Jeff Lemucchi has narrated 15 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Black Frog.
Dead Man Biking: A Jonas Kirk Mystery
Summary
Jonas Kirk loves to walk, in the city, out in the countryside. He mulls his view of criminal justice, wondering what role he plays in seeing that the scales of right and wrong are balanced. Impressed with the skill of a passing biker, he finds the same rider in parts and pieces 15 minutes later. He wonders about causes. Inspector Devlin has no concern...an accident. Kirk works to show Devlin otherwise, and in the end he manages to convince his favorite cop that to announce the identity of the killer. Devlin has doubts about Kirk...just how innocent is he, showing up at murder scenes all the time. Questions.
©2016, 2018 Dick Snyder (P)2019 Dick Snyder
Christmas Cards (A Jonas Kirk Mystery)
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Christmas season brings parades and magic. It also brings a poker session with four fine citizens of Woodland Park. Jonas Kirk deals the cards, sees the cheats, lives with the outcome. When one player turns up dead the next day, Kirk has ideas. Devlin's not too alarmed, but Kirk's explanation seems to clear things up...and then confuses the issue even more. Devlin is befuddled. Kirk is reconciled. Justice denied?
©2018 Dick Snyder (P)2020 Dick Snyder
Valentine's Kiss
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Minnesota cold. A midwinter bicycle race brings hometown enthusiasts into contact with serious-minded gamblers. When suspicions circulate about the race being fixed, it infects all of Woodland Park. The Valentine's Day Kiss turns out to be more than tossing out chocolate candy. Sudden death leads to a puzzling execution of justice.
©2016 Dick Snyder (P)2019 Dick Snyder
A Damn Small Town
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Life in a small town creates understandings...and suspicions. When Mike Carraday has a near-death experience, he calls on Jonas Kirk to help him sort through the evidence. Mike gets answers, and Kirk gets insight.
©2016, 2019 Dick Snyder (P)2019 Dick Snyder
Click
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Can Jonas Kirk, a wealthy, white, middle-class, twenty-something orphan find a purpose in life? Thoughtful detective work appeals to him, especially when it solves homicides that seem to puzzle the local police in Woodland Park, Minnesota. In Click, Kirk reaches out to Sergeant Chester Devlin, sharing an insight that solves a case, creating a working confidence that matches the distant, clean, and tidy Kirk with the ambitious, messy, dogged Devlin. Always outside the political establishment, Kirk's independence serves him well in appreciating quirky human behavior and linking it to motives for murder. In time, he finds a woman who shares his sense of loose commitment, touches up against the rules of religious rituals, learns a lot about poison and accidents, samples the potions of witches, and solves crimes with a gentle humor and growing appreciation for Sergeant, later Lieutenant, Devlin. Enjoy this first book in which Kirk explains why a bathroom accident is murder, and share his thoughtful emergence from playboy to puckish provider of homicidal justice.
©2016 Dick Snyder (P)2019 Dick Snyder
The Host
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Sharon Cunningham, a widowed Catholic, finds romance at the altar rail, an emotional commitment that takes her to India. In time, death comes to her priest, a half-world away. How? Jonas Kirk speculates.
©2017 Dick Snyder (P)2018 Dick Snyder
Night Dreams
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Jonas Kirk discovers murder on the Empire Builder, as quiet a train death as one might imagine. Even Kirk’s notable sense of a murder scene becomes muddled amid his dreams and his new resolve to redefine himself. Lieutenant Chester Devlin becomes skeptical of Kirk’s cues, even as they seem to solve a homicide.
©2016 Dick Snyder (P)2018 Dick Snyder
Deadlocked
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When the Woodland Park Locusts take on the Stillwater Frogs, it’s not just the football game that burns new memories. Coaches provide. Players collide. Fans threaten homicide. Lydia shows a violent mentality, and Kirk sorts through habits and eccentricity to give Devlin final answers.
