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Robert Kroese
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It's the year 2000 and the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyview is abuzz with the possibilities of vast fortunes to be made in the Dot Com boom. But to retired cop Benjamin Stone, who has come to Sunnyview to find his estranged daughter, Jessica, the promise of Sunnyview rings hollow.
Benjamin grew up in Sunnyview in the 1950s, when it was a sleepy farming town, and he finds its modern day counterpart strange and weirdly insubstantial. After Jessica turns up dead in a creek bed, apparently murdered, Benjamin follows clues that suggest a conspiracy involving a startup company and a Silicon Valley pioneer with a disturbing past.
As the mystery unravels, Benjamin must confront the reality of terrible crimes that occurred in the idealized town of his youth, which helped to make Silicon Valley what it is today. But as Benjamin attempts to unravel the conspiracy, all the clues begin to point toward a horrifying possibility: Sunnyview isn't what it seems.
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Promoting her latest books brings best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher to New York for Christmas. Her schedule includes book signings, chat-show appearances, department store shopping...and murder. But it all begins with a sidewalk Santa staring at Jessica with fear and recognition.
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A release of an older Donald Bain book in the series, thank goodness
- De Dorise en 02-01-19
De: Jessica Fletcher, y otros
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Stealing Shadows
- De: Kay Hooper
- Narrado por: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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From best-selling author Kay Hooper comes a thrilling tale with a paranormal bent and a touch of romance. Cassie Neill has a powerful but troubling gift. She can see inside the minds of serial killers as they are planning their crimes. Tormented by her ability, she takes refuge in a secluded North Carolina town. But there’s no escaping her visions, and when a body surfaces just where she predicted, Cassie is suddenly a suspect.
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Good story, bad narration
- De MEOWx4 en 08-14-12
De: Kay Hooper
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The Pawn
- De: Steven James
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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Steven James' Christy Award-nominated crime thriller pits FBI Special Agent Bowers against a serial killer who enjoys torturing women. After visiting the mountain vistas where the murderer posed his dead victims, Bowers receives a taunting call from the "Illusionist." Although Bowers gets close, his insidious foe continues to elude him.
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Entertaining Enough, But Don't Listen Too Closely
- De Bill en 08-29-12
De: Steven James
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On Borrowed Time
- De: David Rosenfelt
- Narrado por: Chris Ensweiler
- Duración: 7 h
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Richard Kilmer is head over heels in love with Jennifer Ryan, who takes him home to meet her parents, where she accepts his marriage proposal. While visiting, they set out on a nostalgic drive up to Kendrick Falls. On their way, a freak storm rolls in, Richard loses control of his car, and it rolls. When the storm clears in a matter of seconds, Jen is gone. Richard can't find her, and neither can the police who respond to the scene.
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Not enough dogs!
- De Rowan Mangan en 09-18-11
De: David Rosenfelt
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I Am Not a Serial Killer
- John Cleaver, Book 1
- De: Dan Wells
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. Dead bodies are normal to John. They don't demand or expect the empathy he's unable to offer. Perhaps that's what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there's something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat - and to appreciate what that difference means.
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WRONG CATEGORY - THIS IS NOT A MYSTERY
- De guy en 02-27-19
De: Dan Wells
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Gone for Good
- A Novel
- De: Harlan Coben
- Narrado por: Jonathan Marosz
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
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Excellent twists and turns
- De Ed en 10-08-07
De: Harlan Coben
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Mercy Street
- Mercy Street Foundation, Book 1
- De: Mariah Stewart
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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On a balmy spring evening, four high school seniors - three boys and a girl - enter a park in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning, two of the boys are found shot to death, and the girl and the third boy are gone. After three weeks with no leads and no sign of either of the two missing teenagers, the chief of police begins to wonder if they too were victims.
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Mercy Street
- De Marybeth en 12-12-08
De: Mariah Stewart
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The Eyre Affair
- A Thursday Next Novel
- De: Jasper Fforde
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection.
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A Worthy Read
- De chicagoalum en 01-21-10
De: Jasper Fforde
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The Death Dealer
- De: Heather Graham
- Narrado por: Fred Stella, Natalie Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Genevieve knows all about nightmares. She herself survived two months as a psychopath's prisoner. And now this new menace stalks the city. Spooked by the bizarre slayings, she turns to P.I. Joe Connolly, her past rescuer, friend and...hopefully something more, if he would just quit avoiding her. At first Joe isn't even sure there is a case. But the body count rises, and it's clear that a twisted killer is on the loose. Even more unsettling is the guidance he starts receiving from beyond the grave.
