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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written..Great narrator...Sad, sad story
- De JBT3 en 02-01-19
De: Kieran Crowley
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Killing Critics
- De: Carol O'Connell
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory - computer genius, street fighter, provocative waif, peerless investigator, manipulative beauty - is the gorgeous, near-sociopathic heroine of this knife-edged suspense novel. Along with old pals, Ricker, Coffey, and faithful admirer Charles Butler, Mallory is determined to solve the brutal "art as death" murder of an untalented but highly touted artist-critic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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2 Stars is generous
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De: Carol O'Connell
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To Speak for the Dead
- Jake Lassiter Legal Thrillers, Book 1
- De: Paul Levine
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 538
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 540
Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder. Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have Miami's trial of the century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jake Lassiter is not your typical hero...
- De shelley en 03-30-17
De: Paul Levine
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Midnight Rambler
- De: James Swain
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Years ago, South Florida cop Jack Carpenter beat up a murder suspect named Simon Skell, a dangerous predator with a penchant for playing the Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler" as he tortured young women. When Jack lost his temper, he lost his job and marriage, too; so as Skell's early release from prison draws near, the tarnished hero, now a specialist in missing-child cases, sees an opportunity to make things right.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not one of James Swain's best
- De Maryfrances en 12-04-07
De: James Swain
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The Blue Hour
- Merci Rayborn, Book 1
- De: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 185
Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence - his own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash, impatient, and not someone from whom Hess wants to be taking orders. He certainly isn't planning on falling in love with her. Together, they must track down a psychopathic killer who's been abducting beautiful young women from the malls of Orange County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book, exceptional reader
- De Jan en 03-24-10
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The Last Good Heist
- The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
- De: Wayne Worcester, Randall Richard, Tim White
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
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De: Wayne Worcester, y otros
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The Chicago Way
- De: Michael Harvey
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A wicked good storm of cliches
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De: Michael Harvey
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Wild Justice
- De: Phillip Margolin
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 437
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 255
Phillip Margolin, best selling author of The Undertaker's Widow, introduces the world to the first genuinely monstrous psychopath of the new century. Also available abridged.
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4 out of 5 stars
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De gustibus...
- De Susan en 01-23-11
De: Phillip Margolin
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Big City, Bad Blood
- De: Sean Chercover
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 278
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 168
Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quintessentially Chicago
- De Eva Gannon en 09-21-09
De: Sean Chercover
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Flood
- A Novel (Burke, Book 1)
- De: Andrew Vachss
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 319
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 324
Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Noir!
- De Snoodely en 03-06-14
De: Andrew Vachss
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Detroit
- An American Autopsy
- De: Charlie LeDuff
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,165
In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Avid Reader and Listener en 07-09-13
De: Charlie LeDuff
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Gangster Squad
- Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
- De: Paul Lieberman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- De KEITH en 02-21-13
De: Paul Lieberman
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No Lesser Plea
- Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, Book 1
- De: Robert K. Tanenbaum
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 623
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 551
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 547
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp has been around New York long enough to realize that the judicial system can be dirty and cynical. But he still believes in justice. So when a vicious sociopath tries to dodge a brutal murder charge by convincing the court he is incompetent to stand trial, Karp teams up with firecracker Assistant DA Marlene Ciampi to unleash the full force of their relentless energy, hardboiled wit, and passion for the truth to put the killer away for good. They will accept no lesser plea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Decent LIsten
- De Ted en 08-31-14
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The Choirboys
- De: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 221
Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch - shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap - each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely Funny, Probably Offensive
- De John Strange en 12-18-14
De: Joseph Wambaugh
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Crash and Burn
- Moreno & Hart Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Allison Brennan, Laura Griffin
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean, Kate Rudd
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 189
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 169
Three years ago LAPD Detective Scarlet Moreno and rookie cop Krista Hart were nearly killed during a botched sting operation. Now, they're best friends and partners in the Orange County private investigation firm of Moreno & Hart. But their routine assignments are anything but safe…
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great storytelling
- De KP en 11-13-22
De: Allison Brennan, y otros
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The Sex Club
- Wade Jackson Series, Book 1
- De: L. J. Sellers
- Narrado por: Damon Abdallah
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 152
A pipe bomb explodes at a birth control clinic, then a young client turns up dead in a dumpster. Kera, the clinic nurse, discovers that the girl’s Bible group is sharing more than the Good News. Confidentiality keeps her from telling the police, so she digs for the truth on her own—becoming the bomber’s new target. Meanwhile, Detective Jackson races to find the killer, fearing that his own daughter could be next.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Weak start to a wonderful suspense series!
