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Narrado por:
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Mary L Phillips
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Antoine Laurain
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When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers’ room is convinced it’s something special. And the committee for France’s highest literary honor, the Prix Goncourt, agrees.
But when the shortlist is announced, there’s a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: She has no idea of the author’s identity. As the police begin to investigate a series of murders strangely reminiscent of those recounted in the book, Violaine is not the only one looking for answers. And, suffering memory blanks following an airplane accident, she’s beginning to wonder what role she might play in the story....
Antoine Laurain, best-selling author of The Red Notebook, combines intrigue and charm in this dazzling novel of mystery, love, and the power of books.
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Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too close to the truth?
- De carl801 en 11-24-07
De: Robert Harris
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Babylon Berlin
- Gereon Rath, Book 1
- De: Volker Kutscher
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, a job he detests even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething unrest in the city, and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the vice squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It's no Bernie Gunther Mystery ...
- De Brian English en 01-28-18
De: Volker Kutscher
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Dead Before Dying
- De: Deon Meyer
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Three men who have nothing in common are found murdered in Cape Town, and the string of vicious killings pushes the city toward panic. Captain Mat Joubert is left scrambling for answers in a case that might be his last chance to prove that his life's slow spiral will not pull him under.
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4 out of 5 stars
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South African mystery, very good.
- De Kathleen en 09-29-12
De: Deon Meyer
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Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
![Codinome Villanelle [Codename Villanelle] Audiolibro Por Luke Jennings arte de portada](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51AJkLglsgL._SL320_.jpg)
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Codinome Villanelle [Codename Villanelle]
- O livro que inspirou a série Killing Eve [The Book That Inspired the Killing Eve Series]
- De: Luke Jennings
- Narrado por: Marcia Caspary
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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Villanelle (um codinome, é claro) é uma das assassinas mais habilidosas do mundo. Uma psicopata hedonista, que ama sua vida de luxo acima de quase qualquer coisa... menos a emoção da caçada. Especializada em matar as pessoas mais ricas e poderosas do mundo, Villanelle é encarregada de aniquilar um influente político russo, e acaba com uma inimiga determinada em seu encalço.
De: Luke Jennings
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Snow White Must Die
- De: Nele Neuhaus
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Snow White and the Seven Red Herrings
- De Mel en 01-17-13
De: Nele Neuhaus
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Mystery Man
- De: Colin Bateman
- Narrado por: Stephen Armstrong
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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He’s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency’s clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It’s not as if there’s any danger involved. It’s an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she’s not – because she can see the bigger picture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mystery, humor & literary nuances - GREAT
- De Toby en 09-06-13
De: Colin Bateman
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The Cleaner
- De: Elisabeth Herrmann
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reader was very distracting
- De Merry Unbirthday en 10-16-17
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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A Worthy Read
- De chicagoalum en 01-21-10
De: Jasper Fforde
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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Murderous Mistral
- Provence Mystery, Book 1
- De: Cay Rademacher, Peter Millar - translator
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anticorruption unit of the French Gendarmerie, was a bit too successful in his investigations. He finds himself removed from Paris to the South of France, far away from political power. Or so it would seem. The stress is too much for his marriage, and he attempts to manage the breakup while trying to settle into his new life in Provence in a 200-year-old half-ruined house. At the same time, Blanc is tasked with his first murder case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good police procedural
- De Ms Peach en 04-15-18
De: Cay Rademacher, y otros
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Blind Goddess
- A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel, Book 1
- De: Tom Geddes - translator, Anne Holt
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. The young man is adamant: he will speak to Karen Borg, and to her alone.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Sure Why I Didn't Like It
- De Tracey Rains en 05-28-13
De: Tom Geddes - translator, y otros
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Jar City
- De: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason’s novels featuring Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson became international sensations on their way to selling millions of copies worldwide. The debut of morose detective Sveinsson finds the inspector and his team delving into the murder of a retiree with horrifying secrets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Police Procedural
- De Aaron en 09-14-13
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Distant Star
- De: Roberto Bolano
- Narrado por: Walter Krochmal
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omg
- De Sierra en 08-03-16
De: Roberto Bolano
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A Pleasure and a Calling
- A Novel
- De: Phil Hogan
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all. William Heming's most at home in a stranger's private things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Invisible Man
- De Janice en 02-05-15
De: Phil Hogan
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
- Auntie Poldi, Book 1
- De: Mario Giordano
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), and her family close around. When death instead takes her handsome young friend Valentino - and under mysterious circumstances at that - Poldi will not take it lying down. Perhaps it's in her blood, but Auntie Poldi's hunting instincts have never felt more alive. Justice must be served - if it's the last thing she does....
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5 out of 5 stars
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More fun and murder in Sicily!
- De MolllyT en 02-19-18
De: Mario Giordano
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Readers' Room
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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- Evgenya Ganelis
- 06-22-23
Excellent and touching story
I am a big fan of the author and always fascinated by the stories he writes. They are all different and brilliant in its own way. Totally recommend it!
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- E.W
- 07-26-24
Literary Mystery
The Readers' Room by Antoine Laurain has an intriguing premise that mixes mystery with a literary twist. Set in a cozy Parisian publishing house, the story kicks off with a debut crime novel that grabs everyone's attention in the readers' room and even catches the eye of the Prix Goncourt committee. Things get really interesting when the editor, Violaine Lepage, realizes she has no clue who the author is, and then a bunch of real-life murders start to mimic the book.
Laurain’s writing pulls you in, and he’s great at mixing mystery with the charm of the literary world. The book has a bunch of cool characters and suspenseful moments that keep you hooked. But, some parts of the plot feel a bit forced, and the pacing can be a bit all over the place.
Violaine’s memory issues after a plane crash add a unique twist, but it can feel a bit overdone as a plot point. The mystery itself is gripping, though the ending might leave some readers wanting a bit more depth and clarity.
All in all, it is an enjoyable read with a fascinating concept, but it falls short of being a standout in the mystery genre. It's a good pick for anyone who loves literary-themed mysteries and wants something light and entertaining.
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- Chris S.
- 07-18-24
Excellent
Violaine Lepage’s publishing house received an unsolicited manuscript that is so special that it needs to be published. It garners award nominations, and also the attention of the police when the crimes in the book seem to be replicated in real life. A lot of interesting characters and twists and turns in the plot. The narration by Mary L. Phillips is excellent. I received a free audiobook code for my honest review.
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- Becky
- 12-15-23
The French publishing world.
I was gifted an audio version of this book from the author through Story Origin.
I'm afraid I really struggled with the French names, not seeing them in writing. I did enjoy the plot. It really has alot going on. Editing a book that describes real life murders. Rape. Pregnancy. Abortion. Lesbianism. A plane crash. All in this short read/listen.
4 stars for narration.
4 stars for book.
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- Hanny
- 12-12-23
WOW!!!
WOW! I loved this book!!!
The flawed characters, the mystery - the ending was surprising and I could never have guessed it.
Truly an awesome job all around!
I received a free review copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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- Mrs.Bear
- 08-31-24
Flawed Characters Rule!!
I was pleasantly surprised about how much I enjoyed this book! I was a bit confused now and then but it all came together. Dysfunctional families and flawed people usually make a good story. These characters did. I loved taking a seat in a publishing house Readers Room! I enjoyed learning how it all works. Very enjoyable listen and narration.
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