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Troubled Blood
- A Cormoran Strike Novel, Book 5
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
- Duración: 31 h y 51 m
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Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one 40 years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on.
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Best Book Yet!
- De LindsayRoseEliz en 09-19-20
- Troubled Blood
- A Cormoran Strike Novel, Book 5
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
Best so far in a brilliant series
Revisado: 08-13-24
I'm greatly enjoying Strike and Robin, but even more so the depth of all of the many characters in this book. Galbraith/JK has really hit "his" stride in this book. Long as it is, it was a satisfying ending.
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Desert Star
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.
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Michael Connelly never disappoints!
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 11-08-22
- Desert Star
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles
A complex and satisfying read
Revisado: 03-29-24
A newly-formed cold case team led by Renee Ballard tackles multiple cold cases. Thanks to Harry’s keen insights, they are finally breaking open and moving toward a solution. Connelly is managing multiple threads, several solid, believable characters, but he keeps the story moving and engrossing. My first Bosch novel, believe it or not, but I can see why they’re so popular. Really well-written and Harry’s a likeable, relatable character. I can see catching up on the earlier books.
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Career of Evil
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
- Duración: 17 h y 57 m
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When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but just as alarmed. He suspects that four people from his past could be responsible - and any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike has essentially ruled out, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men.
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Great Characters Mean Everything
- De Chip Atkinson en 11-09-15
- Career of Evil
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
Lots of twists & turns
Revisado: 03-13-24
Robin Ellicot is the center of the story and she held up her end well. It was a bad time for Cameron Strike. This story's villain focused his efforts on wrecking Stike's life and business and just about managed it. It was a complex, dark story and I was completely azbsorbed in it. I accept that Robin's insecurities about her role in the agency could make her less communicative than she might otherwise be, but that lack of communication was maybe the only issue I had with the story. I hate it when the plot progresses by 2 people who who are in the same room or have easy access to a phone don't communicate. That needs a whole lot of believable justification and sometimes, I felt "Galbraith" leaned too heavily on that device. Both Robin and Strike could easily have straightened out misunderstandings but that would have shortened the book, so they didn't. When I don't see the author's hand, no problem. When I see the gears moving, less than great. But so much of this story is excellent. The suspects were beautifully etched in all their sordidness and even smaller characters were clear and powerfully sketched. I can recommend it for anyone who loves detective fiction.
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Suspect
- De: Robert Crais
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well, not since a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner, Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty - until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well, either. The German shepherd survived three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan sniffing explosives before she lost her handler to an IED and sniper attack, and her PTSD is as bad as Scott’s. They are each other’s last chance.
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Gripping Page Turner!!
- De Jackie en 01-22-13
- Suspect
- De: Robert Crais
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
A nice, taut tale, a cop drama with a unique angle
Revisado: 06-27-23
I think the intended audience is crime thriller fans & retired service dogs. It's well-written and well-paced. An easy read. For once, the canine POV is considered. PTSD is a lurking character, the greatest threat to Scott James' & the dog's continued careers. Maggie, his German shepherd, is my favorite character and well-written. Well done, Crais!
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Gentleman Takes a Chance
- Shifter Series 2
- De: Sarah A. Hoyt
- Narrado por: Kim Niemi
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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Shapeshifters Kyrie and Tom try to live a normal life in a small Colorado town - normal, that is, considering one of them is secretly a panther and the other a dragon. But now a primeval Shifter feud grows infinitely more deadly, and Kyrie and Tom find themselves warriors in an ancient struggle for Shifter destiny itself! Quick-witted fantasy doyenne Sarah Hoyt continues the brilliant contemporary fantasy Shifter saga begun in Draw One in the Dark.
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A terrific story very entertainingly told
- De Alan Nitikman en 01-21-23
- Gentleman Takes a Chance
- Shifter Series 2
- De: Sarah A. Hoyt
- Narrado por: Kim Niemi
A terrific story very entertainingly told
Revisado: 01-21-23
Hoyt has an amazing imagination and, this time, lets it loose on the world of “shifters” she created in Draw One in the Dark. Well, actually, she drew three, this being the second book of the series and it develops from the consequences of the actions of our heroes in the first.
In this book, the stakes are raised to life and death, ancient shifters with powers beyond what the protagonists could have imagined, but Hoyt does a brilliantly job of juxtaposing their very real daily issues — running a restaurant, maintaining complex relationships, dealing with a Colorado winter — while staving off vicious psychopaths in extinct animal form and solving a string of murders, while keeping their strange proclivity to shift into animal form themselves and find themselves back in human form with heir clothes elsewhere.
Oh, also, there is a cute kitten. What more do you need?
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Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Bazinga
- De Davidgonzalezsr en 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Really entertaining hard science fiction
Revisado: 09-21-22
Weir has created a solid, well-grounded story of both existential crisis for humanity and first contact, with a great deal of humor and, as with The Martian, a wide-ranging attention to scientific detail. As with the first book, we are riding along in a first person narrative with a nerdy, smart, self-deprecating scientist with an atypically wide range of knowledge and skills, which are essential to solving The Problem that has put him in a strange environment of which — in this case — he initially has no idea how he got there or why. Through sporadic and eventually extended flashbacks, he realizes where he is and the seemingly impossible task before him.
