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The Shark Did It
- By: Kay Shostak
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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It’s August on Sophia Island, and that means hurricane season is in full swing. Everyone keeps telling Northern newcomer Jewel Mantelle not to worry—yet. They’ll tell her when it’s time to worry. Against their advice, she’s been staying up late watching The Weather Channel, and when the latest storm gets a name, well, she decides it’s time to worry! Suddenly, though, there are more important things than Category 3 storms to fret about. Things much closer to her home in the heart of Sophia Beach’s historic district. Jewel’s husband, Craig, is still working out of town, but ...
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Alligators do that!
- By Marily on 09-07-24
- The Shark Did It
- By: Kay Shostak
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Alligators do that!
Reviewed: 09-07-24
It is fun continuing on with friends and aquantences you have met in other stories. These take place on a very "southern Island. So far the shark, a manatee, a shrimp and a few more odities have aroused the interest of a group of women who meet regularly for lunch.
Surprisingly unexpected things happen and each contains a murderer. The women think they are detectives and that they can "solve murders" better then the local police.
Well, they can ...and do!
Let's get crazy and see what the gator did!
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Kennedy’s Brain
- A Novel
- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden, and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide, but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik's father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice.
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Not sure what I listened to
- By AnotherJim on 11-02-24
- Kennedy’s Brain
- A Novel
- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
President Kennedys brain, don't loose its significance, ... Intriguing!
Reviewed: 09-05-24
Wait till you find out who has it, that brain.
Quite a different book then Wallander. Not an every day mystery although it contains a questionable death.
There seems to be a back and forth of people to places, who are traveling so much that where you are, is sometimes ...lost.
You gradually notice a definite separation of good and bad, the haves and have nots, and an underlying feeling there is something very wrong with the whole world!
Noticing too, that there is anger growing within toward complacency to a crime!
A silent, "look the other way " toward a happenstance becoming a criminal act .
That "thing" is now running rampant in a major country, One which is so poor and far removed by its location on the earth, that no one seems to care.
The world seems to lack a curiosity. Our murdered man wanted to right this. Get a message to those that would recognize and understand. He lacked the prominence and funding to do so. To make others find out why?
What does this all have to do with Kennedys brain?
It is all about greed and egoism, and fighting back with truth,
versus power and a strong lie.
Don't look down or you will miss the conection!
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The Gator Did It
- By: Kay Dew Shostak
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Football is a whole other thing in the South, Midwestern transplant Jewel Mantelle discovers, and on Sophia Island, they love the Gators. Jewel would be fine with that if her friends only meant the University of Florida football team, but they also seem to love the critters skulking around in the ditches and creeks running through their tiny beach town. At her first ever football party she finds herself front and center for the spectacle of the eccentric Bell Jackson calling the gators behind his huge mansion—and it gives her the creeps. But finding out those very same gators didn’t ...
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Such a small island, for all this.
- By Marily on 08-31-24
- The Gator Did It
- By: Kay Dew Shostak
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Such a small island, for all this.
Reviewed: 08-31-24
I lumped my reviews up and put them in one story. See if you can find it??
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A Grave Robbery
- A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Book 9
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angèle Masters
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why?
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Good ending for the series
- By Marta on 09-06-24
- A Grave Robbery
- A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Book 9
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angèle Masters
What would you do if someone thought it was ok to play God?
Reviewed: 06-20-24
Yes, definitely, another Great book! (and I certainly hope there will be another soon, ) How does she do it? Veronica , and Stoker are always finding the most unusual circumstances to get involved in! I really enjoy what will happen or be introduced next. Things move quickly and twist and zig to unimaginable conclusions.
The narrator is excellent and I must get these books through Audible, Her voices just belong and no one else can take the place to sound exactly right. Especially after listening from the very beginning.
Oh, and remember "Mary Smith"
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The Echo of Old Books
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Steve West, Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books’ previous owners—an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle, tell conflicting sides of a tragic romance.
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Couldn’t finish it
- By Lady Chaps on 03-31-23
- The Echo of Old Books
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Steve West, Sarah Zimmerman
How a book can change a life.
Reviewed: 08-17-23
What a different kind of story. Found in an old used book store, two books that looked identical were discovered. The book seller is drawn to them and the tale they tell. There is such a need to find out more of the story she goes searching for the authors and people that may know the writers. Who and what she discovers changes the lives of several people.
