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Bestsellers
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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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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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It lost the passion of the first set of books
- By Anonymous User on 03-29-24
By: C.J. Archer
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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 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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Heartwarming. Beautiful. Well done.
- By Mary on 05-07-23
By: Barbara Davis
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A Grave Robbery
- A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Book 9
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angèle Masters
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn....
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Macabre and yet Witty
- By Amazon Customer on 03-29-24
By: Deanna Raybourn
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The Medici Manuscript
- The Glass Library, Book 2
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Finding an old manuscript in the attic has always been a fantasy of Sylvia’s. She just never expected the fantasy to come true, or for it to lead her to answers about her mysterious family....
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An enjoyable listen!
- By Kim Meseck on 04-17-23
By: C.J. Archer
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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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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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Performance
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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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It lost the passion of the first set of books
- By Anonymous User on 03-29-24
By: C.J. Archer
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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 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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Heartwarming. Beautiful. Well done.
- By Mary on 05-07-23
By: Barbara Davis
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A Grave Robbery
- A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Book 9
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angèle Masters
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn....
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Macabre and yet Witty
- By Amazon Customer on 03-29-24
By: Deanna Raybourn
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The Medici Manuscript
- The Glass Library, Book 2
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Finding an old manuscript in the attic has always been a fantasy of Sylvia’s. She just never expected the fantasy to come true, or for it to lead her to answers about her mysterious family....
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An enjoyable listen!
- By Kim Meseck on 04-17-23
By: C.J. Archer
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The Return of the Pharaoh
- From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
- By: Nicholas Meyer
- Narrated by: David Robb, Nicholas Meyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a conspiracy that threatens his very life....
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Too many distractions
- By CR on 12-27-21
By: Nicholas Meyer
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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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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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For the first Book
- By Luke's Mom on 03-23-24
By: C.J. Archer
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In Sunshine or in Shadow
- Molly Murphy Mysteries, Book 20
- By: Rhys Bowen, Clare Broyles
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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New York, 1908: The days are getting longer—and warmer—in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn’t want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she’s expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County....
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Slow start but ends up great
- By Janice MB on 03-28-24
By: Rhys Bowen, and others
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The Detective Up Late
- The Sean Duffy Series, Book 7
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Detective Inspector Sean Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention....
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Must Have More!
- By Moodini on 08-09-23
By: Adrian McKinty
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A Fire at the Exhibition
- A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 10
- By: T E Kinsey
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady’s maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village’s inaugural art exhibition—and bicycle race—to look forward to....
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Cant get enough of the indomitable duo!
- By Samuel Warren on 09-05-23
By: T E Kinsey
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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 Daughters of Foxcote Manor
- By: Eve Chase
- Narrated by: Katherine Press
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Harrington family discovers an abandoned baby deep in the woods, they decide to keep her a secret and raise her as their own. But within days a body is found in the grounds of their house and their perfect new family implodes....
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Boring story, monotone narration
- By Marie Case on 12-28-20
By: Eve Chase
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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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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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Time Pebbles
- By: Jerry Merritt
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Tekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping. Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes lost in the endless tracts of North America....
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Do your research, but don't make it so obvious
- By Far Away on 09-17-20
By: Jerry Merritt
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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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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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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 Proof of the Pudding
- Royal Spyness, Book 17
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house party when the festivities lead to murder....
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Miss the heyday of this series
- By byjove on 11-28-23
By: Rhys Bowen
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A Curious Beginning
- By: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrated by: Angele Masters
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own....
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For fans of Elizabeth Peters and Gail Carriger
- By L. Williams on 06-29-16
By: Deanna Raybourn
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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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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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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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The Black Swan of Paris
- A WWII Novel
- By: Karen Robards
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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An exquisite WWII novel illuminating the strength of three women in occupied Paris, for fans of The Nightingale, The Alice Network, and The Lost Girls of Paris....
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Where to Start?
- By celeste curley on 10-05-20
By: Karen Robards
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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 Lantern's Dance
- A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Mysteries, Book 18)
- By: Laurie R. King
- Narrated by: Amy Scanlon
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal....
