Listen free for 30 days
-
Privileged Lives
- Vince Cardozo, Book 1
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Series: Vince Cardozo, Book 1
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Listen with a free trial
Buy Now for £33.89
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Deadly Rich
- Vince Cardozo, Book 2
- By: Edward Stewart
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For alcoholic former actress Leigh Baker, the moment will always be suspended in time: Seeing her daughter plunge to her death from the terrace of a sixth-floor apartment. Months later, the man responsible is convicted by a jury of his peers. Four years after that, he is out on parole. And one by one, those whose testimony helped put James Delancey away meet violent ends. Manhattan doyenne Oona Aldridge is the first. She is found in the dressing room of a trendy Manhattan boutique, her throat slashed.
-
-
No update on Babe
- By michael pearson on 27-07-22
-
A Cold Death
- A Rocco Schiavone Mystery
- By: Antonio Manzini
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally best-selling series from Italian crime maestro Antonio Manzini. In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town, a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery: the body of her employer hanging from a chandelier in a dark room in an apparent suicide. Working the case is Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, banished from his beloved Rome to snowy, small-town Aosta.
-
Immoral
- Jonathan Stride, Book 1
- By: Brian Freeman
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first minute to the last.
-
-
A Promising Debut
- By I. Jamie on 24-01-06
-
The Golem of Paris
- By: Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
- Narrated by: John Rubenstein
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From two number-one New York Times best-selling masters of crime fiction comes an extraordinary thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried. It's been over a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night.
-
-
Everything falls into place
- By sarah on 02-12-17
-
A Nail Through The Heart
- A Poke Rafferty Thriller
- By: Timothy Hallinan
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
-
To Speak for the Dead
- Jake Lassiter Legal Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Paul Levine
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder. Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have Miami's trial of the century.
-
Deadly Rich
- Vince Cardozo, Book 2
- By: Edward Stewart
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For alcoholic former actress Leigh Baker, the moment will always be suspended in time: Seeing her daughter plunge to her death from the terrace of a sixth-floor apartment. Months later, the man responsible is convicted by a jury of his peers. Four years after that, he is out on parole. And one by one, those whose testimony helped put James Delancey away meet violent ends. Manhattan doyenne Oona Aldridge is the first. She is found in the dressing room of a trendy Manhattan boutique, her throat slashed.
-
-
No update on Babe
- By michael pearson on 27-07-22
-
A Cold Death
- A Rocco Schiavone Mystery
- By: Antonio Manzini
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally best-selling series from Italian crime maestro Antonio Manzini. In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town, a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery: the body of her employer hanging from a chandelier in a dark room in an apparent suicide. Working the case is Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, banished from his beloved Rome to snowy, small-town Aosta.
-
Immoral
- Jonathan Stride, Book 1
- By: Brian Freeman
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first minute to the last.
-
-
A Promising Debut
- By I. Jamie on 24-01-06
-
The Golem of Paris
- By: Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
- Narrated by: John Rubenstein
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From two number-one New York Times best-selling masters of crime fiction comes an extraordinary thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried. It's been over a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night.
-
-
Everything falls into place
- By sarah on 02-12-17
-
A Nail Through The Heart
- A Poke Rafferty Thriller
- By: Timothy Hallinan
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
-
To Speak for the Dead
- Jake Lassiter Legal Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Paul Levine
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Defending a surgeon in a malpractice case, Jake Lassiter begins to suspect that his client is innocent of negligence...but guilty of murder. Add a sexy widow, a deadly drug, and a grave robbery to the stew, and you have Miami's trial of the century.
-
Killer Market
- By: Margaret Maron
- Narrated by: C.J. Critt
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Killer Market takes the quintessential steel magnolia to the hub of North Carolina's massive furniture industry. Deborah soon gets caught up in the whirl of the International Home Furnishings Market and finds herself a suspect in a high-power murder case. The feisty judge must use her courtroom experience and intuitive skills to strip through layers of deception if she is to clear her own name. Maron draws from her own rural southern roots to craft her trademark authentic settings and characters.
-
An Eye for Murder
- An Ellie Foreman Mystery
- By: Libby Fischer Hellmann
- Narrated by: Karyn O' Bryant
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
August 1944. Prague is where the story begins, with a seemingly casual exchange. But in wartime, is any act, any one thing, trivial? Decades later, in contemporary Chicago, the consequences emerge through the medium of television. Documentary filmmaker Ellie Foreman gets a letter prompted by the success of her show Celebrate Chicago. One viewer was the elderly Ben Sinclair. When he suddenly dies, his landlady, Mrs. Fleischman, finds Ellie's name among his effects and writes to her.
