Brian Lee Tucker has 17 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 15 narrators, with an average listener rating of 2.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Dark Sanctuary.
Dumping Ground: Following the Trail of the Hillside Stranglers and Their Victims
Summary
Los Angeles, the heartbeat, where sounds of lust and shopping swallow up catcalls, shameless bragging, screams of terror and delight, and from passing LAPD prowl cars darting down the San Diego Freeway come the sad and lonesome wail of sirens - police sirens - the song of the city. The city streets are a carnival, they are burlesque. The city moves like an insect. It scurries. Neon beats against the window like a probe, even in the day. And somewhere, buried deep within this crazy world, are two killers who call this place home. Their hunting ground. Their dumping ground. One of them, a man whose birth given name was Kenneth Bianchi but whom his friends know as Ken, waits in the shadows sipping beer and smoking a cigarette and watching the show with delightful glee. These women he sees - whether they be a Valley Girl or a lowly prostitute - all seem to remind him of his mother. His mother had been a prostitute who'd given him up as a child. When he first grew up and can remember, he was dressed as a girl by his mother, and he stayed that way for two or three years. And after that he was treated like what he would call the dog of the family. But that was long ago and far away; that was then and this is now. Tonight, his senses are accelerated and he can hear the pain and the sin on every street corner. It's like they were calling to him, for him and his cousin Angelo to end their pain and suffering once and for all. The world around him continues to live and breathe, and as he watches sinners kiss, as he watches them gambol and dance, he is reminded of why he's really here.
©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2015 Brian Lee Tucker
The Dark Sanctuary
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Alex Baker had never known what real pain and heartache was until now. The feelings he’d had to endure since his fiancée's brutal murder - anger, abandonment, denial, disbelief, social withdrawal, and even guilt - made him feel powerless over his own destiny. And crimes like these - unexpected, violent, and forever - are hard enough to bear without the fact that the victim’s killer has yet to be brought to justice. The victims and victims' families are serving life sentences, having to live with the horror and heartache for the rest of their lives. He’d always been taught that everything happened for a purpose - and at times even a higher purpose - but at that point in time, that was hard for him to swallow. And lately, his thoughts had been leaning more toward revenge. An eye for an eye, blood for blood. He wanted to kill the man responsible. Based on a true story, The Dark Sanctuary is the riveting story of one man's journey from the light of the God he thought had abandoned him into the darkness of the seedy underbelly of society - and back again.
©2018 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2018 Brian Lee Tucker
Blue Heaven
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After taking the little blue pill she'd offered him, the room began to blur it first began to spin. One second he was sitting at Spencer's side, and doing all he could to keep his vibrating nerves in check, and then everything began to lose its cohesive form. He tried to pretend like he was all right; the interaction of unknown drugs and alcohol was nothing to him. He knew there had to be a devil in this story, and as the world around him started to spin he knew that said devil had arrived.... Spencer was on the prowl for a new victim again, and The Fixer would never arrive in time to save him.
©2017 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2017 Brian Lee Tucker
Alimony Payment
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Fixer was sitting at his kitchen table, looking over old Polaroid photos of his son and daughter when they were little kids. He blinked his blurry eyes and remembered the sound of finality in Cheryl’s voice. The memory of it is a stake in his chest. What if Cheryl left him? He couldn’t live with that failure. She’d take the kids. Might as well cut my heart out. He stared at the dirty wooden floor. I have to fix this with Cheryl. The idea clamored for his attention. There is no one to blame for this stupidity but himself. He would beg Cheryl’s mercy and forgiveness. I’ll go into treatment. I’ll join AA. His eyes, burning from cigarette smoke and lack of sleep, search the dirty wooden floor for other ideas. Other plausible arguments for clemency. He couldn’t think of any, so he poured another drink. He really did need a drink this time; hunting down a cold-hearted, remorseless, bloodthirsty man-eater like Spencer Carlin would be the biggest - and most dangerous - case of his career.
©2017 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2017 Brian Lee Tucker
Bad Dreams
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Lizzy has bad dreams about Spencer killing her, and the Fixer has some bad dreams - as well as some reservations about his current love interest - of his own. Derrick, wanting to beat Fixer to the punch on capturing Spencer, tries to delay Fixer's involvement for another 24 hours - but the Fixer has other plans.
