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Ashes to Ashes
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: Kovac and Liska, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Susan
- 2019-08-17
Another Great Book!!!
I am loving Tami Hoag's books. This is the third one I have listened to and not my last. I find her characters great and the story lines interesting. You can't guess the where the story line is going, therefore, it keeps your attention. So glad to have finally discovered this author. I love detective novels and especially ones that keep you guessing.
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- kelly mckay
- 2019-07-28
Ashes to Ashes
Excellent read I will definitely read more from this author. Full of suspense and keeps you hanging on.
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- Catherine E. Kehl
- 2015-12-15
great story, but enough with the breathy falsetto
Decent reading in other respects, but a woman's voice can be conveyed without using a register higher than than used by most women, or excessive breathiness. This effect fails most spectacularly when it is used to convey the shouting of an assertive woman.
20 people found this helpful
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- Linda
- 2015-12-13
Lots of creepy in this listen!
Good creepy story, love these characters and a surprise ending. This is one of those stories you like to listen to again after you find out who the killer is. I enjoyed it and grew more fond of this narrator as well.
14 people found this helpful
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- BookReader
- 2015-12-15
Ashes to Ashes
Any additional comments?
Ashes to Ashes is a police procedural, approximately nineteen hours of listening, and narrated by David Colacci. There are a ton of reviews on Amazon/Audible that convey plot, you don’t need to hear much from me. It’s typical of Tami Hoag, i.e., good story, well written. Good guys, bad guy, thrills, chills, and a nice twist.
Narration is fine, good audio production.
Enjoy!
23 people found this helpful
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- Michael
- 2015-01-10
Riveting thriller
This book will keep you guessing all the way to the end! Believable characters and good narration. I highly recommend this for fans of mystery/thriller genre.
30 people found this helpful
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- J. Marceaux
- 2015-09-01
A Good Mystery
Would you consider the audio edition of Ashes to Ashes to be better than the print version?
I don't know that audio would be better than print it depends on your preference. I like to listen to books my husband likes to hold a book in his hands.
What did you like best about this story?
It kept me guessing. I went back and forth as who the guilty person was. It wasn't a complete surprise though so for me it was a good mystery.
What about David Colacci’s performance did you like?
I think his performance was good. I could keep up with who the characters were.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No I didn't have any extreme reactions. I like the banter back and forth with the characters that always makes me laugh.
Any additional comments?
The comments about the book being too graphic is a little harsh. Yes the description of the burning bodies was a little hard to hear but without that then you would have a teen novel. If you can't handle that then you shouldn't listen to it but that is okay that is their preference. I enjoyed the book.
17 people found this helpful
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- Kindle Customer
- 2015-09-17
I didn't expect it! Great story and narrator.
I loved it. I didn't want to put it down. Great twist at the end.
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- AmazonCustomer
- 2016-01-01
Ashes
Too much detailed perversion for me. The plot offered no surprises. But the reader was good
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- leslie
- 2015-12-11
Ok, but...
a little overkill on the dialogue regarding the relationship between Kate and John. Even with the ending, it went on and on and on and on...
As a thriller, it is a good story. Compelling, gruesome and not entirely predictable. Not sorry I bought it as I am a fan of Hoag's. Just wish it would have been a little "tighter."
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- Michelle Pogodzinski
- 2016-01-25
Good story!
The story and writing were both excellent. The reason for the three stars is it was so drawn out. The twists and surprises of the book prove what an excellent writer Tami Hoag is and I will undoubtedly read the rest of this series and other books by her. I just wish it didn't take a whole chapter (or 7) to explain the smallest of detail.
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- Ted
- 2015-04-03
Damsel In Distress Romance Torture Novel. Ho-Hum
Never listened to Tami Hoag before, but kept getting recommendations from Audible. Soooo.... I figured that with David Colacci reading it might not be aimed entirely at a bodice buster market.
Nope, wrong. Square jawed FBI super-star but tragically-at-war-with-his-inner-angst-hunk John Quinn, and drop-dead-gorgeous-blonde FBI agent turned fiesty victim/witness-advocate Kate Conlan are THROWN together in Minneapolis to look too far-and-wide (when they should have looked near-and-dear) for the ghastly cretin, THE CREMATOR. And (startle, surprise) they seem to ignite old embers of a long ago love which - inexplicably to me - went cool in Washington.
Is there a surprise anywhere in all of this? Well yeah, Hoag's bad-guy is made so predictable to make room for multi-page make-up sex scenes that are a sort of squishy fem-porn.
Okay, this wasn't aimed at male readers. And judging by Hoag's sales, there are lots of ladies who get off on this stuff. So if you do, and like your love rough... Hey, enjoy. Me? Not so much.
Oh Colacci reads well, keeps the characters in their own spaces, but lapses from time to time into a Scott Brick impersonation. I don't think that's a recommendation, but lots of folks do... So, it's your call. Mine is to never listen or read another Hoag.
36 people found this helpful