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- By shelley on 11-10-16
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At All Costs
- By: John Gilstrap
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
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Jake and Carolyn have lived a lie for 14 years to protect themselves. But now they have to protect their 13-year-old son, Travis. Their only chance is to return to the hellish scene of an unprecedented crime, and collect the evidence that may finally set them free - if they can elude a massive manhunt long enough to get there.
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- By cristina on 04-05-16
By: John Gilstrap
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The Plantation
- Payne & Jones, Book 1
- By: Chris Kuzneski
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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The first to disappear is a ski instructor in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Hours later, a pregnant woman is abducted from a crowded hospital. Two places, two incidents, a single motive. And so it begins....
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Incredible Story
- By Char on 07-11-09
By: Chris Kuzneski
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Storm Cycle
- By: Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Rachel is a computer genius whose personal life is hell. While she continues to climb the corporate ranks, her beloved twin sister is plagued by a chronic illness that will eventually kill her, leaving Rachel all alone.Serendipity in the form of a mysterious email lands in Rachel's lap one day, but not without a price. Thousands of miles away, archeologist John Tanek sits trapped inside a collapsed tomb with a laptop. He knows that Rachel is the only person who can help him, but time is quickly running out.
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Terrible, terrible narration
- By Fernando Ortega on 09-30-09
By: Iris Johansen, and others
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Cold City
- Repairman Jack: Early Years Trilogy, Book 1
- By: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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- By Andrew Pollack on 01-17-14
By: F. Paul Wilson
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Open Season
- The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Archer Mayor
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police force has a serious problem: in a community where a decade could pass without a single murder, the body count is suddenly mounting. Innocent citizens are being killed - and others set up - seemingly orchestrated by a mysterious ski-masked man. Signs suggest that a three-year-old murder trial might lie at the heart of things, but it's a case that many in the department would prefer remained closed. A man of quiet integrity, Lt. Gunther knows that he must pursue the case to its conclusion, wherever it leads.
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don't be offended by the characters language
- By Tony B on 12-23-20
By: Archer Mayor
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Stealing Shadows
- By: Kay Hooper
- Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
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From best-selling author Kay Hooper comes a thrilling tale with a paranormal bent and a touch of romance. Cassie Neill has a powerful but troubling gift. She can see inside the minds of serial killers as they are planning their crimes. Tormented by her ability, she takes refuge in a secluded North Carolina town. But there’s no escaping her visions, and when a body surfaces just where she predicted, Cassie is suddenly a suspect.
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Good story, bad narration
- By MEOWx4 on 08-14-12
By: Kay Hooper
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Immortal
- The Immortal Series, Book 1
- By: Gene Doucette
- Narrated by: Steve Carlson
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Surviving 60,000 years takes cunning and more than a little luck. But in the 21st century, Adam confronts new dangers - someone has found out what he is, a demon is after him, and he has run out of places to hide. Worst of all, he has had entirely too much to drink.
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Great story that will make you think about life!
- By MJP on 12-22-16
By: Gene Doucette
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Dying Bites
- Bloodhound Files, Book 1
- By: D. D. Barant
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Her job description is the "tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers". What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek's brave new world - one in which only one percent of the population is human - is that a woman's work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day. Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA. He knows that she's the best there is in the business, and David needs her help in solving a series of gruesome murders of vampires and werewolves.
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Not a yawner!
- By K on 09-17-12
By: D. D. Barant
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Unwind
- Unwind Dystology, Book 1
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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After America’s Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement. According to their Bill of Life, human life may not be terminated from the moment of conception until the age of 13. But between the ages of 13 and 18, the child may be gotten rid of by their parent through a process called “unwinding”.
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Chilling, Scary, Difficult to Read
- By Joe on 11-11-20
By: Neal Shusterman
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Exit Strategy
- Nadia Stafford, Book 1
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda, Richard Ferrone
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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Regulars at Nadia’s nature lodge don’t ask what she does in the off-season. And that’s a good thing. If she told them, she’d have to kill them. She’s a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn’t owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn’t mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur - and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort.
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some strong elements, but....
- By Lifeisshort on 10-17-13
By: Kelley Armstrong
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Dark Run
- Keiko, Book 1
- By: Mike Brooks
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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The Keiko is a ship of smugglers, soldiers of fortune and adventurers, travelling Earth's colony planets, searching for the next job. And nobody talks about their past. But when a face from Captain Ichabod Drift's former life sends them on a run to Old Earth, all the rules change. Trust will be broken, and blood will be spilled.
