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Roseanna
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- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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When the call came it seemed like the answer to my prayers. My career as a voice actor had been over for months and me and my little girl Scarlet were living back at my mum’s place. I felt like a failure professionally—and with Scarlet having problems at school, as a parent as well. So, when I was asked to narrate a new book by disappeared novelist Philippa Roberts I jumped at the chance, even if it meant leaving Scarlet with my ex, Hugo, for a few weeks. Hugo, with his perfect new home and his perfect new girlfriend Saskia. But this isn’t a dream come true. It’s a nightmare.
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When high school English teacher Alice Thornton helps her dying Russian neighbor write a spy thriller, she thinks she’s just doing a good deed. But when a sexy mystery man shows up in her classroom, claiming to be the novel’s dashing antihero, Alice is swept into a lethal conspiracy. Enigmatic former CIA operative Carter Beck warns her that the sensational murder plot wasn’t fiction. And because she knows too much, the killer wants her silenced—making Carter her only hope of survival.
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Opulence. Sex. Betrayal…sometimes friendship can be deadly. Meet the women of Buckhead—a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Who amongst these women will be clever enough to survive Buckhead—and who will wind up dead? They say that friendships can be complex, but no one said it could ever be this deadly.
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Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed crime writer Candice Fox’s gripping audio thriller, Hunting Game. Featuring an all-star cast including Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, and Tony Goldwyn, you’re about to enter a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. NYPD Detective Esme 'Es' Compran (Krysten Ritter) finds herself torn between her duty and her own desperate circumstances when a child is kidnapped. The victim's father, Jack Dengate (Tony Goldwyn), is a controversial big pharma CEO whose company's price hikes on life-saving drugs have dire consequences for Es' ailing daughter.
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- Brad Simkulet
- 09-10-16
5 Times Now
I can't even remember how I found Roseanna now, but I vaguely remember it having something to do with Henning Mankell's Wallander books, something about Mankell's influences, which is particularly fitting considering the fact that Mankell provided the foreword for this first volume of the Martin Beck series.
Regardless how I got to Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Decalogue, the Martin Beck Series (which has become the conventional way to refer to their ten books despite the fact that it is a flimsy description of a series wherein each member of the National Murder Squad gets a turn at centre stage and it already has a collective, albeit little used name: The Story of a Crime) is one of the finest pieces of fiction I have ever read, and this first book, Roseanna, is compelling.
This was my fifth time listening to Roseanna (and Tom Weiner's vocal performance remains one of my favourite audiobook performances ever given), but it was my seventh time with the story altogether, and it is as good the seventh time as it was the first. Sure the mystery is no longer a mystery, but the procedure of the police, the way they slowly work their way to discovering Roseanna's murderer, and the way in which they catch their suspect is completely satisfying.
If you like Scandinavian lit at all, you should give Roseanna a listen; if you love Scandinavian lit and haven't read/listened to Rosenanna already, what have you been doing with yourself? And if you've listened to it before, listen to it again. You will be glad you did.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-29-10
Excellent
Even though this novel was written more than 40 years ago, it's lost little of its freshness or relevance. It has pay phones instead of cell phones, and none of the modern forensics we're used to reading about, but the story is very well written. Characters are not the best looking, most brilliant, most clever, etc. that are standard fare for this genre; they're human beings with strengths and flaws, just like the real thing, and that's what makes it so readable and so enjoyable. If you're weary of formulaic, predictable detective novels, you'll enjoy this one. I hope the rest in the series are this good.
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- chris
- 02-16-12
Surprisingly Good
[This review contains no spoilers about the plot or details of the mystery]
I say "Surprisingly Good" because I should not have liked this as much as I did.
I should not have liked it because I think Tom Weiner's narration is too fast and clipped. Sometimes, his voices are grating. At first I did not think I could get over it, but I did and kept on listening. I'm glad I did.
I should not have liked it because the detective is a pig to his wife. I don't need my detectives to be nice people, but his childishness was annoying and painful to hear about. In this troubled marriage, I felt sorry for his wife and had little compassion for him. But still I stuck it out.
Ultimately, what made this novel surprisingly good was a surprisingly good mystery. One of the key clues was clearly the inspiration for one of the key clues in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I guess Larrson read this book and one part of it stayed in his brain.
The novel is a police procedural set in the 1960's (the book was written in the 1960's). It is clever and well plotted. At the end it is really exciting and fun.
