Author:
Narrator: Kate Reading
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Penguin/Highbridge
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $25.95
Discs: 4
Originally serialized in the New York Times magazine, this standalone procedural stars Winston "Win" Garano, a stylishly dressed, maverick police investigator dragged into a morass of dirty politics surrounding the Massachusetts gubernatorial race after he's forced to reactivate a very cold case.
Following the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's most surprising thriller...
From bestselling author Connelly comes this electrifying new Harry Bosch novel. In his first case since he left the LAPDUs Open Unsolved Unit for the...
When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind...
Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to ...
Years after his wife Maria is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved and still haunts him, psychologist Alex Cross is...
After the death of a beloved former first lady, the world's most elite and powerful people gather at the funeral in New York City. This provides a...
So begins David Baldacci's new book--a thriller unlike any he's written before. 'Matt' is Mathew Pender, of Pender Associates--a shadowy organization...
David Baldacci's much-loved protagonists Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are having trouble adjusting to life in the wake of the terrible events that ...
An ordinary man is pushed to his very limits to save the woman he loves in this novel from the master of suspense, Dean Koontz. Someone kidnaps...
Patricia Cornwell is a brilliant writer and I have learned a lot about forensics by reading her books. Her characters are not exactly endearing which is why I can't love her books. AT RISK introduces us to a new set of characters to dislike. the only exception is Win's grandmother, a psychic, who gave the book a little more heart than in most of her novels. Delma Sykes also seems promising and her work in Tennessee on the cold case is the most interesting part of the book. I also had a hard time accepting the At Risk program which seemed to somehow magically create a forensics profile of ethnic origin and why someone in Boston would absolutely need it to win an election. It just seemed too unbelievable. I thought Win was a total idiot to get himself involved with that awful Monique and their 'romance' seemed contrived. The best thing I can say about AT RISK is that it is only 281 pages long so you can get through it quickly and move on to something better. If this is the first in a new series I am nto sure I will want to read the rest.
Tough time giving this listen a chance, even as short as it was. I couldn't keep who was where, probably because having a MA state police officer chasing a case in TN made zero sense. The whole plot was shabby, the characters unlikeable (except for Miss Dog). I did finish it, but it was a slog.