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.