Moris Senegor
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An Ambush of Widows
- By: Jeff Abbott
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Henry North is a down-on-his-luck cybersecurity expert from New Orleans. Adam Zhang is the cofounder of one of Austin’s most successful venture capitalist firms. These two men didn’t know each other. They had never met. Yet they died together, violently, in a place neither had any business being. When Henry doesn’t return from a business trip, his wife, Kirsten, panics - and then gets an anonymous phone call: “Your husband is dead in Austin.”
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Good listen
- By Sheryl on 10-24-21
- An Ambush of Widows
- By: Jeff Abbott
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
A DECENT STORY TOLD VERY BADLY
Reviewed: 07-14-22
This could have been a truly gripping story in the hands of an accomplished writer. Instead, a decent yarn of complex plots devices and potentially interesting characters degenerates into cartoonish or soap opera scenes and dialogue. I kept telling myself over and over that in real life people do NOT talk the way these characters do. The plot twists and turns, presenting even the most innocent characters as the perp(s). Numerous repetitive theories are presented in dialogue or internal thoughts as potential solutions of the mystery. This author is no Agatha Christie. The solution is obvious. I guessed it correctly beyond the half way point.
This was an excruciating audio to listen to. No criticism for the narrator. She did a good job. The blame goes to the author for very poor writing.
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The Body on the Moor
- DCI Craig Gillard, Book 8
- By: Nick Louth
- Narrated by: Marston York
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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After the National Crime Agency cracks a major drug gang, junior barrister Julia McGann finds herself defending the violent enforcer Terrence Bonner. This high-profile case is a coup for her, but almost immediately things start to go wrong. Intruders break into her house, and then a young girl turns up at her door with a horrifying story to tell. Three months later, DCI Craig Gillard and his team struggle with the shocking murder of a much-respected local headmaster, found dead in his own car. The baffling crime fills the newspapers but yields few clues.
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Utter Garbage
- By Miami18 on 08-29-21
- The Body on the Moor
- DCI Craig Gillard, Book 8
- By: Nick Louth
- Narrated by: Marston York
NOT UP TO THE USUAL STANDARDS
Reviewed: 01-04-22
I have become a fan of Nick Louth & hıs Guillard series. They are usually tightly constructed stories, well written and with amazingly detailed police procedurals. This one does NOT live up to those standards. I wonder whether in a rush to publication they failed to edit the story from the standpoint of overall composition. There are two running stories here, that of Guillard and his investigation and of Julia stuck in an unusual bind with a “ferile” young woman who enters her life. These two stories are unbalanced. Louth spends way too much time on setting up the Julia story. This results in sheer boredom in the first 2/3 of the novel, the rare Guillard diversions lighting up the story up. When the two stories converge & Julia takes unexpected directions the novel gets a bit more exciting. But then there is an awfully abrupt ending. The story badly needs a denouement. I don’t know how any editor allowed that ending to go into publication. As I said, think this was a rush job. Louth is a good writer. He needs to take stock in this fiasco and take his time to publish a well. constructed, well edited story.
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Spider's Web
- Glenmore Park Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Mike Omer
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Twenty-year-old Kendele Byers is savagely killed and buried in a shallow grave. She had a violent past, a bizarre, kinky line of work, and the suspect list grows longer every day. But when another woman is murdered, Detective Mitchell Lonnie realizes that there's something much more sinister afoot: a connection between the two murders. Both victims had received a clue hinting at their oncoming demise several minutes before they were attacked. There's a serial killer in Glenmore Park.
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The JK Rowling of police procedural / crime novels
- By Penguin on 02-17-19
- Spider's Web
- Glenmore Park Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Mike Omer
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
ANNOYINGLY AWFUL STORYTELLING
Reviewed: 03-13-21
This author might know a thing or two about police procedures but he cannot tell a story properly. His scenes are full of sidetracks into meaningless characters that are uselessly elaborated, contributing nothing to the main storyline, inane, cliche filled dialogue and irrelevant site details. The story does not move along because of all these obstacles. In one early scene a veteran detective arrives at a hit & run homicide site and converses with a patrol officer already there, who also happens to be his sister. She has a perp in the back of her car, totally unrelated to the story (inappropriately elaborated earlier), arrested and handcuffed, and now waiting to be taken to the station while the hit & run is investigated. The veteran officer notices the arrestee and says, “He doesn’t look happy.”
Really? I gave up at that point & abandoned this book.
