Robert Horgan
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The Paragon Hotel
- By: Lyndsay Faye
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 454
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Story4 out of 5 stars 408
The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and 50,000 dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a Black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-Black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a White woman on the premises. She understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not my favorite but okay.
- By Giannina White on 02-12-19
- The Paragon Hotel
- By: Lyndsay Faye
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Wonderful storytelling
Reviewed: 08-09-24
Great characters and a fast-moving story that, despite bouncing between past and present, is never confusing and always tightly woven. Outstanding narration added to the interesting read.
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The Good Client
- Mitch Turner Legal Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Dan Decker
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4 out of 5 stars 153
Criminal Defense Attorney Mitch Turner is awoken in the middle of the night by a message from his nerdy law school employee Timothy Cooper begging Mitch for help. Uncertain about the problem from Timothy's cryptic texts, Mitch Turner slips into his suit and heads over to visit Timothy, unable to imagine any reason why Timothy would be calling for help at such a late hour. Mitch arrives to find the police at Timothy's apartment and learns that Timothy's roommate was murdered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"One bullet, one body, no burglary."
- By Norma Miles on 04-07-22
- The Good Client
- Mitch Turner Legal Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Dan Decker
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
Reads like a textbook
Reviewed: 06-11-22
Dialogue is unnatural; no contractions, slang, or phrases verbs in sight.
There's a girlfriend who is simply absent, and paper thin characters.
The story was okay, but told with the style and charm of a high school text book.
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Steel Fear
- A Thriller
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 629
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 552
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 552
The moment Navy SEAL sniper Finn sets foot on the USS Abraham Lincolnto hitch a ride home from the Persian Gulf, it’s clear something is deeply wrong. Leadership is weak. Morale is low. And when crew members start disappearing one by one, what at first seems like a random string of suicides soon reveals something far more sinister: There’s a serial killer on board. Suspicion falls on Finn, the newcomer to the ship. After all, he’s being sent home in disgrace, recalled from the field under the dark cloud of a mission gone horribly wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story, but....
- By Amazon Customer on 10-13-21
- Steel Fear
- A Thriller
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Entertaining
Reviewed: 03-15-22
I liked this book - a combination psychological thriller/whodunnit that kept me engaged from beginning to end.
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The People's Lawyer
- Lettie Portman, Book 1
- By: John Ellsworth
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,018
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,012
Meet Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman, a sex-crimes prosecutor whose past demands justice. When a 14-year-old girl is savagely attacked by her mother's live-in boyfriend, Lettie is called to the hospital. There, she meets a sweet young girl whose only goal is to go to school and come home to a safe environment. But mom's boyfriend makes the girl's world anything but safe. Soon, the abuse gets worse, and Lettie, the prosecutor, goes to the grand jury with the case. Two juries later, the abuser is still loose on the streets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent start to a new Thrilling Legal series...
- By shelley on 12-17-20
- The People's Lawyer
- Lettie Portman, Book 1
- By: John Ellsworth
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
This was a truly horrible book
Reviewed: 03-11-22
The real low point came when a human trafficker couldn't handle a screaming 5 year old and returned him to get his money back.
In some parts, it felt like the author simply got tired of writing, looked at the story outline, and decided to summarize 100 pages of writing into several paragraphs.
Do yourself a favor; don't waste your time with this. While the narrator did a great job, the effort was wasted on the excerable material. As the book wore on, I wondered how she managed to keep performing it.
This is a truly horrible book.
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Agent Zero
- A Kent Steele Thriller
- By: Jack Mars
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,569
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,129
In this much-anticipated new spy thriller series by Jack Mars, listeners are taken on an action thriller across Europe as presumed-CIA operative Kent Steele, hunted by terrorists, by the CIA, and by his own identity, must solve the mystery of who is after him, of the terrorists’ pending target - and of the beautiful woman he keeps seeing in his mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top Notch Espionage!! With first class narration!
- By shelley on 03-29-19
- Agent Zero
- A Kent Steele Thriller
- By: Jack Mars
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
fast paced with an interesting main character
Reviewed: 08-13-19
well constructed plot that introduced an interesting main character we're likely to be seeing again often.
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One Good Deed
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,600
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,166
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,099
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of dos and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job - and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior Historical Crime novel!!
- By shelley on 07-24-19
- One Good Deed
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
couldn't stop listening
Reviewed: 08-08-19
This story is charming in that it is set in the late 1940s so there's a treat with every figurative turn of the page, whether it's doing a day's work for a dollar or having never heard of Las Vegas or a Miranda warning. The lack of forensic police work is a bit jarring as well - as is the casual atmosphere of the courtroom, where rules of evidence and testimony are ignored with a shrug of the shoulders by judge and prosecutor. Though it's a murderer mystery, I was too busy being charmed by the characters and the quaintness of the culture by comparison to the early 21st century to spend much time worrying about figuring out who dunnit. The delivery by the narrator managed somehow to evoke the post WWII atmosphere that pervades this novel. Highly recommended as an entertaining story filled with compelling characters living in a time that is portrayed as being much simpler.
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