Alan R. Gron has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Steampug.
Steampug
Summary
Mopstat, a city encased in glass surrounded by merciless jungle on a forgotten continent. Mighty steam-driven machines are built in this place, driven by hyper-intelligent pugs and designed by tireless engineers. Any with the potential to be a steamsmith can rise to glory regardless of who they are, at least that’s the promise. Vought and Emily have tried for years to meet that promise, but haven’t had so much as a passing glimpse at it. Cheated yet again by an attack on the faire of innovation, they are driven to unravel the silent conspiracy behind the attacks. With the help of their three pugs Flash, Old Sal, and Baron Von Mudden they must find the minds behind the rogue machines as the city ticks its way towards destruction. They’re “The Voughts”, and they don’t have a chance.
©2011, 2018 T. Wyse (P)2018 T. Wyse
Tripping the Night Fantastic
Summary
Tripping the Night Fantastic is essentially a whodunit, but one that is far from the traditional. There is a murder, there is a sleuth, and there is a solution, but in tone and humour it is somewhere between House, M.D. and Trainspotting. Charlie Deavon is a British author who meets a fan (the sexually troublesome Amelia Heart) in a pub. The following morning she is found dead. The main suspect in the case is Simon, Charlie's agent. Having avoided the police, Charlie, Simon, and the local bartender try to solve the case together. The three men, what with the stress of it all, turn to a new drug called Merlin, which allows them to control and share hallucinations. From then on, they trip and hallucinate their way through to the story's conclusion. Charlie and co. like to drink. Only they don't so much go for a drink as go for a splash. They wallow in it like mad fish. It really is no way to go about solving crimes.
©2012 Andrew Chapman (P)2018 Andrew Chapman
The Resurrectionist
Summary
In 19th century Scotland, surgeon Edgar Price has only days to live. He has become host to a revenant that will corrode both his body and soul. Edgar’s fatal mistake has not only doomed him, but also released six more of these malignant wraiths onto the world. In his remaining time, he has vowed to stop the revenants from claiming other victims. His perilous travels lead him to the Witches’ Wood, a haven for a sisterhood of powerful enchantresses. There he meets Ainsley, a witch with a fiery spirit and strong distrust of outsiders. She too is racing against the clock to save her life and will go to any lengths to spare her lover Colleen from the grief of losing her. Despite their mutual dislike, Edgar and Ainsley find that the only way to traverse the twisted, otherworldly labyrinths that the revenants have created is to work together. Their mission becomes further complicated when Edgar begins to develop strong feelings for Fana, the guardian goddess of the Wood, in spite of Ainsley’s forbidding warnings to stay far away from her. Horror and fantasy intermingle in this imagined continuation to the true story of the Burke and Hare murders. "A.R. Meyering’s The Resurrectionist is a thriller firing on all cylinders. Lit by gaslights, haunted by the past and the long dead, the witchcraft, the protagonists, not to mention Scotland’s turn of the century setting, will delight readers. Part high Romance, part supernatural thriller, The Resurrectionist dives into a rabbit hole of magic and secrecy that will keep readers flipping pages long into the night." (Stephen Scott Whitaker, member of the National Book Critics Circle, author, and managing editor for The Broadkill Review) "The raw beauty of The Resurrectionist is more than the intricate world of hidden magic Meyering builds, or the complex characters, both good and bad, so easy to bond to and commiserate with. It's the very real and frightening possibility that such chaos can come of a single decision made in anger by an individual. At its heart, The Resurrectionist is about the power of choice and consequence, and the very real horror one can inadvertently unleash upon the world. " (Lisa Gail Green, author of The Gallows House) "The real-life story of the infamous body snatchers, Burke and Hare, is the inspiration for AR Meyering’s The Resurrectionist, a sophisticated, lush, and engaging fantasy novel. It offers the perfect touch of Gothic horror, along with thought-provoking ideas, an elegant use of fantasy, and well-drawn characters whose humanity is the perfect counterpoint to the evil of their adversaries." (Victoria Gilbert, author of the Blue Ridge Library Mystery series and the Mirror of Immortality series) "Meyering's world fluctuates between Barker-esque scenes and Dostoyevskian guilt-complexes with such ease that one wonders whether the The Resurrectionist can function as a concise, thoughtful novel - but it does, and it's a bloody good time." (Walker Zupp, author of Martha)
©2020 Montag Press (P)2020 Alexandra Meyering
The Righteous One
Summary
The Righteous One is the story of Moshe the cobbler, a gentle, 60-year-old tzaddik - a righteous and saintly Jew - who is called upon to rekindle his divine connection to the Almighty in order to destroy the notorious New York gangster and rasha Solomon Blass, a man who uses his power of foreseeing events via his vivid dreams to advance his own financial interests. While Solomon and his son, Myron, seek to control much of Manhattan - its biggest businesses, its police department, and its city government - they find themselves embroiled in conflict with numerous powerful people from both their waking life and the dream world, where Moshe has begun training with the descendants of an ancient mystical spirit for his inevitable confrontation with Solomon. As the final battle approaches, the divide between good and evil becomes ever clearer and each character faces the consequences of his past, present, and future actions. Will Solomon’s wily tenacity prevail, or will Moshe be strong enough to destroy the rasha’s wicked soul?
©2019 Neil Perry Gordon (P)2020 Neil Perry Gordon