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The Man in Black and Other Stories
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde, Jane McDowell, Juliette Burton, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres and to explore what some of her much-loved creations such as Dr Ruth Galloway might have done outside of the novels. This collection gathers them all together in one splendid volume. Here are bite-sized tales to please and entertain every thriller taste as well as all Elly Griffiths' fans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Man In Black
- By Mark Snape on 08-07-24
Short Stories
Reviewed: 09-01-25
I enjoyed the short stories, I particularly enjoyed the story by Flint, Ruths cat and the last Ruth & Nelson adventure, especially as I have just returned from a trip down The Nile.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
- By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,818
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,244
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,231
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her 'missing' boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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underyped
- By HadjerMDHS on 06-01-19
- My Sister, the Serial Killer
- By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
An Interesting Read!
Reviewed: 25-09-24
This was an enjoyable and very different kind of book for me. Its about a family and 2 sisters, one whom is a Killer of her boyfriends.
Will she continue her killing spree, give up and enjoy life or get caught.
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The Night Hawks
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 13
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,566
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,430
The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, recently released from prison. Ruth is more interested in the treasure, a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By madradiant on 10-02-21
- The Night Hawks
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 13
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
The Same but Different
Reviewed: 23-09-24
A good dark mystery when a body is found on the beach and of course DCI Nelson and his team are involved with solving it, with Dr Ruth Galloways help.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,574
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,784
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,764
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A mixed bag ..
- By J. James on 12-10-21
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
An Entertaining Read
Reviewed: 03-11-23
I enjoyed this audible book, I thought that it was going to be a bit predictable but I was proved wrong. I really enjoyed the protagonists veiw points and how the story weaved from past to present.
Loved the ending, what a curveball.
The readers were also very good.
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A Room Full of Bones
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteies, Book 4
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,799
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,594
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,580
It is Halloween night, and the local museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event - the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But when Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise, she finds the museum's curator lying dead beside the coffin. It is only a matter of time before she and DI Nelson cross paths once more, as he is called in to investigate. Soon the museum's wealthy owner lies dead in his stables, too. These two deaths could be from natural causes - but Nelson isn't convinced.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another intriguing story
- By Kirstine on 16-04-17
- A Room Full of Bones
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteies, Book 4
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
A Good Listen
Reviewed: 05-08-23
This is the 4th book in the series with protagonist Ruth Galloway, a forensic archeologist who becomes involed in another crime with DCI Harry Nelson.
It is a little predictable and follows a very similar pattern to the previous books. I enjoyed the development of the familiar characters such as Kate, Cathbad, Judy and Michelle.
All in all a good detective thriller and worth a read or listen.
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The Black Book
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrated by: James Macpherson
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 554
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 475
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 474
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself ...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not his best
- By Charlie T. on 06-12-17
- The Black Book
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrated by: James Macpherson
Another Rebus Adventure
Reviewed: 01-07-23
I do enjoy Ian Rankins writing of Rebus and characters. This is another complicated but exciting detective thriller.
The main characters are developing and we see a little more of them in this book.
Another Great Read.
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The Crossing Places
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteies, Book 1
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,518
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,159
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,152
When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company; she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I had to stop
- By Joanna on 31-03-19
- The Crossing Places
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteies, Book 1
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
An entertaining novel.
Reviewed: 31-05-23
I really enjoyed listening to this first novel. A mixture of Archeology and Detective Thriller.
Ruth, an archeology lecturer becomes involved in helping the police with a missing child case, when she uncovers an Iron Age body of a small child.
The characters are well written and come alive, all interweaving with one another, this was especially entertaining, when listening to the audio book. I did find at times the storyline a little slow, however I really enjoyed the ending.
Overall an enjoyable novel, the first in a series, which I will be continuing.
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Strip Jack
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrated by: James MacPherson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 742
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 660
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 656
Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack's carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a 'mistake' during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn't, and a lunatic speaks from his asylum...
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4 out of 5 stars
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The naked truth
- By Graham G Grant on 03-05-21
- Strip Jack
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrated by: James MacPherson
A great read
Reviewed: 03-05-23
I enjoyed another of Detective Rebus adventure.
Ian Rankin as ever an excellent story teller.
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Other Women
- By: Emma Flint
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey, Sara Poyzer
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Six years after the end of the Great War, the country is still in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost forever, and the sea of women they left behind must carry on without them. But Beatrice Cade is not a wife, not a widow, not a mother. There are thousands of other women like her: nameless and invisible. Determined to carve out a richer and more fulfilling life for herself, Bea takes a job in the City and a room in a Bloomsbury ladies’ club.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spell binding from start to finish!
- By Rachel Redford on 18-07-24
- Other Women
- By: Emma Flint
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey, Sara Poyzer
An Excellent read.
Reviewed: 16-04-23
I loved this book and I listened on audible which made the story come alive even more.
It is about an independent intelligent woman Beatrice, who we find is working in London as a secretary and bookeeper in 1929. During her work, she meets a salesman Thomas Ryan, who is married and there is a connection.
This book is Bea's journey but also with Kate, Ryans wife.
I really enjoyed the chapters written in Bea's and Kates experiences. It shows two strong women and thier relationship with the same man.
I would definately recommed this novel, and now I'm off to read Emma Flints first novel.
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The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
- By: Sean Lusk
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Bert Seymour
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 432
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 387
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 387
In 1754, renowned maker of clocks and automata Abel Cloudesley must raise his new-born son Zachary when his wife dies in childbirth. Growing up amongst the cogs and springs of his father's workshop, Zachary is intensely curious, ferociously intelligent, unwittingly funny and always honest—perhaps too honest. But when a fateful accident leaves six-year-old Zachary nearly blinded, Abel is convinced that the safest place for his son is in the care of his eccentric Aunt Frances and her menagerie of weird and wonderful animals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding, brilliantly read!
- By Kate on 08-03-23
- The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
- By: Sean Lusk
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Bert Seymour
Worth a Read
Reviewed: 19-03-23
This is an unusual, wierd, sad journey over a life time by Abel & Zachary Cloudsley and all who come into thier lives.
I enjoyed listening to this novel, the descrptions of the surroundings, clocks and automators are so realistic that I became completely immersed in it. It is a wonderful story and definately well worth a read.
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