writes!
- De Brian en 02-29-24
- Another Girl
- A Kings Lake Investigation, Book 5
- De: Peter Grainger
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
how to do an undercover op
Revisado: 12-20-24
This book tells you how to work an undercover operation. Of course, there are many types of undercovers ops but it you were studying a police procedural on how to do one, this could be the model.
Throw in the Kings Lake crew and you have the makings of an entertaining fictional work.
This was an entertaining tale with a sense of dread hoping everyone comes out unscathed.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- De: Agatha Christie, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrado por: Peter Dinklage, Himesh Patel, Harriet Walter, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way.
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It’s a perfect audible movie!
- De Malissa Caudell en 11-15-24
who done it
Revisado: 12-17-24
An adaptation by Anna Lee of Agatha Christie's debut novel. A multi-cast of narrators led by Peter Dinklage. Done by Audible Studios, the sound effects were great. A short, enjoyable listen.
Set in an English estate during the time of World War I, it's a classic who done it. The matriarch of the state is poisoned to death and there are lots of suspects. Could it be the 20-year younger husband, other family members, the nurse, the maid, the doctor, the list goes on and on and in a very short time all are considered as potential candidates. In comes Inspector Poirot to save the day and figure it all out.
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The Paris Deception
- De: Bryn Turnbull
- Narrado por: Mary Jane Wells
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR—a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they’ve looted from Jewish families.
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Fascinating Page Turner with Heart
- De Syd Young en 06-03-23
- The Paris Deception
- De: Bryn Turnbull
- Narrado por: Mary Jane Wells
stolen art in occupied Paris
Revisado: 12-16-24
First time author for me.
How does an author wanting to write a World War II story come up with a niche that no other author has come up with before? That seems to be a challenge but what an author should strive to do, at least from my layman's perspective. There are so many topics one can write about WWII I often think of it as a Rubik cube, twist it around a bit and you get a different story.
The author in this one does come up with a new idea, at least from my vantagepoint, writing a work of historical fiction where you tackle the challenge, that really happened in WWII, where lovers of art in occupied Paris work to save as much of the art that was being stolen by the Nazis.
The author does a great job of weaving a tale bringing this to life. The author, a Canadian from Toronto, had to do a lot of research into Nazi stolen art, art restoration, forgeries, the occupation itself, wine and champagne making, the French resistance, there are a lot of different aspects to the story. She does a good job with it all.
This was a fun, enjoyable listen. I will definitely look into her other works.
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The Conspiracy to End America
- Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
- De: Stuart Stevens
- Narrado por: Jeff Bottoms
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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Today’s Republican party is not a “normal” political party in the American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in The Conspiracy to End America, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return.
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Required Reading
- De Arturo Zendejas en 10-27-23
- The Conspiracy to End America
- Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
- De: Stuart Stevens
- Narrado por: Jeff Bottoms
troubling
Revisado: 12-11-24
First time author for me.
A lot of this book borders on being scary but I'd rather define it as troubling. The references to Nazi Germany are scary.
AS I write this the election is over and Trump is the President elect Right now, he's playing nice, not being too outlandish as to what he's going to do. It will be very interesting to see how it all unfolds after he takes office.
I am trying to distance myself from politics post-election but it's really hard to ignore all the news in the world. The author of this book says we've all got to be involved and fight for what's right. Seems to me that could be very difficult, at least right now.
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The Cuillin Dead
- A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery (The Misty Isle, Book 4)
- De: J M Dalgliesh
- Narrado por: Angus King
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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When the body of a missing tourist is discovered slain in the foothills of the Cuillin Mountain range, it falls to D.I. Duncan McAdam and his small team to discover how he came to be there and who would have a motive to kill him. The summer season is a welcome distraction following a brutal and challenging winter. The Isle of Skye is booming with a revitalised tourist trade after a tough few years, and the Misty Isle is on course for its best year for visitors on record. But one person has not received the warm greeting the islanders are famed for.
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Great mystery, challenged me
- De Susie en 07-03-24
- The Cuillin Dead
- A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery (The Misty Isle, Book 4)
- De: J M Dalgliesh
- Narrado por: Angus King
Duncan keeps truckin.........
Revisado: 12-10-24
A bit of a different tale in the series. The others were intimately immersed in the weather of the Isle of Skye, this one not as much. Rather it was more of a straightforward police procedural albeit a good one.
A good mystery where Duncan and team had to cut away at the layers of the mystery. But cut away they did until finally unraveling the truth.
The weather of Skye did play more of a part in the end.
Still, it is a good story in the series.
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The Christmas Party
- De: Kathryn Croft
- Narrado por: Billie Piper, Avita Jay
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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When Sasha receives a call from her old university friend Gabby inviting her to spend Christmas at Gabby’s remote Scottish lake house, Sasha knows she shouldn’t go. Twelve years ago, on Christmas Eve, when Sasha and her five closest friends were celebrating the festive season, something truly horrific happened that would change the course of their friendship forever. Something that meant Sasha hasn’t spoken to any of them since that night.
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I’d skip this one. It’s well voiced and you think it may be interesting , but not this one .
- De The Dark Side en 11-01-24
- The Christmas Party
- De: Kathryn Croft
- Narrado por: Billie Piper, Avita Jay
not your typical party
Revisado: 12-07-24
First time author for me. A fast paced 4 hours listen. I really enjoyed this one.
