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Publisher's Summary
This first book was published in February 2012 as Mission Pessac. Benjamin Cooker is a renowned winemaker and critic turned gentleman detective who sets out to find who is trying to take down the prestigious grand cru Moniales Haut-Brion. Is it negligence or sabotage? Who would want to target this esteemed vintner? Cooker and his assistant Virgile Lanssien search the city and the vineyards for answers, giving listeners and inside view of this famous wine region. Treachery in Bordeaux is the first of the 20-book Winemaker Detective series. which delves into the underworld of a global luxury industry.
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- Ethna M. O'Shea
- 10-26-14
NOT WHAT I THOUGHT
Absolutely not what I thought this book would be like. To me it was as if I was taking a lesson on how to pronounce French names, cities or villages. Also similar to a course on different wines. I thought the mystery was lost in the muddle or I just didn't care anymore. If you are not a total wine aficionado then skip this book. I will not be returning to this series. The narrator is excellent and I have heard him many times. Without this narrator I would not have gotten past chapter one.
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- louise
- 12-11-15
Great story
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
The stories in this series, starting with this first book, are beautifully told and narrated. The descriptions are vivid and the characters well-developed. So glad there are 20 of these!
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- New York Minute
- 10-27-14
Great for the wine lover
Would you consider the audio edition of Treachery in Bordeaux (Mission à Haut-Brion) to be better than the print version?
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Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Yes, the writing and narration was compelling. It dragged a bit in places but the characters were fascinating and the detail helped bring the book to life. I could picture myself in the places spoken about.
What does Simon Prebble bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
A laid back style of reading that is enjoyable to listen to on cool Autumn days.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
France. Mystery. Wine.
Any additional comments?
Great book, I look forward to reading / listening to the rest of the series.
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Peter Mayle once again returns to the beautiful but complicated world of Provence, to find that the highly competitive boutique wine trade has hidden depths that cannot be hidden by the sunny grape arbors above the ground. Mayle's usual fish-out-of-water British protagonist comes to inspect a Provencal vineyard left to him by his newly-dead uncle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five stars aren't enough
- By Coco on 08-03-04
By: Peter Mayle
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The Lost Carousel of Provence
- By: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 274
Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Château Clement, nestled well beyond the rolling lavender fields and popular tourist attractions of Provence. Once a bustling and dignified ancestral estate, now all that remains is the château's gruff, elderly owner and the softly whispered secrets of generations buried and forgotten. But time has a way of exposing history's dark stains, and when American photographer Cady Drake finds herself drawn to the château and its antique carousel, she longs to explore the relic's shadowy origins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It!
- By T Heskett on 09-23-18
By: Juliet Blackwell
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The President's Hat
- By: Antoine Laurain
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson, Peter Noble, David Timson, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. After the presidential party has gone, Daniel discovers that Mitterrand’s black felt hat has been left behind. After a few moments’ soul-searching, Daniel decides to keep the hat as a souvenir of an extraordinary evening. It’s a perfect fit, and as he leaves the restaurant Daniel begins to feel somehow...different.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You need this book. I need that hat.
- By Amber on 10-25-13
By: Antoine Laurain
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The Vintage Caper
- By: Peter Mayle
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4 out of 5 stars 118
Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It’s also a lot of fun. The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Accent the negative!
- By Dennis L Gump Jr. on 10-26-09
By: Peter Mayle
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Death at the Chateau Bremont
- Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: M.L. Longworth
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
When local nobleman Étienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family château, it sets the historic town of Aix-en-Provence abuzz with rumors. The once-idyllic town suddenly seems filled with people who could have benefited from Bremont's death - including his playboy brother, François, who's heavily in debt and mixed up with some unsavory characters. But just as the list of suspects is being narrowed down, another death occurs. And this time, there can be no doubt - it's murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good listen
- By Darcie on 11-05-22
By: M.L. Longworth
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The Shadow of the Wind
- By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,452
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,024
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,039
Barcelona, 1945: Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his 11th birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Have the book handy
- By Rebecca on 07-17-05
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A Good Year
- By: Peter Mayle
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 415
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 251
Peter Mayle once again returns to the beautiful but complicated world of Provence, to find that the highly competitive boutique wine trade has hidden depths that cannot be hidden by the sunny grape arbors above the ground. Mayle's usual fish-out-of-water British protagonist comes to inspect a Provencal vineyard left to him by his newly-dead uncle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five stars aren't enough
- By Coco on 08-03-04
By: Peter Mayle
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The Balkan Escape (Short Story)
- A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure
- By: Steve Berry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 422
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 353
As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into Bulgaria's Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining the area, she needs a way out. Who to trust becomes the question, and her life depends on choosing the right option.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste a credit; so short, like a chapter
- By Judith on 01-22-11
By: Steve Berry
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Letters from Paris
- By: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 363
After surviving the accident that took her mother's life, Claire Broussard worked hard to escape her small Louisiana hometown. But these days, she feels something lacking. Abruptly leaving her lucrative job in Chicago, Claire returns home to care for her ailing grandmother. There, she unearths a beautiful sculpture that her great-grandfather sent home from Paris after World War II. At her grandmother's urging, Claire travels to Paris to track down the centuries old mask-making atelier where the sculpture was created.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love story, a mystery, a historical novel, or all
- By Bonnie on 11-15-16
By: Juliet Blackwell
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
- By: Mario Giordano, John Brownjohn
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 391
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 356
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Story4 out of 5 stars 354
Auntie Poldi, sassy, brassy, and 60, moves to Sicily for a quiet alcohol-fuelled retirement. A murder spoils her plans. This is the first novel in a charming new mystery series set in Sicily and laced with Italian sensuality and humor. It features an amateur sleuth, the sassy and foul-mouthed Auntie Poldi. Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view, but fate intervenes. When she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, his face blown off with a sawn-off shotgun, she becomes a potential suspect in his murder case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Auntie Poldi Rocks!
