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An Assassination on the Agenda
- A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 11
- By: T E Kinsey
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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They’re hoping this visit is a return journey—but it might be a one-way ticket to murder....
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A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller
- DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 1
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process....
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- By Anonymous User on 07-11-2019
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Where the Pieces Lie
- DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 19
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Community service clean-up was supposed to be a tedious affair. But, when a young offender stumbles upon a bin bag filled with human remains, a quiet Highland village is thrown into chaos.
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Where the pieces lie
- By Mark Brayshaw on 21-04-2024
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Six Wicked Reasons
- By: Jo Spain
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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It's June 2008 and 21-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead....
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Good yarn
- By elizabeth b. on 18-01-2020
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The Tilt
- By: Chris Hammer
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder—a "file and forget". But this is no ordinary cold case, as the discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day....
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I’m sure it’s a great read but
- By Suzanne on 10-10-2022
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The Truth
- A DC Smith Investigation, Book 9
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth....
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The Truth
- By Tanya B. on 17-04-2024
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An Assassination on the Agenda
- A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 11
- By: T E Kinsey
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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They’re hoping this visit is a return journey—but it might be a one-way ticket to murder....
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A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller
- DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 1
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process....
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Cat lovers content warning
- By Anonymous User on 07-11-2019
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Where the Pieces Lie
- DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 19
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Community service clean-up was supposed to be a tedious affair. But, when a young offender stumbles upon a bin bag filled with human remains, a quiet Highland village is thrown into chaos.
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Where the pieces lie
- By Mark Brayshaw on 21-04-2024
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Six Wicked Reasons
- By: Jo Spain
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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It's June 2008 and 21-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead....
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Good yarn
- By elizabeth b. on 18-01-2020
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The Tilt
- By: Chris Hammer
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder—a "file and forget". But this is no ordinary cold case, as the discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day....
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I’m sure it’s a great read but
- By Suzanne on 10-10-2022
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The Truth
- A DC Smith Investigation, Book 9
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth....
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The Truth
- By Tanya B. on 17-04-2024
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The Accidental Alchemist
- By: Gigi Pandian
- Narrated by: Julia Motyka
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Unpacking her belongings in her new hometown of Portland, Oregon, herbalist and reformed alchemist Zoe Faust can't help but notice she's picked up a stowaway....
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3.5 Stars
- By Kaylon on 09-01-2022
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Outback
- By: Patricia Wolf
- Narrated by: Adam Fitzgerald
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, looking after his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers vanish from the area on their way to a ranch, he finds himself unofficially on the case....
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Ok story but tired old tropes
- By Tom ARMITT on 24-12-2022
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The Talisker Dead
- A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery (The Misty Isle, Book 3)
- By: J M Dalgliesh
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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When a teenage islander goes missing on Burns Night, D.I. Duncan McAdam takes a strong interest despite the apparent lack of concern shown by the boy's father....
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Brilliant storyline.
- By Bonita N. Jones on 29-01-2024
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Eyes Tight Shut
- Detectives Kane and Alton, Book 22
- By: D.K. Hood
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Her heart races as she waits for her date to arrive. When the doorbell rings, her excitement quickly turns to fear when she takes in her date's menacing stare as he closes the door behind him. He's not here to find love, and there's no time to scream before her world goes black.
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With Soul So Dead
- DI Rob Marshall Scottish Borders Police Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Ed James
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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Holly Fenwick thought she had left her nightmare behind. Twelve years ago, she narrowly escaped the clutches of a brutal serial killer.
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Great book
- By Marcia Jolly on 11-05-2024
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The Stolen Hours
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Christine Lakin, Tina Huang
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job - working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney - and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River, barely alive, things in the office take a personal turn....
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5/5 for all 5
- By Anonymous User on 22-04-2024
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Bailey's Law
- By: Meg Lelvis
- Narrated by: Lynde Houck
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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At first Detective Jack Bailey wonders who would kill a nice guy like Todd Kaplan. But then Jack realizes Todd should've thought twice about what he did to several girls he dated....
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The Camera Man
- DC Smith Investigation, Book 10
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Jo told him the phone call had been about a woman who wanted to have her husband declared dead. Smith thought for a moment and then said, 'Hmm. There must be a few million women in this country who feel like that'....
