29 Best Noir Books
Noir is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Noir audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Noir audiobooks below.
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Impact
- By: Mark Mills
- Narrator: Nan McNamara
- Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 07, 2022
- Language: English
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4.34(449 ratings)
4.34(449 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFlorence Winslow wakes up in hospital to the news that she has killed a man. On the way to visit her in-laws in rural Connecticut, a car comes out of an unseen junction and ploughs into her. The driver is killed, and Florence is lucky to be alive.Florence Winslow wakes up in hospital to the news that she has killed a man. On the way to visit her in-laws in rural Connecticut, a car comes out of an unseen junction and ploughs into her. The driver is killed, and Florence is lucky to be alive. Dylan Bodine, a young detective in the Torrington PD, feels she was extremely lucky. Too lucky? Something about the accident doesn’t add up. As he and his partner, experienced Senior Detective Carrie Fuller, whose last case this is, start to dig deeper, they realize that Florence isn’t just anyone. She’s the estranged daughter-in-law of Lyndon Winslow, head of one of the wealthiest and most influential families in America. Why had she been invited to visit Lyndon and his children after all these years apart? Why was she taking that particular slower route to the family house? Why was the dead driver carrying no ID? When they learn that Lyndon is dying and his vast fortune is at stake, they realize that things are a lot murkier than they seem and no one is to be trusted.
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Maximum Impact
- By: Jean Heller
- Narrator: Brian Hutchison
- Length: 19 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.33(128 ratings)
4.33(128 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThree hundred thirty-three fatalities and no survivors. So begins Pulitzer Prize finalist Jean Heller’s chilling hard-boiled saga, as a flight crashes on takeoff when one of its engines explodes in midair. After that, it’s aThree hundred thirty-three fatalities and no survivors.
So begins Pulitzer Prize finalist Jean Heller’s chilling hard-boiled saga, as a flight crashes on takeoff when one of its engines explodes in midair. After that, it’s a toss-up–you may or may not be able to catch your breath as the thriller loops and careens to a twisty climax.
The deadliest accident in US aviation history means it’s the biggest week of journalist Steve Pace’s career. Much as he is already over the horrors of the aviation beat, he has no choice but to rise to the occasion. He’s a whip-smart reporter with integrity and grit, and the body count is rising rapidly–outside the downed plane.
As he hunts down the ultimate scoop, he steps into what appears to be a Watergate-type cover-up. With the list of possible witnesses conspicuously dwindling, he figures it’s just a matter of time before someone blows the whistle–as long as they don’t mysteriously die first.
Fans of government conspiracy mysteries and reporter sleuths will find an inspiring hero in reporter Pace. Award-winning writer Jean Heller leverages her own journalistic prowess to spin together a complex web of a hard-boiled mystery. Each twist and turn of the investigation will pull mystery fans deeper into Pace’s quest, as he races against deadlines and death threats.
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Crime in the Hospital
- By: Catherine Moloney
- Narrator: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 28, 2022
- Language: English
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4.27(908 ratings)
4.27(908 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDDr. Warr’s decayed corpse is found in the woods. He worked at the local psychiatric hospital before vanishing over a year ago without a trace. People blamed his disappearance on a mental breakdown. There have always been whispers about NewmanDr. Warr’s decayed corpse is found in the woods. He worked at the local psychiatric hospital before vanishing over a year ago without a trace. People blamed his disappearance on a mental breakdown. There have always been whispers about Newman Hospital–staff brutality, deliberate misdiagnosis. DI Gilbert Markham and his right-hand man, DS Noakes, begin asking questions. They are met with a chilling silence. It seems the people in power know more than they are letting on. Another staff member is found in the annals of the hospital, strangled to death. How many more victims will be claimed before the vengeful killer is found? DS Kate Burton will fight for her life as Markham tries to stop the bloodshed. Will the team make it out of the hospital alive? Please note this book was first published as A Mind Diseased.
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Prayer for the Dead
- By: James Oswald
- Narrator: Ian Hanmore
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.2(1270 ratings)
4.2(1270 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDDetective Inspector Tony McLean is on the case when the search for a missing journalist uncovers the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawlingDetective Inspector Tony McLean is on the case when the search for a missing journalist uncovers the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the body is discovered in a seemingly macabre ritual of purification. But McLean knew the dead man and can’t shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye.
