Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dead Key Author: D. M. Pulley Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Winner—Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award—Grand Prize and Mystery & Thriller Fiction Winner It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost. In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank’s sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the vault—and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bridged Series: #2 of Callahan & McLane Author: Kendra Elliot Narrator: Amy McFadden, Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal bestseller After a congressman’s tortured body is found dangling from a Portland bridge, the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to investigate the case—and FBI Special Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer alongside the man who captured her heart, police detective Mason Callahan. But once a third body appears and all evidence points to a serial killer, the public furiously clamors for answers—and the couple’s relationship grows fractured under the pressure. Ava and Mason search in the past for clues that predict the future. And when Ava’s mentally ill twin spins out of control, the FBI agent who battles monsters every day wonders if she shares her sister’s self-destructive streak… In the latest thrilling romantic suspense novel from award-winning author Kendra Elliot, the past and the present violently collide…and the fallout can be deadly.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Dead Series: #5 of Lizzy Gardner Author: T.R. Ragan Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Lizzy Gardner is a one-million copy bestselling series. Life for private investigator Lizzy Gardner will never be the same. It’s been three weeks since her fiancé, Jared, was shot on what was supposed to be their wedding day. He’s in a coma now, and Lizzy is being forced to make a decision she might not be able to live with. But a string of deaths has forced her to get back to work. While they appear to be unrelated accidents at first glance, a closer look shows they all have something in common. More than a decade earlier, the victims were all members of the Ambassador Club at a Sacramento high school: a posh posse that bullied other students, one of whom remains tormented years later. In this pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author T.R. Ragan, Lizzy will need her colleagues and what’s left of her wits to help her track down a cunning killer with a deadly revenge list before the next name—maybe hers—is crossed off for good.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dust to Dust: A Novel Series: #2 of Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Sorry. The single word is written on a mirror. In front of it hangs a Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic?Either way, it wasn’t murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner, Nikki Liska, think differently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges of the young cop’s death, uncovering one motive—and one suspect—after another. The cloud of suspicion falls not only on the city’s elite, but over the very heart of the police department. Someone wants the case closed—quickly and forever. But even with their careers and their lives on the line, neither Kovac nor Liska will give up. As they unearth a connection between a two-month-old murder case and one that has been closed for twenty years, they find themselves chasing a killer who will stop at nothing to keep a dark and shattering secret.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dubiosity Author: Christy Barritt Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 13, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Savannah Harris vowed to leave behind her old life as an intrepid investigative reporter. But when a friend raises suspicions about two migrant workers who’ve gone missing from the sleepy coastal town Savannah calls home, her curiosity spikes. As ever more eerie incidents begin afflicting the area, each works to draw Savannah out of her seclusion and raise the stakes—for both Savannah and the surrounding community. Even as Savannah’s new boarder, Clive Miller, makes her feel things she thought long forgotten, she suspects he’s hiding something too, and he’s not the only one. Doubts collide in Savannah’s mind: Who can she really trust? As secrets emerge and danger closes in, Savannah must choose between faith and uncertainty. One wrong decision might spell the end…not just for her, but for everyone around her. Will she unravel the mystery in time, or will doubt get the best of her?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold Cold Heart Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: January 13, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 93 Ratings of Narrator: 4.3 of Total 20 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: A thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag, “one of the most intense suspense writers around” (Chicago Tribune).Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since she survived her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects.Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small-town life have rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school. Terrified of truths long buried, Dana reluctantly begins to look back at her past. Viewed through the dark filter of PTSD, old friends and loved ones become suspects and enemies. Questioning everything she knows, refusing to be defined by the traumas of her past, Dana seeks out a truth that may prove too terrible to be believed.…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guardians of the Night Series: #2 of A Gideon and Sirius Novel Author: Alan Russell Narrator: Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: As the sole members of LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles’s standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange—it might be out of this world. Ronald “Wrong” Pauley is a homeless man long fallen from grace. When Pauley’s late-night drinking is interrupted by a detonation of light, he sees what he describes as a “being of light” in the alley below. Pauley tries to help, but ends up as a witness to what he believes is the murder of a fallen angel. Gideon and Sirius are already in the midst of trying to determine the identity of the so-called “Reluctant Hero” who seemed to magically appear just moments after shots began ringing out at an elementary school. Braving gunfire, the hero tackled the shooter, and then disappeared. Both cases defy easy answers, but when Pauley turns up dead, the detectives are left with two murders to solve and lots of questions. Gideon and Sirius—along with help from a newfound friend—investigate that thin line between the real and surreal to make sense of these possible crimes. In this exciting and captivating sequel to Burning Man, a smart-mouthed skeptic and his loyal partner must unravel a dark otherworldly mystery to deliver real-world justice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Her Father's Grave Series: #1 of Rogue River Novella Author: Kendra Elliot Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: In a small town like Solitude, Oregon, keeping a secret can be murder. Stevie Taylor had left her sleepy Oregon hometown for a more exciting life. But after her police chief father passes away, the LAPD cop returns to Solitude and signs on as a patrol officer, hoping to heal from her loss…and from the horrific things she’s seen in the city. In Solitude, everyone knows everyone else’s business—and, to Stevie’s dismay, local gossip soon ties her to the new police chief and a man from her past. Tragedy then shakes up the small town when a teenager dies after taking a strange new drug. Now, the seasoned LA cop must hunt down the dealer while investigating the most important case of her life, one that could divide her tranquil town. The first of four thrilling Rogue River novellas, On Her Father’s Grave launches a new romantic suspense series from Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shot on Location Series: #9 of Key West Author: Laurence Shames Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 12, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Take three speedboats, a disgruntled ghostwriter, and a hit TV show starring a gorgeous but impossible diva and created by a driven genius who may be losing his marbles. Add a fearless and gleefully profane stuntwoman, an ancient Mafioso with a chihuahua, and a revenge-crazed blonde in gladiator sandals. Stir in a thug with a heart of gold and an inveterate slacker who yearns for glory. Whisk a loopy but tender romance into the mix, turn the whole crew loose in the liberating and seductive sunshine of the Florida Keys-and what do you have? SHOT ON LOCATION, the new and long-awaited Key West novel by Laurence Shames. Hilarious and suspenseful, wisecracking and wise, this is the most intoxicating story yet from the author of such cult classics as FLORIDA STRAITS and SUNBURN. Longtime Shames fans will rejoice at his return to the fictional turf of Key West and the reappearance of some of his most beloved characters. And new readers will find themselves in for a hell of a ride as Hollywood glitz meets Florida funky.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Road: A Charlie Parker Thriller Series: #4 of Charlie Parker Author: John Connolly Narrator: Paul Birchard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Internationally bestselling author John Connolly takes readers into the dark world of private detective Charlie Parker, whose deadly fight against evil begins when the daughter of a South Carolina millionaire is raped and murdered. In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to enter a living nightmare, a red dreamscape haunted by the murderous spectre of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the complicity of both friends and enemies in the events surrounding Marianne Larousse's death. This is not an investigation. This is a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul... For in a prison cell far to the north, an old adversary is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting, and a strange, hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn. Soon, all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps and northern forests, in distant locations linked by a single thread, a place where the paths of the living and the dead converge. A place known only as the White Road.