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Fun sf in a familiar setting *cough Firefly cough*
- By John on 06-12-16
By: Mike Brooks
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Mind Dimensions, Books 0, 1, & 2
- By: Dima Zales
- Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato, Laura Jennings
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
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The first three books in the Mind Dimensions series from a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author.... Darren's had it easy his whole life. Finishing Harvard at 18 and landing a lucrative job on Wall Street at 21 - all things are possible when you can cheat by stepping outside of time. Thanks to his ability, he's a know-it-all, but what he doesn't know is how he's able to do what he does. That's until he meets Mira and discovers her dangerous, hidden world.
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You will believe the unbelievable with this amaxibg sci fi story
- By Lokisgirl80 on 08-14-16
By: Dima Zales
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- Tim
- 07-13-16
The Big Sheep unravels into an incredible mystery
Robert Kroese is a shocking talent. His last book, Starship Grifters was a hilarious story that surprised me with its complexity in the end. While that was labeled as a space opera satire, it really had a strong mystery element. That had me very excited for this future noir mystery in The Big Sheep, and I was more than impressed with how he delivered.
The story is a sheep kidnapping turned into a sneak peak in how cloning and a civil collapse within America might change the face of the entertainment industry, not to mention the power structure of authority. Within this very unique plot Kroese delivers witty and lighthearted humor, but the main strength is that we hit a plot climax halfway through that would have been good enough for some people to end on. Kroese instead builds level by level of unraveling mystery into the people we've met and the darkness of their plans and past, while also showing issues of the heart that really drive home our empathy and desire for them to either survive or be thrown off a cliff. I kept wondering if I was going to figure out a clue ahead of time, but Kroese stayed one step ahead all the way to the end. Even now I'm shocked at what just happened.
The narrator, Fred Berman, was equally as superb. Every voice and the tension and humor delivered in every scene made him the perfect compliment to Kroese's authorial voice.
I hate to say it, since Starship Grifters was so hysterical, but this is my favorite Kroese book to date.
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- DGE 2020
- 08-01-16
Clever, Engaging, What Sci-Fi Should Be
Science Fiction is at its best when it is a metaphor for something we face today. It just so happens when you make it funny and quirky and fill it with a bunch of plot twists, you get smart entertainment.
Robert Kroese, author of the very complex and witty and yet slapstick Starship Grifters, delivers a grand slam with Big Sheep. I really do not want to spoil the plot, so I won't. But let's just say that while you read this book, you might read (listen to) chapter one and think "ok, what's the big deal?". My dear reader, you don't know what you are in for. PAY ATTENTION. Like all great books, this one lays everything in plain sight, but you just can't see it. Let the book unfold and you will see all kinds of very interesting ethical dilemmas play out that leave you thinking, guessing and wondering what will happen next.
At no point after chapter 3 does the book ever drag. The stage is set quickly and the action begins. But instead of just being mindless action, the book engages you into a mystery that gradually gets bigger and bigger and bigger. By the end, the entire fate of Los Angeles in a post apocalyptic world is at stake and yet you will still be focused on THE BIG SHEEP.
Fred Bermans does a superb job reading the book. He uses a very quick voice for the protagonist that sounds a lot like Joe Pesci that makes you think you're in a futuristic My Cousin Vinny. He has a wide range of voice for the other characters and he reads with great expression and emotion. I thought his female voices were even well ranged. When he expresses the outrage of a body guard in chapter 31 (Something to the effect of 'I just want to love the damsel in distress, but you @hole detective keep bringing up this f'ing sheep!') you feel the rage and the hilarity at the same time. I laughed out loud.
Seriously, I've been wanted to find a great book for the summer and had not found one until I stumbled upon Big Sheep. Highly endorse. Hope you love it.
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- Kevin Veldman
- 07-03-16
Fun, inventive, hilarious
I loved some of the author's other books (Starship Grifters, Mercury Trilogy) so I thought I'd give this one a shot. I was blown away. Excellent from start to finish.
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- Dubi
- 01-18-18
Do Cloned Sheep Dream of Electric People?
There is no mistaking what Robert Kroese set out to do here. Raymond Chandler's famous pulp detective novel The Big Sleep meets Phillip K. Dick's renowned science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Sleep became a Bogie-Bacall film noir classic, Sheep became Blade Runner, a retro-noir near-future techno-dystopian sci-fi classic.
So Kroese gives us Chandler's wise-cracking detective and his hard-boiled sidekick in near-future post-collapse L.A. trying to track down a genetically modified sheep and a paranoid superstar actress on behalf of a trio of nefarious criminal and corporate entities. The reveals are borderline preposterous and they unfortunately unfold (and unfold and unfold) during a two-hour climactic gab-fest.
But it's all meant to be in good fun, with a good sense of humor (chuckle-worthy rather than laugh out loud funny like Kroese's Starship Grifters, but that's OK), satisfying nods to Dick and Chandler (and John Scalzi, whose Android's Dream is likewise a nod to Dick's classic), and excellent narration by Fred Berman (voicing the sage Erasmus Keane as the less than sage Joe Pesci).