©2017 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2017 Brian Lee Tucker
Lost Souls
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Friday night in East Indy; cheap hotels, seedy bars, greasy spoons, and liquor stores with barred windows and gun toting proprietors line the streets and smell of urine, sweat, stale cigarette smoke, whiskey, dirty feet, and vomit. It must be standard street policy for the air there to always smell like the rhino tank at the zoo. The bars - or strip joints, they both are frequented by or employ women who take their clothes off for low lives for money - are filled to capacity with the usual clientele; your loners and groaners, your pissers and moaners, your adulterers and perverts. Bleeding hearts who are wearing their heart on their sleeve and looking for love in all the wrong places. An assortment of folded, spindled, and mutilated people sit on bar stools and on street corners and wait for the creaking machinery of fate to couch up a lover who will stay with them this time. Poor lost souls who are seeking a temporary solution to a permanent problem. The city streets are a carnival, it is burlesque. My senses are accelerated and I can hear the pain and the sin on every street corner. The city moves like an insect. It scurries. Neon beats against the windows like a probe, even in the day. The world around me continues to live and breathe, and as I watch sinners kiss, as I watch them gambol and dance, I am reminded of the fact that somewhere, buried deep within this crazy world, is Spencer - and Ashley, if she was still alive.
©2017 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2017 Brian Lee Tucker
Cat and Mouse
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No longer just a string of sentences all from her own head. But a real deal. A real threat. A real feather in the proverbial cap. So, Spencer did what she does best. Kill. And she was nervous, but not from second guessing. She was nervous because this excited her. Murder excited her. Aroused her. Gave her a rush like nothing else in this world. And, after tonight, it was going to make her kind of famous. But could her lover, Ashley, carry the burden of Spencer's fame, play second fiddle to her new found wealth - and sleep with a murderess? This might be too complicated for Spencer to handle.
©2017 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2017 Brian Lee Tucker
The Fixer
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The call me the Fixer. I repair things. I’m usually a very easy going guy, believe it or not. But if you mess with me - or anyone I love, God forbid - I can be the nightmare you never want to have. I can haunt you in the midnight and come after you with an upraised scythe like the Grim Reaper. I can reach out and touch you no matter where you hide, whether you are a pedophile priest or a drug dealer or a wife beater or even the President of the United States. I can find out what books you read, what porn movies you rent, your favorite brand of liquor, or the dosing schedule for your Prozac prescription. I’m the Devil, and I’m God. I am the guy who can sign your hall passes from Purgatory. I smile a dark smile when you nervously try to convince yourself that I won’t find you. I am the nightmare that walks and talks and will always be there when you wake up. I am the baddest Billy-Bad-Ass on the block. I’m the HHIC - Head Honcho in Charge. And I repair things. That’s why they call me the Fixer.
©2017 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2017 Brian Lee Tucker
Bleeding Hearts
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Ray Stryker is a Gulf War veteran, ex-cop turned private investigator, and a recovering alcoholic with a volatile temper and a short fuse. Jayne Morris is a painter and aspiring writer, ritually abused as a child, who harbors some inner demons of her own. Her life is also empty until she meets Ray, and for now, these two damaged people seem to complete each other. Apart, they are just two more damaged people on the long hard road to oblivion. Together, they are so much more. The feelings they had to endure - anger, abandonment, denial, disbelief, social withdrawal, and guilt - no longer made them feel powerless over their own destiny. Enter Romeo; a suave, charming serial killer - who has his eyes set on Jayne. Can Ray stop him in time from claiming Jayne as his next victim?
©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2015 Brian Lee Tucker
The Gypsy Runner
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"I had this feeling I wouldn't have her for long; she seemed to me to be the type to run, move around a lot, like a gypsy, to escape someone or something in her past. A gypsy runner." Ray Stryker, former military man turned private dick turned street vigilante. He was tough as nails and had a heart of stone until he met Jayne. Former exotic dancer turned painter who wore her heart on her sleeve and was always ready to run. Apart, they were lost; together, they formed an inseparable bond that could only be broken by death itself. And just when they thought they had it made, in walks Romeo, the valentine killer, a silver tongued devil and thief of hearts who, unknown to Jayne, just may become her new dark passenger....
©2016 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2016 Brian Lee Tucker
Born to Kill?
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An in-depth look into the mind of Henry Lee Lucas, as he sits on death row, just weeks before his death, reflecting back on his life and the reasons for his crimes. Henry is, indeed, almost an anomaly in a genre full of faceless, cardboard killers. Henry is no Jason, Michael, or Freddy. He's real. That's the most frightening aspect of the film; Henry could be the guy next door, at times wearing an almost pleasant, trusting expression, with the guileless face of a well-scrubbed angel, cleanshaven and inherently honorable, betraying the well-hidden face of pure, unadulterated evil and menace. Henry is a brutal killer with a conscience, and the book, indeed, is a real killer; a drop dead frontal assault that provokes, rather than patronizes its listener until the last sentence.
