29 Best International Mystery & Crime Books
International Mystery & Crime is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top International Mystery & Crime audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 International Mystery & Crime audiobooks below.
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Spook Street
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrator: Mick Herron
- Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 21, 2017
- Language: English
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4.64(61 ratings)
4.64(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWhat happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for aging spies who can no longer remember their secrets are secret? Or are senile spies taken care of in a different, more permanent fashion? These are theWhat happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for aging spies who can no longer remember their secrets are secret? Or are senile spies taken care of in a different, more permanent fashion?
These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding into dementia, and questions his grandson, River, must answer now that the spy who raised him sometimes forgets
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to wear pants. But River, himself an agent at Slough House, MI5’s outpost for disgraced spies, has other things to worry about. A bomb has detonated in the middle of a busy shopping center and killed forty innocent civilians. The “Slow
Horses” of Slough House must figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates. -
Real Tigers
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrator: Mick Herron
- Length: 11 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 19, 2016
- Language: English
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4.64(61 ratings)
4.64(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDLondon: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The “Slow Horses,” as the failed spies of Slough House are called, areLondon: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The “Slow Horses,” as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are
doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action.When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations of their competence, to breach the top-notch security of MI5’s intelligence headquarters, Regent’s Park,
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and steal valuable intel in exchange for their comrade’s safety. The kidnapping is only the tip of the iceberg, however–the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but the highest authorities
in the Secret Service. After years spent as the lowest on the totem pole, the Slow Horses suddenly find themselves caught in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens not only the future of Slough House, but of MI5 itself. -
London Rules
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrator: Mick Herron
- Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: English
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4.64(61 ratings)
4.64(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAt MI5 headquarters Regent’s Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is facing attacks from all directions: the MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, a nasty tabloid columnist, and the frontrunner for mayor of the West Midlands. Meanwhile, the countryAt MI5 headquarters Regent’s Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is facing attacks from all directions: the MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, a nasty tabloid columnist, and the frontrunner for mayor of the West Midlands. Meanwhile, the
country is suffering a seemingly random string of terror attacks.Over at Slough House, the home for demoted MI5 spies, the agents are struggling with personal problems, from repressed grief to a possibly psychopathic new colleague. But they’re about to rediscover their greatest strength–that of making
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a bad situation much, much worse. -
Joe Country
- By: Mick Herron
- Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 11, 2019
- Language: English
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4.64(61 ratings)
4.64(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIf Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over theIf Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.
In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.
And with winter taking its grip, Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can’t ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends his agents out to even the score.
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Dead Lions
- By: Mick Herron
- Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4.64(61 ratings)
4.64(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDLondon’s Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their careers. The “Slow Horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe theyLondon’s Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their careers. The “Slow Horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op
badly, or got in the way of an ambitious colleague. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle–not unusual in this line of work. One thing these failed spies have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action.Now the Slow Horses have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. As the agents dig in to their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of
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ancient Cold War secrets. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried? -
A World of Curiosities
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 29, 2022
- Language: English
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4.6(13928 ratings)
4.6(13928 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USD“Robert Bathurst performs this 18th Inspector Gamache mystery with the assurance of one who knows the village of Three Pines and its (mostly) gentle residents well….fans are in for a treat.” – AudioFile Magazine (Earphones“Robert Bathurst performs this 18th Inspector Gamache mystery with the assurance of one who knows the village of Three Pines and its (mostly) gentle residents well….fans are in for a treat.” – AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)
“Robert Bathurst’s narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It’s perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful reflection.” – BookPageChief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny’s beloved series.
It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.
But something has.
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.
But to what end?
Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?
As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.
As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.
In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache’s home.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.
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Sharp Edge
- By: Marianne Delacourt
- Narrator: Anthea Greco
- Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.51(8 ratings)
4.51(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDDead bodies, a complicated love life, a conflict between the local drug cartels, and a favor owed to the local bikies have Tara scrambling to stay ahead of the game. Just another Tuesday for Tara Sharp. Sharp Edge is book four in the Tara SharpDead bodies, a complicated love life, a conflict between the local drug cartels, and a favor owed to the local bikies have Tara scrambling to stay ahead of the game.
Just another Tuesday for Tara Sharp.
Sharp Edge is book four in the Tara Sharp series. Set in Perth, Western Australia, the series follows Tara Sharp, private detective and aura reader.