There is one stretch that was tough to get through: a series of interview transcripts with Q and A. The performance of that made me want to scream. Thankfully it was not more than 30 minutes.
This and other books in the series are priced very reasonably. For fans of Scandinavian murder mysteries (Hakan Nesser, Henning Mankell, and others), this series is an important inspiration. If you're hardcore about mysteries set in this part of the world, you have to read this series which is pretty much the beginning of the tradition.
The novel begins with a prologue by Henning Mankell, which explains why the series was so groundbreaking and important and well done. I left it for last. The cover image used for this book was annoying and sloppy. Every time I turned on the audiobook I had to look at a fat bare foot in the grass? Give me a break. A minor detail, but a grating one.
I was genuinely surprised at how much I liked this novel because I was not crazy about the narration. It felt too fast. I will continue with this series however because it was sharp and clever and I think I could get used to these characters.
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- Patty B
- 12-30-09
Skip the audiobook and read the book...
Tom Weiner's narration and voice characterizations were distracting and irritating. The original ten Martin Beck books were well-written, and the plots and character developments were exceptional. I can recommend the books, but not this audiobook. The narrator's performance ruined the experience for me. I still plan to buy the other audiobooks in the series, but I wish someone else had been chosen to narrate the stories because Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall wrote a great series of novels when they penned the Martin Beck mysteries. "Roseanne," along with the other books in the series, deserves 5 Stars, but Tom Weiner's narration only rates 1 Star. My overall rating for this audiobook is 3 Stars, and that's only out of respect for Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall.
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- 07-29-09
Long Awaited
I found this book chilling when I first read it in the early 70's and having it read was wonderful - still creepy. I hope the other titles by Sjowall and Wahloo are brought along as well. The forward by Henning Mankell was frosting on the cake.
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- Barbara
- 08-05-16
Deadpan Swedish police procedural from the 60s
This low-key, deadpan police procedural, written by a husband and wife team, exactly captures the pace and frustration endemic to actual police work. A country police station (aided by a Stockholm detective) has to investigate the murder of an unidentified woman on a cruise ship. It takes imagination as well as months of painstaking sifting for clues, first as to the identity and nature of the victim, and then to identify the killer. The writing is taut and workmanlike, and the somewhat dark narration fits the story well. Great read for fans of Nordic crime fiction.
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- Fiberkat
- 04-15-12
Great story, bad narrator
If you could sum up Roseanna in three words, what would they be?
Hard to do. I really like this series, I've read it several times over the years.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Martin Beck-but I know the story arc since I've read the whole series. He doesn't seem all that interesting in this book.
Would you be willing to try another one of Tom Weiner’s performances?
Not really. Not only is his voice somewhat grating, but he mispronounces many of the character names. I lived in Denmark as a child and speak some Danish, Swedish is very similar and this has me constantly correcting his pronunciation in my head as I listen.
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- CogMom
- 02-06-12
Taught police procedural stands the test of time
Although this was written in the 1960s, the crime itself is timeless and the sparse writing and realistic details of detective work are still engaging. I enjoyed the reminder of the challenges of gathering information in the pre-internet/fax/mobile phone era. The narrator is good and reads at a quick enough pace to not drag even in the interludes during which the detectives are stumped or just tailing someone.
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- FRITZ STOOP
- 06-07-13
Lost in Translation
Much of the flow and continuity of this story was lost in the translation from Swedish to English. Perhaps the translator was unaware of the proper English idioms or phrasing that kept the context of the dialogue moving smoothly. It came out as jerky and awkward at times and this became a serious distraction as I listened.
I found myself fairly consistently making adjustments, excuses really, that amplified or filled in the empty moments created in this novels momentum by clumsy word usage. I do not speak Swedish, but cannot imagine it being such a stultified and unexpressive language. Much of the quality of prose is in the artistry of the flow of ideas and descriptives. This book, at times, came across as an outline or rough draft.
The fact that it was written 50 years ago is no excuse for its poor communicative style.
The story was interesting but lost in the translation.
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- Steven
- 05-28-12
Best classic Swedish crime fiction
Where does Roseanna rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
top 5
What did you like best about this story?
character development & plot
What about Tom Weiner’s performance did you like?
He can do all the voices without pause--male-female-old man young man, etc. Very believable.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Unraveling the whodunit of the plot.
Any additional comments?
I highly recommend this series!
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