Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Bardic Voices, Book 4
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Christa Lewis
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Mercedes Lackey
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A magical maniac is loose in Alanda!
A magical murderer is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women, always lower-class, and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found among Church regalia. But the killers are never churchmen, and they always commit suicide immediately after the bloody deed.
Tal Rufen is just a simple constable. But he really cares about his job, and when one of these murder/suicides happens on his beat, he becomes obsessed. His superiors don't care—the victims will never be missed, and their murderers are already justly dead. But every instinct Tal Rufen has cries out that he has seen only one small piece of a bigger and much nastier puzzle . . .
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I should have loved this book.
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Orphaned and left to fend for herself in the slums of Averalaan, Jewel Markess - Jay to her friends - meets an unlikely savior in Rath, a man who prowls the ruins of the undercity in search of artifacts and treasure. Nursing Jay back to health is an unusual act for a man who renounced his own family long ago, and the situation becomes stranger still when Jay begins to form a den of other rescued children in Rath’s home. But worse perils lurk beneath the slums....
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An unexpected gem.
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Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops...and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs.
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Noir and fantasy walk into a bar...
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Thieftaker
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Boston, 1765: In D.B. Jackson's Thieftaker, revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others…until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family.
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By: D. B. Jackson
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Murder in Cormyr
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Don't Waste Time Reading Reviews-Just Buy the Book
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Magdalene la Batarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She and her women are expected to engage in a number of sinful activities, but bloody murder isn't one of them until Baldassare, the messenger, dies. Though Baldassare isn't a regular client of the Old Priory Guesthouse, Magdalene and her women refuse to allow his death to go unavenged. Of course, their efforts aren't completely altruistic.
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Delightful
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives? Mirage, a bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets her mark. But her new mission will take her into the shadowy world of witches, where her strength may not be a match against powerful magic. Miryo is a witch who has just failed her initiation test.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator problem
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By: Marie Brennan
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Jhereg
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Vlad Taltos, a mobster and assassin in the magical metropolis of Adrilankha, is given the largest contract of his career, but the job is even more complicated than he expects.
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Known Of For Decades, Audible Opens My Eyes...
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Story4 out of 5 stars 181
Lisbon, 1755: A distinguished-looking gentleman emerges from the bowels of a ship freshly arrived from London, and sets into the city with a singular purpose. This is Sebastian Foxx, born SebastiAo Raposa, and his parents were abducted by the Inquisition when Sebastian was just 13 years old.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The king's coronation brings hope. Until a murderer strikes. Spring 1661: After years of civil war followed by Oliver Cromwell's joyless rule as Lord Protector, England awaits the coronation of King Charles II. The mood in London is one of relief and hope for a better future. But when two respectable gentlemen are found in a foul lane with their throats cut, it becomes apparent that England's enemies are using the newly re-established post office for their own ends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More please
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 664
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 658
Barely a teenager, Kaylin Neya is a thief, a fugitive, and an attempted assassin. She also has a smart mouth, sharp wits, and mysterious markings on her skin. All of which make her perfect bait for a child prostitution sting in the city of Elantra - if she survives her first meeting with the Hawks!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, gives important series background info
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 84
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Story4 out of 5 stars 82
It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Only so so
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 496
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Story4 out of 5 stars 496
Sonea, former street urchin, now a Black Magician, is horrified when her son, Lorkin, volunteers to assist Dannyl in his new role as Guild Ambassador to Sachaka, a land still ruled by cruel black magicians. When word comes that Lorkin has gone missing Sonea is desperate to find him, but if she leaves the city she will be exiled forever, and besides, her old friend Cery needs her help.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Gay and Lesbian politics
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His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk’s efforts doubly difficult, since he’s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.
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4 out of 5 stars
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promising start to the series
- By connie on 01-09-10
By: Anne Perry
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- By: Ellen Guon, Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Eric Banyon, musician, is out playing the blues on his flute one day, but he couldn't have known that the desperate sadness of his music would free a young elven noble from the magical prison he has been languishing in for centuries - nor does he believe it!
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5 out of 5 stars
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I first read this about 30 years ago
- By Richard Barnes on 04-14-21
By: Ellen Guon, and others
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Alta
- Dragon Jousters Series, Book 2
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Nationally best-selling fantasy legend Mercedes Lackey created a vivid, dynamic fusion of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms of ancient Egypt with the most exciting, authentic and believable portrayal of dragons ever imagined. In the second novel in Mercedes Lackey's richly conceived Dragon Jousters series, the dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth. There, he hopes to teach his people to raise and train dragons - and build an army that will liberate his homeland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Characters
- By Amazon Customer on 04-29-19
By: Mercedes Lackey
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The Oathbound
- Vows and Honor Series, Book 1
- By: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 646
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 643
She was Tarma. Born to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin'a'in people, she saw her entire clan slain by brigands. Vowing revenge upon the murderers, she became one of the sword-sworn, the most elite of all warriors. She was Kethry. Born to a noble house, sold into a hateful "marriage", she fled life's harshness for the sanctuary of the White Winds, a powerful school of sorcery. United by sword-spell and the will of the goddess, Tarma and Kethry swore a blood oath to carry on their mutual fight against evil. Together, sword master and sorceress set forth to fulfill their destiny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Collection of Short Stories
- By E. L. Sapp on 07-27-19
By: Mercedes Lackey
What listeners say about Four and Twenty Blackbirds
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- Janet Allard
- 01-15-23
Spell bindinder
A continuation in the series that at last brings closer to the serial killer’s activities and then leaves open a possible next story for yet another book.
Inter weaves characters from other series to bring them all together and answer some unanswered questions about some of the characters in all the series.
Very detailed character developments that leave readers spell bound.
Looking forward to another book in this series.
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- Nicholas Panagiotis
- 06-02-24
fun direction
I hope for more books in the serious. It is a very interesting world, A story wrapped around the elf's and from there prospective would be nice.
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- theresah
- 09-24-22
mystery magic and music
Four & Twenty Blackbirds (Bardic Voices, #4)
by Mercedes Lackey
For Creative Edge Publicity
The audio is amazing I love the readers voice, with her variation of voice and tone making everything stand out and reasonable.
The book has adjacent story to the bardic voices, since the main characters are not one of the main bards. Although the villain is a remake of one of the original villains that crossed the bardic guild, and the free bards. The book shows the depth of the world created by Mercedes Lackey that its not only just the music and the problems between musicians and the public. The book shows so many nuances of the culture, and shows their broad and intercut ideas of the society.
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- James T.
- 10-07-22
slow very slow
could not get past chapter 5. Lots of descriptive wording not very much storyline. tedious.
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