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Beauty and the Beast
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4 out of 5 stars
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 20
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5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 24
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3 out of 5 stars
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For
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5 out of 5 stars
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THIS is why I read SciFi! Scalzi gets into your head (be it on or off)
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,450
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,790
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,773
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4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but disappointing
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4 out of 5 stars 25
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4 out of 5 stars 144
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but might be better on paper.
- By Dave Staats on 08-13-13
Publisher's Summary
When a pale beauty accuses her hideous husband of battery, then turns up dead, the lawyer she’d hired before her death is coerced into defending the accused man. Case closed…only the beast may be innocent.
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- Wayne
- Matthews, NC
- 12-11-16
Legal thriller written 34 years ago
The man who wrote using the pen name Ed McBain and several other pseudonyms wrote many, many novels between 1952 and his death in 2005. Beginning several years ago Brilliance Audio, owned by Amazon, began publishing audio versions of the 87th Precinct series narrated by Dick Hill and the Matthew Hope series narrated by Luke Daniels. More than 50 of these audio books performed by top flight narrators are now available at Audible. These books are less expensive using Whispersync for Voice and very inexpensive with Kindle Unlimited. This is the first Ed McBain audio book I have listened to, but I have read many in the past.
Beauty and the Beast was first released in 1982. The racial language is a bit raw. It is set in southern Florida. The protagonist Matthew Hope is a civil/torts attorney who is persuaded to take on a murder case with racial overtones.
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