-
-
Exciting audio
- By Lindsay on 05-06-20
-
The Little Death
- By: P. J. Parrish
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A little sex. A little death. Most people would kill to live in glamorous Palm Beach, with its beautiful women, five-star resorts, and dazzling coast. But most people don't know what really goes on in the bedrooms of the rich and famous....Mark Durand did - and now the handsome high-class "walker," who escorted the wealthiest women to posh affairs, is dead, his beheaded corpse found in an abandoned cattle pen.
-
The Tenth Commandment
- By: Lawrence Sanders
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a millionaire leaps to his death from the top floor of his Manhattan townhouse, private detective Joshua Bigg is called in to investigate by the law firm representing the dead man's estate. One of the biggest sellers in the Commandment series, this masterpiece of suspense and murder is rich in sultry characters and deadly plot twists.
-
The Eleventh Victim
- By: Nancy Grace
- Narrated by: Kate McIntyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hailey Dean is a young and tremendously successful criminal prosecutor in Georgia, equally proud of her career and her adoring fiance. But just a few weeks before the wedding, her fiance's murder and its aftermath send her into a tailspin. Grief-stricken and disillusioned with her profession, Hailey decides to leave Georgia for New York City; she hopes the change of pace and surroundings will help her heal.
-
Cliff Diver
- Detective Emilia Cruz Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Carmen Amato
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Unexpectedly put in charge of the investigation when her lieutenant is found dead, Emilia Cruz uncovers the lieutenant's sordid sexual past as well as his involvement in a kidnapping and counterfeit money scheme. Reputations are threatened by her discoveries, and truth is for sale. Emilia becomes a pawn in an ugly game of checkmate and corruption played by Acapulco's ambitious mayor and the powerful police union.
-
-
Murder in Mexico
- By Tom Southern on 29-08-17
-
Switch
- The Janek Series
- By: William Bayer
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Detective Frank Janek investigates a bizarre double murder in which the killer had decapitated the victims - a call girl and a teacher - at an exclusive private school - and switched their heads.
-
-
AMAZING
- By col2910 on 22-06-22
-
Dreadnaught
- The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier
- By: Jack Campbell
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Jack Campbell - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The first book of best-selling sci-fi author Jack Campbell’s new series Beyond the Frontier returns to find Captain John “Black Jack" Geary, the hero of the Lost Fleet series, awoken from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet. Geary’s legendary exploits have earned him the adoration of the people—and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing.
-
-
Double crossing scum and aliens
- By Bobby Dazeller on 21-02-18
-
The Rosary Girls
- By: Richard Montanari
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A devious serial killer lays siege to the city of Philadelphia, brutally sacrificing pretty young Catholic girls on the altar of insanity. As the body count rises, an exceptional investigating partnership struggles to stop him. Detective Jessica Balzano, Philly's Homicide Unit's newest rookie, is teamed up with veteran cop Kevin Byrne, respected for his solve rate and known for his unorthodox methods.
-
-
was my first listen to this author was ok
- By Amazon Customer on 10-08-22
-
The Second Deadly Sin
- By: Lawrence Sanders
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lawrence Sanders's masterpiece, The First Deadly Sin, set a standard for today's novels of psychological suspense. Now, retired Captain Ed Delaney returns to a distinctly urban milieu of paranoia and impulsive violence to solve a brutal murder that shocks New York's unshockable art world. The victim is Victor Maitland. Long-considered one of the world's greatest artists, he excelled in capturing the beauty of life on canvas. In private, he destroyed whomever he pleased: his wife, his son, his mistress, his dearest friends and family.
-
-
Part 2
- By sarahmoose2000 on 24-03-16
-
Don't Look Now
- By: Richard Montanari
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Andrea Heller has been married for seven years, but still likes to pretend she's single. She enjoys sitting on her own in bars, and watching what happens. But there's another couple watching too. They call themselves Saila and Pharaoh, but only after sundown. And it is after sundown that some terrible things are happening in the singles clubs in Cleveland. In six months, three women in their twenties have been brutally murdered. And each step that Homicide Detective Jack Paris takes to find their killer draws him closer....
-
-
Don't Look Now by Richard Montanaria EXCELLENT
- By Cheryl on 22-05-12
-
Over the Edge
- By: Jonathan Kellerman
- Narrated by: Alexander Adams
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before - and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn't five years ago.
-
-
Too much detail
- By Venetia on 26-09-13
Summary
In this classic thriller, bestselling author Edward Stewart weaves a complex tale of sex, money, and murder.
In a private suite at a New York hospital, Beatrice “Babe” Vanderwalk Devens awakens from a seven-year coma. The socialite and fashion designer is stunned to learn that her husband, Scottie, was brought to trial twice - and acquitted - for her attempted murder.
Across town, the naked, mutilated body of a young man wearing a black leather bondage mask is found in an empty apartment in the Beaux Arts Tower, high atop the Museum of Modern Art. Seven miles away, off-duty NYPD lieutenant Vince Cardozo is relaxing on a Brooklyn beach with his twelve-year-old daughter when he gets the call.
