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From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea.
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Redeemed Backslider Returns to CHURCH.
Church FINALLY fixed his pacing problem with 'the Man with the Baltic Stare'. This novel was a lot better than 'Bamboo and Blood'. It may even be better than his first one (although 'Corpse in the Koryo' gets originality points). Anyway, it redeemed the Inspector O series for me.
Church is as strong a writer as Olen Steinhauer, just working a different geography. All the blurbing, however, about how he is the next le Carré is about 20+ amazing books premature. I don't think ANYONE will be the next le Carré . I'm not even sure if le Carré would be capable now of being the next le Carré .
But, head back to Church (no more le Carré backsliding today). I think this novel was more confident, less messy, and reminded me of why I started reading Church in the first place. I guess I'm going to have to read Johnson's 'Orphan Master's Son' now just to get North Korea out of my blood.
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Every Secret Thing
- By: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 682
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 628
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 614
No one lives forever. But the truth survives us all. Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had approached her wanting to tell her about a mystery, a long-forgotten murder. The crime was old, he'd told her, but still deserving of justice. Soon Kate is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of events that takes her back into her grandmother's mysterious war-time past and across the Atlantic as she tries to retrace the dead man's footsteps.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Liked the Book - But The Narrator Drove Me Nuts
- By Mari on 01-12-17
By: Susanna Kearsley
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Stardust
- By: Joseph Kanon
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4 out of 5 stars 116
Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Joseph Kanon owns this little corner of history.
- By Richard Delman on 04-27-15
By: Joseph Kanon
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Watchman
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
Miles Flint is a spy who has been making some serious mistakes. His last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, and after getting too close to his current subject he wound up in police custody. But something is wrong at the agency that has nothing to do with Miles' errors. Why did his last suspect know more about Miles' assignment than Miles did? Why have so many operatives recently resigned?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Things fall apart....
- By carl801 on 01-20-08
By: Ian Rankin
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The Merlot Murders
- A Wine Country Mystery
- By: Ellen Crosby
- Narrated by: P. J. Davis-Oran
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4 out of 5 stars 97
Lucie Montgomery's semi-estranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her that their father, Leland, has been killed in a hunting accident on the family's 500-acre Virginia vineyard. But the vineyard is now shabby and run-down and her siblings want to sell it. Then Lucie's godfather tells her Leland's death was no accident. With her greedy brother, hell-raising sister, and a seemingly cut-rate vintner hired by Leland just before he died, all the suspects are disturbingly close to home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wine & history w/ your mystery!
- By Cracker1951 on 03-27-08
By: Ellen Crosby
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The Blessing Way
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,023
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,012
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place: a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo tribal police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A 'Blessing' Indeed!
- By Carole T. on 03-15-16
By: Tony Hillerman
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The Bookseller
- The First Hugo Marston Novel
- By: Mark Pryor
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4 out of 5 stars 174
Max - an elderly Paris bookstall owner - is abducted at gunpoint. His friend Hugo Marston, head of security at the U.S. embassy, launches a search. His investigation reveals that Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his grim history, or even to the mysterious old books he sold? Before long, other booksellers start to disappear, their bodies found floating in the Seine. Then Marston himself becomes a target of the unknown assassins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The summary is a spoiler that muddles
- By Jan on 02-01-16
By: Mark Pryor
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The Gideon Lowry Key West Mysteries: Box Set
- By: John Leslie
- Narrated by: David A. Wood
- Length: 26 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Killing Me Softly introduces Key West private eye Gideon Lowry, who moonlights as a piano player at a local jazz club. When Virginia Murphy shows up one night to ask him to investigate her sister's death 40 years earlier, Gideon is led down the darker side of memory lane where secrets linger. Some are buried as deeply as the paradise that was once Key West, now entombed in concrete. Key West's Hemingway Days is in full swing in Night and Day, when Gideon is pulled into the world of a famous nightclub singer known only as Asia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Atmospheric private detective mysteries..........
