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Books.
I have been buying audio books for years.
I now get them from Audible.
I pay £7.99 per credit per month, and I get 2 credits.
That gets me 2 books every month irrespective of their cost.
I have found them handy when driving the car, in the bath, lying on sunbeds while on holiday, playing poker, and an hour in bed before going to sleep.
I have seen them change over the years, where many today have a number of narrators, making it more of a performance than just reading a book.
I have just done a post about the Bosch series on Amazon Prime.
I have the full series of Bosch books in my Audible Library.
I have enjoyed them in addition to other Michael Connelly books.
Titus Welliver, who plays Bosch in the series, now narrates the books.
I think new members can get their first book free.
Audible is now owned by Amazon.
You can also return a book and get a replacement free of charge.
Free Audiobook & Trial at Audible
Obtain a free audiobook trial from Audible, the Internet’s largest audiobook database. Over 200,000 book titles are ready to download to your smartphone or computer. If you enjoy audiobooks, this is the site for you. Note: a credit card is required to register, but you can cancel securely without charge within 30 days. (UK Only. Any audio books downloaded are yours to keep – even in you cancel during the trial period
https://www.freebielist.com/free-trials/
Series: Terry McCaleb, Book 1
Series: Mickey Haller, Book 1
Series: Harry Bosch, Book 1
Series: Renée Ballard, Book 3, Harry Bosch, Book 22
Series: Jack McEvoy, Book 3
Series: Mickey Haller, Book 6, Harry Bosch, Book 18
I now get them from Audible.
I pay £7.99 per credit per month, and I get 2 credits.
That gets me 2 books every month irrespective of their cost.
I have found them handy when driving the car, in the bath, lying on sunbeds while on holiday, playing poker, and an hour in bed before going to sleep.
I have seen them change over the years, where many today have a number of narrators, making it more of a performance than just reading a book.
I have just done a post about the Bosch series on Amazon Prime.
I have the full series of Bosch books in my Audible Library.
I have enjoyed them in addition to other Michael Connelly books.
Titus Welliver, who plays Bosch in the series, now narrates the books.
I think new members can get their first book free.
Audible is now owned by Amazon.
You can also return a book and get a replacement free of charge.
Free Audiobook & Trial at Audible
Obtain a free audiobook trial from Audible, the Internet’s largest audiobook database. Over 200,000 book titles are ready to download to your smartphone or computer. If you enjoy audiobooks, this is the site for you. Note: a credit card is required to register, but you can cancel securely without charge within 30 days. (UK Only. Any audio books downloaded are yours to keep – even in you cancel during the trial period
https://www.freebielist.com/free-trials/
Series: Terry McCaleb, Book 1
Series: Mickey Haller, Book 1
Series: Harry Bosch, Book 1
Series: Renée Ballard, Book 3, Harry Bosch, Book 22
Series: Jack McEvoy, Book 3
Series: Mickey Haller, Book 6, Harry Bosch, Book 18
Comments
The Harry Bosch books are superb. Intend to watch all 6 series on Prime within that month...
I preferred to listen to a book of my choosing, rather than the radio.
I must admit that some of the performances are very good.
On the Harry Bosch books, I think it adds a nice touch to have them read by the real Harry Bosch, on the telly.
I have watched the first 4 series on Amazon, and they are excellent.
Season 6 starts streaming on 17th April, and Season 7 will be the last.
I have enjoyed the books and movies that include other Michael Connelly characters.
I thought Blood Work, was an excellent film as was The Lincoln Lawyer.
I have read all the Mickey Haller series, and the inclusion of Renee Ballard in the more recent Harry Bosch books was a good move.
I have ordered the 3rd Jack McEvoy book which is due out at the end of May, having read the other two.
Veteran Reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realises he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered.
McEvoy investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own Editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.
As he races to clear his name, McEvoy's findings point to a serial killer working under the radar of law enforcement for years and using personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets
The next book in the No.1 Sunday Times best-selling Camino Island series!
When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida's Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. Most residents flee but a small group of die-hards decide to ride it out. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa.
The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded and a dozen people are killed. One of the victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's who wrote timely political thrillers. But evidence suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of Nelson's death - he had received several mysterious blows to the head.
Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed with the aftermath of the storm and in no condition to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson’s novels were more fact than fiction. And somewhere in Nelson's computer is the manuscript of his new novel - could the key to the case be right there in black and white? Bruce starts to look into it and what he finds between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson's plot twists - and far more dangerous.
Troubled Blood is the next thrilling instalment in the highly acclaimed, international best-selling series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by Robert Galbraith, a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling.
October.
"The master storyteller" (Guardian) weaves a gripping story of mystery and suspense, threaded through with some of the most important issues and themes of our time, in the new John Rebus thriller.
