29 Best books mystery books to read
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A Beam of Light
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.03(727 ratings)
4.03(727 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Game of Mirrors, A Beam of Light is the nineteenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series. When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtimeFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Game of Mirrors, A Beam of Light is the nineteenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series.
When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant’s young wife, stolen works of art, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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A Change of Circumstance
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrator: Steven Pacey
- Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.05(703 ratings)
4.05(703 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn this installment of Susan Hill’s electrifying crime series, Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drug network sets its sights on Lafferton. The enigmatic and brooding Detective Chief PoliceIn this installment of Susan Hill’s electrifying crime series, Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drug network sets its sights on Lafferton.
The enigmatic and brooding Detective Chief Police Inspector Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs operations in Lafferton as a waste of time. The small-time dealers picked up outside the local high school can’t–or won’t–turn in any valuable names, so they are merely given a fine and the trail runs cold. But when the body of a twenty-two-year-old drug addict is found in neighboring Starley, the case pulls Serrailler into the underbelly of an elaborate drug running operation that pushes narcotics out from the cities, into the suburbs, and right down to villages. The foot soldiers are the vulnerable local kids, like Brookie and Olivia, whose involvement gives Serrailler a bitter taste of this new landscape.
It’s a harsh winter in Lafferton, and with struggles both at home and on the job, Serrailler soon learns that even the familiar can hold shocking surprises.
With A Change of Circumstance, Hill delivers yet another gripping piece of the Serrailler canon. Written in the tradition of the fabulous mysteries of Ruth Rendell and P. D. James, this newest case is sure to enthrall new fans and surprise old ones in what is a captivating new addition to a highly acclaimed series.
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A Distant Grave
- By: Sarah Stewart Taylor
- Narrator: Marisa Calin
- Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 22, 2021
- Language: English
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3.94(975 ratings)
3.94(975 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDIn the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D’arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland in A Distant Grave. Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy and her teenageIn the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D’arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland in A Distant Grave.
Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy and her teenage daughter, Lilly, are still recovering from the events of last fall when a strange new case demands Maggie’s attention. The body of an unidentified Irish national turns up in a wealthy Long Island beach community and with little to go on but the scars on his back, Maggie once again teams up with Garda detectives in Ireland to find out who the man was and what he was doing on Long Island. The strands of the mystery take Maggie to a quiet village in rural County Clare that’s full of secrets and introduce her to the world of humanitarian aid workers half a world away. And as she gets closer to the truth about the murder, what she learns leads her back to her home turf and into range of a dangerous and determined killer who will do anything to keep the victim’s story hidden forever.
With the lyrical prose, deeply drawn characters, and atmospheric setting that put The Mountains Wild on multiple best of the year lists, Sarah Stewart Taylor delivers another gripping mystery novel about family, survival, and the meaning of home.
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“A fast-paced, tension-filled yarn filled with twists the reader is unlikely to see coming. Taylor tells the story in a lyrical prose style that is a joy to read. She excels in vividly portraying both the rural Ireland and Long Island settings and in developing memorable characters…” — Associated Press
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A Galway Epiphany
- By: Ken Bruen
- Narrator: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 19, 2020
- Language: English
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4.06(366 ratings)
4.06(366 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEx-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into theEx-cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial and left in a coma–but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called “Miracle of Galway.” People have become convinced that the two children spotted tending to him are saintly and the site of the accident is sacred. The Catholic Church isn’t so sure, and Jack is commissioned to help find the children to verify the miracle–or expose the stunt. But Jack isn’t the only one looking for these children, and he’s about to plunge into a case involving an order of nuns, an arsonist, and a girl who may be more manipulative than miraculous.
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A Heart Full of Headstones
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(1731 ratings)
4.29(1731 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDIn a brand-new series installment,New York Times bestselling author, Ian Rankin, returns to his legendary detective–it’s not the first time Rebus has taken the law into his own hands, though it might be the last. John Rebus standsIn a brand-new series installment,New York Times bestselling author, Ian Rankin, returns to his legendary detective–it’s not the first time Rebus has taken the law into his own hands, though it might be the last.
