Historical

A Brief History of Seven Killings

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs)
• By Marlon James
• Narrated By Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, and others
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On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.

The Warrior Princess

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 40 mins)
• By K. M. Ashman
• Narrated By Napoleon Ryan
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1135 AD. Wales is a broken land. Many of its true-born rulers are in hiding, or married into noble English families. But, though low and dim, a flame of vengeance still burns... In the southern kingdom of Deheubarth, Gerald of Windsor governs. Firm but fair, he commands the respect of those he reigns over, and the love of Nesta, his wife. But then treachery strikes from the heart of the English ranks and peace and stability are quickly forgotten.

The Da Vinci Code

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Dan Brown
• Narrated By Jeff Harding
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Winner of the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2005.

A murder in the silent, late night halls of the Louvre reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his cryptographer daughter and her symbologist friend can untangle.

The Mitford Murders

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Jessica Fellowes
• Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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Lose yourself in the gripping first novel in a new series of Golden Age murder mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters. It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside.

Her Royal Spyness

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren

Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932. So far she has managed to light a fire and boil an egg... She's gate-crashed a wedding... She's making money by secretly cleaning houses... And she's been asked to spy for Her Majesty the Queen.

A Quiet Life in the Country: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By T E Kinsey
• Narrated By Elizabeth Knowelden
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Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...

The North Water

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Ian McGuire
• Narrated By John Keating
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Behold the man: Stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this ill-fated voyage.

The Paris Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Susan Elia MacNeal
• Narrated By Susan Duerden

Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she's working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes and the Ritz is draped with swastika banners. Walking among the enemy is tense and terrifying, and even though she's disguised in chic Chanel, Maggie can't help longing for home.

See What I Have Done

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Sarah Schmidt
• Narrated By Jennifer Woodward, Hunter Erin, Hagon Garrick
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On August 4, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. During the inquest into the deaths, Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with the murder of her father and her stepmother. Through the eyes of Lizzie's sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, the enigmatic stranger Benjamin and the beguiling Lizzie herself, we return to what happened that day in Fall River. Lizzie Borden took an axe. Or did she?

Devil's Wolf: Hugh Corbett 19

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Paul Doherty
• Narrated By To Be Announced

Paul Doherty's most popular series character returns. Hugh Corbett is about to take up a life of danger once again in the 19th novel in his series and the follow-up to Dark Serpent. If you love historical mysteries from Robin Hobb, Susanna Gregory, Michael Jecks, Peter Tremayne and Bernard Knight, you will love this.

On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service: A Royal Spyness Mystery, Book 11

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren
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When Darcy runs off on another secret assignment, I am left to figure out how to travel to Italy sans maid and chaperone to help my dear friend Belinda, as she awaits the birth of her baby alone. An opportunity presents itself in a most unexpected way - my cousin the queen is in need of a spy to attend a house party in the Italian lake country. The Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson have been invited, and Her Majesty is anxious to thwart a possible secret wedding.

The Buried Book

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 55 mins)
• By D. M. Pulley
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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It's 1952, and Jasper isn't allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He's lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and his ears open to stay in his uncle's good graces. No one knows where his mother went or whether she's coming back. Desperate to see her again, he must take matters into his own hands. From the farm, he embarks on a treacherous search that will take him to the squalid hideaways of Detroit and back again, through tawdry taverns, peep shows, and gambling houses.

In the Blood: Jefferson Tayte Genealogical, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Steve Robinson
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Two hundred years ago a loyalist family fled to England to escape the American War of Independence and seemingly vanished into thin air. American genealogist Jefferson Tayte is hired to find out what happened, but it soon becomes apparent that a calculated killer is out to stop him.

Lord John and the Private Matter

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Diana Gabaldon
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman
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With more than 10 million copies in print worldwide, New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is a global phenomenon. Lord John and the Private Matter, starring one of the most popular Outlander characters, captures all the adventure and magic of the series while delivering a fresh tale that is utterly captivating.

Malice at the Palace

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren

While my beau, Darcy, is off on a mysterious mission, I am once again caught between my high birth and empty purse. I am therefore relieved to receive a new assignment from the queen - especially one that includes lodging. The king's youngest son, George, is to wed Princess Marina of Greece, and I shall be her companion at the supposedly haunted Kensington Palace. My duties are simple: help Marina acclimate to English life, show her the best of London, and, above all, dispel any rumors about George's libertine history.

Unnatural Death: Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Dorothy L. Sayers
• Narrated By Jane McDowell

The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. His third appearance is a story of murder in a most respectable seaside resort. 'No sign of foul play,' says Dr Carr after the post-mortem on Agatha Dawson. The case is closed. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied . . .With no clues to work on, he begins his own investigation.

The 14th Colony

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Steve Berry
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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The explosive new Cotton Malone thriller by international best seller Steve Berry. People say the Cold War is coming back. For some it never went away. Shot down over Siberia in what was to be a simple meet-and-greet mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States.

