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Maigret and the Wine Merchant
- Inspector Maigret, Book 71
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward.... Built like a labourer, Oscar Chabut had hauled himself up into this little world through sheer hard work and, to convince himself that he was accepted, he felt the need to sleep with most of the women.'
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- Tomboy
- 08-22-22
Maigret the magnificent.
Wonderful narration as always of a wonderful crime story by a wonderful author. Simenon never fails to rise to the occasion with his brilliant literary creation. He also imbues every novel with French vitality, looking more intensely at the underbelly and the seediness of the "upper" classes of French society. He never fails in his description of the loose mores of French life, without a judgemental eye, which makes Maigret a quintessential creation of a brilliant French writer.
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- Hector Chub
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Hokey , Dreary and poorly read
I suspect this is not one of Simeon's finest - seems to be late in his career. Ladles out the tropes in a desultory fashion. I'd read an early Maigret and it was very interesting. This was just laboured and boring. The narrator came up with some quite bizarre and ill fitting voices and failed to inject much character into just about anybody.
I did like the constant references to drink and what went best with the food Maigret was eating.
I may try another - but not with this narrator
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 210
Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, a job he detests even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething unrest in the city, and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the vice squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It's no Bernie Gunther Mystery ...
- By Brian English on 01-28-18
By: Volker Kutscher
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The Writing on the Wall
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 55
In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another excellent book by Gunnar Staalesen with narration by Colin Mace
- By jonathan on 03-16-18
By: Gunnar Staalesen
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The Mitford Murders
- By: Jessica Fellowes
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 306
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Story4 out of 5 stars 275
Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone, and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially 16-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake - is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Expected much, very disappointed
- By Kindle Customer on 02-02-18
By: Jessica Fellowes
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Life for Sale
- By: Yukio Mishima
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots - even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the crosshairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book is good - Narration is just terrible
- By Vyacheslav Varlakov on 03-12-21
By: Yukio Mishima
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Bel Ami
- By: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4 out of 5 stars 128
Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for power, Georges is not above an almost gleeful use of wealthy mistresses to achieve his ends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bel Ami or how to socially climb in 1885 Paris
- By Neil Chisholm on 12-03-13
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An Unfortunate End: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery
- The Lillie Mead Historical Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Lisa Zumpano
- Narrated by: Claire Storey
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
New York City, 1919. Lillie Mead mourns the love she lost in the war. But when a wealthy British friend offers her a reporting job across the pond, she hopes accepting will help her rebuild her life. She barely has time to unpack before she’s assigned the scoop of a poisoned socialite’s death. As the clues take a turn for the scandalous, Lillie unearths shocking skeletons in the victim’s closet. But she never expected the threads of the beloved woman’s life to weave with hers. Can Lillie expose the truth before her own death makes the front page?
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3 out of 5 stars
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ok
- By Beatrice on 02-14-21
By: Lisa Zumpano
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The Best of Our Spies
- Spy Masters, Book 1
- By: Alex Gerlis
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 699
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 624
France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the liberation of Europe is under way. In the Pas-de-Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Kind of Spy Story
- By Linda Hanson on 01-11-16
By: Alex Gerlis
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Murder Offstage
- A Posie Parker Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: L.B. Hathaway
- Narrated by: Clare Wille
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 427
Like your mysteries cozy and set during the Golden Age of Crime? This is the first audiobook in the Posie Parker mysteries, although this novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story in its own right. Set in London in 1921, Murder Offstage is full of intrigue and red herrings. When Posie Parker’s childhood friend is robbed of a priceless jewel and becomes a suspect in a cold-blooded murder case, budding detective Posie vows she will clear his name.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okay story. No idea about the era.
- By John Roulston-Bates on 02-29-20
By: L.B. Hathaway
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The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
- By: Peter Lovesey
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Marisa Calin, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 660
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 602
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 597
This is collection of 18 crime stories with a diverse range of characters and scenarios, from guilt-ridden fraudsters to lovesick murderers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Fun!
- By Nat from LA on 09-04-20
By: Peter Lovesey
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The Word Is Murder
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,473
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,006
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,978
The New York Times best-selling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something New
- By Alice on 06-26-18
By: Anthony Horowitz
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Miss Kopp Investigates
- A Kopp Sisters Novel, Book 7
- By: Amy Stewart
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story5 out of 5 stars 75
Winter 1919: Norma is summoned home from France, Constance is called back from Washington, and Fleurette puts her own plans on hold as the sisters rally around their recently widowed sister-in-law and her children. How are four women going to support themselves? A chance encounter offers Fleurette a solution: clandestine legal work for a former colleague of Constance's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great series
- By Mimi on 02-07-22
By: Amy Stewart
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Magpie Murders
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Samantha Bond, Allan Corduner
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,894
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,788
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,744
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the best-selling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A British Whodunit
- By Sara on 07-24-17
By: Anthony Horowitz
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The Best Man to Die
- An Inspector Wexford Mystery
- By: Ruth Rendell
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4 out of 5 stars 128
Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic who-dunnit
- By Kathi on 02-24-13
By: Ruth Rendell
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Deadly Scandal
- The Deadly Series, Book 1
- By: Kate Parker
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 123
Olivia Denis is a content young wife with a carefree life in late 1930s London. Then her world is shattered with the violent death of her husband, Reggie. The police want to call it a suicide and close the case, but Olivia knows Reggie couldn't possibly have fired the fatal shot. Further mysteries surface surrounding her husband's death. Did the trustworthy Foreign Office employee betray government secrets? Was his murder linked to the death of a German embassy clerk the same night? And who searched their flat?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Insipid Heroine
- By James on 08-14-17
By: Kate Parker
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The Stolen Letter
- By: Clara Benson
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Italy, 1938: When Stella arrives in Florence, it’s love at first sight. She is wowed by the rolling hills dotted with olive trees, the buttermilk villas with shuttered windows and terracotta roofs that glow gloriously in the sunlight. Even the breeze holds the scent of freedom - freedom from England, where the shadow of her past haunted her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant writing from Clara Benson
- By NICK J. on 10-06-20
By: Clara Benson
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The Short, the Long and the Tall
- Short Stories
- By: Jeffrey Archer, Paul Cox - illustrator
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Ben Onwukwe, Gerard Doyle, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
New York Times number-one best-selling author Jeffrey Archer is a master of the short-story form, creating classic tales beloved by his fans. Now the award-winning writer presents 20 of his most popular and fêted short stories in The Short, the Long and the Tall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent and Emotional Collection.
- By Barbara Lunz on 11-21-20
By: Jeffrey Archer, and others