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John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
But what drove a good man to cross the line?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city’s most explosive case in years, an infamous cop, at the center of decades of misconduct, has gone missing. Finding him will expose not only her superiors, but her mentor John Rebus. And Rebus himself may not have her own interests at heart, as the repayment of a past debt places him in the crosshairs of both crime lords and his police brethren.
One way or another, a reckoning is coming – and John Rebus may be hearing the call for last orders… -
A Keeper
- By: Graham Norton
- Narrator: Graham Norton
- Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(11430 ratings)
3.98(11430 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom Graham Norton–the BAFTA Award-winning Irish television host and author of the “charming debut novel” (New York Journal of Books) Holding–a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman asFrom Graham Norton–the BAFTA Award-winning Irish television host and author of the “charming debut novel” (New York Journal of Books) Holding–a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman as she returns to Ireland after her mother’s death and unravels the identity of her father.
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When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying goodbye to that dark and dismal part of her life. Her childhood home is packed solid with useless junk, her mother’s presence already fading. But within this mess, she discovers a small stash of letters–and ultimately, the truth.
Forty years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet except for the constant wind that encircles her as she hurries deeper into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on.
With wistful and evocative prose, A Keeper is sure to appeal to “fans of sensitive character studies” (Publishers Weekly) and brilliantly illustrates Graham Norton’s clear-eyed understanding of human nature and its darkest flaws. -
A Matter of Circumstance
- By: Heather Graham
- Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: December 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.7(187 ratings)
3.7(187 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.99 USDSUNSETS & SECRETS After an easy day studying coral in the Bahamian ocean, Amanda Blayne returns to shore looking forward to a cool drink and a lazy afternoon. But the tranquil waters turn dark and treacherous when Amanda is ruthlessly abductedSUNSETS & SECRETS
After an easy day studying coral in the Bahamian ocean, Amanda Blayne returns to shore looking forward to a cool drink and a lazy afternoon. But the tranquil waters turn dark and treacherous when Amanda is ruthlessly abducted in broad daylight. With her captors demanding a ransom that no one can pay, Amanda’s hope dims and she begins to panic.
Sean Ramiro, an undercover cop from Miami, is tasked to covertly observe the safe arrival of the senator. Instead, he witnesses Amanda’s abduction and immediately throws himself into danger, pretending to be Amanda’s lover to try to protect her. The two are playing a perilous game but find it’s easy to play along when irresitible tension builds between them…
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A Matter of Circumstance & The New Deputy in Town
- By: Heather Graham
- Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: December 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.08(4 ratings)
4.08(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDA Matter of Circumstance SUNSETS & SECRETS After an easy day studying coral in the Bahamian ocean, Amanda Blayne returns to shore looking forward to a cool drink and a lazy afternoon. But the tranquil waters turn dark and treacherous whenA Matter of Circumstance
SUNSETS & SECRETS
After an easy day studying coral in the Bahamian ocean, Amanda Blayne returns to shore looking forward to a cool drink and a lazy afternoon. But the tranquil waters turn dark and treacherous when Amanda is ruthlessly abducted in broad daylight. With her captors demanding a ransom that no one can pay, Amanda’s hope dims and she begins to panic.
Sean Ramiro, an undercover cop from Miami, is tasked to covertly observe the safe arrival of the senator. Instead, he witnesses Amanda’s abduction and immediately throws himself into danger, pretending to be Amanda’s lover to try to protect her. The two are playing a perilous game but find it’s easy to play along when irresitible tension builds between them…
The New Deputy in Town
New York Times bestselling author B. J. Daniels brings you back to Whitehorse, Montana for more edge-of-your-seat intrigue.
