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- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,493
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,224
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,757
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,463
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On a frigid New Year’s Eve in Minneapolis, a young woman’s brutalized body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Questions as to whether she was alive or dead when she hit the icy pavement result in her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. Unidentified and unidentifiable, she is the ninth nameless female victim of the year, and homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are charged with the task of not only finding out who Zombie Doe is but who in her life hated her enough to destroy her. Was it personal? Or could it just have been a crime of opportunity?
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Bitter Season
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,686
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,509
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,508
As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses the rush of pulling an all-nighter, the sense of urgency of hunting a murderer on the loose. Most of all she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Sam is having an even harder time adjusting to Nikki's absence, saddled with a green new partner younger than pieces of Sam's wardrobe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another Tami Hoag Problem Novel
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The 1st Victim
- By: Tami Hoag
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 344
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Story4 out of 5 stars 306
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4 out of 5 stars
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Give me more...
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,907
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,709
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,297
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,146
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Deeper Than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed as idyllic as any . . . until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called profiling" to put an end to the trauma. Now Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this best-selling series.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,054
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When Marissa is found brutally murdered, with her young daughter, Haley, resting her head on her mother's bloody breast, she sends the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Already on edge with the upcoming trial of the See- No-Evil killer, residents are shocked by reports of the crime scene, which might not have been discovered for days had it not been for a chilling 911 call: a small child's voice saying, "My daddy hurt my mommy."
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as the first, 2 1/2 stars
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A cold-blooded kidnapper has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community stands accused of a startling act of evil. But when a second boy disappears, a frightened public demands to know: Have the police caught the wrong man? Is the nightmare continuing...or just beginning? Prosecutor Ellen North believes she’s building a case against a guilty man - and that he has an accomplice in the shadows. As she prepares for the trial of her career, Ellen suddenly finds herself swept into a cruel contest of twisted wits.
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Chapter 1 grabs you and sucks you in
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5 out of 5 stars
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A pleasant surprise
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The Alibi Man
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ruined by Narrator
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hold on to your Desert Eagle
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent suspense and plot twists
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1 out of 5 stars
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Respectfully disagree with the other reviewers
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At the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon has one last drop to make. But en route to delivering a package for one of L.A.'s sleaziest defense attorneys, he's nearly run down by a car, chased through back alleys, and shot at. Only the instincts acquired while growing up on the streets of L.A. allow him to escape with his life, and with the package someone wants badly enough to kill for.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An entertaining read
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- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 393
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 355
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Story4 out of 5 stars 359
In the rural parishes of Louisiana's French Triangle, young women are disappearing one by one, only to turn up on the banks of the bayou, strangled and cast aside where they are sure to be found. But there is one trophy the killer prizes above all others, one woman who must be silenced forever.... Attorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou Breaux to seek justice. That once-burning obsession had destroyed her credibility, her career, her marriage - and nearly her sanity. But when a ruthless predator strikes too close to home, she's lured into a perverse game from which there may be no escape.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too whiney.
- By Robert on 05-07-14
Publisher's Summary
Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn't far behind. Neither one wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes from custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straightforward case cartwheels out of control. The stakes go even higher when the judge is kidnapped, snatched out of her own bed even as the police sit outside, watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that includes the stepson of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed. With no time to spare, the detectives are pulled down a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who they seem and everyone is guilty of Prior Bad Acts.
Critic Reviews
"The breathtaking plot twists are perfectly paced in this compulsive page-turner." (Publishers Weekly)
"A first-rate thriller with an ending that will knock your socks off." (Booklist)
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- Lisa
- 01-08-17
Enjoyable read
Entertaing. I liked the narrator. It seemed a little "too coincidental" at times. But it also has quite a few funny and or touching moments.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Robin
- 05-26-06
Suspensful!!
An exciting and fast-paced story! You won't want to turn it off until the very end.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Julie
- 11-13-06
Avid Hoag Reader
Love Tammy Hoag as well. I just love to read, but her books always hold me to the end. Always great suspense.