Try free for 30 days
-
Chasing the Dragon
- Betancourt Mystery Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Adrian Hobart
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $26.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
The Cold, Cold Ground
- Detective Sean Duffy, Book 1
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job—especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.
-
-
Really enjoyed this!!
- By lexi on 14-01-2015
-
Waking the Tiger
- By: Mark Wightman
- Narrated by: Adrian Hobart
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspector Max Betancourt is working a new beat, one he didn’t ask for. Following the disappearance of his wife, his life and career have fallen apart. Once a rising star of Singapore CID, Betancourt has been relegated to the Marine Division, with tedious dockyard disputes and goods inspections among his new duties.
-
-
Good setting and story
- By David Leitch on 02-12-2022
-
The Last Train
- Detective Hiroshi, Volume 1
- By: Michael Pronko
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Tokyo, murder’s easy to hide. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from a security camera video suggests the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi quickly learns how close homicide and suicide can appear in a city full of high-speed trains just a step - or a push - away.
-
-
Good read
- By joy keating on 01-10-2022
-
Singapore Sapphire
- A Harriet Gordon Mystery, Book 1
- By: A. M. Stuart
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Singapore, 1910 - Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother, a reverend and headmaster of a school for boys, in Singapore at the height of colonial rule. Hoping to gain some financial independence, she advertises her services as a personal secretary. It is unfortunate that she should discover her first client, Sir Oswald Newbold - explorer, mine magnate, and president of the exclusive Explorers and Geographers Club - dead with a knife in his throat.
-
-
Very good
- By Mick on 24-05-2023
-
Shadows of Tokyo
- Reiko Watanabe / Inspector Aizawa, Book 1
- By: Matthew Legare
- Narrated by: Brad Gilliam
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As Japan expands its empire in China and unemployment ravages the economy, Police Inspector Kenji Aizawa receives an anonymous call about the imminent assassination of a leading statesman. The secret informant is Reiko Watanabe, geisha mistress to the plot’s mastermind. Headstrong and outspoken, Reiko prefers a “modern” life to being a geisha and is horrified that her lover, the American-educated descendant of samurai, Masaru Ryusaki, has become a fascist firebrand. Torn between honor and duty, Reiko and Inspector Aizawa must forge an unlikely alliance.
-
Disaster Inc
- McGarry Stateside
- By: Caimh McDonnell
- Narrated by: Morgan C Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
All Bunny McGarry wants is a spot of breakfast and a decent cup of tea. So imagine how annoyed he gets when two masked men attempt to rob the New York diner he is in. Unfortunately, dealing with that problem just leads to a whole lot more. One of the diner’s other customers isn’t who she appears to be, and the odds aren’t great that she is going to live to see another breakfast.
-
-
Another brilliant episode in the adventures of Bunny
- By Alf Salgo on 10-07-2023
-
The Cold, Cold Ground
- Detective Sean Duffy, Book 1
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job—especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.
-
-
Really enjoyed this!!
- By lexi on 14-01-2015
-
Waking the Tiger
- By: Mark Wightman
- Narrated by: Adrian Hobart
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspector Max Betancourt is working a new beat, one he didn’t ask for. Following the disappearance of his wife, his life and career have fallen apart. Once a rising star of Singapore CID, Betancourt has been relegated to the Marine Division, with tedious dockyard disputes and goods inspections among his new duties.
-
-
Good setting and story
- By David Leitch on 02-12-2022
-
The Last Train
- Detective Hiroshi, Volume 1
- By: Michael Pronko
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Tokyo, murder’s easy to hide. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from a security camera video suggests the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi quickly learns how close homicide and suicide can appear in a city full of high-speed trains just a step - or a push - away.
-
-
Good read
- By joy keating on 01-10-2022
-
Singapore Sapphire
- A Harriet Gordon Mystery, Book 1
- By: A. M. Stuart
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Singapore, 1910 - Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother, a reverend and headmaster of a school for boys, in Singapore at the height of colonial rule. Hoping to gain some financial independence, she advertises her services as a personal secretary. It is unfortunate that she should discover her first client, Sir Oswald Newbold - explorer, mine magnate, and president of the exclusive Explorers and Geographers Club - dead with a knife in his throat.
