Scott Cook has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Play the Hand You're Dealt.
Shadows of Limelight
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The roar of the crowds, the glittering lights and the adoration of fans everywhere! Millions of young women want their chance to shine upon the stage, and now, thanks to a new Reality TV show, a handful will get their shot! ....yet behind the glamour of celebrity lurks hidden danger.... Jillian Moore, one of the world’s hottest pop stars soared to stardom and crashed down into obscurity ten years ago. Now she’s making a comeback with her hit TV show Live Like a Pop Star. But things aren’t as rosy as they seem. When the beautiful singer turned TV star gets threatening phone calls, she and her producer need somebody they can count on.... Scott Jarvis is reluctantly drawn into Jillian’s world. He’s supposed to protect her from danger, which rears its ugly head immediately. When Jarvis and Jillian are violently attacked and the star is kidnapped, a deadly countdown begins. Her abduction is just the beginning of a spiral that funnels deeper and deeper into a world of secrets, betrayals and murder. Now Jarvis is in a race against time to find Jillian and discover who’s really behind her kidnapping before a deadline that can only end in disaster. Join Scott Jarvis in his fifth book as he once again plunges into a roller coaster ride of twists and turns that leave you wanting more!
©2019 Scot W. Cook (P)2020 Scott W. Cook
Isle of Bones
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Key West - known the world over as a vacation mecca. Amazing food, bars, music, and days filled with awesome fishing, diving, and boating. Yet, beneath the sun worship and the cobalt blue skies lurks a growing danger with its sights set on Scott Jarvis. His vacation is cut short when Jarvis stumbles across a large yacht drifting off the island. The only sign of the missing crew is a table set for dinner and a few spots of human blood. Jarvis reports the vessel to the Coast Guard and heads into town, thinking only that he’s got an interesting vacation yarn to spin, yet before he can even set his anchor, an old friend from the Marine Patrol asks him to look into the mysterious abandoned boat more closely. When the detective refuses, he’s given an unwanted and unpleasant surprise. Charles Conklin is back and seems bent on vengeance against the Ravetti family who destroyed his life two years ago, during Jarvis’ first big case. Whether he likes it or not, Jarvis is pulled into a dangerous game where two rival organized crime factions seem to be maneuvering for power at any cost. Suddenly, Jarvis finds himself in a race against time. He must peel back the layers and discover the real plot behind the plot. How does Conklin fit in? Who’s really behind the attempts to warn the detective off? And, can Jarvis figure out this puzzle before he, Lisa, and his sister are drowned in a maelstrom of intrigue, abduction, and murder?
©2019 Scott W. Cook (P)2019 Scott W. Cook
That Way Lies Madness
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A deranged killer stalks Florida...a killer whose twisted sense of justice can only be slaked in rivers of blood.... Private Investigator Scott Jarvis is just settling back into some sense of routine after his harrowing adventure in Central America. With Lisa back at his side, Jarvis’ world once again seems right and whole...and this assumption is about to be ripped to shreds! It starts with a bomb in a police detective’s car and a cryptic note claiming responsibility but only signed with the mysterious name “Shade”. Shade continues to target specific individuals, and it soon becomes clear that they all have one thing in common...Scott Jarvis. As the tension mounts and the stakes rise ever higher, this enigmatic vigilante is soon revealed to be a bloodthirsty lunatic to whom life is cheap and rage fuels a burning desire for retribution. When a deadly bombing hits too close to home, Scott and Lisa must fit the pieces of the puzzle together and discover Shade’s true identity before the body count smothers them as well. It’s a contest of wills in which there’s no second place! Mortal danger erupts in this fast-paced, mind-bending battle of wits. Can Jarvis stop a madman before his world and everything he loves is torn apart?
©2020 Scott W Cook (P)2020 Scott W Cook
Sins of the Fatherland: A Florida Action Adventure Novel
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A time bomb is ticking at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and unless Orlando private investigator Scott Jarvis can find and disarm it in time, millions will suffer horribly. On a sunny winter afternoon, Jarvis is doing nothing special when a new case walks into his life in the form of a beautiful blonde with flashing eyes. Jarvis doesn’t know it yet, but this new client is about to turn his life inside out. Audrey Lambert and her grandfather need Jarvis’ special brand of hardboiled help, and they need it fast. Henry Lambert, the last survivor of an ill-fated submarine training cruise just after the close of World War 2, is holding Pandora’s Box, and the lid is already being pried open. It seems that Hitler isn’t quite done with the US, and the old man has a startling revelation that will thrust the young detective into the most dangerous and broad-reaching case of his life. There’s something deadly hiding in the bowels of a sunken U-boat - something that if found by the wrong people could literally lay waste an entire nation. Now, an old man’s secret is out, and the hourglass is running down fast! Jarvis must face personal danger and international intrigue - all while dealing with his personal loss. The past slams headlong into the present. Will the gritty investigator be able to defuse the situation before the pot boils over and a madman’s last evil deed scalds the world?
