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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
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Who killed Sir Crispin Gibbons? A wedding invitation and news of mischief that could be murder takes Lennox to the Earl of Bloxford's country estate. He, soon, finds himself in a world of purloined artworks, forgeries, and a priceless Bloxford beauty. But who are the Bloxford beauties? And why are they the focal point around which death swirls?
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Loved It!
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Lies, spies, film stars, and murder. New Year’s Eve, 1921 Posie has been asked to accompany Inspector Richard Lovelace of Scotland Yard on an undercover mission. Their destination is a glittering New Year’s Eve party at Maypole Manor, the clifftop home of Lord Robin Glaysayer. With a blizzard raging outside, when a killer strikes, the Inspector and Posie’s skills are tested to breaking point as they try to find the murderer before he attacks again.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 88
A mansion, a title, and marriage to a wealthy Lord, Lady Eveline Cartwright has it all. Unfortunately, it's not enough to prevent her from being bludgeoned to death one night in the study of Merisham Lodge, the family's country estate in Derbyshire. Suspicion quickly falls on her ne'er-do-well son, Peter, but not everyone in the household is convinced of his guilt. Head kitchen maid Joan Hart and lady's maid Verity Hunter know that when it comes to a crime, all is not always as it seems.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tried too hard
- By Vervain on 12-18-18
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Netherwood
- By: Jane Sanderson
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 29
Eve Williams is about to discover just how the other half really live. Above stairs: Lord Netherwood keeps his considerable fortune ticking over with the profits from his three coal mines in the vicinity. It's just as well the coal is of the highest quality as the upkeep of Netherwood Hall, his splendid estate on the outskirts of town, doesn't come cheap. Below stairs: Eve Williams, is the wife of one of Lord Netherwood's most stalwart employees. Suddenly, her ordered existence amid the terraced rows of the miners' houses is brought crashing down....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it! Can't wait for the sequel
- By Cassandra on 02-26-12
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The Cater Street Hangman
- By: Anne Perry
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 990
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Story4 out of 5 stars 991
When a maid in the upper class Ellison household is strangled, Inspector Pitt is called in to investigate. He finds a world ruled by strict manners and social customs, where the inhabitants of the Ellison's neighborhood appear to be more outraged by the thought of scandal than they are by murder. Inspector Pitt finds a most unlikely ally in Charlotte, the Ellison's spirited daughter. But as the murders continue, Charlotte and Pitt find themselves drawn together by more than the investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Nancy on 05-12-12
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A Tale of Two Murders
- A Dickens of a Crime Series, Book 1
- By: Heather Redmond
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
In the winter of 1835, young Charles Dickens is a journalist on the rise at the Evening Chronicle. Invited to dinner at the estate of the newspaper's co-editor, Charles is smitten with his boss' daughter, vivacious 19-year-old Kate Hogarth. They are having the best of times when a scream shatters the pleasant evening. Charles, Kate, and her father rush to the neighbors' home, where Miss Christiana Lugoson lies unconscious on the floor. By morning, the poor young woman will be dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! Pulls you back in time. Amazing!
- By C. Hall on 08-15-18
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The Apothecary's Daughter
- By: Charlotte Betts
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Story4 out of 5 stars 394
Susannah Leyton has grown up behind the counter of her father's apothecary shop in bustling Fleet Street. A skilled student, her father has granted her the freedom to pursue her considerable talents. But Susannah is dealt a shocking blow when her widowed father marries again, and her stepmother seems determined to remove her from the apothecary shop. A proposal of marriage from the charming Henry Savage seems to offer Susannah an escape. But as the plague sweeps through London, tragedy strikes, and dark secrets from her husband's past begin to unfold.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Historical Fiction at its Worst.