-
-
Very good
- By Mick on 24-05-2023
-
Shadows of Tokyo
- Reiko Watanabe / Inspector Aizawa, Book 1
- By: Matthew Legare
- Narrated by: Brad Gilliam
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As Japan expands its empire in China and unemployment ravages the economy, Police Inspector Kenji Aizawa receives an anonymous call about the imminent assassination of a leading statesman. The secret informant is Reiko Watanabe, geisha mistress to the plot’s mastermind. Headstrong and outspoken, Reiko prefers a “modern” life to being a geisha and is horrified that her lover, the American-educated descendant of samurai, Masaru Ryusaki, has become a fascist firebrand. Torn between honor and duty, Reiko and Inspector Aizawa must forge an unlikely alliance.
-
Disaster Inc
- McGarry Stateside
- By: Caimh McDonnell
- Narrated by: Morgan C Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
All Bunny McGarry wants is a spot of breakfast and a decent cup of tea. So imagine how annoyed he gets when two masked men attempt to rob the New York diner he is in. Unfortunately, dealing with that problem just leads to a whole lot more. One of the diner’s other customers isn’t who she appears to be, and the odds aren’t great that she is going to live to see another breakfast.
-
-
Another brilliant episode in the adventures of Bunny
- By Alf Salgo on 10-07-2023
-
Midnight at Malabar House
- The Malabar House Series, Book 1
- By: Vaseem Khan
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift. And so, when the phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James Herriot, the country's most sensational case falls into her lap.
-
-
Great story and excellent narration
- By Matgood Toothews on 11-01-2023
-
Shorts
- The Bunny McGarry Collection
- By: Caimh McDonnell
- Narrated by: Morgan C Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Gathered together for the first time and featuring two brand new stories, this collection contains all of the short stories and novellas featuring Bunny McGarry, star of the million-selling Dublin Trilogy. Spanning his entire career in law enforcement and beyond, these stories give a whole new perspective on Ireland’s most truly unconventional police officer as he juggles being a force for justice and managing the world’s worst under-12s hurling team.
-
-
A must read as usual
- By Library Lady on 21-04-2024
-
Squeaky Clean
- By: Callum McSorley
- Narrated by: Robin Laing, Angela Ness
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride. One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like "Keep Yer Kneecaps" with any poor bastard who crosses him. Can Davey escape from the gang's clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. That's if she doesn't get herself killed first.
-
-
excellent book, I hope there's a sequel
- By Rebecca Hillard on 14-12-2023
-
The Murder Wall
- DCI Kate Daniels, Book 1
- By: Mari Hannah
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle’s Quayside gives Daniels another chance to get it right, and her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. When Daniels recognises the corpse but fails to disclose the fact, her personal life swerves dangerously into her professional life. But much worse, she is now being watched. As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer, a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim....
-
-
It was fine
- By Anonymous User on 14-05-2023
-
The Man Who Didn't Burn
- Juge Lombard Mystery, Book 1
- By: Ian Moore
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When an English expat is brutally murdered, his charred corpse left on a Loire Valley hillside, the police turn to juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard to find the perpetrator. Instead, Lombard discovers a wealth of secrets, grudges, and feuds in the idyllic town of Saint-Genèse-sur-Loire. He begins to suspect that the remaining members of the Comité des Fêtes know more about the death than they are letting on.
-
Moskva
- By: Jack Grimwood
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin: frozen solid - like marble to the touch - and missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later Alex Marston, the headstrong 15-year-old daughter of the British ambassador, disappears. Army intelligence officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It's a shot at redemption. But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets.
