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Jeffery Deaver
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A new original story from the best-selling and award-winning master of suspense, featuring Colter Shaw.
Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker", making his living locating missing persons and collecting reward money in return. In the course of his search for a missing woman, he visits the police station in the small Kansas town of Humble, and, is pulled into a puzzling case. A man is holding a hostage in a lakeside cabin, and the Humble police need Shaw's experience and know-how to assess the situation, and the captor's motives. As Shaw begins negotiating, he begins to realize that nothing about the hostage situation is as it seems, including the hostage himself.
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Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator. With nowhere else to turn, Sanchez enlists the aid of Professor Jake Heron, a brilliant and quirky private security expert who, unlike Sanchez, believes rules are merely suggestions. The two have a troubled past, but he owes her a favor and she’s cashing in.
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Disliked this story, a big disappointment
- By David E. Crumrine on 09-05-24
By: Jeffery Deaver, and others
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Date Night
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: David Harbour
- Length: 54 mins
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Death is a topic Bradford Douglas is intimately familiar with. The young attorney is on a crusade against capital punishment. He’s saved a number of death row inmates, but none of his cases has been as tough as the one he now faces: Henry Combs, a vicious serial killer, has only hours to live when Douglas is summoned for a Hail Mary attempt to have the man’s sentence commuted to life imprisonment. As Douglas races to pursue whatever strategies he can think of, he finds his passion for justice giving way to something altogether different. An obsession.
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Did Not See The End Coming
- By Tammie Hughes on 04-24-21
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Manhattan Is My Beat
- Rune Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeca loft, and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. It's a passion she shares with her favorite customer, Mr. Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same video over and over. The flick is a noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars. It's called Manhattan Is My Beat.
By: Jeffery Deaver
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South of Nowhere
- A Colter Shaw Novel, Book 5
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Length: 12 hrs
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A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer.
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A Perfect Plan
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 55 mins
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When the FBI comes to Lincoln Rhyme with the news that a mysterious assassin is targeting him, the detective is not particularly concerned. With his long career putting away criminals, he is accustomed to threats on his life, and has designed his Upper West Side townhome to be secure against nearly any threat. But when the assassin gets too close for comfort, Rhyme determines to find out why this person is after him. He must put himself inside the mind of a killer in order to save his own life, and possibly the lives of those he loves most.
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why waste credits on a 55 minute story ?
- By Anonymous User on 11-15-22
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Turning Point
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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A serial killer is trolling a midwestern suburb. His tools: a hammer, a screwdriver, floral wire, a kitchen knife and, to complete his errand, a Russian nesting doll left behind as a calling card. From one grisly crime scene to the next, Detective Ernest Neville and his Russian Doll Killer task force follow. With few leads and his career on the line, Neville is driven to desperate measures to get to the core of this diabolical puzzle. Layer by layer, he’s getting closer to the final piece.
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a twist to the tail
- By Rhoda York on 03-09-21
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Fatal Intrusion
- A Novel (Sanchez & Heron, Book 1)
- By: Jeffery Deaver, Isabella Maldonado
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco, Andre Santana
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator. With nowhere else to turn, Sanchez enlists the aid of Professor Jake Heron, a brilliant and quirky private security expert who, unlike Sanchez, believes rules are merely suggestions. The two have a troubled past, but he owes her a favor and she’s cashing in.
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Disliked this story, a big disappointment
- By David E. Crumrine on 09-05-24
By: Jeffery Deaver, and others
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Date Night
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: David Harbour
- Length: 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Death is a topic Bradford Douglas is intimately familiar with. The young attorney is on a crusade against capital punishment. He’s saved a number of death row inmates, but none of his cases has been as tough as the one he now faces: Henry Combs, a vicious serial killer, has only hours to live when Douglas is summoned for a Hail Mary attempt to have the man’s sentence commuted to life imprisonment. As Douglas races to pursue whatever strategies he can think of, he finds his passion for justice giving way to something altogether different. An obsession.
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Did Not See The End Coming
- By Tammie Hughes on 04-24-21
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Manhattan Is My Beat
- Rune Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeca loft, and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. It's a passion she shares with her favorite customer, Mr. Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same video over and over. The flick is a noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars. It's called Manhattan Is My Beat.
