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Alibi

A Novel

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Alibi

By: Joseph Kanon
Narrated by: Holter Graham
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From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.

Winner of the Hammett Prize

It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during World War II, he is forced to confront another Venice, a city still at war with itself, haunted by atrocities it would rather forget. Everyone, including his mother's suave new Venetian suitor, has been compromised by the occupation, and Adam finds himself at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas.

When is murder acceptable? What are the limits of guilt? How much is someone willing to pay for a perfect alibi?

©2005 Joseph Kanon; (P)2005 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Thriller & Suspense 20th Century

Critic reviews

“[Kanon] is fast approaching the complexity and relevance not just of le Carré and Greene but even of Orwell: provocative, fully realized fiction that explores, as only fiction can, the reality of history as it is lived by individual men and women.” —The New York Times Book Review on The Good German
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Thanks to the 9.95 special I got this book. This is a great story and a darn good reader also. Give it a try . I think you will like it.

DARN GOOD STORY

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It would better if producers stopped abridged stories. I purchase because I love the books and the authors. Feedback on the story- protagonist is a bit sanctimonious and and a hypocrite, considering his actions. Wonder how not wrapping up that moral loose end got by beta readers? or was it authorial intent. Excellent moral delimna.

good listen!

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Many interesting but believable twists. Many betrayals. Not the usual type characters, not typical characters. But it all works.

Great listen.

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An excellent exiting story with a lot of turns and twists that keeps you hooked to Holter Graham´s spirited performance; the audio version of Joseph Kanon´s thriller is also well produced.

There are only two things that disturbed me a little. First of all, what a shame that this excellent story is only availble in an abbridged version. And the other thing that was mildly annoying to me is the heavy use of over-the-top Italian accents with almost all characters, expecially since the abbridged version features a lot of dialogue. I´m from Europe myself and speak English quite well, and not everybody over here speaks English with those weird accents, even in Italy.

Otherwise, an excellent job and a joy to listen to.

Great story, excellent narrator

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I was so excited to see that Alibi was available through Audible. Imagine my disappointment to see that it is unabridged. A disservice to a fine writer.

Judith

Kanon abridged! Oh no!

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