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The Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar Award–Winning Author Laurie R. King.
An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee • Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes's past. Full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, the first book of the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries, is "remarkably beguiling" (The Boston Globe).
This program includes a preface read by the author.
Reseñas de la Crítica
- Agatha Award, Best Novel Nominee
“Wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from beginning to end.” —Booklist
“King has stepped onto the sacred literary preserve of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, poached Holmes, and brilliantly brought him to life again.” —The Washington Post Book World
“A fascinating and often moving account of a friendship so unusual and so compelling that one almost accepts it as being historically real.” —The Denver Post
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A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs....
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- De connie en 02-09-13
De: Deborah Crombie
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Death in Berlin
- De: M. M. Kaye
- Narrado por: Kate Udall
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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Miranda Brand is visiting Germany for what is supposed to be a month's vacation. But from the moment that Brigadier Brindley relates the story about a fortune in lost diamonds - a story in which Miranda herself figures in an unusual way - the vacation atmosphere becomes transformed into something more ominous. And when murder strikes on the night train to Berlin, Miranda finds herself unwillingly involved in a complex chain of events that will soon throw her own life into peril.
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Why these narrators
- De Rhian en 09-01-13
De: M. M. Kaye
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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Dead Man's Land
- De: Robert Ryan
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
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Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- De L. Gutman en 03-01-18
De: Robert Ryan
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Haunted Ground
- De: Erin Hart
- Narrado por: Jennifer McMahon
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair, archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether the body has lain there for two decades, two centuries, or two millennia.
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Mysteries old and mysteries new
- De Linda en 11-25-03
De: Erin Hart
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The Lake House
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 21 h y 24 m
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Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure ...One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.
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Enjoyed the writing, but oy vey, this book
- De Jennifer S en 12-28-18
De: Kate Morton
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The Affair of the Porcelain Dog
- De: Jess Faraday
- Narrado por: Philip Battley
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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London, 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it, including Ira's bitter ex, Dr. Timothy Lazarus.
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Brilliant book, Phenomenal audio experience!
- De 'Nathan en 04-24-13
De: Jess Faraday
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Death in Zanzibar
- De: M. M. Kaye
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Dany Ashton is invited to vacation at her stepfather's house in Zanzibar, but even before her airplane takes off there is a stolen passport, a midnight intruder - and murder. In Zanizbar, the family house is Kivulimi, the mysterious "House of Shade", where Dany and the rest of the guests learn that one of them is a desperate killer. The air of freedom and nonchalance that opened the house party fades into growing terror, as the threat of futher violence flowers in the scented air of Zanzibar.
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Old Favorite Now in Audio
- De Marie en 01-13-13
De: M. M. Kaye
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The Distant Hours
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret.
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Right Mood At The Right Time
- De Simone en 11-13-12
De: Kate Morton
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Daughters of Eden
- De: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrado por: Kim Hicks
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- De XX en 09-11-05
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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A Gentleman's Murder
- De: Christopher Huang
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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The year is 1924. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most prestigious soldiers-only club in London: the Britannia. But when a gentleman's wager ends with a member stabbed to death, the victim's last words echo in the lieutenant's head: that he would "Soon right a great wrong from the past". Eric is certain one of his fellow members is the murderer. But who?
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Ignore the indiscriminate ire. It’s great!
- De Denise Dalrymple en 05-15-20
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Instruments of Darkness
- A Novel
- De: Imogen Robertson
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.
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Not The Best, But Not Too Bad...
- De MJ en 01-13-13
De: Imogen Robertson
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Shattered
- De: Dick Francis
- Narrado por: Fiacre Douglas
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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When jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall at Cheltenham, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Logan is a glassblower on the verge of widespread acclaim.
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- De Jaegersmum en 05-21-14
De: Dick Francis
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The Third Victim
- A Novel
- De: Phillip Margolin
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon - tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one - two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead. The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive, and the owner, Alex Mason - a prominent local attorney - is arrested.
