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Becoming Sherlock - The Red Circle
- Becoming Sherlock, Book 1
- De: Sarah J. Naughton, Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Alfred Enoch
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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We are 40 years into the future, and London is a city in decay. John Watson has returned from medical service in the war in Afghanistan and lives by himself in a run-down part of town. On his way home from work, he stumbles upon a beaten man in the street – unconscious and completely naked. His chances of survival are minimal. The same evening, a passenger plane crashes in Richmond Park. There are several hundred victims, and Watson and the mysterious man are left to their own devices.
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So creative!
- De Joshua B. Wager en 03-11-25
- Becoming Sherlock - The Red Circle
- Becoming Sherlock, Book 1
- De: Sarah J. Naughton, Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Alfred Enoch
Very Unique - Amazing
Revisado: 04-21-25
I am a huge fan of Anthony Horowitz.
This book is not my normal genre....futuristic (no), Sherlock (been done to death).
This book though!!!
I loved the characters, the world-building, the mystery, and pulling for John Watson to get his act together. It's so cool the way the future has reverted to the past in a lot of ways, but the necessary technology is in place to move the story forward.
John is a hospital orderly, walking home from work, when he finds a seemingly mortally wounded man and rescues him. The man has amnesia so John names him Sherlock. When he comes around, they make a great team, along with a co-worker of John's that he pulls in to help.
I love this book and hope there is a sequel!
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The Ghost Orchid
- An Alex Delaware Novel
- De: Jonathan Kellerman
- Narrado por: John Rubinstein
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbor named Meagin March. A married neighbor. An illicit affair stoking rage is a perfect motive. But a “double” in this neighborhood of gated estates isn’t something you see every day. The house is untouched. No forced entry, no forensic evidence. The case has “that feeling,” and when that happens, Milo turns to his friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware.
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Weak
- De Pat and Jim Snider en 09-12-24
- The Ghost Orchid
- An Alex Delaware Novel
- De: Jonathan Kellerman
- Narrado por: John Rubinstein
OK but Bland
Revisado: 04-21-25
I just finished this title last week and can't remember "who did it".
This book, like the entire series, is OK. I have no trouble finishing the titles, they pass the time, but are very forgettable.
The characters are not very relatable to me, and every paragraph seems to have a pun or cringe-worthy bad joke. I think the premise of this book is an interesting one: a married woman and a man-about-town Italian playboy are murdered in L.A. Police Investigator Milo calls his best friend Alex (a psychologist) to help investigate...leads are uncovered, procedures are followed, mystery is solved, the end.
The narrator is OK, sounds rather wimpy and bored, so probably perfect for the character (it's an "I" story from Alex's POV).
I pick these up if they are on sale, would not pay full price, would neither recommend nor warn anyone off this book.
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The Truth About the Devlins
- De: Lisa Scottoline
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Lisa Scottoline
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he murdered one of their clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin.
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Just fun!
- De Lisa en 05-11-24
- The Truth About the Devlins
- De: Lisa Scottoline
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Lisa Scottoline
Twisty Family/Legal Drama
Revisado: 04-21-25
I loved the character TJ in this book - he is truly an underdog, a recovering alcoholic who got out of prison 4 months ago and works as an investigator for his family's law firm. It was a little frustrating at first how unsympathetic his family behaves toward him (especially his dad) and how much TJ is willing to put up with from them.
The book starts with the whole family at a birthday party for TJ's dad, when TJ's brother John pulls him away to ask for his help with a work-related potential murder of a corporate client's accountant. The situation, and TJ's life, spirals after that and it's hard to know who to trust or what is happening. His love for his mother and sister, and his craving for his father's respect, is hard to understand at times but he is a determined investigator. It's a complicated mystery as well as family drama.
I love the narration. Edoardo Ballerini is one of my favorites since the Matthew Corbett series.
I highly recommend this one and will look for similar titles from Ms. Scottoline.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles & The ABC Murders
- Two Best-Selling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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Two best-selling Agatha Christie novels in one great audiobook. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie's beloved classic The ABC Murders sets Hercule Poirot on the trail of a serial killer, who is working his way through the alphabet and putting the whole country in a state of panic.
