Josiah John Bildner has narrated 14 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors. The most-rated is CJ Washburn, P.I. Bundle: Books 1-4.
Diary of the Displaced Omnibus
Summary
Diary of the Displaced is a genre-breaking saga that is part mystery, part scifi, part horror and part fantasy. Set in a universe where creatures from the depths of Lovecraftian horror come up against blaster and shotgun-wielding nomadic wanderers, it's not like anything you've ever heard before. There is a place where nightmares are real. A dark and terrifying place that is hidden from the world we know, by borders that only the most unfortunate of souls will ever cross. James Halldon wakes up in a strange and dark place, surrounded by endless junk and debris. He has no idea where he is, or how he got there. No food. No water. No light. Almost no memories of his past. And there are things moving in the darkness around him. Things that growl. And daytime never seems to come....
©2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Glynn James (P)2015 Glynn James
Parker DuPont, P.I. Bundle: Books 1-4
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Parker DuPont is a family man, with a wife, three children, and sister. As happens to many men Parker’s age, he faces the mid-life thing, and decides he wants to hang his own shingle, rather than spend the next 20-plus years as a St. Petersburg police detective. Private investigator sounds very appealing, and so off he goes into the private world to become his own boss. Listeners of Parker DuPont, PI, have enjoyed Parker’s humor as well as that of his quirky kids and his school-principal wife, whose pastime involves paints and brushes on canvas. Oh, and there’s his now-and-then partner, Stormy Stine, who looks more like a grandmother than an ex-Secret Service agent, as well as his sister, Randi Leigh, who suddenly finds immense interest in what her big brother is doing. With this great four-book set, you can take the entire ride with Parker and his family and friends. Driven by Death Detective Parker DuPont turned in his letter of resignation (he forgot to tell his wife), and is just weeks away from officially hanging his PI shingle, when he catches his first case. Charlie Porter was struck by a golf ball. Accidental death by golf ball, it is ruled, though there were no witnesses. Was it accidental? If not, who was the killer? What is his wife hiding? Remembering Death Alzheimer’s patient Lester Winters receives an experimental pacemaker for his brain to restore his memory. He first recalls a dead woman. To help find the answers, his wife hires an attorney who hires Parker DuPont. He soon discovers that there is a lot more to Lester’s memory than just a dead woman. He remembers where she is buried, as well as the face of the killer, and is scared into silence, fearing the killer remembers him. Secrets in Death Sky Deakins doesn’t believe that her husband committed suicide; however, to get to the truth, she may have to reveal a secret that she’s kept close to her heart for 23 years, a secret she shouldn’t be taking to her grave. At 80, that time may not be far off. And what does the 2016 future senatorial candidate Dallas Maguire have to do with any of it? And what about Gracie’s secret? Will Randi Leigh make Parker an uncle? Can Parker and his dad actually become friends? Who is it that has secrets in death? Lost in Death Hieronymus is not only ready to die, he wants to die. In Florida, however, it’s called self-murder. How many law-makers would change their minds about the whole self-murder thing once they themselves come to realize their days are at an end, that there is no longer a life while certain death hoovers about them like a cold fog? Hieronymus thinks about much of this while carefully navigating his oxygen tank from the bed, to the bathroom, to the kitchen, to the sofa. It was about time he did something right; take control of his final choice - his choice as to how and when to die. What could possibly go wrong?
©2021 James Paddock (P)2021 James Paddock
Lost in Death
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Hieronymus is not only ready to die, he wants to die. It’s his time; however, the laws of Florida forbid him from carrying it out on his own. Self-murder, they label it. How many of the youngsters - a title he freely applies to anyone under the age of 65 - who put their blessings on such a law would change their minds about the whole self-murder thing once they, themselves, come to realize their days are at an end, that there is no point in trying to hold on, that there is no longer a life while certain death hoovers about them like a cold fog? And then, when they do die, why does the law make it so hard on their survivors? These are things Hieronymus thinks about while carefully navigating his oxygen tank from the bed to the bathroom to the kitchen to the sofa. Sometimes, he goes to the window to gaze out at the golf course, regretting the choices he’d made in his life, irritated that so often they weren’t his choices, at all. It was about time he did something right and took control of his final choice - his choice as to how and when to die. What could possibly go wrong?
