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Detective Sebastian Clifford, Books 1-3
- A Midlands Crime Thriller Series
- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 694
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 655
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 655
The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gave Up After Book 2
- By Anonymous User on 06-15-24
- Detective Sebastian Clifford, Books 1-3
- A Midlands Crime Thriller Series
- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Too slow.
Reviewed: 07-15-24
Too slow. Cardboard characters. Unimaginative. Could of been good, but feels like it was written by a bot.
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Jade Dragon Mountain
- A Novel
- By: Elsa Hart
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 286
Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the emperor himself. When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing Mystery, Richly Woven
- By Marcelyn on 09-04-15
- Jade Dragon Mountain
- A Novel
- By: Elsa Hart
- Narrated by: David Shih
Just too slow for me
Reviewed: 03-02-21
Liked it...didn't love it. Great narration. Good characters. Enjoy the history lesson of the time and location.
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The Cuckoo's Calling
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37,400
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33,935
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33,869
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he’s living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable debut mystery set in London
- By Tracey on 05-26-13
- The Cuckoo's Calling
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
J.K. Rowlings needed a good editor
Reviewed: 11-22-19
This review is for the first 4 books in the "Strike" series. The stories in the first two books were OK. Strike was a great character and I was hoping the story line in the next two books would improve. I am very disappointed and am done with this series. Yes, there are many substories and misdirections, but that not the problem. The problem is... the books are boring. Half way through both the 3rd and 4th book, I stopped caring "who did it" and couldn't believe I still had over 10 hours of listening to this dribble to go. Agatha Christie had many substories and misdirections in her books, but they were interesting from being to end. I do want to commend Miss Rowling's on her desire in Book 3 to explain how a sexual assault can affect a person their whole life. I thought her efforts were very successful.
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Career of Evil
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,605
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16,108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,038
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Characters Mean Everything
- By Chip Atkinson on 11-09-15
- Career of Evil
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
J.K. Rowling needed a good editor
Reviewed: 11-21-19
This review is for the first 4 books in the "Strike" series. The stories in the first 2 books were just OK...but Strike was a great character and I had hoped the next 2 books would improve as far as story line. I have been very disappointed and am done with this series. Yes, there are many substories and misdirections, but that's not the problem. The problem is...the books are boring. Halfway through both Book 3 & 4, I stopped caring who "did it" and couldn't believe I still had over 10 hours of listening to this dribble. Agatha Christie had many substories and misdirections, but her mysteries were engaging from beginning to end. I do want to commend Miss Rowling's on her desire in Book 3 to explain how a sexual assault can affect a person their whole life. I thought her efforts were very successful.
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Up Till Now
- The Autobiography
- By: William Shatner, David Fisher
- Narrated by: William Shatner
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,020
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 915
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 911
After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. In Up Till Now, Shatner sits down with listeners and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere. In this touching and very funny autobiography, William Shatner's Up Till Now reveals the man behind these unforgettable moments, and how he's become the worldwide star and experienced actor he is today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding narration
- By Rob on 02-11-12
- Up Till Now
- The Autobiography
- By: William Shatner, David Fisher
- Narrated by: William Shatner
Loved it, except for one small problem....
Reviewed: 03-12-15
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Shatner's great dramatic voice goes so low while telling his stories, there are times you can't hear him!!
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The Quiet Girl
- By: Peter Hoeg
- Narrated by: James Gale
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
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Story3 out of 5 stars 41
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities - abilities that Krone also shares.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Up To Usual Standards
- By Linda Robertson on 11-18-07
- The Quiet Girl
- By: Peter Hoeg
- Narrated by: James Gale
Some parts are a 5 star !?!
Reviewed: 11-23-14
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This book is like going to an art museum , where the paintings are not arranged in any order or theme. It takes you more than 14 hours to wander through all the galleries; some of the art you love, some you don't, and some just totally mystify you. Though I loved the "music" of the words in this book, I always come back to my final thought, "Well, that was 14 hours of my life I'll never get back!"
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Vanishing Act
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 790
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 603
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 600
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads solitary outcasts through hostile territory to escape the vengeance of their enemies. But the shaded forest paths her Seneca ancestors might have followed on such missions have all been converted to superhighways, and now the safest way stations are crowded urban buildings that offer the camouflage of anonymity. Still, the supply of runaways - and the need for a woman who will take great risks to save them - have never been greater.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Book - 4 Stars; Narration - 3 Stars
- By Mimi on 02-24-10
- Vanishing Act
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Slow Slow Slow and stupid
Reviewed: 11-26-13
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Watching cement dry would of been a better use of my time. There is nothing to recommend about this book.
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Stone Angel
- By: Carol O'Connell
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory is drawn to place far away from home. In a small town in Louisiana, she steps off the train. Within the hour, one man has been assaulted, another has had a heart attack, a third has been murdered, and Mallory is in jail, though she nothing to do with any of these three events. She is there for an entirely different purpose. Seventeen years earlier, Mallory's mother died in this town, stoned to death by a mob, and the six-year-old Mallory had disappeared, to reappear on the streets of New York.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The narrator makes or breaks a good story!
- By Valerie on 03-06-12
- Stone Angel
- By: Carol O'Connell
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
A waste of time
Reviewed: 10-14-12
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I, unfortunately, bought 2 of these books at the same time or I never would have listened to this one. Since I owned it, I thought I should give the series a second chance. In this book, we find out why Mallory is damaged and why she wants to be called Mallory. The whole book was such a bore I have already forgot why she wanted to be called Mallory…so much for suspense. These novels are so convoluted with intertwining stories of unbelievable characters and weak motives that by the end, you just don’t care and am only glad it’s over.
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Killing Critics
- By: Carol O'Connell
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory - computer genius, street fighter, provocative waif, peerless investigator, manipulative beauty - is the gorgeous, near-sociopathic heroine of this knife-edged suspense novel. Along with old pals, Ricker, Coffey, and faithful admirer Charles Butler, Mallory is determined to solve the brutal "art as death" murder of an untalented but highly touted artist-critic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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2 Stars is generous
- By P. Chavez on 10-14-12
- Killing Critics
- By: Carol O'Connell
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
2 Stars is generous
Reviewed: 10-14-12
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Let’s see how many unbelievable and uninteresting cardboard characters this series has: There is Mallory, a drop dead gorgeous, extremely intelligent computer genius, but, drum roll, please… emotionally damaged, her partner is her faithful guardian angel cleaning up all her messes, her want-to-be boyfriend is a gentle giant who is also a computer genius and of course, independently wealthy…boring. Plus a terribly gruesome murder, with a cast of ridiculous secondary characters, but who cares, the whole series is a waste of time.
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Dressed for Death
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 879
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 872
Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera--a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh!
- By Michele Kellett on 01-07-13
- Dressed for Death
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
I am so happy to have found this series
Reviewed: 10-14-12
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I am so happy to have found this series with the wonderful Commissario Guido Brunetti. Raised on Hercule Poirot and falling in love with Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in the Louise Penny’s Three Pines Mysteries, I was searching for another similar series with a smart and likable lead character. I tried the NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory series by Carol O'Connell and was very disappointed with the cardboard characters . I am looking forward to listening to all the books with Brunetti and getting to know and like him even more.
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