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Buried
- Hush Collection
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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After a long run as a respected journalist, Edward “Fitz” Fitzhugh is on his way out when he stumbles across the story of a lifetime. The Gravedigger is a serial kidnapper who taunts the police with riddles. The other puzzle is his motive, which Fitz is determined to piece together. When an eyewitness to the latest abduction leads Fitz closer to the facts, he realizes that the last great story of his career is not at all what it appears to be.
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Twisty Tale- Great Thriller
- By Admiralu on 08-02-20
By: Jeffery Deaver
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The Rule of Threes
- A Novella (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Special Agent Constant Marlowe is tasked with taking over the investigation of an obsessed serial killer trolling the small town of Clark Valley in the quiet—and eerie—plains of the Midwest. Two female victims in quick succession, the same brutal MO, and every indication that victim number three is only days away. Also in the killer’s scope is Constant herself. When she interviews a local family who may be potential witnesses, she leads the devil to their doorstep, throwing their lives into chaos.
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OK, but nothing special
- By VEH on 03-10-24
By: Jeffery Deaver
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The Victims' Club
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Scott Merriman
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is drugged, undressed, and photographed on a burner phone. In seconds her humiliation is uploaded, and millions of JPEGs are zipping like immortal wasps through the Internet. But why would someone target her? She has no vengeful exes or rival academics, no stalkers, or unhinged students. Jon Avery, the sharpest, most experienced investigator in the sheriff’s office, is determined to find out who’s behind this horrific invasion of privacy.
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A detective who didn’t give up
- By Karenique on 01-21-19
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Mistress of Justice
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well.
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Pathetic! I wasted a credit!
- By Wayne on 06-28-18
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Surprise Ending
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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The number one priority for Bradley Reynolds of Maryland's Organized Crime Taskforce is Andre Hector Federico. The mob boss is old school - a devoted family man, treacherous as hell, and paranoid enough to have escaped Reynolds's sting. Now Reynolds has a new plan: enlist prize-winning crime novelist Alan Seybold to concoct a foolproof chapter-by-chapter scenario on how to lure Federico out of his safe zone and collar him. There's just one condition: Seybold has to play by the rules of real life.
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Good Deaver Short
- By kutzkai on 02-01-22
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Orphan X
- Evan Smoak, Book 1
- By: Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X - until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail.
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An Excellent Distraction
- By A. Musser on 06-03-16
By: Gregg Hurwitz
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- CAtkins
- 04-23-20
loving me some Colter Shaw
Colter Shaw is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters of all time. want more!
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- Reno
- 04-18-23
Story is decent
This is a good listen. I tend to be a bit lenient with short stories because it’s so hard to get a good solid story with good characters into a tight window. I really probably should have dropped a star on it because it did introduce two stories, but only completed one, but the one that was brought to a close was well written and read. The characters were very interesting. The twist was really good and logical although a little bit of a stretch that Shaw could figure out with the limited clues.
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- Raven K.
- 03-31-21
Great Short Story
love these small little bits in the life of Shaw, and how the characters overlap with other Deaver novels.
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- Trudy Owens
- 03-26-21
Unfinished
Shaw is a good character and his cases are interesting. So far, Deaver has created some very good short stories. However, in this book, Shaw's search for a runaway is sidetracked by a hostage situation. This story is quite good, and resolves nicely in under an hour. Nevertheless, I am not going to give 5 stars because the original case remains open. Yes, the title is about the secondary development, but the runaway's case is left hanging, as if Deaver thinks that Shaw or we should not care about it any more.
KG's narration is really good on the character voices.
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- Darien F.
- 07-06-24
Good listen
This was a nice short story but I leave it wanting more . However I do find it somewhat strange how quickly the sheriff went from not trusting Shaw to giving him complete trust. But Hey if you guys want a quick story this is a good one .
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- julius botelho
- 06-13-21
Incomplete story
Very unsatisfactory ending he never finished the story which is kind of the point of a short story a complete waste of a credit
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