The incredible new thriller from international best seller John Grisham.
.It was close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway.
But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instinctual lizard brain.
A voice in his head telling him to walk away.
Of course this shouldn't be the first time he listened to gut instead.
Meanwhile, 75 miles south and west of Music City is a sleepy little town where a recently-fired guy nurses a grudge that will fester into fury-- and a desire for payback. But who is watching him, standing guard over a long-buried secret, ready to strike before it can be revealed?
If you don't have a sense of danger you're in, then it's best to have Reacher.
There are eight in the series.
Worth a read.
The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk countryside. As a matter of routine, or so it seems, the case passes across the desk of Detective Sergeant Smith, recently returned to work after an internal investigation into another case that has led to tensions between officers at Kings Lake police headquarters. As an ex-DCI, Smith could have retired by now, and it is clear that some of his superiors wish that he would do so. The latest trainee detective to work with him is the son of a member of his former team, and together they begin to unravel the truth about what happened to Wayne Fletcher. As the investigation proceeds, it becomes clear that others are involved - some seem determined to prevent it, some seem to be taking too much interest. In the end, Smith operates alone, having stepped too far outside standard procedures to ask for support. He knows that his own life might be at risk but he has not calculated on the life of his young assistant also being put in danger.
The author started on these as a second series.
He saw a bare arm first, the hand palm up with fingers curled inwards. Then he stopped and took a few breaths. He could hear the two constables making arrangements before they separated, one saying he'd bring the other some tape from the car, and then it was just the summer morning quiet again."
Detective Sergeant Chris Waters got the call at 05.29 that July morning. This is it, said DCI Reeve, you'll be first there, it's all yours, you're the crime scene manager. Suddenly, after months of waiting and wondering, Waters finds himself in at the deep end, and alone at the scene of a puzzling murder.
As the investigation proceeds, the detectives at Kings Lake Central find themselves visiting familiar places and talking to some familiar faces, while old enmities reappear in the incident room. Before this is over, Chris Waters will need to make a career-changing decision, and another member of the CID team will find herself facing an unexpected challenge. And Smith? Gone but not forgotten? Surely, he would say, you cannot write me off with a worn-out cliche like that...
The author started on these as a second series.
The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway. It happens, someone says, he isn't the first to die on the streets and he won't be the last, but the story the new team begins to uncover is far from routine.
New characters appear and new relationships form as the pressure grows on Detective Chief Inspector Cara Freeman to deliver a result and show that Kings Lake's first specialist team is worth the money. Detective Sergeant Christopher Waters discovers links to a previous investigation, learns that there is more than one way to run a successful squad and finds flower arranging more interesting than he would ever have imagined.
This is a tale of two tragedies.
At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended, performed at night in the basement of a local funeral home. Autopsy reports claimed organs had been observed and weighed when, in reality, they had been surgically removed from the body years before. But Hayne was the only game in town. He also often brought in local dentist and self-styled "bite mark specialist" Dr. Michael West, who would discover marks on victim's bodies, at times invisible to the naked eye, and then match those marks - "indeed and without doubt" - to law enforcement's lead suspect.
This leads to the second tragic tale: that of Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks, two black men each convicted in separate cases of the brutal rape and murder of young girls. Dr. Hayne's autopsy and Dr. West's bite-mark matching formed the bases for the convictions. Combined, the two men served over 30 years in Mississippi's notorious penitentiary - Parchman Farm - before being exonerated in 2008. Brooks' and Brewer's wrongful convictions lie at the intersection of both the most pressing problem facing this country's criminal justice system - structural injustice built on the historic foundation of race and class as well as with the much more contemporary but equally egregious problem of invalid forensic science. The old problem is inextricably bound up with and exacerbates the new.
In The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington write a true story of Southern Gothic horror - of two innocent men wrongly convicted of vicious crimes and the legally condoned failures that allowed it to happen. Balko and Carrington will shine a light on the institutional and professional failures that allowed this tragic, astonishing story to happen, identify where it may have happened elsewhere, and show how to prevent it from happening again.
The first book in a brand-new thriller series by the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. A burnt-out cottage, a fortune buried in the ashes - and a body that could solve a decades-old crime....
Jack Warr is a young DC with the Metropolitan Police. Charming but aimless, Jack can't seem to find his place in the world - until he's drawn into an investigation that turns his life upside down.
In the aftermath of a fire at a derelict cottage, a badly charred body is discovered, along with the burnt remnants of millions of stolen, untraceable bank notes - the hidden legacy of Dolly Rawlins and her gang of Widows.
Jack's assignment to the case coincides with an investigation into his own past. As he searches for the truth about his identity, Jack finds himself increasingly drawn into a murky underworld of corruption and crime. Those millions have not been forgotten - and Jack will stop at nothing to find the truth.