For one thing, the baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible. But that’s just the first in a series of revelations about this case that seems beyond belief. Teamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, McLean must track down a killer–driven by the darkest compulsions and who will answer only to a higher power–until it’s his own blood on the altar.
Shocking and suspenseful, Prayer for the Dead, the fifth installment in James Oswald’s internationally bestselling series, plunges readers into the bone-chilling darkness of an underground world filled with ancient secrets.
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We Begin at the End
- By: Chris Whitaker
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.17(51327 ratings)
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4.17(51327 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USDAn Instant New York Times Bestseller“A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finishedAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
“A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it.”
–Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds
Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between.Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids.
Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he’s in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.
Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return. We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families–the ones we are born into and the ones we create.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
“Heartbreaking, unexpected, and hopeful, this audiobook is a must-listen. Narrator George Newbern’s nuanced delivery engages listeners and helps the layers of the story unfold.” — AudioFile Magazine
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Hell and Gone
- By: Sam Wiebe
- Narrator: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.15(87 ratings)
4.15(87 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA captivating new thriller in the Wakeland detective series that explores the depths of Vancouver’s criminal underworld In one moment of public violence, everything changes for Dave Wakeland. When masked men and women storm an office buildingA captivating new thriller in the Wakeland detective series that explores the depths of Vancouver’s criminal underworld
In one moment of public violence, everything changes for Dave Wakeland. When masked men and women storm an office building in Chinatown, leaving a trail of carnage, the Vancouver PI and his partner, Jeff Chen, find themselves caught up in a mystery that won’t let them go.
The police have a vested interest in finding the shooters, and so does the leader of the Exiles motorcycle gang. Both want Wakeland’s help. The deeper he investigates, the more connections he uncovers: a reclusive millionaire with ties to organized crime, an international security company with a sinister reputation, and a high-ranking police officer who seems to have a personal connection to the case. When the shooters themselves start turning up dead, Wakeland realizes the only way to guarantee his own safety, and that of the people he loves, is by finding out who hired the shooters and why.
What Wakeland uncovers are secrets no one wants known–a botched undercover operation, an ambitious gangster and a double-crossing killer who used the shooting to cover up another crime. With a setup like this, anything can go wrong, and does. Skill and luck are needed for Wakeland and Chen to emerge with the killers, the money, and their own lives.
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Crime in the School
- By: Catherine Moloney
- Narrator: Rupert Degas
- Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 17, 2022
- Language: English
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4.13(1028 ratings)
4.13(1028 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHandsome teacher Ashley Dean is brutally murdered at Hope Academy. It’s known as a rough place, but gossip blames the violence on a deranged intruder. DI Markham’s instincts say otherwise. Could this brutality have been the work of aHandsome teacher Ashley Dean is brutally murdered at Hope Academy. It’s known as a rough place, but gossip blames the violence on a deranged intruder. DI Markham’s instincts say otherwise. Could this brutality have been the work of a student? Could there even be a connection with the staff? It seems unthinkable. After all, DI Gilbert Markham’s girlfriend Olivia teaches English at the school. Markham’s team probes deeper, and the local community begins to turn against Markham. Somebody in a position of power is hiding appalling information. More blood will be spilt before their secrets are laid bare. Please note this book was first published as Blood Will Have Blood.
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Crime in the Convent
- By: Catherine Moloney
- Narrator: Rupert Degas
- Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 26, 2022
- Language: English
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4.13(899 ratings)
4.13(899 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDSister Felicity does not return to her room after prayers. The nun is found strangled in the confessional box. She is only the first of St. Cecilia’s faithful to meet a gruesome end. The killer will not stop until this place of God isSister Felicity does not return to her room after prayers. The nun is found strangled in the confessional box. She is only the first of St. Cecilia’s faithful to meet a gruesome end. The killer will not stop until this place of God is destroyed. It is up to DI Gilbert Markham and his loyal deputy DS Noakes to stop the murderer. Cruel secrets come to light that force Markham’s girlfriend Olivia to face her own past. The body count in the monastery continues to rise, and once again, a violent evil proves devastatingly close to home. Please note this book was first published as Night’s Black Agents.
