The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Still Life: Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Louise Penny
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it’s a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.

Magpie Murders: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Anthony Horowitz
• Narrated By Samantha Bond, Allan Corduner

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.

Masked Ball at Broxley Manor: A Royal Spyness Novella

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 44 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren

At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man - until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until she learns that the royal family intends to marry her off to a foreign prince, one reputed to be mad.

Final Jeopardy

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Linda Fairstein
• Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat
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Alex Cooper awakens one morning to news of her own brutal murder. Soon, Manhattan's top sex-crimes prosecutor discovers that the actual victim is film star Isabella Lascar, who had sought refuge at Alex's private retreat. Now it is up to Alex to find the killer before another victim surfaces.

The Late Show

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Katherine Moennig

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn.

Camino Island: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 45 mins)
• By John Grisham
• Narrated By January LaVoy
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Priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen in a daring heist; a young woman recruited to recover them, and a beach-resort bookseller who gets more than he bargained for - all in one long summer on Camino Island.

The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Craig Johnson
• Narrated By George Guidall

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, full of memorable characters.

A God in Ruins: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Kate Atkinson
• Narrated By Alex Jennings
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A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother, Teddy - would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.

Tilt-a-Whirl: John Ceepak, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Chris Grabenstein
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman
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There isn't much fun in the sun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-a-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet summer tourist town of Sea Haven. John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq, has just joined the Sea Haven police department. The job offer came from an old Army buddy who hoped to give Ceepak at least a summer's worth of rest and relaxation to help him forget the horrors of war. Instead, Ceepak will head up the murder investigation.

Crocodile on the Sandbank: The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Elizabeth Peters
• Narrated By Susan O'Malley
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Amelia Peabody embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal for her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. On her way, she rescues Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been "ruined" and abandoned on the streets of Rome by her lover. With a typical disregard for convention, Amelia promptly hires her fellow countrywoman as a companion and takes her to Cairo, where strange visitations and a botched kidnapping convince Amelia that there is a plot afoot to harm Evelyn.

Murder in an Irish Village

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Carlene O'Connor
• Narrated By Caroline Lennon
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In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Natalie's Bistro has always been warm and welcoming. Nowadays 22-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher. One morning, as they're opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest.

A Little Death in Dixie

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Lisa Turner
• Narrated By Jeffrey Kafer
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The Blues were born out of need, anger and pride. Murder comes from those same dark places. Memphis has both. One of Memphis' most seductive and notorious socialites has vanished. Either she's off on another drunken escapade or the disappearance is something much more frightening. What begins as an ordinary day's work for Detective Billy Able quickly grows into a complex spider's web of tragedy, mystery, suspicion, and sordid secrets including a few of Billy's own.

Whose Body?: Lord Peter Wimsey: Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Dorothy L. Sayers
• Narrated By Jane McDowell

It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance. The body wore nothing else.Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be. His problem was to find out whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps' Battersea bathroom.

Missing, Presumed: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Susie Steiner
• Narrated By Juanita McMahon

At 39, Manon Bradshaw is a devoted and respected member of the Cambridgeshire police force, and though she loves her job, what she longs for is a personal life. Single and distant from her family, she wants a husband and children of her own. One night, after yet another disastrous Internet date, she turns on her police radio to help herself fall asleep - and receives an alert that sends her to a puzzling crime scene.

The Professor: McMurtrie and Drake Legal, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Robert Bailey
• Narrated By Eric G. Dove
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Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.

Open and Shut

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 50 mins)
• By David Rosenfelt
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

Whether dueling with new forensics or the local old boys' network, irreverent defense attorney Andy Carpenter always leaves them awed with his biting wit and winning fourth-quarter game plan. But the fun stops the day Andy's dad, Paterson, New Jersey's legendary ex-DA, drops dead in front of him at a game in Yankee Stadium.

In the Woods

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Tana French
• Narrated By Steven Crossley
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As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children, unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery.

Murder Is Binding: A Booktown Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Lorna Barrett
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased-and the locals think that someone is Tricia.

Cherringham - A Cosy Crime Series Compilation (Cherringham 1 - 3)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Matthew Costello, Neil Richards
• Narrated By Neil Dudgeon
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Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 1 - 3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT.

Black Cross

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Greg Iles
• Narrated By Dick Hill
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It is January 1944 - and as Allied troops prepare for D day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the poison gas is being perfected on human subjects. Their only objective: destroy all traces of the gas and the men who created it - no matter how many lives may be lost...including their own.

In Farleigh Field: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Gemma Dawson
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World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret.

A is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Sue Grafton
• Narrated By Mary Peiffer
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This is the first in the popular series featuring California investigator Kinsey Millhone. She's 32, twice divorced, no kids, an ex-cop who likes her work...and who works strictly alone!

Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Quartet

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Ann Cleeves
• Narrated By Gordon Griffin
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It is a cold January morning, and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man - loner and simpleton Magnus Tait.

A Quiet Life in the Country: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By T E Kinsey
• Narrated By Elizabeth Knowelden
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Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...