THIS NEW DEPUTY DIDN’T EXPECT HIS FIRST CASE TO INVOLVE A WEDDING AND A FUNERAL
Deputy Sheriff Nick Rogers found out small-town life meant adjusting to two things–gossips and Laney Cavanaugh. And neither was much help in solving a bridal shower murder.
Some days it appeared like everyone in Whitehorse had a secret–including their new lawman. And falling for Laney wasn’t a good way to maintain a low profile. Nick might have been new to Whitehorse, but he wasn’t above getting his hands dirty. Even if everybody in Laney’s family had it in for the victim, and they were fixing for a fight. Wedding bells were always trouble, and, unfortunately, trouble always had a way of hunting Nick down.
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A Sea of Troubles
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrator: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.93(5783 ratings)
3.93(5783 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.95 USDDona Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario’s personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murderDona Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario’s personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra’s offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. Though loyal to his beloved wife, Paola, he must admit that less-than-platonic emotions underlie his concern for his boss’s beautiful secretary. Suspenseful, provocative, and deeply unsettling, A Sea of Troubles is an explosive and irresistible addition to Leon’s marvelous series.
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A Vine in the Blood
- By: Leighton Gage
- Narrator: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.9(221 ratings)
3.9(221 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.95 USDIt is the eve of the FIFA World Cup, the globe’s premier sporting event. The host country is Brazil. All eyes are on the country’s principal striker, Tico “The Artist” Santos, the greatest player in the history of the sport.It is the eve of the FIFA World Cup, the globe’s premier sporting event. The host country is Brazil. All eyes are on the country’s principal striker, Tico “The Artist” Santos, the greatest player in the history of the sport. All the politicians in Brasilia, from the President of the Republic on down, have their seats squared away for the finale, when they hope to see Argentina, Brazil’s bitterest rival, humbled by the Brazilian eleven. But then, just three weeks before the first game, Juraci Santos, Tico’s mother, is kidnapped. The star is distraught. The public is appalled. The politicians are outraged. And the pressure is on Chief Inspector Mario Silva to get her back. Suspects aren’t lacking. Among them are a cabal of Argentineans, suspected of having spirited the lady away to put Tico off his game; the star’s gold-digging, top-model girlfriend, whom his mother dislikes and has been trying to get out of his life; his principal rival, who wants to play in the World Cup in Tico’s place; and the man whose leg Tico broke during a match, thereby destroying his career. In the end, Silva and his crew discover that the solution to the mystery is less complex–but entirely unexpected.
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A Voice in the Night
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.97(694 ratings)
3.97(694 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe twentieth novel in the irresistible New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in hisThe twentieth novel in the irresistible New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series
Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? Inspector Montalbano and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company.
Meanwhile, a girl is found brutally murdered in Giovanni Strangio’s apartment–Giovanni has a flawless alibi, and it’s no coincidence that Michel Strangio, president of the province, is his father. Weaving together these two crimes, Montalbano realizes that he’s in a difficult spot where political power is enmeshed with the Mafia underworld.
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Absolute Power
- By: Paul Collins
- Narrator: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 27, 2018
- Language: English
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3.51(44 ratings)
3.51(44 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by theThe sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority
In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across Europe and the next papal election uncertain, even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished.
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In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of Pope Pius VI in 1799 to the celebrity of Pope Francis today. In a strange contradiction, as the papacy has lost its physical power — its armies and states — and remained stubbornly opposed to the currents of social and scientific consensus, it has only increased its influence and political authority in the world. -
All Shall Be Well
- By: Deborah Crombie
- Narrator: Michael Deehy
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.93(8426 ratings)
3.93(8426 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.95 USDPerhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep–at last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable.Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep–at last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, to a startling conclusion: Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already doomed?
As Kincaid and his appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman’s strange history, a troubling puzzle emerges: a bizarre amalgam of charity and crime–and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts.
