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Bestsellers
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Clive Cussler: The Heist
- An Isaac Bell Adventure, Book 14
- By: Jack Du Brul
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler....
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The performers and story
- By Maryanna on 05-15-24
By: Jack Du Brul
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The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
- The Ill-Mannered Ladies, Book 1
- By: Alison Goodman
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an ‘old maid’ to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman....
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Excellent Listen
- By Just Chris on 06-03-23
By: Alison Goodman
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Homecoming
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Claire Foy
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, a local deliveryman makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia....
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Loved the compelling audiobook version!
- By Melissas Bookshelf on 04-07-23
By: Kate Morton
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The Shadow of the Gods
- By: John Gwynne
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne comes the first in the Bloodsworn trilogy, an epic of wild lands and wilder magic, where not all monsters fight with tooth and claw...and the treasures of the gods come at a price....
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Not for me
- By John on 05-31-21
By: John Gwynne
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The Echo of Old Books
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Steve West, Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls....
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Couldn’t finish it
- By Lady Chaps on 03-31-23
By: Barbara Davis
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The Shadows We Hide
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the highly-anticipated sequel to the national best seller The Life We Bury, Joe Talbert returns to investigate the murder of the father he never knew, and to reckon with his own family's past....
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Like Minnesota winters: long, dark, depressing.
- By Richard Delman on 08-23-19
By: Allen Eskens
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Clive Cussler: The Heist
- An Isaac Bell Adventure, Book 14
- By: Jack Du Brul
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler....
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The performers and story
- By Maryanna on 05-15-24
By: Jack Du Brul
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The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
- The Ill-Mannered Ladies, Book 1
- By: Alison Goodman
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an ‘old maid’ to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman....
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Excellent Listen
- By Just Chris on 06-03-23
By: Alison Goodman
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Homecoming
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Claire Foy
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, a local deliveryman makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia....
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Loved the compelling audiobook version!
- By Melissas Bookshelf on 04-07-23
By: Kate Morton
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The Shadow of the Gods
- By: John Gwynne
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
From acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne comes the first in the Bloodsworn trilogy, an epic of wild lands and wilder magic, where not all monsters fight with tooth and claw...and the treasures of the gods come at a price....
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Not for me
- By John on 05-31-21
By: John Gwynne
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The Echo of Old Books
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Steve West, Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls....
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Couldn’t finish it
- By Lady Chaps on 03-31-23
By: Barbara Davis
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The Shadows We Hide
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In the highly-anticipated sequel to the national best seller The Life We Bury, Joe Talbert returns to investigate the murder of the father he never knew, and to reckon with his own family's past....
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Like Minnesota winters: long, dark, depressing.
- By Richard Delman on 08-23-19
By: Allen Eskens
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Murder in the Scottish Hills
- The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 2
- By: Lydia Travers
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Maud McIntyre receives a letter from a maid called Rose, sharing her suspicions that something strange is happening in the house where she works, she and her assistant Daisy immediately travel to the Highlands to investigate....
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Still enjoyable
- By msk on 09-24-23
By: Lydia Travers
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Locked in Pursuit
- Electra McDonnell, Book 4
- By: Ashley Weaver
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn’t seen Major Ramsey—her handsome but aloof handler in the British government—since their tumultuous mission together two months before, but when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London, she feels compelled to contact him.
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i need more!
- By RJ on 05-14-24
By: Ashley Weaver
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The Dead Letter Delivery
- The Glass Library, Book 4
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A road trip with Gabe and her friends leads Sylvia to discover more about her mother’s veiled past yet throws up several questions, too. The stack of unopened letters addressed to her family will hopefully provide answers.
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The two main characters were wonderful! But the supporting cast were just as intriguing.
- By Rita Elrod on 04-03-24
By: C.J. Archer
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The Da Vinci Code
- A Novel
- By: Dan Brown
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call...
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Extraordinary!
- By Mark on 09-03-03
By: Dan Brown
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The Castleton Affair
- Book 3
- By: Benedict Brown
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When mystery writer Marius Quin and his sleuthing partner Lady Bella Montague are hired by a secretive stranger to find a missing civil servant, they immediately set to work.