-
-
Like waiting for paint to dry, for excitement
- By Amazon Customer on 10-08-2018
-
The Scarlet Papers
- By: Matthew Richardson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Lucy Scott
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Only she knows the truth. Only he can tell the world. Vienna, 1946. A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins Nazi Europe in search of a new life. Moscow, 1964. A rising star of the British diplomatic service whose job is not what it seems. London, the present day. A once promising academic offered an opportunity to seal his place in history. Their stories, their lives, and the fate of the world, are bound by a single document: The Scarlet Papers. The devastating secrets contained within teased by a brief invitation: Tomorrow 11AM. Take a cab and pay in cash. Tell no one.
-
-
Fantastic tale
- By Paul Kearsley on 13-07-2023
-
The Blue Bar
- Blue Mumbai Thriller, Book 1
- By: Damyanti Biswas
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After years of dancing in Mumbai’s bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So when a client offered her a life-changing payout to indulge a harmless, if odd, fantasy, she accepted. The setup was simple: wear a blue-sequined saree, enter a crowded railway station, and escape from view in less than three minutes. It was the last time anyone saw Tara.
-
Heathcliff Lennox - France 1918
- By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
- Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses. Major Heathcliff Lennox, and his batman Greggs, are told to report to their new HQ. They set off on a sunlit day to fly the distance, but the enemy is never far away, and disaster strikes. They're sent crashing to the ground behind enemy lines, where life, death, and love await.
-
-
Keep the tissues handy
- By Carolyn on 03-06-2021
-
The Insider
- By: Matthew Richardson
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A Russian defector is found brutally murdered in a London hotel. Only four people knew he had turned - the four most important and powerful figures in Whitehall. There's only one conclusion - a mole has infiltrated the highest levels of the nation's security. Operating in secret from within Westminster's darkest corners, former spy Solomon Vine must uncover the traitor. Because Britain's future hangs in the balance. And with it the fate of the whole world.
-
-
Excellent
- By jat on 09-04-2024
-
An Unexpected Peril
- A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Book 6
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angèle Masters
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club - an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women - Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use. As she assembles a memorial exhibition for pioneering mountain climber Alice Baker-Greene, Veronica discovers evidence that the recent death was not a tragic climbing accident but murder.
-
-
Great series!
- By Anonymous User on 21-10-2021
-
The Frangipani Tree Mystery
- Crown Colony
- By: Ovidia Yu
- Narrated by: Crystal Yu
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after acting governor Palin's daughter dies suddenly - and in mysterious circumstances - mission school-educated local girl Su Lin - an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage - is invited to take her place. But then another murder at the residence occurs and it seems very likely that a killer is stalking the corridors of Government House.
Publisher's Summary
The much-awaited follow up to Waking the Tiger, shortlisted for the 2022 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the 2021 Scottish Crime Debut of the Year and the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Best First Novel Prize.
Singapore, 1940
A local fisherman finds the body of a missing American archaeologist
Detective Inspector Betancourt, of the Singapore Marine Police, is first on the scene. Something doesn't quite add up. He finds out that the archaeologist, Richard Fulbright, was close to deciphering the previously-untranslatable script on a pre-colonial relic known as the Singapore Stone. This was no accidental drowning.
Is there more to this case than archaeological rivalries?
Betancourt also discovers that Fulbright had been having an affair. He is sure he is onto something bigger than just academic infighting.
A government opium factory draws criminal interest
In his investigations into the death, Betancourt finds his own life in danger, and now he has also put himself on the wrong side of British Military Intelligence, and he is unsure which set of opponents he fears the most....
Critic Reviews
"A superbly written, intriguing and beautifully paced literary thriller that transported me flawlessly to 1940s Singapore. I was hooked from the very first page." (Megan Davis, award-winning author of The Messenger)
"A classy, and future classic, historical crime novel with all the nuance and intelligence of the best of the genre." (Natalie Marlow, author of critically acclaimed Needless Alley)
"Wow. One of the best books I have read in a long time." (Antony Dunford, author of Born the Same and CWA New Blood Dagger longlisted novel Hunted)