Crime and Thrillers Audio Books

The Closers - Michael Connelly - Audio Book

2007-05-24T15:48:00.000+02:00

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

2007-05-18T14:21:00.000+02:00

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

2007-05-12T19:18:00.000+02:00

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

2007-04-30T17:03:00.000+02:00

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

2007-04-26T17:17:00.000+02:00

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

2007-04-18T15:25:00.000+02:00

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

2007-03-26T10:54:00.000+02:00

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?

Romance Audiobooks - What She Reads

2007-03-25T11:07:00.000+02:00

If you would like to hear about slightly less vilolent crimes (at least less physically violent) , then why not listen to a romance audiobook? These stories are heart warming or heart breaking. Actually I find that they often simply are about a different way of being vile and nasty: Phsychology used to hurt others, inflicted wounds to the soul...

Well, let's leave it at this: This Romance Audiobook Blog has some really good suggestions for titles that entertain, warm the heart and let you suffer with the heroes or heorines!

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Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden - Audio Book

2007-03-24T10:43:00.000+01:00

Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden : Pablo Escobar walked out of the prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. His audacious escape destroyed the nation's tenuous ceasefire with its infamous narcos, and pushed it into open war with the Medellin Drug cartel.

Over the coming days and weeks, the United States launched a joint military and intelligence operation with the Colombian government, assembling a team of expert personnel and an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry and surveillance technology the likes of which the world had never seen. Their mission: to track down Pablo.

But this time, they knew it would not be enough to just capture Escobar. This time, they would have to finish the job. This time, they were going to kill him. Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar.

This is what I call real investigation's journalism.

Aphrodite - Russell Andrews - Audio Books

2007-03-20T11:07:00.000+01:00

Aphrodite - Russell Andrews : It looked for all the world like a terrible, tragic accident. Susanna Morgan had gotten up in the middle of the night, tripped, fallen, and broken her neck. Yet when detective Justin Westwood inspects the victim's apartment, he can't help noticing that the details don't quite add up. The glass on the bedside table is knocked over but there are no cuts on her body. The scrape on her knee looks suspiciously fresh. And then a terrified witness comes forward, confirming his worst fear.

This is no accident. This is murder.

Justin Westwood moved to East End Harbor to escape a dark, disturbing past, and to lead a quiet life. He had retreated from reality by taking a menial post with a small-town Long Island police department, drowning his troubles in mindless traffic duty and lots of booze. Now his dormant professionalism is awakened after Susanna's brutal murder. This is just the kind of reality check that Justin needs, and he will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of this madness - to find the meaning of the mysterious "Aphrodite" - and maybe save himself in the process.

What a suspense !

24/7 - Jim Brown - Audio Book

2007-03-17T11:25:00.000+01:00

24/7 - Jim Brown : On a small Caribbean island a woman joins the newest reality TV show: 24/7. For Dana Kirsten, winning the $2 million prize could mean saving her child's life. But while the country is watching her every move, Dana is entering a fight for her own life - and a conflict that will shake the world...

Vassa Island has been rigged with remote control cameras, a surveillance satellite system, and the most powerful television transmitter ever created. And that's not all. For a small fee, anyone with a computer can access any of the 638 cameras live, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week - and vote as twelve carefully chosen contestants struggle with each other and the island. But only fifteen minutes into the first live broadcast, the show's host and crew die a ghastly death. The shell-shocked contestants hear a voice echoing from hidden speakers: "I am Control, and this has just become the ultimate reality show."

For me, long ago, " Big Brother is watching you " was the highlight of what a person having all the powers concentrated in his hands could do. This audio book goes even farther than that. Frightening !

Are You There Alone - Suzanne O'Malley - Audio Book

2007-03-13T14:05:00.000+01:00

Are You There Alone - Suzanne O'Malley : 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.

How difficult it is to be able to recognize someone suffering from dementia and someone who does such an act just "per se". Highly recommandable !

3rd Degree - James Patterson - Audio Book

2007-03-11T10:18:00.000+01:00

3rd Degree - James Patterson : One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found - and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.

Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders-and why they are intent on killing someone every three days.

Terrifying, dangerous, breathtaking : to listen absolutely !

Right as Rain - George P. Pelecanos - Audio Book

2007-03-08T15:51:00.000+01:00

Right as Rain - George P. Pelecanos : Derek Strange is an ex-cop who's making a good living with his own business, a detective agency called Strange Investigations. A new case hits him close to home: A police officer has been slain by another policeman in a confusing late-night clash, and the dead officer's mother asks Strange to help her make sense of his killing. That mother's request sends Strange into the darkest chasms of the D.C. underworld, where police officers and criminals operate by their own secret laws, and where human life is sometimes of less consequence than cash, drugs, and other forms of currency.

This audio bookis extremely interesting because its author demonstrates in a masterful way the hidden " face " of certain policemen and their connections with the underworld.

24 Hours - Greg Iles - Audio Book

2007-03-01T13:17:00.000+01:00

24 Hours - Greg Iles : 24 Hours begins with the perfect family. On the perfect day. About to become trapped in the perfect crime. Will Jennings is a successful young doctor in Jackson, Mississippi, with his whole life ahead of him. He has a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, and a young daughter he loves beyond measure. But Will and his family are being watched by a con man and psychopath. A man who has crafted the unbeatable crime. A man who has never been caught, and whose victims have never talked to the police. A man whose life's work strikes at the heart of every family's nightmare: the unstoppable kidnapping.

A thriller which will kept you awake !

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

2007-02-28T14:00:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-27T10:05:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-24T16:16:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-23T14:42:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-22T13:13:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-19T10:55:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-16T17:47:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-14T09:44:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-12T10:00:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-11T12:16:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-09T13:23:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-05T19:21:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-05T13:44:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-04T15:58:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-04T15:25:00.000+01:00

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

2007-02-04T14:58:00.000+01:00

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 !