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The cocaine export business has a new player, Hector de Oliveira—a highborn Brazilian aristocrat with an eye for new markets. When profits fall in Latin America, de Oliveira eyes a new frontier. In Australia, advertising mogul Frank Quinlivan has built a successful business empire, a beautiful life, a young wife, and a yacht. Being a player in the world of high-stakes business is challenging enough—until… A missing shipment sends Oliveira’s flawless drug smuggling operation off Sydney’s coast into chaos. Enter Quinlivan.

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

Glasgow journalist Danny Delvecchio has spent his life running from the day his twin sister was murdered by serial killer Robert Liddle. Twenty years on, history is repeating itself; bodies begin appearing across the city, each posed like Liddle's victims. Then Danny receives a chilling message: Find her. Danny has twenty-four hours to save a young woman’s life. But the killer knows everything about him. Every move. Every fear. Every mistake that haunts his sleepless nights.

I came to look after his children. Now he says I’m his fiancée. When I see the advert, I tell myself it’s the fresh start I need. Live-in nanny. A single father. Two young children. A remote farmhouse deep in the Peak District, far from everything I’ve lost. My new employer Edward seems nice. He tries hard to be a good dad. The children warm to me. For the first time since my partner died, I begin to feel useful. Then the snow comes. The roads close. The internet goes down. And I wake with an injured ankle, a bandage around my head, and no memory of what happened.

A Hollywood stuntwoman turned personal injury attorney. A handsome disbarred lawyer with a dark past. And an elaborate scheme that leads to murder.

Former Hollywood stuntwoman Vanessa Motta has traded fake car crashes for real ones. As an up-and-coming personal injury attorney in New Orleans, she’s found the perfect partner in her new boyfriend and mentor, Sean Alfortish. So what if he’s a disbarred lawyer with a shady past? With Sean’s help, the cases start rolling in – and the big settlements.

Strange singing, the myth of a witch and the gruesome death of a young girl: two very different investigators are faced with a seemingly supernatural puzzle. Karla Seitz brilliantly combines fast-paced dialogue with shocking cases. The idyllic view over the Ravenna Gorge in the Black Forest is deceptive on this fateful morning. As the heavy fog lifts, the body of eight-year-old Mia is found beside the trail - cold, stiff and ruthlessly murdered. The uncanny and mystifying nature of the crime soon. Witnesses claim to have heard mysterious singing.

First, she took my husband. Then my daughter moved in. And now my little girl is accused of murder…I can’t wait to see my sixteen-year-old daughter Brie, and get back to sharing secrets over cozy dinners together. But when I arrive at her stepmother’s stunning house to collect her, she stares at me coldly, like I’m a stranger. A silver stud gleams in her nose, and she’s dropped out of college. And she doesn’t want to come home…Brie’s eyes slide away from me, as her stepmother Leanne puts an arm around her shoulder. The message is clear.

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It’s the case Detective Alec Farnham can’t forget. He was the one who found his friend and mentor, DI Lou Catterick, collapsed in a deserted alleyway, her shirt drenched in blood. He was too late. With her dying breath, Lou utters a single word. Ghost. A year on, the investigation has stalled. The trail is cold. The killer still walks free. But Alec refuses to let go. He knows one thing for certain: Lou would never have given up on him. If he can only work out what she was trying to tell him, he knows he’d have the key to cracking the case.

A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked.

The gang are back with a new mystery in the #1 globally bestselling ‘Thursday Murder Club’ series from the nation’s favourite author, Richard Osman. Praise for Richard Osman and the Thursday Murder Club series: ‘So smart and funny. Deplorably good’ IAN RANKIN ‘I smiled a million...

When I was fifteen years old, I made a mistake. I trusted the warm smile of a stranger called Peter Harlow, and accepted a ride home in his car. It would be the last moment of my life I’d ever feel safe again. The trauma of what happened that night will never leave me—and it was only the beginning. For the last nineteen years, I’ve been trapped in a nightmare of blocked numbers, violated restraining orders, and the compulsion to scan every face in every crowd, waiting for the day when his will be among them. But I've also spent the time preparing...

Five friends went to Corfu. Only four came home. That was ten years ago. The police called it a tragic accident. A drunken fall from a jetty. A body pulled from the Ionian Sea at dawn. Rowan lost her boyfriend, Chris, that night. She also lost every memory of what happened. Now, Chris's twin sister Daphne has announced she's getting married at the family villa in Corfu, and she wants everyone there. Rowan. Shay. Zora. Back to the island. Back to the place where everything fell apart.

Oihane swore she'd never return to Urrun. But when her father is shot in a supposed hunting accident, she has no choice but to go back to the remote rural hamlet she once fled. The place hasn't changed: the people are hostile, violent, and bound by silence. Neither has her father been the only victim. As Oihane digs into what really happened that day in the woods, she's met with a wall of secrets. No one will talk. Everyone has something to hide. And the deeper she probes, the more she realizes the shooting was no accident at all.

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. The stories in this volume are: Evil Under the Sun, Sad Cypress, Murder in Mesopotamia, Lord Edgware Dies, Halloween Party, Murder on the Links and Five Little Pigs. Based on the original novels by Agatha Christie, these superb adaptations feature a cast of outstanding actors playing an array of likely suspects.

Listen to the first nine books in the bestselling and award-wining Dorset Crime series – over a hundred hours of listening. DCI Lesley Clarke has been transferred to a rural team in Dorset for some peace and quiet after suffering trauma in her previous job in Birmingham. But things don't stay quiet for long. Before she's even started the job she's plunged into her first case in the shadow of Corfe Castle. Next, a lawyer is pushed off a cliff near Old Harry Rocks, and then the cases start coming thick and fast, each one becoming more personal for Lesley.

Daniel De Luca left behind a career in the Marines to become the problem solver at the luxurious Hotel Villa Costiera in Positano. His life revolves around cases to crack and guests to protect, until he meets Denise Miller. She's about to marry a powerful Russian tycoon in what promises to be the wedding of the year. But nothing is as it seems. When Denise is found dead the morning after her bachelorette party, all evidence points to Daniel. But what really happened that night?

Sherlock’s elder - and still more brilliant - brother, Mycroft (read by Rory Kinnear), is too busy to grieve this apparent loss. Working as an agent for the British government, Mycroft is tasked with the politics of maintaining an empire on the verge of collapse. But on the streets of London, a killer is on the loose. A sequence of bloody bodies litter the East End, murders which echo those of Jack the Ripper four years before. Against his better judgement, Mycroft is forced to step out from the shadow of his brother, and join the hunt for the truth.

Fourteen years ago, someone stole one of my twin babies. Now, she’s back. But there’s something off. The guilt never stopped, waking me up at four in the morning. Somehow, I built a new life – a stunning Cotswolds home, my remaining daughter, a marriage held together by the thinnest thread of hope. But there was always a hole. Until now... Except something is wrong. The way my new-found daughter studies me, unblinking. The way she plays with my husband’s attention. The way she whispers behind my back. I don’t think I want this girl in my house. But she wants us.

When Emily Lane isn’t busy running her charming Christmas-themed store, ‘’Under the Mistletoe,” located in the quaint tourist town of Fletcher’s Grove, she finds herself investigating not-so-quaint local murders. This season finds Emily pulled into a trio of puzzling mysteries that reveal how easily holiday traditions can hide secrets, betrayal, and danger. While her relationship with Detective Sam Wilner deepens, Emily is compelled to confront complicated cases involving old grudges, hidden identities, suspicious accidents, and long-buried connections from the past.