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The Chain
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,479
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,928
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,909
Your phone rings. A stranger has kidnapped your child. To free them you must abduct someone else's child. Your child will be released when your victim's parents kidnap another child. If any of these things don't happen: Your child will be killed. You are now part of the chain.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Major Departure For McKinty
- By Graham on 07-18-19
- The Chain
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Why, Adrian, why?
Reviewed: 07-25-19
Love the Sean Duffy books but this one...had to return it. Bad reader and bad writing. Could not finish it. Didn't care for any of the characters or what happened to them. Repetitive and predictable. And this is the one to make him some money!?!? Go figure....
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The Son
- A Novel
- By: Jo Nesbø
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,916
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,903
Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny’s been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don’t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit - or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he’s serving time for other peoples’ crimes. Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his father took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop. Now Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infrastructure of corruption....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Break From The Harry Hole Series Is a Hit
- By Russell on 09-04-14
- The Son
- A Novel
- By: Jo Nesbø
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Enjoyable
Reviewed: 11-25-18
Pretty good story, a bit predictable and hannibal lecterble, haha, in a way that you root for a killer. Reader was decent but I didn't like the way he portrayed Martha and the son at times, a little too breathless and holier than thau.
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The Circle
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9,360
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8,526
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 8,542
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid, just not great social network dystopia
- By Darwin8u on 10-10-13
- The Circle
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
They're here!
Reviewed: 11-16-18
This is already happening. And it's scary. And I'm outside by choice. Might have to move deeper in the woods...
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The Witch Elm
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Paul Nugent
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,586
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,851
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 7,835
Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By Beth on 10-11-18
- The Witch Elm
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Paul Nugent
Loved the earlier books but not this one
Reviewed: 11-02-18
The narrator was TERRIBLE! He made the main character totally unlikable, annoying drama queen and an unbearable whiner that I could not have cared less about! Unless that was the whole point in which case I missed it completely. Forced myself to finish listening. I think the writing wasn't as good as before either, went on and on and on without actually moving ahead. The book could have been half shorter.
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Insidious Intent
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 301
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 282
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Story4 out of 5 stars 283
In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away - only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate - but this may be the toughest case they've ever had to face. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor must deal with a cruel cyber-blackmailer targeting their teenage ward, Torin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another stellar mystery. Unfortunate narration.
- By motleysu on 12-09-17
- Insidious Intent
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Reader ruins the book
Reviewed: 10-24-18
Loved this series and was excited to listen to this latest one but the reader totally ruined the book for me. Just horrible! Specially when reading female roles. Carol Jordan became this really weird, whiny character, that you just didn't like nor cared for.
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The Eye Collector
- By: Sebastian Fitzek
- Narrated by: Paul Shearer
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Ready or not, here he comes.... It's the same each time. A woman's body is found with a ticking stopwatch clutched in her dead hand. A distraught father must find his child before the boy suffocates - and the killer takes his left eye. Alexander Zorbach, a washed-up cop turned journalist, has reported all three of the Eye Collector's murders. But this is different. His wallet has been found next to the corpse, and now he's a suspect.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Both story and narration take concentration
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 10-24-23
- The Eye Collector
- By: Sebastian Fitzek
- Narrated by: Paul Shearer
Fails to deliver
Reviewed: 03-28-17
Any additional comments?
I return very few books but this is one of them. Good title and premise but that's it. Writing is repetitious and infomercial like: wait, there is more! I never felt a connection with any of the characters and didn't care what happened to them. Reader did the best he could with the story he was given. In a way it also assumes the reader is a bit dull - too much explanation.
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Extreme Prey
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,508
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,062
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,048
After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation - no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend, the governor, is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of is - until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor...and anyone who gets in the way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lucas Davenport in Iowa during political campaign
- By Wayne on 04-26-16
- Extreme Prey
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Not good, sad to say.
Reviewed: 08-02-16
What disappointed you about Extreme Prey?
Boring, predictable story line, not your usual Prey roller coaster ride. So disappointing since I've just LOVED each and every previous one.
Would you ever listen to anything by John Sandford again?
Yes, of course! Can't wait for the next one! One bad apple doesn't ruin the whole basket!
What about Richard Ferrone’s performance did you like?
LOVE Richard Ferrone! I think he does his best work with Sandford books.
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