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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good listen!
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just Not Good
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- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 38
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Caller
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4 out of 5 stars 132
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good listen!
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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5 out of 5 stars
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difficult subject, very well done
- By Amy on 03-21-19
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Blackout
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- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
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On the shores of a tranquil fjord in northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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- By blackhillstudio on 09-03-18
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Nightblind
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- By: Ragnar Jónasson, Quentin Bates - translator
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Paul Michael Garcia
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Ari Thór Arason is a local policeman whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland - where no one locks their doors - continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a policeman - shot at point-blank range in the dead of night in a deserted house. With a killer on the loose and the dark Arctic winter closing in, it falls to Ari Thór to piece together a puzzle that involves tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and a psychiatric ward.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good series. titles out of order
- By Imma on 09-22-18
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Snowblind
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 195
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected and different
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Winter Grave
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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When a little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. Complicating the matter is the fact that detectives can hardly get a word out of him. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found dead, tensions in the small town of Strömstad reach an all-time high.
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The Long Call
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In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family, too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ok story
- By NE124 on 09-11-19
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The Legacy: A Thriller
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4 out of 5 stars
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Horrible pronouncing of Icelandic names
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Eva's Eye
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 144
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very little of Sejer, a whole lot of Eva
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Pen 33
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Bernt Lund harbors a sickness. He is a monster, an unrepentant child molester and serial killer. In the mind of society, in the minds of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the minds of his fellow inmates, he is a waking nightmare. And now he has escaped from custody - the worst scenario imaginable for Aspsås Prison's Department for Sexual Crimes. Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens is about to encounter the most profoundly appalling case in his career and perhaps in Stockholm's history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Violence and pedophilia - no thanks
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Stalker
- Joona Linna, Book 5
- By: Lars Kepler, Neil Smith - translator
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of a young woman in her home, clearly unaware she's being watched. Soon after the tape is received, the woman's body is found horrifically mutilated. With the arrival of the next, similar video, the police understand the killer is toying with them, warning of a new victim, knowing there's nothing they can do. Detective Margot Silverman is put in charge of the investigation and soon asks Detective Joona Linna for help. Linna, in turn, recruits Erik Maria Bark, the hypnotist and expert in trauma, with whom Linna's worked before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this series, including this book!
- By m.affronte on 10-29-19
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Hunting Game
- By: Helene Tursten, Paul Norlen - translator
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nystrom has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts, but she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic welterweight, she is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to attend the annual moose hunt with her family and friends. But when Embla arrives at her uncle's cabin in rural Dalsland, she sees an unfamiliar face has joined the group.
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3 out of 5 stars
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3
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The Undesired
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray.... Decades later single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chilling, excellent writing.
- By Anonymous User on 08-23-17
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The Fire Witness
- A Novel (Joona Linna, Book 3)
- By: Lars Kepler
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Detective Joona Linna is on leave dealing with personal and professional issues when he gets pulled into the investigation of a horrific murder at a home for wayward teenage girls. One girl is dead, and another is missing. The local police want to close the case quickly, especially after they discover a bloody hammer under the missing girl's bed. But a woman claiming to see visions of the murdered girl insists there is more going on than meets the eye, and Joona is inclined to believe her. As he digs deeper into the case, he finds himself in dark and dangerous territory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Kepler yet!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-09-19
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The Nightmare
- A Novel (Joona Linna, Book 2)
- By: Lars Kepler
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
One summer night, police discover the lifeless body of a young woman on an abandoned yacht. She appears to have drowned, but it's clear she was never in the water. The next day, a man is found hanging in his completely empty apartment. It seems like a suicide, but the circumstances are suspicious. Detective Joona Linna is called in to investigate, and with the help of a young Swedish Security Police detective named Saga Bauer, he soon discovers a surprising connection between the two deaths. Joona and Saga must fight to stop a killer who always seems to be one step ahead.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I usually love this author
- By Denise B. Hensley on 10-01-18
Publisher's Summary
Has anyone seen Andreas? Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But it’s not easy for Zipp to come forward with details of the last time he saw his friend - they had been following an old woman, an easy target for some quick cash, and Andreas boldly followed her into her home brandishing his knife, the next moment he was gone. Zipp waited anxiously outside but Andreas failed to reappear.
Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre are baffled but while the confusion in the outside world continues, a chilling and heart-stopping drama is unfolding inside the old woman's home. In a plot in the tradition of Stephen King, Fossum deploys her trademark skill of looking realistically, terrifyingly, into the minds of criminal and victim. Appearances aren't always to be believed, and people are not always what they seem.
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- salix
- 06-10-13
Gripping
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
After male-authored works Fossum is excellent respite. Never too-kind to the character or reader, frequently brutal, but redeeming with her quiet attentiveness to detail. A surprising source of power: viewpoint is utterly feminine. Her male characters sometimes see things that really only a female would know. Young Andreas talks about girls that have to go to the bathroom to change their pantyliner because he only has to look at them and they get wet. Cute. So often the reverse is the case. A male writer putting incongruous thoughts into a female character's head. Fossum's feminine voice is not saccharine. She empowers. Emotionally complex listen.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Mary Anne Milley
- 09-05-18
Keep your finger on the volume!
The main difficulty I had with this book was with the narrator. Although he had a lovely warm voice, he made no distinction between the male and female characters. As there was almost no pause or signal that there was a change of chapter, I had difficulty figuring out who was talking. I had to rewind many times before I could figure it out. Also, the narrator shouts and whispers so much, that I had to continually adjust the volume which was difficult when I was listening in bed. The story itself was interesting and well written, but the narration spoiled it somewhat for me.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Steve
- 06-06-13
Another great story by Karin Fossum
I love this author's books and have read most of them now. This was the first one I have listened to though on audio, but once I got used to it, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. She writes wonderful stories.
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