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Lovers and Liars
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- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
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Now, from the author of Destiny, comes a novel certain to be as talked about, as richly romantic and wicked, as that number one New York Times best seller. Lovers and Liars is Sally Beauman's sensuous, very contemporary story of public masks and secret lives, of a "perfect" marriage that is not what it seems, and of lovers long separated yet destined to meet, tumultuously, again.
On a frosty January morning soon after the New Year's revels, an exquisitely dressed, beautiful blonde woman sends four identical parcels to four different destinations: Paris, New York, Venice and London. But the lovely messenger is not who she claims to be.
Photographer Pascal Lamartine receives his package in Paris: it is a woman's black glove, silky, scented, and disturbing. In London, reporter Gini Hunter, daughter of a famous Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, opens her parcel to find even more threatening contents. And within hours, Gini's enterprising editor assigns both her and Pascal to expose the story of a lifetime; a story so rich, so ripe with potential scandal, that it could make headlines--and ruin lives.
For Gini and Pascal must penetrate the perfect facade of John Hawthorne, the charming, charismatic U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, to sift through the layers of ever-shifting truth about his life.
The wealthy scion of a famous American family - in short, perfect presidential material - John Hawthorne appears to have thrown away a promising political career to take a diplomatic post. Why? His wife, Lise, a legendary beauty, is a master at seducing the media; her delicate features are a constant presence on the society pages for her charity work, her skills as a hostess, and her unrelenting chic. Yet the exhaustive, adoring coverage has left the real woman mysteriously opaque. And now, unbelievably, she seems to be the source of certain whisperings about her husband.
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St Benjamin's Medical School is the greatest of its kind, any death occurring within its walls would have created ripples within the academic world, but the death of Nikki Exner is far from being ordinary. Raped, and then grotesquely executed, her theatrical murder horrifies everyone. John Eisenmenger, a former forensic pathologist, finds himself dragged unwillingly into the case. Teaming up with solicitor Helena Flemming, Eisenmenger sets out to discover what really did happen to Nikki Exner.
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excellent book
- By Yves on 06-27-09
By: Keith McCarthy
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Snow White Must Die
- By: Nele Neuhaus
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace.
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Snow White and the Seven Red Herrings
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By: Nele Neuhaus
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The Color of Night
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- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
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Harry Strand is living a quiet life as an art dealer in Houston. But until four years ago, he was an intelligence agent for the foreign service. His nemesis was Schrade, a ruthless international criminal who arranged the "accident" that killed Harry's wife. Now Harry has met a mysterious, beautiful woman who may have critical information about Schrade. And Harry begins to bait a trap for his enemy. The more Harry learns, however, the more he feels pulled into a much deeper conspiracy.
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Excellent and intriguing!
- By Gail Kisellus on 01-15-18
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A Spy by Nature
- A Novel
- By: Charles Cumming
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center stage in a dangerous game of espionage.
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I highly recommend this little gem
- By Chou Young on 02-14-08
By: Charles Cumming
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Blue Monday
- Frieda Klein, Book 1
- By: Nicci French
- Narrated by: Beth Chalmers
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for just such a child.
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Engrossing thriller - an easy "read"
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By: Nicci French
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Fire and Rain
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Into the drought-weary California town of Valle Rosa comes a stranger who promises he can make it rain. All he asks for is a place to stay and complete privacy. But he is too charismatic to maintain a low profile, and the adobe cottage he's given to live in is owned by an investigative TV reporter struggling to revive her career.
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Siri from my Iphone would be a warmer narrator
- By Gwen on 05-30-16
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The Danger
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Kidnapping is Andrew Douglas's business: they take them, he finds them. But it isn't so simple when Alessia Cenci, golden-girl jockey, disappears, followed by the young child of a derby winner and the senior steward of the Jockey Club. From Italy to England to Washington, D.C., Andrew's caseload is suddenly, violently overflowing. And he must fight triply hard to keep his own name off the growing list of victims.