By: Benedict Brown
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The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency
- By: Lydia Travers
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid, Daisy, form a detective agency, they never dream their first case will take place at a glamorous house in the Scottish Highlands....
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Many mysteries in one!
- By Kathy W. on 07-12-23
By: Lydia Travers
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Mexican Gothic
- By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find....
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Lacking, Disappointing, Not Developed
- By Bitten and Seven Are The Best Kitties In Heaven on 07-10-20
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The Librarian of Crooked Lane
- The Glass Library, Book 1
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical....
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Fun to be Back
- By Meg on 10-12-22
By: C.J. Archer
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Disturbing the Dead
- A Rip Through Time Novel (Rip Through Time Novels, Book 3)
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else’s body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she’s not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell....
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A masterpiece
- By Ian Minato on 05-15-24
By: Kelley Armstrong
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A Newlywed's Guide to Fortune and Murder
- Countess of Harleigh Mysteries, Book 6
- By: Dianne Freeman
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Newly married Frances Hazelton, formerly the Countess of Harleigh, should be planning her honeymoon. Instead, she’s unmasking a murderer among the upper crust....
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Great story and narration.
- By TechFem50 on 11-07-23
By: Dianne Freeman
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The Hanover Square Affair
- Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries
- By: Jennifer Ashley, Ashley Gardner
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended....
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Regency Reality
- By Nadine Gardner Author on 01-30-15
By: Jennifer Ashley, and others
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Before I Met You
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A rich detective story and a captivating look at London then and now, Before I Met You is an unforgettable novel about two very different women, separated by 70 years but united by big hearts and even bigger dreams....
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Awful
- By cristina on 08-13-18
By: Lisa Jewell
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I Was Anastasia
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Sian Thomas, Ariel Lawhon
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia....
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Even knowing the true story,still enjoyed the book
- By Emily on 04-02-18
By: Ariel Lawhon
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Cleopatra Fox Mysteries Boxed Set, Books 1-3
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 23 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her....
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Good value. Good mysteries
- By Kindle Customer on 01-23-24
By: C.J. Archer
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The Cheater's Game
- Glass and Steele, Book Seven
- By: C. J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The arrival of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in London brings trouble. When the sharpshooter who beats Willie at poker is murdered, Matt and India investigate. Willie is convinced the victim cheated, but no one knows how until India discovers his secret - he was a paper magician....
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Disappointed!
- By Kindle Customer on 03-30-19
By: C. J. Archer
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The Comfort of Ghosts
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 18
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future....
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A Column of Fire
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1558 the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict....
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WONDERFUL--As Good as Pillars of the Earth!
- By 070316 on 09-13-17
By: Ken Follett
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The Magician's Diary
- Glass and Steele, Book 4
- By: C. J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a load of trouble....
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Family reunions - This is a great one!
- By BikeVON on 11-05-17
By: C. J. Archer
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The Prisoner's Key
- Glass and Steele, Book 8
- By: C. J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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India's study into the language of spells is interrupted by the arrest of her teacher for an unpaid debt. Before Matt can repay it for him, the powerful magician escapes from his prison cell. To make matters worse, the moneylender is murdered and the magician is implicated....
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Fantastic series! Book 9 hurry, hurry!
- By Sarah on 09-25-19
By: C. J. Archer
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The Ink Master's Silence
- Glass and Steele, Book 6
- By: C. J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When the editor of The Weekly Gazette is killed, controversial journalist and ink magician, Oscar Barratt, asks India and Matt to investigate. As the recipient of threatening letters written on magic paper, he believes he was the intended target....
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Outstanding series!
- By Kiren on 09-01-18
By: C. J. Archer
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The Convent's Secret
- Glass and Steele, Book 5
- By: C. J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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To find the one man who can fix the magic in Matt's watch, he and India are led to a convent where the nuns will do anything to keep their secrets private. Including murder? Find out....
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Loved the first 3 books
- By Melissa, LEED AP BD+C, ID+C, O+M, Passive House on 03-18-18
By: C. J. Archer
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Glass and Steele Boxed Set: Books 1-3
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Emma Powell, Marian Hussey
- Length: 27 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her....