©2019 James Paddock (P)2020 James Paddock
Secrets in Death
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Sky Deakins doesn’t believe that her husband committed suicide; however, to get to the truth she may have to reveal a secret that she’s kept close to her heart for 23 years, 22 of which she has been a widow. It’s a secret that she’s thinking she may not want to take to her grave anyway. At 80 years of age, that time may not be far off. And what does the 2016 future senatorial candidate, Dallas Maguire, have to do with any of it? And what about Gracie’s secret? Will Randi Leigh make Parker an uncle? Can Parker and his dad actually become friends? Who is it that has secrets in death?
©2018 James Paddock (P)2020 James Paddock
Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow
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Jamison is crushing on the new girl next door. Bad news - the neighbors are Somerled - Amish-type cult-members who are killing off their own. Worse news - she's next in line for sacrifice. Jamison will have to rise above the coward he thinks he is to get to the bottom of it all. Something is terribly wrong with Skye. She's experiencing emotions like the mortal teenager she's pretending to be. When she finally asks the right questions, she finds answers that will rock the Somerled world... and none of her options include Jamison, the boy who has stolen the heart she was never meant to have.
©2012 Lesli Muir Lytle (P)2013 Lesli Muir Lytle
The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree
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The legendary gunslingers of late author Ed Brigham's fantasy novels were supposed to be the stuff of fiction, but when his son Ross and two of Ed's fans stumble into the desolate parallel world of Destin, they discover a war for the very soul of the universe, waged by the immortal muses that once pledged to enrich it - and a strange secret that might bring America itself into the mystery.
©2013 S. A. Hunt (P)2014 S. A.. Hunt
Diary of the Displaced
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Book 2 of the Diary of the Displaced series. The Journal of James Halldon continues... After escaping from The Corridor with DogThing, Rudy and Adler, James discovers that the world awaiting him outside is just as harsh as the one he had left behind. The horrors that he had escaped from, that lurked in the darkness, would continue to haunt him in the bright sunlight of The Broken Lands. Will he find a way to recover his memories? Who was the creature that hunted him in The Corridor?
©2011, 2014 Glynn James (P)2014 Glynn James
The Ways
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Book three of the Diary of the Displaced series. Alone again. Sitting on the ledge in the darkness of The Corridor. A sword thrust through his chest. His faithful companion, DogThing - thrown to the horde of zombies below. The scaffold bridge that was his only escape - destroyed. Rudy, Adler, Reg, and Marie - all separated by the closed portal. The portal key - stolen. His weapons - thrown into the darkness. Not one but two dangerous enemies roaming in the darkness. Could it get much worse for James? Yes. It could. The journal of James Halldon continues...
©2011-2014 Glynn James (P)2015 Glynn James
Smilodon
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Book 1 of the Smilodon trilogy Imagine re-creating the saber-toothed cat for fun? The possibility sounds exciting, but the reality could be nightmarish. In James Paddock's new novel, Smilodon, the main character is drawn into in a world where man becomes the hunted. It is fast-paced fiction, where cats change the rules and people run for their lives. Tigers in the wild and a lucrative fee lure freelance writer Zechariah Price into the frozen mountains of Montana. The assignment drops him into a world of Bengal tigers, illegal aliens, prehistoric saber-toothed cats, and psychic premonitions. As the possibility of death by man and animal surrounds him, he quickly learns that he, too, is destined to become food for the cats. Trapped between man and beast, his assignment turns into that of survival. Smilodon intertwines the exciting possibility and nightmarish reality of cloning in an age in which advanced genetic engineering is rapidly evolving. "Consider the very real possibility of cloning your recently deceased pet," says the author. "We are on the brink of just such a thing. If after your pet, what about your child, or an entire genetically engineered perfect society?" Smilodon will send one back to thinking, "What if?"