©2020 Scott W. Cook (P)2020 Scott W. Cook
Scott Jarvis Private Investigator Series, Books 1-3
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In this jam-packed collection, you’ll follow along with Scott Jarvis, a young Florida-based private eye who has an unswerving knack for finding deadly trouble.... Police detective turned private, Jarvis himself shares his tales with you, delivering his stories in the perfect blend of New England sarcasm, witty banter, insightfulness, and courage destined to earn him a place in the private detective hall of fame. Join Scott now in his first three adventures.... Choices: Slowly becoming disillusioned by the politics of police work, Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis struggles to balance his need to serve and his desire to get the job done his own way...when a NASA engineer vanishes, Scott is thrown into the most convoluted and deadly case of his career...and when the rug is pulled out from under him just when he’s making progress, it’s time for him to choose his path.... As a private investigator, Scott can finally overcome all obstacles and get things done his way...or can he? When he’s once again embroiled in the case that pushed him into his new life, he finds that he’s in the middle of a web of organized crime and international espionage that could very well be his end! The Ledger: Three cases crop up at once and after a year in the private investigator game, Jarvis wonders if he can juggle it all alone.... A beautiful young woman is left holding the financial bag when her ex drains her bank and steals her car...a grocery store is being robbed from within under very suspicious circumstances...and a billionaire’s most prized possession - one that could bring his entire financial empire crumbling into dust has fallen into his enemies’ hands! What Scott Jarvis doesn’t suspect is that a common thread runs through all of his cases and in the blink of an eye, the amusement of each dissolves into a deadly web of lies, deceit, grand larceny, lust...and murder! Can young Jarvis unravel the tangles of these three puzzles before he becomes permanently trapped in the spider’s web? Play the Hand You’re Dealt: A successful gambling cruise line owner is being harassed by deadly racial threats...yet something much deeper and far deadlier is really behind it all. It seems as if everybody wants a piece of Lionel Argus’ pie...is it the beautiful and mysterious woman, is it the mob, a competitor...or is the real answer one that could spell the end of Argus’ business, violate the safety of his family and put Scott’s and Lisa’s lives in the gravest peril? If you’re a fan of crime fiction, action, adventure and thrillers, then this ever-expanding and ever more exciting series will provide you with hours of fun! From intrigue to romance, from bare knuckled fisticuffs to explosive gun battles, from spicey secret back room deals to bold kidnappings, you’ll find it all and more inside.... Join Scott Jarvis as his adventures take him across the breadth and length of Florida and beyond!
©2021 Scott W Cook (P)2021 Scott W Cook
The Ledger
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Millions in stolen valuables, mysterious beautiful women, shady hoods and a tangled web of lies spell disaster for young, hard-boiled Orlando detective Scott Jarvis unless he can unravel the mystery before the body count rises over his head.... A sexy new client needs Jarvis to track down her ex-boyfriend who’s left her in desperate financial straits.... A supermarket chain is being skimmed for thousands…and a billionaire has been robbed of millions in valuables including a personal journal that could tear open his empire and leave him in ruins. While Jarvis struggles to balance his time and solve all three cases at once, he soon realizes that this heavy workload isn’t a coincidence. Like the unsuspecting fly who stumbles into the web, the young private investigator must struggle to unravel the puzzle before he too is engulfed and becomes yet another victim of whoever it is who’s really pulling the strings. Join Jarvis in his second action-packed Florida mystery thriller as he powers his way through the lies, intrigue, seduction, and murder.... Time is running out, and disaster lurks ever closer!
©2018 Scott W. Cook (P)2020 Scott W. Cook
Play the Hand You're Dealt
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When the stakes are high and every move could spell disaster, you’ve only got your guts to guide you...and no matter what cards you hold, it’s how you play the game that truly counts... Play your hand right, and you score big.... Play it wrong, and it’ll be your last! Scott and Lisa are enjoying their first cruise on the new sailboat when a call from a potential client interrupts their weekend in Saint Petersburg. Lionel Argus is the owner of Destiny Cruises, a successful Florida-based gambling cruise line. He’s been receiving racial threats against his life, and he needs private investigator Scott Jarvis to find out who’s behind it and stop them before things spiral out of control and Argus’ business and lives are destroyed! As Jarvis begins to scratch at the surface of his latest mystery, the more he learns, and the more he uncovers a plot that grows ever larger and more complex. It soon becomes apparent that both organized crime and the FBI have an interest in Argus, yet in a way that Jarvis wouldn’t have expected...and someone from his past appears and turns his entire world on a razor’s edge. Lies, intrigue, kidnapping, attempted murder, and gun battles mark the path toward the solution or complete destruction. Jarvis must fit the pieces of the puzzle together before he, Lisa, and Argus are swallowed in a deadly game with no second chances. A plot-twisting romp that takes you from Orlando to both of Florida's coasts!
©2018 Scott W Cook (P)2021 Scott W Cook