Tag Archives: Audiobook

Bitter Sun by Beth Lewis ~ Evocative & Dark 1970s #Fiction @bethklewis #FridayReads

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Author: Beth Lewis

Performed by Christopher Ragland

Released: June 2018 on Audible, Published by HarperCollins

Category: Crime, Murder, Mystery, Psychological, 1970s Fiction, Audiobook Review

It all started when we found the body.
Then nothing was ever the same.

The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. 

In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by a lake and set out to solve a murder. But they dig too deep and ask too many questions.

And John, Jenny, Gloria and Rudy are about to discover that sometimes secrets are best left uncovered…

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#ThrowbackThursday ~ Unlawful Greed by Pamela Samuels Young #Audiobook Short Murder/Mystery Story

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Renee at It’s Book Talk began this meme as a way to share old favourites, as well as books that have been waiting on the ‘to be read’ pile for however long, and are finally getting an airing.

This weeks’s choice is a short story which I listened to in audio, narrated by RC Bray and released in February 2015.

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#ThrowbackThursday ~ Huntress Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers #1) by @AlexSokoloff

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Renee at It’s Book Talk began this meme as a way to share old favourites, as well as books that have been waiting on the ‘to be read’ pile for however long, and are finally getting an airing.

This week I’m revisiting the first book that kicked off The Huntress/FBI series in audiobook format, released in 2014. RC Bray does a fabulous job with the characterisations.

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One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus ~ #YA Contemporary Fiction @writerkmc #AudiobookReview #FridayReads #Mystery

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Author: Karen McManus

Performed by MacLeod Andrews, Kim Mai Guest, Robbie Daymond, Shannon McManus

Released: June 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd

Category: Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Audiobook Review

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.

Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.

Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.

Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.

Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.

And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app

When five students, Simon, Addy, Cooper, Bronwyn and Nate find themselves in detention one Monday afternoon, they have no idea what is about to unfold.

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#ThrowbackThursday ~ The Martian by Andy Weir #Audiobook #SciFi @andyweirauthor

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Renee at It’s Book Talk began this meme as a way to share old favourites, as well as books that have been waiting on the ‘to be read’ pile for however long, and are finally getting an airing.

This week I’m going with The Martian in audiobook format. It was released on Audible in March 2014 and RC Bray delivered a fantastic performance. Well worth a listen. I watched the film as well, which stuck to the original story from what I can remember, but I still preferred the audiobook.

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#ThrowbackThursday ~ Before He Finds Her by Michael Kardos #Audiobook Psychological Thriller @michael_kardos

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Renee at It’s Book Talk began this meme as a way to share old favourites, as well as books that have been waiting on the ‘to be read’ pile for however long, and are finally getting an airing.

This week I’m revisiting Before He Finds Her. The audiobook was released in November 2015.

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Bum Deal (Jake Lassiter #13) by Paul Levine #Audiobook CourtroomDrama #TuesdayBookBlog @Jake_Lassiter

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Author: Paul Levine

Performed by Luke Daniels

Released: June 2018 by Brilliance Audio

Category: Courtroom Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Book Review

Second-string linebacker turned defense lawyer Jake Lassiter finally switches teams. Appointed special prosecutor in a high-profile murder case, he vows to take down a prominent surgeon accused of killing his wife. There’s just one problem…or maybe three: no evidence, no witness, and no body.

But Lassiter’s used to fighting impossible battles on the gridiron and in court. After all, he’s not totally burned-out—just a little scorched.

Normally in the defense half of the courtroom, Jake Lassiter is persuaded to change sides. State Attorney Raymond Pincher, an old sparring partner of Jake’s, asks him to be a specially appointed prosecutor in case against Dr Clark Calvert, an orthopaedic surgeon who is accused of murdering his wife.

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Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts ~ Powerful & Convincing #ContemporaryFiction #Romance #TuesdayBookBlog @NoraRobertsFans

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Author: Nora Roberts

Performed by January LaVoy

Released by Brilliance Audio in May 2018

Category: Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Romance, Book Review

It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tended to customers. Then the shooters arrived.

With a storyline that is unfortunately all too relevant, Shelter in Place opens with powerful, harrowing and convincingly described scenes of a mass shooting in a mall.

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Runaway by @authorpetermay ~ Dual TimeLine #HistoricalFiction #TuesdayBookBlog

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Author: Peter May

Performed by Peter Forbes

Released: December 2014 on Audible by Quercus

Category: Mystery, Murder, Crime, Historical, Audiobook, Book Review

In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before year’s end three returned, and returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three men, now in their sixties, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades. 

Beginning with a murder in 2015, both murderer and victim’s identities initially unknown, it forces three friends to face the events that determined the path their lives would take fifty years ago.

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Cherringham ~ Episodes 19-21 A Cosy Crimes Series by @neilmustard & @katonahprod #Audiobook #TuesdayBookBlog

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Authors: Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

Performed by Neil Dudgeon

Category: Cosy Mystery, Crime, Book Review

Released: May 2018 by Lübbe Audio

Jack Brennan, a retired New York homicide detective, decided to fulfil the dream life he and his wife were planning before her death…living on a boat in the English countryside. Sarah Edwards is a web designer who moved back to the village with her two children after she and her husband divorced. Neither of them could have guessed what life had in store. It certainly isn’t dull.

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