Where It Hurts
The Gus Murphy Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Chris Andrew Ciulla
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Written by:
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Reed Farrel Coleman
About this listen
From award-winning New York Times best-selling author Reed Farrel Coleman comes a gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people live - and die.
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, he had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart, and Gus is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing.
Divorced and working as a courtesy van driver for the run-down hotel in which he has a room, Gus has settled into a mindless, soulless routine that barely keeps his grief at arm's length. But his comfortable waking trance comes to an end when ex-con Tommy Delcamino comes to him for help. Four months earlier, TJ Delcamino's battered body was discovered in a wooded lot, yet the police don't seem interested in pursuing the killers. In desperation, Tommy seeks out the only cop he ever trusted: Gus Murphy.
Gus reluctantly agrees to see what he can uncover. As he begins to sweep away the layers of dust that have collected over the case during the intervening months, Gus finds that Delcamino is telling the truth. It seems that everyone involved with the late TJ Delcamino - from his best friend to his girlfriend, from a gang enforcer to a mafia capo and even the police - has something to hide, and all are willing to go to extreme lengths to hide it. Gus has taken on a dangerous favor as he claws his way back to take a place among the living, all while searching through the sewers for a killer.
©2016 Reed F. Coleman, Inc. (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What listeners say about Where It Hurts
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-01-22
Great story and fantastic narrator!
This novel by Reed Farrel Coleman was a great story with well-rounded characters. I, too, cried at the last line of the story. Chris Andrew Ciulla was fantastic as narrator. I'm looking for another of Coleman's novels and definitely recommend this one!
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- EmSprack
- 2022-09-01
A good listen!
Fast paced and great characters. I enjoyed every chapter. Gus’s pain in palpable throughout and feels genuine. The band of men around also all I have a very real quality. It kept you wanting to listen and know more.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Langer MD
- 2022-06-17
Thank You, Audible
I would not have listened to this audiobook had it not been included as a 'Plus option (free with my subscription).. and that's a shame. It's an excellent Crime Thriller.
Reed Farrel Coleman is heavy-handed with the improbable survivor's guilt character motivation - jaded & cartoonishly self-confident/strong-willed ex-Long Island (Suffolk County) PD cop Gus Murphy somehow *completely* fell apart after a son died from a heart defect (quitting his job, leaving his wife & daughter, etc.) - but the dialogue (while expletive-laden) is realistic, the setting is mind's-eye vivid, the atmosphere is (often uncomfortably) gritty, and the action-driven plot is twisty-turny and loaded with plausible surprises. Farrel Coleman clearly understands the smoldering DGAF themes that make "hard-boiled" Crime Thrillers so very fun
..and provides what fans of noir Crime Fiction expect.. in spades.
The excellent reading by Chris Andrew Ciulla adds to my favorable impression of the book. Backed up by exemplary technical support from Blackstone Audio Inc, Mr. Ciulla reads with professional diction and pacing, admirable timbre and cadence, and spot-on emotive tone. True, his 'New Yawk' accents are occasionally over-the-top, but Ciulla turns in a praiseworthy performance.
Taken altogether, this is a 8.5/10 star offering. 'Where It Hurts' is definitely imperfect (awkwardly paced at times, for example), but actually worth a Credit.. and easily good enough to prompt me to go on to Book Two of the 'Gus Murphy' series.
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- Carrie ann bostjancic
- 2022-07-05
too cheesy for my taste. a bit sexist
I found the descriptive language to be too over the top at times. obviously written in a man's perspective. it was mostly boring and hard to get into.
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