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Entertaining
- By SUE GIBSON on 19-05-2024
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A Dead Man Walking
- DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 18
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Among the victim’s extended family and staff, Jack finds no shortage of suspects. Everyone, it seems, had reason to want the old man dead, and they all have something to hide....
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Another great book in the series
- By georgia on 30-10-2023
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Detective Sebastian Clifford, Books 1-3
- A Midlands Crime Thriller Series
- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
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The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....
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Great books and leaves you guessing
- By Connell Maskrey on 23-10-2023
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The River's Edge
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong....
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Great series
- By Trudy Seymour on 30-09-2023
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Naked in Death
- In Death, Book 1
- By: J. D. Robb
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she’s seen it all - and knows her survival depends on her instincts....
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awesome story and narration
- By Miriam on 09-04-2019
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The Murderer's Son
- A Jackman and Evans Thriller
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl....
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A fatastic series
- By Anonymous User on 06-03-2019
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The Bag of Secrets
- Detective Matt Ballard Mystery, Book 6
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets.
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Suspenseful
- By Anonymous User on 09-05-2024
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Paradise
- DS Walker, Book 2
- By: Patricia Wolf
- Narrated by: Adam Fitzgerald
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coast....
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D S Walker
- By Anonymous User on 09-06-2023
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A Snowball's Chance in Hell
- A Scottish Murder Mystery (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 9)
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Christmas night out gone tragically wrong....
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Humour in crime novels
- By DebManning on 27-01-2021
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A Death Most Monumental
- A Scottish Detective Mystery (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 8)
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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When the remains of a brutally murdered young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument in the Highlands of Scotland, DCI Jack Logan and his Major Investigations team are dispatched to investigate. At first, the case appears to be fairly open and shut....
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Plots and laughs
- By Maureen Brown on 08-01-2021
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The Missing Sister
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 23 hrs and 48 mins
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The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister?
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Mangled representation of New Zealand
- By Eleanor Middleton on 01-09-2021
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Her Dying Secret
- Detective Josie Quinn, Book 20
- By: Lisa Regan
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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It was supposed to be a routine road accident recovery, but the moment Detective Josie Quinn sees the passenger—pale and painfully thin, a sharp tool lodged in her stomach—it’s clear she was the victim of something far more sinister, and likely dead before the crash.
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A Long Time Dead
- A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery (The Misty Isle, Book 1)
- By: J M Dalgliesh
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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D.I. Duncan McAdam is dispatched home to the Misty Isle. A body has been found buried in a remote location on the Waternish peninsula. Well-preserved in the peat, Isla Matheson—missing for the better part of two decades—is revealed to a shocked island community....
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Great story
- By Marcia Jolly on 29-10-2023
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On Eden Street
- Kings Lake Investigation Series, Book 2
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway.
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Wonderful
- By Anonymous User on 07-05-2020
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A Whisper of Sorrows
- A Scottish Crime Thriller (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers)
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The hunter has become the hunted. Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper. Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped....
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Next level DCI Logan
- By Ian on 19-03-2021
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The Big Man Upstairs (A Scottish Crime Thriller)
- DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 7
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Just when he thought he was out.... Burdened by guilt over the trauma recently inflicted on his friends and colleagues, former-Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan has spent the past nine months living in self-imposed exile....
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Never Disappoints.
- By Anonymous User on 19-11-2020
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The Last Bloody Straw
- A Scottish Crime Thriller (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers)
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Tormented by the recent loss of a colleague, DCI Jack Logan is on the warpath, determined to bring down all those he holds responsible for the officer's death....
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Good story, wonderfully read.
- By DAVID KIRKPATRICK on 17-10-2022
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.
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Five Days in Bogotá
- By: Linda Moore
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
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Gallery owner Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in the 1990s. She needs wealthy collectors to boost her gallery's sales and save her family from bankruptcy. When her art crates are tampered with and she discovers an ex-boyfriend and colleague from her State Department days in Santiago has involved her in a money laundering scheme, she devises a strategy to thwart the fraud, protect her children, and secure her family's future—but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.
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The Colour of Mystery
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- By: Joy Ellis
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It’s the night shift worker who finds them. Huddled in a hospital store cupboard is elderly Edith Higgins. Knifed to death. Sitting behind her is Staff Nurse Lily Frampton, a scalpel clasped in her blood-soaked hand. No one can understand why this kind-hearted, dedicated nurse would brutally murder a frail patient she’s spent months caring for. That same day, mild-mannered schoolteacher Rod Black is found surrounded by the battered bodies of his pupils. Why would a well-respected teacher beat five schoolboys to death?
