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    The Shop
    The Shop
    The Shop
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Shop

    Written by J. Carson Black

    Narrated by Donna Postel

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    About this audiobook

    In Aspen, Colorado, a pop star and her entourage are brutally murdered in their luxury chalet. The lead assassin, ex-Navy SEAL Cyril Landry, has no qualms about carrying out his mission until the instant before he kills the young star—an intense, shared moment that will ultimately drive him to find out why these people had to die. Landry transforms from mercenary to hunter as he delves into the depths of The Shop, the shadowy organization that has hired him to execute people across the country.

    Thousands of miles away, in a seedy motel in Gardenia, Florida, a local police chief is found shot to death. The scene has all the signs of a romantic rendezvous gone wrong, but Detective Jolie Burke isn’t so sure. As she digs for clues, the tangled threads of evidence lead to a disturbing place: Indigo, the lush tropical estate of the powerful Haddox clan and home of US Attorney General Franklin Haddox. As Jolie continues to pursue the truth, she quickly discovers that Haddox will do anything to protect his country’s ugly secrets—even kill.

    Landry’s quest to uncover The Shop’s motives throws him into the dark currents of Jolie’s investigation, and they find themselves working together as an unlikely duo: a cop and a killer, joining forces to expose a shocking conspiracy that ascends to the highest offices in the land.

    Intricate and fast-paced, The Shop is a breathtaking thriller in the vein of Nelson DeMille and David Baldacci.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 12, 2012
    ISBN9781455877133
    The Shop
    Author

    J. Carson Black

    Hailed by bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker as “a strong new voice in American crime fiction,” J. Carson Black has written fourteen novels. Her thriller, The Shop, reached #1 on the Kindle Bestseller list, and her New York Times bestselling series featuring homicide detective Laura Cardinal was recently optioned by Sony Pictures Television/Winkler Films. Although Black earned a master’s degree in operatic voice, she was inspired to write a horror novel after reading The Shining. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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    • 2/5
      I tried to read a couple of times, but kept losing interest, so tried the audible. Once again could not finish. I generally like J Carson Black, but this time there was way too much going on. I kept losing track of the story, as each character was telling their own story (first person) in sometimes alternating chapters. This book is for someone who enjoys way more complexity than me.
    • 3/5
      Lately I've expanded my reading to include free, independent and low-cost books, with mixed results. The Shop sounded like a promising choice.J. Carson Black can certainly write a page-turner, and I found The Shop to be a quick read. I wanted to get back to it when I had to put it down, and try and solve the mystery. You don't get many clues or foreshadowing, so the author keeps you guessing pretty much to the end.One problem for me was that I wasn't attached to any of the characters in this novel. They were pretty well detailed and fleshed out, may be too much so on a few of the peripheral characters. Somehow, I just didn't have any emotional interest in either of the two main characters, Jolie or Landry. That isn't to say it's the author's fault, as I didn't suppose I'd want to be rooting for Landry, based on his occupation and background. He's not someone I'd have anything in common with!As other readers have mentioned, the plot was a tad confusing along the way. If you were to put the book down for any length of time, I feel certain you'd get lost. Perhaps too much time was spent on the hostage-taking set up, which could almost have been its own book. I did keep reading to see how all the various plotlines were going to come together, and feel Black didn't quite do a stellar job here.So not quite as satisfied as I would have wished on this one. Will try the other series (Caldwell) and see how I make out with those.
    • 3/5
      I kept getting lost off, I kept having to back track and I kept having to remind myself who was who. Not good in a crime thriller. I thought this sounded fabulous when I had the chance to read it via the Amazon Vine programme but I've been a bit disappointed whilst reading it. I'm somewhere between 2 stars (I don't like it) and 3 stars (it's okay) and nothing more. Essentially I think there's just too much going on in the book. I kept missing the link between Cyril (the assassin), Jolie (the detective) and then the Attorney General plus all the other characters. I sort of forgot half way through whose side Cyril was on and likewise for Franklin and then there was the incident being investigated involving the boyfriend of Jolie's niece (or at least I think it was her niece). It just got too much! What should be great simply became okay.