Painted Ladies
A Spenser Novel
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Narrated by:
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Joe Mantegna
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By:
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Robert B. Parker
About this listen
The brilliant new Spenser novel from the beloved New York Times-best-selling author Robert B. Parker.
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting.
The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves. But this is a game he might not come out of alive....
Completed the year before he passed away, Painted Ladies is Spenser and Robert B. Parker at their electrifying best.
Crack another case with Spenser.©2010 Robert B. Parker (P)2010 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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International best-selling author Linwood Barclay delivers pulse-pounding suspense that puts him among the masters of the genre. A Tap on the Window finds private investigator Cal Weaver making an ill-advised decision to pick up a young female hitchhiker who reminds him of his dead son. But something is off about the girl, and Cal is soon drawn into a host of nightmarish secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 Stars for Tap on the Window
- By shelley on 04-16-14
By: Linwood Barclay
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Cold Truth
- By: Mariah Stewart
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128
Twenty-six years ago, just before a series of brutal murders rocked the idyllic town of Bowers Inlet, Cassie Burke lost her family and nearly her own life to a transient befriended by her father. Back then, Cassie was a scared kid; now, she's a homicide cop. Back then, the suspect was caught and convicted; he died in prison. But now the killing has started again. And all signs indicate that the Bayside Strangler has come back for more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- By Barbara on 05-19-06
By: Mariah Stewart
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New York Dead
- Stone Barrington, Book 1
- By: Stuart Woods
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,270
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,007
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,022
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he’s too smart to be a cop, but it’s pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out. Suddenly he is on the front page of every New York newspaper and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country’s hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ridiculous
- By laall on 11-11-13
By: Stuart Woods
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The Cutting
- A McCabe and Savage Thriller, Book 1
- By: James Hayman
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 347
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 308
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Story4 out of 5 stars 306
Detective Mike McCabe moved from a top homicide job with the NYPD to Portland, Maine, to leave his failed marriage and suspicions of wrongdoing behind, and to find a more peaceful life for himself and his 13-year-old daughter. But the small New England city is not nearly as safe as he thought. On a warm September night, a missing high school athlete is found dead in a scrap-metal yard, her heart removed from her body with surgical precision. As outrage over the killing spreads, a young businesswoman disappears while out on a morning jog.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Is It The Story? Or Its Telling? Hmmmm...
- By Ted on 12-01-15
By: James Hayman
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The Sins of the Fathers
- By: Lawrence Block
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,086
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 956
The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good introduction to a popular series
- By Sharron on 12-26-11
By: Lawrence Block
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Too Close to Home
- By: Linwood Barclay
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 410
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in the house next door, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. You can't help thinking, "That could have been us". And you start to wonder, "What if we're next?" That's the question Jim and Ellen Cutter are asking, and the answers aren't reassuring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Plots and subplots galore
- By shelley on 04-10-14
By: Linwood Barclay
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The Last Place You Look
- By: Kristen Lepionka
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Story4 out of 5 stars 292
Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alcoholic PI
- By Karwyn on 05-17-18
By: Kristen Lepionka
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China Trade
- The Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Series, Book 1
- By: S. J. Rozan
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 174
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Story4 out of 5 stars 157
Asian American private investigator Lydia Chin knows New York City's Chinatown, its people, and its ways as no outsider ever could. It's a city within a city, a rich melange of smells, sounds, dark shops, and close-knit families - a world all its own. And in all of Chinatown, there is no one like Lydia, who has a nose for trouble, a disapproving Chinese mother, and a partner named Bill Smith who's been living above a bar for 16 years. Hired to find some precious stolen porcelain, Lydia follows a trail of clues from highbrow art dealers into a world of Chinese gangs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Main character too immature and unbelievable
- By lindy parke on 05-12-21
By: S. J. Rozan
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Vengeance
- By: Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State Attorney's Office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. Headed for Key West, the Toyota broke down in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Sarasota, Florida. Buoyed by the friendship of a few trustworthy souls, Lew settled there, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attorneys.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectional!