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Like Lions
- By: Brian Panowich
- Narrator: Brian Troxell
- Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 30, 2019
- Language: English
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4.1(1571 ratings)
4.1(1571 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Brian Panowich’s glorious return to Bull Mountain is another sprawling, brutal, no-holds-barred novel that held me in a death grip from page one until it kicked me out of the door with an ending I never saw coming.” — C.J.“Brian Panowich’s glorious return to Bull Mountain is another sprawling, brutal, no-holds-barred novel that held me in a death grip from page one until it kicked me out of the door with an ending I never saw coming.” — C.J. Box
A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain.
Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades for his smoldering debut, Bull Mountain. Now with Like Lions, he cements his place as one of the outstanding new voices in crime fiction.Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain’s most notorious criminal family.
As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he’s doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally has to make a choice.
When a rival organization makes a first foray into Burroughs territory, leaving a trail of bodies and a whiff of fear in its wake, Clayton is pulled back into the life he so desperately wants to leave behind. Revenge is a powerful force, and the vacuum left by his brothers’ deaths has left them all vulnerable. With his wife and child in danger, and the way of life in Bull Mountain under siege for everyone, Clayton will need to find a way to bury the bloody legacy of his past once and for all.
“Brian Panowich makes a triumphant return to Bull Mountain, Georgia, in his second novel, Like Lions, as he continues to mix crime fiction with a violent family drama, perfectly melding characters with a sense of place.” — Associated Press
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The Traveller and Other Stories
- By: Stuart Neville
- Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 06, 2020
- Language: English
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4.07(212 ratings)
4.07(212 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a decade ago, Stuart Neville has published eightA darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author
Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a decade ago, Stuart Neville has published eight other critically acclaimed novels and achieved international recognition as one of crime fiction’s great living writers.
Now for the first time Neville offers readers a collection of his short fiction–twelve chilling stories that traverse and blend the genres of noir, horror, and speculative fiction, and which bring the history and lore of Neville’s native Northern Ireland to glittering life. The collection concludes with the longawaited novella The Traveller, the companion piece to The Ghosts of Belfast and Collusion.
Complete with a foreword from Irish crime fiction legend John Connolly, this volume is the perfect indulgence for fans of ghost stories and noir, and is a must-have for devotees of Neville’s prizewinning Belfast novels.
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The Fighter
- By: Michael Farris Smith
- Narrator: Graham Halstead
- Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 20, 2018
- Language: English
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4.06(873 ratings)
4.06(873 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA blistering novel of violence and deliverance set against the mythic backdrop of the Mississippi Delta. The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred-year-old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to Jack, the fosterA blistering novel of violence and deliverance set against the mythic backdrop of the Mississippi Delta.... Read moreThe acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred-year-old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to Jack, the foster mother only days away from dying, her mind eroded by dementia, the family legacy she entrusted to Jack now owned by banks and strangers.
And Jack’s mind has begun to fail, too. The decades of bare-knuckle fighting are now taking their toll, as concussion after concussion forces him to carry around a stash of illegal painkillers and a notebook of names that separates friend from foe. But in a single twisted night, Jack loses his chance to win it all back. Hijacked by a sleazy gambler out to settle a score, Jack is robbed of the money that will clear his debt with Big Momma Sweet — the queen of Delta vice, whose deep backwoods playground offers sin to all those willing to pay — and open a path that could lead him back home. Yet this sudden reversal of fortunes introduces an unlikely savior in the form of a sultry, tattooed carnival worker.
Guided by what she calls her “church of coincidence,” Annette pushes Jack toward redemption, only to discover that the world of Big Momma Sweet is filled with savage danger. Damaged by regret, crippled by twenty-five years of fists and elbows, heartbroken by his own betrayals, Jack is forced to step into the fighting pit one last time, the stakes nothing less than life or death. With the raw power and poetry of a young Larry Brown and the mysticism of Cormac McCarthy, Michael Farris Smith cements his place as one of the finest writers in the American literary landscape.