A Bone of Contention: The Third Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Susanna Gregory
• Narrated By David Thorpe
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Cambridge in 1352 is rife with terrible clashes between the fledgling university and the townspeople. Matthew Bartholomew, physician and teacher at Michaelhouse College, is trying to keep the peace when a student is murdered and the town plunges into chaos. At the same time, a skeleton is discovered that is rumoured to belong to a local martyr, and Bartholomew has his hands full investigating both deaths while the rioting intensifies....

Half Wild

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Pip Smith
• Narrated By Zoe Carides

Wellington, 1885: Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or cart driver or butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Taking her hero's advice, she runs away. Sydney, 1917: A burned woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Nobody knows who she was until the police find out a boy's mother went missing that very same weekend, and his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be.

Whirlwind: The Asian Saga, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (52 hrs and 59 mins)
• By James Clavell
• Narrated By Derek Perkins
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The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979 - three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak. When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oil fields up and down the country. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf.

Twenty-One Days: Daniel Pitt, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Anne Perry
• Narrated By Simon Scardifield
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It is 1910, and the century is full of change. Sir Thomas Pitt, Head of Special Branch, has persuaded his son, Daniel, to take on his first case as a newly qualified barrister. Having successfully defended his client and made a lifelong friend, Daniel is summoned to the Old Bailey to assist in the defence of renowned biographer Russell Graves, who is accused of the brutal murder and disfigurement of his wife. When the jury finds him guilty, Graves is sentenced to be hanged in 21 days. Graves insists he has been framed....

The Fourteenth Letter

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Claire Evans
• Narrated By Maggie Mash
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A mysterious keepsake, a murdered bride, a legacy of secrets.... One balmy June evening in 1881, Phoebe Stanbury stands before the guests at her engagement party: this is her moment, when she will join the renowned Raycraft family and ascend to polite society. As she takes her fiancé's hand, a stranger brandishing a knife steps forward and ends the poor girl's life. Amid the tumult, he turns to her aristocratic groom and mouths, 'I promised I would save you'.

The Zealot's Bones

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 19 mins)
• By D. M. Mark
• Narrated By Simon Slater
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In 1849, Hull is a city forgotten and abandoned, in the grip of a cholera outbreak that sees its poorest citizens cut down by the cartload. Into this world of flame and grief comes Mesach Stone, a former soldier lost upon his way. He's been hired as bodyguard by a Canadian academic hunting for the bones of the apostle Simon the Zealot, rumoured to lie somewhere in Lincolnshire. Stone can't see why ancient bones are of interest in a world full of them...but then a woman he briefly loved is killed.

The Oswald Reflection

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Larry Names
• Narrated By Ron Varela

Was Lee Harvey Oswald a patsy, the fall guy in a sinister plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy? Was Oswald the lone nut assassin like the Warren Commission claimed him to be? Tom Regan didn't believe the Warren Commission report, but he couldn't dispute their findings without having any tangible proof, evidence that Oswald had a double and he was caught up in a vast conspiracy.

Tinseltown Confidential: Hollywood's Garden of Allah Novels, Book 7

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Martin Turnbull
• Narrated By Daniel David Shapiro

As America embraces the 1950s, that brash upstart called television is poaching Hollywood's turf, inch by inch. If the studios don't do something drastic, they may lose the battle. When screenwriter Marcus Adler fell afoul of the blacklist, Europe offered sanctuary. Hollywood lures him back, but the specter of Joseph McCarthy forces Marcus to fight for a final chance to clear his name.

The Jerusalem Diamond

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 1 min)
• By Noah Gordon
• Narrated By Fleet Cooper

A man travels to Israel to uncover a diamond's remarkable past in this vivid historical saga from the New York Times best-selling author of The Physician. A diamond cutter and seller from a long, respected line of precious-gem dealers, New Yorker Harry Hopeman is asked to broker a deal that will return a legendary gemstone to Israel. Arriving in the volatile Middle East, Hopeman soon discovers that his assignment will be anything but easy. Representatives of the Holy Land's three major religions are all laying claim to the priceless jewel.

The Trust: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Ronald H. Balson
• Narrated By Fred Berman
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When his uncle dies, Liam Taggart reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Northern Ireland for the funeral - a home he left years ago after a bitter confrontation with his family, never to look back. But when he arrives, Liam learns that not only was his uncle shot to death, but he'd anticipated his own murder: In an astonishing last will and testament, Uncle Fergus has left his entire estate to a secret trust, directing that no distributions be made to any person until the killer is found.

A Strange Scottish Shore

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Juliana Gray
• Narrated By Gemma Massot
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Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing that, according to family legend, once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea and married the castle's first laird. But Haywood and Truelove soon realize they're not the only ones interested in the selkie's strange hide.

A Talent for Murder

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Andrew Wilson
• Narrated By Joan Walker, Jonathan Oliver

Agatha Christie, in London to visit her agent, boards a train preoccupied with the knowledge that her husband Archie is having an affair. She feels a touch on her back, loses her balance but is pulled to safety from the rush of the incoming train. So begins a sequence of terrifying events. Her rescuer is no guardian angel but a blackmailer, and Agatha must use every ounce of her cleverness to thwart an adversary determined to exploit her genius for murder to kill on his behalf.

