The Art of Deception Audiobook (Free)

Seattle police psychologist Daphne Mathews has her hands full having a pregnant, addicted, runaway teenager, a murder victim’s brother whose unusual behavior unnerves her, and a deputy sheriff she once treated who’s now stalking her. She’s frightened plenty of to move in with Detective John LaMoia, a development that doesn’t exactly excitement Lou Boldt, their manager and Daphne’sex-lover. But Lou’s as well busy with his very own instances to brood over John and Daphne: the latest disappearances of two local females, and about The Art of Deception the loss of life of Billy Chen, the nephew of Mama Lu, an old friend and a powerful number in Seattle’s Chinese language community, which were a major accident but works out to have already been murder.The only thing the disappearances and murder have in common is location; all three victims were last observed in an integral part of downtown built on the Underground, a dark and harmful warren of structures abandoned after the fireplace that leveled Seattle more than a century ago.

While Seattle’s Underground continues to be the setting for many mysteries by various other authors (Earl Emerson, J.A. Jance), Pearson makes the most of its creepy-crawly atmosphere in a gripping thriller whose solid plotting pulls most of Daphne’s, LaMoia’s, and Boldt’s instances together. It also wisely reconfigures the non-public associations among the three central personas, which bodes well for his or her future adventures with this long-running series (Middle of Nowhere, The Pied Piper). –Jane Adams