Jo Nesbos new one out this month. Ian Rankin, and Michael Connelly, next month.
I thought the Rebus book was very good even though the doddery old ba stard was banged up.
The Connelly book was also very good. He has sneaked Maddie Bosch into the cold case squad to work with Renee Ballard. Harry also features. I thought it was particularly good on Audible as Harry narrates his bit, and Maddie hers. Christine Lakin who is a very good narrator does Ballard, and the rest.
I have just started on the Jo Nesbo book. It starts off with a bloke recapping on whats gone before. I immediately thought that I knew that story. I looked it up, and it seems that it is a sequel to The Kingdom. Although this wasnt clear on Audible, or Amazon.
About this listen THE NEW THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MICHAEL CONNELLY
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland.
But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case.
Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.
****
CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:
'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation' IAN RANKIN
'The best mystery writer in the world' GQ
'A superb natural storyteller' LEE CHILD
'A master' STEPHEN KING
'America's greatest living crime writer' DAILY EXPRESS
'One of the great storytellers of crime fiction' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Thanks for the heads up Tony. My Santa list is being amended as I type.
I dont know if you are aware, but you can now follow particular authors on Audible. I think I currently follow 40 odd. They just send me a notification each time they have a new book out. I no longer spend any time shopping for books, and dont miss any new books by my favourite authors.
When Steve Higgs wrote his debut novel, Paranormal Nonsense, he was a captain in the British Army. He would like to pretend that he had one of those careers that must be blacked out and generally denied by the government, and that he has to change his name and move constantly because he is still on the watch list in several countries. In truth, though, he started out as a mechanic - not like Jason Statham in the film by that name, sneaking around as a hitman, but more like one of those sleazy guys who charges a fortune and keeps your car for a week even though the only thing you went in for was a squeaky door hinge. At school, he was largely disinterested in all subjects except creative writing, for which he won his first prize at the age of ten. However, calling it the first prize he won suggests that there were other prizes, which is not the case. Awards may yet come, but in the meantime, he enjoys writing mystery and thriller novels and claims to have more than a hundred books forming a restless queue in his mind because they are desperate to be written. Now retired from the military, he lives in southeast England with a duo of lazy sausage dogs. Surrounded by rolling hills, brooding castles, and vineyards, he doubts he'll ever leave, the beer is just too good.
Old Habits Albert Smith's Mystery Thrillers, Book 1 By: Steve Higgs Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox Series: Albert Smith's Mystery Thrillers, Book 1 Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 13-02-25
Summary Dirk De Graaf has kept his deadly secret for twenty-three years. Not one person on the planet knows.
Until today.
A chance encounter in the street threatens to expose everything and topple an empire he built with little more than ruthless cunning.
But it's just one man. One old man. And one old man can be dealt with easily enough.
Or so Dirk De Graaf thinks.
He should have picked a different old man because some old habits are hard to break and getting into trouble is Albert's speciality.
Alice Feeney is a New York Times million-copy bestselling author. Her books have been translated into over thirty-five languages, and have been optioned for major screen adaptations. Including Rock Paper Scissors, which is being made into a TV series by the producer of The Crown. Alice was a BBC journalist for fifteen years, and now lives in Devon with her family. Good Bad Girl is her sixth novel. You can follow Alice on Instagram and Twitter: @alicewriterland To find out the latest book and TV news, or to sign up for Alice's free newsletter, please visit: www.alicefeeney.com
Beautiful Ugly By: Alice Feeney Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 30-01-25
Summary 'I was consumed by this book, it's her best ever, a work of genius' – Lisa Jewell
'Brilliant and chilling, with an inspired setting, characters that jump off the page and twists to give you whiplash. I loved every word' – Claire Douglas
The million-copy bestselling author of His and Hers, Alice Feeney, returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage . . . and revenge.
* * *
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by a cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there . . . but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible: a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change, but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change, but they do.
* * *
‘Her best book yet’ – Harlan Coben, author of Fool Me Once
‘Magnetic and jaw-dropping’ – Mary Kubica, bestselling author of Local Woman Missing
‘Unforgettable’ – Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End
'A masterpiece, a riveting read, immaculately written' – Janice Hallett, author of The Twyford Code
Hello and welcome to my page! I just deliverd book number 6 to my icelandic editor - a start of a new series! I am an Icelandic author of the bestselling Forbidden Iceland series and my books have been published all over the world. My first book, The Creak on the Stairs, won the Crime Writers Association New Blood dagger, the Blackbird Award and was shortlisted for the Amazon Publishing Awards and the CrimeFest Specsavers Debut Awards. In the series I write about my hometown Akranes, a small town just forty minutes outside of Reykjavík with population of around 8000 people. I love to write about dysfunctional families and relationships. I have a degree in Sociology and Criminology and am very much interested in human behaviour, which is perhaps evident in the books. About me: I grew up in Akranes and fell in love with reading at the age of 5. I moved to Norway in my twenties to study my Masters Degree and lived there for two years. When I moved back to Iceland I began writing my first novel, as I always knew I wanted to write a book. I am lucky to have been a full time writer ever since it was published!
The Creak on the Stairs By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir Narrated by: Diana Croft Series: Forbidden Iceland, Book 1 Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 01-10-20
Summary When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area.
Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.
But as Elma and her team make a series of discoveries, they bring to light a host of long-hidden crimes that shake the entire community. Sifting through the rubble of the townspeople’s shattered memories, they have to dodge increasingly serious threats and find justice...before it’s too late.