Definitely worth a listen for fans of comic sci-fi, even if one must deduct a star from Story for the overly talky ending.
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- The Bookwyrm Speaks
- 07-12-16
I could not stop laughing, it was so good.
In the LA of 2039, 11 years after the crash of the economy, LA is split into 2 parts, the LA for everyone who wasnt broke enough to be stuck in what is now the Disincorporated Zone, or DZ (Basically, Compton and the rest of South Central LA), and the people stuck in the DZ. Erasmus Keane, and his partner Blake Fowler are paid investigators who handle a variety of cases. In the case at the start of the book, Esper Corp has hired them to find a stolen genetically altered sheep. This sheep leads to a series of improbable adventures, tying into another case with a world famous actress, and leads to shocking discoveries about Keane, the sheep, the actress, and the wold as they know it!
I have seen this book called a combo of Blade Runner and Dirk Gentley's Hollistic Detective Agency. I can see that, but I would further characterize Erasmus Keane's Character as a combo between the TV characters Monk and House, MD. If you can wrap your heads around that one, you should really enjoy the flowing dialogue and fast paced plot of this book. Lots of laughs too, with a characters that seem all too real.
Fred Berman is a revelation as a narrator. I had never heard him before, but wow, is he good. He really brings an already good story to life, giving each character a humanity that makes it seem like its happening right next to you, not just descriptions from a page.
If you are a fan of Rob's other work, such as his Mercury or Rex Nihilio books, then this is a must have for you.
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- Ijw
- 11-06-16
not my favorite
if you like crime mysteries with lots of twists and turns and thrills and chills with gun play and showdowns up to the very end you might enjoy this.
lots of misdirection at the same time lots of things that you can predict in this rather traditional crime drama with science fiction subplots.
personally the body count was too high and grotesque for me. too much talking exposition.
enjoyed star grifters much more.
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- JKO
- 10-07-16
Fun read
What did you like best about The Big Sheep? What did you like least?
I have read a lot of PI books set in southern CA and this is futuristic spin on that kind of book. At first I thought it would be silly - and it is a bit silly - but the characters were well developed and the story kept on moving.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Blake Fowler. You had to feel for him as he kept the various factions at bay and sorted out a wacky scenario.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Fred Berman?
Yes. His voice was a little scratchy sounding at first but he did a good job of reading with inflection and making the various characters sound different. He was a good choice for a PI story set in La.
Do you think The Big Sheep needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
It doesn't need a follow-up but I could see them solving other cases. I would read more books with these characters.
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- Greg Hill
- 07-15-16
All of the Author X plus Author Y comparisons suck
I was seriously afraid of getting this book due to it's constant association with Raymond Chandler style detective stories. I hate hard boiled detective stories. I'd rather be beaten with a half brick in a sock than read a story with Harry Dresden or Mike Hammer in it. Just the presence of a private investigator is usually enough to make me skip a book.
But, I really like Rob Kroese. So, I went in really wanting to like this novel and sure I would hate it. Now, I'm struggling to write a positive review on Audible because I was wrong for doubting him. This is a great book, only I'm struggling to think of ways to express it because I really, really want to gripe more about bloody hard boiled detective nonsense.
The book is great. Since the two author comparison are so popular, imagine taking Scalzi's "Android's Dream" and duct taping it together with a random Dresden Files novel, and then hitting Jim Butcher with it until he knew better. That really doesn't have much to do with The Big Sheep, but the image of Jim Butcher being bludgeoned always makes me smile.
Ok, ok, back on topic. Fred Berman's narration was okay. I'm giving it full marks because I'm not sure if anyone else will be quite as bothered about the voice used for Roy as I am. I will definitely not be seeking out anything else done by Fred Berman. If there's a follow-up Erasmus Keane novel, I hope it has a different narrator.
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- wisconsinclark
- 01-08-18
Ewe might like it
I purchased this book on the two for one sale. I can not fault the writing, this is clearly a book for a certain audience, but the hints of be beastiality being ok really turned me off. I don't care to give this author another try. Other than that, I recognize the authors talent and respect his creativity.
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- Tom H.
- 07-22-16
Detective Noir meets Dystopian Future
I loved this book. It has compelling characters with their own quirks and idiosyncrasies. The plot is tight. No threads are left hanging, and they all tie together nicely. There are a few well-placed twists and turns that will surprise even the most experienced reader.
The world is well thought out and captivating. The suspension of disbelief is not really required.
Rob Kroese is a funny guy. There are many scenes where I laughed out loud! If you like his humor, you will want to check out his other books.
Fred Berman did an outstanding job bringing the various characters to life. His performance definitely added the prose.
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