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The Wake
- By: Vikki Patis
- Narrator: Rosie Akerman
- Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 09, 2021
- Language: English
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4.02(930 ratings)
4.02(930 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhen Richard Asquith dies in a car crash, it sets in motion a series of events that threaten to destroy his family and those around him. Richard has left behind children who dislike him, women who are bitter, and a question lingering over theWhen Richard Asquith dies in a car crash, it sets in motion a series of events that threaten to destroy his family and those around him. Richard has left behind children who dislike him, women who are bitter, and a question lingering over the disappearance of his daughter many years ago. As the family gathers at his wake, secrets from the past come to light, and the tension starts to boil over. This gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller will appeal to fans of domestic noir and authors like C. L. Taylor, Claire McGowan, and B. A. Paris.
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Good Night, Forever
- By: Jeffrey Fleishman
- Narrator: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.02(29 ratings)
4.02(29 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDShe got away once, but will LA detective Sam Carver let killer Dylan Cross escape again? Los Angeles is not itself. Rain falls hard every day. Homeless men are set on fire in their tents. Detective Sam Carver chases leads into a maze of militias andShe got away once, but will LA detective Sam Carver let killer Dylan Cross escape again?
Los Angeles is not itself. Rain falls hard every day. Homeless men are set on fire in their tents. Detective Sam Carver chases leads into a maze of militias and neo-Nazis. But before he gets too deep into the case, a past that has haunted him for years returns in the name of Dylan Cross. The killer who got away. Carver knows she has murdered again, but no one believes him. She leaves him clues, writes him notes, tempts him. She wants him to betray everything he is. He is drawn to her by the damage and demons they both carry. But he is certain that when they meet again, only one will survive. This is a love story of delusion and obsession, and how the dark things we desire reveal the truths that made us.
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Spring Cleaning
- By: Antonio Manzini
- Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 07, 2019
- Language: English
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4.01(77 ratings)
4.01(77 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe fourth installment in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series from the international bestselling author, Antonio Manzini picks up three days after his last novel, Out of Season, left off, as Rocco seeks revenge for a friend–and closure forThe fourth installment in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series from the international bestselling author, Antonio Manzini picks up three days after his last novel, Out of Season, left off, as Rocco seeks revenge for a friend–and closure for himself.
Rocco is still reeling from the death of his best friend’s girlfriend, who was murdered as she slept in his bed. There’s no doubt that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid the ultimate price. With the identity of the hitman still unknown, a cloud lingers over Rocco, dulling his judgment and leaving this anti-hero exposed to other threats. For Rocco has stepped on one too many people’s toes over the years, namely the mafia that is still being rooted out in Aosta.
To complicate matters, the kidnapped teenager that Rocco saved has not fully recovered. But all is not as it appears with that family. Her mother, father, and boyfriend are all running some sort of farce that Rocco can’t easily crack. And now he must grapple between these two parallel investigations and find answers once and for all…before one too many skeletons come after him.
With the same clever insights, vitality, and humor readers have come to expect from Manzini, Spring Cleaning is another engaging mystery.
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Voices
- By: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrator: Arnaldur Indridason
- Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 26, 2016
- Language: English
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4(3 ratings)
4(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDInspector Erlendur Returns In this Award-winning International Bestseller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand ReykjavIk hotel when Inspector Erlendur is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been stabbed to death, andInspector Erlendur Returns In this Award-winning International Bestseller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand ReykjavIk hotel when Inspector Erlendur is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been stabbed to death, and Erlendur and his fellow detectives find no shortage of suspects between the hotel staff and the international travelers staying for the holidays. As Christmas Day approaches, Erlendur must deal with his difficult daughter, pursue a possible romantic interest, and untangle a long-buried web of malice and greed to find the murderer. Voices is a brutal, soulful noir from the chilly shores of Iceland.
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Later
- By: Stephen King
- Narrator: Seth Numrich
- Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.99(82529 ratings)
3.99(82529 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USD2022 MYSTERY AUDIE AWARD WINNER!A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING! SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONSThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary2022 MYSTERY AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
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A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING!
SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine–as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel, It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears. -
Cut You Down
- By: Sam Wiebe
- Narrator: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.99(223 ratings)
3.99(223 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDTabitha Sorenson is missing. The bright but unstable student disappeared in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in college funds. Professor Dana Essex doesn’t think the missing money and the missing student are connected,Tabitha Sorenson is missing. The bright but unstable student disappeared in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in college funds. Professor Dana Essex doesn’t think the missing money and the missing student are connected, but she hires Vancouver PI David Wakeland to find Tabitha, with whom she is obsessed.
When Wakeland discovers Tabitha has in fact stolen the money and is hiding out with her lover and reports back to his client, Essex is crushed to learn that Tabitha is in love with someone else. The next morning, Tabitha has been murdered and Essex has disappeared.
Meanwhile, Wakeland has his own problems. His former girlfriend, police officer Sonia Drego, believes her partner is corrupt. With her job–and possibly her life–on the line, Wakeland may be her best hope of uncovering the conspiracy in the department before it brings her down.
Hounded by Tabitha’s friends, the police, the press, and his own troubled conscience, Wakeland tries desperately to find Essex and make sense of what happened. Could it all have been a ruse from the start, and is Wakeland just another in a long line of suckers?
While searching for Essex and investigating Sonia’s partner, Wakeland encounters criminals, anarchists, and crooked authority figures–all of them desperate people who will stop at nothing to guard their secrets.
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From a Drood to a Kill
- By: Simon R. Green
- Narrator: Simon R. Green
- Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 02, 2015
- Language: English
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3.97(1084 ratings)
3.97(1084 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDNew York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green has been praised by Publishers Weekly for penning novels with “madcap characters, cheeky one-liners, and a James Bond feel.” In this next Secret Histories novel, shaman Eddie Drood mustNew York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green has been praised by Publishers Weekly for penning novels with “madcap characters, cheeky one-liners, and a James Bond feel.” In this next Secret Histories novel, shaman Eddie Drood must rescue his parents and lady love, Molly, who all gave up their souls to gain the power needed to battle darkness.
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Crime in the Choir
- By: Catherine Moloney
- Narrator: Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 19, 2022
- Language: English
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3.97(1798 ratings)
3.97(1798 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDTwo skeletons are discovered in the grounds of St Mary’s Choir School. This was not a centuries-old Christian burial. They are wearing modern-day clothes, and there is evidence of foul play. Consecrated land has been sadistically violated.Two skeletons are discovered in the grounds of St Mary’s Choir School. This was not a centuries-old Christian burial. They are wearing modern-day clothes, and there is evidence of foul play. Consecrated land has been sadistically violated. Detective Inspector Gilbert Markham is a rising talent of the Bromgrove police force. He is on the trail of the murderer when another life is brutally claimed. Who is the savage killer lurking in this innocent place? DI Markham and his team are met with intense hostility when they step up their operation. Is this just local panic? Or are they about to stumble into a web of corruption that runs deeper than they could have ever anticipated? Please note this book was first published as A Walking Shadow.
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Cinnamon Kiss
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrator: Michael Boatman
- Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 19, 2005
- Language: English
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3.95(2349 ratings)
3.95(2349 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.98 USDIn this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant–and faces danger around every corner. It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It’sIn this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant–and faces danger around every corner.... Read more
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It’s farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him it’s a cinch.
Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy’s problem without jail time. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric, prominent attorney. His assistant of sorts, the beautiful “Cinnamon” Cargill, is gone as well. Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told: Robert Lee, his new employer, is as suspect as the man who disappeared. But his need overcomes all concerns, and he plunges into unfamiliar territory, from the newfound hippie enclaves to a vicious plot that stretches back to the battlefields of Europe. -
Joyland
- By: Stephen King
- Narrator: Michael Kelly
- Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.93(125266 ratings)
3.93(125266 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.95 USD“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book….Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved” (Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime).Set in a small-town North Carolina“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book….Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved” (Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime).
