Birds of Prey - J. A. Jance - Audio Book

Birds of Prey - J. A. Jance : Temporarily at leisure, Beau has agreed to chaperon his newlywed grandmother on her honeymoon cruise to the Gulf of Alaska. But Beau's brief idyll is abruptly
shaken when a security videotape shows a passenger taking a fatal fall overboard. Like it or not, the burden of investigating a heinous crime is once again on his shoulders. Adrift a thousand miles from home, J.P. Beaumont has suddenly found himself submerged in a terrifying conspiracy that, if allowed to proceed unchecked, could have disastrous consequences, not only for Beau and his shipmates, but for the future of the world they all hope to return to.

A fascinating novel : keep you awake till the end !

To the Power of Three - Laura Lippman - Audio Book

To the Power of Three - Laura Lippman : The three girls have been inseparable best friends since third grade—Josie, the athletic one; Perri, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen; and Kat the beauty, who also had brains, grace, and a heart open to all around her. But their last day of high school becomes their final day together after one of them brings a gun to school to resolve a mysterious feud. When the police arrive, they discover two wounded girls. The third girl is dead, killed instantly by a shot to the heart.

For the shell-shocked parents, teachers, administrators, and students, healing must begin with answers to the usual questions—but only if the answers are safe ones, answers that will lead back to one girl and one family and absolve everyone else.

You will stop listening to this audio book only when you will arrive at the end. Very good intrigue.

The Night Gardener - George Pelecanos - Audio Book

The Night Gardener - George Pelecanos : The haunting story of three cops-one good, one bad, one broken-and the murder that reunites them.

When the Body of a local teenager is found in a community garden; homicide detective
Gus Ramone relives intense memories of a case he worked twenty years earlier. When he
was still a rookie, Ramone and his partner Dan "Doc" Holiday assisted legendary detective T. C. Cook as he investigated a series of killings involving young victims left overnight in neighborhood parks. The killer, dubbed " the Night Gardener ," was never caught.

Since then, Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges; he now works as a bodyguard and driver, taunted by his dreams of what he might have been. Cook retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the unsolved case. Ramone is "good police," working as a homicide detective for the city's violent-crime division. He is also a devoted husband and father, and his teenage son, Diego, was a friend of the most recent victim, a boy named Asa.

Its very interesting to follow the way these three coops are going to take trying to solve these crimes. To listen to this story makes it even more exciting.

18 Seconds - George D. Shuman - Audi Book

18 Seconds - George D. Shuman : Investigative consultant Sherry Moore is blind and stunningly beautiful, with the extraordinary ability to "see" the deceased's last eighteen seconds of memory by touching the corpse. A head injury at age five left her without sight and prevented her from remembering her past. When Sherry discovers she has the sight, she learns to use her gift to help others solve mysteries that only she can tap into.

Serial killer Earl Sykes was never caught for his vicious murders. Instead, a deadly traffic accident landed him in prison. Now almost thirty years later, he returns to the seaside town of Wildwood, New Jersey—and to abducting young female victims for his gruesome games.

When you will have finished to listen to this audio book you will need few seconds before returning to reality

Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Sidney Sheldon - Audio Book

Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Sidney Sheldon : All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing. In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore from the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group (KIG), the largest think tank in the world.

Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens -- young widows of two of the victims -- encounter each other in New York, where Tanner Kingsley, the head of KIG, assures them that he is using every resource to solve the mysterious deaths of their husbands. But he may be too late. Someone is intent on murdering both women, and they suffer a harrowing series of close escapes. Who is trying to kill them and why?

What an audio book ! Lot of suspenses, vivid, very well described characters. Sydney Sheldon at his best.

My Life Among the Serial Killers - Helen Morrison - Audio Book

My Life Among the Serial Killers - Helen Morrison : Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.

Dr. Helen Morrison, a leading expert on serial killers, has spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers. In My Life Among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison relates how she profiled Richard Otto Macek, who chewed on his victims' body parts, stalked Dr. Morrison, then believed she was his wife. She conducted the last interview with Ed Gein, the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. John Wayne Gacy, the clown-obsessed killer of young men, sent her crazed Christmas cards, and gave her his paintings as presents. Dr. Morrison has received letters from killers, read their diaries and journals, evaluated crime scenes, testified at their trials, and studied photos of the gruesome carnage. She has interviewed the families of the victims, and the spouses and parents of the killers.

In this audio book we understand how Dr. Morrison tried to discover the reasons why serial killers feel the need to kill and how they choose their victim. Fascinating.

Arthur & George - Julian Barnes - Audio Book

Arthur & George - Julian Barnes : Arthur & George is based on the true story of two men. One is Arthur Conan Doyle, the other is George Edalji, a solicitor from Birmingham. Their nineteenth-century lives are worlds and miles apart, until a series of shocking events brings them together.