- By Ted on 09-17-17
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Loyalty
- By: Ingrid Thoft
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 50
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 51
Juggling her family of high-powered (and highly dysfunctional) attorneys, the cops, and Boston's criminal element is usually something Fina does without breaking a sweat. But when her sister-in-law disappears, she's caught up in a case unlike any she's encountered before. Carl wants things resolved without police interference, but the deeper Fina digs, the more impossible that seems. As Fina unearths more dirt, the demands of family loyalty intensify. But Fina is after the truth - no matter the cost.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Masochistic Fina
- By Rusty on 08-28-15
By: Ingrid Thoft
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Murder at the Kennedy Center
- By: Margaret Truman
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
Kenneth Ewald has what it takes to win the presidency: the support of his party, a lovely wife, a dynamic campaign. What neither he nor any candidate needs is a corpse. He knows only one man capable of solving a crime, clearing his son, putting his campaign back on track and catching a killer: his best friend Mac Smith. Oddly enough, it was Mac and his dog Rufus who found the body in the first place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truman
- By Barbra on 01-01-08
By: Margaret Truman
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Until Proven Guilty
- J. P. Beaumont Series, Book 1
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Gene Engene
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 847
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 717
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Story4 out of 5 stars 716
Lurking in the dark corners of J. P. Beaumont's bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Until proven guilty
- By Jean on 04-21-11
By: J. A. Jance
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The Blue Hour
- Merci Rayborn, Book 1
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 226
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4 out of 5 stars 186
Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence - his own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash, impatient, and not someone from whom Hess wants to be taking orders. He certainly isn't planning on falling in love with her. Together, they must track down a psychopathic killer who's been abducting beautiful young women from the malls of Orange County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book, exceptional reader
- By Jan on 03-24-10
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Short Squeeze
- By: Chris Knopf
- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 60
Meet smart-aleck Southampton attorney Jackie Swaitkowski. Her business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that she finds herself working on something bigger, and more dangerous, than real estate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen - Good Series
- By Patricia on 02-15-10
By: Chris Knopf
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Jorj
- 11-16-10
I said.. he said... spot said... jane said...
I could barley get through the first chapter from the I said, kate said, she said jungle. I swear to God this book is composed mostly of these words. Reads like a kids book. I'm still struggling to get through it. I doubt if I would recommend this book. I suppose if you "read" this book you just ignore the "saids", but listening is brutal.This is the first time I bought this author, if the rest of his books read this way it'll be the last. When I finally finish it I may write another review, but don't hold your breath I said.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- lindablue
- 12-13-10
Spenser to the rescue
I enjoyed this novel--good action and mystery. Learned more about Susan & Spenser's relationship. A good listen!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Richard R. Eiles
- 10-28-10
I SAID---SHE SAID
Perhaps I am listening to too many books. Parker's use of "I said, she said, I said", and Joe Mantegna's narration bugged me for the first time in the Spencer series. The plot was OK and the humor was there as usual. I missed Hawk. Mantegna portrays him well. In this book all of the characters had a Joe Mantegna accent. As I said, maybe its me....
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-09-17
Another classic Spenser
Montegna is my favorite of the Spencer narrators. This is a fairly typical Spencer plot which makes it a good listen in my mind.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Gen C.
- 10-10-16
Always pleasant
I love RBP's Spenser, Joe Mantegna brings him to life for me. Thanks for such a great listen.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Karen
- 10-19-10
Highly recommend
Classic Spenser. This one is all good...plot, characterizations, etc...and no one but Mantegna should ever narrate a Spenser novel. I like the Jesse Stone novels better, but this is really an enjoyable listen. Highly recommend!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-05-19
Performance
All of my favorites are narrated by Joe Mantegna !
I love mr Parker’s humor. I listen on audible books and I enjoy busy work that way - and driving :)
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Lesley Levin
- 11-28-10
Enough Said
This book as horrible. Every other word was "said". I love Joe Mantegna but it was painful to hear him reading this poorly written book.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Agnieszka Janicka
- 11-29-10
disappointed
Great narrator, but terribly written. I could not finish the book, and i always finish a book.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- cat man
- 05-05-11
Enough "Said"
The incessant usage of the word "said" ruined this book for me, It was so distracting I stopped after an hour. Mr Montegna should have been given or requested more latitude in his reading.
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