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Days in the Caucasus
- By: Banine
- Narrated by: Anoushka Rava
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Banine's family were peasants who became millionaires overnight when oil gushed from their lands - and the course of her own life would be just as dramatic. This is her unforgettable memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood, growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early 20th century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity. She remembers her luxurious home, with endless feasts of sweets and fruit; her beloved, flaxen-haired German governess; her imperious, swearing, strict Muslim grandmother; her bickering, poker-playing, chain-smoking relatives.
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ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL
- By Moris Senegor on 03-13-21
- Days in the Caucasus
- By: Banine
- Narrated by: Anoushka Rava
ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL
Reviewed: 03-13-21
This author takes you a fantasy world of bygone times where societal norms, shockingly different than ours, told through the eyes of a child, is actually real. Kids play “massacre the Armenian,” wives demand that their husbands get another wife to keep them company, families fight and insult each other in unimaginable ways, an obscenely wealthy lifestyle comes to a violent end with Communism. Throughout all this, the reader/listener can’t help but smile at all that happens, for it is told by a crafty storyteller, blunt and humorous, and so captivating. Banine has been obscure for too long.
Kudos to the narrator whose thick accent, a mix of French and Persian, most apropos, gives a refreshing life to the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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Righteous Assassin
- A Mike Stoneman Thriller, Book 1
- By: Kevin G. Chapman
- Narrated by: Kevin G. Chapman
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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A mob boss is eaten alive by tigers at the Bronx Zoo. A New Jersey factory owner is mutilated and left to bleed out under a Manhattan highway. A French pharmaceutical baron is tortured and frozen to death in Little Italy. A high society fashion designer is poisoned in her Upper East Side apartment. Four months, four unsolved murders. Each carried out on the last Saturday night of the month. The victims share no similar traits, have no connections to each other, have no common enemies, and were each killed in very different ways.
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First time for everything...
- By Patrick on 06-07-20
- Righteous Assassin
- A Mike Stoneman Thriller, Book 1
- By: Kevin G. Chapman
- Narrated by: Kevin G. Chapman
AWFUL NARRATION
Reviewed: 11-10-20
I’ve listened to hundreds of audiobooks. This one has, by far the worst narration. It sounds as if it is coming from a computer with a bad connection. Very hard to listen to. The writing style is stilted, most of the the dialogue cartoonish. For those who like police procedurals, the technical details if the story, far fetched as it is, are quite interesting. It is a worth while story but I recommend that you read it in print.
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South with the Sun
- Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
- By: Lynne Cox
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen’s career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners); twenty-five years later he was the first man to reach both the North and South Poles. Lynne Cox, adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to Antarctica (“gripping”—Sports Illustrated) and Grayson (“wondrous, and unforgettable”—Carl Hiaasen), gives us in South with the Sun a full-scale account of the explorer’s life and expeditions.
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Not worth the time
- By Eldon J. Linnebur on 07-19-15
- South with the Sun
- Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
- By: Lynne Cox
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
NOT WHAT I EXPECTED
Reviewed: 03-24-20
This was a huge disappointment. I expected a book about Amundsen and the history of polar explorations. It started that way, promisingly. Then it quickly derailed into a disjointed account of the author’s personal diary as she visited and swam in various icy locales. If you know this author and her swimming history is of interest, you might like it. If you’re interested in polar exploration & Amundsen, look elsewhere.
Incidentally, the narrator’s delivery, with inflections that belong to a children’s story, was extremely annoying. She made the book even less tolerable.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- By LEE on 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
OUTSTANDING STORY
Reviewed: 11-30-18
The world of medicine & finance can be convoluted, hard to understand and difficult to tirn into a gripping yarn. Yet Carreyrou manages to create a gripping page turner out of it. Excellent story. I would highly recommend it.
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Bust
- The Max and Angela Series, Book 1
- By: Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Five valuable lessons you can learn by listening to Bust: When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. Don't use Drano to get rid of a dead body. Those locks on hotel room doors? They're not very secure. A curly blond wig isn't much of a disguise. Secrets can kill.
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Another Plan Gone Awry
- By Jim N on 02-16-18
- Bust
- The Max and Angela Series, Book 1
- By: Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
OVER THE TOP
Reviewed: 06-27-17
Over the top story. Starts so slow that I almost abandoned it. The characters are cartoon-like extremes. They have no nuances. Once the action gets going it is breathless and entertaining but the ending is abrupt and unsatisfactory, hastily put together it aeems. The narrator was probably the best part of this audiobook.
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