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Arlen Wagner has seen it in men before: a trace of smoke in their eyes that promises imminent death. He is never wrong. When Arlen awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but soon are stranded at the Cypress House—an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady—directly in the path of an approaching hurricane.
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Great book read by a great narrator!
- By Michele on 01-28-11
By: Michael Koryta
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The Ridge
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In an isolated stretch of Eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. For years the lighthouse has been considered no more than an eccentric local landmark - until its builder is found dead at the top of the light, and his belongings reveal a troubling local history.
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For when you're itching for a spooky story...
- By Brandilyn on 06-21-12
By: Michael Koryta
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Janina Edwards, Fajer Al-Kaisi, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- By Jennifer Baratta She/Her on 05-16-21
By: Michael Koryta
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An Honest Man
- A Novel
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht–including two Senate rivals–Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious woman greets him with a hatchet and a promise: “Make a sound and I’ll kill you.”
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Electrifying and entertaining
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 07-26-23
By: Michael Koryta
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So Cold the River
- Booktrack Edition
- By: Michael Koryta
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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It started with a documentary. The beautiful Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to unearth the life story of her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose childhood is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job, even though the only clues to Bradford's past are his hometown and an antique water bottle he's kept his entire life. In Bradford's hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary past - a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents, athletes, and mobsters once intermingled.
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Totally Different Genre But A Good Listen
- By ftmgal on 12-10-17
By: Michael Koryta
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The Garden of Evening Mists
- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp.
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The best
- By Susan Gardner Bowers on 03-11-13
By: Tan Twan Eng
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The Chill
- A Novel
- By: Scott Carson
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Far upstate, in New York’s ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: Bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that’s what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America’s founding, were forced from their land, but they didn’t move far, and some didn’t move at all... Now, a century later, the repercussions of human arrogance are finally making themselves known.
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Like listening to paint dry
- By HLC on 03-05-20
By: Scott Carson
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The Gift of Rain
- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Luke Thompson
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits. In 1939, 16-year-old Philip Hutton - the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families - feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities.
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Emotive and complex.
- By Jeff Lacy on 11-21-18
By: Tan Twan Eng
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The Last Victim
- A Novel
- By: Karen Robards
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from life - no doubt because when she was 16, she herself survived a serial killer's bloodbath: A man butchered the family of Charlie's friend, then left the girl's body on a seaside boardwalk one week later. Because of the information Charlie gave police, the Boardwalk Killer went underground.
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Needs something, just not sure what
- By Michelle on 08-17-12
By: Karen Robards
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Death Benefits
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die. All signs point to a long successful career---until Max Stillman, a gruff security consultant, appears without warning at the office. It seems a colleague with whom Walker once had an affair has disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an impostor.
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Perry has me on a roll!
- By Chip Atkinson on 03-11-17
By: Thomas Perry
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The Guilty One
- By: Bill Schweigart
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Every town needs a hero, and Detective Cal Farrell fits the bill. He stopped an active shooter six months earlier, and now he’s become the darling of the Alexandria press. The problem is that Cal remembers nothing from that day. He’s working with a psychiatrist to recover his memories, but hasn’t had much luck. Then, on one of his morning runs, he is once again the first on scene for a grisly discovery—a body hanging impossibly high on a tree. Soon there’s another victim, killed by a blade and dumped in a ravine.
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Simply excellent!
- By Richard S. Swol on 06-16-23
By: Bill Schweigart
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- Mel
- 08-31-12
Penalty for Delay of Plot
Go ahead -- get this book, listen and love it, check the box below that says this review was not helpful; I am obviously suffering from a major disconnect, and am just a hater, a buzz-kill loner on the opposite side of better qualified reviewers, publishers, and award-winning authors cheering for this book: Kirkus, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, and Stephen King. But, before I stand and face head-on the torrent of rotten tomatoes and cabbages sure to be lobbed in my direction, I feel that just making it all the way to the goal posts on this one earned me the right to say my piece... One more confession -- I am not a fan of football and have never seen one episode of Friday Night Lights (no throwing before I finish), though I do like a yearly game of fall college football.