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Kept my attention...
- De shelley en 03-22-18
De: Phillip Margolin
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Hanover House
- De: Brenda Novak
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the psychopathic mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead when she was just a teenager - by her high school boyfriend - she's determined to understand how someone she trusted so much could turn on her.
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A little too short
- De Terri en 02-10-18
De: Brenda Novak
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You Can't Catch Me
- De: Catherine McKenzie
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Twelve years ago Jessica Williams escaped a cult. Thanks to the private detective who rescued her, she reintegrated into society, endured an uncomfortable notoriety, and tried to put it all behind her. Then, at an airport bar, Jessica meets a woman with an identical name and birth date. It appears to be just an odd coincidence - until a week later, when Jessica finds her bank account drained and her personal information stolen. Following a trail of the grifter’s victims, each with the same name, Jessica gathers players - one by one - for her own game.
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Wow! WoW! WOW!
- De Bibliophile en 06-12-20
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Crimson Lake
- De: Candice Fox
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted’s lawyer introduces him to eccentric private investigator Amanda Pharrell, herself a convicted murderer.
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tired of the F word
- De Julie en 04-17-18
De: Candice Fox
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A Deadly Bone to Pick
- De: Peggy Rothschild
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Ex-police officer and former PI Molly Madison is starting over. After the death of her husband, she and her golden retriever, Harlow, move cross-country to California. But as charming and peaceful as the beachside town seems, she soon learns its tranquil tides hold dark secrets. On her first day in the new house, a large, slobbering Saint Berdoodle wanders in. Molly winds up taking on the responsibility of training Noodle since his owner is too busy to do the job. On one of their daily beachside walks, Noodle digs up a severed hand.
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A deadly bone to pick
- De Mistiehale en 08-15-23
De: Peggy Rothschild
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Back to the Garden
- De: Laurie R. King
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California—and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities within their walls. And now, just as the turmoil seems buried and the Estate prepares to move into a new future, construction work unearths a grim relic of the estate's history: a skull, hidden away some fifty years ago.
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I remember when......
- De Needler en 09-16-22
De: Laurie R. King
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The Third Victim
- A Novel
- De: Phillip Margolin
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon - tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one - two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead. The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive, and the owner, Alex Mason - a prominent local attorney - is arrested.
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Kept my attention...
- De shelley en 03-22-18
De: Phillip Margolin
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Hanover House
- De: Brenda Novak
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the psychopathic mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead when she was just a teenager - by her high school boyfriend - she's determined to understand how someone she trusted so much could turn on her.
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A little too short
- De Terri en 02-10-18
De: Brenda Novak
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You Can't Catch Me
- De: Catherine McKenzie
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Twelve years ago Jessica Williams escaped a cult. Thanks to the private detective who rescued her, she reintegrated into society, endured an uncomfortable notoriety, and tried to put it all behind her. Then, at an airport bar, Jessica meets a woman with an identical name and birth date. It appears to be just an odd coincidence - until a week later, when Jessica finds her bank account drained and her personal information stolen. Following a trail of the grifter’s victims, each with the same name, Jessica gathers players - one by one - for her own game.
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Wow! WoW! WOW!
- De Bibliophile en 06-12-20
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Crimson Lake
- De: Candice Fox
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted’s lawyer introduces him to eccentric private investigator Amanda Pharrell, herself a convicted murderer.
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tired of the F word
- De Julie en 04-17-18
De: Candice Fox
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A Deadly Bone to Pick
- De: Peggy Rothschild
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Ex-police officer and former PI Molly Madison is starting over. After the death of her husband, she and her golden retriever, Harlow, move cross-country to California. But as charming and peaceful as the beachside town seems, she soon learns its tranquil tides hold dark secrets. On her first day in the new house, a large, slobbering Saint Berdoodle wanders in. Molly winds up taking on the responsibility of training Noodle since his owner is too busy to do the job. On one of their daily beachside walks, Noodle digs up a severed hand.
