Bookbums

Three-Day Town: A Deborah Knott Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Margaret Maron
• Narrated By C.J. Critt

New York Times best-selling author Margaret Maron’s meticulously crafted Judge Deborah Knott mysteries display the work of a master. In the series’ 17th entry, Deborah and Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant are on their way to New York City for a belated honeymoon. Once in the city, however, they get swept up in a mystery involving a stolen package and a murdered doorman.

Red Velvet Cupcake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery with Recipes!

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Joanne Fluke
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren
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New York Times best-selling author Joanne Fluke’s cozy mysteries grow in popularity with each new series entry. One summer in Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swensen attends the grand opening of a newly refurbished hotel, where her famous red velvet cupcakes will be served in the new Red Velvet lounge. But when a party guest falls from the hotel roof, festivities come to a screeching halt - and Hannah becomes the surprising target of a murder investigation

The Night and the Music: The Matthew Scudder Short Story Collection

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Lawrence Block
• Narrated By Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block's 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world - along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and it's all here, from a pair of late-'70s novelettes ("Out the Window" and "A Candle for the Bag Lady") through "By the Dawn's Early Light" (Edgar) and "The Merciful Angel of Death" (Shamus), all the way to "One Last Night at Grogan's", a moving and elegiac story never before published.

The Buzzard Table

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Margaret Maron
• Narrated By C. J. Critt
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Margaret Maron's mysteries starring Judge Deborah Knott have built a loyal following since debuting with the Edgar Award-winning The Bootlegger's Daughter. The series' 18th entry finds Deborah and her husband, Deputy Sheriff Bryant, teaming up with Lt. Sigrid Herald to track down a killer on the loose in their small North Carolina town. But as the hunt for the culprit gets more intense, they uncover long-hidden secrets that cast their investigation in a whole new light.

Dead Level: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery, Book 15

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Sarah Graves
• Narrated By Lindsay Ellison
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>Driving deep into the woods to her husband's cottage with her best friend in tow, Jake knows she has a challenging week ahead of her. Aside from saying good-bye to paved roads and indoor plumbing, Jake bet her husband that she could finish building the cottage porch in only a few days. But as they set to work, they soon realize that they're not alone. Recently escaped from prison and having fled into the woods, Dewey Hooper recognizes Jake the instant he sees her. Her testimony got him sent away for murder years ago and here he can finally exact his revenge.

Calculated in Death: In Death Series, Book 36

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 52 mins)
• By J. D. Robb
• Narrated By Susan Ericksen
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On Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a woman lies dead at the bottom of a brownstone’s basement steps, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better. A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn’t seem the type to be on anyone’s hit list. But when Eve and her partner, Peabody, find blood inside the brownstone, she knows Marta’s murder is the work of a killer who’s trained, yet not professional or smart enough to remove all the evidence.

The 7th Month: A Detective D. D. Warren Story

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 47 mins)
• By Lisa Gardner
• Narrated By Kirsten Potter

In Lisa Gardner’s first-ever short story following thirteen bestselling novels, The 7th Month takes listeners between the books and into a day in the life of Boston Detective D. D. Warren. In her seventh month of pregnancy, D.D. should be taking it easy. Instead, she accepts a small consulting role on the set of a serial killer film shooting in Boston.

Undead and Unwed: Queen Betsy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 13 mins)
• By MaryJanice Davidson
• Narrated By Nancy Wu
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Waking up in a tacky coffin and wearing off-brand shoes, Betsy Taylor can't believe the horrible turn her life has taken; then she discovers she's a vampire. Soon, Betsy becomes a participant in a power struggle between the forces of darkness. With only her friend Jessica and the hunky vampire Sinclair to help her, this new "Queen of Vampires" will have a tough time getting her afterlife straight.

Christmas Mourning: A Deborah Knott Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Margaret Maron
• Narrated By C.J. Critt

Margaret Maron’s best-selling Deborah Knott mystery series won instant acclaim upon its debut in 1993. In this 16th entry in the series, the judge is faced with a horrifying holiday murder case. After a beautiful young cheerleader is found dead in a car wreck, Judge Knott’s husband Deputy Dwight Bryant discovers evidence that the death was anything but an accident.Now Knott and Bryant are on a desperate search for a killer before he or she trikes again.

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Lyndsay Faye
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.

Shadow Prey

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By John Sandford
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
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