It is quite a mesmurizing and intriguing read. You will be drawn in needing to know, too!
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The Clairvoyant Countess
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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From the best-selling author of the famous Mrs. Pollifax series comes another delightfully eccentric and sage female sleuth - the exotic Madame Karitska. Although she is a genuine countess, Marina Elena Provovnitchek Gaylord Von Domm Karitska is foremost a psychic. When one of her clients turns up dead, Madame Karitska makes the acquaintance of Detective-Lieutenant Pruden, and an uncanny partnership is born. Madame Karitska forms images with the psychic vibrations she picks up from personal objects.
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Very very Cozy
- By MerylB on 05-29-15
- The Clairvoyant Countess
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
Just wanted it to go on!
Reviewed: 07-08-23
I was pleasantly surprised reading this story. What a twist happens here. She is really clairvoyant and he is a cop! Oh yes, the twain do meet. They become a pair who combine their activities and qualities and surprisingly do solve the crimes. Not through "magic" but feelings procured through reading objects these people have worn or carried, and his knowledge of his city and police procedures.
There were many different stories in the book that they were able to solve. I didn't want it to end. When it did, I saw another book and couldn't wait to continue.
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A Sinister Revenge
- A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Book 8
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angèle Masters
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Veronica’s natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months and their relationship is at an impasse. But when Veronica shows up before him with his brother, Tiberius, Lord Templeton-Vane, he is lured back home by an intriguing job offer: preparing an iguanodon for a very special dinner party.
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So good, but sad it’s over so soon.
- By JAM on 03-11-23
- A Sinister Revenge
- A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Book 8
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angèle Masters
Why Kill Now?
Reviewed: 05-01-23
Truly enjoy this series. The main characters are both creative in their thinking and afraid of nothing. They travel and observe the world around them. Made for each other, neither is willing to 'give up their singularly free lifestyles," to fully trust the other . Being extremely intelligent, each knows best! Fun and open laugh funny. Full of intrigue and mystery.
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Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist whisks the gray-haired agent into a perilous web of intrigue that spreads across the drifting sands of the volatile Middle East. An old CIA friend, Farrell, must collect an inflammatory manuscript smuggled out of Iraq into Jordan. Farrell has a simple request for Emily—provide cover during his trip to Jordan by posing as his fun-loving elderly cousin. But before the plane even lands, danger begins stalking the sprightly Mrs. Pollifax.
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Mrs. Pollifax is my heroine
- By Living Right on 06-27-15
- Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
She is Not even on the job...!
Reviewed: 03-27-23
She is Not even on the job...she is an espionage magnet. She just can't help
what happens! Oh the things she is drawn into, the experiences she has!
This time, She Rides A Camel.
Love these books. I Have read and listened to them several times. Never grow tired and seem to always find a tidbit I missed.
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
- Mrs. Pollifax, Book 10
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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A former CIA operative turned art dealer waits in Italy, wounded and in hiding, for the cavalry. According to his SOS, only Mrs. Pollifax will do....
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Not As Good As The Others I Read
- By Lady M on 05-15-15
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
- Mrs. Pollifax, Book 10
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
What can they all be hiding?
Reviewed: 03-19-23
Mrs Pollifax is sent to help a friend, in doing so, she finds an assassin wanted around the globe. Sicily does not sound like a friendly, welcoming place.. Never knowing who to trust is not conducive to enjoyment in my book. So glad the friend was found but the stay held some frightening moments! Mrs Pollifax always seems so calm and unflustard? How does she do this?
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The Painted Queen
- An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense
- By: Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling excavation season, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo when a man with a knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber and utters a single word - "murder" - before collapsing on the tiled floor, dead. Among the few possessions he carried was a sheet of paper with Amelia's name and room number.
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A Fond Farewell to Amelia
- By Carole T. on 08-03-17
- The Painted Queen
- An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense
- By: Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
How many will there be?
Reviewed: 01-30-23
Wow, I can't believe it. The Emersons actually made it through a story of grime, crime, 5 murderous attempts and came out no worse for wear. To complete it all, what are electric fish in the rushes...in the Nile? I'm rereading this set for the umpteenth time and never tire.
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