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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Melrose
- By Pamela C. Alger on 09-28-16
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The Case Has Altered
- Richard Jury, Book 14
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The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly against dimishment. This is a landscape that can easily deceive, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as if to say, You’re on your own, mate - much like the habitués of the only pub for miles around called The Case Has Altered.
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3 out of 5 stars
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classic martha grimes
- By Kathy on 05-30-17
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The Blue Last
- Richard Jury, Book 17
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 130
In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with - the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been posing for over 50 years as a child who didn't.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- By Amazon Customer on 11-23-16
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Rainbow's End
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 148
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection - or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he’s following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There, in the company of a brooding 13-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Always interesting, but bad American stereotypes
- By Janels on 10-23-14
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The Grave Maurice
- Richard Jury, Book 18
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury's surgeon. But Nell's disappearance isn't the only mystery at the Ryder farm.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite one
- By Kindle Customer on 03-17-17
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The Horse You Came in On
- Richard Jury, Book 12
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 157
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4 out of 5 stars 148
The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sergeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allen Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called The Horse You Came in On.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One Review Fits All
- By R. Dubrow on 11-01-15
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The Lamorna Wink
- Richard Jury, Book 16
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times best-selling series - now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick, Melrose Plant....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Melrose
- By Pamela C. Alger on 09-28-16
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The Case Has Altered
- Richard Jury, Book 14
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 168
The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly against dimishment. This is a landscape that can easily deceive, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as if to say, You’re on your own, mate - much like the habitués of the only pub for miles around called The Case Has Altered.
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3 out of 5 stars
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classic martha grimes
- By Kathy on 05-30-17
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The Blue Last
- Richard Jury, Book 17
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 130
In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with - the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been posing for over 50 years as a child who didn't.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- By Amazon Customer on 11-23-16
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Rainbow's End
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 148
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection - or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he’s following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There, in the company of a brooding 13-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Always interesting, but bad American stereotypes
- By Janels on 10-23-14
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The Grave Maurice
- Richard Jury, Book 18
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury's surgeon. But Nell's disappearance isn't the only mystery at the Ryder farm.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite one
- By Kindle Customer on 03-17-17
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The Horse You Came in On
- Richard Jury, Book 12
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 157
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4 out of 5 stars 148
The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sergeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allen Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called The Horse You Came in On.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One Review Fits All
- By R. Dubrow on 11-01-15
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The Old Contemptibles
- Richard Jury Mysteries, Book 11
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 197
Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in London, Jury sends his friend Melrose Plant, former Earl of Caverness, to the Holdsworth family's Lake District home to pose as an eccentric librarian. Plant discovers that his catalogue cards contain less data on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey than they do on tantalizing questions about the Holdsworths: What happened to Crabbe Holdsworth's first wife? What happened to his son, Graham?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The introduction of fascinating new characters!
- By Waverley on 02-12-16
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The Winds of Change
- Richard Jury, Book 19
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lost stars, owing to ignorant bigotry re Down’s Syndrome
- By pigletbunny on 08-23-19
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The Five Bells and Bladebone
- A Richard Jury Mystery, Book 9
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 221
When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique secretaire a abattant, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: "I bought the desk, not the body, send it back" Who would want to kill Simon Lean, the greedy nephew of the wealthy Lady Summerston? Leave it to Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard to suggest a connection to the murder of brassy Limehouse lady named Sadie Driver, found dead near Wapping Old Stairs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration
- By Cyd on 01-20-14
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The Old Silent
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 223
In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn, amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes to he could perform one as he drives his impossible Aunt Agatha to the Old Swan in Harrogate.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slow to getting to the point...
- By Ore O on 10-15-14
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The Old Wine Shades
- Richard Jury, Book 20
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tedious in parts
- By Sonny on 06-17-18
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Dust
- Richard Jury, Book 21
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
The once-charismatic Billy Maples was last seen in a club named Dust, before his murder in a trendy London hotel. Proving as inscrutable - and challenging - to Jury as the case is the beautiful chief inspecting officer. Before his death, Maples was a patron of London's finest art galleries and caretaker of author Henry James' house in Rye. It's there where Jury installs Melrose Plant, who takes his job to heart, as Jury closes in on the dark secrets behind Maples' friends and family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another great Richard Jury book
- By Chester on 02-10-18
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I Am the Only Running Footman
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4 out of 5 stars 213
In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running Footman, near Berkeley Square in London’s fashionable Mayfair District. Devon policeman Brian Macalvie is convinced that the two murders are connected. And thus, in his eighth case, Richard Jury is drawn into the so-called Porphyria killings.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Review of last 3 books.
