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Try Dying: Ty Buchanan Legal Thriller #1 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

James Scott Bell (Author), Basil Sands (Narrator), Compendium Press (Publisher)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,905 ratings
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She was the woman he was going to marry....

A man shoots his young wife to death. He drives to a freeway overpass, gets out, shoots himself, and drops 100 feet to the freeway below, crushing a Toyota Camry. Inside is an elementary school teacher named Jacqueline Dwyer, who dies at the scene.

Ty Buchanan is a hotshot lawyer. Jacqueline Dwyer was the woman he was going to marry.

Ty goes into a tailspin. And it gets worse when a mysterious man finds him at the funeral and says Jacqueline's death may not have been an accident after all. In fact she may have been murdered.

Now Ty Buchanan will risk everything, including his skyrocketing career, to find out what really happened to the only woman he ever truly loved. That is if he can stay alive - because someone out there does not want him to know the truth.

From the high-rises of the city's most powerful law firms to the mean streets of gangland LA, Try Dying is a blistering thrill ride in the finest tradition of modern noir.

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  1. Listening Length
    9 hours and 51 minutes
  2. Author
    James Scott Bell
  3. Narrator
    Basil Sands
  4. Audible release date
    November 9, 2015
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Compendium Press
  7. ASIN
    B017OD7HG0
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 9 hours and 51 minutes
Author James Scott Bell
Narrator Basil Sands
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date November 09, 2015
Publisher Compendium Press
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B017OD7HG0
Best Sellers Rank #264,281 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#472 in Noir Fiction
#859 in Legal Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals)
#15,980 in Suspense (Audible Books & Originals)

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4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
1,905 global ratings

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Kim Ziebell
5.0 out of 5 stars Another home run for Bell!
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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Great read as always from this author. Extremely engaging story with twists and turns that really keep you on your toes. The characters are all so believable and real and colorful with their specific personalities and querks. Excellent story all the way around!
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Tom Robinson
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, fast read
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023
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From beginning to end, this book so engages the reader. It's quite the redemption story, and a lot of fun to finish!
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J Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Writer. You won't be disappointed.
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2020
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I purchased James Scott Bell's book on Writing Unforgettable Characters and decided to see how he wrote a novel, using the principles he teaches. I could not stop reading. This is the way I want to write, which means Mr. Bell is a great teacher, he practices what he teaches! This series is definitely a thriller, but it is also much more. The human interest is meshed so well The protagonist is caring, without being sappy. The female characters are distinctive. He plays one character off another to create humor. Investigations and trial scenes are realistic and involving, especially in the 3rd book of the series. When you finish the first book you will want to stay with the characters to find out how their lives are turning out in the next book.
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Tray
5.0 out of 5 stars Try Dying
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2023
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I read this story years ago, but it was still amazingly good. The character growth is on going, looking up is a world without bounds.
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D. R. Johnson
4.0 out of 5 stars The first novel in an excellent series of 3 books so far - 4 stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2016
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I've read all 3 of the books in this series by Bell, but I didn't read them in order. Not being familiar with this series at the time but a fan of this author, I read the reviews of all 3 and chose to read the highest rated one first. (By the way, you can read #2 and #3 and then go back to read #1 without much difficulty in following the chronology of each; however, in this case, that's not necessarily ideal nor would I actually recommend doing that.) As he's known for doing, Bell weaves a very complex plot line through many twists and turns that keep you thinking & guessing to the very last page. The cast of characters is equally compelling, complicated, and unorthodox. Keeping the numerous players straight in your mind can be somewhat challenging, but it also adds to the suspense since you never know who might suddenly appear on the scene after an absence for many chapters. Is this particular novel Bell's absolute best work? No, I don't think that it is. I could easily make the argument that 2-3 other ones are superior to this one, but that's not the basis of this review. But this novel does meet the standard that Bell has set for himself in his now large body of work, and I would heartily recommend it to everyone as an excellent read.
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Eric Balkan
3.0 out of 5 stars Not really a "legal thriller"
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021
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Having gone through half of an excellent greatcourses lecture series that James Scott Bell gives about writing best-selling fiction, perhaps I was expecting too much from Try Dying. Character development is reasonably good and the plot does make sense in the end, but somehow it just doesn't all hang together. Moments of tension are accompanied by much longer slogs, where I kept looking at the Kindle %-read to see how much more of this I had to read to get to the end.

Bell is not Harlan Coben or Lee Child. He's also not John Grisham. For a book billed as a "legal thriller,", there's not much legal or thrilling. No courtroom action, the legal part consists primarily of an early deposition in which our lead character, Ty Buchanan, a lawyer, shows how smart he is. For someone presented as the smartest-guy-in-the-room, there's nothing here about him outsmarting his opponents, he just overpowers them physically between beat-ups.

I also have to say that, personally, I was annoyed by the snide politico-religious comments that Bell sticks in every so often. Hey, we're not all Christian conservatives! I bet you didn't know that when the ACLU objects to mixing government and religion, it affects only 4 people in the country, according to Ty Buchanan, the smartest-guy-in-the-room? News to me. And that the people who reported abuse by priests when they were kids were mostly just making it up -- because priests are great people and nuns are angels.

I still gave Try Dying 3 stars because it's not terrible, it's just not hard to find better thrillers out there. Though, maybe, if you're a fervent Catholic, you'll like what I disliked and rate it higher.
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James Kenney
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool premise!
Reviewed in Canada on January 2, 2024
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I was intrigued by the description, not disappointed. Very cool story, lots of twists and turns.....great!
Very good character development also.
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Gilbert
5.0 out of 5 stars Top!
Reviewed in Germany on October 18, 2019
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Unbelievable gripping - very good story.
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joy m johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story
Reviewed in Australia on November 23, 2023
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A lot happens in this story and very enjoyable as well. Unexpected ending as such.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant t Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2018
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Thanx for getting g me. Through the day and night.
You write so ex. Keeps me focused alert.
Old age ha ha
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Grünspecht
4.0 out of 5 stars Sehr unterhaltsam
Reviewed in Germany on November 3, 2022
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Anwalt Buchanan arbeitet an einem Fall angeblichen sexuellen Missbrauchs, als seine Verlobte ermordet wird. Auf der Suche nach dem Täter gerät Buchanan in Gefahr und wird sogar verdächtigt, eine Journalistin getötet zu haben. Spannend!
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