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Should be an anglophile to fully enjoy the series
- By J.B. on 07-22-23
By: C.J. Archer
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The Imposter's Inheritance
- Glass and Steele, Book 9
- By: C. J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt's family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip....
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Good series
- By PollyB on 03-04-20
By: C. J. Archer
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An Assassination on the Agenda
- A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 11
- By: T E Kinsey
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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They’re hoping this visit is a return journey—but it might be a one-way ticket to murder....
By: T E Kinsey
New releases
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The Castleton Affair
- Book 3
- By: Benedict Brown
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When mystery writer Marius Quin and his sleuthing partner Lady Bella Montague are hired by a secretive stranger to find a missing civil servant, they immediately set to work. Ernest Castleton was taken at gunpoint days earlier, but with the help of his distraught fiancée, Marius and Bella uncover a vital clue. Ernest hid a cryptic letter in the British Museum, and it sends the intrepid duo on a trail that stretches from the center of London all the way to the English coast.
By: Benedict Brown
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Locked in Pursuit
- Electra McDonnell, Book 4
- By: Ashley Weaver
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn’t seen Major Ramsey—her handsome but aloof handler in the British government—since their tumultuous mission together two months before, but when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London, she feels compelled to contact him. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries in the city all lead back to a hotbed of spies in the neutral city of Lisbon, Portugal, and an unknown object brought to London by a mysterious courier.
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i need more!
- By RJ on 05-14-24
By: Ashley Weaver
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Nature of the Crime
- Bow Street Duchess Mystery, Book 6
- By: Cara Devlin
- Narrated by: Allie Rose
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey's packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer. Detained in Dover for an inquest that is being led by a prejudiced magistrate, she is joined by trusted friends and family—and the newly minted viscount, Hugh Marsden—to prove her innocence. But when it's discovered the murdered man was a private inquiry agent, hired to follow the duchess while she traveled the Continent, they enter a race to find out who hired him and why.
By: Cara Devlin
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Missing 85 Days
- By: Randy Haglund
- Narrated by: Cameron Beierle
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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1924. John Olson left his home in Kootenai, Idaho for a sales trip to Spokane, expecting to return in two days. Instead he disappeared; his personal effects found strewn along the south bank of the Spokane River. Meanwhile, a hobo dressed in a business suit is rousted from a freight train. He has no idea where he is and, incredibly, has no idea who he is. He assumes an alias and works odd jobs while he searches for himself. Lonely, and with no one to turn to, he writes about his trials and his turmoil in a diary.
By: Randy Haglund
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Silent Winter Solstice
- A Beth and Evie Mystery, Book 1
- By: Bonnie Oldre
- Narrated by: Mallory Fuccella
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Silent Winter Solstice is an intriguing mystery full of 1960s small-town nostalgia and memorable characters. It is the night of the winter solstice, 1968. While most of the world is transfixed by the televised images of the first manned lunar orbit, Beth Williams rushes through the eerie quiet of her hometown city park trying to get to work on time. Suddenly, a body rolls down the hill and lands near her feet. She glimpses a shadowy figure at the top of the hill.
By: Bonnie Oldre
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Gilded Time
- By: O'Neil De Noux
- Narrated by: Gabriel Jose Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Twain called it The Gilded Age, those years after the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It was a time of great prosperity and great poverty, a time of great opportunities and social unrest. Not a golden time but an era covered in a golden shell – gilded. On a dark night in Noressex, New York, Police Detective Mike Labruzzo comes to the aid of Matthew Den Helder, the injured son of the wealthy Den Helder family.
By: O'Neil De Noux
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The Castleton Affair
- Book 3
- By: Benedict Brown
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When mystery writer Marius Quin and his sleuthing partner Lady Bella Montague are hired by a secretive stranger to find a missing civil servant, they immediately set to work. Ernest Castleton was taken at gunpoint days earlier, but with the help of his distraught fiancée, Marius and Bella uncover a vital clue. Ernest hid a cryptic letter in the British Museum, and it sends the intrepid duo on a trail that stretches from the center of London all the way to the English coast.