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Allmen and the Dragonflies
- By: Martin Suter
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.73(103 ratings)
3.73(103 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA thrilling art-heist escapade that evokes a world of European high culture and luxury, while plumbing the vicissitudes of less exalted human foibles and obsessions Johann Friedrich von Allmen, a bon vivant of dandified refinement, has exhausted hisA thrilling art-heist escapade that evokes a world of European high culture and luxury, while plumbing the vicissitudes of less exalted human foibles and obsessions
Johann Friedrich von Allmen, a bon vivant of dandified refinement, has exhausted his family fortune. Forced to downscale, Allmen inhabits the garden house of his former Zurich estate, attended by his Guatemalan butler, Carlos. When not reading novels by Balzac and Somerset Maugham, he plays jazz on a Bechstein baby grand.
Allmen’s fortunes take a sharp turn when he meets Jojo, a stunning blonde whose lakeside villa contains five art nouveau bowls created by renowned French artist Emile Galle and decorated with a dragonfly motif. Allmen, seeking to pay off mounting debts, absconds with the priceless bowls and embarks on a high-risk, potentially violent bid to cash them in.
This is the first book in a series of humorous, fast-paced detective novels devoted to Allmen–a memorable gentleman-thief who, with his trusted sidekick Carlos, creates an investigative firm to recover missing precious objects.
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An Irish Village Mystery Bundle, Books 1-3
- By: Carlene O’Connor
- Narrator: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 29 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0079.99 USDThe first three books in An Irish Village Mystery series are included in this edition. In Murder in an Irish Village (Book 1), twenty-two-year-old Siobhan O’Sullivan runs her family’s bistro in the small village of Kilbane, County Cork,The first three books in An Irish Village Mystery series are included in this edition. In Murder in an Irish Village (Book 1), twenty-two-year-old Siobhan O’Sullivan runs her family’s bistro in the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland. One morning they find a man at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest–and now it’s up to feisty redheaded Siobhan to solve the crime and save her beloved brood. In Murder at an Irish Wedding (Book 2), Siobhan and her five siblings have their plates full catering a celebrity wedding. But the celebratory mood suddenly turns sober when the best man is found murdered in the woods. In Murder in an Irish Churchyard (Book 3), Siobhan has accepted her calling and has decided to join the Garda Siochana. But her first case brings Macdara Flannery back into her life….
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Arctic Chill
- By: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrator: Arnaldur Indridason
- Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 04, 2011
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe only author to win the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row, Arnaldur Indridason has sold more than five million copies of his novels in more than 25 countries. A detective whose inner turmoil threatens to consume him,The only author to win the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel two years in a row, Arnaldur Indridason has sold more than five million copies of his novels in more than 25 countries. A detective whose inner turmoil threatens to consume him, Erlendur Sveinsson is charged with investigating the death of an Asian boy-and confronting forces colder than Iceland’s frigid clime. “A remarkable series.”-New York Times Book Review
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At the Villa Rose
- By: A. E. W. Mason
- Narrator: Graham Scott
- Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAt the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains, a murder is discovered: wealthy but naive Mme Dauvray is found strangled in the salon of her villa, apparently for her famously expensive jewels. Her young English companion, Celia Harland, isAt the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains, a murder is discovered: wealthy but naive Mme Dauvray is found strangled in the salon of her villa, apparently for her famously expensive jewels. Her young English companion, Celia Harland, is missing, and her maid is bound and chloroformed upstairs. A young English inventor who has been courting Miss Harland adamantly protests her innocence, and begs the famous Surete detective Inspector Hanaud to investigate …
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Baghdad Central
- By: Elliot Colla
- Narrator: Michael Rahhal
- Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 16, 2020
- Language: English
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3.8(113 ratings)
3.8(113 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThe United States occupation of Iraq is a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion. The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba’athification of Iraqi society. Tales of hubris andThe United States occupation of Iraq is a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion. The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba’athification of Iraqi society. Tales of hubris and reality-denial abound, culminating in Washington hailing the mess “a glorious mission accomplished.””
Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Iraqi cop who deserted his post back in April. Khafaji has lived long enough in pre- and post-Saddam Iraq to know that clinging on to anything but poetry and his daughter Mrouj is asking for trouble. Nabbed by the Americans and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, Khafaji is offered one way out–work for the CPA to rebuild the Iraqi Police Services. But it’s only after United States forces take Mrouj that he figures out a way to make his collaboration palatable, and even rewarding. Soon, he is investigating the disappearance of young women translators working for the U.S. Army. The bloody trail leads Khafaji through battles, bars, and brothels then finally back to the Green Zone, where it all began.
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?Es posible vivir 100 anos? (Is It Possible to Live 100 Years?)
- By: Henry Osal
- Length: 24 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: April 20, 2015
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USD“Booka Audiobooks presents the audiobook bestseller author Henry Osal “”Is it Possible to Live 100 Years?”” Lifestyle advice for living a more satisfying life, trying to increase our longevity naturally. Overcoming“Booka Audiobooks presents the audiobook bestseller author Henry Osal “”Is it Possible to Live 100 Years?””
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Lifestyle advice for living a more satisfying life, trying to increase our longevity naturally.
Overcoming barriers to longevity that once seemed impossible are becoming m common every day. Scientific advances, particularly in the area of health, and better nutrition are enabling human beings to significantly increase their life expectancy.
But the reasons that allow some people to prevail for over a hundred years of existence remain largely a mystery.
After a year of research, this brief manual, which is not intended to be empirical or to make firm pledges, recommends a series of habits and tips collected from eminent scientists and interviews with people who have far exceeded the barrier of a century.
I hope you find this as exciting to read as was collecting this interesting information has been for me, as I belong to a family with multiple cases of extreme longevity. “ -
Barking Mad
- By: Ted Tayler
- Narrator: Roger Clark
- Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.22(192 ratings)
4.22(192 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWhy did pet shop owner Mark Malone die in a hail of bullets in May, 2015? Gus Freeman and the Crime Review Team who investigate cold cases are faced with many questions but few answers. Mark Malone’s BMW had tinted windows, a loweredWhy did pet shop owner Mark Malone die in a hail of bullets in May, 2015? Gus Freeman and the Crime Review Team who investigate cold cases are faced with many questions but few answers.
Mark Malone’s BMW had tinted windows, a lowered suspension, and a loud car stereo. He drove it at speed along the Beckhampton road late at night back in 2015. That wasn’t unusual. It was hard to resist speeding on that stretch of road, and hundreds of drivers have been caught speeding there every year. Several died in high-speed accidents.
What made the Malone incident different was that, fifteen minutes earlier, he had stopped at a garage on the A4 in Bath Road, outside Marlborough. A grey 7-series BMW stopped behind him, and the two drivers appeared to argue. As Malone reached the outskirts of Devizes, someone fired six shots with a handgun. Malone lost control of his car and hit several parked vehicles before ending up in a garden. He got hit twice in the head and died in the hospital later that morning.
The attack might have been a case of road rage or mistaken identity. Killer Ricky Gardiner is on the run from the police. Who will catch up with him first?
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Before the Fall
- By: Noah Hawley
- Narrator: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 09, 2018
- Language: English
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3.72(30354 ratings)
3.72(30354 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0030.98 USDBefore the Fall: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Winner of the 2017 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and the 2017 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNINGWinner of the 2017 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and the 2017 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST NOVELBefore the Fall: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *FROM THE AWARD-WINNING CREATOR OF FARGO COMES “ONE THE YEAR’S BEST SUSPENSE NOVELS” (NEW YORK TIMES).
On a foggy summer night, eleven people–ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter–depart Martha’s Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul’s family.
Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sinister at work? A storm of media attention brings Scott fame that quickly morphs into notoriety and accusations, and he scrambles to salvage truth from the wreckage. Amid trauma and chaos, the fragile relationship between Scott and the young boy grows and glows at the heart of this stunning novel, raising questions of fate, morality, and the inextricable ties that bind us together.