In dubious circumstances, George is found guilty of harming animals and is sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude – a future of ignominious obscurity. However, when Arthur, who is now one of the most famous men in the land as creator of Sherlock Holmes, hears of this racist miscarriage of justice he decides to clear George’s name...

Julian Barnes’s novel is based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s extraordinary real-life fight for justice.
and this audio book let us understand how deep he involved himself for this fight.

Zero Game - Brad Meltzer - Audio Book

Zero Game - Brad Meltzer : With New York Times bestsellers The Millionaires and The First Counsel, Brad Meltzer captivated thriller readers with his breakneck plotting, unforgettable characters, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now the acclaimed author returns to Washington, D.C., taking us behind closed doors and into the clandestine world of... The Zero Game.

Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are playing a mysterious game. It's a game almost no one knows about-not their friends, not their coworkers, and certainly not their bosses, who are some of the most powerful senators and congressmen on Capitol Hill.

It's a game that has everything: risk, reward, mystery, and the thrill of knowing that-just by being invited to play-you've confirmed your status as a true power broker in Washington.

The Zero Game is Brad Meltzer at his supercharged best : what else to say? Just listen to this audio book.

Black Dogs - Ian McEwan - Audio Book

Black Dogs - Ian McEwan : In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives for ever.

Black Dogs (1992) is a very complex book, involving numerous grand themes, it is at heart a meditation on the nature of good and evil. And after listening to this audio book you will be thinking of this story much more longer than you thought you would.

The Shining - Stephen King - Audio Book

The Shining - Stephen King : This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the Torrance family.

"This chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear." This audio book is as chilling as the film ! This tells all.

Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan - Audio Book

Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan :

A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning. ' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes." - Anonymous

With her signature "idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery" (Los Angeles Times), Amy Tan spins a provocative and mesmerizing tale about the mind and the heart of the individual, the actions we choose, the moral questions we might ask ourselves, and above all, the deeply personal answers we seek when happy endings are seemingly impossible.

Have you ever read an Amy Tan's book? If not, start "to read" some of her novels with this audio-book : it's pure delight.

Newjack - Ted Conover - Audio Book

Newjack - Ted Conover :

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards - both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with toughness, and participates in prison rituals - strip frisks, cell searches, cell "extractions" - that exact a toll on inmates and officers alike.

"Newjack is an astonishing work by a gifted - and dedicated - journalist. Ted Conover takes us into the dangerous, sad, amusing and instructive soul of one of America's best known prisons."

I found this true story hard enough when I read it, but when I happen to have the opportunity to "hear" it , narrated by Ted Conover himself , I realised that every move, every word, etc. have had their weight !

Devil's Corner - Lisa Scottoline - Audio Book

Devil's Corner - Lisa Scottoline : When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.

When another murder thrusts Vicki together with an unlikely ally, she buckles up for a wild ride down a dangerous street -- and into the cross-hairs of a conspiracy as powerful as it is relentless.

For a long time I thought that just a few could write about such crime. Since I listen to this audio book I knew I was wrong.

Are You There Alone - Suzanne O'Malley - True Crime Story Audio Book

Are You There Alone - Suzanne O'Malley - True Crime Story Audio Book : In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it.

As a journalist, the author began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their mother Andrea Yates drowned them in their suburban Houston home in June 2001. To answer critical questions, investigative reporter Suzanne O'Malley interviewed or witnessed the sworn testimony of nearly two hundred people, including Yates herself, her husband Rusty Yates, and their families.

In "Are You There Alone?" O'Malley makes an important contribution to our understanding the significance and ramifications of mental health issues within the criminal justice system.

This story is already in itself terrible when you read it but when you hear the audio book it's even more touching.

The Lake House - James Patterson - Thriller Audio Book

The Lake House - James Patterson - Thriller Audio Book : The #1 bestseller James Patterson has written the thriller of the summer-and it's one that really soars!

The Lake House is full of the never-saw-it-coming surprises and breathtaking pace that have made James Patterson the #1 bestselling suspense writer in America today. Read it and see why the New York Times said of him, "James Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried....There's no stopping his imagination."

I Love Crime Fiction Audios by James Patterson

Ever since I have discovered how spine chilling a well narrated thriller can be, I haven't stopped feeding my iPod with thriller audio books. I had not realized how many of the bestsellers from well known authors like i.e. James Patterson can be found as audio as well.

James Patterson is the bestselling author of the past year, bar none, with more than 12 million books sold in North America alone. In total, James Patterson's books have sold an estimated 130 million copies worldwide.

I am listening to crime audios nearly non stop. This is quite addictive !