Competition Can Be Murder
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Balloons Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery, Book 9
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Three days before the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilot Rachael Fairfield walks into the offices of RJP Investigations. She received a threatening note, which she believes came from her father, a convicted felon whom she sent to prison 15 years earlier.
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Buried Secrets Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker, Book 14
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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It's Christmas in Albuquerque; Charlie and family are ready for a quiet holiday at home. But right away, her hopes fade when Charlie's brother and PI business partner, Ron, brings in two new cases, one of which made national headlines. Five years earlier, with the tide of media attention and public sentiment against her, Tali Donovan was acquitted of killing her two children and went into hiding. Now, on the anniversary of the children's disappearance, their father wants answers.
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Weddings Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker Series, 16
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Charlie's brother, Ron, is ready for the happiest day of his life when he will marry longtime girlfriend Victoria Morgan. Charlie will be matron of honor, her husband Drake the best man. But when Charlie stops by the bride's house to pick her up for the ceremony, the place is in disarray, and Victoria is missing. And Ron has no proof of where he was the night before, after he and his fiancée had a terrible argument. Was the fight nothing more than pre-wedding jitters, as Ron claims? Or did the unthinkable happen?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didn't Finish
- By prinleg on 03-28-20
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Reunions Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery
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- Narrated by: Stephanie Brush
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Octogenarian Willie McBride has gone missing, and now his obnoxious daughter is pestering Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker to find him in time for the big family reunion. Apparently, the eccentric old man had one driving obsession: finding gold. So Charlie follows Willie's prospecting trail to the modern-day ghost town of White Oaks, site of an historic gold rush, a bitter scandal, some ugly business - and now a corpse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No suspense, minimal arc, annoying narrator
- By Katherine on 08-15-08
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Alibis Can Be Murder
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- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
The weather turns to spring, and Charlie faces a pair of puzzles. Against Charlie’s better judgment Ron, her PI partner, takes a cheating-spouse case that turns into a comedy of errors involving a star football player and his wife’s petty vengeance. Meanwhile, Charlie’s neighbor Elsa has a bad feeling about a family up the street. Is it a case of the neighborhood busybody having too much time on her hands, or is there truly something sinister happening with twin teen girls who’ve been left with too much money and not enough supervision?
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Obsessions Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker Series, Book 10
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Charlie is on vacation. A cozy cabin, a diner that serves delicious guilty-pleasures, and Drake - all Charlie needs to relax and enjoy herself. But the town of Watson's Lake has a little unsolved mystery. Four years ago, a showplace home - beautiful and serene and tucked away on the mountain - blew sky high, due to an apparent gas leak. A young woman died. The owner disappeared. His gold-digging wife wants the insurance money, and his daughter wants to know what happened to her father.
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Balloons Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery, Book 9
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Three days before the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilot Rachael Fairfield walks into the offices of RJP Investigations. She received a threatening note, which she believes came from her father, a convicted felon whom she sent to prison 15 years earlier.
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Buried Secrets Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker, Book 14
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
It's Christmas in Albuquerque; Charlie and family are ready for a quiet holiday at home. But right away, her hopes fade when Charlie's brother and PI business partner, Ron, brings in two new cases, one of which made national headlines. Five years earlier, with the tide of media attention and public sentiment against her, Tali Donovan was acquitted of killing her two children and went into hiding. Now, on the anniversary of the children's disappearance, their father wants answers.