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Sports Agent Myron Bolitar is in his new office on the top of a skyscraper in New York when two FBI agents ask him this very question. The man they refer to is a top basketball player and Myron's former client and old rival. Greg's DNA, they tell him, has been found at the scene of a high-profile double-murder, and he is now their main suspect. It can't be Greg, Myron tells the two agents: the reason he is Myron's 'former' client is because Greg is dead. He died three years ago of a heart attack. Myron went to his funeral and gave the eulogy.
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Safe Haven
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It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm trees, the detention centre slept fitfully in the heavy summer heat. The palms blocked the ocean gust that now swirled around him, filling his lungs with the taste of temple flowers and salt. It reminded him of home. He took a deep breath, stepped off the escarpment and felt the red sand rush up towards him.
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Home Is Where the Bodies Are
- By: Jeneva Rose
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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After their mother dies, Beth, Nicole and Michael are forced to reunite to sort out their childhood home. Beth, the oldest, never left, caring for their mum until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, is drowning in her destructive drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, has moved far away and hasn't been back to their small town since their father ran out on them. When the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos, it feels like a good idea to revisit those happier memories. But then one of the tapes reveals a shocking scene none of them expect to see.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.
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Five Days in Bogotá
- By: Linda Moore
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Gallery owner Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in the 1990s. She needs wealthy collectors to boost her gallery's sales and save her family from bankruptcy. When her art crates are tampered with and she discovers an ex-boyfriend and colleague from her State Department days in Santiago has involved her in a money laundering scheme, she devises a strategy to thwart the fraud, protect her children, and secure her family's future—but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.
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The Colour of Mystery
- Ellie McEwan Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Sophie Rundle
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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It’s the night shift worker who finds them. Huddled in a hospital store cupboard is elderly Edith Higgins. Knifed to death. Sitting behind her is Staff Nurse Lily Frampton, a scalpel clasped in her blood-soaked hand. No one can understand why this kind-hearted, dedicated nurse would brutally murder a frail patient she’s spent months caring for. That same day, mild-mannered schoolteacher Rod Black is found surrounded by the battered bodies of his pupils. Why would a well-respected teacher beat five schoolboys to death?
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Think Twice
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Sports Agent Myron Bolitar is in his new office on the top of a skyscraper in New York when two FBI agents ask him this very question. The man they refer to is a top basketball player and Myron's former client and old rival. Greg's DNA, they tell him, has been found at the scene of a high-profile double-murder, and he is now their main suspect. It can't be Greg, Myron tells the two agents: the reason he is Myron's 'former' client is because Greg is dead. He died three years ago of a heart attack. Myron went to his funeral and gave the eulogy.
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Safe Haven
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It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm trees, the detention centre slept fitfully in the heavy summer heat. The palms blocked the ocean gust that now swirled around him, filling his lungs with the taste of temple flowers and salt. It reminded him of home. He took a deep breath, stepped off the escarpment and felt the red sand rush up towards him.
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Home Is Where the Bodies Are
- By: Jeneva Rose
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After their mother dies, Beth, Nicole and Michael are forced to reunite to sort out their childhood home. Beth, the oldest, never left, caring for their mum until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, is drowning in her destructive drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, has moved far away and hasn't been back to their small town since their father ran out on them. When the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos, it feels like a good idea to revisit those happier memories. But then one of the tapes reveals a shocking scene none of them expect to see.
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With Scream and Sugar
- The Magical Tea Room Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Erin Johnson
- Narrated by: Hannah Somerville
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Newbie witch and marketing whiz Minnie Wells thought so. She's in need of some smooth sailing, considering her plate is full with magic lessons, marketing the tea room, and navigating a divorce during the most romantic time of the year. But the women's Galentine's Day celebration is thrown into chaos when their event coordinator is stabbed in the back with a pink stiletto.
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Munitions heir Dario Peters has a yen for competitive cycling and cash. When he suffers a fatal crash on a Cape Cod bike path, everyone calls it a tragic accident. But his doting grandma knows better.
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Magical Tea Room Mysteries, Books 1-4
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Minnie's quest begins with 'Spelling the Tea', where a routine job interview at a vampire-owned tea room in Bath spirals into solving a deadly mystery, threatening to steep the teahouse in scandal. The adventure brews over in 'With Scream and Sugar', as a festive gathering turns fatal, compelling Minnie to unravel a web of lies.