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How the Light Gets In
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 15 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 27, 2013
- Language: English
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4.46(56937 ratings)
4.46(56937 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USDHow the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen Christmas is approaching,How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard CohenChristmas is approaching, and in Quebec it’s a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn’t spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna’s reluctance to reveal her friend’s name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
As events come to a head, Gamache is drawn ever deeper into the world of Three Pines. Increasingly, he is not only investigating the disappearance of Myrna’s friend but also seeking a safe place for himself and his still-loyal colleagues. Is there peace to be found even in Three Pines, and at what cost to Gamache and the people he holds dear?
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Mystery/Thriller Books of 2013
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One of The Washington Post‘s Top 10 Books of the Year
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Hit List
- By: Jack McSporran
- Narrator: Lucy Brownhill
- Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 22, 2019
- Language: English
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4.46(53 ratings)
4.46(53 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhen her old agency is hacked by an elusive crime syndicate, ex-secret agent Maggie Black is enjoying the carefree life of a civilian. Then she learns that the names of the agency’s agents, past and present, are being leaked by the hackers,When her old agency is hacked by an elusive crime syndicate, ex-secret agent Maggie Black is enjoying the carefree life of a civilian. Then she learns that the names of the agency’s agents, past and present, are being leaked by the hackers, one-by-one until their notorious boss is released from prison. With the government refusing to negotiate with the blackmailers, she is forced out of retirement and dragged back into the perilous life of espionage she swore to leave behind. Her name is on that list, as well as those she cares about most. As the bodies of agents begin to pile up, Maggie risks it all to hunt down the hackers. From the war-torn streets of Somalia to the seedy red-light district of Amsterdam, she must race against time before her dark past ruins any chance at a future.
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Salvation of a Saint
- By: Keigo Higashino
- Narrator: David Pittu
- Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 02, 2012
- Language: English
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4.44(219 ratings)
4.44(219 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDFrom the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring “Detective Galileo.” In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The firstFrom the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring “Detective Galileo.”
In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as “stunning,” “brilliant,” and “ingenious.” Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa–Detective Galileo–returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts clash with facts and theory with reality.
Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect–except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi’s instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymied–she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa.
But even the brilliant mind of Dr. Yukawa has trouble with this one, and he must somehow find a way to solve an impossible murder and capture a very real, very deadly murderer.
Salvation of a Saint is Keigo Higashino at his mind-bending best, pitting emotion against fact in a beautifully plotted crime novel filled with twists and reverses that will astonish and surprise even the most attentive and jaded of listeners.
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All the Devils Are Here
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.44(38020 ratings)
4.44(38020 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*“Robert Bathurst is just about perfect delivering the 16th Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel…Listen to all the Gamache audiobooks for maximum satisfaction.” — AudioFile Magazine,*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
“Robert Bathurst is just about perfect delivering the 16th Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel…Listen to all the Gamache audiobooks for maximum satisfaction.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
In All the Devils Are Here, the 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light.On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life.
When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Surete, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art.
It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.
A gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized.
Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family.
For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
“Bathurst superbly manipulates tone, volume, and pace to highlight this range of emotions. Paris is described beautifully, and Bathurst lingers over these descriptive passages that will speak to any traveler’s soul…” — Booklist, starred review
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A Great Reckoning
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 30, 2016
- Language: English
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4.43(41693 ratings)
4.43(41693 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDWhen an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his newWhen an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.
Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Surete du Quebec to places even he is afraid to go. But must.And there he finds four young cadets in the Surete academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map.
Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. Tattooed and pierced. Guarded and angry. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And yet she is in the academy. A protegee of the murdered professor.
The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets.
For both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding audiobook.
“Robert Bathurst puts his own indelible stamp on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Louise Penny’s twelfth Three Pines puzzle. …If you haven’t listened to this series, start at once. You’ll love your stay in Three Pines.” – AudioFile Magazine
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Payback
- By: Jack McSporran
- Narrator: Lucy Brownhill
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 29, 2020
- Language: English
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4.4(30 ratings)
4.4(30 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDMaggie Black is settling well into life after being a government assassin. Finally content and deeply in love with her partner, Leon, she is ready to open her own secret agency where she can put her unique skills to use and help those inMaggie Black is settling well into life after being a government assassin. Finally content and deeply in love with her partner, Leon, she is ready to open her own secret agency where she can put her unique skills to use and help those in need–on her own terms.
Getting out isn’t as simple as Maggie had hoped, however, and her past comes back to haunt her, putting a stop to any plans for a fresh start. Nina, an old colleague-turned-enemy, is out for blood and returns from hiding in the most devastating way possible, shaking Maggie to the core and ruining any chance she had at happiness.
