E-audiobook
The keepsake
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415955956 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415955956 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:52:27. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Deirdre Lovejoy. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 156277 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. Audiobooks. |
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- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2008 December/January 2009
Gerritsen's continuing characters are challenged anew when strange artifacts turn up in Boston's Crispin Museum. It seems someone's reviving the art of mummification--with contemporary victims. A beautiful young museum employee with a mysterious past gets kidnapped--will she be next? It's up to Detective Jane Rizzoli and M.E. Maura Isles to sort this out. Deirdre Lovejoy's reading is proof that a narrator doesn't have to individualize each voice to create a top-notch audio. Yes, a few minor players get accents, but Lovejoy's real talent is for injecting personality into dialogue. With inflection she shows fear, arrogance, determination, intelligence, or confusion. She's also expert at handling suspense, and there's plenty to be had. Add clarity and a good pace, and you have a winner. J.B.G. Winner of AudioFIle Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2008 September #1
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles gets a bit of a shock when a mummy, assumed to be several thousand years old, turns out to be a recently murdered woman but what was she doing in the storage room of a museum, wrapped in ancient bandages, and how did she get there? Maura and her frequent collaborator, Detective Jane Rizzoli, soon learn that the mysterious Madam X is not the only victim, and they race against time to stop a homicidal maniac before he ups the ante. This very popular series keeps rolling smoothly along, the formula well established and familiar: after introducing a bewildering mystery and an assortment of characters (who range from shady to downright villainous), Gerritsen stands back and lets Isles and Rizzoli do their thing. There's nothing especially remarkable about the book it's no better or worse than its predecessors, and in many ways, it's exactly the same. But Gerritsen does what she does efficiently and with considerable craft, and she has created a couple of strong protagonists more than capable of keeping this franchise going for quite a while. Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2008 May #1
Dr. Maura Isles is intrigued by an offer to observe the X-raying of a mummy--until she discovers that the mummy is a contemporary murder victim. With a seven-city tour on request. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2008 July #4
Bestseller Gerritsen's at times lackluster series heroines prove they can shine in her solid seventh thriller to feature Det. Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles (after The Mephisto Club ). When medical examiner Isles studies an X-ray scan of Madame X, which everyone assumes is a newly discovered Egyptian mummy, at Boston's Crispin Museum, she realizes the mummy isn't a priceless artifact but a recent murder victim, gruesomely preserved. Rizzoli focuses the police investigation on Dr. Josephine Pulcillo, a young archeologist recently hired by the museum who may have something to hide. More victims soon turn up, including a tsantsa (shrunken head) in a hidden museum chamber and a corpse resembling a well-preserved bog body in Pulcillo's car. After Pulcillo disappears, Rizzoli and Isles must scramble to find her before she becomes another trophy in the killer's growing collection. As usual, Gerritsen delivers an intricate plot that will keep readers guessing. (Sept.)
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