Dick Danks - Collected Stories
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Buy for $14.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Scott Ellis
-
By:
-
Harris Tobias
About this listen
The name's Danks - Dick Danks - and if you think my name is amusing then you and I have nothing more to say. A man's got no more control over what his parents name him than he does over the weather. Danks is a proud old name in Scotland or somewhere, and I have nothing to make excuses for. I'm a private eye. Most days, I sit like a spider in its web waiting for the phone to ring. I wait for someone to hire me to investigate something for them. It gives me lots of time to think. Mostly, I think about what a mess I've made of my life, how I'm going to pay the rent, and what's for lunch - not necessarily in that order.
©2013 Harris Tobias (P)2016 Harris TobiasListeners also enjoyed...
-
The Innocent
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Some mistakes can change your life forever. For Matt Hunter, that mistake came in one terrible moment when his attempt to help a friend and stop a fight resulted in an accidental death. Matt was convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison. Time that his peers spent in college, Matt endured behind bars.
-
-
Coben and Brick....How could you not listen?!!
- By Bethany on 05-06-05
By: Harlan Coben
-
Caught
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie, Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.
-
-
Duped
- By Geoffrey T. Bieniek on 03-29-10
By: Harlan Coben
-
The Prettiest One
- A Thriller
- By: James Hankins
- Narrated by: Bon Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years...but it's all too real. Desperate to learn the truth about where she's been and what has happened to her but terrified of what she may find, Caitlin embarks on a search for answers.
-
-
Good Suspense Thriller
- By Promote STEM on 01-24-16
By: James Hankins
-
Until Proven Guilty
- J. P. Beaumont Series, Book 1
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Gene Engene
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lurking in the dark corners of J. P. Beaumont's bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.
-
-
Until proven guilty
- By Jean on 04-21-11
By: J. A. Jance
-
Breach of Duty
- A J.P. Beaumont Novel
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Richard Cox
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has had a hard life and learned at a young age how hard life can be. Two marriages, a treacherous battle with the bottle, assorted midlife and moral dilemmas, and a few decades as a homicide detective haven't convinced him otherwise. When Beau and his new partner Sue Danielson are assigned the murder of an elderly woman torched to death in her bed, Beau finds himself distracted by Sue's difficulties at home.
-
-
Not up to par with others
- By DC on 10-12-21
By: J. A. Jance
-
More Twisted
- Collected Stories, Vol. II
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines, Skipp Sudduth, Frederick Weller
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Diverse, provocative, eerie, and twisted, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best crime stories exhibits amazing range and the signature plot twists that have made him a perennial best seller. With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allen Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces are suspenseful spoonfuls of Deaver at his best. Listeners will be surprised by the subtlety of some of these stories and, as always, by the plot surprises.
-
-
Wish there was more
- By William on 04-19-07
By: Jeffery Deaver
-
The Innocent
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Some mistakes can change your life forever. For Matt Hunter, that mistake came in one terrible moment when his attempt to help a friend and stop a fight resulted in an accidental death. Matt was convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison. Time that his peers spent in college, Matt endured behind bars.
-
-
Coben and Brick....How could you not listen?!!
- By Bethany on 05-06-05
By: Harlan Coben
-
Caught
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie, Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.
-
-
Duped
- By Geoffrey T. Bieniek on 03-29-10
By: Harlan Coben
-
The Prettiest One
- A Thriller
- By: James Hankins
- Narrated by: Bon Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years...but it's all too real. Desperate to learn the truth about where she's been and what has happened to her but terrified of what she may find, Caitlin embarks on a search for answers.
-
-
Good Suspense Thriller
- By Promote STEM on 01-24-16
By: James Hankins
-
Until Proven Guilty
- J. P. Beaumont Series, Book 1
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Gene Engene
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lurking in the dark corners of J. P. Beaumont's bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.
-
-
Until proven guilty
- By Jean on 04-21-11
By: J. A. Jance
-
Breach of Duty
- A J.P. Beaumont Novel
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Richard Cox
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has had a hard life and learned at a young age how hard life can be. Two marriages, a treacherous battle with the bottle, assorted midlife and moral dilemmas, and a few decades as a homicide detective haven't convinced him otherwise. When Beau and his new partner Sue Danielson are assigned the murder of an elderly woman torched to death in her bed, Beau finds himself distracted by Sue's difficulties at home.