After a twelve-year period, six one-time close university friends get together at a remote house located on a loch (lake) in northern Scotland for a reunion. Their friendship had ended on a tragic note when the younger sister of one of them went missing those twelve years, a mystery solved. The surviving sister is the one that invited them all with the goal of finding out what happened all those years ago.
Action packed and you get into the characters quickly. Well done for a short novella.
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The Late Lord Thorpe
- A DC Smith Investigation
- De: Peter Grainger
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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This is DC Smith's third investigation with the Diver and Diver Associates agency. They have been asked by a member of Norfolk's aristocracy to look into the tragic death of her younger brother, Freddie, the late Lord Thorpe of the title. The inquest verdict was of misadventure, but it isn't long before Smith begins to suspect there has been a serious miscarriage of justice.
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Does Not Get Any Better!
- De Charles en 10-30-24
- The Late Lord Thorpe
- A DC Smith Investigation
- De: Peter Grainger
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
DC is back
Revisado: 12-05-24
it was fun having a true DC Smith novel again.
No longer a policeman, he works this, his third case as a private investigator. He's not sure how hard he wants to work as a PI but he finds this case interesting, and it turns out to be much more involved than originally thought and takes all the skills he used as a police detective to work the case.
AS a PI he works from a different perspective, he doesn't have the power of being the law to force getting things done. He has to use his wits.
Glad to have DC back. I hope there are more.
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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
I liked the narrator!
Revisado: 11-29-24
One of the cardinal sins of audiobooks is to change narrators midstream in a series. The reasons for the changes are myriad, the worst being the narrator dies. But that happened in this series, the second if memory serves. and the narrator got changes for whatever reason. But any time a narrator changes you can always count on negative reviews based on the change. Me? I enjoyed this new narrator. By the end of the book, it felt like he was the voice of Gamache! I look forward to future books.
Louise Penny writes what I call intellectual thrillers. The mysteries are often volved in the mind of Gamache.
The plot in the book is a big one, poisoning the water of Montreal as an act of terrorism as a way to overthrow the government and a power play by bad actors wanting power. It seemed a bit farfetched as it unfolded but then you think, in this day and age maybe it isn't so out of the question, a lot of weird stuff is going on in the world.
One aspect of the book I really enjoyed was returning to the monastery from earlier in the series. Out of all the books in the series I think about that earlier book sometimes. I liked the way it described how life in a monastery works. I enjoyed going back.
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The Talisker Dead
- A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery (The Misty Isle, Book 3)
- De: J M Dalgliesh
- Narrado por: Angus King
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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A closely guarded secret, lying in a shallow grave for years, is under threat of being revealed and no one seems willing to face up to their past... least of all, Duncan McAdam himself. Duncan has a decision to make, one that will impact not only his life but the lives of those he cares about the most. Does he have the courage to follow his instincts? And just who is he acting in the interests of... the people he loves, or purely for himself?
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Looking forward to #4
- De Audrey G en 02-11-24
- The Talisker Dead
- A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery (The Misty Isle, Book 3)
- De: J M Dalgliesh
- Narrado por: Angus King
Isle of Skye
Revisado: 11-21-24
Winter on the Isle of Skye must really suck. But it runs throughout the story. Part of this series puts the Isle of Skye into a romantic light but I'm sure the reality is not so good. According to the stories summers are good and many from the mainland have summer homes here, some people invest in homes and make the AirBnb or Vrrbo places.
Duncan finds himself in another good mystery taking him all over the island. An integral part to this story finds him needing to interview the son he's just found out his hand. His relationship with the son, the mother, the stepfather are play central parts in this book. And, by now you are caught in this family story.
I wish he'd finish renovating the family home he's moving back into and get out of his caravan!
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First Frost
- A Walt Longmire Mystery, Book 20
- De: Craig Johnson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Walt Longmire returns in this twentieth installment of the award-winning and bestselling series that has been a hit on both the page and the screen. Set in the unsoiled countryside of Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire has to navigate his own increasingly complicated personal life with the ever-changing and often violent underworld that encroaches on what was once referred to as the Old West. This time, he is up against a sinister plot that could hurt the people closest to him and forever change the way he sees his beloved Wyoming.
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Always a GREAT LISTEN!!!!
- De shelley en 05-29-24
- First Frost
- A Walt Longmire Mystery, Book 20
- De: Craig Johnson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
Boy Howdy
Revisado: 11-18-24
Well, if you are a Walt Longmire fan, this book fits right in with all the rest. The author uses the time slip method of switching back and forth between two times so it's almost like you are getting two stories for one in this book. The author also says in a prelude to the book that he is going to start looking back into Walt's background to tell stories that help develop the story of how Walt got to be the man he is.
The first story in this book is the follow-up to the last book where Walt is targeted by bad hombres in the house of his grandfather, where he spent lots of time growing up. There was lots of shooting and killing in this book and some rich powerful people were involved. Now an inquiry has been started into whether or not Walk was justified in killing one of them during that battle.
The second story is set in 1964 in remote Arizona. Walt and Henry have just finished college and are on their way, on a road trip, to join the military with Henry going to Louisiana and Walt to South Carolina. On their very first night on the road trip, they get lost and end up in a remote mountain town in Arizona somewhere in the vicinity of Prescott. And, of course, they find nothing, but trouble and their trip gets delayed a few days as they work to right some wrongs as only they can.
If you enjoy the series, you'll enjoy this one.
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