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Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published. -
The Darkest Hours
- By: Margaret Murphy
- Narrator: Lorna Bennett
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 26, 2022
- Language: English
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3.91(565 ratings)
3.91(565 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDTwo women are missing already, snatched by a prowler in the night. Brilliant psychologist Christine Radcliffe fears she may be next–or at least that’s what she tells Detective Alan Jameson. But Jameson already has the prime suspect inTwo women are missing already, snatched by a prowler in the night. Brilliant psychologist Christine Radcliffe fears she may be next–or at least that’s what she tells Detective Alan Jameson. But Jameson already has the prime suspect in his sights, and it’s someone much closer to Christine than she wants to admit. Who is she protecting? Meticulously crafted to deliver twist after breathtaking twist, this book was originally published as The Desire of the Moth and is the perfect page-turner for fans of A.J. Rivers, Kendra Elliott, Ragnar Jonasson, Louise Penny, Melinda Leigh, Rachel Caine, K.L. Slater, D.S. Butler, and Rachel Abbott.
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Hard Cash Valley
- By: Brian Panowich
- Narrator: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 05, 2020
- Language: English
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3.91(1830 ratings)
3.91(1830 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDReturn to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir. Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFallsReturn to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir.
Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFalls County, Dane has lived his life in one of the most chaotic and crime-ridden regions of the south. When he gets called in to consult on a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida, motel room, he and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, begin an investigation that leads them back to the criminal circles of his own backyard.
Arnie Blackwell’s murder in Jacksonville is only the beginning – and Dane and Roselita seem to be one step behind. For someone is hacking a bloody trail throughout the Southeast looking for Arnie’s younger brother, a boy with Asperger’s Syndrome who possesses an unusual skill with numbers that could make a lot of money and that has already gotten a lot of people killed–and has even more of the deadliest people alive willing to do anything it takes to exploit him.
As Dane joins in the hunt to find the boy, it swiftly becomes a race against the clock that has Dane entangled in a web of secrets involving everyone from the Filipino Mafia to distrusting federal agents to some of hardest southern outlaws he’s ever known.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
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“The plotting is skilled, as is the sleuthing, and the landscape is stunning. But it’s the hard-jawed characters, with their tough talk and scarred souls, who really get under your skin.” — New York Times Book Review -
Trap Line
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrator: Carl Hiaasen
- Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 27, 2012
- Language: English
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3.9(2656 ratings)
3.9(2656 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDWith its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conchs’ historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler’s paradise. All that’s needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishingWith its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conchs’ historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler’s paradise. All that’s needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock, and he’s in no mood to become the Machine’s delivery boy. So the Machine sets out to persuade him. It starts out by taking away Albury’s livelihood. Then it robs him of his freedom. But when the Machine threatens Albury’s son, the washed-out wharf rat turns into a raging, sea-going vigilante. In Trap Line, Hiaasen and Montalbano pit a handful of scruffy Conchs against an armada of drug lords, crooked cops, and homicidal marine lowlife. The result is a crime novel of dizzying velocity, filled with wrenching plot twists, grimily authentic characters, and enough local color for a hundred tropical shirts. It’s the Key West the tourist brochures won’t tell you about: a place as crooked as Al Capone’s Chicago and as irredeemably violent as Wyatt Earp’s Tombstone.
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That Left Turn at Albuquerque
- By: Scott Phillips
- Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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3.89(9 ratings)
3.89(9 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDDouglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He’s just sunk his last $200,000–a clandestine “loan” from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill–into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? NeverDouglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He’s just sunk his last $200,000–a clandestine “loan” from his last
remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill–into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust
anyone else with the dirty work. Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme involving one
of Glenn’s priceless paintings, a victimless crime. But for Rigby to pull this one off, he’ll need to negotiate a whole cast
of players with their own agendas, including his wife, his girlfriend, an embittered art forger, Glenn’s resentful nurse,
and the man’s money-hungry nephew. One misstep, and it all falls apart–will he be able to save his skin?Written with hard-knock sensibility and wicked humor, Scott Phillips’s newest novel will cement him as one of the
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Captain Clive’s Dreamworld
- By: Jon Bassoff
- Narrator: Richard Smalls
- Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.89(50 ratings)
3.89(50 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDAfter becoming the suspect in the murder of a young prostitute, Deputy Sam Hardy is “vanished” to a temporary post as the sole police officer in Angels and Hope, an idyllic town located in the middle of the desert, miles from any otherAfter becoming the suspect in the murder of a young prostitute, Deputy Sam Hardy is “vanished” to a temporary post as the sole police officer in Angels and Hope, an idyllic town located in the middle of the desert, miles from any other sign of life. Hardy soon learns that Angels and Hope was constructed as a company town to support a magnificent amusement park–one to rival Disneyland–known as Captain Clive’s Dreamworld. When he arrives, however, Hardy notices some strange happenings. The park is essentially empty of customers. None of the townsfolk ever seem to sleep. And girls seem to be going missing with no plausible explanation.
