Hotel California, Don Bruns
Hotel California, Don Bruns
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Hotel California
An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories

Author: Don Bruns

Narrator: Hillary Huber, various narrators, James Patrick Cronin, Richard Ferrone, Joe Hempel, Joe Barrett, Scott Brick, Sophie Amoss, January LaVoy

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2022


Synopsis

Featuring a new Jack Reacher story by Andrew Child!A dangerous drifter, a hired gun, a grisly corpse—you never know who you’ll run into at the Hotel California.Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify—and maybe even chill you to your core. Get lost in the wild imaginations of such New York Times bestselling writers as Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Coleman, and John Gilstrap, plus authors Rick Bleiweiss, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Amanda Flower, and Don Bruns. From the titular tale “Hotel California” to a new, original Jack Reacher adventure, these stories have a little something for every mystery lover.Go ahead. Check in, enjoy some room service, and stay until the very last tantalizing page. Just don’t forget to search the closet or behind the curtains.

About Don Bruns

Don Bruns is an ad executive and a USA Today bestselling author. As a former road musician, he performed with Ricky Nelson, the Four Seasons, Ray Charles, and others. Bruns has authored seventeen published novels including the Quentin Archer Mystery series. Casting Bones has been optioned for a motion picture by Nine Ton Entertainment. He makes his home in Southern Florida.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber is a multiple Audie Award finalist, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, and an AudioFile Best Voice. She has recorded over 550 titles, spanning many genres. A huge fan of audiobooks, when she's not narrating one, she's listening to one!

About Reed Farrel Coleman

Reed Farrel Coleman is a New York Times bestselling author whose works have won Macavity, Barry, Anthony, and Shamus awards.

About Amanda Flower

Amanda Flower is the USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author of over twenty-five novels, including the nationally bestselling Amish Candy Shop Mystery series, the Amish Matchmaker Mysteries, the Katharine Wright Mysteries, and several series written under the name Isabella Alan. An organic farmer and former librarian, Amanda lives in Northeast Ohio.

About James Patrick Cronin

James Patrick Cronin is a classically trained stage actor with an MFA from the University of Louisville and a degree in philosophy from East Tennessee State University. He has performed everything from the classics to original material to comedy sketches in Ireland, Scotland, Serbia, Israel, and throughout the United States. An Earphones Award recipient, he has also recorded over one hundred audiobooks across an extensive range of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, young adult, and nonfiction.

About Richard Ferrone

Read by Richard Ferrone, Stephen Bel Davies, Prentice Onayemi, Scott Aiello, Michael David Axtell, Jessica B. Harris, and Amanda Leigh Cobb

About Joe Hempel

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, award-winning narrator Joe Hempel, a total eighties' kid, had a fascination with an eclectic array of shows that would later shape his performances in the audiobook world. For over a decade Joe honed his acting skills as a referee in WWE's Developmental professional wresting schools. Combined with his animated personality and a love for reading, becoming an audiobook narrator was a natural step. Best known for his captivating, rich narrations and uncanny ability for pulling listeners into an immersive experience, Joe has entertained listeners with over 600 audiobooks, carving a path to being the most in-demand narrator in the horror genre. He also frequently narrates mystery, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and nonfiction titles. Joe Hempel is a 2018 Independent Audiobook Award winner for best horror, a 2021 Independent Audiobook Award winner for best horror as a publisher, and a 2022 SOVAS award winner for best voice-over in an anthology for the thriller Hotel California. Joe also runs the award-winning extreme horror audiobook company Fright Night Audio.

About Heather Graham

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Heather Graham has written more than a hundred novels. She's a winner of the RWA's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Thriller Writers' Silver Bullet. She is an active member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America. For more information, check out her website, theoriginalheathergraham.com. You can also find Heather on Facebook and on Twitter, @heathergraham.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett is an Audie and Earphones award-winning narrator who has recorded over two hundred titles. He began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York and has gone on to play numerous roles on television, film, and stage, including on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. He has also appeared in hundreds of television and radio commercials. He is married to actor Andrea Wright, with whom he has four very grown children.

About Jennifer Dornbush

Jennifer Graeser Dornbush works as a screenwriter, author, speaker, and forensic specialist. She has developed film and TV projects, is the author of numerous books, and frequently speaks around the world on crime fiction and forensics. She and her family divide their time between Upper Michigan and Arizona.