Blinded by grief and overcome with rage, Maggie sets out to put an end to their rivalry one way or another. Tracking her enemy from the rural moors of Ireland to eerily familiar haunts in Russia, Maggie is on the warpath and hellbent on revenge. But she must be careful and not let her emotions overwhelm her–because Nina is back in full force and she hasn’t come alone…
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Bad Actors
- By: Mick Herron
- Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 10, 2022
- Language: English
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4.4(2209 ratings)
4.4(2209 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn London’s MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster–a specialist who advises the Prime Minister’s office on how policy is likely to be receivedIn London’s MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster–a specialist who advises the Prime Minister’s office on how policy is likely to be received by the
electorate–has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down.But the trail leads him straight back to Regent’s Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner as chief suspect. Has Taverner overplayed her hand at last? Meanwhile, her Russian counterpart, Moscow intelligence’s First Desk, has cheekily showed up
in London and shaken off his escort. Are the two unfortunate events connected?Over at Slough House, where Jackson Lamb presides over some of MI5’s most embittered demoted agents, the slow horses are doing what they do best, and adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation …
There are bad actors everywhere, and they usually get their comeuppance before the credits roll. But politics is a dirty business, and in a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing are the norm, sometimes the good guys can find themselves outgunned.
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From the Shadows
- By: James R. Benn
- Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 06, 2022
- Language: English
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4.37(134 ratings)
4.37(134 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDSouthern France, 1944: What should be a simple assignment with a Special Operations Executive officer gets complicated quickly as Billy navigates the tensions between Resistance groups in the process of gathering information on Vichy officials andSouthern France, 1944: What should be a simple assignment with a Special Operations Executive officer gets complicated quickly as Billy navigates the tensions between Resistance groups in the process of gathering information on Vichy officials and other collaborators who escaped with the retreating Germans.
Unexpectedly, the SOE officer has many enemies in the Resistance, linked to the failed Vercors uprising. Diana Seaton, Billy’s wartime lover, crosses paths with him as she and legendary SOE agent Christine Granville embark on a humanitarian mission on behalf of those killed while helping the SOE.
The search for a witness to a deadly explosion leads Billy to the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a unit made up of Nisei soldiers that became the most highly decorated unit in the history of the US Army.
With sacrifice and betrayal afoot, Billy doesn’t know who he can trust, or how close to death this case may bring him.
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Constable by the Stream
- By: Nicholas Rhea
- Narrator: Philip Franks
- Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.37(318 ratings)
4.37(318 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIn the splendid countryside of North Yorkshire, there’s barely time to stop for Constable Nick Rhea. Not when missing sheep need locating, stray dogs need homing, and thieves need identifying! As Britain’s most popular copper continuesIn the splendid countryside of North Yorkshire, there’s barely time to stop for Constable Nick Rhea.
Not when missing sheep need locating, stray dogs need homing, and thieves need identifying! As Britain’s most popular copper continues his work around the village, he has to cope with an array of eccentric characters: a postman who can’t read, a helpful lady who steals from the elderly people in her care, and a delightful small-time villain called Tin Lid Talbot. Winning an aged tin of sardines in a local raffle and upsetting the villagers by getting first prize at the local whist drive, PC Nick Rhea must contend with the variety and humorous exploits of a Yorkshire village. Constable by the Stream is the lively tale of a young PC and the small rural community he calls home.
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Bury Your Dead
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 28, 2010
- Language: English
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4.35(52941 ratings)
4.35(52941 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Ralph Cosham’s excellent narration of Louise Penny’s newest mystery demonstrates why a terrific narrator is an author’s best partner.” —AudioFile Magazine Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death–and“Ralph Cosham’s excellent narration of Louise Penny’s newest mystery demonstrates why a terrific narrator is an author’s best partner.” —AudioFile Magazine
Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death–and all the mystery that remains–from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has arrived in this beautiful, freezing city not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. Still, violent death is inescapable–even here, in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society, where one obsessive academic’s quest for answers will lead Gamache down a dark path . . .
Meanwhile, Gamache is receiving disturbing news from his hometown village. Beloved bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder but everyone–including Gamache–believes that he is innocent. Who is behind this sinister plot? Now it’s up to Gamache to solve this killer case . . . and relive a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead.