©2011 James Paddock (P)2021 James Paddock
The Journal of James Halldon
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James Halldon wakes up in a strange and dark place, surrounded by endless junk and debris. He has no idea where he is, or how he got there. No food. No water. No light. Almost no memories of his past. And there are things moving in the darkness around him. Things that growl. And daytime never seems to come.
©2011 Glynn James (P)2014 Glynn James
Theo and Fat Terry
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Superheroes and action stars aren't the only ones out there trying to make the world a better place. In Theo and Fat Terry, two low-rent good ol' boys take a road trip through East Georgia on a mission to clean up their own backyard. This story is part open letter to all pop culture junkies, part scathing satire, and part call to arms to every regular joe that has just had enough. Sometimes in order to right a few wrongs, you have to blow some s#@t up.
©2012 Brian Panowich (P)2012 Brian Panowich
Remembering Death
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Lester Winters, in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, submits to an experimental procedure (a pacemaker for his brain) to restore his memory. He first recalls a dead woman who, it is assumed by his wife, is his mother from years past. As weeks go by and Lester’s "pacemaker" does its job, he recalls that it is Caroline who is dead, not his mother. His wife decides that it’d be prudent to hire an attorney to help find the answers. The attorney hires Parker DuPont, who soon discovers there is a lot more to Lester’s memory than just a dead woman by the name of Caroline. He remembers where she is buried. He also remembers the face of the killer and is scared into silence that the killer remembers him.
©2017 James Paddock (P)2020 James Paddock
Driven by Death
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Detective Parker DuPont turned in his letter of resignation (he forgot to tell his wife) and is just weeks away from officially hanging his PI shingle when he catches his first case. At first, he thinks it’s a joke being played upon him by a colleague jokester. It is certainly not a joke. Charlie Porter was struck by a golf ball and killed on the sixth fairway of a Riverview, Florida, golf course. Accidental death by golf ball, it is ruled. But there are no witnesses, nor does anyone come forward to fess up to being the individual who hit the ball. Charlie’s wife at first believes it was not an accident but payback for crimes committed decades before. She soon recants, claiming simple ravings of a distraught widow. Charlie’s employer, however, chooses to go forward with the investigation, directing Parker to find the answers. Was it accidental? If not, who was the killer? What is Mrs. Porter really hiding? And who the heck is Parker’s partner, ex-Secret Service agent Stormy Stine? A grandmother looking for work?
©2016 James Paddock (P)2019 James Paddock
CJ Washburn, P.I. Bundle: Books 1-4
Summary
Deserving of Death
Women’s bodies keep turning up, and CJ becomes a person of interest, then the prime suspect, the subject of a manhunt from the Idaho panhandle to Southern Arizona. Bodies continue to drop around him until his deepest fear is pushed upon him and his investigative skills are challenged at the highest level.
Sailing into Death
Find Douglas no matter what, CJ is told. It’s off to Florida where he finds him dead. With the FBI, HLS, Interpol, and who knows who else involved, can CJ and Stella figure out who killed Douglas and what it all has to do with his being born in the middle of the Battle of the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1969?
Angel of Death
Did Jesper Monnier die at his own hand or was it the young man who the twins hustled on the pool table in Atlantic City, or a jealous boyfriend, or a disgruntled employee of the huge superyacht? Or was it someone else altogether? Are CJ and Stella, now P.I. partners, actually going to get married
Never Surrender to Death
CJ and Stella are on their honeymoon in New Zealand when they find themselves embroiled in the search for a murderer of children. From Auckland and Papatoetoe to National Park on North Island, across Cook Strait to South Island and on down to Christchurch, they pursue both the killer and their honeymoon.
©2013, 2015, 2017 James Paddock (P)2018 James Paddock