Suspense Thriller – The Audiobook Review

Thunderbird Rising

9 April 2025

Thunderbird Rising is a fast-paced, high-stakes techno-thriller which blends espionage, action, and science fiction into one wild ride in the week leading up to the events on September 11th, 2001. The story follows Maxx King, an ex-special forces operative turned […]

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Extinction

3 July 2024

I can’t imagine in the normal course of things I’d have come across this book, but I’d heard Cal Newport review it on his Deep Questions podcast and thought I’d give it a go. As it turns out, it was

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The Sudden Appearance of Hope

19 June 2024

Another book by Claire North that I’ve been looking at in my wish list is “The Sudden Appearance of Hope”, and this week I’ve finally got around to giving it a listen. I’ve enjoyed both other books by North and

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Doctor Lucifer

4 June 2024

Doctor Lucifer, written and narrated by Anthony Lee, is a current day medical technothriller where, thanks to a computer worm, a hacker has gained access to the Ivory Memorial Hospital’s systems and can change medical records at will. The hacker

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Shooting Bogies

19 May 2024

“Shooting Bogies” by Ralph Monti is a short yet thoroughly entertaining read. The story follows the misadventures of Rocky Delmonico, a golf hustler who becomes entangled with Gino Lofaccio, a neighbourhood mafia boss. Rocky’s streak of bad luck begins when

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Touch

3 May 2024

Another book that has been languishing on my wish list for far too long is “Touch” by Claire North. I had previously both read and listened to “The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August” on multiple occasions and had been

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Silence of the Missing

11 April 2024

On the surface, “Silence of the Missing” by Rick R. Reed is a rather enthralling mystery/thriller involving murder, abduction, love and loss. Digging into it a little deeper though is where the cracks start to appear through some plot inconsistencies

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All Hope of Becoming Human

23 March 2024

The world teeters on the brink of cataclysmic change in “All Hope of Becoming Human” by Lonnie Busch. Amidst a series of seismic upheavals that rock the planet, ancient, huge and mysterious metal objects buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface

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Perfume

16 November 2023

I first read and loved this years ago, back when Penguin started releasing their line of classic books with the orange and white covers. I’d not thought of it since until I found it in a recent two-for-one sale, so

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The Running Man

25 May 2023

Revisiting an old favourite for the first time as an audiobook, The Running Man by Stephen King (published under Richard Bachman) is just as compelling now as when I first read it. If I’m being brutally honest, my first exposure

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In the Forest of the Lost and Found

19 June 2021

In the Forest of the Lost and Found, written by K.D. Van Brunt is a wilderness survival thriller with some (at first) rather unlikeable characters. Allyssa Baylor, her younger sister Grace and her younger brother Nick all reluctantly leave their

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The Impossible Girl

11 June 2021

The Impossible Girl, written by Lydia Kang, is set in 1850s New York, where medical science is advancing thanks to the study of cadavers. Unfortunately, these are hard to come by legitimately, and here we find Cora Lee and her

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