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Reader quality,
- By the Librarian on 02-16-24
By: Laurie R. King
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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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Murder on the Orient Express [Movie Tie-in]
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment....
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Best Possible Version of the Classic Whodunit
- By Brian Abel Ragen on 11-10-17
By: Agatha Christie
New releases
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Gilded Path to Nowhere
- By: Elaine L. Orr
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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4th in the Family History Mystery Series When a Maple Grove resident discovers some old gold coins in the woods near town, it's an intriguing event -- but not one that seems dangerous. However, the article Digger's friend, Marty, wrote for the Maple Grove News, seems to have attracted unwarranted attention. Did the coins come from a long-ago bank robbery or burglary, or was someone passing through murdered in the early 20th century? No matter the source, it leads to a fresh murder today. Sheriff Montgomery asks Digger for help in tracing descendants of possible owners of the stash of coins....
By: Elaine L. Orr
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Death of a Penniless Poet
- Miss Busby Investigates, Book 2
- By: Karen Baugh Menuhin, Zoe Markham
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Gabriel Travis – a poet and book binder – has lived and worked above the popular bookshop in Chipping Common for many years. His story is tragic, his murder even more so. The police are convinced the bookshop owner is the culprit; the elderly and erudite, Ezekiel Melnyk.
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin, and others
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The Case of the MelRoy Theater Ghost
- By: Barry Clay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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John H. Watson joins his friend Sherlock Holmes in an investigation of what would appear to be a haunting of the MelRoy Theater. The owner is beside himself with worry, as the haunting is said to be caused by the ghost of his son -- except as far he knows, his son is alive! But then, even more worrying, he hasn't seen his son since the haunting began. The owner hires Holmes to find his son and debunk the haunting before his superstitious employees desert him and force him to close his business. It seems a simple task for Sherlock Holmes, but it quickly becomes more complicated than Dr. ...
By: Barry Clay
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The Leveson-Gower Theft
- A Sherlock Holmes adventure
- By: Barry Clay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Mycroft Holmes visits his brother, Sherlock, at 221b Baker Street, it is certain to both Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, M.D. that something monumental is at hand. They are astonished -- not to say skeptical -- to learn that Mycroft merely wants his brother to investigate the theft of a necklace. Lord Benedict Leveson-Gower, soon to be called as ambassador to the Kingdom of Romania, is accused by his wife, the lady Allegra, of replacing her very expensive, prize necklace with a paste imitation. If possible, Mycroft wants his brother to exonerate Lord Benedict Leveson-Gower of the ...
By: Barry Clay
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A Disappearance and a Temptation
- By: Barry Clay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Darkened Village and The Medium of Death comes two new novellas detailing the exploits of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his faithful chronicler, Dr, John H. Watson. In “The Extraordinary Disappearance of the Carstairs Special,” Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard hires Sherlock Holmes to find a train commissioned by a rich man that disappears—along with its passengers and crew—between two railway stations, vanishing without a trace. Someone proposes an unlikely solution to the mystery: Martians. Sherlock Holmes is not amused. ...
By: Barry Clay
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The Archers: Victory at Ambridge
- By: Catherine Miller
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Its 1943 and the war continues on in Ambridge. But the minds of the villagers are focused a little closer to home. For many centuries, a local tradition has told of a mystic living in a hermit’s cave just outside the village. Legend tells that she has hidden her prophecies around the area, but none have ever been found. When a visiting academic arrives in Ambridge, there for war work, but personally intrigued by the prophecies, he becomes determined to find out more. And as the prophesies are uncovered, it appears the mystic knows more than anyone could have predicted.
By: Catherine Miller
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Gilded Path to Nowhere
- By: Elaine L. Orr
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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4th in the Family History Mystery Series When a Maple Grove resident discovers some old gold coins in the woods near town, it's an intriguing event -- but not one that seems dangerous. However, the article Digger's friend, Marty, wrote for the Maple Grove News, seems to have attracted unwarranted attention. Did the coins come from a long-ago bank robbery or burglary, or was someone passing through murdered in the early 20th century? No matter the source, it leads to a fresh murder today. Sheriff Montgomery asks Digger for help in tracing descendants of possible owners of the stash of coins....