By: Benedict Brown
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Locked in Pursuit
- Electra McDonnell, Book 4
- By: Ashley Weaver
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Safecracker Ellie McDonnell hasn’t seen Major Ramsey—her handsome but aloof handler in the British government—since their tumultuous mission together two months before, but when she hears about a suspicious robbery in London, she feels compelled to contact him. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries in the city all lead back to a hotbed of spies in the neutral city of Lisbon, Portugal, and an unknown object brought to London by a mysterious courier.
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i need more!
- By RJ on 05-14-24
By: Ashley Weaver
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Nature of the Crime
- Bow Street Duchess Mystery, Book 6
- By: Cara Devlin
- Narrated by: Allie Rose
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey's packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer. Detained in Dover for an inquest that is being led by a prejudiced magistrate, she is joined by trusted friends and family—and the newly minted viscount, Hugh Marsden—to prove her innocence. But when it's discovered the murdered man was a private inquiry agent, hired to follow the duchess while she traveled the Continent, they enter a race to find out who hired him and why.
By: Cara Devlin
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Missing 85 Days
- By: Randy Haglund
- Narrated by: Cameron Beierle
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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1924. John Olson left his home in Kootenai, Idaho for a sales trip to Spokane, expecting to return in two days. Instead he disappeared; his personal effects found strewn along the south bank of the Spokane River. Meanwhile, a hobo dressed in a business suit is rousted from a freight train. He has no idea where he is and, incredibly, has no idea who he is. He assumes an alias and works odd jobs while he searches for himself. Lonely, and with no one to turn to, he writes about his trials and his turmoil in a diary.
By: Randy Haglund
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Silent Winter Solstice
- A Beth and Evie Mystery, Book 1
- By: Bonnie Oldre
- Narrated by: Mallory Fuccella
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Silent Winter Solstice is an intriguing mystery full of 1960s small-town nostalgia and memorable characters. It is the night of the winter solstice, 1968. While most of the world is transfixed by the televised images of the first manned lunar orbit, Beth Williams rushes through the eerie quiet of her hometown city park trying to get to work on time. Suddenly, a body rolls down the hill and lands near her feet. She glimpses a shadowy figure at the top of the hill.
By: Bonnie Oldre
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Gilded Time
- By: O'Neil De Noux
- Narrated by: Gabriel Jose Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Mark Twain called it The Gilded Age, those years after the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It was a time of great prosperity and great poverty, a time of great opportunities and social unrest. Not a golden time but an era covered in a golden shell – gilded. On a dark night in Noressex, New York, Police Detective Mike Labruzzo comes to the aid of Matthew Den Helder, the injured son of the wealthy Den Helder family.
By: O'Neil De Noux
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Balm of Angels
- By: Charles Dennis
- Narrated by: Charles Dennis
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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For years, Oliver and Rye have shared a home, their lives interwoven in the aftermath of Lydia Hammond's departure. Lydia, once a beloved actress and Rye's mother, left them behind to return to her homeland, England. The twists of fate led her to marry Alvin Spiegel, Oliver's former writing partner, adding layers of complexity to their relationship. Now, a fresh opportunity emerges for Oliver and Rye: collaborating on a brand-new Broadway production. Yet, a daunting challenge looms casting the female lead. Neither dares utter the name that lingers unspoken between them for 45 years Lydia.
By: Charles Dennis
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The Twilight Queen
- A King's Fool Mystery, Book 2
- By: Jeri Westerson
- Narrated by: Noah James Butler
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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1536, London. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is in peril. In the mid of night, court jester Will Somers is summoned to an urgent assignation when she discovers a body in her chamber. The queen wants Will to find out who the man is and how he ended up there. Is someone trying to frame her for his murder?
By: Jeri Westerson
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Unladylike Rules of Attraction
- A Marleigh Sisters Novel
- By: Amita Murray
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Anya Marleigh is a singer and sitar player in Queen Charlotte’s court. She is left a fortune by Dowager Countess Budleigh, one of her elderly clients who used to hire her for musical evenings. But there is a condition attached. Anya must marry before her next birthday if she wants to see any of the fortune. The executor of the will is an insufferably conceited man who must consent to her marriage—if he doesn’t give his consent, the fortune reverts to him.