“Few writers in any genre can match Penny’s ability to combine heartbreak and hope.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Kingdom of the Blind
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.33(35811 ratings)
4.33(35811 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD**Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator** “[Narrator Robert Bathurst] engages us completely…If you haven’t listened to this series, start at once. You’ll love your stay in Three Pines.” — AudioFile**Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator**
“[Narrator Robert Bathurst] engages us completely…If you haven’t listened to this series, start at once. You’ll love your stay in Three Pines.” — AudioFile Magazine on A Great Reckoning
Kingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache audiobook from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Surete du Quebec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.
None of them had ever met the elderly woman.
The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane?
When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.
But it isn’t the only menace Gamache is facing.
The investigation into what happened six months ago–the events that led to his suspension–has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception.
Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers.
As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And the terrible things hiding there.
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Glass Houses
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 29, 2017
- Language: English
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4.32(40753 ratings)
4.32(40753 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“…the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamache’s conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks, with Bathurst prying open the hero’s heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level.”“…the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamache’s conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks, with Bathurst prying open the hero’s heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level.” — Audiofile Magazine
AN AUGUST 2017 LibraryReads PICK!
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.
From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Surete du Quebec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized.
But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied.
Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montreal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment.
In Glass Houses, her latest utterly gripping audiobook, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.
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The Insurmountable Edge: Book Two
- By: Thomas H. Goodfellow
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.31(72 ratings)
4.31(72 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USD“Author Thomas Goodfellow cloaks a good old-fashioned murder mystery in the trappings of an international spy thriller in THE INSURMOUNTABLE EDGE: Book Two.” – Rob Errera, IndieReader.com Overview of Three Book Story Two children“Author Thomas Goodfellow cloaks a good old-fashioned murder mystery in the trappings of an international spy thriller in THE INSURMOUNTABLE EDGE: Book Two.” – Rob Errera, IndieReader.com
Overview of Three Book Story
Two children savagely stoned to death in the California desert. Top employees of a U.S. defense contractor dying at an alarming rate. A cryptic message sent by a strange, secretive source warns the contractor’s products have been corrupted and could be used against the U.S. Armed Forces.
They all seem to be connected. But how?
Only two men on earth are capable of putting it all together those men are Jack Wilder and Jeff Bradshaw, two of the greatest special operations forces soldiers who have ever lived.
There’s a problem though. Jack and Jeff are off-duty at Jack’s ranch while Jeff tries to recover from a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Jack’s seventeen-year-old ward, a hellcat named Adelaide, is also on the ranch. Nothing seems more impossible than getting the three of them to leave their safe commune. But then, a mysterious blue Maybach shows up at the ranch. The Maybach’s visit sends Adelaide, Jack and Jeff off on a dangerous trail of murder and intrigue as they confront the insurmountable edge.
“In this second installment, Wilder’s investigation into an impending war with China leads him to the US military’s secretive “dark programmers” and the simulated war games they design.” – Rob Errera, IndieReader.com
Please visit www.TheInsurmountableEdge.com to learn more about author Thomas H. Goodfellow and receive news and updates about books, events, and more!
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A Trick of the Light
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 30, 2011
- Language: English
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4.31(49557 ratings)
4.31(49557 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliantA New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011
A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011
With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.“Hearts are broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. “Sweet relationships are dead.”
But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow’s garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara’s solo show at the famed Musee in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Surete du Quebec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart.
And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they’ve found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light.“Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm….” —Booklist (starred review)
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A Better Man
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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4.3(34709 ratings)
4.3(34709 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Robert Bathurst’s intelligent narration captures every nuance, every emotion, and each of Louise Penny’s subtle revelations about the unique, completely engaging residents of Three Pines.” — AudioFile Magazine,“Robert Bathurst’s intelligent narration captures every nuance, every emotion, and each of Louise Penny’s subtle revelations about the unique, completely engaging residents of Three Pines.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Surete du Quebec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter.
As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
Increasingly hounded by the question, how would you feel…, he resumes the search.
As the rivers rise, and the social media onslaught against Gamache becomes crueler, a body is discovered. And in the tumult, mistakes are made.
In the next title in this “constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves” (New York Times Book Review), Gamache must face a horrific possibility, and a burning question.
What would you do if your child’s killer walked free?
