Author: the Liars Club
Series: Joe Ledger Series #1
Narrator: various narrators, Ray Porter, Mirron Willis, Richard Powers, Pam Ward, R. C. Bray, Caroline Shaffer, Erin Bennett, Johnny Heller, Donald Corren, Robert Fass, Malcolm Hillgartner, Chris Patton, Simon Vance, John McLain
Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/01/2013
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Mystery & Detective
The Liars Club is a group of award-winning writers who work in a variety of genres, from literary to mystery to history to horror and beyond. They write stories for adults, young adults, children, and occasionally, werewolves. They advocate for bookstores and libraries, as well as for reading and writing, and give lively talks about books, publishing, writing, and topics related to fiction. Their goal is to promote literacy and a love of books and hope their stories encourage both. That’s no lie.
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, and steampunk, for adults and teens. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Rot & Ruin, Vault of Shadows, The X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, Mars One, Patient Zero, V-Wars, and many others.He writes comics for Marvel (Black Panther, Punisher, etc.), Dark Horse (Bad Blood), and IDW (Warrior Smart, V-Wars). And he is the editor of several high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Nights of the Living Dead, and Scary Out There. Several of his works are in development for movies and TV. He is a popular workshop leader, keynote speaker, and writing teacher. He lives in Del Mar, California.
Solomon Jones is the Essence bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Payback, C.R.E.A.M., The Bridge, Ride or Die, and Pipe Dream, as well as the short-story collection Keeping Up with the Jones. He is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and a spoken-word artist. He teaches creative writing at Temple University and is currently at work on his next novel.
Kelly Simmons is a former journalist and current novelist and advertising creative director. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels One More Day, Standing Still, and The Bird House.
Merry Jones is the author of the Harper Jennings thrillers and the Zoe Hayes mysteries. She has also written humor and nonfiction. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania and lives outside of Philadelphia.
Keith R.A. DeCandido is a white male in his 50s who has most recently been spotted in New York City. Armed with a laptop, he has inflicted more than sixty novels upon an unsuspecting public in addition to the one you hold in your hand. Some of these include: another series that mixes fantasy (in that case, sword-and-sorcery) with police procedure, which began with Dragon Precinct and has continued through five more novels (and dozens of short stories) to date; another urban fantasy series, the Bram Gold Adventures, which so far includes A Furnace Sealed and Feat of Clay; and also a novel and several novellas and short stories featuring the Super City Police Department, about cops in a city filled with superheroes.DeCandido has also perpetrated two collections of fantasy short stories set in Key West, Florida, and featuring a weirdness magnet named Cassie Zukav, entitled Ragnarok and Roll and Ragnarok and a Hard Place.In addition to worlds of his own creation, DeCandido has associated with more than thirty different licensed universes, from Alien to Zorro, including works in the milieus of TV shows (Star Trek, Supernatural, Farscape), movies (Cars, Kung Fu Panda, Serenity), games (Resident Evil, World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons), comic books (Spider-Man, Thor, the X-Men), and literary characters (Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger, Joe Ledger). DeCandido was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers in 2009 for his nefarious activities in this regard.Reports indicate that DeCandido has also worked in short fiction as both author and editor. Among the recent such incidents are stories in the anthology series Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight, Phenomenons, Forgotten Lore, Sherlock Holmes: Eliminate the Impossible, and Thrilling Adventure Yarns, as well as in the anthologies Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, Joe Ledger: Unbreakable, and The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny, in addition to several stories in Star Trek Explorer magazine. He has also been known to collaborate on such endeavors, having committed Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups with Jonathan Maberry, and The Four ???? of the Apocalypse with Wrenn Simms.Other known associates are the artists with whom he did comic book work, including the Resident Evil graphic novel Infinite Darkness: The Beginning, a story for the Farscape 25th Anniversary Special, and Animal, the comic book adaptation of the serial-killer novel he coauthored with Dr. Munish K. Batra.DeCandido’s other alleged crimes include: nonfiction for a variety of sources, most commonly the award-winning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com), as well as for his own Patreon (patreon.com/krad) and various essay collections published by Becky Books, Crazy 8 Press, Sequart, and ATB Publishing; being a fourth-degree black belt in karate, which he also teaches to adults and children; a musician, currently percussionist for the parody band Boogie Knights; and possibly some other questionable activity. If you see DeCandido, do not approach him, but call for backup immediately. Among his associates are a spouse, as well as two black cats, who have the street names of “Louie” and “Kaylee.” More information can be found in the casefile at www.DeCandido.net.
William Lashner is the New York Times bestselling author of A Filthy Business and The Barkeep, as well as the Victor Carl legal thrillers, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold across the globe. The Barkeep, nominated for an Edgar Award, was an Amazon and Digital Book World #1 bestseller. Lashner, a graduate of the New York University School of Law as well as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, before taking off his tie to write full-time.
Jon McGoran is the author of over ten novels for adults and young adults, including the YA science fiction thrillers Spliced, Splintered, and Spiked, the science thrillers Drift, Deadout, and Dust Up, numerous short stories and novellas, and licensed work for The Blacklist, The X-Files, and Zombies vs Robots. A freelance writer, writing teacher, and developmental editor and coach, he lives outside Philadelphia with his wife Elizabeth, a librarian.