- By Ore O on 09-26-14
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Help the Poor Struggler
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 273
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a 10-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grimes sets a more serious tone--good listen
- By Kathi on 04-14-14
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Vertigo 42
- A Richard Jury Mystery, Book 23
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Story4 out of 5 stars 327
Richard Jury is meeting Tom Williamson at Vertigo 42, a bar on the 42nd floor of an office building in London’s financial district. Despite inconclusive evidence, Tom is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. The inspector in charge of the case was sure Tess’ death was accidental - a direct result of vertigo - but the official police inquiry is still an open verdict and Jury agrees to re-examine the case.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A new Martha Grimes-Richard Jury fan
- By Janels on 06-17-14
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Jerusalem Inn
- A Richard Jury Mystery, Book 5
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 350
From the rough but colorful pub that provides the novel's title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere - or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Among the best of the Richard Jury mysteries!
- By Kathi on 02-02-14
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The Deer Leap
- A Richard Jury Mystery, Book 6
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Story4 out of 5 stars 252
In this Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes listeners to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While the puzzling deaths of village pets may raise some idle gossip over a pint or two at the Deer Leap, the village pub, this hardly seems a case for Superintendent Jury of Scotland yard. Nor does it seem much of a challenge for the combined deductive powers of Jury and Melrose, the affable former Earl of Caverness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grimes sets a more serious tone--good listen
- By Kathi on 03-07-14
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The Black Cat
- A Richard Jury Mystery
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 246
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4 out of 5 stars 161
Three months have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt- ridden after his lover's tragic auto accident, and he is now more wary than ever. He is deeply suspicious when requested on a case far out of his jurisdiction in an outlying village, where a young woman has been murdered behind the local pub. The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Un-listenable
- By Christine on 12-13-14
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"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury's surgeon. But Nell's disappearance isn't the only mystery at the Ryder farm.
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lost stars, owing to ignorant bigotry re Down’s Syndrome
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The Old Wine Shades
- Richard Jury, Book 20
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tedious in parts
- By Sonny on 06-17-18
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Dust
- Richard Jury, Book 21
- By: Martha Grimes
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- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another great Richard Jury book
- By Chester on 02-10-18
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The Lamorna Wink
- Richard Jury, Book 16
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times best-selling series - now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick, Melrose Plant....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Melrose
- By Pamela C. Alger on 09-28-16
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The Blue Last
- Richard Jury, Book 17
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 130
In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with - the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been posing for over 50 years as a child who didn't.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- By Amazon Customer on 11-23-16
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The Grave Maurice
- Richard Jury, Book 18
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury's surgeon. But Nell's disappearance isn't the only mystery at the Ryder farm.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Winds of Change
- Richard Jury, Book 19
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lost stars, owing to ignorant bigotry re Down’s Syndrome
- By pigletbunny on 08-23-19
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The Old Wine Shades
- Richard Jury, Book 20
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tedious in parts
- By Sonny on 06-17-18
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Dust
- Richard Jury, Book 21
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
The once-charismatic Billy Maples was last seen in a club named Dust, before his murder in a trendy London hotel. Proving as inscrutable - and challenging - to Jury as the case is the beautiful chief inspecting officer. Before his death, Maples was a patron of London's finest art galleries and caretaker of author Henry James' house in Rye. It's there where Jury installs Melrose Plant, who takes his job to heart, as Jury closes in on the dark secrets behind Maples' friends and family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another great Richard Jury book
- By Chester on 02-10-18
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Hotel Paradise
- Emma Graham, Book 1
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A 12-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice cream sodas, and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, 40 years before. Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Took a while, but ...