About John Gilstrap

John Gilstrap is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed Jonathan Grave thrillers. Against All Enemies won the International Thriller Writers' Award for Best Paperback of 2015. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. An expert in explosives safety and a former firefighter, he holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

About Rick Bleiweiss

Rick Bleiweiss has crafted the bestselling, award-winning Pignon Scorbion historical mystery series by blending his love of the past with the twisty deliciousness of a whodunit. He has recently also contributed a wonderful story to the mystery anthology Hotel California.Before becoming an author, Rick started his career in music as a rock performer, Grammy-nominated producer (of over fifty records), and record company senior executive, working with Clive Davis, Melissa Etheridge, the Backstreet Boys, Kiss, U2, Whitney Houston, the BeeGees, and other industry legends.Since 2006 as a publishing company executive, he has acquired works by noted authors and celebrities including James Clavell, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rex Pickett, Al Roker, Dale Brown, Robert Downey Jr., Leon Uris, Catherine Coulter, and P. C. Cast, among many others. Follow Rick & Scorbion at www.RickBleiweiss.com

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick has narrated bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners for every major publisher, over 1000 titles since his debut in 1999, including Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October, In Cold Blood, and many more. In addition to two Grammy nominations, eight Voice Arts Awards, and over sixty Earphones Awards, he’s also received seven Audie Awards, including two for his work on the Dune saga. In 2004, AudioFile magazine named Brick “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy,” and in 2017 he was an inaugural inductee into Audible’s Hall of Fame.

About January LaVoy

January LaVoy, winner of numerous awards for narration, was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019. She is an American actress best known for her character Noelle Ortiz on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. In addition to working extensively in narration and television, including roles on Law & Order and All My Children, she has worked on and off Broadway as well as in regional theater.

About Andrew Child

Andrew Child, who also writes as Andrew Grant, is the author of RUN, False Positive, False Friend, False Witness, Invisible, and Too Close to Home. Child and his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander, live on a wildlife preserve in Wyoming.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on July 07, 2022

A group of eight short stories, all mysteries and each carrying the title of a song by the Eagles. As always with such collections, the appeal ebbs and flows and sometimes the title seems to get in the story’s way, leading to a scenario that feels somewhat contrived. There’s even one (Hotel Californ......more

Goodreads review by Debra on July 11, 2022

"Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before" - Hotel California, The Eagles Hotel California is a computation of eight short stories with titles taken from The Eagles songs! There is even a new Jack Reacher story thrown in! The authors......more

Goodreads review by Pooja on June 20, 2022

In this anthology of eight crime stories, the reader is introduced to a quite wide cast that includes multiple hitmen and detectives, a senator, an influencer - and a whole bunch of victims. I don't read many anthologies, but I do make an exception for ones consisting of crime stories. I think the my......more

Goodreads review by haley on August 04, 2022

overall 3 stars but that hotel california short story… WOWWW i’m speechless......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on July 01, 2022

Although I am not a fan of short stories, the eight authors of this anthology got my attention! Additionally they use the ‘Eagles’ “Hotel California” as a theme. Since this is an audiobook I totally was hoping for some background music!!! The authors are: Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Co......more


Quotes

“Get out your steely knives…this story collection from some of today’s top thriller writers makes for bloody good reading.” Brian Freeman, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep, Deep Snow

“With its edge-of-your-seat scenarios, shady personalities, and occasional touch of the supernatural, Hotel California delivers a gripping series of adventures with a mix of hopeful and horrifying outcomes.” Foreword Reviews

“If you like mysteries and twisted endings, you will love Hotel California, an anthology of new mystery short stories, by evilly talented mystery authors…These eight authors will captivate you with amazing details, history, and diabolical character development…If you love a good mystery, these stories are a must-read.” Book Junkie Reviews

“Eight tales with a twist. Make that eight twists…Expect, and enjoy, the unexpected.” Kirkus Reviews

“Don Bruns has gathered eight solid writers who do justice to the Eagles’ anthem and the album’s other songs while putting a spin on the stories behind the songs…Each story in Hotel California is well thought out.” Oline Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel


Awards

  • Voice Arts Award
  • South Florida Sun Sentinel Pick