This book is largely about football with a murder mystery that darts in and out of a small community high school's football season -- gives the term *go long* whole new meaning. The coach is a gentle God-fearing man, his brother a hard nosed bail bondsman; both were football players, both are haunted by the loss of their sister who was kidnapped and murdered while they were in high school. The brothers' diferences are played out much like two opposing teams on a field, each with different approaches, strengths, and weaknesses. The play by play goes back and forth between the opposition of the brothers, tracking down a copycat murderer, and taking back the state title--rah rah. (You love it already-non?)
This was my 3rd Koryta novel. In the previous novels I also struggled to stay in the zone for 3 reasons: 1) Koryta likes to layer the plots with *pink herrings*-- they don't actually mislead the reader, but they are usually not more than extraneous filler (like the pages upon pages of fourth quarter play options, or the cousin-of-the-offender's-girlfriend's-neighbor) instead of clever enjoyable diversions. 2) His characters are often only lighlty sketched psych cases that don't quite hit the point of being unique or fascinating psychopaths, and dwell more in the hazy realm of criminal deviants, and often overly cliched (overly cliched) personalities. 3) He also is a fan of *false endings,* that keep going on to a nicely-wrapped predictable ending, instead of the *I didn't see that one coming!* ending I think he is aiming for. The Koryta formula, I've experienced in 3 reads, adds up to an OK book...3*. Why only 2*? Because I was b o r e d; didn't really care about the characters; ridiculously predictable--figured it all out, even who would win the big game; couldn't buy into the plot; and even if it was a 3* up to the ending--the ending had me swimming in fondue...cheesy. So there you have it. Boo, hiss, and chuck those tomatoes. I'll understand, because that's the exact feeling I had when I finished this one. *Seriously, I think 99% will like this one--I am the 1%.
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- John
- 06-13-15
Don't worry Mel - Everyone did click no
Here we are.. A good review!!!!! I may have stretched the 5 star rating out a bit - But it absolutely fluctuated between a 4 and a 5 throughout the book. If I compare it to the absolute crap I've come across lately - Then its a 5.
What to say - What to say... First - This book did have a lot of football talk > But not 90% as some (Mel) would lead you to believe. It was maybe 40% - 50% > but a lot of it was philosophical lessons and the characters in the story-line were part of the murder mystery, so there was a reason for it to be there. You don't have to be a football person to like or understand the small parts that were actually about football.
This was easily the best book I've listened to by Michael Koryta ... Better by a lot than "Those that wish me dead" and a billion times better than "The Ridge" > In my humble opinion. I'm tired of ridiculously unbelievable plot lines of mobs and ghosts.
This ending was great!!!!!!!!!! Not at all what I expected and I loved that.... I sit on the couch at night and guess the ending correctly 85% of the time in the who don-it shows. This book built up in speed as it went along, and ended with a powerful punch.
I found myself pushing the wrong button when it was done and started listening again.
The narrator was really good. He rocked this book... Better than that Brick guy...
For what its worth.................. J
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- Janice
- 08-21-12
The Reckoning
Koryta does not write easy books, especially his non-Lincoln Perry books. Characters are complex, flawed and often just wrong. But they are written just right. Adam and Kent Austin are brothers who have spent 22 years trying to cope with the tragic murder of their sister in their own ways - and have become estranged in the process. Then another similar murder occurs with the victim having the slenderest of connections to both brothers, and they are forced to confront each other and their past. They have to find out why the killer is using their past to manipulate the present.
Football plays a large role in this story - Kent is the high school coach, and there is a significant amount of time spent discussing games, strategy and players. If you have only a passing interest in football, or no interest, try to just get the gist of what is being said - the technicalities of the game are not critical to the narrative. But if you can see the game of football as an allegory for the lives of the two protagonists, you see how their approach to the game dictated their responses to the defining event in their lives, and how they will respond to the current crisis. As I write this I realize that football-as-life sounds like a cliche, but Koryta manages it with dexterity. The characters are not caricatures.
The mystery solving portion of the story is very real, each person behaving as they must, right or wrong. Mistakes are made that cannot be taken back, forcing new decisions on others. The suspense and foreboding mount, leading to the inevitable conclusion. Koryta has added yet another heroic antihero to his list. I swallowed this book almost whole - sacrificing sleep, unwilling to let it go.
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- Wayne
- 07-03-14
This may be my favorite Koryta book!
