Joe Sharkey has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is Above Suspicion.
Above Suspicion
Summary
A personal look at a crime of passion describes an FBI agent's successful career, family life, and extramarital affair that ended in murder, and the guilt that drove him to confess in spite of his impenetrable government shield. In a true story of crime, guilt, and conscience, a model agent's illicit involvement with an informant leads him to commit a crime that reveals all the workings of the human heart - and the dark side of the FBI.
©2017 Joe Sharkey (P)2017 Random House Audio
Death Sentence
Summary
Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a 19-room home in Westfield, New Jersey. But all that changed when he lost his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good provider, List saw himself as an utter failure. Straining under financial burdens, the stress of hiding his unemployment, as well as the fear that the free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his children, List came to a shattering conclusion. "It was my belief that if you kill yourself, you won't go to heaven," List told Connie Chung in a television interview. "So eventually I got to the point where I felt that I could kill them. Hopefully they would go to heaven, and then maybe I would have a chance to later confess my sins to God and get forgiveness." List methodically shot his entire family in their home, managing to conceal the deaths for weeks with a carefully orchestrated plan of deception. Then he vanished and started over as Robert P. Clark. Chronicling List's life before and after the grisly crime, Death Sentence exposes the truth about the accountant-turned-killer, including the details of his high-profile trial.
©1990 Joe Sharkey (P)2019 Tantor
Oltre ogni sospetto
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Per l'agente dell'FBI Mark Putnam prestare servizio in una tranquilla cittadina del Kentucky è l'occasione per poter lavorare con la massima libertà e aspirare a fare carriera. La sua rete di informatori è fitta e ben organizzata e le indagini sono spesso risolutive... Ma a un certo punto qualcosa va storto, proprio quando tutto sembrava procedere secondo i piani. Susan Smith, una tossicodipendente che gli passa informazioni, esercita su di lui un'attrattiva sempre più forte fino al punto di diventare la sua ossessione. La sua carriera e il matrimonio sono minacciati da questa donna risoluta e cinica, capace di qualunque bassezza pur di ottenere ciò che vuole. Spetta a Mark decidere cosa fare: procedere lungo il crinale che lo sta portando alla perdizione o cacciar via le tentazioni e riprendere il controllo della propria esistenza. Ma liberarsi di Susan Smith si rivela più difficile di quanto potesse mai immaginare...
©2018 Sergio Fanucci Communications Srl. Tradotto da Tessa Bernardi (P)2019 Audible Studios
Deadly Greed
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From the author of Above Suspicion: the “riveting” true story of Charles Stuart, who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a Black man in 1980s Boston (Kirkus Reviews). On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, a lawyer, had been robbed and shot by a Black male in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead, and the baby was soon lost as well. The attack incited a furor during a time of heightened racial tension in the community. Even more appalling, while the injuries were real, Stuart’s story was a hoax: He was the true killer. But the tragedy would continue with the arrest of Willie Bennett, a young man Stuart identified in a line-up. Stuart’s deception would be exposed only after a shocking revelation from his brother and, finally, his suicide, when he jumped into the freezing waters of the Mystic River. As the story unraveled, police would put together the disturbing pieces of a puzzle that included Stuart’s distress over his wife’s pregnancy, his romantic interest in a coworker, and life insurance fraud. In an account that “builds and grips like a novel” (Kirkus Reviews), New York Times journalist Joe Sharkey delivers “a picture of a man consumed by naked ambition, unwilling to let anyone or anything get in his way” (Library Journal). Revised and updated, this book also includes a new epilogue by the author.
©1991 Joe Sharkey (P)2019 Audible, Inc.