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Burnt Echo
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When the putrid smell oozing out of an old mine shaft in the Cambrian hills’ ‘green desert’ of Wales turns out to be a corpse, DCI Evan Warlow and his team quickly slip into gear. But this is no pot-holing adventure gone wrong. Soon, Evan and the team are hunting for another missing person and discovering ghosts from the past that no one wants to confront. With the team stretched and confronting their own demons, DCI Warlow has his work cut out in unravelling a web of manipulation and lies.
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The Adair Murders
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At an ancient British manor, tragedy strikes the Adair lineage, leaving Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James to sift through the aftermath. With the heir apparent in the crosshairs of suspicion, the stakes are as personal as they are perplexing. As the mystery unfurls like fog over London, Holmes, Lucy, Becky, and Flynn find themselves amid a labyrinth of hidden motives and whispered scandals. In a house where every portrait could hide a clue, can our Baker Street ensemble stitch together the truth from the tapestry of lies?
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An Aura of Mystery
- Ellie McEwan Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Sophie Rundle
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to avoid him — and slams head-on into the crash barrier. Days later, Ellie wakes up in hospital — and notices there’s something different. Everyone she looks at — the doctor, the nurse, her friend Carole — is surrounded by a coloured aura. Her near-death experience seems to have given her a new ability. And now Ellie must use her new-found gift to catch a killer.
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Hasty Death
- Edwardian Murder Mysteries, Book 2
- By: M.C. Beaton
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Longing for a life of emancipation, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parent's house to become self supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite as liberating as Rose has imagined - fortunately for her, though, her drudgery comes to an end when old acquaintance Freddy Pomfret is murdered and her help - and upper class connections - are required by amateur sleuth Captain Harry Cathcart.
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Invasion
- By: Frank Gardner
- Narrated by: Frank Gardner
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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2024, and China is massing troops on its coast across the Strait from Taiwan. This time it looks like they're serious about invasion - an act that would result in war between the People's Republic and the US and its allies, including the UK. But Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has an agent in play: someone close to the top of the Chinese Communist Party and who's ready to pass on vital secrets that could defuse the escalating situation. But as the handover takes place in a Hong Kong back street cafe, the agent's MI6 handler is snatched before she can transmit the data back to London.
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The Wild Swimmers
- DS Alexandra Cupidi, Book 5
- By: William Shaw
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Convinced the report of a body on the beach is a false alarm, D S Cupidi darts to Folkstone with her daughter Zoe in toe to scan the area. But this time her instincts are off and it is Zoe who discovers Mimi Greene's body on the shoreline. A regular wild swimmer with her friends, it is perplexing that she would have been out swimming alone, especially in bad weather. Putting aside her daughter's traumatised state, D S Cupidi must find the truth behind Mimi's death.
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The Cuckoo
- By: Camilla Läckberg
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Two terrible events, without obvious connection, shake Fjällbacka to its core. A famous photographer is found brutally murdered in a showroom. Henning Bauer, the Nobel prize winner in literature, suffers from a violent act on the small island where he is writing the 10th book in his world famous series. While Patrik Hedström and his colleagues at Tanumshede police station struggle to investigate the cases, Erica Falck researches a murder on a trans man in Stockholm in the 1980’s.
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The Blood Promise
- Solanki and McQueen, Book 1
- By: Liz Mistry
- Narrated by: Blythe Jandoo
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Imogen Clark wakes up on her 16th birthday to find her parents dead at the breakfast table, along with a message from their killer. Detectives Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen join the investigation, but the more they discover, the more Jazzy suspects that the killing is a twisted message for her. Jazzy shares the same birthday as Imogen, and believes that this is more than a coincidence. When Jazzy discovers the connection between the killer and the stalker who has been following her for years, she is forced to confront the dark past she was desperate to keep hidden.
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The Salmon of Doubt
- Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time: Dirk Gently
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, Stephen Mangan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, uncovering his unique comic musings on everything from his school-trousers to malt whisky and from the letter Y through to his own nose, via atheism, hangovers and fried eggs. These hilarious collected writings reveal the warmth, enthusiasm and ferocious intelligence behind this most English of comic writers; a man who was virtually an unofficial member of the Monty Python team.