... Read more*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. -
Between the Thames and the Tiber
- By: Ted Riccardi
- Narrator: Simon Prebble
- Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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2.86(130 ratings)
2.86(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.95 USDSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures. After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one ofSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures. After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one of Watson’s relatives in Cornwall, half of which he gave to his dear friend, Sherlock Holmes. Financially secure, the two are now free to spend as much time on Baker Street and the Continent as they please, and the duo find themselves as comfortable in Rome on the banks of the Tiber as the Thames. As Holmes rationalizes and ratiocinates his way through case after case, from “The Case of Two Bohemes” to “A Singular Event in Tranquebar,” it’s all in a day’s work, until clues surface that his great nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, might still be alive…
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Black Skies
- By: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrator: Arnaldur Indridason
- Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 17, 2013
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDArnaldur Indridason has been crime writing’s best-kept secret … until now. A man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a ‘death mask’, onceArnaldur Indridason has been crime writing’s best-kept secret … until now. A man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a ‘death mask’, once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind. Meanwhile, with Detective Erlendur absent, his baseball-loving colleague Sigurdur Oli is in the spotlight. A school reunion has left Sigurdur Oli dissatisfied with life in the police force. Iceland is enjoying an economic boom and young tycoons are busy partying with the international jet set. In contrast, Sigurdur Oli’s relationship is on the rocks and soon even his position in the CID is compromised: when he agrees to visit a couple of blackmailers as a favour to a friend he walks in just as a woman is beaten unconscious. When she dies, Sigurdur Oli has a murder investigation on his hands. The evidence leads to debt collectors, extortionists, swinging parties. But when a chance link connects these enquiries to the activities of a group of young bankers, Sigurdur Oli finds himself investigating the very elite he had envied. Moving from the villas of ReykjavIk’s banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe’s most successful crime writers.
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Black Widow
- By: Leslie Gray Streeter
- Narrator: Leslie Gray Streeter
- Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 10, 2020
- Language: English
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4.31(760 ratings)
4.31(760 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDWith her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that “will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page” (James... Read moreWith her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that “will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page” (James Patterson).
Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She’s not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she’d wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott’s funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. (“New widow lifestyle.” Sounds like something you’d find products for on daytime TV, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?)
Looking at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage, and aging, Black Widow redefines the stages of grief, from coffin shopping to day-drinking, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy, to breaking up and making up with God, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!), Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott, recounting their journey through racism, religious differences, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started?
Tender, true, and endearingly hilarious, Black Widow is a story about the power of love, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself. -
48 Hours to Kill
- By: Andrew Bourelle
- Narrator: David Bendena
- Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 07, 2021
- Language: English
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4.08(532 ratings)
4.08(532 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDServing a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. But society has other plans for Ethan. When he’s given a forty-eight-hour furloughServing a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. But society has other plans for Ethan. When he’s given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abby’s funeral, he learns that her body was never found–just enough blood to declare her dead instead of missing–and he begins to suspect that there’s more to her death than was reported. Ethan decides to use his forty-eight-hour window to find out what happened. But to get to the bottom of the mystery, he’ll have to return to his unsavory past. Ethan teams up with his sister’s best friend, Whitney, in a search for the truth. They’re united in their shared grief, and their chemistry–both emotional and physical–begins to heat up. But romance goes on hold as the suspects mount. Ethan’s old boss, Shark, a mid-level loan shark, now heads a criminal empire. As Ethan and Whitney uncover more clues, they become convinced that Shark is responsible for the murder, but they have no proof. If Ethan is going to solve his sister’s murder in forty-eight hours, he will have to become the criminal he swore he’d never be again.