©2016, 2018 Dick Snyder (P)2019 Dick Snyder
Beckon the Ravens
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Born and raised in a patriarchal farming community infused with bent religion, 19-year-old Meyrick has spent the majority of her life encased in snow-dusted hills and trees. Stanch regulation leaves little room for teenage antics, and Meyrick finds herself dreaming of a future far from the grasp of rural Alberta. As plans to leave for America are coming to fruition, an unearthed secret leaves Meyrick with no choice but to rescue the man she loves and embark on their adventure prematurely. Destined for Idaho, a series of tragedies leaves Meyrick without her companion, alone in rural America and tossed into the clutches of a sadistic crop farmer, Leroy Ellis. One morning, while walking, she is perplexed to witness a gentleman in a truck disperse two farmhands on the lawn before driving away. Initially cross, she soon takes a liking to the young couple and stashes the man and woman away from Leroy’s cruelty in a small barn on the property. Their bond grows as does Meyrick’s hatred for Leroy. She is bewildered by an inability to depart from the deranged man. She isn’t a prisoner, yet something within her anchors her to him. Her mind begins to crumble. Meyrick finds it difficult to distinguish reality from illusion or past from present and often suffers cruel flashbacks. Spiraling to a state of disrepair, Meyrick is saddled with an additional challenge - her guests aren’t the fragile and defenseless wanderers she’d initially assumed. The two have amassed their own secrets during their visit, which may result in deadly consequences for the three of them.
©2020 Beacon Publishing Group (P)2020 Beacon Audiobooks
The Rubber Ducky Car Wash
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Hello Geraldine Wright! The local maven of conformity spends her days reviewing and correcting shop owners and their business habits. Kirk follows her through the Rubber Ducky Car Wash and finds her new car on a collision course to death. Can Geraldine find a way out? Can Devlin help calm a community nuisance? Does Kirk know as much as he thinks? Whose business is it, anyway?
©2016, 2018 Dick Snyder (P)2019 Dick Snyder
The Acres: A Jonas Kirk Mystery
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Woodland Park loves the acreage attached to the home of Miss Jane Oswald. Children explore it, play games on its turf. Their parents picnic on it and watch caretaker Arne Arneson manage it. When Miss Jane decides to sell the Acres, it sets off a chain reaction which leads to a deadly surprise. Suddenly, things don't pass the smell test.
©2016, 2018 Dick Snyder (P)2016, 2019 Dick Snyder
For Your Penance: A Jonas Kirk Mystery
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A casual visit to St. Mark’s Catholic Church, leads Kirk to discover murder. The clues to solve murder in the pews lie in the confessional. Blocked by the conscience of a priest and the bluster of a bishop, Kirk and Lieutenant Devlin use both theology and civic seduction to find a killer.
©2017 Dick Snyder (P)2018 Dick Snyder
The Town with No Roads
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When a woman begins finding notes from her comatose father, miracle fever takes over the town. This touching story explores the strength of a father’s love. A miracle has come to Sparkling Pond, Minnesota. Memorable objects from Aspen Collins’ childhood are appearing in the town square, accompanied by notes in her father’s handwriting. The notes relate to things happening in her life now. But that’s impossible - Aspen's father is in a coma. The miracle brings chaos in the form of a ghost hunter, three different factions of people with conflicting beliefs about the miracle, and a television reporter who Aspen finds herself falling for. But when everything comes to a head, an impossible choice must be made. And the consequences of either decision could be too much to bear. An enchanting follow-up to Siple’s award-winning debut, The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride, The Town with No Roads is a story of forgiveness and redemption that explores whether unconditional love should hold us close or set us free.
©2019 Black Rose Writing (P)2019 Beacon Audiobooks
The Marquee Murders
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In Woodland Park, lazy nights and weekly movie mysteries build a new audience. When film plots link themselves to homicides in the Rivoli parking lot, Lt. Chester Devlin is perplexed. Jonas Kirk is curious. They, along with local attorney, Roger Blaisdell, and newbie cop, Oliver Grant, search for connections. An athletic couple, the Gordons, grapple with their crumbling marriage while Kirk and his romantic partner, Sharon Cunningham, speculate on likely motives for a series of violent deaths. Suspects surface. Devlin’s observations produce muddled evidence and doubt, but in an intense group conversation, Kirk identifies the serial killer. Is it the right script?
©2019 Dick Snyder (P)2021 Dick Snyder
Black Frog
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2019 Maxy Awards "Best Thriller". This is the second book in the mystery series featuring Detective Doug Bateman and investigator Anne Quinn. When opponents of a planned resort development on Moosehead Lake in northern Maine start turning up dead, Detective Doug Bateman of the Maine State Police is called in. Concurrently, investigator Anne Quinn with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office is looking into a series of bizarre assaults on women. As the parallel investigations unfold, Bateman and Quinn each find their cases becoming more complex and more disturbing. The sexual assaults may be part of a larger pattern that has played out across the country, and the axe murders of environmentalists may not be linked to the Moosehead Lake development project. Emma Lange, a reporter renting a room above Greenville’s Black Frog Restaurant on Moosehead Lake, makes life difficult for both Bateman and Quinn as they struggle to solve their respective cases while also sorting out their personal relationship.
©2019 Black Rose Writing (P)2019 Beacon Audiobooks