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For the Poe enthusiast - this was fun
- De SO en 12-16-18
De: Heather Graham
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Shadow Man
- De: Cody McFadyen
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best, until a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer, Smoky shot him dead, but her life was shattered forever.
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Horrifying, excellent
- De Lee en 10-01-08
De: Cody McFadyen
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Angel Killer
- A Jessica Blackwood Novel
- De: Andrew Mayne
- Narrado por: Jennifer O'Donnell, Fred Berman
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she's left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her - until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate test. A hacker who identifies himself only as "Warlock" brings down the FBI's website and posts a code in its place that leads to a Michigan cemetery, where a dead girl is discovered rising from the ground - as if she tried to crawl out of her own grave.
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If you like Thrillers and/or you like Magic - READ
- De BigJim en 10-31-14
De: Andrew Mayne
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The Vanishing Season
- De: Joanna Schaffhausen
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number 17 in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only victim who lived. When three people disappear from her town in three years, all around her birthday - the day she was kidnapped so long ago - Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous.
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Engaging mystery debut!
- De robbie mcgraw en 06-15-18
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre City of Sand
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- korneel
- 03-08-18
great story
The story sucks you in and lets you travel along with the main character. At some points i miss the humor of Robert Kroese you can find in his other books, and yes, that humor might be missplaced in this story.
The narration is done very well even if i wonder why there was chosen for a female narrator to tell this from a first person perspective of a 58 year old man.
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- waelse1
- 11-17-19
Detective story takes P K Dick turn, very good
Starts as something like a Sue Grafton Kinsey Millhone mystery, where a retired cop looks for his missing daughter in California, then begins to resemble P K Dick's Ubik where you begin to question reality. Very engaging story, with excellent voice work by J D Ledford.
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- Trudy Owens
- 05-07-18
Rod Serling-Franz Kafka cop mystery
City of sand. Shifting sand, sliding sand, sand that doesn't stay where you put it. Sand running out.
This starts off as a regular police investigation, a retired cop searching for his estranged daughter in his old home town of Sunnyview. The town has changed a lot from the rural peach-growing place of his youth to this new yuppy, Silicon Valley, up-and-coming place. Mixed up in this are his childhood memories, his grief over the loss of his wife, and then the falling out with his daughter. He learns that all is not on the up and up in the modern town. Weird things start happening, industrial poisoning, eugenics, secret studies on children, government corruption, and you gradually realize you are no longer in Sunnyview, but rather have wandered into the Twilight Zone.
Little can be trusted anymore, not your eye sight, the people you encounter, even your memories. As you fall into madness and paranoia, you wonder if those trying to help you really are, or if this is some more conspiracy.
The narration is perfect, although it may be odd to have a woman narrating a middle-aged man's story. This is a captivating, fascinating, disturbing tale that leaves you unsure of the ending. But you will come to believe that Carl Jung's "collective unconscious" is a bunch of hooey, and you'll never dare go to a psychiatrist!
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- Midwestbonsai
- 10-17-18
Engaging Noir Reality VS Illusion
“City of Sand” is a pleasant and welcomed change from your standard piece of contemporary science fiction found today on Audible. The book is written by Robert Kroese who currently has authored nearly twenty books at the time of this review; most appear to be well received. The audiobook’s narration is decently performed by Jennifer D. Ledford. This audiobook appears to be her premiere piece and I look forward to hearing more from her in the future. The book is mostly a procedural mystery story revolving around a father attempting to find the person who murdered his daughter. What he finds instead are conspiracies and cover-ups that hit him like a wall in every direction. I’m not one who often gravitates towards detective stories, yet this book’s writing kept me engaged and wondering what I have been missing by not listening to more of this genre. If you are a fan of gumshoe crime fighting books with some quite interesting and fun bits of science fiction woven in, I think you will enjoy the almost 10 hours of audiobook listening this provides.
Imagine retiring from the police force and coming back to the town you were born and grew up after nearly fifty years. When you arrive, what used to be familiar has been replaced by the unrecognizable. A few of the old hangouts and streets remain, but much of the farming community has been replaced with new and modern corporations in the likes of Silicon Valley. The place is called Sunnyview and it is where our main character’s estranged daughter heads when seeking a job. (The next sentence is not a spoiler) When he attempts to reunite with his daughter, she is discovered dead in a creek and the story begins to unfold like a paracord bracelet. And, let me say that this story is multi-faceted. Just as you think you have things worked out, the author throws you a curve ball. If you were anything like me growing up, a curveball was one that I could never hit, it was always a swing and a miss. As this ex-detective works alongside the local Sunnyvale police force, Mr. Stone begins to unravel much more than he expected. His daughter’s murder is only the tip of the iceberg of what is hiding in this town. In many ways, he wants to solve the murder, but I also think he did not think he would get in this deep and stumble upon the truth behind it.