By: Elaine L. Orr
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Death of a Penniless Poet
- Miss Busby Investigates, Book 2
- By: Karen Baugh Menuhin, Zoe Markham
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Gabriel Travis – a poet and book binder – has lived and worked above the popular bookshop in Chipping Common for many years. His story is tragic, his murder even more so. The police are convinced the bookshop owner is the culprit; the elderly and erudite, Ezekiel Melnyk.
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin, and others
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The Case of the MelRoy Theater Ghost
- By: Barry Clay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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John H. Watson joins his friend Sherlock Holmes in an investigation of what would appear to be a haunting of the MelRoy Theater. The owner is beside himself with worry, as the haunting is said to be caused by the ghost of his son -- except as far he knows, his son is alive! But then, even more worrying, he hasn't seen his son since the haunting began. The owner hires Holmes to find his son and debunk the haunting before his superstitious employees desert him and force him to close his business. It seems a simple task for Sherlock Holmes, but it quickly becomes more complicated than Dr. ...
By: Barry Clay
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The Leveson-Gower Theft
- A Sherlock Holmes adventure
- By: Barry Clay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When Mycroft Holmes visits his brother, Sherlock, at 221b Baker Street, it is certain to both Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, M.D. that something monumental is at hand. They are astonished -- not to say skeptical -- to learn that Mycroft merely wants his brother to investigate the theft of a necklace. Lord Benedict Leveson-Gower, soon to be called as ambassador to the Kingdom of Romania, is accused by his wife, the lady Allegra, of replacing her very expensive, prize necklace with a paste imitation. If possible, Mycroft wants his brother to exonerate Lord Benedict Leveson-Gower of the ...
By: Barry Clay
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A Disappearance and a Temptation
- By: Barry Clay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Darkened Village and The Medium of Death comes two new novellas detailing the exploits of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his faithful chronicler, Dr, John H. Watson. In “The Extraordinary Disappearance of the Carstairs Special,” Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard hires Sherlock Holmes to find a train commissioned by a rich man that disappears—along with its passengers and crew—between two railway stations, vanishing without a trace. Someone proposes an unlikely solution to the mystery: Martians. Sherlock Holmes is not amused. ...
By: Barry Clay
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The Archers: Victory at Ambridge
- By: Catherine Miller
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Its 1943 and the war continues on in Ambridge. But the minds of the villagers are focused a little closer to home. For many centuries, a local tradition has told of a mystic living in a hermit’s cave just outside the village. Legend tells that she has hidden her prophecies around the area, but none have ever been found. When a visiting academic arrives in Ambridge, there for war work, but personally intrigued by the prophecies, he becomes determined to find out more. And as the prophesies are uncovered, it appears the mystic knows more than anyone could have predicted.
By: Catherine Miller
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Cipher of the Chemist
- An Ethan Fowler Novel
- By: Doc Runick
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A dying man’s coded message plunges Detective Ethan Fowler into a perilous clash between gangsters, government agents, and an emerald-eyed femme fatale. New York City, 1930. Detective Ethan Fowler expects a quiet dinner at his local diner. But when a fatally poisoned chemist stumbles inside, he thrusts cryptic papers into Ethan’s hands with an ominous warning before collapsing. Ethan soon finds himself targeted by notorious arts smuggler and seductress Alta Rollins - AKA The Green Lady - who will stop at nothing to obtain the coded papers. Aided by Agent David Singleton, Ethan works to ...
By: Doc Runick
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The Missing Maid
- The Baker Street Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Holly Hepburn
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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When Harriet White rebuffs the advances of her boss at the Baker Street building society where she works, she finds herself demoted to a new position… a very unusual position. Deep in the postal department beneath the bank, she is tasked with working her way through a mountain of correspondence addressed to Baker Street’s most famous resident: Mr Sherlock Holmes.
By: Holly Hepburn
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Only the Good Die Young
- A Country Club Murder, Book 1.5
- By: Julie Mulhern
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Frances Walford's daughter, Ellison Russell, has developed the truly deplorable habit of finding bodies. And Frances can't help but scold her about it. But when Ellison goes to Europe, Frances finds a corpse of her own. Can she help catch a killer and keep her involvement a secret?