The Spyglass File: The Forensic Genealogist, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Nathan Dylan Goodwin
• Narrated By Jonathan Ip
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Morton Farrier was no longer at the top of his game. His forensic genealogy career was faltering and he was refusing to accept any new cases, preferring instead to concentrate on locating his own elusive biological father. Yet, when a particular case presents itself, that of finding the family of a woman abandoned in the midst of the Battle of Britain, Morton is compelled to help her to unravel her past.

The Earthly Gods: Agent of Rome, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Nick Brown
• Narrated By Nigel Peever
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Imperial agent Cassius Corbulo is about to go rogue. His bodyguard, Indavara, has been kidnapped and has seemingly vanished off the face of the earth. Having spent weeks trying to discover his fate, Cassius's time is up. But when an old ally's daughter is enslaved, he feels obliged to repay a long standing debt. Refusing the offer of a prestigious post, Cassius - and his Christian servant Simo - join nomadic chieftain Kabir and a trio of warriors, determined to rescue the missing girl.

The Mitford Murders

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Jessica Fellowes
• Narrated By Rachel Atkins
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Lose yourself in the gripping first novel in a new series of Golden Age murder mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters. It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside.

A Trace of Smoke

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Rebecca Cantrell
• Narrated By Beverley Murray
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It's 1931 in Berlin, and the world is on the precipice of change -- the affluent still dance in their gilded cages but more and more people are living under threat and poverty. Hannah Vogel is a crime reporter forced to write under the male pseudonym Peter Weill. As a widow of the Great War, she's used to doing what she must to survive. Her careful facade is threatened when she stumbles across a photograph of her brother in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead.

Voyage to Muscovy: The Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Ann Swinfen
• Narrated By Jan Cramer
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An agent sent to Muscovy to investigate suspected treason amongst employees of the Muscovy Company has disappeared without trace. Sir Francis Walsingham, who began the investigation, is dead, but the directors of the Company know that the agent must be found, dead or alive. The perfect opportunity comes when the Tsar, Emperor of All the Russias, asks for an English physician to treat his young half-brother. Christoval Alvarez, physician and former Walsingham agent, is the obvious choice, but is loathe to travel to this violent and barbarous land.

The Devouring: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 58 mins)
• By James R. Benn
• Narrated By Peter Berkrot
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A murder in wartime Switzerland reveals Swiss complicity with the Nazis and profiteering during World War II. Billy and Kaz are sent to neutral Switzerland to investigate the murder of a Swiss banking official with ties to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Swiss banks are openly laundering gold "harvested" from concentration camps, and those that are profiting will do everything they can to protect their wealth and hide their dark secrets.

The Lost Daughter: A Jean Brash Mystery 2

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By David Ashton
• Narrated By David Ashton, Siobhan Redmond
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A theatre company arrives in Leith to perform King Lear. A robbery is planned, a gruesome murder committed, both of which set Inspector James McLevy on the prowl, and Jean's past returns in the shape of the avenging son of a man she has long ago been accused of poisoning. Even more lethally, her own lost family life resurrects in the present as a wild young actress who trails violence and death behind her involves Jean in a dangerous, complex game that gnaws at the very root of her identity.

Lionheart

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Stewart Binns
• Narrated By Richard Burnip
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King Henry II reigns over a vast empire, but he is aging, and his ambitious sons are restless. Henry’s third son, Richard of Aquitaine, is developing a fearsome reputation as a ruthless warrior and he earns the name Richard Lionheart for his bravery and brutality on the battlefield. After the deaths of his brothers, Richard’s impatience to take the throne leads him to form an alliance with France. And so, Richard begins his bloody quest to return the Holy Land to Christian rule.

Edinburgh Twilight: Ian Hamilton Mysteries, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Carole Lawrence
• Narrated By Napoleon Ryan
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Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton is no stranger to Edinburgh's darkest crimes. Scarred by the mysterious fire that killed his parents, he faces his toughest case yet when a young man is found strangled in Holyrood Park. With little evidence aside from a strange playing card found on the body, Hamilton engages the help of his aunt, a gifted photographer, and George Pearson, a librarian with a shared interest in the criminal mind.

Captain Hazzard: Custer's Ghost

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Ron Fortier
• Narrated By Stuart Gauffi
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When an eerie ghost rider appears on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and begins butchering innocent lives, native superstitions are fueled. Could this wraith actually be General George Armstrong Custer returned from the dead to seek retribution for his massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Practical Handbook of Bee Culture

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Sherlock Holmes
• Narrated By Alexander Clifford

In the summer of 2016, retired broadcaster Paul Ashton made an astounding discovery at a car boot sale in Sussex. He found a copy of Sherlock Holmes's Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, and bought it for £2. No other copy of this legendary volume - the only book Holmes wrote - has ever come to light. The Handbook is the journal kept by Holmes from 1904 to 1912. 1904 was the year he retired from active investigation and moved to a farmhouse in East Dean. In 1912 he came out of retirement and left East Dean in order to outwit the German spy network in Britain on the eve of World War I.