- De Wayne en 06-22-17
De: L. J. Sellers
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Midcentury Los Angeles: A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America", a land of sunshine and orange groves, Midwestern values, and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
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Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers - the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between - as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday. But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I miss Ray Porter
- De Kindle Customer en 03-22-22
De: Raymond Chandler
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Destination: Morgue!
- L.A. Tales
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: Craig Wasson
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Noir in the 21st century
- De Michael en 12-31-23
De: James Ellroy
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My Dark Places
- A True Crime Autobiography
- De: James Ellroy
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haughting. I did cry. A good cry.
- De Nerda Trusty en 09-12-19
De: James Ellroy
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The Onion Field
- De: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haunting
- De Avalon en 03-03-13
De: Joseph Wambaugh
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- De Jefferson en 02-13-11
De: Walter Mosley
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City Primeval
- High Noon in Detroit
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 535
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Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets - thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer - and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he's determined to see that the hayseed psycho does not slip through the legal system's loopholes a second time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fight, bleep, or hold the flashlight
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Elmore Leonard
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- Chip Atkinson
- 03-29-21
If you loved the movie, you’re going to love this!
The novel is much more involved and complex than its remarkable film version. It features same characters, but with far more complex with different storylines. Many changes to the overall plot make the story fresh and interesting, including A much different solution and ending.
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- Jessie
- 07-05-23
The movie is better…
I’ve been going through the LA quintet by Ellroy and while I enjoyed listening to LA Confidential, it’s twisting storyline often left me struggling to keep up with all the characters and plots. The long chapters of ‘newspaper articles’ were largely unnecessary and ground the pacing of the book to a halt. The movie does a great job of building a coherent narrative out of this overstuffed book. All that said, I’m looking forward to White Jazz and the conclusion of this epic LAPD noire!
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- Sean P
- 07-22-18
twistier than movie!
Plot is more intricate and twistier than movie. Wasson gives a top notch performance as usual!
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- Ted
- 01-12-17
LA Confidential
A thrilling and gripping story. Violent, intense and intriguing. The story stalls out slightly in and around part 3 but accelerates towards an exciting and shocking ending. Craig Wasson is brilliant as the reader.
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- Marco
- 08-28-22
Wow! Author, author! Amazing!
This just blew me away! From the text to the reading. A 1 performance! Bravo!
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- Rusty
- 04-22-17
great book live the story well read
I know that it's clichéd but the book is way better than the movie well performed well read definitely worth your time
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- Zap Smith
- 12-15-16
A modern pulp crime classic
For newcomers and anyone already familiar with Ellroy's classic sprawling crime novel, this audio version of L.A. Confidential is worth a listen. Wasson tackles author's curt, biting style expertly in narration and highlights the three main characters' complexities in a way the movie doesn't come close to touching. Some of his characters come across as stereotypical voices - Inez Soto - for instance, while others lapse into unintentional comedy: see Yorkin and Jack Vincennes as Jack Nicholson's The Joker, Sid Hudgins as Snaglepuss smoking a pack a minute and the Lucky Charms leprechaun appearing as Dudley Smith. Still, Wasson does a good job of helping Ellroy's sometimes too-fast moving riffs come across as plot development. Audible should consider changing the thumbnail for this title - I can only imagine how much better the original version narration by film actor David Strathairn, who originally played Pierce Patchett, is comparatively.
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- L. Ford Ballard, Jr.
- 04-11-17
Book is as good as the movie, just more complex!
This was a great book for my 6 days a week walk with each disc being a great way to both timing the walk and making the time pass so quickly.
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- Brandi
- 10-07-23
Excellent
Very fast paced story. The narration was fantastic. It is darker and grittier than the movie.
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- Jessie
- 03-27-18
Great Audio of a Complicated Book
L.A Confidential is my favorite book of all time. I read it for the first time at 16 and it's the book that really got me interested in reading. I finished it at 4:00am while on vacation and reread it immediately. Every mystery or crime novel I've read since has been chasing the dragon of L.A Confidential. Some have come close, but it's never been surpassed.
I've read this book countless times, but I decided to listen to it this time around. Overall the audio book is great. Wesson is a gifted narrator and he handles Ellroy's unique staccato style very well. Um, the less said about his voices for female, Hispanic, Black and Asian characters the better. I have to admit, I usually read the last section of the book fairly quickly because there's so much going on. Listening to the book was great because it slowed me down and forced me to really pay attention to the story. I picked up on things I had missed in the past.
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