- By MS on 10-13-16
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Cold Flat Junction
- Emma Graham, Book 2
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young girl's attempt at making sense of her own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Kindle Customer on 04-19-17
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Belle Ruin
- Emma Graham, Book 3
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
A waitress at her mother's decaying resort hotel, 12-year-old Emma now has a second job as the youngest cub reporter in the history of La Porte's Conservative newspaper. But when she discovers the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel - the once-sumptuous Belle Rouen - in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake, Emma never imagines that the mysteries it holds will bring her one step closer to solving a 40-year-old crime - and force a new transgression to light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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12 year old Emma!
- By MS on 12-15-16
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The Speaker of Mandarin
- A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 12 (Unabridged)
- By: Ruth Rendell
- Narrated by: Michael Bryant
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of: That an old woman would haunt him from one city to the next. That a man would be tragically drowned. Or that, back in England, he would be investigating the murder of one of his fellow tourists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Under-appreciated gem of mystery writing
- By Constance on 05-16-15
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A Sleeping Life
- A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 10
- By: Ruth Rendell
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 83
The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. With nothing more to go on than what appeared to be a sardonic gleam in the wide and staring eyes of the victim, It’s time for Wexford and his team to get pro-active. From a seemingly unremarkable death comes an intricate web of lies and deception.
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4 out of 5 stars
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chapters are repeated
- By Linda on 08-19-10
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Collusion
- By: Stuart Neville
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 577
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4 out of 5 stars 429
Jack Lennon is a Detective Inspector trying to track down his former lover, Marie McKenna, and their daughter -- but his superiors tell him to back off. Bull O'Kane is a bitter old man who will stop at nothing for vengeance. The Traveller is an assassin without pity or remorse, who stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends. Forced into the center of it all is former IRA paramilitary Gerry Fegan, who must confront his past -- and The Traveller -- for the fight of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping Irish noir
- By Moku on 01-31-11
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Stolen Souls
- A Jack Lennon Investigation
- By: Stuart Neville
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 305
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4 out of 5 stars 275
Galya Petrova travels to Ireland on a promise that she will work for a nice Russian family, teaching their children English. Instead, she is dragged into the world of modern slavery, sold to a Belfast brothel, and held there against her will. She escapes at a terrible cost - the slaying of one of her captors - and takes refuge with a man who offers his help. But her savior is not what he seems....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strong Third Chapter
- By AnonymousNC on 10-26-11
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The Winter Mystery
- Jenny Starling, Book 2
- By: Faith Martin
- Narrated by: Charlotte Worthing
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4 out of 5 stars 86
Jenny Starling is spending Christmas in a snowed-in country house cooking all the traditional food she loves. But the family she’s working for are not full of the seasonal spirit. In fact, they seem to hate each other. On Christmas Eve, someone is found dead on the kitchen table. And the head of the family is blaming Jenny! But with an incompetent detective called in, and seemingly no motive for the murder, Jenny will have to give the police a hand. She will stop at nothing to clear her name and find the real murderer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Winter mystery
- By Berryjazzy on 03-14-20
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The Veiled One
- A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 14
- By: Ruth Rendell
- Narrated by: Robin Bailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet was what looked like a heap of rags. In a desolate subterranean car park of a Shopping Centre, Dorothy Sanders pulled back the velvet curtain revealing the grim discovery of a woman’s body. Inspector Michael Burden, for a while conducting the investigation without the help of Wexford’s intuitive genius, blunders down a number of blind alleys before uncovering the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5/5*
- By Mark Miller on 05-29-15
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An Advancement of Learning
- Dalziel and Pascoe Series, Book 2
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Brian Glover
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
Superintendent Dalziel had a somewhat cynical view of what college administrations spent his taxes on. But when he and that over-educated Sergeant of his, Pascoe, were sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, he hadn't reckoned on a rash of fresh killings. While Pascoe rekindled an old flame on the staff, protesting students identified Dalziel as a 'fascist pig'. The Superintendent smiled with satisfaction...if that's how they wanted to play it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Advancement of Learning
- By Maggie on 07-02-07
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Bones and Silence
- Dalziel and Pascoe Series, Book 11
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Brian Glover
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
Andy Dalziel of the Mid-Yorks CID has witnessed a murder, but it was though dark glass and he was being sick at the time. Now he finds the case shrouded in uncertainty and a string of contradictory statements. And who is his anonymous letter writer threatening suicide? Meanwhile Dalziel's colleague, Peter Pascoe, has returned from a long convalescence uncertain about his job, his marriage, or his motivations whilst having to act as a moderator to the strong-willed Dalziel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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poor quality audio
- By Mark Romanoff on 09-12-08
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Shake Hands For Ever
- A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 9
- By: Ruth Rendell
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
This case is proving a difficult one for Chief Inspector Wexford. All he has to go on is his own intuitive suspicions. Was he becoming cynical and untrusting or was this one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ruth Rendell Does Not Fail You For A Good Read
- By Electic Chef on 07-09-12
Publisher's Summary
Saturday night. It was not a night to be spending alone, riding a bus. When he was a teenager at the comprehensive, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least your mates to raise hell with, Saturday night alone would have been shameful. One wouldn't want to be seen alone on a Saturday night…. Who are you kidding? That was never your life, Jury, not yours.