©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2015 Brian Lee Tucker
The Serial Killer Diaries
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"Some people think I was born to kill other people, like it was bred into me, like I had been born with some kind of 'killer gene' in my blood. That's a bunch of bulls--t, though. Those head-shrinkers, they don't know the half of it. I just like killing other people, really, always have." So says the Valentine Killer, speaking of his past - and future. In The Serial Killer Diaries, author Brian Lee Tucker takes us on a mind-bending journey into the mind - and life - of a vicious serial killer who, during his frequent "road trips" - code word for killing sprees - shares with the listener his own personal insight into why he is what he is - and why he still enjoys slaughtering innocent victims with no more remorse than Jack the Ripper. Oftentimes hard to take, The Serial Killer Diaries will, regardless, keep the listener enthralled to the very last minute.
©2016 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2016 Brian Lee Tucker
Love Is Blind
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He raised his head to look her right in the eyes. What she saw behind those eyes wasn't Lee anymore; it was now a dark, evil, inhuman monster lurking deep in his soul. Lee wasn't there anymore. The real Lee was there now. He said, You stupid little whore. You're just like my mama and all the other whores. You don't appreciate nothin'. Before she could reply, Lee grabbed her by the throat with one hand, and reached into his pocket with the other, pulling out his rusty but trusty old buck knife, the same knife she'd seen him use before on many an occasion. She knew the only thing he ever used it for was to kill someone....
©2020 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2021 Brian Lee Tucker
The Good Samaritan
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He loved the dead. His favorite song was “I Love the Dead” by rock singer Alice Cooper, and he listened to it every time he got a chance. The strange thing about his mother was, he still loved her - in his own special way. He hated her and loved her and loathed her and then missed her. Fantasized about her. Yes...he loved the dead.
©2020 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2021 Brian Lee Tucker
The Candy Man of Houston
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Dean Corll was an electrician for Houston Power and Light, but most of Henley's friends knew him as the Candy Man, so named because he had labored for years in the candy manufacturing plant that he and his mother had once owned. Corll was famous for giving away candy to the kids. Little did they know that "the Candy Man of Houston" was in fact a sadistic, cruel, remorseless rapist and murderer. Between September 25, 1970 and August 3, 1973, Corll killed at least 28 young men and boys, and the actual number of victims may have been more than 30. They were all systematically lured into his trap and then beaten, tortured, raped, and strangled to death, and most victims found bore evidence of sexual torture: pubic hairs had been plucked out, genitals had been chewed, objects had been inserted into their rectums, and glass rods had been shoved into their penis and smashed. In the aftermath, two young men, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks, Corll's two main accomplices in the heinous crimes, confessed that they had been forced to participate against their will, and Corll himself - by now having been shot dead by Henley - was the lone culprit in the torturous murders. But was he? Author Brian Lee Tucker - having culled information from documented interviews, taped confessions, newspaper coverage, magazine articles, and court transcripts, provides an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look into who the real culprits were in the crimes, which at the time of their discovery, the Houston Mass Murders were considered the worst example of serial murder in American history.
©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2015 Brian Lee Tucker
Ripper Reborn
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In Ripper Reborn, author Brian Lee Tucker examines the case from a more personal point of view, as the Yorkshire Ripper himself, Peter Sutcliffe, speaks to a court-appointed criminal psychologist about the aftermath of his heinous crimes - providing a chilling look into the mind of the man who considered himself sort of a "Jack the Ripper, reborn".
©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2017 Brian Lee Tucker
Ed Gein
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There's arguably no one man who's been more inadvertently influential to the horror genre than Mr. Edward Gein. Because of him, authors and screenwriters were inspired to create the following characters: Norman Bates in Psycho, Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. But let's not give Gein too much credit here. After all, he was a murderer who also dug corpses out of graveyards and made trophies and other home-adorning paraphernalia from their bones and flesh. In 1957, the Plainfield, WI, native confessed to a pair of murders, saying that he offed two local women over a three-year span. And when the authorities searched his home, they discovered a treasure trove of horror: human skin covering chairs, bowls made from skulls, four loose noses, the two victims' severed heads in bags, a belt made from female nipples, a lampshade made from a person's face, and 10 women's heads with the tops cut off, amongst other grotesqueries. OK, one more, for good measure: They also found nine vulvae snipped off and placed in a shoe box. Welcome to the real world of Ed Gein, told in his own words.
©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2015 Brian Lee Tucker