The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale

The Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter Tale

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Oliver Pötzsch
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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It is 1648, a small village in the Alps: In the thick of a blizzard,a town priest discovers he’s been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength and scratches a sign in the frost that will lead the town hangman, his daughter, and the town physician in pursuit of a treasure of the Knights Templar. But the priest’s murderer is already on their trail, and he’s not the only one after the legendary fortune: a dark monk is not far behind,and a band of thieves is roving the countryside, attacking solitary travelers and spreading panic.

The Hangman's Daughter

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Oliver Pötzsch, Lee Chadeayne (translator)
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. When more children disappear and an orphan is found dead with the same mark, the mounting hysteria threatens to erupt. Before the unrest forces him to torture and execute the woman who aided in the birth of his children, Jakob must unravel the truth.

The Hot Rock: The First Dortmunder Novel

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Donald E. Westlake
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman
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John Dortmunder and company are hired by an U.N. African Ambassador to steal the famed Balabomo Emerald from the hands of a rival African country. But their daring and clever burglarly goes awry, and the emerald slips through their fingers. Undaunted, Dortmunder chases the gem by plane, train and automobile in hot pursuit of the hot rock.

Beloved Enemy

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Ellen Jones
• Narrated By Robert Blumenfeld
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"Aquitaine is mine. It will never belong to anyone else."

With these words, 15-year-old Eleanor seals her fate. Aquitaine is under the French king’s safekeeping, and Eleanor, the Duke of Aquitaine’s eldest daughter, knows she must wed Prince Louis in order to insure the future of her beloved duchy. Fiercely independent, filled with untapped desire, the woman who would be queen must provide Louis VII, her monkish husband, with heirs. But it is young Henry of Anjou who catches Eleanor’s eye - and sets fire to her heart.

Gun, with Occasional Music

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Jonathan Lethem
• Narrated By Nick Sullivan
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Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems - not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage. In this brave new world, Metcalf has been shadowing the wife of an affluent doctor, perhaps falling a little in love with her at the same time.