Kelly Oliver has 8 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.8★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Wolf.
Wolf
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She wants her degree. But she just became a suspect of first-degree murder.... Jessica James is broke and counting down the days until she can defend her philosophy thesis. Desperate to get out of her grubby attic digs, she and her friends break into her professor’s office…only to find her adviser dead in the tub. Scoping the crime scene for clues, she leaves evidence that makes her both a suspect and a target. Suspecting the school's Russian janitor of doing more than sweeping the floors, Jessica mounts an investigation to clear her name. And when her ragtag posse helps her uncover a related date-drug scandal, repeated attempts on her drink make her fear she’s the next on the killer’s to-do list. Can Jessica unmask the murderer before her degree gets buried six feet under? Wolf is the first stand-alone novel in the exhilarating Jessica James mystery series. If you like sassy detectives, irreverent humor, and crazy capers, then you’ll love Kelly Oliver’s hilarious adventure. Buy Wolf to join a girl-powered noir whodunit today!
©2016 Kelly Oliver (P)2018 Kelly Oliver
Coyote
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She came back for vacation. If she’s not careful, she might leave in a body bag… Ivy League student Jessica James isn’t thrilled to be back home in Montana. But her boring summer break becomes a nightmare when her cousin dies at the local sawmill. Devastated by the death, she can’t help but draw connections between the supposed accident and her own father’s unsolved demise… With the mill’s owner pushing hard to start fracking on Native American Blackfeet land, Jessica starts to connect the dots between the killings. And when two young girls go missing, Jessica calls in her posse to fight blood with brains. Can Jessica expose the town’s dirty money, or will she too end up as sawdust? COYOTE is the second standalone novel in the action-packed Jessica James mystery series. If you like laugh-out-loud entertainment, fearless heroines, and a dash of real-world issues, then you’ll love Kelly Oliver’s riveting tale. Buy COYOTE to drill into an action-packed mystery today!
©2016 Kelly Oliver (P)2018 Kelly Oliver
VIPER (A Suspense Thriller)
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If James Patterson and Janet Evanovich had a love child.... Meet Jessica James. Jessica James is back in award-winning author Kelly Oliver's latest fast-paced thrill ride. Donors to the new world-class Chicago museum of Russian art are dropping like flies, and Jessica is at the center of the carnage. Can she track down the killer before she falls into his trap? Speaking of traps, this doozy puts Jessica in the middle of a love triangle she'd do anything to avoid. In her latest outing, Jessica once again puts her boots in the stirrups and cracks the whip on first-class entertainment. Mystery, suspense, action, adventure, romance, and laugh-out-loud humor. What more could you want in a pause-resister? A riveting suspense novel that keeps you guessing until the end.
©2019 Kelly Oliver (P)2020 Kelly Oliver
Hunting Girls
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2016 Choice Magazine Award Outstanding Title This book is a must-listen in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp. Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Bella Swan (Twilight), Tris Prior (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairy-tale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued. Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate themselves. But who truly benefits? By meeting violence with violence, are women turning victimization into entertainment? Are they playing out old fantasies, institutionalizing their abuse? In Hunting Girls, Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence - especially sexual violence - is an inevitable, perhaps even celebrated, part of a woman's maturity. In such films as Kick-Ass (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Maleficent (2014), power, control, and danger drive the story, but traditional relationships of care constrict the narrative. Even the protagonist's love interest adds to her suffering. To underscore the threat of these depictions, Oliver locates their manifestation of violent sex in the growing prevalence of campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent apps and policies. The book is published by Columbia University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. Praise for the book: "A must read for scholars and students." (Choice) "Essential reading..." (E. Ann Kaplan, author of Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction) "A challenging, disturbing, and enlightening book." (Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis)
©2016 Columbia University Press (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks
F.O.X.
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Killer Nashville Claymore Award Finalist, Best MysteryGenes to die for--and someone does... When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital makes the news, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself. The "dumpster girls" are all top of their class, attractive college students, who are drugged and dropped unconscious behind dumpsters. When rape-kits all come back negative, the police are baffled. But when the perp escalates and kills one of his victims, Jessica takes it on herself to solve the bewildering mystery and save herself and her friends as the "thief" closes in on them. Hunting for the predator, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher's boot-cut genes. Gritty and haunting, award winning author, Kelly Oliver's, page-turning Jessica James adventure blends a humorous, complex murder mystery with a suspenseful medical thriller for a result that is riveting.
©2017 Kelly Oliver (P)2018 Kelly Oliver
JACKAL: A Jessica James Mystery
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From master of suspense Kelly Oliver. Take a trip to Vegas that you'll never forget. Working as a maid at the luxury Napoli hotel on the Vegas strip, Jessica James finds a naked man unconscious in a bathtub with a note to call 911. That's when the fun begins.... With only an old photograph to go on, Jessica James is sent on a mission by her dying mother to find a washed-up magician called the Mesmerizer. Along the way, Jessica gets way more than she bargained for when she stumbles into a black market organ ring and learns secrets about her mother that will change her own life forever. Jessica is shocked by her mother's "deathbed" confession that the man Jessica thought was her father is not. Her biological father is some magician dude that passed through Whitefish twenty-five years ago. Why does Jessica's mother insist on seeing him again? How far will Jessica go to find him and bring him back? Jessica arrives in Las Vegas penniless and with nowhere to turn. She tracks down an old high school friend, Mackenzie, and crashes on her couch. But Kennie Czarnowski is not what she seems. And the price of a place to sleep may cost Jessica everything. Jessica learns the hard way that in Vegas, the stakes are high and everyone is an illusionist. With wit and grit, Jessica and her posse take on the seamy underbelly of Vegas. Dauntless, determined, and awkwardly endearing, Jessica James continues to delight listeners. Once JACKAL gets its hooks into you, you won't be able to put it down. Kelly Oliver knows how to get your heart pounding!
©2018 Kelly Oliver (P)2019 Kelly Oliver
High Treason at the Grand Hotel
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Paris. 1917. Never underestimate the power of a good hat...or a sharp hatpin. Sent by the War Office to follow the notorious Black Panther, file clerk-turned-secret agent Fiona Figg is under strict orders not to get too close and not to wear any of her usual “get-ups”. But what self-respecting British spy can resist a good disguise? Within hours of her arrival in Paris, Fiona is up to her fake eyebrows in missing maids, jewel thieves, double agents, and high treason. When Fiona is found dressed as a bellboy holding a bloody paperknife over the body of a dead countess, it’s not just her career that’s on the block. Her next date might be with Madame Guillotine.
©2021 Kelly Oliver (P)2021 Kelly Oliver
Betrayal at Ravenswick
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What's the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course. Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover. At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he's a crack huntsman. The War Office is convinced he's a traitor. Fiona thinks he's a pompous prig. What sort of name is Fredrick Fredricks anyway? Too bad Fiona doesn't own a Wolseley pith helmet. At Ravenswick a murderer is on the prowl, and it's not just the big-game hunter who's ready to pounce.
©2020 Level Best Books (P)2020 Kelly Oliver