Forensic Thrillers

Fifty Fifty: Detective Harriet Blue, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By James Patterson, Candice Fox
• Narrated By Federay Holmes
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The thrilling follow-up to best seller Never Never. It's not easy being a good detective - especially when your brother's a serial killer. Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. Except she's now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75)....

Pandemic: The Extinction Files, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 52 mins)
• By A. G. Riddle
• Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini
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In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

Rise of a Merchant Prince

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Raymond E. Feist
• Narrated By Peter Joyce
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The second book in Raymond E. Feist's super-selling quartet: The Serpentwar Saga. Triumphant but overconfident after his defeat of the reptilian Sauur army, Roo must resist a beguiling seductress who threatens to undo him and all of Midkemia. Recently returned from a harrowing brush with the armies of the Emerald Queen, Roo is now free to choose his own destiny and his ultimate ambition is to become one of the richest and most powerful merchants in Midkemia.

Still Life: Chief Inspector Gamache Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Louise Penny
• Narrated By Adam Sims
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The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force.

Before Evil: Maggie O'Dell, Book 12

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Alex Kava
• Narrated By Regina Reagan
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Special Agent Maggie O'Dell doesn't even need to set foot at a crime scene to catch a serial killer. Then comes Albert Stucky...and nothing will ever be the same. Stucky is a sadistic madman who places pieces of his victims in takeout containers and leaves them for innocent bystanders to find. He enjoys his twisted games as much as he enjoys the kill. And when Maggie is tasked with profiling his murders, Stucky is only too happy to rise to the challenge.

The Great Zoo of China

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Matthew Reilly
• Narrated By Sean Mangan
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It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for 40 years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It will amaze the world.Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr Cassandra Jane 'CJ' Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles.

Hades

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Candice Fox
• Narrated By Lani John Tupu
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People come to Hades Archer to dispose of their 'problems' - for a fee. But one night he makes a decision that will change everything. Twenty years later, homicide detective Frank Bennett meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there's something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can't quite put his finger on. And as they race to catch a serial killer, Frank starts to wonder if she's as dangerous as the man they hunt.

Davo's Little Something

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Robert G. Barrett
• Narrated By Dino Marnika
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All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties-the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and murders. When a gang of skinheads bash Davo's old school- friend to death simply because he was gay, and leave Davo almost dead in an intensive care unit, they unleash a crazed killer onto the city streets.

I Know a Secret: Rizzoli & Isles, Book 12

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Tess Gerritsen
• Narrated By Tanya Eby

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

This Green Hell: Alex Hunter, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Greig Beck
• Narrated By Sean Mangan
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Deep in the steaming jungles of Paraguay, Aimee Weir is in trouble. The petrobiologist has found what she was looking for - a unique microorganism in a natural gas deposit - but it proves to be more destructive than anyone could have imagined. A contagion is striking down all in its wake. The camp is quarantined, but workers start to vanish in the night. Is it fear of contamination - or has something far more lethal come to the surface? Something that has been trapped beneath the miles of stone, waiting... for us.

Unnatural Exposure: Dr Kay Scarpetta, Book 8

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Patricia Cornwell
• Narrated By C. J. Critt
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Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. Then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found with a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.

Cut Short: Geraldine Steel Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Leigh Russell
• Narrated By Lucy Price-Lewis
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When DI Geraldine Steel relocates to the quiet rural town of Woolsmarsh, she expects to find her new home to be somewhere where nothing much ever happens; a space where she can battle her demons in private. But when she finds herself pitted against a twisted killer preying on local young women, she quickly discovers how wrong she is....

How the Light Gets In: Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 9

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Louise Penny
• Narrated By Adam Sims
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The number one New York Times bestseller. A detective. As a fierce, unrelenting winter grips Quebec, shadows are closing in on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department and hostile forces are lining up against him. A disappearance. When Gamache receives a message about a mysterious case in Three Pines, he is compelled to investigate -- a woman who was once one of the most famous people in the world has vanished.

A Dark and Twisted Tide: Lacey Flint Series, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Sharon Bolton
• Narrated By Lisa Coleman
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Former detective Lacey Flint quit the force for a safer, quieter life. Or that’s what she thought. Now living alone on her houseboat, she is trying to get over the man she loves, undercover detective Mark Joesbury. But Mark is missing in action and impossible to forget. And danger won’t leave Lacey alone. When she finds a body floating in the river near her home, wrapped in burial cloths, she can’t resist asking questions. Who is this woman, and why was she hidden in the fast-flowing depths? And who has been delivering unwanted gifts to Lacey?

Speaking in Bones

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Kathy Reichs
• Narrated By Katherine Browitz
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The compelling new Dr. Temperance Brennan novel from the world-class forensic anthropologist and number-one best-selling author Kathy Reichs. When forensic anthropologist Dr. Tempe Brennan is approached by amateur detective Hazel 'Lucky' Strike, at first she is inclined to dismiss the woman's claims that she's matched a previously unidentified set of remains with a name.

The Rook

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Daniel O'Malley
• Narrated By Katy Carmichael

"The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Checquy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain.

A Case of Need: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson
• Narrated By Nick Podehl
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When one doctor is accused of murder, it takes another to set him free. In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall's teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood?

A Clubbable Woman: Dalziel and Pascoe, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Reginald Hill
• Narrated By Brian Glover

This is the first novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, which was made into a hugely popular BBC TV serial. Two unorthodox police officers are called to investigate dodgy dealings at Wetherton rugby club after the body of their star player's wife is found dead at home.

Cause of Death: Kay Scarpetta Series, Book 7

• ABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Patricia Cornwell
• Narrated By C. J. Critt

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia, can't help but wonder why she received a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified.