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Weddings Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker Series, 16
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Charlie's brother, Ron, is ready for the happiest day of his life when he will marry longtime girlfriend Victoria Morgan. Charlie will be matron of honor, her husband Drake the best man. But when Charlie stops by the bride's house to pick her up for the ceremony, the place is in disarray, and Victoria is missing. And Ron has no proof of where he was the night before, after he and his fiancée had a terrible argument. Was the fight nothing more than pre-wedding jitters, as Ron claims? Or did the unthinkable happen?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didn't Finish
- By prinleg on 03-28-20
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Reunions Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Brush
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Octogenarian Willie McBride has gone missing, and now his obnoxious daughter is pestering Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker to find him in time for the big family reunion. Apparently, the eccentric old man had one driving obsession: finding gold. So Charlie follows Willie's prospecting trail to the modern-day ghost town of White Oaks, site of an historic gold rush, a bitter scandal, some ugly business - and now a corpse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No suspense, minimal arc, annoying narrator
- By Katherine on 08-15-08
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Alibis Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery Series, Book 17
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
The weather turns to spring, and Charlie faces a pair of puzzles. Against Charlie’s better judgment Ron, her PI partner, takes a cheating-spouse case that turns into a comedy of errors involving a star football player and his wife’s petty vengeance. Meanwhile, Charlie’s neighbor Elsa has a bad feeling about a family up the street. Is it a case of the neighborhood busybody having too much time on her hands, or is there truly something sinister happening with twin teen girls who’ve been left with too much money and not enough supervision?
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Stardom Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker Series, Book 12
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
It’s a terrible case of mistaken identity when a gang of bank robbers think that Charlie is a famous movie star. Disappointed with their take from the bank, they decide that a hefty ransom will be their ticket to riches. But what will happen when the real star steps forward? Charlie knows that only her wits will save her from this band of desperate men. Meanwhile, in a race against the clock, Charlie's husband Drake is working with the FBI and local authorities to get Charlie back before her captors realize their mistake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book loved it love the Connie Shelton great
- By Amazon Customer on 10-04-17
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Gossip Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery, Book 11
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Charlie is invited to a plush Santa Fe spa, a week-long spiritual/nutrition retreat with her friend Dr. Linda Casper. The massages and spa treatments sound great, until she realizes that there is something darker going on at the mountain resort. Meanwhile, Drake has his own set of concerns. He's been asked to testify as an expert witness in a helicopter crash case and it's causing him more anxiety than any feat of flying ever did. It seems that they are each on their own but their two cases overlap and dangers abound, from all sides.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting for Santa Fe, but must get names right
- By NYNM on 01-10-13
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Escapes Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery Series, Book 18
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Charlie and Drake are working a helicopter job in rural Maine when a man approaches and asks for their help. At first glance, it seems he's just an old man who needs to get to his son's remote cabin in the woods. But the cabin holds more secrets than Fergus McNab will admit, and it isn't until Charlie returns to Albuquerque that she discovers they may have just aided and abetted a criminal who has escaped the law back home. The secrets get twistier, the more she looks into the 10-year-old case where Rory McNab, facing a life in prison, seemed to vanish from the reach of the law.
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Coconut Layer Cake Murder
- By: Joanne Fluke
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 278
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Story4 out of 5 stars 246
When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los Angeles airport. Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnie's innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a recipe. Lonnie remembers only parts of the night he went out to a local bar and ended up driving a very impaired woman home.
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3 out of 5 stars
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oh, Hannah........ :( I try to stick with you.
- By pam lambert on 03-02-20
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Legends Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker Series, Book 15
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
Charlie Parker and her husband Drake Langston accept a job with Gold Trail Adventures in Skagway, Alaska, flying visitors by helicopter to remote cabin sites to experience the outdoor lifestyle and seek their fortunes. It isn't long before one of the guests finds a set of bones in an old mine, remains that date back decades.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Implausible and overdone stereotypes
- By Wild Horses Flying on 10-05-18
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Small Towns Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker Mystery, Book 4
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Lynda Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
Charlie Parker is asked to look into a controversial series of miscarriages in a small town in New Mexico that's heavily populated by Mexicans. The town has one medical clinic. Her first assumption is to look for some type of environmental problem such as pesticides but that draws a blank. Then she shifts her suspicions onto the medical industry and finds herself embroiled in politics regarding health care among minorities. It's when the dead bodies start to show up that she realizes she's onto something far bigger than she imagined and far deadlier....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Barbara on 01-16-12
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Sticky Sweet
- Samantha Sweet Mysteries, Book 12
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Andrea Bates
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
It's a freezing January day when Samantha Sweet finds herself facing the unpleasant task of going back to her old job of breaking into houses. Meanwhile, a customer who's just a little bit too nice seems to be worming her way into Jen's confidence. Sheriff Beau, on the other hand, is dealing with a car-crash-turned-murder, and somehow it all seems to tie together in a great big sticky situation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect, As Usual!
