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Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II.
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Damned If You Do
- By Wag The Fox on 04-05-14
By: Clive Barker
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The Good Apprentice
- By: Iris Murdoch
- Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity, and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity, and his motives.
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A Squabble of Smartypants
- By Geoff Maddison on 09-10-12
By: Iris Murdoch
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The Stranger House
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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For years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to travellers. People like Sam, a brilliant young mathematician, who believes that anything that can't be explained by maths isn't worth explaining. And Miguel, a historian running from a priests' seminary, who sees ghosts. Sam is an experienced young woman, Miguel a 26-year-old virgin.
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an OK read
- By Jen Terry on 01-18-08
By: Reginald Hill
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Asylum
- By: Patrick McGrath
- Narrated by: Sir Ian McKellen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting - a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues -a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.
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So enjoyed this book!
- By Mebythesea on 10-07-08
By: Patrick McGrath
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth George
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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good debut novel
- By Stevon on 11-11-19
By: Elizabeth George
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Wildest Dreams
- By: Jennifer Blake
- Narrated by: Carrie Russo
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Joletta Caresse's beloved grandmother dies, taking with her the secret to the formula of a legendary perfume that is now the most sought-after perfume on the market. Joletta tries to track down the formula through journals written by her ancestress, Violet Fossier, who in 1854 made a grand tour of Europe. As Joletta follows Violet's itinerary across the continent, the story goes back in time, to 19th-century Europe and a scandalous love affair that is intimately bound up in the mystery of the perfume.
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Made me cry
- By Amazon Customer on 02-14-23
By: Jennifer Blake
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Great & Secret Show
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
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In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times best-seller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.
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Horrific Dark Fantasy
- By Michael on 09-05-16
By: Clive Barker
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Others
- By: James Herbert
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
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The ugly truth. Nicholas Dismas is a Private Investigator, but like no other that has gone before him. He carries a secret to which not even he has the answer. Dismas is hired to find a missing baby. One that was taken away at birth... Or was it? His investigation takes him to a mysteriously located place called Perfect Rest, a nursing home for the elderly. Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. And in an astonishing and spectacular finale he will resolve the enigma of his own existence.
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Good book
- By Joy on 06-26-18
By: James Herbert
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- Marie
- 02-19-16
For fans who want to read/hear the whole series
The House of Green Turf isn't my favorite of the Inspector Felse series. But it is still enjoyable, and if you like Ellis Peters and want the whole series (or at least as much as is available), go for it.
And Simon Prebble's narration is excellent as always. He's one of the best.
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- rmd
- 04-22-23
Good story FABULOUS narrator
This is not one of Ellis Peter’s best, a little drawn out as if it wanted to be a movie. But Simon Prebble’s narration can even make the phone book interesting to me.
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- John S.
- 06-26-10
An eye roller
I typically REALLY enjoy Ellis Peters stories. This one is definately a cut below the rest. Sickeningly melodramatic with an absurd amount of hyperbole.
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- ShySusan
- 12-03-11
WAY too melodramatic
I liked the previous entries in this series so much that I went ahead and downloaded every one that Audible offers. Now I'm wondering if I made a mistake. I suppose any author can write a bad book occasionally, and I'm hoping that the following books which I have already downloaded will prove that point. Anyway, here's my beef:
In one of the previous books, the action takes place at a weekend seminar for people interested in folk songs, and the plot roughly follows the outline of one particular folk song. It actually worked pretty well. I THINK that she was trying to do something similar in this book, but instead of folk singers, we have an opera singer. Was Peters so much more melodramatic in this book because the main character was an opera singer? I'm not sure. I also think that she was more or less trying to make the plot follow an opera like she did with the folk song in the previous book, but for me it just DID NOT WORK.
***SPOILER ALERT***
There was a lot of over emotional posturing about how the main character was haunted by the past, and then suddenly she isn't haunted by it anymore, and I really didn't understand how she supposedly got from point A to point B. And in the climactic scene, we have the heroine throwing herself in front of the hero, and then the hero throwing himself in front of the heroine, and the bad guy just kind of standing there with his gun and waiting for them to work it out. I had been getting more and more unhappy with the book, and at that point I wanted to shout at the bad guy, "What are you waiting for! Shoot them both and put me out of my misery."
And the supposed heroine is one of those wimpy heroines from days of yore whose role is to stand around and strike noble poses while doing nothing. I HATE this type of heroine. At the end, the "hero" has been shot and the heroine and he are in a locked room. She is holding a pressure point to keep him from bleeding out until help arrives. So far so good. But then the escaping bad guy is mortally wounded. Instead of just lying there and dying, he decides to go back and get his revenge upon the heroine before he dies. So he crawls 90 yards to reach her (and with a gun in his hand). Ninety yards is most of the length of a football field. Could you crawl that far (even without a bullet in your CHEST)? Not surprisingly, by the time he gets to the room where the heroine is and unlocks it, he is just about done for. At this point, the heroine could have done several things: She could have rushed over and held the door closed against him. He was nearly dead. It shouldn't have been hard. But then the author explains that she couldn't do that because she has to keep holding the pressure point so the hero doesn't bleed to death. Okay, so maybe she should quickly kick the bad guy in the head, take the gun away from him, get the key the bad guy just used to unlock the door, and unlock the other door that the good guys can't get through, thus permitting the doctors to get to the hero. But this doesn't occur to her. Instead she waits, holding the pressure point until the bad guy raises the gun. Then she stands up and faces him bravely. She makes no attempt to save herself or her boyfriend; she just stands there nobly waiting. Meanwhile, her boyfriend is now bleeding again and the other door is still locked. And by the way, even though the door was in an abandoned ruin and might therefore be expected to be very frail from rot and neglect, apparently not. The good guys on the other side have been throwing themselves against it, hacking at it with axes, and shooting at it without managing to get through.
I'm sorry. The book started out okay and then just got more and more ridiculous and implausible. (I could write a book explaining all the implausibilities of this book.)
My recommendation: Skip this one.
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