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Light Before Day Author: Christopher Rice Narrator: Cole Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 16 minutes Release date: December 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Adam Murphy wants to be a serious journalist. Unfortunately, he spends his days writing copy about underwear and abs for a gay lifestyle magazine. When a troubled young porn star brings him a tip about a recently deceased marine’s secret visit to an infamous pimp for underage boys, Adam is determined to break the story…until someone starts threatening his life. Undeterred, Adam begins to unravel a deadly conspiracy involving runaway sugar daddies, salacious A-list parties, and three handsome young men who have vanished without a trace. Now he must enter the seedy underbelly of LA to find the truth behind their disappearance, as well as the disappearance of his ex-lover, Corey—who may have some deadly secrets of his own. In this supercharged modern noir tale of sex, drugs, and revenge from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice, getting to the bottom of a scandalous story can be dangerous…if not downright fatal.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dark Hollow: A Thriller Series: #2 of Charlie Parker Author: John Connolly Narrator: Jeff Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.59 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: “Connolly has crafted one of the most darkly intriguing books this reviewer has encountered in more than three decades of reading crime fiction.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The second thriller in John Connolly's bestselling, chilling series featuring haunted private investigator Charlie Parker. Charlier Parker, a former New York City detective with a haunted past, befriends a down-and-out mother with a small child. When she turns up dead, Charlie's first suspect is her estranged husband. Charlie follows the man's trail to Maine and there he becomes entangled in a series of strange occurances which all seem to harken back to a string of unsolved murders that took place generations before. The murders were never solved and now Charlie must hunt for a killer and the connection between two crimes that span a century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A False Mirror Series: #9 of Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries Author: Charles Todd Narrator: Samuel Gillies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 12 minutes Release date: December 5, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Unhealed scars of the Great War still torment Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge. A haunted, damaged shell of a man, he has been sent to the small coastal town of Hampton Regis to solve a violent crime and to confront his own tragic past. An officer who served with Rutledge in the trenches of France before being sent backto England under suspicious circumstances has now been accused of savagely beatingthe husband of the woman he still loves. The suspect has taken the wife hostage, threatening to kill her and her maid unless Rutledge takes charge of the investigation.Although the case painfully mirrors Rutledge's own past and the love he lost to another man, he cannot refuse it. When the unconscious brutalized victim vanishes without a trace,it's clear that this peaceful little town hides a vicious murderer and secrets powerful enough to kill for.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Copper Frame Author: Ellery Queen Narrator: Mark Peckham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: This was cold-blooded murder! The Syndicate—led by gangster Larry Cutter—is trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, mayor, and police chief in their pocket. So they kill chief Andy Saxon and one of his top men. Then they move in to clean up. But they hadn't reckoned on the chief's son, Lieutenant Ted Saxon. And to stop him, they will have to frame him with his own father's murder! Suspended from the force, facing trial, the whole town against him, how could Ted hope to beat Cutter's hands?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death Spins the Platter Author: Ellery Queen Narrator: Mark Peckham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Disc jockey Tutter King has it made. Every time he spins a platter on King's Session, gold comes out: TV earnings, returns on his secret holdings in recording companies—the old payola that some bright young men think only their rightful due. Tutter is a gay young man-around-town who has the world dancing to his tune. He is also involved in some hanky-panky with his pretty blond assistant, Lola Arkwright. And then the roof starts to cave in: Senate investigating committees; the angry emergence of the wife who Lola never knew existed; the canceling of his network contract. Poor Tutter, it looks like he is going to lose everything—even his life!