The Closers - Michael Connelly - Audio Book

The Closers - Michael Connelly : In Los Angeles in 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide-but some of the evidence contradicted that scenario, and detectives came to believe this was in fact a murder. Despite a by-the-book investigation, no one was ever charged.

Now Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases, and this girl's death is the first he's given. A DNA match makes the case very much alive again, and it turns out to be anything but cold. The ripples from this death have destroyed at least two other lives, and everywhere he probes, Bosch finds hot grief, hot rage, and a bottomless well of betrayal and malice.

And it's not just the girl's family and friends whose lives Bosch is stirring up afresh. With each new development, Harry Bosch finds increasing resistance from within the police force itself. Old enemies are close at hand. Even as he pushes relentlessly to find the truth, Bosch has to wonder if this assignment was intended to be his last. Digging up the past may heal old wounds-or it may expose new, searing ones.

For me, Connelly is a consistently excellent author in the crime fiction: his characters are complex and appealing; his stories are believable. Bosch is, in his way,"a gentleman" : for him his job as one principal meaning : to carry on the mission and to keep his promise "always to speak for the dead". For all crime fans.

Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers - Audio Book

Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers : When copywriter Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, everyone assumes it was an unfortunate accident. His replacement doesn't think so, and begins asking a lot of questions.

The new man is something of a mystery to his colleagues, and he certainly dresses well considering his meagre writer's salary Of course, the new copywriter is none other than Lord Peter Wimsey, working incognito to discover the truth.

In between writing catchy slogans, Wimsey sets out to catch the murderer and finds a network of blackmailers, drug pushers and killers.

But the deeper he gets into this criminal underworld, the more his own life is in danger and as the murders increase, he must work to a tight deadline if he's to solve the case before it's too late...

Like most of Sayers stories this book gives us an idea of what life was in a time long past. Lives, relationships and values of middle class advertising employees are portrayed in a very clever and sympathetic way. And in plus, there is a murder that Lord Peter Winsey had to solved. To put it shortly : Dorothy L. Sayers was a gifted writer ! A good reading.

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson - Audio Book

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson : Young orphan and heir David Balfour is victimized by his miserly Uncle Ebenezer, who has him kidnapped and sold into slavery on a ship bound for the Carolinas. But a shipwreck frees David who then meets David Break, a Scotsman returning from political exile. Together they witness a murder, and when suspicion falls on them, they undertake a dangerous journey across the Scottish Highlands.

Set in the tumultuous times of the Jacobite rebellion, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is a classic adventure story that has enthralled generations.

The adventure is very exciting because it feels like a real world with all the details Stevenson employs. While the language can be difficult in places it fades once you get into the story. Stevenson has written a wonderful book and created a wonderful book for grown up and adults to read.

Choke - Stuart Woods - Audio Book

Choke - Stuart Woods : Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion - first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key Westís Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman - the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man - and soon he is in way over his head.

Enter Tommy Sculley, a retired New York homicide detective who has just joined the Key West force, and his young green partner, Daryl Haynes, who turns out to be smarter than he looks.

Up to their necks in an investigation of a bizarre apparent homicide, the two detectives barely keep afloat in murky waters. Events take them from the Florida Keys to Los Angeles and back, as a plot emerges that involves not only the dangerous Clare, but a furious West Coast mob boss determined to get back what is his at any cost.

This is one of those novels that keeps you up late into the night reading page after page.You certainly do not want to miss what will happen next so you just go on and on untilthe book is finished. You have everything in it : murder, plot, lyfestyles, beautiful Florida, a very exclusiv country club, a mob boss....What else do we need to feel the thrill!

Sandstorm - James Rollins - Audio Book

Sandstorm - James Rollins : An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.

Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. Her search for answers leads Kara and her friend Sofia al-Maaz, the gallery's curator, into a world they never dreamed existed. Evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend... and that something astonishing is waiting there.

The two extraordinary women and their guide, Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn
to the desert. Former U. S. Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert government operative and head
of an elite counter-espionage team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat and the trail is pointing him toward Ubar.

What is hidden below the sand is more than a valuable relic of ancient history. It is an ageless power that lives and breathes. Many lives have already been destroyed by ruthless agencies dedicated to guarding its mysteries and harnessing its might. The end may be at hand for Kara, Sofia, Crowe, and all of the interlopers who wish to expose its mysteries, as it prepares to unleash the most terrible storm of all...

Sandstorm contains differents subplots, an incredible cast of characters, various informations -
historical legends, scientific parts, - a journey across continents and time, action and an almost
unbearable suspense. Once yous start to read it you can't put it down ! Magnificent !

The Closers - Michael Connelly - Audio Book

The Closers - Michael Connelly : After three years out of the LAPD Harry Bosch returns to find the department a very different place from the one he left, with a new police chief brought in from New York. Working with his former cop partner Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the Open-Unsolved Unit.

These detectives are the Closers, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD's files — they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. Harry and Kiz are immediately thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of a mixed-race 16-year-old girl.

But as they navigate the case, someone is watching, waiting, and hoping Harry will make a mistake...

This story contains strong language and some scenes described may be disturbing.

Far more better to listen than to watch this kind of stores on TV. Then your imagination is
working at full speed !

Green River, Running Red - Ann Rule - Audio Book

Green River, Running Red - Ann Rule : In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women.

For twenty-one years, the Green River Killer carried out his self-described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he considered evil. His eerie ability to lure his victims to their deaths and hide their bodies made him far more dangerous than any infamous

A few men eventually emerged as the prime suspects among an unprecedented forty thousand scrutinized by the Green River Task Force. Still, there was no physical evidence linking any of them to the murders until 2001, when investigators used a new DNA process on a saliva sample they had preserved since 1987, with stunning results.

Once again we are asking us what is it which urges a human being to become a killing machine and what is the pleasure which he finds in it?