City of Strangers: Luis Chavez, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Mark Wheaton
• Narrated By Timothy Andrés Pabon
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When a priest is brutally gunned down in front of St. Jerome's Chinese-American Catholic Church, Father Luis Chavez is asked by the archdiocese to lead an inquiry. With the confessed killer already in custody, it looks like an open-and-shut case. That is, until Father Chavez digs deeper. As the killer's confession unravels, Father Chavez teams up with Deputy District Attorney Michael Story to get to the bottom of it. Together, they discover a conspiracy leading back to one of the world's oldest criminal organizations.

Hot Zone: The Zulu Virus Chronicles, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Steven Konkoly
• Narrated By Charles Hubbell

Something insidious has arrived - right in the heartland of our nation. Dr. Lauren Hale, a new hospital resident, is nearly killed by a raving mad emergency room patient, in a senseless, unprovoked attack. Officer David Olson, veteran cop and former Marine, returns from a father-son camping trip to discover that his ex-wife has vanished under bizarre circumstances and his police department is on the verge of collapse. Jack and Emma Harper, a young, upwardly mobile couple, find their hip city neighborhood rapidly descending into madness.

Quietus: The Pandemic Series, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Bobby Akart
• Narrated By John David Farrell, Kris Adams

There is no such thing as an ending, just a new beginning. Throughout the millennia, extinction has been the norm and survival, the exception. When faced with the hour of departure, will mankind fight to survive? Not only was there a patient zero, there was also a last patient.

Cause of Death: A Gripping Medical Thriller: Detective Damien Drake, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Patrick Logan
• Narrated By Michael Pauley
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Detective Damien Drake is back, but after what happened with the Butterfly Killer, he's no longer associated with the NYPD. Now Drake heads his own PI firm, which specializes in dealing with paranoid housewives and rich suburbanites suspicious that their nannies are stealing their silverware. That is until a visitor comes to him with a series of photographs of dead people. The problem is, no one believes that the victims in the images have actually been murdered.

Cause of Death: Kay Scarpetta Series, Book 7

• ABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Patricia Cornwell
• Narrated By C. J. Critt

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia, can't help but wonder why she received a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified.

Headhunter: An Extreme Horror Story

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 31 mins)
• By The Barns Brothers, Warren Barns
• Narrated By Ian McEuen

Pain. Unbearable pain. A night of passion becomes a nightmare for corporate headhunter Adam Walters. In Prague for a few days to do business, he makes the most of his time away from home and commitments, indulging his lustful desires. But when he wakes up hog tied naked on an operating table in a filthy tiled room, he can't begin to imagine the pain that is about to come his way.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Joanne Greenberg
• Narrated By Amanda Leigh Cobb

Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, 16-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the "normal" life she and her family hope for, the listener is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons.

Pandemic: Level 6: The Pandemic Series, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Bobby Akart
• Narrated By John David Farrell, Kris Adams
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions. Be prepared to get very, very paranoid. A new post-apocalyptic medical thriller fiction series from author Bobby Akart.

I Know a Secret: Rizzoli & Isles, Book 12

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Tess Gerritsen
• Narrated By Tanya Eby

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

A Murder in Gurgaon

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Manish Dubey
• Narrated By Sagar Arya

Gurgaon. December 2014. A young event manager, an ex-cop's son, is murdered. Inspector Ajai Singh vows justice. There is little to begin with, and frustration mounts when the initial suspect - a reclusive woman with a mysterious past - is found missing. Digging deeper, Singh uncovers a sordid tale of adultery, blackmail and revenge, only to find himself staring at a conspiracy unlike any he has seen.

Fifty Fifty: Detective Harriet Blue, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By James Patterson, Candice Fox
• Narrated By Federay Holmes
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The thrilling follow-up to best seller Never Never. It's not easy being a good detective - especially when your brother's a serial killer. Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. Except she's now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75)....

Pandemic: The Innocents: The Pandemic Series, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Bobby Akart
• Narrated By John David Farrell, Kris Adams
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

And so it begins, the virus enters on the quiet feet of The Innocents. It invades each and every one of us. But, they say, plagues are like fires. At some point, they burn themselves out. Or not. Fear and rumor can be far more dangerous than the virus itself.

Incarnate: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Josh Stolberg
• Narrated By Roger Casey, Emily Tremaine
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

An ambitious and sharp-witted clinical psychiatrist turns detective when one of her patients comes under investigation for a series of brutal murders - is she a psychopath or a victim herself?

Unnatural Exposure: Dr Kay Scarpetta, Book 8

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Patricia Cornwell
• Narrated By C. J. Critt
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. Then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found with a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.

Cause of Death: Dr Kay Scarpetta, Book 7

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Patricia Cornwell
• Narrated By C. J. Critt
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New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver is dead. Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths for a story or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call reporting the death before the police were notified?

Only Ever You

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Rebecca Drake
• Narrated By Eva Kaminsky

When Jill Lassiter's young daughter disappears from a playground, only to return after 40 frantic minutes, her relief is short-lived, as there's a tiny puncture mark on Sophia's arm. Jill accepts she'll never know what happened, but at least her child is safe. Except Sophia isn't. Someone is watching the Lassiter home. Three months after the incident at the park, Sophia disappears again, and Jill discovers that someone doesn't just want Sophia - they want to destroy the entire family.

Paroxysm Effect

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Ashleigh Reynolds
• Narrated By Rebecca Roberts

Gemi finds herself tumbling into chaos when the world suddenly succumbs to the madness of repressed emotions, only to be rescued by a group of military personnel. With no knowledge of what is causing the malfunction, it becomes a race against time and the population to make it back to the military base in one piece.