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wow
- De Patrick en 05-14-20
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles & The ABC Murders
- Two Best-Selling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
One was Better than the other
Revisado: 03-27-25
I really, really liked The Mysterious Affair at Styles which was set shortly after WWI, and is more of Clue-type mystery. Hastings is invited to the estate of a friend for an extended holiday. During the visit, there is a murder and Poirot coincidentally is living in the nearby village and comes in to assist with the investigation. The characters and the setting were so charming, Poirot is so brilliant yet ridiculous at the same time. I loved the story.
The 2nd part of this book is The ABC Murders, and it wasn't nearly as good. Poirot and Hastings are older (retired) and the story is more of a police procedural, with Poirot outshining the police and still making a fool of Hastings. The 2nd story is set in the late 1930's and is a serial-killer story, a genre I usually don't like even in modern books.
I had previously read and loved The Mystery of the Blue Train, so Ms. Christie has a 66% success rate with me and I'll probably read some more of her earlier works.
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Lost Hills
- Eve Ronin, Book 1
- De: Lee Goldberg
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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A video of Deputy Eve Ronin’s off-duty arrest of an abusive movie star goes viral, turning her into a popular hero at a time when the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is plagued by scandal. The sheriff makes Eve the youngest female homicide detective in the department’s history. Now Eve, with a lot to learn and resented by her colleagues, has to justify her new badge. Her chance comes when she and her soon-to-retire partner are called to the blood-splattered home of a missing mother and her two kids. The horrific carnage screams multiple murder - but there are no corpses.
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Do your R&D
- De Rockstar en 01-20-20
- Lost Hills
- Eve Ronin, Book 1
- De: Lee Goldberg
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella
VERY much like Rene Ballard books
Revisado: 03-27-25
This is a straightforward police procedural, set in LA. It is so much like the Rene Ballard series I had to keep reminding myself it wasn't. There is a lot of place-setting: referencing every road name Eve turns on and mentioning the Sierra Nevadas over and over. Overall I like the book, like the characters, and like the narrator.
I mainly got this one because I read, and loved, Malibu Burning (Sharpe and Walker series) and realized that that series and this one merge in Ashes Never Lie, so I wanted to "meet" Eve Ronin before reading that one.
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A Lovely Lie
- De: Jaime Lynn Hendricks
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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The night of their senior picnic, Scarlett Russo and her best friend Pepper were involved in a car accident that left two of their classmates dead. Afterward, they lied to the police, protecting each other from the consequences. Then Pepper left town and Scarlett never heard from her again.
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Not for me
- De Sarah Lemoine en 06-12-24
- A Lovely Lie
- De: Jaime Lynn Hendricks
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
Nostalgic and fun
Revisado: 03-21-25
This is a twisty story of a 40-ish couple from Florida and a 21year old girl looking for her biological father.
1/2 of the story is told in flashbacks to Scarlet's senior picnic and the high-school drama leading up to it.
Pepper was Scarlett's best friend in school, but left town right after that and had Zoey.
The book is really twisty and fun. The story of all the high school kids in a "small" town and how their lives are still intertwined was relatable to me. The motives and actions of the characters were realistic. None of the characters are "all good" or "all bad" and it kept me guessing until the end.
The narration was great. I recommend this one.
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Scarpetta
- Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 16
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk—and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.
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If you like this series, I think you’ll like this book…
- De KellBell en 11-14-23
- Scarpetta
- Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 16
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
Cohesive, stand-alone story
Revisado: 02-18-25
In this edition of Kay Scarpetta stories, Kay and Benton are brought into a case where a female "little person" has been murdered and her boyfriend (also a dwarf) has turned himself in to a federal psychiatric hospital and asked to speak to Kay specifically. Meanwhile, Pete Marino is working for Jamie Berger (the ADA) investigating the murder itself, alongside a local cop that is difficult to work with.
Another POV, for alternating chapters, is from an anonymous female referred to as Shrew (her ex-husband's nickname for her) who is contributing to a blog called Gotham Gotcha that sounds like the one on Gossip Girl. The blog frequently includes items about Kay, most recently a very unflattering one.
As usual in Ms. Cornwell's stories, all the convoluted loose ends come together eventually. This story begins and ends in this book - which is a relief as I'm sometimes frustrated by her books seeming to take off in the middle of a story or end on a cliffhanger.
The narrator is just OK. I hate the way she voices Lucy, who sounds like a man talking through clenched jaws, and the way she does Marino, who should have a tough-guy New Jersey accent but instead sounds like a cartoon character.