Framed - Limited Edition: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions Hardcover – 19 Nov. 2024 by John Grisham (Author), Jim McCloskey (Author) 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,681 ratings See all formats and editions Purchase options and add-ons
Books are signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, foil stamping, a cloth slipcase, and a ribbon marker. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.
"Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true stories--they are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.
Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.
Framed - Limited Edition: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions Hardcover – 19 Nov. 2024 by John Grisham (Author), Jim McCloskey (Author) 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,681 ratings See all formats and editions Purchase options and add-ons
Books are signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, foil stamping, a cloth slipcase, and a ribbon marker. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.
"Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true stories--they are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.
Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.
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Thanks for the heads up Tony. My Santa list is being amended as I type.
I think I currently follow 40 odd.
They just send me a notification each time they have a new book out.
I no longer spend any time shopping for books, and dont miss any new books by my favourite authors.
When Steve Higgs wrote his debut novel, Paranormal Nonsense, he was a captain in the British Army. He would like to pretend that he had one of those careers that must be blacked out and generally denied by the government, and that he has to change his name and move constantly because he is still on the watch list in several countries. In truth, though, he started out as a mechanic - not like Jason Statham in the film by that name, sneaking around as a hitman, but more like one of those sleazy guys who charges a fortune and keeps your car for a week even though the only thing you went in for was a squeaky door hinge. At school, he was largely disinterested in all subjects except creative writing, for which he won his first prize at the age of ten. However, calling it the first prize he won suggests that there were other prizes, which is not the case. Awards may yet come, but in the meantime, he enjoys writing mystery and thriller novels and claims to have more than a hundred books forming a restless queue in his mind because they are desperate to be written. Now retired from the military, he lives in southeast England with a duo of lazy sausage dogs. Surrounded by rolling hills, brooding castles, and vineyards, he doubts he'll ever leave, the beer is just too good.
Old Habits
Albert Smith's Mystery Thrillers, Book 1
By: Steve Higgs
Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
Series: Albert Smith's Mystery Thrillers, Book 1
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 13-02-25
Summary
Dirk De Graaf has kept his deadly secret for twenty-three years. Not one person on the planet knows.
Until today.
A chance encounter in the street threatens to expose everything and topple an empire he built with little more than ruthless cunning.
But it's just one man. One old man. And one old man can be dealt with easily enough.
Or so Dirk De Graaf thinks.
He should have picked a different old man because some old habits are hard to break and getting into trouble is Albert's speciality.
Alice Feeney is a New York Times million-copy bestselling author. Her books have been translated into over thirty-five languages, and have been optioned for major screen adaptations. Including Rock Paper Scissors, which is being made into a TV series by the producer of The Crown. Alice was a BBC journalist for fifteen years, and now lives in Devon with her family. Good Bad Girl is her sixth novel. You can follow Alice on Instagram and Twitter: @alicewriterland To find out the latest book and TV news, or to sign up for Alice's free newsletter, please visit: www.alicefeeney.com
Beautiful Ugly
By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 30-01-25
Summary
'I was consumed by this book, it's her best ever, a work of genius' – Lisa Jewell
'Brilliant and chilling, with an inspired setting, characters that jump off the page and twists to give you whiplash. I loved every word' – Claire Douglas
The million-copy bestselling author of His and Hers, Alice Feeney, returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage . . . and revenge.
* * *
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by a cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there . . . but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible: a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change, but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change, but they do.
* * *
‘Her best book yet’ – Harlan Coben, author of Fool Me Once
‘Magnetic and jaw-dropping’ – Mary Kubica, bestselling author of Local Woman Missing
‘Unforgettable’ – Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End
'A masterpiece, a riveting read, immaculately written' – Janice Hallett, author of The Twyford Code
©2025 Alice Feeney (P)2025 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Hello and welcome to my page! I just deliverd book number 6 to my icelandic editor - a start of a new series! I am an Icelandic author of the bestselling Forbidden Iceland series and my books have been published all over the world. My first book, The Creak on the Stairs, won the Crime Writers Association New Blood dagger, the Blackbird Award and was shortlisted for the Amazon Publishing Awards and the CrimeFest Specsavers Debut Awards. In the series I write about my hometown Akranes, a small town just forty minutes outside of Reykjavík with population of around 8000 people. I love to write about dysfunctional families and relationships. I have a degree in Sociology and Criminology and am very much interested in human behaviour, which is perhaps evident in the books. About me: I grew up in Akranes and fell in love with reading at the age of 5. I moved to Norway in my twenties to study my Masters Degree and lived there for two years. When I moved back to Iceland I began writing my first novel, as I always knew I wanted to write a book. I am lucky to have been a full time writer ever since it was published!
The Creak on the Stairs
By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Narrated by: Diana Croft
Series: Forbidden Iceland, Book 1
Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-10-20
Summary
When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area.
Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.
But as Elma and her team make a series of discoveries, they bring to light a host of long-hidden crimes that shake the entire community. Sifting through the rubble of the townspeople’s shattered memories, they have to dodge increasingly serious threats and find justice...before it’s too late.
Framed - Limited Edition: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions Hardcover – 19 Nov. 2024
by John Grisham (Author), Jim McCloskey (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,681 ratings
See all formats and editions
Purchase options and add-ons
Books are signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, foil stamping, a cloth slipcase, and a ribbon marker.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.
"Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true stories--they are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.
Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.
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