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 Series: Part of The Classic Radio Collection Author: Hollywood 360 Narrator: Tom Conway, Nigel Bruce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, came to NBC radio in 1930 with Richard Gordon playing the legendary sleuth. By 1939 Basil Rathbone was heard as Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo was simultaneously starring in a popular series of Sherlock Holmes features for Twentieth Century Fox and later for Universal Studios. By the end of the mid-1940s, Rathbone was eager to separate himself from the radio show to avoid being typecast. Though the show’s sponsor offered him generous pay to continue, he decided to move on. Tom Conway then took over the role, with Nigel Bruce continuing as Watson. Conway and Bruce were replaced in 1947 by John Stanley and Alfred Shirley. Others to portray Holmes and Watson during the radio program’s run were George Shelton and Ian Martin and Ben Wright and Eric Snowden. In 1955 NBC signed heavyweights John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson to star as Holmes and Watson, but with radio quickly giving way to television, it lasted only one season. This collection contains twelve amazing Sherlock Holmes adventures, starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce. Episodes include “The Clue of the Hungry Cat,” “The Adventure of the Original Hamlet,” “The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys,” “The Adventure of the Genuine Guarnarius,” “The Adventure of the Sally Martin,” “The Strange Death of Mrs. Abernetty,” “The Adventure of the Half-Eaten Apple, the Coptic Compass, and the Unclothed Corpse,” “The Adventure of the Elusive Emerald,” “The Adventure of the Grand Old Man,” “The Singular Affair of the White Cockerel,” “The Darlington Substitution Case,” and “The Singular Affair of the Babbling Butler.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: End of Secrets Author: Ryan Quinn Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Though her specialty is foreign cyber terrorism, CIA agent Kera Mersal finds herself plunged into a bizarre domestic case. Singers, writers, and artists are disappearing, leaving no trace in a world where everyone leaves a digital footprint. Posing as a journalist, Kera attempts to track the artists’ last-known movements. On a hunt that takes her from the underground art scene to a rogue domestic spying program, Kera finds her investigation on a deadly collision course with ONE Corp., the world’s largest multimedia conglomerate. As she’s drawn deeper into the investigation, she discovers that an enigmatic young ad exec, a wealthy playboy, and a mysterious website may connect the missing artists and ONE’s growing power. And with each discovery comes confirmation of a terrifying truth—no one’s secrets are safe. A smartly suspenseful and timely thriller, End of Secrets dives into the depths of our culture’s two most relentless obsessions: entertainment and profit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dash of Death Series: #2 of The Hemlock Falls Mysteries Author: Claudia Bishop Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls, while her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sisters have to rely on other skills—spotting clues, solving crimes, and catching culprits. Helena Houndswood is the epitome of class—at least when the camera's rolling. Behind the scenes, the celebrated expert on stylish living is just a garden-variety snob with a heart of stone. She's furious to learn that a group of decidedly d├®class├® Hemlock Falls women has won the design contest sponsored by her television show, It's a Beautiful Life. Now one winner is missing and another is dead—but just how far would Helena go to avoid mixing with the unwashed? After all, murder is so tacky.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Man’s Tale Author: Ellery Queen Narrator: Mark Peckham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 1, 2014 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier. Now Barney is dead and his two million dollar estate is left entirely to the soldier who saved him, Milo Hacha. But that fortune comes with a death sentence, for Barney's widow, Estelle, won't rest until she gets back everything that is rightfully hers. She sends Steve Longacre, once one of Barney's boys, to Europe to find Hacha, trailing him from Holland to Switzerland, to Vienna, and finally to Prague. Longacre has Hacha on the run, fleeing love, money, and a velvet-lined coffin …

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Land of Careful Shadows Series: #1 of The Jimmy Vega Mysteries Author: Suzanne Chazin Narrator: Armando Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Land of Careful Shadows by award-winning author Suzanne Chazin is a powerful mystery full of passion and secrets that deals with a clash of cultures and familial relationships, and it's full of drama, mystery, and raw emotions. When the dead body of a Latino woman is found in a reservoir about fifty miles north of Manhattan, with a photo of a baby in her purse nearby, the police try to determine who the child is and if it is still alive. Along with the photo, they also find a disturbing note in the purse: 'Go back to your country. You don't belong here.' Homicide detective Jimmy Vega is Latino too, so he knows how hard it can be for an outsider to fit into a close-knit town like Lake Holly. Vega is a highly respected officer of the law, and he is challenged and intrigued by Adele Figueroa, a passionate defender of immigrants' rights. Vega must rethink everything he believes in order to uncover the truths about his town, his family, and himself. Land of Careful Shadows is a tour de force of literary suspense and an intimate journey into the human heart.