Lie or Die

A Shelby Nichols Adventure, Volume 3

By: Colleen Helme

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

“They don’t call me Joey “The Knife” for nothing.”

Mind-reader Shelby Nichols has a problem.

Starting a new agency is hard enough, but add stolen money, shady business dealings, and threatening notes to the equation, and it's enough to give anyone heartburn.

But that's nothing compared to an enemy from the past who wants her dead. Soon, Shelby must use all her wits to stay alive, and her only option?

Lie or Die.

USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Colleen Helme offers a clever mix of mystery, laugh-out-loud humor, and pause-resisting adventure in the highly acclaimed Shelby Nichols Adventure Series.

©2012 Colleen Helme (P)2014 Colleen Helme

I love this author!

Where does Lie or Die rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It was great, one of my favorites!

Which character – as performed by Wendy Tremont King – was your favorite?

Wendy has become Shelby by now for me, I wasn't sure what I thought of this narrator at first but now I can see no other person narrating

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me laugh, as all of the Shelby Nichols adventures do!

Any additional comments?

From the very first Shelby Nichols book I listened to I was hooked. They just keep getting better and better. As soon as I think I have found my favorite one, I listen to another and it becomes my favorite. I highly recommend these novels!

They don't call him Joey 'the knife' for nothing

Would you consider the audio edition of Lie or Die to be better than the print version?

It's different, I really like both editions for different reasons! I really enjoyed listening to Lie or Die, cause you get a great feel for the characters, and Wendy Tremont King does a great job making each character stand out.

What did you like best about this story?

It's a mystery, I liked the way they all had to figure out who was the real threat.

Have you listened to any of Wendy Tremont King’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, I've listened to all of the previous Shelby Nichols adventures. This one is great, it's definitely on par with the rest!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Since I had read the book previously I wanted to sit back and listen at my leisure, so that I could fully enjoy how the story unfolded.

Any additional comments?

This was a great book, I highly recommend it!

Love these books

Love the twists and turns shears something new going on. Will definitely read the whole series ❤️

loved it and will continue on!

however, ms king is obviously Not a Gaga fan. maybe she could’ve given Poker Face a listen before she butchered it?… jus sayin…

Collen Helme does it again.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It was hard to put it down once I got started.

Any additional comments?

Helme's first 2 books were a good read, but I think Lie or Die is were she really found her stride. I found myself getting more and more suck into Shelby's world. It was hard to put it down once I got started.

Loving this serious!

What made the experience of listening to Lie or Die the most enjoyable?

This is the third in the serious and I am still enjoying the overlapping plots, the characters and the humor. It's a very good read or listen. Get it!

Good

Fun, predictable what I’m expecting I really enjoy easy listening I’ll read the next book

This is a "Can't Stop Listening" mystery adventure

This is the 3rd book in the Shelby Nichols Adventures. There are 6 books in the series now, and they do not have to be read in order, but I do suggest doing so for maximum continuity. If you jump in a few books further on, you are just going to want to start at the beginning anyway, so you might as well start there to begin with.

As I have been listening to the fabulous narrations of Wendy Tremont King, a very interesting phenomenon has occurred: Now when I read a new book by Colleen Helme the voice I hear in my head as I'm reading is Wendy's! If Colleen does a TV series or a movie, will Wendy star in it? Otherwise, I'm going to have one of those "That's not Shelby!" moments.

Wendy's narration of this mystery adventure novel with our heroine and psychic soccer mom Shelby Nichols is flawless as ever. Wendy has a unique and very high quality flair of dropping her voice an octave or so for male renditions. She goes beyond that though by her intonation, her inflection, and her affect. Yes, affect. You can clearly tell Shelby's husband Chris from Mob Boss Uncle Joey from Ramos the hit-man and for that matter from Detective Andrew "Dimples" Harris. That is part of what makes this audio book so engaging and so believable. Wendy is equally as attentive to the female characters. She nails it.

I maintain that as the series progresses, it gets better, the writing gets better, the characters get better, and so forth. But listening to Lie or Die again, I was struck by how well written it is. Everything is in there. Shelby and what happens to her is so believable that it is incredibly absorbing and addicting.

Some of what I really enjoyed the most about this particular adventure was the twists and turns that the plot takes. How recognizable some of the characters are. Like Private Eye Rob Felt, and how annoying he is! I found myself saying, "I know that guy!"

Poor Shelby throughout the complications of this book finds herself numerous times having to lie. It's a real Hobbs choice; she can lie or she might die if she doesn't! This causes a lot of angst for Shelby, who is basically a good and honest person. But sometimes she just has no choice. Hence the title of this adventure.

There is a lot of closure in this book. There is a lot of getting to know people better. Is Joey really that bad of a guy? Could a Mob Boss be other than that bad of a guy? Will Ramos learn her secret? What if he does? And what of her old nemesis, Kate? Can Chris win his case without getting beat up or killed? There is so much going on in this book, it literally keeps you on the edge of your seat for a non-stop thrill ride. This adventure has several main plots and sub plots interweaving and co-mingling throughout it that really add to the listening enjoyment.

I said closure, and one of the things that I like the most about this third Shelby adventure is that I came to find it almost natural that Shelby can read minds. I also liked the interactions and the developing relationships between the characters, there is such realism there and I really found that I could relate to them. Lie or Die has a lot of relationship evolution and resolution in it.

I listened to this book during a time of stress and angst in my own life, and I really was impressed by how much I could relate to what happened to the characters in Lie or Die. I believe that the interplay between the author and the narrator must be as finely tuned as a full symphony orchestra to really work, and I found this book incredibly satisfying. Oh My! Does it work!

I would recommend this book without hesitation or reservation of any kind for any readers that crave adventure and mystery in a very enjoyable edge-of-your-seat-cannot-put-it-down ride.

Entertaining

This series caught my eye. The narrator makes the book. Light and entertaining. A good listen. Really enjoying the series. Great job. Original thinking. 👍🏻

This series is great.

I love the storyline. the characters are funny especially Shelby. would recommend this book. can't wait to start the next book.