- By Lynn on 04-01-18
By: Mario Giordano, and others
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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 134
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 96
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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Death in Provence: A Novel
- Penelope Kite, Book 1
- By: Serena Kent
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
It’s love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant d’Eau - The Song of Water - the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley. For years, Penelope put her unfaithful ex-husband and her ungrateful stepchildren first. Now, she’s going to start living for herself. Though her dream house needs major renovations, Penelope impulsively buys the property and moves to St. Merlot. But Penelope’s daydreams of an adventurous life in Provence didn’t include finding a corpse floating face down in her swimming pool.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too Laconic
- By AB on 04-13-19
By: Serena Kent
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My Italian Bulldozer
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Timothy Ackroyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 651
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 576
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Story4 out of 5 stars 579
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available, it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport. That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Suffused with Wisdom and Humor
- By SW Clemens on 04-17-17
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Artifact
- A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery, Book 1
- By: Gigi Pandian
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 772
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 693
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Story4 out of 5 stars 692
When historian Jaya Jones receives a mysterious package containing a jewel-encrusted artifact, she discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend. But she's not the only one on the trail. Helping her decipher the cryptic clues are her magician best friend, a devastatingly handsome art historian with something to hide, and a charming archaeologist running for his life. When a member of the dig's crew is murdered, Jaya must figure out which of the scholars vying for her affections might be the love of her life - and which one is a killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cozy only means no graphic sex or blood/guts
- By Jan on 07-01-15
By: Gigi Pandian
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Murderous Mistral
- Provence Mystery, Book 1
- By: Cay Rademacher, Peter Millar - translator
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 47
Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anticorruption unit of the French Gendarmerie, was a bit too successful in his investigations. He finds himself removed from Paris to the South of France, far away from political power. Or so it would seem. The stress is too much for his marriage, and he attempts to manage the breakup while trying to settle into his new life in Provence in a 200-year-old half-ruined house. At the same time, Blanc is tasked with his first murder case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good police procedural
- By Ms Peach on 04-15-18
By: Cay Rademacher, and others
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The Prague Sonata
- By: Bradford Morrow
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. To Meta's eye, it appears to be an authentic 18th-century work; to her discerning ear, the music rendered there is commanding, hauntingly beautiful, clearly the undiscovered composition of a master. But there is no indication of who the composer might be.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful topic, writer gets in the way
- By Amber's mom on 07-31-18
By: Bradford Morrow
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The Italian Teacher
- By: Tom Rachman
- Narrated by: Sam Alexander
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
Rome, 1955. The artists gather for a picture at a party in an ancient villa. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast canvases, larger than life, is at the center of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot. From the side of the room watches little Pinch - their son. At five years old he loves Bear almost as much as he fears him. After Bear abandons their family, Pinch will still worship him, striving to live up to the Bavinsky name.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A douche of a man, but a hell of an artist
- By Mel on 04-17-18
By: Tom Rachman
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Mouth to Mouth
- A Novel
- By: Antoine Wilson
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 381
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Story4 out of 5 stars 333
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life—a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man. Jeff reveals that after that traumatic, galvanizing morning on the beach, he was compelled to learn more about the man whose life he had saved, convinced that their fates were now entwined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book evaaa!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-24-22
By: Antoine Wilson
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A Killer Collection
- Antiques & Collectibles Mysteries Series #1
- By: Ellery Adams