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A deadly bone to pick
- De Mistiehale en 08-15-23
De: Peggy Rothschild
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Back to the Garden
- De: Laurie R. King
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California—and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities within their walls. And now, just as the turmoil seems buried and the Estate prepares to move into a new future, construction work unearths a grim relic of the estate's history: a skull, hidden away some fifty years ago.
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I remember when......
- De Needler en 09-16-22
De: Laurie R. King
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After On
- A Novel of Silicon Valley
- De: Rob Reid
- Narrado por: Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Felicia Day, y otros
- Duración: 22 h y 5 m
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Meet Phluttr - a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers - and they don't even know the tenth of it. But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA?
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Wow!
- De Keith Cuthbert en 08-05-17
De: Rob Reid
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The Room of White Fire
- De: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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Roland Ford - once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator - is good at finding people. But when he’s asked to locate an Air Force veteran who’s escaped from a mental institution, he realizes he’s been drawn into something deep and dark. What he doesn’t know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman - and why he’s getting a different story from everyone involved. In a flash, what began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford.
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Not for the squeamish...
- De shelley en 03-30-18
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
- De: Theodora Goss
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' deaths, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture...a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns.
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Cute, erratic, sloppy but not without charm
- De Rachel en 07-07-17
De: Theodora Goss
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Eat, Pray, Die
- De: Chelsea Field
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Being an undercover poison taster for the rich and famous might sound glamorous, but for Isobel Avery it means stomaching bad clients and even worse coffee. The one side of the job that lives up to expectations is the money. Which is just as well for Izzy, since she needs an awful lot of it. Who knew when she made a lifelong commitment to a man that it would be one year living with him and the rest of her life paying for it?
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Great!
- De Meg en 02-12-19
De: Chelsea Field
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Spoonbenders
- A Novel
- De: Daryl Gregory
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it's not just her piercing blue eyes that leave Teddy forever charmed but her mind - Maureen is a genuine psychic of immense and mysterious power.
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Slow start, but patience is your friend here.
- De Heather en 08-22-17
De: Daryl Gregory
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The Shadow of the Wind
- De: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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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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- De Rebecca en 07-17-05
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The Ritual Bath
- The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel
- De: Faye Kellerman
- Narrado por: Mitchell Greenberg
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
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Good Read
- De Eva Gannon en 08-21-08
De: Faye Kellerman
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A Simple Choice
- De: David Pepper
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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When one of the nation’s most prestigious senators jumps from a cliff in Maine, it is no surprise that the political elite and the media flock to the story, determined to uncover what has happened—and whether foul play was involved. Palmer Knight, a fast-rising TV news correspondent, is sent to cover the mysterious death, and finds himself embroiled in a plot that goes far beyond the Senate. Meanwhile, Army veteran and former Supreme Court clerk Amity Jones thought she had left the fast lane behind. But her pursuit of a local mystery places bring her back to the world of politics.
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gave up
- De LA en 03-09-24
De: David Pepper
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The Roach
- De: Rhett C. Bruno
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Reese Roberts was the guardian of Iron City. Its fearless protector. The only one willing to do whatever it takes...until he was shot on the streets and left paralyzed from the waist down. Now, the vigilante known as the Roach has disappeared. It’s been years since Reese could take on crime and clean up the streets. He’s a shriveled old drunk. But when a copycat steals his suit and takes justice into his own hands, a new killer emerges. It’s time for Reese to re-emerge from his shell and fight back.
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The novel was great. Bray makes it classic.
- De Brothanoomsy en 12-29-20
De: Rhett C. Bruno
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Zero Sum Game
- Cas Russell Series, Book 1
- De: S. L. Huang
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower...until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people’s minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world’s puppet master. Cas should run, like she usually does, but for once she's involved.
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This book is spectacular! A true must-listen.
