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IQ

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Written by Joe Ide, narrated by Sullivan Jones — Japanese-American author Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles, and it’s obvious he kept his ears open. He has a remarkable ability to capture the cadence, vocabulary, put-downs, and jiving of the mostly African-American…
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The Force

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Written by Don Winslow, narrated by Dion Graham — For a while yet, every gritty, noir cop story set in urban America will be compared to the television series The Wire in terms of realism, character development, and sheer storytelling power. So the audiobook of…
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The Red Road

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Written by Denise Mina, narrated by Cathleen McCarron — Denise Mina has earned her place among Scotland’s most distinguished authors. This award-winning novel about the long, entangling tails of murder has its beginning in Glasgow in 1997, when a young boy is accused, convicted, and imprisoned…
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American Quartet

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Written by Warren Adler, narrated by Julie Griffin — You can’t help but enjoy the clever criminal lurking behind the scenes in this 1982 classic. Set in Washington, DC, around 1980, a time when I lived in the Nation’s Capital, this police procedural includes many…
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Target Churchill

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Written by Warren Adler and James C Humes, narrated by Nick Howden-Steenstra — Warren Adler is perhaps best known for his screenplay for The War of the Roses, the 1980s movie starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. He’s also written an array of thrillers and mysteries including…
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You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott audiobook

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Narrated by Lauren Fortgang – Known for her hardboiled and noir stories, Megan Abbott’s latest novel – reviewed here as an audiobook –  captures a darker side of sporting competition to coincide with the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. America’s queen of noir has written a psychological thriller…
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel

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Written by AJ Hartley and David Hewson, narrated by Richard Armitage — OK, OK, before you say, “been there, done that Hamlet thing—five times, maybe 10,” this is another Hamlet animal altogether. As an inveterate audiobook fan, I will say that the Hartley/Hewson Macbeth, narrated…
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