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Black Cherry Blues

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 26 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

Dave Robicheaux had begun to put the pieces of his broken life together again when an old friend turned up on his doorstep, dredging up old memories and new threats.

Ancient Light

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By John Banville
• Narrated By Robin Sachs
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Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism, and the heart-wrenching humor that have marked all of John Banville's extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he plumbs the memories of his first - and perhaps only - love (he, just 15, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring, and finally devastating).

The Red Door: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Charles Todd
• Narrated By Simon Prebble

June 1920. In a house with a red door lies the body of a woman who has been bludgeoned to death. Rumor has it that two years earlier, she'd painted that door to welcome her husband back from the Front - only he never came home. Meanwhile, in London, a man suffering from a mysterious illness first goes missing and then just as suddenly reappears. He is unable to explain his recovery. Inspector Ian Rutledge must solve the cases.

Stagestruck

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Peter Lovesey
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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Pop diva Clarion Calhoun has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera. But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she screams and claws at her face. When tainted stage makeup is found to have caused the disfiguring burn, fingers point to her makeup artist. Detective Peter Diamond investigates when the makeup artist is found dead, pushed from a catwalk far above the stage.

The Panther

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Nelson DeMille
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen - one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders - and the U.S. government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost.

The Innocent: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Taylor Stevens
• Narrated By Hillary Huber
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Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding the man who stole her. Now, those who’ve searched the longest know where to find her.

Among the Missing: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Morag Joss
• Narrated By Robin Sachs, Kate Reading, Cassandra Campbell
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A pregnant woman, believed killed in a bridge accident in the Scottish Highlands, seizes her chance to disappear from her uncaring husband. Determined to safeguard her baby’s future and reinvent herself, she befriends illegal immigrant Silva, whose husband Stefan and daughter Anna, as she alone knows, have died in her place. As the bridge is rebuilt, the two women build a precarious existence in a makeshift home by the river.

Let It Bleed

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Ian Rankin
• Narrated By Cynthia Darlow

Detective Inspector John Rebus is not a man easily intimidated, so when political heavyweights start to lean on the dour, moralistic Edinburgh detective to stop an investigation, Rebus doggedly digs in and follows the case as it moves from embezzlement to murder and finally to conspiracy at the highest level of government.

Executive Power

• ABRIDGED (4 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Vince Flynn
• Narrated By Armand Schultz

CIA agent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to the best seller Separation of Power. When a platoon of Navy SEALs, sent on a top secret mission to save an American family kidnapped by Islamic terrorists, is caught in a deadly ambush, Rapp must find out who told the enemy. But a greater threat still lurks. An assassin working closely with the highest powers in the Middle East is bent on igniting war.

The Cunning Man

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Robertson Davies
• Narrated By Frederick Davidson

Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High Altar at Toronto's St. Aidan's on the morning of Good Friday. How did the good father die? We do not learn the answer until the very end of this "Case Book" of a man's rich and highly observant life.

But we learn much more about many things, and especially about Dr. Hullah.

The Charm School

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Nelson DeMille
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be model citizens of the USA. The Soviet goal -- to infiltrate the United States undetected. When an unsuspecting American tourist stumbles upon this secret, he sets in motion a CIA investigation that will reveal horrifying police state savagery and superpower treachery.