Gregory Frost is an American author of science fiction and fantasy, including the Shadowbridge series, Fitcher's Brides, the Philip K. Dick-ian science fiction novel The Pure Cold Light, as well as two novels derived from the Celtic epic the tain bo cuailnge. His short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including Asimov's Science Fiction, including the Readers' Award winner, "Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters, H'ard and Andy Are Come to Town," collaboratively written with that Michael Swanwick. He taught the fiction writing workshop at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, for eighteen years.
Stephen Susco is a film and television screenwriter who is most famous for writing the hit movies The Grudge and The Grudge 2. Susco is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and USC and appears as a character in Jonathan Maberry’s Ghost Road Blues trilogy.
Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Aftermath. He is also the author of The Kick-Ass Writer from Writer's Digest Books. His Miriam Black books are currently being adapted into a major TV series.
Ray Porter is a prolific voice actor that has recorded for over 100 audio books and dozens of television series, video games and video shorts. Among his wide variety of audiobook credits are The Silver Linings Playbook, The Black Hole War, and the Joe Ledger series. He claims, “With every book I’ve done, I have found that the author has a voice and if I can just do my best to stay out of the way of that voice, then the writer will convey what he’s trying to put across. So for me, it’s really more about enabling the text and what the author is trying to say.”
Mirron Willis is a talented actor whose credits include theater, film, and television. His recordings include the Odyssey Honor award winner Elijah of Buxton by Paul Christopher Curtis; Sixty Feet, Sixty Inches by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, and Lonnie Wheeler; Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead; Invisible Life, Basketball Jones, and I Say A Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris. Mirron is the recipient of numerous Earphone Awards and has recorded many works by Walter Mosley and Orson Scott Card.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Pam Ward has had many incarnations, having performed in dinner theater, summer stock, and Off-Broadway, as well as in commercials, radio, and film. But she found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress Talking Books program, for which she received the prestigious Alexander Scourby Award from the American Foundation for the Blind. She now records from her studio amidst the beauty of the Southern Oregon mountains.
R.C. Bray has performed Off-Broadway, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and many stages in between. An accomplished producer and voiceover artist, R.C.'s voice can also be heard in countless TV and radio commercials. He lives with his gorgeous wife and two beautiful daughters in New England.
Caroline Shaffer is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. A former company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for nineteen years, she received an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.
Erin Bennett is an actress, a singer, and a voiceover artist. As an actress, she has performed at numerous theaters, including the Pasadena Playhouse, the Arizona Theatre Company, and the International City Theatre. Her voiceover work includes animation, BBC radio plays, video games, commercials for radio and television, and a wide range of audiobooks, including contemporary fiction, mysteries, science fiction, and romance.
Johnny Heller, a Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, has recorded over 800 audiobooks spanning every genre. He is a four-time Audie Award winner; an AudioFile Best Voice, Booklist Editor's Choice List, and Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award winner; and the winner of over thirty Earphones Awards. His national and international audiobook coaching workshops are called "game changing" by attendees. AudioFile magazine named him one of the top fifty voices of the twentieth century.
Michael Albert is an organizer, publisher, teacher, and author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles. He cofounded South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, ZNet, and various other projects, and works full time for Z Communications. He is the author of Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society.
A two-time Audie Award winner, veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. An eight-time Audie nominee with over 225 unabridged audiobooks to his credit, Robert has also earned multiple Earphones Awards. In addition, his work was listed among AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, and 2018. Robert has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Carlos Fuentes, Jeffrey Deaver, and Nele Neuhaus, plus bestselling nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, and business.
Malcolm Hillgartner is a professional actor, playwright, and songwriter. In 2007, he began recording audiobooks and has since recorded more than 175 titles. He has won multiple Earphones Awards and was named a Best Voice of 2013 by AudioFile magazine.
Chris Patton has narrated over seventy-five audiobooks. His voice can be heard narrating such titles as Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the dystopian juggernaut Yesterday’s Gone, Clive Barker’s Books of Blood series, and two titles by Joyce Carol Oates. Chris began his career in theater at age ten, and his voice-over career at twenty-nine. Since then, he has voiced over two hundred anime titles, numerous commercials and e-learning and industrial projects, and several video games. He’s also fronted a synthpop band called Paul Lynde Is Dead, written a teen urban fantasy about an emo vampire called Scene Immortal, and has appeared as a special guest at more than eighty-five pop-culture conventions.
Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, including one for his narration of Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. A multiple Audie finalist, Simon has won Audie Awards for The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan, and The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. Winner of the 2008 Booklist Voice of Choice Award, Simon has also been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.
John McLain is an award-winning storyteller with over 200 audiobook credits. He delights in narrating across many genres: detective noir, suspense and thrillers, westerns, nonfiction, biography, and more. John is a SOVAS Voice Arts Award winner, a two-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and a winner of the Audiobook Reviewer Listeners' Choice Award.