- By Katie on 12-01-18
By: John Leslie
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The Baker Street Letters
- A Mystery
- By: Michael Robertson
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4 out of 5 stars 56
Reggie and Nigel Heath are relatively close in age but worlds apart in personality. The older of the two brothers, Reggie is a successful attorney with charisma to spare. Nigel has always struggled to step out of his shadow. When Reggie leases space in an office building on London's Baker Street, he finds that the paperwork comes with an odd stipulation: his firm must receive and respond with a standard reply to letters sent to Sherlock Holmes, who had occupied the same famous address.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great concept ...
- By Yvette on 07-13-09
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American Spy
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,525
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,329
It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young Black woman working in an old boys’ club. Her career has stalled out, she’s overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she’s given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Spy Novel for Black folk.
- By AJ Walker on 10-07-19
By: Lauren Wilkinson
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Vanishing Act
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 720
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 537
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads solitary outcasts through hostile territory to escape the vengeance of their enemies. But the shaded forest paths her Seneca ancestors might have followed on such missions have all been converted to superhighways, and now the safest way stations are crowded urban buildings that offer the camouflage of anonymity. Still, the supply of runaways - and the need for a woman who will take great risks to save them - have never been greater.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Book - 4 Stars; Narration - 3 Stars
- By Mimi on 02-24-10
By: Thomas Perry
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The Charm School
- By: Nelson DeMille
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,976
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,905
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,894
Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be model citizens of the USA. The Soviet goal -- to infiltrate the United States undetected. When an unsuspecting American tourist stumbles upon this secret, he sets in motion a CIA investigation that will reveal horrifying police state savagery and superpower treachery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly Good
- By Char on 11-07-09
By: Nelson DeMille
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ODIN
- Alex Mason, Book 1
- By: Blake Banner, David Archer
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Nobody has ever heard of ODIN. ODIN is about as secret as a government agency can get. Because within ODIN there is General Operations, which speaks for itself; ODIN 5i, which deals with intelligence gathering; and then there is ODIN 1i, which deals in operations so sensitive not even the CIA can touch them. All three are run with an iron first by The Chief, a giant with a gigantic IQ. His top agent is Alex Mason. But when an ODIN 5i agent based at the US Embassy in Manila goes missing and his encrypted laptop disappears with him, the whole ODIN structure is put in peril.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Judy Neuburg on 06-06-22
By: Blake Banner, and others
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The Increment
- A Novel
- By: David Ignatius
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 275
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 170
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Story4 out of 5 stars 173
From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself "Dr. Ali" sends an encrypted message to the CIA. It falls to Harry Pappas to decide if it's for real.
Dr. Ali sends more secrets of the Iranian bomb program to the agency, then panics. He's being followed, but he doesn't know who's onto him, and neither does Pappas. The White House is no help---they're looking for a pretext to attack Tehran. To get his agent out, Pappas turns to a secret British spy team known as "The Increment".
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable plot weakened by appalling narration
- By Mary Lynn on 05-27-09
By: David Ignatius
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Knots and Crosses
- Inspector Rebus, Book 1
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 767
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 667
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Story4 out of 5 stars 669
Detective John Rebus' city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders…and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. As the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn't just one cop trying to catch a killer - he's the man who's got all the pieces to the puzzle…
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4 out of 5 stars
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I've Read Mixed Reviews and Can Marry Them
- By Steve Mac on 02-13-16
By: Ian Rankin
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A Carrion Death
- Introducing Detective Kubu
- By: Michael Stanley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4 out of 5 stars 127
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour - no body, no case. But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough evidence is left to suggest foul play. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department is assigned to the case.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hot and Arid
- By Robert on 11-06-08
By: Michael Stanley
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The Kill Artist
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,410
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,765
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,742
After the assassination of his wife and son, Gabriel Allon retires from his brutal anti-terrorist career and loses himself in his previous cover job: art restoration. But when Tariq al-Hourani, the Palestinian terrorist responsible for his family’s death, begins a killing spree designed to destroy Middle East peace talks, Gabriel once again slips into the shadowy world of international intrigue. In a global game of hide-and-seek, the motives of Gabriel and Tariq soon become more personal than political.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reluctant Assassin
- By Snoodely on 10-30-13
By: Daniel Silva