Spoiler Alert
Ryland Grace’s close encounter and the developing friendship with “Rocky” is one of the best things about this book. An alien may be the first real friend Grace has ever had.
In this book, as in The Martian, one thing Weir does NOT explore is any sort of close interpersonal relationships of a more human kind. He does, in his flashbacks, have some adversarial and casual friendly relations, but, at least in his attitude toward those he interacts with on Earth, he appears never to mature. At the beginning and the end, he appears to be more comfortable with the children he teaches, as an elementary school teacher. Well, and Rocky.
Over all, though, this is a terrific read. And Ray Porter did an outstanding job as the audiobook narrator. The production of the audiobook was top-notch, including the effects used to indicate the alien language. I enjoyed it enough to read it through twice. In English and Eridian.
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The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
- Duración: 27 h y 20 m
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The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.
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Could be shorter
- De Evan Snow en 01-03-22
- The Real Anthony Fauci
- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
What a tour de force!
Revisado: 06-15-22
There is no better compendium of all of the machinations, lies, suppressed data, propaganda, and evisceration of the Constitution and the freedoms heretofore protected by the Bill of Rights. RFK, Jr has done a phenomenal amount of research, writes well, and obviously cares deeply about his topic.
Bruce Wagner did a creditable job reading the audiobook version. The sheer size of the project is daunting. He paced himself well and committed to the material. There were a few names I think he might have mispronounced, but, in a work of this size and urgency, any such quibbles are trivial.
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Darkship Revenge
- Darkship, Book 3
- De: Sarah A. Hoyt
- Narrado por: Kymberly Dakin
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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After winning the civil war in Eden, Athena returns to her calling, collecting powerpods with her husband Kit. Now weeks away from Earth, she goes into labor. To make matters worse, a strange ship attacks Athena and Kit's Cathouse and kidnaps Athena's husband. That ship is called Je Reviens. It's a name steeped in history - and not the good kind of history. Hot on Kit's trail, Athena discovers that you shouldn't name a ship Je Reviens unless you intend it to return.
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Terrific development of the series!
- De Alan Nitikman en 03-02-22
- Darkship Revenge
- Darkship, Book 3
- De: Sarah A. Hoyt
- Narrado por: Kymberly Dakin
Terrific development of the series!
Revisado: 03-02-22
It just keeps getting better. And more complex.
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The long-departed, talked-about, but never seen, Je Revien finally shows up and the plan is about as sociopathic and dastardly as you’d expect. The story pulls together Darkship Renegades and A Few Good Men. Centuries in the future, humans are again fighting for their freedom & independence.
This story takes place in space, on Earth, back in space, and, apparently, in the next installment, we’ll be back on Eden. Looking forward to it!
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A Murder of Manatees
- The Further Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent
- De: Larry Correia
- Narrado por: Adam Baldwin
- Duración: 2 h y 8 m
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When half your galaxy is unexpectedly sucked into a black hole - when a hitherto-unknown species of space aliens lays waste to your home planet - when disaster rears its ugly head (or heads) - who can you call for faster-than-light appraisals and best-in-the-multiverse customer service? Just one man - Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent. In this latest chapter of his interstellar exploits, Tom is about to deliver a crushing performance evaluation to Jimmy the Intern when the unimaginable happens: The beloved Wendell the Manatee has been kidnapped!
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like a lonely teenager wrote it.
- De J paslawski en 04-05-20
- A Murder of Manatees
- The Further Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent
- De: Larry Correia
- Narrado por: Adam Baldwin
Brilliantly silly!
Revisado: 02-07-22
Correia at his imaginative, 4th-wall-breaking best.
Adam Baldwin is a phenomenal narrator, doing justice to every voice from Tom to 500-pound gorillas to thawing manatees. And the occasional texting president and Justin Trudeau.
A hoot, literally, as well as figuratively.
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Hamfist Over the Trail: The Air Combat Adventures of Hamilton "Hamfist" Hancock
- De: G. E. Nolly
- Narrado por: G. E. Nolly
- Duración: 4 h y 10 m
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It’s 1968. Hamilton Hancock is the Distinguished Graduate at his undergraduate pilot training class at Laughlin Air Force Base. He is on the fast track to become a fighter pilot, slated to fly an F-100, F-105 or F-4 in Vietnam. Then, the “needs of the service” intervenes, and he is assigned to fly one of the smallest, slowest aircraft in the Air Force inventory, the O-2A.
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Hamfisted
- De The Detail Man NJ en 05-24-24
Puts you there
Revisado: 02-01-22
Puts you there in the skies over Vietnam, with all the authenticity of personal experience. Nothing fancy in the telling, just a good story, well told.
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