Praise for A Better Man:
“‘A Better Man,’ with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre.” –Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
“Enchanting… one of his most ennobling missions.” –Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
“With an uncompromising eye, Penny explores the depths of human emotion, both horrifying and sublime. Her love for her characters and for the mystical village of Three Pines is apparent on every page.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Snowstorm in August
- By: Marshall Karp
- Narrator: Michael Manuel
- Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(196 ratings)
4.29(196 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe riveting new thriller from Marshall Karp, cocreator and coauthor, with James Patterson, of the #1 New York Times bestselling NYPD Red series The most powerful drug lord on the planet, Joaquin Alboroto, has a gift for New York City–fourThe riveting new thriller from Marshall Karp, cocreator and coauthor, with James Patterson, of the #1 New York Times bestselling NYPD Red series
The most powerful drug lord on the planet, Joaquin Alboroto, has a gift for New York City–four thousand pounds of uncut cocaine burying Central Park and raining death upon hundreds of innocent people enjoying a summer afternoon. The only NYPD unit trained to go up against this level of terrorism has been disbanded, so the task falls to former NYPD captain Danny Corcoran. In this heart-stopping, unflinching, and highly entertaining thriller of life and death, drugs and heroism, Corcoran leads a team of retired top cops, funded by four anonymous billionaires, on a mission to stop Alboroto before it’s too late.
Snowstorm in August also features a sneak peek at the much-awaited next book in the popular NYPD Red series, NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority–a perfect holiday read coming 11/22/22.
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City of Ink
- By: Elsa Hart
- Narrator: David Shih
- Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 21, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(683 ratings)
4.29(683 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDFollowing the enthralling 18th century Chinese mysteries Jade Dragon Mountain and White Mirror, comes Elsa Hart’s next Li Du adventure in City of Ink. Li Du was prepared to travel anywhere in the world except for one place: home. But toFollowing the enthralling 18th century Chinese mysteries Jade Dragon Mountain and White Mirror, comes Elsa Hart’s next Li Du adventure in City of Ink.
Li Du was prepared to travel anywhere in the world except for one place: home. But to unravel the mystery that surrounds his mentor’s execution, that’s exactly where he must go.
Plunged into the painful memories and teeming streets of Beijing, Li Du obtains a humble clerkship that offers anonymity and access to the records he needs. He is beginning to make progress when his search for answers buried in the past is interrupted by murder in the present.
The wife of a local factory owner is found dead, along with a man who appears to have been her lover, and the most likely suspect is the husband. But what Li Du’s superiors at the North Borough Office are willing to accept as a crime of passion strikes Li Du as something more calculated. As past and present intertwine, Li Du’s investigations reveal that many of Beijing’s residents — foreign and Chinese, artisan and official, scholar and soldier — have secrets they would kill to protect.
When the threats begin, Li Du must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice to discover the truth in a city bent on concealing it, a city where the stroke of a brush on paper can alter the past, change the future, prolong a life, or end one.
Praise for City of Ink:
“As always, Hart excels at making even walk-on characters fully realized and at combining a gripping whodunit plot with a vivid evocation of the period. This entry solidifies her status as a top-notch historical mystery author.” — Publishers Weekly
“Rich in period detail, a sharply rendered exotic setting, and a web of well-crafted plots, Li Du’s third novel will appeal to fans of historical mysteries by Lisa See, Laura Joh Rowland, and Abir Mukherjee.” — Booklist
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When Hell Struck Twelve
- By: James R. Benn
- Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.27(520 ratings)
4.27(520 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn the 14th Billy Boyle mystery, US Army detective Billy Boyle and Lieutenant Kazimierz travel into the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris on a dangerous mission: ensure a traitor to the French Resistance unwittingly carries out a high-stakes deceptionIn the 14th Billy Boyle mystery, US Army detective Billy Boyle and Lieutenant Kazimierz travel into the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris on a dangerous mission: ensure a traitor to the French Resistance unwittingly carries out a high-stakes deception campaign. August, 1944: US Army detective Billy Boyle is assigned to track down a French traitor, code-named Atlantik, who is delivering classified Allied plans to German leaders in occupied Paris. The Resistance is also hot on his trail and out for blood, after Atlantik’s previous betrayals led to the death of many of their members. But the plans Atlantik carries were leaked on purpose, a ruse devised to obscure the Allied army’s real intentions to bypass Paris in a race to the German border. Now Billy and Kaz are assigned to the Resistance with orders to not let them capture the traitor: the deception campaign is too important. Playing a delicate game, the chase must be close enough to spur the traitor on and visible enough to ensure the Germans trust Atlantik. The outcome of the war may well depend on it.