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Totally worth it !!!
- By Grandma on 03-26-24
By: Julie Mulhern
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Forgetting to Remember
- By: M. J. Rose
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Setting aside grief from the fallout of the second World War and putting her energy into curating an upcoming show critical to her career as the Keeper of the Metalworks at London’s renowned Victoria and Albert Museum, Jeannine Maycroft stumbles upon a unique collection of jewel-framed miniature eye portraits—a brilliant romantic device and clandestine love token of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
By: M. J. Rose
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To Slip the Bonds of Earth
- A Katharine Wright Mystery, Book 1
- By: Amanda Flower
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated by the gender inequality in academia and is looking for a new challenge. She never suspects it will be sleuthing . . .
By: Amanda Flower
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Murder at the Hunting Lodge
- Evie Parker Mystery, Book 11
- By: Sonia Parin
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Halton House is experiencing an upheaval of mammoth proportions and Evie, the Countess of Woodridge, finds herself in the middle of everyone's squabbles and odd behavior. She hopes a change of scenery will provide a diversion while she and Tom Winchester investigate a case of some missing items, but havoc has followed her to the hunting lodge. Instead of dealing with one mystery, she and Tom are caught up in a multitude of them.
By: Sonia Parin
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Murder At A Seance
- Miss Sadie Brown & the Death of Madam Valesky
- By: P. Austin Heaton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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A fake psychic hiding from a killer in Southern California — what could possibly go wrong? The 2nd book in the Sadie Brown series is chock full of delightful, quirky characters. Take another crazy ride as Miss Sadie Brown becomes involved with a bizarre murder and a runaway killer. It's the summer of 1917 in the beautiful seaside community of Coronado, California. Sadie Brown, aviatrix, and newspaper columnist/reporter is investigating a simple case of a phony fortune teller which unexpectedly turns into a murder investigation. As Miss Brown and Deputy Sheriff Evan Greenway investigate, ...
By: P. Austin Heaton
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Murder in Monaco
- Lottie Sprigg Travels 1920s Cozy Mystery Series, Book 4
- By: Martha Bond
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Lottie Sprigg and her employer arrive in glitzy Monaco where Lottie finds a mysterious note which threatens murder. Before she can act on it, a body is found in a private room at the Monte Carlo Casino.
By: Martha Bond
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Devil's Garden
- By: Ace Atkins
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her—crushed her under his weight—and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict.
By: Ace Atkins
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A Bicycle Built for Murder
- Manor House Mystery, Book 1
- By: Kate Kingsbury
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An anxious mother begs Lady Elizabeth to find her missing daughter, and she finds it impossible to refuse. Her tenants are her children, and she'll do anything to keep them safe and happy. When she discovers the daughter's bicycle abandoned on the cliffs, and then the young woman's body washed up on the beach, Lady Elizabeth is faced with far more problems than she anticipated.
By: Kate Kingsbury
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The Conundrum of the Two-Sided Lawyer
- By: S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
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The Hugh Kerr Mystery Series “The Conundrum of the Two-Sided Lawyer” (Book IV in the Series) The “Kerr Gang” is back in Los Angeles where it falls to Ellen to try and reestablish Hugh’s shattered self-image so he can go back to practicing law. One of the first items on the agenda is to re-address the murder case Hugh lost before he fled to Canada on what could have been the final trip of his life. The case, as presented, was uncomplicated. Daniel Jenkins, Hugh’s client, was convicted of the murder of a man named Richard Green by bludgeoning him on the head with a rock. The D.A.,...
By: S.L. Kotar, and others
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The Conundrum of the Meddling Motorcar
- By: S. L. Kotar, J. E. Gessler
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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The car rally was to be the height of the Christmas season, with the winner receiving an exotic sports car. All the “best people” were invited, including the Kerrs and the Bonds, pitting Los Angeles’ premiere defense lawyer against the city’s district attorney in an exciting and challenging venue outside the courtroom. That, by itself would have been enough to attract attention, but the car rally and its “treasure trove” unwittingly provided the two men with an unusual conundrum: working the same side of a case. Their unholy alliance lasted just long enough to provide sparks in ...
By: S. L. Kotar, and others