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A Private Cathedral
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The merciless Shondell and Balangie families are long-time enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny and Isolde - star-crossed teenage lovers - have run away together. As he tried to uncover the reasons why, Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and her father's mistress. In retribution, Balangie - as jealous as he is cruel - hires an assassin to hunt Robicheaux and his long-time partner, Clete Purcel.
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Not My Favourite James Lee Burke Book
- By Michael on 20-12-2020
- A Private Cathedral
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Brilliant
Reviewed: 17-11-2020
The best audiobook I’ve listed to in my 5+ years of being a regular consumer. Great story, great characters with a flawless and brave performance from Will Paton. I’m very happy to have found this series, as this is a new one for me.
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The Sentinel
- Jack Reacher, Book 25
- By: Lee Child, Andrew Child
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen. The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks.
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Distracting narration :(
- By Jane025 on 23-11-2020
- The Sentinel
- Jack Reacher, Book 25
- By: Lee Child, Andrew Child
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Not the usual standard
Reviewed: 17-11-2020
Started off strong, then got a little boring pretty quickly and never recovered.
As always - a great performance from Jeff Harding, but the story was a letdown.
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The Scarecrow: Jack McEvoy, Book 2
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter Giles
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling readership and revenues, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school who couldn't find the police station if it was right next door to the Times, which it is.
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Meh
- By Rory Williams on 25-09-2020
- The Scarecrow: Jack McEvoy, Book 2
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter Giles
Good, not as good as Book 1
Reviewed: 30-06-2020
Enjoyable, but not as good as book 1 and a lot more unbelievable regarding some of the decision making of the characters. The attempt at a soft/loving moments between some characters is not good at all (not only saying this because I'm a big action guy, I do like some romance in my stories but this is really bad).
Also, I've realised that Jack is a bit of a d-head. Really hard to like this character.
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The Institute
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's just a regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart, he's super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use....
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Narration was amazing!
- By Anonymous User on 24-09-2019
- The Institute
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
Boring
Reviewed: 24-03-2020
So incredibly boring. Is this really a Stephen King novel?
It really really did not do it for me. The first 'part' had my interest somewhat but then when it pivoted to the main story - that was just boring and simple.
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Silver
- By: Chris Hammer
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping. He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherited an old house in the seaside town and Martin knows their chance of a new life together won't come again. Martin arrives to find his best friend from school days brutally murdered, and Mandy the chief suspect. With the police curiously reluctant to pursue other suspects, Martin goes searching for the killer. And finds the past waiting for him.
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great Australian read
- By paul on 30-10-2019
- Silver
- By: Chris Hammer
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
Stick with it
Reviewed: 26-11-2019
Persevere with the first few chapters. It gets better and ends up being pretty decent, though not quite as good as scrublands.
Mandy has become a terrible character. A real pain in the ass. Hope he doesn’t bring her back for the next one.
Martin and the ASIO guy should team up and open a detective agency.
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Agent Running in the Field
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Nat, a 47-year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
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It's a Cracking Yarn
- By Kirsty on 22-10-2019
- Agent Running in the Field
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
Good
Reviewed: 22-11-2019
I was initially disappointed that Tom Hollander didn’t narrate this one, but JLC did a great job.
Story lacked suspense but the characters were great. Recommend.
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Dark Sacred Night
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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At the end of a long, dark night Detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the very first time. Detective Renée Ballard is working the graveyard shift again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help, and she relents.
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Harry Bosch never lets you down
- By Nessiebee on 05-12-2018
- Dark Sacred Night
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
Passable
Reviewed: 15-11-2018
I was really looking forward to this one, but it was a bit of a let down. Perhaps my expectations were too high as I loved the first Ballard story and just about all the Bosch ones. Still worth a read/listen if you’re a fan of the series.
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Nine Dragons
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Len Cariou
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary holdup.
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Good Listen
- By Jen on 22-01-2021
- Nine Dragons
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Len Cariou
Not the best Bosch
Reviewed: 26-06-2018
I don't really give a rats about Bosch's family, so this was just okay. Len Cariou is great again, although the female characters whinge too much and that is very hard to listen too. Overall, not a bad edition to the Bosch series but far from the best. Is Connelly running out of ideas for this character? Can he do what Lee Childs sometimes does with Jack Reacher ... go back in time, and do stories on a young Bosch?
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City of Bones
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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When the bones of a boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories from his past. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he won't be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom - until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before.
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Pretty weak
- By Anonymous User on 23-03-2018
- City of Bones
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
Pretty weak
Reviewed: 23-03-2018
A rather weak story line, attempted to be bolstered by a lame and unnecessary love interest (more so than previous books. Why do these types of stories feel compelled to always chuck in a lame love/romance/sex story; they’d be better served without it). Narration makes Bosch and his partner sound like little boys rather than hard boiled detectives. Then again, after Dick Hill, no narrator could ever live up to his greatness. I still hold hope for the rest of the series so will crack on and assume this was just an anomaly in an otherwise great series.
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