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Triple Cross
- By: Tom Bradby
- Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 07, 2021
- Language: English
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4.27(1125 ratings)
4.27(1125 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFrom British journalist and bestselling author Tom Bradby, a brilliantly plotted sequel to Double Agent which draws former MI6 agent Kate Henderson back into her quest to unmask a Russian agent in the British government Kate Henderson is onFrom British journalist and bestselling author Tom Bradby, a brilliantly plotted sequel to Double Agent which draws former MI6 agent Kate Henderson back into her quest to unmask a Russian agent in the British government
Kate Henderson is on vacation with her children in France, visiting her estranged husband and attempting to rebuild her shattered life, when she receives an unexpected and most unwelcome visit from an old adversary: the UK prime minister. He has an extraordinary story to tell–and he needs her help.
A Russian agent has come forward with news that the PM has been the victim of the greatest misinformation play in the history of MI6. It’s run out of a special KGB unit that exists for one purpose alone: to process the intelligence from “Agent Dante,” a mole right at the heart of MI6 in London.Kate is hesitant to get re-involved in the case that so jeopardized her mental health and her family, but against her better judgement, she is forced back into the fray in a top-secret, deeply flawed, and dangerous investigation. But now she’s damaged goods. Her onetime allies no longer trust her. And neither do her
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enemies. As she works through the case, Kate realizes that while she is investigating MI6 for moles, they’re investigating her. And, as she predicted, this return to intelligence work wreaks havoc on the personal life she is so trying to restore. Triple Cross is another masterpiece of spy-craft from the internationally bestselling author of Double Agent. -
Solemn Graves
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrator: James R. Benn
- Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 04, 2018
- Language: English
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4.27(540 ratings)
4.27(540 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA double murder in a French chateau just after D-Day threatens Allied operations, and US Army detective Billy Boyle is called to investigate. July, 1944, a full month after D-Day. Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike are assigned to investigate a double murder,A double murder in a French chateau just after D-Day threatens Allied operations, and US Army detective Billy Boyle is called to investigate. July, 1944, a full month after D-Day. Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike are assigned to investigate a double murder, close to the front lines in Normandy. An American officer and a member of the French Resistance were found dead in a manor house outside the town of Trevieres. The investigation is shrouded in secrecy, due to the highly confidential nature of the American unit headquartered at the Manoir de Castilly; the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. This vague name covered a 1,000-man unit with a unique mission within the US Army: to impersonate other US Army units in order to deceive the enemy, causing them to think they were facing large formations, when in reality it was the 23rd (they called themselves The Ghost Army) creating deceptions by radio traffic, dummy inflatable vehicles, and sound effects. Not even the units adjacent to their positions were to know what they were doing. The balance of power in WWII hangs in the balance-can Billy solve the crime before the Ghost Army is exposed?
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Showstopper
- By: Peter Lovesey
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 06, 2022
- Language: English
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4.27(138 ratings)
4.27(138 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn the six years since the start of the hit British TV show Swift, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune, beginning with the star actress’s pulling out of the show before it began. By now there have been multiple injuries by fall,In the six years since the start of the hit British TV show Swift, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune, beginning with the star actress’s pulling out of the show before it began. By now there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and two missing persons cases.
The media quickly decides it’s a curse, but who’s to say there isn’t a criminal conspiracy afoot? Now that the filming has moved to Bath, Peter Diamond, Chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is on the case. While the investigation
into one fatal accident is underway, a cameraman goes missing, challenging even the most credulous to wonder if he might have been the victim of foul play rather than a jinx. How can so many things go wrong on one set in such a short time?Complicating already complex matters is the fact that Diamond’s boss is trying her best to get him out of her hair; he may be forced to retire if he can’t solve the case. Will this be the end for Peter Diamond?
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Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Hyde
- By: Christian Klaver
- Narrator: Tom Woosnam
- Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.27(40 ratings)
4.27(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA deftly crafted, scintillating mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror–Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde encounter villains with unfathomable, terrifying abilities. 1903. A darkness has descended on London. A series of grisly murders are uncovered,A deftly crafted, scintillating mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror–Sherlock Holmes and Mr Hyde encounter villains with unfathomable, terrifying abilities.
1903. A darkness has descended on London. A series of grisly murders are uncovered, trophies taken, bodies arranged, and soon there are whispers of Jack the Ripper’s return.
A new client arrives at Baker Street seeking Sherlock Holmes’s help: Dr. Jekyll claims his friend has been wrongfully accused of the hideous crimes, a friend called Mr. Edward Hyde, whose very existence relies on a potion administered by the doctor himself.
But the case becomes more complicated, more unsettling than simply proving Mr. Hyde’s innocence–for Holmes and Watson unearth beastly transformations, a killer who moves unseen, a secret organization, and then find a traitor in their midst.
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