Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand
Curious Adventures of a CSI
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Kate Zane
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Dana Kollmann
About this listen
Step past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene investigator. Whether explaining rigor mortis or the art of fingerprinting a stiff corpse on the side of the road, Dana Kollmann details her true, unvarnished experiences as a CSI for the Baltimore County Police Department.
Unlike the popular crime dramas proliferating on today's television networks, these forensic tales forgo glitz for grit to show what really goes on. Kollmann recounts stories that the cops and the CSIs usually leave in the field, bringing the sights, smells, and sounds of a crime scene alive as never before.
Unveiling the process and science of crime scene investigation in all its fascination, Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand takes you into the strange world behind the yellow tape, offering a truly eye-opening perspective on the day-to-day life of a CSI.
Contains mature themes.
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Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady"; she's a tough ex-Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good shepherd for the stray sheep of his hometown.
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Ice Cold Complex Small Town Police Procedural/Mystery
- By Sara on 12-27-14
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The Blue Hour
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- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence - his own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash, impatient, and not someone from whom Hess wants to be taking orders. He certainly isn't planning on falling in love with her. Together, they must track down a psychopathic killer who's been abducting beautiful young women from the malls of Orange County.
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Outstanding book, exceptional reader
- By Jan on 03-24-10
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Hannibal Rising
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- Narrated by: Thomas Harris
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Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.
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Good book, good narration
- By User33 on 12-25-06
By: Thomas Harris
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Suicide Hill
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
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In disgrace after a badly handled arrest in New Orleans, Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is assigned as a liaison officer to an FBI investigation of a series of diabolical and clever bank robberies. Three men have done their homework: they choose bank managers who are having affairs, kidnap their girlfriends, and force the managers to open the banks early.
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Try this title for a change of pace
- By Robert on 04-19-16
By: James Ellroy
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Janina Edwards, Fajer Al-Kaisi, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- By Jennifer Baratta She/Her on 05-16-21
By: Michael Koryta
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Forty Words for Sorrow
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When the badly decomposed body of 13-year-old Katie Pine is found, John Cardinal is vindicated. It was Cardinal who'd kept the Pine case open and Cardinal had been demoted to the burglary squad for his excessive zeal. But Katie Pine isn't the only youngster to have gone missing and Cardinal is now given the go-ahead to reopen the files on three other lost kids. When another youth is reported missing, he begins to see a pattern that screams "serial killer."
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even better than the TV show
- By Allison Payne on 04-21-20
By: Giles Blunt
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The Rescuer
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He helped save people every day - but he had no idea how to save himself. Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood - until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face-to-face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well.
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Real..... and good!
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-21
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Killing Critics
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- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
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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 Stars is generous
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By: Carol O'Connell
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The Cutting
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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.
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Is It The Story? Or Its Telling? Hmmmm...
- By Ted on 12-01-15
By: James Hayman
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The Last Place You Look
- By: Kristen Lepionka
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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Alcoholic PI
- By Karwyn on 05-17-18
By: Kristen Lepionka
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The Blue Edge of Midnight
- By: Jonathon King
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
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Max Freeman's old life ended on a night that will haunt him forever. The night he killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defense in a Philadelphia shootout. The night he stopped being a cop. Now he lives a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades, where he answers to no one but the demons that eat away at his conscience. When he finds the corpse of a child beside an ancient river and another child goes missing, all eyes turn to Freeman.
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Florida swamp thriller
- By Donald on 12-23-10
By: Jonathon King
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Once Shadows Fall
- A Thriller
- By: Robert Daniels
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After years of paying her dues on the force, Beth Sturgis has earned her place as a detective for the Robbery-Homicide division of the Atlanta PD. Now, she's heading up a major manhunt for a potential serial killer who's working his way inward from the outskirts of the city. The copycat elements in the first crime scene lead Sturgis to retired FBI agent Jack Kale, who was responsible for apprehending and nearly killing the murderer known as the Scarecrow, the same Scarecrow who appears to be this new killer's terrible inspiration.
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amazing
- By Ryan on 08-01-16
By: Robert Daniels
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Fantastic and funny
I greatly enjoyed this book as my daughter is studying to enter this field. The real-life descriptions and the author's humor make this an enjoyable listen.
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I love it!
I am a nurse and am interested in this line of work. thank you for showing us th inside of Crime Scene investigators and giving us a laugh in the process!
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At times gory but often sidesplittingly funny
Dana introduces us to a world usually hidden from the public’s view and does so with no holds barred and endless Witt and humor. I was sad when it ended
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- Melinda S
- 08-17-24
Don't listen to while eating
LOL funny and informative. Some of the descriptions are stomach turning. I had to turn it off while eating dinner.
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- J Griffith
- 07-07-23
Great Book
Loved every bit of it, would read again. The stories were a hoot, but the lessons she learned were powerful.
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- Robertson W. Shinnick
- 02-29-24
Loved it!
I see some reviewers were put off by the author’s sometimes-snarky sense of humor, but, being possessed of a similar style myself, I enjoyed it. She didn’t even spare us her own personal public restroom horror stories. One had me literally laugh out loud.
Though some of the voices were grating (as intended), the narrator did a pretty good job.
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- newtn
- 12-18-23
The narrator nails it! The author, though...
The narrator absolutely nails the spirit and inflection of the author's words. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to her!
I also absolutely loved that this book tells it like it REALLY is in the CSI world. I've long been fascinated by TV shows from NCIS to Forensic Files, but none of them portray anything close to reality. This book is all reality, and it's very refreshing, in that sense.
The author also seems to have her head on straight in terms of the fact that racism is bad; but that's where her tolerance for social justice seems to end. The number of times mentally handicapped people, mentally ill people, and people with substance abuse issues are ridiculed and called derogatory names in this book is disturbing.
I get that it's difficult to maintain sympathy and empathy when one deals with difficult situations all night every night. But one would hope for a more reflective stance when writing from a retrospective position.
I don't imagine the author will ever read this review, but I did want to leave it in the hopes that it can help anyone with triggers surrounding mental health make an educated decision about whether or not to listen.
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- Jennifer Guffey
- 05-28-21
Overall great
I love the book and also the narrator. The only thing I didn't like was the voices the narrator did... awful!
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- A. Rivera
- 10-13-23
great book
this book was very interesting and informative. the author had a great perspective on the pros and cons of the job, I felt like I was there with them while they described the scenes they worked on. some of the descriptions are gross, as one would expect, so take note of that when you're eating while listening. (If you're bothered by that type of thing)
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-25-24
it was so educational and sooooo funny!!!!!
I loved the whole book and the reader and how funny it was. Hometown girl too
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