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- Martha
- 01-16-15
Steve West does it again
I am saddened that this is the final performance of Ms. Grimes ' sexy and wonderful Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent. I have all the series in print but never had the opportunity to read them one after another. Using these audiobooks a a respite from horrible traffic jams, I have completed one after another, never minding my yucky commute. Mr. West's inspired performances and all the voices (my favorite is White Ellie, closely followed by Sgt Wiggins) make these treasured books even more memorable. This book was great, loved the children and Bea Slocum and Simeon Pitt.
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- JAM
- 01-03-19
Perfect narration
I'm a fan of the Richard Jury series. The Stargazey is one of Martha Grimes' best. All her great characters make an appearance and the plot is excellent.
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- Jan
- 05-17-18
Too much ruminating
theft, law-enforcement, art-fraud, art-theft, murder-investigation, friendship
Trimmed down, the mystery is good. However, there is so much extraneous rumination by both Plant and Jury as well as appearances by odd characters and more red herrings than a large tin of kippers that the reader wants to use a poker on them to get to the end. Which is outstanding, by the way.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Cynthia
- 09-20-14
Entertaining and well thought-out.
Where does The Stargazey rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Can't place it I've listened to over 200!
What other book might you compare The Stargazey to and why?
Can't say, I've read far to many books to start comparing.
What about Steve West’s performance did you like?
One the best performers/narrators that I've listened to. I will actually try books just because he is narrating. On of the best female voice portrayals for a male performer so far. Steve West and Simon Prebble are my favourite male narrators.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
Any additional comments?
I've enjoyed this whole series with the exception of the Deer Leap, The Lamorna Wink, and Dust. The first two I mention I found upsetting, and Dust was just all over the place; made very little sense. (The talking animals were a bit much!)
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Janels
- 07-24-14
The most entertaining Grimes novel I've heard
I stumbled on the Richard Jury books and found they had very entertaining if odd characters. Each character that continues from book to book seems to get deeper, funnier and better developed with each. This is the most entertaining of all the Jury books I've listened to, and I will likely go for the entire series. The narrator does a lively and excellent job of injecting humor and nuance into a vast variety of voices.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- CGY
- 03-08-18
Intrigue and humor
In addition to the intricate plot line one comes to expect from the author, there are some delightful laugh-out-loud (for me at least) intervals involving Melrose Plant and a discussion of 'art.'
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Joseph Vig
- 02-18-16
I love the Audible App.
Fill the drive time beautifully. Also enjoy listening in front of the fire on a cold winter night.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Toby
- 06-01-14
Stargazey may be one of the best by Martha Grimes
What made the experience of listening to The Stargazey the most enjoyable?
Many aspects: the prose, the originality, the reader, the characters, the plot. It simply does not get much better than this. I should say this is my second time of reading this book. I first read it when I could still read a print book.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Stargazey?
Melrose Plant and the Cripps' family for sure. Carol Anne another. There are many.
Which scene was your favorite?
I could not name just one. Perhaps the initial encounter by Plant with the Cripps children as well as the scenes in the Borings Club.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Not relevant to me.
Any additional comments?
This reader is fantastically good. I eagerly anticipate the remainder of the Grimes books being available on Audible. She is a real master of this genre and always good for more than a single read.