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Fun Thriller but not to deep
This was a fun thriller but it wasn't as satisfying as I would have liked. I would have given it three and a half stars but I don't have that choice so I rounded up. I believe this is the author's debut which is a fine first however I didn't really get into the characters much except for one that got killed off. I would also recommend he find a new lead character if he plans to make this a series because while he is supposed to be "the best" he seems pretty dumb (and not in a good way). Also he is not a protagonist that I care much about. The author also likes to use the F word a lot so if you are offended by this avoid this novel. I personally don't mind the cussing yet I think he could have been more creative then just using the F word 90% of the time for all characters. The Hollywood characters were also all cut out of the same mold which showed a bit less imagination than he could have.
Having got all my negatives out of the way the book is still fun and a nice escape. The reader is also good so this is not a bad choice.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 503
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't refuse. Once on board, Jesse doesn't have to look for trouble in Paradise: It comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, bad narration
- By Phred on 07-09-12
By: Robert B. Parker
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The Kings of Cool
- A Prequel to 'Savages'
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 763
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 682
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 686
In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Now, in his high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, it is a tale of family in all its forms. As the younger generation does battle with drug dealers and crooked cops, they learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents' history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The truth always come home...
- By Darwin8u on 09-28-17
By: Don Winslow
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Crashed
- A Junior Bender Mystery, Book 1
- By: Timothy Hallinan
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 653
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 591
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 589
Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses at age fourteen, he's never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years building an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into acting as a private investigator on the set of Trey's porn venture, which someone keeps sabotaging.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sympathetic thief. Fun read. Exemplary narration.
- By MidwestGeek on 02-18-13
By: Timothy Hallinan
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Dove Season
- Jimmy Veeder Fiasco, Book 1
- By: Johnny Shaw
- Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 83
Jack Veeder is dying. Soon. And that impending event brings his son Jimmy back to the Imperial Valley of southern California just north of the Calexico/Mexicali border. Jimmy hopes he can spend what time his father has left laughing and reminiscing. But Jack’s got one dying request. He needs Jimmy to find a Mexican prostitute named Yolanda. Enlisting the help of his boyhood friend Bobby Maves, the pair stumbles through the violent, the exploited, and the corrupted of Mexicali.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really weird, but endearing, suspense thriller
- By Wayne on 07-01-16
By: Johnny Shaw
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Skin Deep
- The Simeon Grist Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Timothy Hallinan
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
For a fee so big he can't turn it down, Simeon Grist is hired to watchdog the kind of guy he'd usually prefer to throw through the nearest window. Toby Vane is the golden boy of prime-time television, whose gee-whiz smile and chiseled features mask a dark secret that would take the shine off for his millions of adoring female fans: every now and then he beats up a woman, and almost any woman will do.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good performance of a slightly above average book
- By Richard W. on 06-27-15
By: Timothy Hallinan
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A Tap on the Window
- By: Linwood Barclay
- Narrated by: Mark Zeisler
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 743
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 671
International best-selling author Linwood Barclay delivers pulse-pounding suspense that puts him among the masters of the genre. A Tap on the Window finds private investigator Cal Weaver making an ill-advised decision to pick up a young female hitchhiker who reminds him of his dead son. But something is off about the girl, and Cal is soon drawn into a host of nightmarish secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 Stars for Tap on the Window
- By shelley on 04-16-14
By: Linwood Barclay
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You
- By: Caroline Kepnes
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,517
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,822
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18,784
Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: she's gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and sexy beyond his wildest dreams. Joe needs to have her, and he'll stop at nothing to do so. As he begins to insinuate himself into her life - her friendships, her email, her phone - she can’t resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom-made for her. So when her boyfriend, Benji, mysteriously disappears, Beck and Joe fall into a tumultuous affair. But there's more to Beck than her oh-so-perfect façade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. This. Book.
- By Em on 07-17-15
By: Caroline Kepnes
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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 1,139
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 925
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 923
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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Too Close to Home
- By: Linwood Barclay
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 371
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in the house next door, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. You can't help thinking, "That could have been us". And you start to wonder, "What if we're next?" That's the question Jim and Ellen Cutter are asking, and the answers aren't reassuring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Plots and subplots galore
- By shelley on 04-10-14
By: Linwood Barclay
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Where It Hurts
- The Gus Murphy Series, Book 1
- By: Reed Farrel Coleman
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,834
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,693
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,684
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, he had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart, and Gus is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A depressing, slow-moving story.
- By MidwestGeek on 04-06-16
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An American Demon
- A Memoir
- By: Jack Grisham
- Narrated by: Jack Grisham
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Depravity, redemption, terror, and spiritual deliverance abound in this physically and psychologically complex memoir from the front man of the pioneer punk band True Sounds of Liberty (TSOL). Spanning the extremes between hard-core punk memoir and handbook for recovery and survival, this narrative documents a youth rebellion that changed the world and offered life lessons rooted in 1980s punk culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relatable if you had religion force fed to you.
- By Justin on 08-26-15
By: Jack Grisham
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Stick
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 493
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 431
After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it's tough staying straight in a crooked town - and Miami is a pirate's paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man's sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't beat this with a stick (sorry).
- By Richard Delman on 05-14-12
By: Elmore Leonard
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Gutshot Straight
- By: Lou Berney
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 610
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Story4 out of 5 stars 519
When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he's got only two problems: he's too nice a guy for the life he's led and not nice enough for any other. So he says yes when he's asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable pakhan of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A whole lotta fun.
- By Richard Delman on 04-12-12
By: Lou Berney
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Cold Kill
- The True Story of a Murderous Love
- By: Jack Olsen
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,004
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,003
David loved Cindy and was loved in return. Or so he thought. The troubled young man clung to his new love and dreamed of their future together. So begins the chain of events that was to evolve into a horror of terrifying proportions. Jack Olsen, best-selling author of Son, now reveals the details of a true-life romance gone hideously awry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Cindy Calls - DON'T Answer!
- By POLLY POIZENDEM on 02-12-17
By: Jack Olsen
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Shaker
- A Novel
- By: Scott Frank
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4 out of 5 stars 131
Meet Roy Cooper, stoic, unassuming "errand runner" for various New York criminals. Roy arrives in Los Angeles to shoot a man named Martin Shine a week after a powerful earthquake has knocked out cell service, buckled the freeways, and thrown LA into chaos. Roy doesn't know who Shine is or why he has to die, but he does his job and does it well. Except for one thing: After the hit, Roy can't find where he parked his car.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Dark Thriller
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-09-19
By: Scott Frank
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"A" is for Actress (Malibu Mystery Book 1)
- By: Sean Black, Rebecca Cantrell
- Narrated by: Madeline Mrozek
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 507
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Story4 out of 5 stars 452
After a decade spent in the glare of the Hollywood spotlight as the star of kids' TV show Half Pint Detective, Sofia Salgado has had enough. Desperate to build a life outside showbiz, she quits acting to do something that everyone around her - including her family - thinks is plain nuts. Get a real job.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A hilarious Cozy mystery that will keep you hooked
- By Christina on 02-03-16
By: Sean Black, and others