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Long Time Gone
- De: Charlie Donlea
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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When Dr. Sloan Hastings submits her DNA to an online genealogy site for a research assignment, her goal is to better understand the treasure-trove of genetic information contained on ancestry websites. Brilliant and driven, Sloan is embarking on a fellowship in forensic pathology, training under the renowned Dr. Livia Cutty. Sloan has one reservation about involving herself in the experiment: she’s adopted. Grateful for a loving home, she’s never considered tracking down her biological parents.
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Donlea wrote another Excellent Mystery!!
- De shelley en 05-22-24
- Long Time Gone
- De: Charlie Donlea
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
First Charlie Donlea I didn't like
Revisado: 01-24-25
This author has been one of my favorites, but this title missed the mark.
It starts out VERY good, with a Forensics Fellow from North Carolina finding out that she was actually a "missing" baby from Nevada back in 1995. She starts working with the Sheriff from the town where she went missing, whose father was the original investigator. Both she and the sheriff are Cross-Fit obsessed and I briefly thought a romance might blossom. The book really went downhill in the last half: our heroine starts doing very stupid things (one of which leads to a death), an extremely unlikely (impossible) event leads to needed evidence which was (impossibly) overlooked for the 30 years since the crime. The last 10-15 chapters jump back and forth from 3 different POV's that are trying to solve the mystery. a second-by-second play by play is given from each POV with each ending on a "when she saw it, she gasped.....", "then he suddenly understood..." type cliff-hanger before switching back to the other POV. It is so far-fetched and over the top that I was shaking my head the last 3 hours of the book.
I'm not going to take Charlie Donlea off my 'authors to read list' yet, but I will be less optimistic. Can't recommend this one. :(
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Learn Italian with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course
- De: Paul Noble
- Narrado por: Paul Noble
- Duración: 13 h
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In this audiobook, Paul will introduce you to the basics of the Italian language and guide you through over 12 hours of everyday scenarios that will build your confidence. You will learn a huge range of vocabulary (over 6,000 words) in no time at all and be able to quickly make your new knowledge work for you in a variety of situations like asking for directions, eating out and talking about yourself. A native-speaking Italian expert will help you to perfect your pronunciation as you progress through the course....
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What an amazing audiobook
- De HappyMommy en 09-28-20
Perfect for my commute
Revisado: 01-16-25
I haven't nearly finished this course, but I'm so glad I got it.
I am determined to learn Italian this year. I'm using a paper-copy workbook as well as Duolingo. I have a 45-minute each way commute to work, where I obviously can't work in my workbook or use an app. I looked for a way to use that time constructively and this is perfect!
The narrator has the smoothest, most patient delivery and really explains the basics of Italian. A great thing about this one is that he explains it specifically for English-speaking learners, explaining how the articles are different and which words are similar etc. There is a lot of practice speaking. The narrator says "how would you say...." then there's a long pause to figure it out and say it out loud, then the female narrator says it in Italian twice. Since pausing the audio to practice in the car would be impossible, this format seems just made for a commute. The same words and concepts are repeated a lot, while adding in new ones, so I haven't gotten frustrated.
I have been recommending this course to EVERYONE. I can't stop talking about it, and I found out there are Paul Noble books for other languages too.
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Close to Death
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Anthony Horowitz, Rory Kinnear
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the backyard. Obvious outsiders, the Kentworthys do not belong in Riverside Close, and quickly offend every last one of the neighbors.
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The book personified: “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”
- De Jane M. en 04-19-24
- Close to Death
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Anthony Horowitz, Rory Kinnear
Very unique
Revisado: 01-16-25
This series has the most unique format I've ever "read". It's a first person POV from a real author, incorporating true information (like his writing the Alex Rider books and working on the Amazon series) into a fictional story. It's hard to tell what's real and what's not, which makes it very interesting.
I would not read this one without reading the previous Horrowitz/Hawthorne books first. It's a stand-alone story, but the characters and POV make more sense if you start at the beginning.
In this book, Anthony is trying to write a book based on a 5-year-old case that Daniel Hawthorne is telling him about, He's having a hard time getting the right information for the book, so starts investigating the murder himself to re-create the investigation Hawthorne did 5 years ago. It turns into a Clue-esque mystery with a limited number of suspects and all with a potential motive. It's very twisty.
This author, and this series, have become must-reads for me. I'm loving it! There is a note from the author at the end of the audio book saying that there are 7 more books to be written in the series. I can't wait to read them.
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