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Good but disturbing
- By oseedee on 06-08-23
By: Dick Francis
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Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, "Dear Amy", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, 15-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a "Dear Amy" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger - a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
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Stunning debut
- By Mystery Maven on 11-18-16
By: Helen Callaghan
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Asylum
- By: Patrick McGrath
- Narrated by: Sir Ian McKellen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting - a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues -a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.
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So enjoyed this book!
- By Mebythesea on 10-07-08
By: Patrick McGrath
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Despite the Falling Snow
- By: Shamim Sarif
- Narrated by: Shamim Sarif
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Now a major motion picture. After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has lived in America for 40 years and has managed to bury the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late wife, Katya - or so he believes. For into his life come two women - one who will start to open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover the truth about what really happened to Katya all those years ago.
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Beautiful snow fall
- By Mary findsplaces on 05-22-20
By: Shamim Sarif
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Breaking the Silence
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing-except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Laura's promise results in another death: her husband's. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her father's suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it - to talk at all.Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help.
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can't listen to the narrator
- By Sandy on 01-05-15
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- O. Dobrovic
- 11-30-15
Awfull narrator
Would you listen to Lovers and Liars again? Why?
No. I couldn't stand the narrator. He read in a sing song voice completely inapropriate to the content, used low voices for his female voices and a high pitched one for his main male character who is supposed to be a 6'4" masculine guy.
I liked the story but listening to him was torcherous.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
No. I couldn't stand the narrator. He read in a sing song voice completely inapropriate to the content, used low voices for his female voices and a high pitched one for his main male character who is supposed to be a 6'4" masculine guy.
I liked the story but listening to him was torcherous.
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- Bette
- 09-06-15
Entertaining
This twenty six and a half hour story of star crossed lovers is an entertaining listen until the few hours toward the end when it gets a little bogged down by more 'perils of pauline'-ish plot twists than are necessary to bring the story to a satisfying conclusion.
Journalist Gini and photographer Pascal, desperately in love and torn apart by circumstance a decade before the story takes place are thrown together -but this time not by circumstance- assigned to investigate a scandal that would rock the political foundations of the USA and the UK in which each is already mysteriously involved.
Slightly silly, slightly contrived and mostly a lot of fun, Lovers and Liars takes our heroes to the upper echelons of London power, the dark (and smelly!) underbelly of Venice, the streets of Paris and the pastoral manor homes of Oxfordshire. As they struggle to investigate and validate the increasingly muddy waters of a possible news story and rediscover the love they never lost, Pascal and Gini encounter a thoroughly self serving and manipulative cast of characters including the couple at the centre of the scandal whose utter dysfunction and willingness to draw everyone around them into their web of insane ambition would put George and Martha* to shame.
Lovers and Liars' huge cast of characters is where this production falls down. Narrator Ray Chase chose not to do dialects or accents. In a 26+ hour production with 5 major characters other than the heroes, keeping track of voices is tricky. I sometimes had to rewind busy, conversational scenes (like parties), in order to figure out who was talking.
Lovers and Liars is also an artifact. First published in the early 90's, it's an interesting take on Middle East politics and foreshadowing of the west's role in creating the post 9-11 world we live in now. I've just discovered Sally Beauman and listened to one of her recent books before this. She's a better writer now- a superb literary voice. This earlier book is a page turner, written in a fast paced bestseller style anyone can enjoy...with some (but not too much) steamy sex.
It's absolutely worth the credit.
* 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
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- Kathryn Walker
- 12-18-13
Enjoyable
Would you listen to Lovers and Liars again? Why?
This is the kind of book I can't put down! Usually I can guess where a mystery is going -- but Beauman kept me guessing. I'll look for other books by this author. I wouldn't listen again because there;s too many other books I want to hear.
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- whitney cowing
- 03-12-24
I wasted a credit!
When I sampling the book, the reader’s voice seemed to have some depth. However, after an hour I had to stop listening because I felt like I was at a horrific high school monologue showcase. Ugh
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