-
-
Not up to par with others
- By DC on 10-12-21
By: J. A. Jance
-
More Twisted
- Collected Stories, Vol. II
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines, Skipp Sudduth, Frederick Weller
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Diverse, provocative, eerie, and twisted, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best crime stories exhibits amazing range and the signature plot twists that have made him a perennial best seller. With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allen Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces are suspenseful spoonfuls of Deaver at his best. Listeners will be surprised by the subtlety of some of these stories and, as always, by the plot surprises.
-
-
Wish there was more
- By William on 04-19-07
By: Jeffery Deaver
-
Law and Disorder
- A Legal Thriller
- By: Mike Papantonio
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Brash, brilliant, handsome Nicholas Deketomis has built a highly successful career as a lawyer, protecting the rights of the innocent while winning multibillion-dollar lawsuits from the powers that be. "Deke" may have come from the wrong side of the tracks, but he's built a wonderful life for his close-knit family. His wife and two children live in a beautiful house in a seaside community along the Florida Panhandle. But their comfortable life is endangered.
-
-
Don't Bother
- By Tara on 08-30-20
By: Mike Papantonio
-
Take Your Breath Away
- A Novel
- By: Linwood Barclay
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich, George Newbern, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder—it’s always the husband, isn’t it?—but the police could never build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom—he drank too much to numb the pain, was abandoned by all his friends save one, nearly lost his business, and became a pariah in the place he once called home.
-
-
Good solid novel from Linwood Barclay…
- By shelley on 05-26-22
By: Linwood Barclay
-
Big City, Bad Blood
- By: Sean Chercover
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet.
-
-
Quintessentially Chicago
- By Eva Gannon on 09-21-09
By: Sean Chercover
-
The Fallen
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am 29 years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to me, I see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. I have what amounts to a primitive lie detector.
-
-
OK, but...
- By Robert E. Orlando on 01-01-14
-
The Inside Ring
- A Novel
- By: Michael Lawson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From a bluff overlooking Georgia's untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide, and in the man's home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt.
-
-
The Foul Language Ring
- By Karen on 12-11-07
By: Michael Lawson
-
Gangsterland
- A Novel
- By: Tod Goldberg
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A few surgeries and some intensive training later, and Sal Cupertine is gone, having disappeared into the identity of Rabbi David Cohen. Leading his growing congregation in Las Vegas, overseeing the population and the temple and the new cemetery, Rabbi Cohen feels his wicked past slipping away from him, surprising even himself as he spouts quotes from the Torah. But the Mafia isn't quite done with him.
-
-
Usually not into these kind of things
- By Kristen Truempy on 06-10-18
By: Tod Goldberg
-
Indemnity Only
- V. I. Warshawski, Book 1
- By: Sara Paretsky
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this gripping adventure - the first V.I. Warshawski mystery - America’s top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter’s dead body instead, her client disappears.
-
-
Back to the Beginning
- By Geoffrey Kragen on 11-22-11
By: Sara Paretsky
-
Lethal People
- By: John Locke
- Narrated by: Rich Orlow, George Guidall
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In international best-selling author John Locke’s Lethal People, former CIA assassin Donovan Creed is pursuing his latest love interest when he discovers a severely burned girl. Soon, Creed’s suspicions about what hurt the girl lead to a deadly confrontation.
-
-
Not up to pro standards
- By MP on 11-22-11
By: John Locke
-
The Cutting
- A McCabe and Savage Thriller, Book 1
- By: James Hayman
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Detective Mike McCabe moved from a top homicide job with the NYPD to Portland, Maine, to leave his failed marriage and suspicions of wrongdoing behind, and to find a more peaceful life for himself and his 13-year-old daughter. But the small New England city is not nearly as safe as he thought. On a warm September night, a missing high school athlete is found dead in a scrap-metal yard, her heart removed from her body with surgical precision. As outrage over the killing spreads, a young businesswoman disappears while out on a morning jog.
-
-
Is It The Story? Or Its Telling? Hmmmm...
- By Ted on 12-01-15
By: James Hayman
-
Vengeance
- By: Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State Attorney's Office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. Headed for Key West, the Toyota broke down in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Sarasota, Florida. Buoyed by the friendship of a few trustworthy souls, Lew settled there, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attorneys.
-
-
Unexpectional!
- By Ted on 09-17-17
-
Kinsey and Me
- Stories
- By: Sue Grafton
- Narrated by: Judy Kaye
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one best-selling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey’s origins and Sue’s past. Kinsey and Me has two parts: The nine Kinsey stories (1986-93), each a gem of detection; and the And Me stories, written in the decade after Grafton's mother died. Together, they show just how much of Kinsey is a distillation of her creator’s past.
