The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories

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

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Matthew Costello, Neil Richards
• Narrated By Neil Dudgeon
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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.

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.

A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia: A Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Clara Benson
• Narrated By Gethyn Edwards
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyone - or so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous people with secrets to hide had every reason to wish him dead. But which of them murdered him? For Freddy Pilkington-Soames, newspaper reporter and man-about-town, the question hits a little too close to home.

Wicked Autumn: A Max Tudor Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By G. M. Malliet
• Narrated By Michael Page
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. The death looks like an accident, but Max's training as a former agent kicks in, and before long he suspects foul play.

A Beautiful Blue Death: Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Charles Finch
• Narrated By James Langton
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Penelope Dellaporta

Handsome Mark Callender did not die the way a young gentleman should. He was found hanged, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a nude girl's picture nearby. The official verdict was suicide, but his aristocratic father suspects murder.

He hires Cordelia Gray, a fledgling detective, to investigate. And as she follows a trail of guilty secrets and shameful sins, she concludes that the nicest people do the nastiest things!

Still Life: Chief Inspector Gamache Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Louise Penny
• Narrated By Adam Sims

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force.

A Test of Wills

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Charles Todd
• Narrated By Samuel Giles
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired officer has been murdered, and Rutledge goes to investigate.

Magpie Murders: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Anthony Horowitz
• Narrated By Samantha Bond, Allan Corduner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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.

Murder at Lowry House: Hazel Martin Mysteries, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Leighann Dobbs
• Narrated By Alison Larkin

When mystery novelist Hazel Martin receives a secretive letter from an old friend who suspects her relatives have murderous intentions, she packs her bags and heads to the country. Tampered medications, symptoms of poisoning, and suspicious accidents all add up to attempted murder, and it's up to Hazel and her Siamese cat, Dickens, to sniff out the clues. But with a house full of relatives who all have a motive, will Hazel be able to unmask the culprit before things turn deadly?

A Share in Death

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Deborah Crombie
• Narrated By Michael Deehy
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs....

Evans Above

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Roger Clark
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Evan Evans is a young police constable who has traded in the violence of city life for idyllic Llanfair, a Welsh village tucked far away from trouble. Nestled among the Snowdonia mountain range, Llanfair looks to Constable Evans like a town forgotten by time, but he quickly learns that even the bucolic countryside has its share of eccentric - and deadly - characters.

Strangeways to Oldham: The Belchester Chronicles, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Andrea Frazer
• Narrated By Patricia Gallimore
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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.

The Cambridge Murders

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Glyn Daniel
• Narrated By Peter Wickham
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John’s and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bed makers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term were admitted to find, lying across the path, the body of one of the College porters. The murder of the porter begins a mystery which deepens when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing.

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
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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...

The Floating Admiral

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Agatha Christie, Simon Brett - preface, Dorothy L. Sayers - introduction, and others
• Narrated By David Timson

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

The Last Detective: An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Peter Lovesey
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door-stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry. So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks, and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit.

Innocent Blood

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 55 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Penelope Dellaporta
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.