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Meet Your Baker
- By: Ellie Alexander
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 250
After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte's customers turns up dead, there's much ado about murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun Culinary Cozy
- By Bookishly on 04-18-18
- Meet Your Baker
- By: Ellie Alexander
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
Really terrible
Reviewed: 08-18-24
This book is written so poorly. There is so much telling instead of showing, and the main character is so unrealistic. She has no personality and is really annoying and unlikable. I listen to a lot of cozies, and this one is one of the worst I’ve ever heard. I finished it bc I paid for it but I wouldn’t go on to read more. It’s really silly and kind of boring.
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The Cat of the Baskervilles
- By: Vicki Delany
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 115
Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles put on by the West London Theater Festival. When Sir Nigel, some of the cast, and the director visit the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop at 222 Baker Street, Gemma Doyle realizes that Sir Nigel is not at all suited to the role. He's long past his prime and an old drunk to boot. The cast is not happy, but the show must go on. Before the play opens, Jayne's mother arranges a fundraising afternoon tea to be catered by Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room. The tea is a huge success, but, when it's time to leave, Sir Nigel has gone missing - only to be found at the bottom of the rocky cliff, dead. When the police focus their attention on Jayne's mother despite numerous other suspects, the game is once again afoot, and it's up to Gemma and Jayne to clear Jayne's mother's name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worst narrative
- By Karen M. Troutner on 03-13-21
- The Cat of the Baskervilles
- By: Vicki Delany
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
Please change narrator
Reviewed: 01-24-24
For some reason, they have a new narrator for the series and it honestly kind of ruins the whole experience. She is a good narrator objectively, but she’s completely the wrong voice for this series. She’s aged the main character by forty years stylistically, and the voices for the other characters are dreadful. It is very hard to get through because I’m completely taken out of the story by how incompatible the narration fits with a series I was really starting to love. I see they are staying with the new narrator for the next five books, and I am so disappointed. I don’t know if I can keep on listening. I started book four, and it’s kind of painful.
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The Kind Worth Killing
- A Novel
- By: Peter Swanson
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,806
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,493
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,489
On a flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his marriage that’s going stale and his wife, Miranda, who he’s sure is cheating on him. Ted and his wife were a mismatch from the start - he the rich businessman, she the artistic free spirit - a contrast that once inflamed their passion but has now become a cliché. But their game turns a little darker when Ted jokes that he could kill Miranda....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ending is disappointing
- By DARIANN LOYNES on 10-05-20
- The Kind Worth Killing
- A Novel
- By: Peter Swanson
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, Keith Szarabajka
Absurd and flat
Reviewed: 01-13-24
I wanted to read a complex and satisfying mystery, but this book falls completely flat. I’m fine with unlikable characters, but there is not one believable or redeeming character in the lot. The men are misogynist a-holes and the women are caricatures. The plot is absolutely absurd. There is no suspense bc remarkably, the characters figure out the twists and turns without much effort at all. There are maybe two middling surprises, but in the end—literally—everything just happens bc it happens. There are so many unneeded descriptions of things that don’t matter. Ugh. I’m infuriated. So so disappointing.
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Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25,483
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23,021
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,013
Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than 20 years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Definitely needed the trigger warning, but..
- By Hillary on 02-01-16
- Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Ridiculous and gross
Reviewed: 08-18-23
First, the plot and twists are absurd and so unbelievable, I would have laughed if they weren’t also across the board disgusting. I listen to and read a lot of true crime, but this was beyond. It’s almost as if the writer was in a competition for who could come up with the most gratuitous, over the top grossest violence. And for what? To take the most vulnerable character and exploit this person for no purpose other than trauma porn is baffling. I stopped listening with four hours to go, which means I listened to A LOT, but it was affecting my whole mood, so I gave up. If you like torture and horror with very little payoff, I guess go for it. But if these characters were real, the level of mental, emotional, and physical harm they receive would be unsustainable.
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