By: Amita Murray
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For Whom Death Tolls
- The Manor House Mystery, Book 3
- By: Kate Kingsbury
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Elizabeth is horrified when the body of an American airman is found hanging from a bell rope in the church tower. As always, our intrepid sleuth is hot on the trail, but a missed clue and a formidable killer may very well cost her life.
By: Kate Kingsbury
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The Mistress of Dara Island
- By: Averil Kenny
- Narrated by: Sarah Kants
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Tally has always known she will one day become the Mistress of Dara Island in her mother Nerissa's stead. A belief founded on her mother's promise. But as she matures, her determination and wilfulness bring her into conflict with her ruthless father, 'Bullshark' Richard Ramsey, a powerful figure feared by everyone, including his wife. Ultimately, Tally must face the heartbreaking realisation that her promised future is slipping from her grasp. After a sudden disappearance from the island, Tally embarks on a desperate search that leads her deep into Dara's treacherous wilderness.
By: Averil Kenny
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The Sky Pilot’s Wife
- By: Christine Coleman
- Narrated by: Fiona Mitchell
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An intriguing romance arises between two of the most unlikely characters and it is heightened by the secret language of flowers. The green-eyed monster, jealousy, causes an inevitable conflict and the rising tension creates a catastrophe which triggers a totally unexpected train of events.
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Dreams and Secrets
- 1930s clean mystery with a touch of romance
- By: Judy Goodman Howard
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Katie Gallagher isn’t looking for love—at least not for herself. Her dad is dead, and she feels responsible. Her mother and sister are alone in St. Louis, and Katie wants to find a man who’ll love and care for them and make them a family again. Zeb Harlow has no time for a wife. His home life is in shambles, his mother and brother are in danger, and he sees no way out. When tragedy strikes their small rural community, concern escalates to terror. Zeb and Katie band together to locate the guilty parties before another crime can occur. Will their joint effort be in vain? Will the ...
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Lightning Strikes the Silence
- A Lane Winslow Mystery, Book 11
- By: Iona Whishaw
- Narrated by: Marilla Wex
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A warm June afternoon in King’s Cove is interrupted by an explosion. Following the sound, Lane goes to investigate. Up a steep path she discovers a secluded cabin and, hiding nearby, a young Japanese girl injured and mute, but very much alive. At the Nelson Police Station, Inspector Darling and Sergeant Ames, following up on a report of a nighttime heist at the local jeweler’s, discover the jeweler himself dead in his office, apparently bludgeoned, and a live wire hanging off the back of the building.
By: Iona Whishaw
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The Small Museum
- By: Jody Cooksley
- Narrated by: Louise Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1873. Madeleine Brewster's marriage to Dr. Lucius Everley was meant to be the solution to her family's sullied reputation. After all, Lucius is a well-respected collector of natural curiosities. His 'Small Museum' of bones and specimens in jars is his pride and joy, although firmly kept under lock and key. His sister Grace's philanthropic work with fallen women is also highly laudable. However, Maddie soon finds herself unwelcome in what is meant to be her new home.
By: Jody Cooksley
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The Lie
- By: Monique Rodgers
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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An inner city church macerates itself to the community and keeps a fatal secret hidden. In this chilling novel, truth or lies will be revealed to discover whose side we are really on.
By: Monique Rodgers
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When the Needle Drops
- By: Colin MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Robin Laing
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the run-up to Christmas, 1998. On the Isle of Mull, Sergeant Ivor Punch is losing himself in his vinyl collection, a tragic anniversary and too much single malt whisky. But news of a missing child soon brings him back to his senses. And as word spreads of more strange disappearances, an aircraft vanishing from the sky and a famous classical musician gone with it, it seems a sinister plot holds the island in its grip. Punch thought he knew the secrets of this place, its people and stories.
By: Colin MacIntyre
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Six Motives for Murder
- Brackerley Prison Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Frances Brody
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Yorkshire, 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the prison takes on a catering contract for Brackerley village's wedding of the year. Almost all the female inmates are delighted to be involved in the celebrations, though Linda is desperate to avoid the event in case she is spotted, photographed, and once more appears on the front pages of the gutter press. During the wedding reception, one of the inmates discovers the father of the bride, Mr Chapin, stabbed to death behind the marquee.
By: Frances Brody