- By Tiffany on 10-31-15
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Delicious
- By: Sherry Thomas
- Narrated by: Virginia Leishman
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 216
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Story4 out of 5 stars 177
Delicious presents Verity Durant, an irresistible woman of a more elegant age. Verity is renowned from London to Paris for her succulent cuisine - and for her rapacious carnal appetite. And she's determined to tempt prim and proper politician Stuart Somerset with forbidden fruits he's never tasted.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A light historical romance
- By karen on 04-16-09
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The Secrets of Wishtide
- By: Kate Saunders
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,556
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,261
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,246
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and 10 children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow. When a case arises involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire undercover as the family's new governess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historical intrigue-
- By Meema on 04-16-17
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A Murder in Time
- Kendra Donovan Mysteries Series, Book 1
- By: Julie McElwain
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 172
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4 out of 5 stars 159
Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ugh! The Narration is ruining this book!
- By Beth Ann on 03-01-17
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Strangeways to Oldham
- The Belchester Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Andrea Frazer
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 326
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Story4 out of 5 stars 292
Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of her upper-class breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. On a visit to a local nursing home, she unexpectedly discovers a long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump - and stumbles upon a murder. The pair turn to sleuthing after Lady Amanda reports her appalling discovery to the local police inspector, who treats her as a silly old biddy with an overactive imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply fabulous
- By chuknzig on 01-19-17
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A Study in Scarlet Women
- The Lady Sherlock Series, Book 1
- By: Sherry Thomas
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,289
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,879
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,867
With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First-rate author and first-rate narrator
- By Lady Wesley on 03-25-17
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A Beautiful Blue Death
- Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1
- By: Charles Finch
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 979
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 879
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Story4 out of 5 stars 880
Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like cozy
- By Sheryl on 05-21-12
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Scandal Bound
- By: Anita Mills
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Ellen Marling lives in terror of her wedding night to the beastly Baron Basil Brockhaven. Forced into the marriage by her father, a leap in the dark from the bedroom window seems more appealing than spending even one night with the loathsome lord. Until she discovers that her leap delivered her straight into the hands of the notorious Marquess of Trent, as handsome as he is hedonistic. Ellen has traded a monstrous husband for a masterly rake, and now faces the prospect of the greatest danger of all: falling in love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Liked Very Much!
- By mary on 01-30-19
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The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries
- Mrs. Jeffries Series, Book 1
- By: Emily Brightwell
- Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Story4 out of 5 stars 217
She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon...and keeps him on his toes. Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes - but they don't know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries's polished detection skills are up to the task...proving that behind every great man there's a woman - and that a crime-solver's work is never done.
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1 out of 5 stars
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REALLY BAD!!!
- By Book Gobbler on 07-15-14
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Except the Dying
- A Murdoch Mystery, Book 1
- By: Maureen Jennings
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 227
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 196
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Story4 out of 5 stars 197
In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girl's life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the city's influential families?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gritty not grisly; above average Victorian mystery
- By connie on 06-22-12
Publisher's Summary
London, 1880. Kat Holloway, highly sought-after young cook to the wealthy of London, finds herself embroiled in murder when she’s accused of poisoning her employer, the loathsome Sir Lionel Leigh-Bradbury. Her only help as she works to clear her name comes from the mysterious Daniel McAdam, a handsome man-of-all-work who seems to know everyone and always happens to be in the right place at the right time.
Kat and Daniel investigate the crime, but the mystery of Daniel’s background might be just as elusive and dangerous as the poisoner bent on framing Kat for murder.
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- MissCindy
- 02-22-20
Great! But this is book one!
I love this series. The narrator is terrific. Who is Daniel (sad I already know since I read the other books first). Kat is spunky and yet gracious. I can’t wait for the next (5th?) book. Please say there will be more.
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- Denise
- 01-21-20
Not worth it!
This was a very bad idea that what?...the publisher made Ms Ashley do it? Readers want their money’s worth. If it were a GREAT story but it’s not. I knew it was two hrs so I waited and had some cheap credit to just use. Turning this back in.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- M.K. Hansen
- 01-10-20
Don’t Waste Your Credits!
This book is only 2 hrs long and the pre-quel to her Kat Holloway series. It was OK, but it was not worth the credit to purchase.
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