Cardozo's investigation into the savage murder of the Beaux Arts John Doe takes him into the exclusive lairs of Manhattan's elite. Babe Devens is part of that world. When Cardozo uncovers a shocking connection between the two cases, it could topple more than just high society.
More from the same
What listeners say about Privileged Lives
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Simon Roots
- 08-02-22
I really enjoyed this.
Good fun, long and complex. It wouldn't win any literary awards, but that's not the point with this kind of story.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Alison Bennett
- 05-08-22
Once in a while .....
.... you come across a story that appeals to you. This book did that to me. I loved it. It kept me guessing to the end.
Narration was superb.
On now to book 2; let's hope that's as good
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- S K NOWLER
- 17-06-22
A Hard Listen
This is a good story with a complex plot, well written with good descriptions and strong characters, firmly placed in a specific era. It should be five stars but for me it was tough in two respects. For one thing some of the depravity described was hard to stomach and, for another, the names of the rich and famous were many and complicated and I sometimes had to wind
back to work out who was who. Perhaps this says more about me than the book.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- ChichesterSunshine
- 15-06-22
Sick depraved storyline
I enjoy crime and detective storylines, and this has a really good feel, pace and detail that I would have enjoyed were it not for the storyline. I persevered through initial sexual descriptions, but they became too sickening to bear and ruined it.I had to give up as it just made me feel ill.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 12-06-22
Good story&fantastic performance
At the beginning of the listening, I thought there was also a female narrator performing the story, imagine how good the performance is! Good story with many characters.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Chip Atkinson
- 10-10-14
New York in the 80s, How low can they go...
Well I finished it! I was captivated by the New York socialite culture and its history that Stewart intertwined so well in this sordid tale of depravity. I was particularly drawn to the character Babe Vanderwal and the mystery surrounding her coma.
The story also revolves around the most depraved sexual addictions I've ever encountered in a book. Though it's never glorified, it is revealed as a thriving subculture of NYC. It includes sex with dead people, pedophiles, rape, murder, all while being filmed. Only beastiality was missing. I wonder why? Anyway, the first wave of the HIV epidemic has begun, a detail that ties many of the different lives of the characters together.
Christian Rummel does a brilliant job narration. He has to have the widest and most accurate range of voices and accents of any narrator I've listened to. If not for his work, I might have given this experience a 2 star rating.
It's a good mystery, with some good police work and great characters. But there is also an undercurrent of self hate from most every cast member that literally drips from each scene. It's definitely not a feel good novel.
6 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Sarah
- 18-07-14
Not great
Is there anything you would change about this book?
It moves kind of slow and the glamor aspect doesn't feel realistic. Maybe it's just the attitude the reader attaches to the main character, it could have been played with more grit.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
If you've ever listened to the Lost Fleet series, this is the same reader. It's the same voices for the characters and all I can think about is I'm listening to Black Jack Geary, same attitude and everything. It made the book difficult for me to listen to.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 11-07-14
Great to find a new series
Where does Privileged Lives rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This book ranks in my top 15%. It is intriguing and multilayered - hard to put down.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Privileged Lives?
I was trying to pick when it was set and the appearance of AIDS steered me to the 1980s.
What about Christian Rummel’s performance did you like?
His performance gave the impression that he had read and enjoyed the book.
Any additional comments?
I'm hoping the other books in the series are as good.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- cristina
- 05-07-14
A bit long-winded, but entertaining nevertheless
It takes a while for the story to get going because, for a very long time, it seems like you're reading two books. There's a brutal homicide and a woman who wakes up from a seven-year coma...and for almost a third of the novel, the two stories are only connected by the investigator. Then the two stories come together and the book becomes a lot more interesting. Could have been shorter, but it was still entertaining. So much so that I was hooked by the preview of the second in the series and am in the process of downloading it as I write this review.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Natalie
- 04-10-14
Long and Boring
What disappointed you about Privileged Lives?
It had way too many characters, way to boring monologue when the detectives where together. It took way to long to pull the two separate issues together. I
What could Edward Stewart have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Shorten the story, create more suspense, and for sure cut the characters in half.
What didn’t you like about Christian Rummel’s performance?
All his voices sounded alike, especially the women.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disapointment
Any additional comments?
Ok, what was good. Babe waking up after 7 years, and working to recapture her relationship, business, and friends. Also, the turn that her ex-husband is the person who put in the coma.
That is the story that should of been written. If not Scottie, than who?
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Fran C
- 08-06-22
Love this series
I have listened to this book multiple times and i really adore all three stories . Vince is a cool dude as well as his colleagues. Yes it’s a long story but that’s what i expected and wanted . Sorry there won’t be anymore in the series