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A mind-bending, genre-twisting debut novel. In West Akron, there lived a reclusive elderly man who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family; all over town, he was known only as The the Man from Primrose Lane. And on a summer day in 2008, someone murdered him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good read, despite, not because of sci fi twist
- By Lulu W. on 07-18-12
By: James Renner
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Forty Words for Sorrow
- By: Giles Blunt
- Narrated by: James Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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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5 out of 5 stars
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even better than the TV show
- By Allison Payne on 04-21-20
By: Giles Blunt
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Dead Irish
- Dismas Hardy, Book 1
- By: John Lescroart
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 1,147
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 931
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 929
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soap-opera thrillers?
- By Snoodely on 01-27-10
By: John Lescroart
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A Drink Before the War
- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,786
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,582
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,577
With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
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4 out of 5 stars
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White Bread
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-30-12
By: Dennis Lehane
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Iron Lake
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- By: William Kent Krueger
- Narrated by: David Chandler
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,761
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,020
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,992
Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger crafts this riveting tale about a small Minnesota town’s ex-sheriff who is having trouble retiring his badge. Cork O’Connor loses his job after being blamed for a tragedy on the local Anishinaabe Indian reservation. But he must set aside his personal demons when a young boy goes missing on the same day a judge commits suicide—and no one but O’Connor suspects foul play.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great New Series
- By Lia on 06-01-18
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The Last Policeman
- The Last Policeman, Book 1
- By: Ben H. Winters
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,958
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,769
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,764
What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not your regular mystery
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-20-16
By: Ben H. Winters
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Monkeewrench
- Monkeewrench, Book 1
- By: P. J. Tracy
- Narrated by: Buck Schirner
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 295
Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught, where the good guys always win. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life, down to the last detail.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Mystery Addict on 11-30-11
By: P. J. Tracy
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Every Crooked Nanny
- A Callahan Garrity Mystery, Book 1
- By: Mary Kay Andrews
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,640
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,451
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,455
After 10 years of cleaning up the dirt on Atlanta's streets, Callahan Garrity is trading in her badge for a broom and a staff of house cleaners. But, though the uniform is a little different, Callahan soon finds herself right back in the middle of a mystery when a client's pretty, pious 19-year-old nanny is gone...along with the jewelry, silver, and a few rather sensitive real estate documents. Before she knows it, the meticulous Callahan is up to her elbows in a case involving illicit love triangles, crooked business deals, long-distance scams, and a dead body.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For light entertainment - Also reviews explained
- By Chicago Laura on 07-05-13
By: Mary Kay Andrews
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Revenant
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- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
The remains of five women lie within, each one buried with a bridal veil...and without her ring finger. Once an award-winning journalist, Carson knows her career is now hanging by a thread. This story has pulled her out of a pit of alcohol and self-loathing, and with justice and redemption in mind she begins to investigate. Days later two more bodies appear, begging the question... Is a copycat murderer terrorizing Biloxi, or has a serial killer awoken from a 25-year slumber?
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of 2007's best mysteries
- By Janet on 06-07-08
By: Carolyn Haines
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Bone Dust White
- By: Karin Salvalaggio
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 855
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 768
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Story4 out of 5 stars 763
Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams' house, and he won't stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she goes to her second floor window for a look she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman isn't alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods, stabs her, and leaves her for dead. Trying to help, Grace goes to the woman and is shocked to find that it's her mother Leanne - a woman who abandoned her 11 years before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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at times hard to follow
- By cindy on 03-03-15
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The Last Dead Girl
- By: Harry Dolan
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 167
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 149
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Story4 out of 5 stars 146
On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter on a lonely road draws David into a romance with Jana Fletcher, a beautiful young law student. Jana is an enigma: living in a run-down apartment and sporting a bruise on her cheek that she refuses to explain. David would like to know her secrets, but he lets them lie-until it's too late. When Jana is brutally murdered, the police consider David a prime suspect.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great, dark read, appropriate reader too.
- By Karen on 05-01-14
By: Harry Dolan
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Nine Lives
- Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
- By: Dan Baum
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings this kaleidoscopic portrait to life, showing us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Do not miss if you're interested in New Orleans
- By Kelly on 03-22-18
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To Speak for the Dead
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Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder. Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have Miami's trial of the century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jake Lassiter is not your typical hero...
- By shelley on 03-30-17
By: Paul Levine
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- Tuck10
- 06-05-23
Predictable but ok
I liked the characters. The story was a bit moralistic, with too many stories tied up neatly - for my taste.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- FRITZ STOOP
- 01-10-11
Preposterous
When T. (homas?) Jefferson was learning how to construct a mystery novel, he certainly paid close attention the day they discussed tying up loose ends. Putting to bed a story this complicated is no mean feat but he accomplishes it, painfully I must add.. I suppose there's a murder mystery in there somewhere, but frankly this effort is so complex and because each and every nuance is taken right down to the molecular level, the thing does not track well.
Add to that some implausible, even bizarre, occurrences (like raising the dead), and I had a hell of a time trying to decide just where the hell all this was going.
I suspect Mr. Jefferson may have taken preparation, particularly his investigation of the psychedelic drug scene, a tad too far. In fact, the story line meanders so far off on bilious tangents throughout this that I suspect these side trips must have been fueled by THC or LSD.
So mix in Tele-evangelists, the John Birch Society, organic citrus-based cleaning emulsions, homosexuality, pedophilia, drive-in cathedrals, the Vietnam war and cameos by Dick Nixon and Chuck Manson! (just to name a few) and you will soon discover that California Girl is definitely a long strange trip indeed. He did forget a tribute to the Great White Shark, however.
I didn't care who dunnit, I simply wanted it to end!
I am stunned that it actually won an Edgar. Preposterous!!!
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- Alnita
- 05-02-16
Predictable
You'll probably guess the outcome fairly early on. If you do, you'll probably be right.
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