-
-
How did Grafton create Kinsey?
- By Jean on 01-22-13
By: Sue Grafton
-
Found
- A Matt Royal Mystery
- By: H. Terrell Griffin
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The quiet of Longboat Key, Florida, is shattered when an old man is shot to death and his murderer is killed while fleeing the police. Strange documents in German and Arabic are found in the killer's car then an old friend of the murdered man disappears. As the mystery deepens, a ragtag group of devious and dangerous characters intrudes on the lives of the islanders, creating a kind of havoc unusual for a sun-splashed island full of retirees and beach bums.
-
-
Another great Longboat Key thriller!
- By Wayne on 03-26-16
Related to this topic
-
Until Proven Guilty
- J. P. Beaumont Series, Book 1
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Gene Engene
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lurking in the dark corners of J. P. Beaumont's bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.
-
-
Until proven guilty
- By Jean on 04-21-11
By: J. A. Jance
-
Compelling Evidence & Prime Witness
- 2-in-1 Edition, Paul Madriani Books 1 and 2
- By: Steve Martini
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Compelling Evidence Paul Madriani was once a promising associate with the prestigious Potter, Skarpellos law firm, co-founded by his mentor, Ben Potter. But after a scandalous affair with Ben's wife, Talia, Paul left the firm to begin a brilliant career as a criminal defense attorney. Ben's impeccable reputation has made him a leading candidate for the Supreme Court, until he is found dead on the eve of the nomination, and Talia becomes the prime suspect.
-
-
Terrible
- By LS1015 on 04-08-19
By: Steve Martini
-
Short Squeeze
- By: Chris Knopf
- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Meet smart-aleck Southampton attorney Jackie Swaitkowski. Her business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that she finds herself working on something bigger, and more dangerous, than real estate.
-
-
Great Listen - Good Series
- By Patricia on 02-15-10
By: Chris Knopf
-
The Rabbit Factory
- By: Marshall Karp
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, James Jenner
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
-
-
Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
- By MidwestGeek on 12-19-12
By: Marshall Karp
-
Aphrodite
- By: Russell Andrews
- Narrated by: Buck Schirner
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It looked for all the world like a terrible, tragic accident. Susanna Morgan had gotten up in the middle of the night, tripped, fallen, and broken her neck. Yet when detective Justin Westwood inspects the victim's apartment, he can't help noticing that the details don't quite add up. The glass on the bedside table is knocked over but there are no cuts on her body. The scrape on her knee looks suspiciously fresh. And then a terrified witness comes forward, confirming his worst fear.
-
-
Just Works - Wonderfully
- By Ted on 05-03-12
By: Russell Andrews
-
Big City, Bad Blood
- By: Sean Chercover
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet.
-
-
Quintessentially Chicago
- By Eva Gannon on 09-21-09
By: Sean Chercover
-
Until Proven Guilty
- J. P. Beaumont Series, Book 1
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Gene Engene
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lurking in the dark corners of J. P. Beaumont's bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.
-
-
Until proven guilty
- By Jean on 04-21-11
By: J. A. Jance
-
Compelling Evidence & Prime Witness
- 2-in-1 Edition, Paul Madriani Books 1 and 2
- By: Steve Martini
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Compelling Evidence Paul Madriani was once a promising associate with the prestigious Potter, Skarpellos law firm, co-founded by his mentor, Ben Potter. But after a scandalous affair with Ben's wife, Talia, Paul left the firm to begin a brilliant career as a criminal defense attorney. Ben's impeccable reputation has made him a leading candidate for the Supreme Court, until he is found dead on the eve of the nomination, and Talia becomes the prime suspect.
-
-
Terrible
- By LS1015 on 04-08-19
By: Steve Martini
-
Short Squeeze
- By: Chris Knopf
- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Meet smart-aleck Southampton attorney Jackie Swaitkowski. Her business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that she finds herself working on something bigger, and more dangerous, than real estate.
