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Of Judgement Fallen
- Anthony Blanke Tudor Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Steven Veerapen
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting critic of the Cardinal is found brutally slain whilst awaiting an audience at Richmond Palace. He will not be the last to die. Anthony Blanke, trumpeter and groom, is once again called upon to unmask a murderer. Joining forces with Sir Thomas More, he is forced to confront the unpopularity of his master's rule.
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Labyrinthine plotting, excellent narration
- By Judy on 08-31-24
- Of Judgement Fallen
- Anthony Blanke Tudor Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Steven Veerapen
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
Labyrinthine plotting, excellent narration
Reviewed: 08-31-24
Second installment in promising series. Voice actor expertly differentiates among numerous characters - each has his unique voice via accent, cadence, and pacing. This is how it's done.
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My Darkest Prayer
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted. When a beloved local minister is found dead, his parishioners ask Nathan to make sure the death isn’t swept under the rug.
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Amazing First Novel
- By Tod M. Clark on 12-12-22
- My Darkest Prayer
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Mosley Lite
Reviewed: 07-10-24
Formulaic, derivative, gratuitously misogynistic, and predictable.
Would return if the Audible Overlords would allow: I fell for reviewers' hype.
Save a credit by digging into your library to revisit Easy and Mouse - the originals.
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Ravenwood
- Tanyth Fairport Adventures, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Veronica Giguere
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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After 20 winters on the road, Tanyth Fairport makes one last pilgrimage in her quest to learn all she can about the herbs and medicinal plants of Korlay before settling down to write her magnum opus. Her journey is interrupted when she decides to help a small village and learns that much of what she knows of the world may not be quite as it seems.
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Not all adventurers are young men.
- By BRKyle on 10-09-21
- Ravenwood
- Tanyth Fairport Adventures, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Veronica Giguere
S.L.O.W.
Reviewed: 08-03-22
I gave Ravenwood more than a fair shot (over four hours of my listening life I'll never get back), but the plot was thin and just didn't gel and the characters remained painfully one-dimensional, cloying and, especially among the secondary female cast members, were flat-out annoying. Audible would not honor my attempt to return this title, so I'm stuck with it, which doesn't make me like it any more.
Save your credit. This one snores.
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A Rooster for Asklepios
- A Slave's Story, Book 1 (A Slave’s Story Trilogy)
- By: Christopher D. Stanley
- Narrated by: Keith Edward Gerhard II
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
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A Rooster for Asklepios centers on Marcus, a slave in the household of Lucius Coelius Felix who enjoys a better life than most slaves (and many free citizens) as the secretary and accountant of a wealthy aristocrat. His master is rising in the civic hierarchy of the Roman colony of Antioch-near-Pisidia (Central Turkey), and his responsibilities and income are growing as well. If this continues, he could soon earn enough to buy his freedom, set up a small business, maybe even marry. Then disaster strikes....
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Amazing Story!
- By Anonymous User on 05-25-21
- A Rooster for Asklepios
- A Slave's Story, Book 1 (A Slave’s Story Trilogy)
- By: Christopher D. Stanley
- Narrated by: Keith Edward Gerhard II
A real "stinker"
Reviewed: 06-08-21
Maybe the least engaging, most annoying male narrator I've heard on any Audible selection - and my library contains over 1,200 titles. Distracting mispronunciations of common English words and little differentiation among characters' voices. Also, way too much excruciatingly detailed info on one main character's intestinal maladies and their resultant embarrassments and inconveniences (see headline). Ugh.
Will try to return.
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Wade of Aquitaine
- Wade of Aquitaine, Book 1
- By: Ben Parris
- Narrated by: Nathan Chatelier
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Deep in the Dark Ages, with Vikings to the north and Aghlabid pirates to the south, a small flicker of the Roman Empire has been nurtured as an island of high civilization. Defeated Longobards scheme to bring it down from within. If Byzantium falls 600 years too soon, nothing of Western civilization will survive to spark the Renaissance. Enter Wade Linwood of the 21st century.
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Great Magic System And Historical Setting
- By Shirley N. on 02-24-21
- Wade of Aquitaine
- Wade of Aquitaine, Book 1
- By: Ben Parris
- Narrated by: Nathan Chatelier
Next book...or maybe one after that
Reviewed: 02-14-21
Debut works are, well, debuts. I say Ben Parris has a super future - which is hinted at in "Wade:" - I'm looking forward to his second or third work. This one's a freshman outing, with clunky exposition and awkward, self-conscious character and relationship development, but there's hope here. Please keep writing, Ben, and I'll keep reading.