As its title suggests, Sunnyview is a city of sand. One can imagine spending the day at the beach and how sand is able to get into nearly every nook and cranny of your body. Like water, sand flows, moves, and shifts unpredictability. This is exactly what you will get in this audiobook. The story moves, flows, and shifts just like sand, and for me, this is what made it unique and enjoyable. The author also does a good job of including many items that may be nostalgic for older readers such as Cingular Wireless, Blockbuster, and the ever-present Starbucks. I had to smile as the name of these places alone brought me back to parts of my childhood. Where the science fiction comes into place is around technology and components of time travel. At times, the story made me feel like the TV series “Travelers” but in reverse. Each well placed and timed. I do not want to give away too much as this is a core aspect of the storyline, so if this whets your appetite, I suggest you pick up the book and give it a listen.
Throw in bits and pieces of pre-cognition, dreams, and a military clandestine project called GLARE (one has to love acronyms), and you have a procedural science fiction book that actually works. I did like the continued use of the public library by the main character when doing his research. As with Blockbuster, these are sadly becoming less funded and, in some places, disappearing completely. I also found the main character’s continued heavy use of aspirin alarming, yet you discover why later in the book. If I were to sum up the book, it revolves around answering the question of what is real and what is simply an illusion. At times, it reminded me of the original Twilight Zone series.
The audiobook’s narration by Jennifer D. Ledford was good overall with only a few things I would call out for listeners. First, her reading was well paced, and I enjoyed her voice. It was clean, crisp, and she did well articulating. It felt it a bit odd at first having a female narrate a male character role, yet it worked as I was able to quickly adjust. Not sure it was the author’s intent, but it made me feel the story was really being told from another’s perspective. I guess this add to the mystery. If I were asked for any changes or recommendations around the narration, I would give two. The first was the narrator’s ability to distinguish the characters while reading. At times I would get confused who was speaking and maybe using an accent or other means of distinguishing characters could have helped. Secondly, the audio at places of silence, such as between chapters, had a tiny white noise sound which can be caused by compression during post-production. Neither of these would prevent me from listening to the book, however, I point them out for people who have very high standards in audiobooks. I also wanted to point out at least two places where a sentence was repeated and not edited out. These take place around the 3h25m and 3h35m mark. Again, nothing that would stop me from listening to this book again. I’m certain over time, the narrator will correct these items in future books.
For parents and younger readers, this book does contain vulgar language at times. Much less then I would have assumed for this genre but be aware it is there. Other than this, I do not recall, nor did I make note, of sexual subject matter or other adult content. Going into this book, remember it does deal with murder and at times can be graphic; but not simply for shock value. At times the book can get complex and confusing, so I would not recommend it to younger readers unless they have a limited understanding of time, physics, etc.
In summary, for a book whose action takes place mostly during the last chapters, the writing style and storyline kept me focused and engaged the entire way. The characters felt real and multifaceted and I can tell the author made sure to focus attention on this element. I would say if you are a fan of mysteries, this is a great book to listen too. I would also say that for those who, like me, are more science fiction focused, give this book a try as you may be surprised at the direction it takes you. It truly is a blending of these two genres and it works.
Audiobook was provided for review by the author/narrator/publisher.
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- pondo
- 01-16-21
I expected some satire
I really liked this book. It kept me engaged and listening, even more so towards the end as the answers are to be revealed. I thought it was going to be funny like Rex, but none of that was evident. it was a serious story similar to a Phillip k Dick tale like Total Recall (the author gives a short editorial at the end where your go, ahhh, ok, ok.) I just can't say enough good things about J.D. Ledford, she is amazing. If I ever get a book published, I would feel honored to have her read it, she's that good. So all in all great story well worth the credit, You'll never want to quit on it (like the last 3 out of 5 books I've tried listening to.)
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- Les DuLunch
- 03-23-20
You WILL be surprised
My favorite mysteries are the ones in which the ending is a complete surprise but makes perfect sense when I look back over the story and see the hints and clues the author left. City of Sand by Rob Kroese is one of those stories. At it's heart, it's a novel about a retired police detective looking for his estranged daughter who has gone missing, and you really need to read it or listen to the excellent narration for the full story.
That leads me to the narration. One reason I don't like movies or audiobooks of things I've read is that the actors just aren't as good as the voices in my head. Jennifer Ledford's characterizations replaced almost all of mine. I started listening while I was at work thinking I wouldn't have to pay as much attention since I had already read the book. When I realized I was just listening and not getting any work done, I changed to listening while I didn't have anything else to do.
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