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The Armchair Audies 2012: Mystery Nominees

3/12/2012

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Jennifer at Literate Housewife is running a feature called The Armchair Audies. Every year, the Audio Publishers Association (APA)  nominates 5 audiobook productions for each of their 28 categories. The number of hours it would take to listen to all of the nominees and predict winners would be absolutely daunting so The Armchair Audies provides a vehicle through which bloggers can be involved and try to predict the winners in each category by the time the Audie winners are announced in June. Each blogger signs up to listen to all the nominees in one specific category and then predicts the winner. Since all three of us listen to a huge number of audiobooks, I thought this would be a fabulous opportunity to get involved and since our favored genres on audio (fantasy, sci-fi, fiction, literary fiction, paranormal and teen) were already taken, we've decided to listen to all the books in the mystery category. I've listened to quite a few crime novels on audio so I'm excited at the prospect and I hope all three of us will discover a new author, series, or narrator from this endeavor. Here are the nominees:


ROGUE ISLAND
Author: Bruce DeSilva
Narrator: Jeff Woodman
Publisher: Audible, Inc.



ONE DOG NIGHT
Author: David Rosenfelt
Narrator:  Grover Gardner
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio



RETURN TO MARSHALL'S BAYOU
Author: S.H. Baker
Narrator:  A Full Cast
Publisher: Siren Audio Studios



FEAST DAY OF FOOLS
Author: James Lee Burke
Narrator: Will Patton
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio



NAUGHTY IN NICE
Author: Rhys Bowen
Narrator: Katherine Kellgren
Publisher: Audible, Inc.

Rogue Island Audiobook cover
One Dog Night Audiobook cover
Return to Marshall's Bayou Audiobook cover
Feast Day of Fools Audiobook cover
Naughty In Nice Audiobook cover
Our taste in books really runs the gamut so I don't think any of these books are outside our comfort zone. I've accidentally listened to a later installment in a series before (Michael Robotham's Shatter) so I'm not too worried about some of these being part of larger series. (One is #9!) However, I suppose we'll see how that affects our interest. Overall, I'm confident that we'll have a lot to say about each of them and hopefully provide enough information for each of us and each of our readers to predict the likely winner in the mystery category. Now on to acquiring them all!
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Literate Housewife link
3/12/2012 12:33:10 pm

Welcome aboard! I am excited to have a group of people working on the same category. Here's to a fun challenge. If we don't pick the winners, then the wrong audiobook will have won, right? :)

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
3/12/2012 01:28:58 pm

We're excited to join up, and darn right about the winners. We WILL be picking the best one so if the APA doesn't pick it, they are definitely the party in the wrong:)

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Bob link
3/12/2012 01:39:28 pm

I'm glad you guys are joining us. Sorry to snag up some your favorite categories. Feel free to listen to some of the SF/F/Par. titles if you want, I'm not to possessive. Plus, with a lot of category crossover, it's gonna be fun to get differing perspectives on a lot of the titles.

I'm excited someone will be taking on the mystery category.Lots of good stuff. I think you'll like the Rosentfelt book, I haven't listened to it yet, but I have listened to others in the series, and they all pretty well stand well on their own. Plus, Grover Gardner makes them quite fun. Oh, and Will Patton is excellent in the James Lee Burke books.

Thanks again. I'll definitely be looking for your reviews.

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
3/12/2012 01:54:29 pm

I think we've listened to a few of the nominees in other categories already so if we have reviews for any of them, we'll pass them along for the AAs. I'm really glad to hear that a few of the series are good. I'm actually really excited to take on Return to Marshall's Bayou--the few short reviews I've read say that the atmosphere is palpable in the music, accents, etc.

I love listening to sci fi on audio but I'm happy we're on mystery duty. I haven't gone to check yet but sci fi audiobooks are usually some of the longest ones out there. I think I've checked Pandora's Star out of the library at least three times and never committed to it in its entirety. Dune is still the longest one I've listened to, I think.

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jowearsoldcoats link
3/15/2012 10:38:45 pm

Oooh, this looks great, Flann!
I love mystery books but I'm still not entirely sure about audio books.
Looking forward to seeing your reviews!

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raelynn20 link
10/27/2013 09:44:27 am

Great blog, love the template.

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