As Hardy begins investigating, his own past is drawn into question by the people in town, and he finds himself becoming more and more isolated. Soon his phone line mysteriously goes dead. His car’s tires get slashed. And he is being watched constantly by neighbors. The truth–about the town and himself–will lead him to understand that there’s no such thing as a clean escape.
Straddling the line between genre fiction and something more bizarre, Captain Clive’s Dreamworld is a terrifying vision of the collapse of the American mythos.
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The Broken King
- By: Brian Panowich
- Narrator: Brian Troxell
- Length: 53 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.87(189 ratings)
3.87(189 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA short story introduces listeners to Brian Panowich’s brutal, mesmerizing North Georgia landscape, in preparation for Like Lions. “No king lives forever, and Gareth was getting old.” Enter the world of Brian Panowich, where GarethA short story introduces listeners to Brian Panowich’s brutal, mesmerizing North Georgia landscape, in preparation for Like Lions.
“No king lives forever, and Gareth was getting old.”
Enter the world of Brian Panowich, where Gareth Burroughs runs McFalls county, in north Georgia, and all the criminal enterprises therein. Two of his three sons, Halford and Buckley, are aiming to follow in his footsteps. The third, Clayton, has turned his back on the family and become a lawman, a sheriff in town. In Bull Mountain, the brothers’ inevitable confrontation will change life in the county forever. In Like Lions, the last man standing, Clayton, must finally reckon with his heritage, and with the expectations of everyone left in his father’s and brothers’ organization. But before Bull Mountain, before Like Lions, there was “The Broken King,” and a final confrontation on a very cold night.
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Even the Dead
- By: Benjamin Black
- Narrator: John Keating
- Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 12, 2016
- Language: English
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3.86(1086 ratings)
3.86(1086 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke’s latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has sufferedA suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke’s latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe
Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that’s needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire.
One night during a June heat wave, a car crashes into a tree in central Dublin and bursts into flames. The police assume the driver’s death was either an accident or a suicide, but Quirke’s examination of the body leads him to believe otherwise. Then his daughter Phoebe gets a mysterious visit from an acquaintance: the woman, who admits to being pregnant, says she fears for her life, though she won’t say why. When the woman later disappears, Phoebe asks her father for help, and Quirke in turn seeks the assistance of his old friend Inspector Hackett. Before long the two men find themselves untangling a twisted string of events that takes them deep into a shadowy world where one of the city’s most powerful men uses the cover of politics and religion to make obscene profits.
Even the Dead–Benjamin Black’s seventh novel featuring the endlessly fascinating Quirke–is a story of surpassing intensity and surprising beauty.
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GBH
- By: Ted Lewis
- Narrator: Ted Lewis
- Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 21, 2015
- Language: English
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3.85(374 ratings)
3.85(374 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn London, George Fowler heads a lucrative criminal syndicate that specializes in the production and distribution of “blue films”-nasty illegal pornography. Fowler is king, with a beautiful girl at his side and a swanky penthouse office,In London, George Fowler heads a lucrative criminal syndicate that specializes in the production and distribution of “blue films”-nasty illegal pornography. Fowler is king, with a beautiful girl at his side and a swanky penthouse office, but his entire world is in jeopardy. Someone is undermining his empire from within, and Fowler becomes increasingly ruthless in his pursuit of the unknown traitor. As his paranoia envelops him, Fowler loses trust in just about everyone, including his closest friends and associates, and begins to rely on the opinions of an increasingly smaller set of advisors. Juxtaposed with the terror and violence of Fowler’s last days in London is the flash-forward narrative of his hideout bunker in a tiny English beach town, where Fowler skulks during the off-season amongst the locals, trying to put together the pieces of his fallen empire. Just as it seems possible for Fowler to reclaim his throne, another trigger threatens to cause his total, irreparable unraveling.
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