- De Luciana Velarde en 10-03-18
De: S. L. Huang
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Thief River Falls
- De: Brian Freeman
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the “Dark Star.” Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story: He’s just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want to cover up. Obsessed with the boy’s safety, Lisa resolves to expose this crime.
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Save your money (or your credit)
- De Janine Weber en 02-03-20
De: Brian Freeman
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Come with Me
- De: Erin Flanagan
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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Gwen Maner is a widowed single mom, returning to her Ohio hometown with her daughter. And thanks to former acquaintance Nicola Kimmel, this is the start of Gwen’s new and promising life. Nicola’s secured Gwen a lucrative job, rented Gwen a house on her same street, and won the heart of Gwen’s daughter, but she almost seems too good to be true. She’s so selfless. So charismatic. And so take-charge. Gwen is sure Nicola is yearning only for someone to get close to. After all, according to Nicola, her marriage is falling apart, and her best friend just up and left one day.
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Wow!
- De Pamela Ann Plumer en 12-25-23
De: Erin Flanagan
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- 10-07-14
Sherlock Holmes Meets His Feminine Match
The promising conceit of Laurie R. King's The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or on the Segregation of the Queen (1994) is that Mary Russell, who possesses deductive powers and mental brilliance the equal of Sherlock Holmes, met the great detective in 1915, when she was fifteen and he fifty-four, became his apprentice/confidante, began helping him solve mysteries as a fully equal partner, and now as an old woman in the 1990s is writing her memoirs about her relationship and experiences with Holmes. King cleverly has Russell explain at the outset that because Holmes became a figment of Dr. Watson's imagination, because Watson's stories about him had taken on a life of their own, and because now people are writing their own stories featuring Holmes, her detective may differ from the one in the reader's imagination. She also points out that her version will be more accurate than Watson's, because the good doctor always viewed his friend from a position of inferiority, whereas she was never awed by Holmes' deductive powers, possessing them herself to an extraordinary degree.
The "tall, sardonic recluse" and the "gangling, be-spectacled girl" met on the Sussex downs after Holmes had seemingly "retired" from detective work to live on a farm where he could keep and study bees, and Russell, whose parents and brother had been killed (and she emotionally and physically scarred) in an accident, had begun living with an unloving aunt on a nearby farm belonging to her mother's family. Both being "blessed or cursed with minds of hard brilliance that alienated all but the most tenacious" people, they felt an immediate affinity. The plot gets going in earnest a few years/chapters later, after Holmes has tempered, tested, and trained Russell, who has also been studying mathematics and theology at Oxford University, and they take on a kidnapping case that "reeks of failure."
Jenny Sterlin gives a fine reading of the novel. I like her Holmes, slightly deeper than Russell, and superiorly wry. Missing from the audiobook is King's cute preface in which she writes about receiving a trunk full of Holmes and Russell artifacts, including the manuscripts for all the stories written by Russell, as if she (and not King) were their author.
King writes plenty of cool lines one can imagine Holmes uttering:
--"My life has been plagued by criminals with instinct but no sense."
--"Guessing is a bad habit brought on by indolence."
--"Reading that drivel of Watson's a person would never know I've had any real failures."
Russell also has plenty of good lines:
--"Holmes, this is Russell you're talking to, not Mr. Watson or Mrs. Hudson."
--"No! I refuse to accept a gallant stupidity in place of rational necessity. Go."
--"Reminders of my femininity always took him by surprise. However, I could not hold him to blame, for they always took me by surprise as well."
And King writes plenty of pleasurable sentences, as in this passage: "Sherlock Holmes had invented his profession, and it fit him like a glove. We watched in admiration that verged on awe, as his love of challenge, his flair for the dramatic, his precise attention to detail, and his vulpine intelligence were called into play and transformed his thin face by putty and paint into that of his brother."
However, she also writes a few melodramatic clunkers:
--"Eccentricity had flowed into madness as malignant as a poisonous spider."
-- "I was struck again by the size of that man's [Holmes'] heart."