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99 Ways to Die
- By: Ed Lin
- Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 09, 2018
- Language: English
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3.37(130 ratings)
3.37(130 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe third funny, food-forward mystery by Ed Lin set in and around Taipei’s bustling night market Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family’s huge corporation, since high school. Peggy’s father has beenThe third funny, food-forward mystery by Ed Lin set in and around Taipei’s bustling night market Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family’s huge corporation, since high school. Peggy’s father has been kidnapped, and the ransom the kidnappers are demanding is not money but IP: a high-tech memory chip that they want to sell in China. Jing-nan feels sorry for Peggy until she starts blackmailing him into helping out. Peggy is worried the kidnappers’ deadline will pass before the police are able to track down the chip. But when the reluctant Jing-nan tries to help, he finds himself deeper and deeper in trouble with some very unsavory characters-the most unsavory of whom might very well be the victim himself.
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A Bad Day for Sorry
- By: Sophie Littlefield
- Narrator: Kym Dakin
- Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 12, 2011
- Language: English
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3.52(1684 ratings)
3.52(1684 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDWinner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel! Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she’s so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping otherWinner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel!
Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she’s so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it’s usually nothing a little light bondage or old-fashioned whuppin’ can’t fix. Since Stella works outside of the law, she’s free to do whatever it takes to get the job done—as long as she keeps her distance from the handsome devil of a local sheriff, Goat Jones.
When young mother Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for help with her no-good husband, Roy Dean, it looks like an easy case. Until Roy Dean disappears with Chrissy’s two-year-old son, Tucker. Stella quickly learns that Roy Dean was involved with some very scary men, as she tries to sort out who’s hiding information and who’s merely trying to kill her. It’s going to take a hell of a fight to get the little boy back home to his mama, but if anyone can do it, it’s Stella Hardesty.
Sophie Littlefield’s A Bad Day for Sorry won an Anthony Award for Best First Novel and an RT Book Award for Best First Mystery. It was also shortlisted for Edgar, Barry, Crimespree, and Macavity Awards, and it was named to lists of the year’s best mystery debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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A Beam of Light
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.03(727 ratings)
4.03(727 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Game of Mirrors, A Beam of Light is the nineteenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series. When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtimeFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Game of Mirrors, A Beam of Light is the nineteenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series.
When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant’s young wife, stolen works of art, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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A Beautiful Corpse
- By: Christi Daugherty
- Narrator: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 12, 2019
- Language: English
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4.04(1208 ratings)
4.04(1208 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Narrator Sophie Amoss introduces crime reporter Harper McClain, who is hardworking, passionate, and complex… Amoss expertly portrays Harper and a wide range of supporting characters with soft Southern drawls and distinct vocal traits.“Narrator Sophie Amoss introduces crime reporter Harper McClain, who is hardworking, passionate, and complex… Amoss expertly portrays Harper and a wide range of supporting characters with soft Southern drawls and distinct vocal traits. With its building tension and engaging twists, this mystery grabs listeners and doesn’t let go.” — AudioFile Magazine
From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain.
For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all.
With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees draped in a veil of Spanish moss, Savannah’s graceful downtown is famous around the world. When a woman is killed in the heart of that affluent district, the shock is felt throughout the city. But for crime reporter Harper McClain, this story is personal. The corpse has a familiar face.
Only twenty-four years old, Naomi Scott was just getting started. A law student, tending bar to make ends meet, she wanted to change the world. Instead, her life ended in the dead of night at the hands of an unseen gunman. There are no witnesses to the crime. The police have three suspects: Scott’s boyfriend, who has a criminal past he claims he’s put behind him, her boss, who stalked another young bartender two years ago, and the district attorney’s son, who Naomi dated until their relationship ended in acrimony. All three men claim to love her. Could one of them be her killer?
With the whole city demanding answers, Harper unravels a tangled story of obsession and jealousy. But the pressures on her go beyond the murder. The newspaper is facing more layoffs. Her boss fears both their jobs are on the line. And Harper begins to realize that someone is watching her every move. Someone familiar and very dangerous.
Someone who told her to run before it’s too late…
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