An exciting and action packed new thriller, with roots in La Plante's best-selling novels, Widows, Widows' Revenge and She's Out.
Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more....
A darkly compelling debut crime novel. The start of a brilliant series, perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, and James Oswald.
DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine-month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with reopening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their 11-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatised to speak a word.
Then a dead body is discovered, and the investigation leads back to Matilda's case. Suddenly the past and present converge, and it seems a killer may have come back for more...
Product Details
By: Michael Wood
Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Mathew Horne
Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-03-20
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Original
Categories: Crime & Thrillers, Mysteries
On Sunday, February 3rd 1990, seven-year-old Danny Redpath disappeared from his home. Four months later, his body was found in the nearby forest, washed clean of all evidence. Over time, more bodies were discovered; more families devastated forever.
Apprehended while attempting to abduct another child, Jonathan Egan-Walsh was charged with the murders of thirteen boys. Convicted on all counts, he received life in prison and went unrepentant, still refusing to reveal the whereabouts of one of his victims, Zachery Marshall.
Twenty-five years later, Zachery’s mother Diane is still searching for his body. When Jonathan dies in custody, she realises she will never know its location – until she receives a letter he left in his cell, in which he admits he was guilty of all the crimes of which he was accused, except the murder of her son.
Diane tracks down the woman in charge of the case at the time, former DI Caroline Turner, and together with Jonathan’s biographer Alex Frost they start to investigate. Could this be the killer’s final twist of the knife – or is he telling the truth at long last? Sooner or later, this secret buried and undisturbed for a quarter of a century will come to light.
About the performer
Joanne Froggatt is an English actress. She is well known for portraying Anna Bates in the period drama series Downton Abbey, and for this role she received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2014.
Joanne is also known for playing Laura Nielson in the ITV crime series Liar.
Summary
Family always come first. Until now.
No more waiting. Tthe new novel from the number one best-selling phenomenon Martina Cole is here, and it's pure Martina gold. No Mercy is a heart-stopping roller-coaster ride of a listen that proves there really is only one Martina Cole.
Diana Davis has been head of the family business since the death of her husband, an infamous bank robber. She's a woman in a man's world, but no one messes with her.
Her only son, Angus, is a natural born villain, but he needs to earn Diana's trust before she'll allow him into the business.
Once he's proved he has the brains to run their clubs in Marbella, he is given what he's always wanted. It's the beginning of a reign of terror that knows no bounds.
But Angus has a blind spot: his wife, Lorna, and their three kids, Angus Junior, Sean and Eilish. And as the next generation enters the business, Angus has a painful truth to learn. Even when it comes to family, he must show no mercy...
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this ground-breaking book - at once a gripping techno-thriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.
America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.
After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: To field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of shocking catastrophes unfolds, the two find themselves investigating a conspiracy whose mastermind is using cutting-edge tech to rip the nation apart. To stop this new breed of terrorist, their only hope is to forge a new type of partnership.
Burn-In is especially chilling because it is something more than a pulse-pounding listen: Every tech, trend, and scene is drawn from real world research on the ways that our politics, our economy, and even our family lives will soon be transformed. Blending a techno-thriller’s excitement with nonfiction’s insight, Singer and Cole illuminate the darkest corners of the world soon to come.
No food. No water. Out of ammo. Safety is south. But between there and here is 150 miles of barren desert – freezing at night, boiling in the day – populated solely by Ernst Rommel’s fearsome and deadly Afrika Corps.
What would you do?
Give up? Or get on with it?
For the seven SAS supermen in Damien Lewis’s explosive new audio exclusive, the answer was simple: Escape. Evade. Survive. From the mountains of Italy, to the deserts of Africa, these heroes epitomise the bravery, esprit de corps and daring do of Britain’s finest elite fighting force.
Fans of Ant Middleton’s First Man In and Ben MacIntyre’s SAS: Rogue Heroes are in for a treat, as the SAS’s master chronicler, Damien Lewis, has produced a gripping, heart-in-the-mouth, real-life thriller. A Sunday Times number one best-selling author, this fresh look at the most audacious escapes the SAS made in the Second World War is white-knuckle listening of the highest calibre.
Summary
From the best-selling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow’s The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County’s most revered courtroom advocate, Sandy Stern.
Already 85 years old and in precarious health, Stern has been persuaded to defend an old friend, Pavel Pafko. A former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, Pafko, shockingly, has been charged in a federal racketeering indictment with fraud, insider trading and murder.
As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend and - no matter the trial's outcome - will he ever know the truth? Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart.
Full of the deep insights into the spaces where the fragility of human nature and the justice system collide, Scott Turow's The Last Trial is a masterful legal thriller that unfolds in suspense - and questions how we measure a life.