-
-
Great Listen - Good Series
- By Patricia on 02-15-10
By: Chris Knopf
-
The Rabbit Factory
- By: Marshall Karp
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, James Jenner
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
-
-
Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
- By MidwestGeek on 12-19-12
By: Marshall Karp
-
Aphrodite
- By: Russell Andrews
- Narrated by: Buck Schirner
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It looked for all the world like a terrible, tragic accident. Susanna Morgan had gotten up in the middle of the night, tripped, fallen, and broken her neck. Yet when detective Justin Westwood inspects the victim's apartment, he can't help noticing that the details don't quite add up. The glass on the bedside table is knocked over but there are no cuts on her body. The scrape on her knee looks suspiciously fresh. And then a terrified witness comes forward, confirming his worst fear.
-
-
Just Works - Wonderfully
- By Ted on 05-03-12
By: Russell Andrews
-
Big City, Bad Blood
- By: Sean Chercover
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet.
-
-
Quintessentially Chicago
- By Eva Gannon on 09-21-09
By: Sean Chercover
-
Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse
- By: Lee Goldberg
- Narrated by: Laura Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunately, his assistant Natalie and her daughter are kind enough to welcome him into their home. Unfortunately, their home is not quite up to Monk's standards of cleanliness and order. But while Monk attempts to arrange his surroundings just so, something else needs to be put straight. The death of a dog at the local firehouse - on the same night as a fatal house fire - has led Monk into a puzzling mystery.
-
-
Enjoyable listen
- By Rbtmw on 06-19-09
By: Lee Goldberg
-
The Fallen
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am 29 years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to me, I see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. I have what amounts to a primitive lie detector.
-
-
OK, but...
- By Robert E. Orlando on 01-01-14
-
Dead Irish
- Dismas Hardy, Book 1
- By: John Lescroart
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.
-
-
Soap-opera thrillers?
- By Snoodely on 01-27-10
By: John Lescroart
-
Faces of the Gone
- Carter Ross, Book 1
- By: Brad Parks
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. Immediately dispatched to the scene, Carter learns that the four victims - an exotic dancer, a drug dealer, a hustler, and a mama's boy - came from different parts of the city and didn't seem to know one another.
-
-
Wish Brad Parks were more prolific!!!!
- By shelley on 02-16-18
By: Brad Parks
-
Cash Landing
- A Novel
- By: James Grippando
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Every week a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through customs and loads them into armored trucks.
-
-
Good Start To The Series
- By Lia on 10-21-18
By: James Grippando
-
The Ritual Bath
- The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel
- By: Faye Kellerman
- Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
-
-
Good Read
- By Eva Gannon on 08-21-08
By: Faye Kellerman
-
The Sins of the Fathers
- By: Lawrence Block
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.
-
-
Good introduction to a popular series
- By Sharron on 12-26-11
By: Lawrence Block
-
Santa Fe Rules
- By: Stuart Woods
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Successful movie producer Wolf Willett is stunned when he sees his own death reported in a major newspaper. It says he was a victim in a triple homicide during a sordid tryst with his wife and a friend. But who is the unidentified corpse? Why can't Wolf remember anything about the night in question? And who wants him dead?
-
-
Too much sex stuff
- By Kathleen Fuller on 06-11-19
By: Stuart Woods
-
Mind Tryst
- By: Robyn Carr
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Still reeling from her young son's death, Jackie Sheppard retreats to a small town in the Colorado Rockies. Comforted that no one knows of her tragic past, she's thrilled to take a job at a family law firm, where she meets Tom, the local carpenter. Jackie's distrust of others hinders their relationship, but they slowly build a budding romance. However, as she begins to settle into her new life, disturbing things start happening to Jackie...
-
-
Not Your Normal Robyn Carr Book!
- By Klehan on 12-09-13
By: Robyn Carr
-
Above the Law
- By: J.F. Freedman
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a remote northern California town, a huge task force from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducts a raid on the stronghold of one of the biggest drug-dealing rings in the country. During the raid, the infamous, reclusive leader of the ring, Reynaldo Juarez, is shot and killed - despite direct orders from the Attorney General that he is to be taken alive at any cost because of his immense value to the government as a witness in other drug cases.
-
-
Good Book great ending
- By shelley on 04-10-14
By: J.F. Freedman
-
The Monkey's Raincoat
- An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel, Book 1
- By: Robert Crais
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye.... He quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He's a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up.
-
-
Slaughtered by sickeningly awful reader
- By Lehua of Pacifica on 06-11-09
By: Robert Crais
-
Goodnight, Irene
- An Irene Kelly Novel
- By: Jan Burke
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The morning after Irene says goodnight to her old journalist friend O'Connor, he is killed suddenly upon opening a letter bomb. As the smoke clears, a devastated Irene determines to find the mail-bomber by tracing threads of an unsolved crime from 1955 - the same cold case O'Connor had been obsessed with.