- By Lewisa on 10-29-19
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Memories Can Be Murder
- A Connie Shelton Mystery, Book 5
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Lynda Evans
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
Upon returning to her New Mexico home after visiting her fiance in Hawaii, private investigator Charlie Parker discovers that her mother and father, a scientist at Sandia Labs, were killed in a suspicious small plane crash.
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Phantoms Can Be Murder
- Charlie Parker Series, Book 13
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
Charlie receives an enigmatic letter from her namesake aunt, her father's estranged sister, whom she's never met. Soon she's off to England. In the charming medieval Suffolk town of Bury St. Edmunds it isn’t only slightly eccentric Aunt Louisa’s beliefs in the occult or her spooky "haunted sites" tours that pique Charlie’s interest. When a friend of Louisa's is plagued by a series of pranks, Charlie and Louisa offer to find out what's behind them. But Charlie soon discovers that something sinister is brewing and she finds herself drawn into an investigation of crimes that are far too real.
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A Field Guide to Homicide
- Cat Latimer Mystery Series, Book 6
- By: Lynn Cahoon
- Narrated by: C. S. E. Cooney
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Cat's sweetheart, Seth, is going all out on an outing into the local mountains - for the benefit of the writing group Cat's hosting at her Colorado B&B. But when they try to identify some plant and animal life, they find death instead. The body belongs to a man with a gold claim a few miles away. Instead of striking it rich, he's been struck down. To his surprise, Seth recognizes the victim from his military days - and up to now believed he'd already died during his last tour of duty. Now, Cat has to solve this mystery before the killer takes a hike....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story but...
- By booklover on 03-05-20
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Vacations Can Be Murder
- A Charlie Parker Mystery, Book 2
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Lynda Evans
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
Charlie's last case left her tired and emotionally drained, so her office staff convinces her to vacation in Kauai. Charlie is riding in a helicopter when she and the pilot spot a dead body lying on the rugged rocks of Kauai's NaPali coast. Mack Garvey, the owner of the helicopter tour company, is accused of the murder. Charlie wants to avoid the whole mess but is persuaded to help Garvey prove his innocence. As the tension builds, Charlie roots out the suspects one by one never dreaming that her own life is about to be snuffed out by sinister means.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as the first
- By Beatrice on 02-20-12
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Deadly Gamble
- Charlie Parker Mystery, Book 1
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Lynda Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4 out of 5 stars 118
This series looks sharply at those who perceive themselves as the rich - the elite, and revolves around expensive cars, clothes and posh country clubs. Fans of Sue Grafton, J.A. Jance, and Sara Peretsky will find Shelton's female sleuth captivating. Devout in her dedication for the underdog, Charlie Parker gets drawn into perilous predicaments while sticking her neck out for friends and clients in trouble. She proves a wily opponent for the evil she discovers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs work
- By beatrice on 07-23-12
Publisher's Summary
Brian Swinney needs someone to fly his aircrafts in Scotland on a lucrative contract shuttling men and equipment to the North Sea oil rigs. Helping out their friend, Charlie Parker and Drake Langston agree to the job, ignorant of the escalating battle between the outfitters that service the rigs. Taking up residence at historic Dunworthy Castle, they become acquainted with owners Robert and Sarah Dunbar. They seem to be down-to-earth ranching folk but their daughter, son-in-law, and teenage son Richie are another story. Discovering that Charlie is an investigator, Robert begs her to look for two missing lambs. But when Richie also turns up missing and the ransom demands begin, Charlie wants out. Coupled with the kidnapping, threats from the oil rigs heat up.
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- Hilary T.
- 10-16-16
Disappointing due to dire Scots accent
What did you like best about Competition Can Be Murder? What did you like least?
The story ( I have also read the book) was original and good and was well read until it came to the Scots accent. That was so bad and grating that I had to stop listening. An otherwise good story was ruined, I am afraid.