And Holmes stroking Russell's hair to soothe her to sleep once let alone twice seems a bridge too far in character revision. And Russell and Holmes diss Watson a bit too often. And a certain Holy Land "excursus" may not be entirely meet.
[SPARSE SPOILER ALERT]
Worst of all, the climax is unfortunate. After King has the criminal genius nemesis of Holmes and Russell go to so much effort arranging elaborate crimes, traps, and tricks to toy with them, and has our genius heroes go to so much effort figuring out the purpose and identity of their nemesis and setting up their own elaborate trap for her, to then have the climax come down to the Scene of Triumphant Gloating followed by the Scene of Diving and Scrambling for a Loaded Gun felt disappointing. For that matter, despite being an unobservant and illogical person, I guessed the nature, gender, and identity of the nemesis before Holmes and Russell do so, which made me think that a mystery story involving genius detectives has somehow failed.
I did enjoy the relationship between Holmes and Russell. I do like a 90-something woman writing her memoirs, because it adds a fine melancholy to everything that happens. I am intrigued by her provocatively signing her "author's preface" M. R. H. Fans of pastiches and fiction featuring Holmes should like this book.
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- Buzz
- 05-18-14
Annoying
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After listening to this, you will understand why Sherlock Holmes never married and why his sidekick was Dr. JOHN Watson and not Dr. JOAN Watson.
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- 03-16-17
I took a chance in this book
The story warmed my heart and kept me interested.
This was a pleasant surprise. I will seek out additional work by this author.
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- kary
- 12-30-14
Holmes sounds like a whiny brat
Would you be willing to try another one of Jenny Sterlin’s performances?
no, her female voice is great but her male voice is terrible
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I couldn't finish listening because the voice of Holmes sounds like a whiny brat...I'll have to read the actual book
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- mama steph
- 10-12-15
great story
What made the experience of listening to The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or On the Segregation of the Queen the most enjoyable?
I love Laurie R King, and read this book when it first came out in 1994. A delight to imagine Mary telling it to me.
What did you like best about this story?
Such a novel revisiting of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and so believably done, Russell and Holmes develop a fine relationship, and its very believable.
What about Jenny Sterlin’s performance did you like?
She voices the characters admirably, not over the top, and her pacing is excellent.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-18-17
5 star all the way
Where does The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or On the Segregation of the Queen rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I have not been so hooked from beginning to end of a book since the last Harry Potter book came out. I love the original Sherlock Holmes but could stop after one adventure. No I stayed up all night listening to this book. Fell asleep listening, blessed my self for my habit of bookmarking at end of each chapter finished. Next morning backed up to my last book mark and finished. That was Monday. Thursday night I have almost finished second time through hearing things I missed first time through and will probably start third time through if I can talk myself into waiting a month for my next credit subscription to get next book in series. This could be a budget buster for me.
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- Haley
- 11-29-18
Great book
Great book. Cannot wait to read the second one. So glad I was introduced to this author
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-06-18
A brilliant beginning
This is a brilliant beginning for what promises to be a great series. I had previously read one of the later books in the series, in paperback, and thoroughly enjoyed it. This audio-book is quite enjoyable. Laurie King has proven to me that she is an excellent at the writing art and craft. The narrator, if anything, enhances the story.
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- James Mackenzie
- 09-30-15
Old-school fun
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I remember ripping through Sherlock Holmes when I was a teenager, and while I was never a die-hard fan, I loved the believably preposterous sleuthing and wild melodrama. Mary Russell is a great way of continuing the genre, without trying to pastiche Conan Doyle, which is very smart. Which I think sums up the book both in style and content.
The narration is good - well paced and with an interesting take on character voices.
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- Karen A. Foster
- 03-24-15
Very entertaining.
At every chapter you have hopes for the orphaned Mary Russell. Intelligent and funny Mary and Sherlock Holmes set out to solve mysteries testing both their characters and friendship. Enjoyable.
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