I completed The Ridge two days ago and was very disappointed (and wrote a negative review). As a big fan of Koryta's Lincoln Perry 4 book series, I did not wish to give up on this talented author. The Prophet did not disappoint! Character development was excellent. The story was superb. The Prophet is as good as the Lincoln Perry series, which is a high compliment.
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- AnonymousNC
- 08-29-12
Excellent Surprise
This author and narrator matchup is nearly as good as the Burke/Patton duo. I was pleasantly surprised at the clean writing, the genuine capturing of two brothers' relationship, and a real depiction of small town life. I sorta forgot about the crime because I wanted to read about the characters' lives. I really cared about them.
Baseball is my game, but the thrill of high school football is truly depicted here and reading about Adam's last drive had me cheering. Just great writing.
There have been a few books over the last month that I didn't finish because I just got tired of prolonged and gross violence, the degradation and destruction of a human being. I wonder about the people who think this stuff up.
Koryta, on the other hand, writes a compelling story without a madman eating a child's heart still beating or people's heads on spikes. I cut my teeth on McKinty's trilogy so I'm no faint of heart pantywaist, but enough is enough. The lack of gore in The Prophet was because the story and writing was so stellar, the story so real, it didn't need to shock us.
I just ordered another title by Koryta and look forward to reading the rest. It's just unfortunate Brick reads a lot of them.
Robert Petkoff is outstanding!!
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- Byron
- 10-15-13
More than just a mystery
THE PROFET is a mystery that seems to say that everyone could reach a point in their lives that could cause them to be the villain that they feel they normally would condemn. I've read glowing reviews, and reviews that trash this book as being too much about football and not enough about a mystery. I think perhaps those one star reviews are missing something that make this book so much more than just a mystery. Will not say lots more on that because I believe the real discerning readers will be able to see this for themselves, and realize that this is a great mystery, but it is also a story that is so much more that JUST a mystery.
The Austin brothers live in the same small town where they were born and raised, but they have had virtually no contact with each other for 22years. Their relationship stopped one year when their sister was murdered. Both boys were football heroes, and Adam was supposed to drive his sister home from school every day. One day in his exuberance, he let his sister walk the five blocks home alone. She never made it home. Adam has been living in the guilt of his actions all of these years. Now as a bail bondsman, he lives a completely different live than his brother, Kent, more commonly known as "Coach".
As "Coach" is driving his high school football team to a state championship title, another 17 year old girl is brutally murdered. How the brothers handle this tragedy, and seek to solve and resolve this tragedy themselves, is what makes this a brilliant story.
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- David L. Ferguson
- 10-01-12
halfway through, very impressed
Would you listen to The Prophet again? Why?
My wife and I started this in the car, listened for a few hours and when we got home, put in on in the house and continued to the halfway point - gripping!
Any additional comments?
The writer does a great job with each scene - you feel that you are there.
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- Dave
- 02-01-13
Short Of The First Down...
I'm afraid I have throw my lot in with Melinda and Brad here among reviewers. Bought because I'm a big Petkoff fan...didn't finish it, unfortunately.
Even speaking as a fan of football (tho' professional), there was indeed way too much of it and not enough to keep the thing moving for me.
I may dig in and force my way through the rest at some point, but my queue is too backed up to not move along to something more compelling.
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- Debra
- 07-08-18
Too much football... get on with it!
This started out promising but really just stalled and crashed around chapter twelve. Nothing much happening but description of high school football, football plays, comparison of football to life, lamenting how football relates to life and loss, and the inability of two brothers to get over a loss. Oh yes, and there is another loss. Did I mention they talk about high school football a lot? Oh by the way, the two brothers used to play high school football...
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- 6catz
- 07-04-14
A Good Read
If you’ve listened to books by Michael Koryta before, how does this one compare?
Not as good as his latest, "Those Who Wish Me Dead" which knocked me flat, but still a good read. Similar themes are evident: brotherly conflict and devotion; sacrifice; the trick of revealing character via a personal discipline. All are even better developed in the later work, but this is a heck of a good debut.
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I'm no football fan myself, but I wasn't at all put off by the game descriptions, which serve to deepen our understanding of the main characters. In his lastt book he turns a similar trick using forest survival training. In both cases the author has researched the heck out of his subject, which I really appreciate. Will definitely read more of his work.
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