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The Bitterroots
- A Cassie Dewell Novel
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: She wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family loyalty runs as deep as the ties to the land, and there's always something more to the story.
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Just awful, absolutely awful ...
- By lpw on 08-13-19
- The Bitterroots
- A Cassie Dewell Novel
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
C'mon, guys: who REALLY wrote this?
Reviewed: 08-24-19
Not the C.J. Box I've read for just about forever, unless it's a recent re-release of an early effort. Rookie errors in characterization (a rustic bad-guy cowboy comparing protagonist to Inspector Clouseau?), incredibly stilted dialog and a plot that meanders along for about twice as long as is really necessary - nope - can't be C.J. Box. And then there's Christina Delaine's narration (as opposed to voice acting): flat, with little differentiation among characters and tone deaf. I advise steering clear and waiting for next Joe Pickett installment..
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Dog on It
- A Chet and Bernie Mystery
- By: Spencer Quinn
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.
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Delightful
- By Deborah on 01-20-10
- Dog on It
- A Chet and Bernie Mystery
- By: Spencer Quinn
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Softy me couldn't do it...
Reviewed: 07-11-19
I'm one of those, "I'm fine, as long as the dog's OK" kinda readers/listeners, and was good with this first Chet- and-Bernie adventure for a while (knowing that Chet eventually would triumph), but there's just too much canine pathos here for this old dog softy. Am unable to read/listen to fiction depicting abused/neglected/ignored dogs, so my relatively negative rating says lots more about me than it does about Chet and Bernie - but I couldn't get through it. If Audible will allow me to return this one, I will.
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The Body in the Marsh
- DCI Craig Gillard, Book 1
- By: Nick Louth
- Narrated by: Marston York
- Length: 12 hrs
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Criminologist Martin Knight lives a gilded life and is a thorn in the side of the police. But then his wife, Liz, goes missing. There is no good explanation and no sign of Martin.... To make things worse, Liz is the ex-girlfriend of DCI Craig Gillard who is drawn into the investigation. Is it just a missing person or something worse? And what relevance do the events around the shocking Girl F case, so taken up by Knight, have to do with the present? The truth is darker than you could ever have imagined.
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Exceptional
- By Miriam Sabir on 10-28-18
- The Body in the Marsh
- DCI Craig Gillard, Book 1
- By: Nick Louth
- Narrated by: Marston York
Just plain old WOW!
Reviewed: 07-11-19
Louth pulls it all together here, and makes it look easy: pacing, plot, character development, dialogue - all totally spot on. Have been reading/listening to procedurals for the past 40 years, and this one rings ALL the bells. You GO, Nick Louth - am so looking forward to more from you and DCI Gillard.
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Burr
- A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
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Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated - and misunderstood - figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.
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Finally! Vidal's Great Take on the Life of Burr
- By John Norton on 06-12-19
- Burr
- A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Delicious
Reviewed: 06-24-19
Yep, I'm a self-avowed Vidal groupie: have read "Burr" about five times over the past 20 years and was thrilled to see Audible finally added it to its catalog. You either get Vidal or you don't: he was acerbic, exacting, scholarly, bitchy and enormously entertaining. Our politics don't always line up, but his insights into the paths by which the U.S. arrived at its current point-in-time on the world stage are spot-on. Listen carefully: rewind and review, if need be. However, you'll not consider America's Founding Fathers (and a few of its Mothers) as you had previously after listening/reading "Burr." You GO, Gore!
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The Rat Stone Serenade
- A DCI Daley Thriller, Book 4
- By: Denzil Meyrick
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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It's December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion. However, a century ago Archibald Shannon stole the land upon which he built their home, and his descendants have been cursed ever since. When heavy snow cuts off Kintyre, DCI Jim Daley and DS Brian Scott are assigned to protect their illustrious visitors. As an ancient society emerges from the blizzards, ghosts of the past come to haunt the Shannons. As the curse decrees, death is coming. But for whom, and from what?
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MAJOR volume, production problems
- By Judy on 06-24-19
- The Rat Stone Serenade
- A DCI Daley Thriller, Book 4
- By: Denzil Meyrick
- Narrated by: David Monteath
MAJOR volume, production problems
Reviewed: 06-24-19
I've downloaded a SLEW of episodes (OK - maybe three) in this smart, well-written series (which I love) in the hope that one of 'em will have been recorded with sufficient volume that I don't have to listen to it in a flippin' cloister or deprivation tank to actually hear it.
C'mon, Audible: I'm blowin' credits here and could use some help: this series deserves WAY better than this production hell hole.
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