Chris Defazio has narrated 9 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors. The most-rated is Pleading Guilty.
A History in Blood
Summary
Sometimes being a vampire isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Julian Brownell, a 2,000-year-old vampire, is learning that the hard way. The depression and divorce in his banal, pretend-human life were bad enough. But when he decides to burst back onto the vampire scene, things go from bad to worse as he finds himself firmly in the sights of the deadliest vampire hunter of all time. A History in Blood depicts a world where vampire culture and politics reside peacefully beside the world aboveground, a world where vampires don’t adhere to the erroneous traditional lore. Stakes to the heart cannot kill them - only fire or decapitation. Although popular opinion suggests that garlic and sunlight are fatal to them, in truth, these are more like allergies that affect them to varying degrees. Against this backdrop, and with a healthy dose of humor, the story follows Titus Acilius (aka Julian Brownell, aka Christian Beauparlant, aka Texas Jack, aka any number of alternate identities) on his journey to protect the people he loves from harm even as he searches for the answers to his ancient-life crisis.
©2013 Chris DeFazio (P)2019 ChrisDeFazio
Mercy
Summary
His daughter was taken. He’ll never get her back. Set in the near future, Matt Deal is a British businessman married into a wealthy Florida family. Mercy, his 15-year-old daughter, is the glue in his rocky marriage to Lorey. His life is changed forever after Mercy is brutally sexually assaulted on a Destin beach, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state. Trusting the local detectives to bring the rapists to justice, mixed martial arts expert Deal concentrates in vain on his Florida gym business, only to have his world further explode on learning the men responsible for his daughter’s injuries may escape justice. Deal is isolated and at his wit's end after his rich father-in-law sends death threats blaming him for all these ills. Who can he turn to? Where can he go? What will he do? Who can he trust? Will he return to a post-Brexit Britain or will he, ultimately, seek revenge? Fans of Jack Reacher, Barry Eisler, and any vigilante justice novel will love this book. Trigger warning: Adult content. The story contains a scene of sexual violence and some scenes of explicit consensual adult sex.
©2019 Stephen Bentley (P)2020 Stephen Bentley
Insufficient Evidence
Summary
In the latest Lou Corso mystery, Lou Corso, a hard-drinking, hard-living ex-cop is confronted with a chance for a new life. When Lou's client Connie Terwilliger is threatened by her vicious husband Victor, Lou and the group of Good Samaritans who help him shelter battered women rescue Connie and put her in a safe house. After Connie is murderously attacked, Lou finds himself pulled between his current commitments and a decade-old list of cold cases involving murdered or missing women. One of those cases had cost him his career as a police detective when his frustration with a suspect had pushed him near the edge. When life couldn't seem to get more complicated, Lou meets Joan Queen, a pretty ex-cop from Miami who makes him feel like living again. In this fast-paced drama, Lou Corso must outsmart a psychopath, redeem himself as a champion of battered and murdered women, and find the courage to commit to love.
©2011 Hilliard & Harris (P)2020 Hilliard & Harris
Last Chance
Summary
Life is full of chances. But how do you know which one will be your last? Two-bit thug Jimmy McKinnon navigates the mean streets of Quincy, Massachusetts. He's roiling internally and would do anything to escape the prison his hometown has become for him. How far will he go and who will he betray to get his hands on a three-million-dollar payday? How will he deal with his junkie hairdresser girlfriend and his overbearing mother? How will he elude Fat Mickey, his gang's second-in-command, and the private eye who's following him? Does a street punk like him stand a chance in outsmarting Quincy's crime lord, Smiling Bobby D?
©2018 Chris DeFazio (P)2019 Chris DeFazio
Mayhem: A Detective Matt Deal Thriller
Summary
Don’t mess with Deal.... Mayhem will follow. At the funeral of two of his hit men, Mike Russo, capo of the New Jersey Mob puts out a contract on Detective Matt Deal for his part in the killings. At the same time another funeral is taking place in Florida. Deal will soon learn just how badly his world is broken...and it’s about to get worse. The long awaited sequel to book one in the series - Mercy. Fans of Jack Ryan or lethal killers like Reacher or Scot Harvath will devour this novel.
©2020 Stephen Bentley (P)2021 Stephen Bentley
Writer's Block
Summary
Author Billy Blaine escapes to St. Martin with the hope that his writer's block and his anxieties will melt away in the warm Caribbean sunshine. Despite ample help from his friends on the island, things take an unexpected turn. Alone, Billy ends up having to face his greatest fear and being forced down a path he's been hiding from for years. An exciting and quick listen from the author of the award-winning Blood Trilogy (featuring the 2,000-year-old vampire Titus Acilius aka Julian Brownell aka Christian Beauparlant) and Into the Light (Dave Richards Mystery series).
©2016 Chris DeFazio (P)2021 Chris DeFazio
The Last Time We Saw Paris
Summary
What would any of us do for love? Vampire and brilliant scientist, Dr. Desmond Ashcroft pushes that concept to the extreme, traveling through time over and over again trying to save the love of his life. Even though his efforts put the very future of the world at risk, nothing will stop him. Nothing, perhaps except the ancient Roman vampire, Titus Acilius.
©2017 Chris DeFazio (P)2021 Chris DeFazio
My Darkest Prayer
Summary
Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riff raff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former Marine and Sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted. When a local minister with grandiose ambitions is found dead, Nathan is approached by his parishioners who feel the local police are dragging their feet with the investigation. What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small-town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface.
©2018 Sean Cosby (P)2019 Intrigue Publishing
Pleading Guilty
Summary
The classic legal thriller from the master of the genre. Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite ex-drunk, and partner on the wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than $5 million of a client's money. Soon Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city on his final desperate and courageous crusade to reinvent himself from the depths of his own shattered soul....
©2014 Scott Turow (P)2015 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.