-
-
Welcome Irene
- By Anonymous User on 04-29-08
By: Jan Burke
What listeners say about Dick Danks - Collected Stories
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Summer
- 08-09-16
Good audiobook
Where does Dick Danks - Collected Stories rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It has a good plot and is narated carefully.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
It was a good story,not predictable.
What about Scott Ellis’s performance did you like?
The intonation matched the scenes and the characters.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
Any additional comments?
“This audiobook was given by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review via Audiobook Boom.”
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Elle Kay
- 08-04-16
Entertaining!
First off, I really like how this book is presented: a series of interconnected short stories (or in this instance, a series of cases) all involving the same likable protagonist. The short stories are quirky and a great play on the hard-boiled detective. Dick Danks (which is a fantastic name, you have to agree) is a well portrayed PI living in Arizona, and the stories and cases that he gets are highly enjoyable and outlandish! I instantly became enthralled by this new PI.
For those that are interested, here are the titles of the stories:
1. The Case of the Bisected Body
2. The Case of the Cleaning Lady’s Son
3. The Case of the Missed Call
4. Boob Job
5. The Case of the Pickled Brain
6. The Case of Radioactive Heiress
7. The Case of the Restless Corpse
Lovers of noir, pulp stories, and hard-boiled detectives should definitively give this book a shot! Scott Ellis’ performance is very well done. The narration make it feel like Dick Danks is in the room with you recounting his cases!
This audiobook was given by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review via Audiobook Boom.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Much Read Photographer
- 08-26-16
Lovers of old time radio will love this
Any additional comments?
If you enjoy the detectives of old time radio you will love this book. The narration is great and you feel transported to a time before books were full of bad language and gore.
This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBoom dot com.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- haleybop
- 09-29-16
bad narration
The narration on this was so slow, and so bad, I couldn't get 3 minutes into the book. Maybe I would have enjoyed the story if I'd read it, but the audio is horrible. Sorry.
I received this audio free in exchange for my honest opinion,.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ashanti
- 11-23-16
A Throwback To Old B/W Hollywood Detective Movies
“Dick Danks” is a collection of short stories involving private investigator, Dick Danks. The short stories are basically interconnected cases. The audio book has the feel of old black and white Hollywood detective movies or old time radio mysteries. If that’s something you think you would enjoy, then this book is for you.
Narrator, Scott Ellis, does a decent job with the material, but I personally didn’t care for his voice. I know that’s a subjective thing, but he just didn’t work for me. Also, for some strange reason, when I listened to part of this audio book on my computer, it seemed to play at a slightly slower speed than when I listened to it on my cell phone. The Audible app on my android phone has the ability to play a book at several different speeds so I checked to make sure I had the playback speed on normal. It turns out I did. The Audible cloud player I use on my computer doesn’t have the ability to change the playback speed so I’m not sure what the heck was going on. I just know I couldn’t enjoy the slower speed playback from my computer.
Over all, I enjoyed the “Dick Danks” collection. I just wasn’t bowled over by it. Finally, this audio book was provided by the narrator at no cost in exchange for an honest review, courtesy of Audio Book Blast.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Norma Miles
- 08-14-16
"I can see you're holding in a laugh..."
Any additional comments?
Dick Danks, ex-cop, thrown of the force for unspecified corruption and now filling his time, when not at the bar, being a private eye, a somewhat unsuccessful one, too, where collecting a fee is concerned. And yes, he has a thing about his name - who wouldn't when he's heard as many jokes about it as he has?
This is an book of seven deliciously wry and understated short stories, related by Danks, about individual cases. Although following a detective noire format, none of the cases described are normal - the book starts and concludes, for example, with deaths which occurred in teleportation development companies.All are easy listening and fun. But it is the character of Danks himself which shines through the dialogue and makes this book so enjoyable.
This is greatly assisted by the admirable, lilting and lazy voice of the narrator, Scott Ellis, whose reading breathes life into the P.I. to give his cases authenticity even when imagination is stretched. Delicious.
Overall, a great light read book, especially suited to listeners with limited time sessions as the separate stories can be completed reasonably quickly but still give a sense of satisfaction.
My thanks to the publisher, author or narrator of Dick Danks, Collected Stories, from whom I received a complementary copy, via Audiobook Boom, in exchange for an unbiased review. This I have given.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!