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Publisher's Summary
When old Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room it comes as a nasty surprise. Monty lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house and the last thing he wants is the police sniffing around his property. But Inspector Jess Campbell is determined to solve the mystery, with the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she must dig deep into Monty’s family history to reveal the shocking truth...
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- mollyeyre
- 04-27-13
Kept me reading to the end
Not a bad novel, though I did find a lot of the attitudes displayed by people - especially towards the police a trifle overdone. No-one was 'normal', and it did rather stretch one's belief, as did the convoluted family structures in the novel!
I won't bother with this writer again. I did find the narration a trifle odd too - the narrator announced the chapter numbers as if they were earth shattering events
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Helen
- 10-07-11
Dull
I have read most of Ann Granger's novels and enjoyed them very much, but what happened here I don't know. The story line is none existent, and as slight as it is, it's drawn out beyond belief. I couldn't have cared less about any of the characters. I was actually listening to this on a plane with no other choices otherwise I would have given up.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Michelle
- 10-05-11
A great easy listen!
For anyone who loved and misses Granger's Alan Markby series this is a must! Fortunately Judith Boyd narrates again brilliantly and this is an easy cosy listen.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- K E Webb
- 03-20-21
Thoroughly Enjoyed
An intriguing mystery ! Found the characters interesting and the story line had plenty of twists .....kept me guessing -and getting it wrong !
I think this series is going to keep me reading happily for quite a while .
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Jenny Barnes
- 03-04-21
rather slow but a good twist at the end
good for listening to as you're going to sleep, as I like to, because it isn't full of grizzly details and not too many exciting moments.
I appreciate when the author has thought about words other than "said", and the author has been creative with the language in this book.
I would only have given 3 stars for the story because it does drag a bit, certainly it's not life changing. however there's a nice twist right at the end that I really didn't see coming.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Jayne Baker
- 01-25-15
Rack, ruin and a fair read
I enjoyed the book. It wasn't the best but average. I loved the character of Uncle Monty with his eccentricities. The book did capture the atmosphere that it could of and that was my problem with it.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Croftway
- 10-14-22
great story and characters
really like the series and this story. great characters and details, keeps you hooked
nice delivery
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Debbie Forrest
- 08-23-21
Well read
Well read with an interesting twist in the plot.Enjoy any of the Ann Granger books
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- A
- 05-10-21
Childish, shrieking voices
The story in itself was not too bad however some of the voices were a bit off putting.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Mrs J C Khalil
- 04-14-21
Most entertaining with a great twist at the end
Really enjoying this Author and the narrator is so eminently listenable, one of my all time favourites.
Good story that carries you along and well drawn characters that are very believable.
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Out walking near the rain-swelled river running past her small Welsh town, she comes across the body of Amber Morgan. Fabia’s police training tells her instantly that the death is the result of foul play. But no longer in the force, all she can do is call it in. Yet she has mixed feelings when she discovers it is her former colleague, Matt Lambert, newly promoted to chief inspector, who will head the investigation into the girl’s death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Trip To Wales
- By Jean on 04-15-19
By: Pippa McCathie
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Mud, Muck and Dead Things
- Campbell and Carter, Book 1
- By: Ann Granger
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 76
When the body of a young woman is discovered in the cowshed of Cricket Farm, the tranquility of the British countryside is shattered. Inspector Jess Campbell is on the case, but with few leads, a grumbling partner, and the new superintendent Ian Carter piling on the pressure, she's beginning to wonder why she chose to be a detective in the first place.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- By Grammarian56 on 12-01-19
By: Ann Granger
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Death at Hazel House: An Utterly Addictive Cozy Murder Mystery
- A Sukey Reynolds Mystery, Book 1
- By: Betty Rowlands
- Narrated by: Katie Villa
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 227
Meet Sukey Reynolds: proud mother, wonderful cook...and police photographer turned amateur detective. Years ago, Sukey was hoping to become a detective, but life took a different turn. Now she’s happy to be involved with the local police force, as long as she still gets to work the occasional murder case....
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4 out of 5 stars
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4
- By Donna on 05-10-19
By: Betty Rowlands
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A Clubbable Woman
- Dalziel and Pascoe, Book 1
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Brian Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 125
This is the first novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, which was made into a hugely popular BBC TV serial. Two unorthodox police officers are called to investigate dodgy dealings at Wetherton rugby club after the body of their star player's wife is found dead at home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Beginning to Series
- By Nancy J on 11-16-13
By: Reginald Hill
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Murder at Honeychurch Hall
- By: Hannah Dennison
- Narrated by: Elaine Wise
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 296
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 257
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Story4 out of 5 stars 256
Kat Stanford is just days away from starting her dream antique business with her newly widowed mother Iris when she gets a huge shock. Iris has recklessly purchased a dilapidated carriage house at Honeychurch Hall, an isolated country estate complete with eccentric lords and ladies and butlers and cooks. When a secret from the past comes back to haunt Iris, Kat realizes she hardly knows her mother at all. And when the bodies start piling up, it is up to Kat to unravel the tangled truth behind the murders at Honeychurch Hall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done!
- By Sandra L Bihary-Waltz on 07-05-18
By: Hannah Dennison
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Crime on the Fens
- DI Nikki Galena, Book 1
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,038
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,030
DI Nikki Galena: A police detective with nothing left to lose, she's seen a girl die in her arms, and her daughter will never leave the hospital again. She's gotten tough on the criminals she believes did this to her. Too tough. And now she's been given one final warning: make it work with her new sergeant, DS Joseph Easter, or she's out.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exxcellent British police procedural
- By Wayne on 12-24-16
By: Joy Ellis
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Murder in the Valleys
- Lambert and Havard, Book 1
- By: Pippa McCathie
- Narrated by: Gwen Watson
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Out walking near the rain-swelled river running past her small Welsh town, she comes across the body of Amber Morgan. Fabia’s police training tells her instantly that the death is the result of foul play. But no longer in the force, all she can do is call it in. Yet she has mixed feelings when she discovers it is her former colleague, Matt Lambert, newly promoted to chief inspector, who will head the investigation into the girl’s death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Trip To Wales
- By Jean on 04-15-19
By: Pippa McCathie
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Evans Above
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,650
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,406
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,403
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting....
- By brian on 01-22-17
By: Rhys Bowen
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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 144
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 129
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Story4 out of 5 stars 129
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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Beware the Past
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,037
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 954
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Story4 out of 5 stars 946
When Matt Ballard was starting out his career, three boys were murdered in the same area, the remote and bleak Gibbet Fen. When the main suspect was killed in a hit-and-run, the killings stopped. But Matt was not satisfied that the real murderer had been caught. Over 25 years later, Matt gets a photo in an unmarked envelope. It's of the Gibbet Fen crime scene. And the picture was taken before the murder took place. More photos arrive, relating to the historic murders, as well as intimate pictures of Matt's very secret private life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Author Joy Ellis knows how to build suspense!
- By Wayne on 06-04-18
By: Joy Ellis
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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 686
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 628
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 622
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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Bring Them Home
- Detective Karen Hart, Book 1
- By: D. S. Butler
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Story4 out of 5 stars 436
When two young girls disappear from their primary school, the village of Heighington is put on high alert - and not for the first time. Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart is sure that parallels with a previous disappearance are anything but coincidental. DS Hart is still reeling from a case she tried and failed to solve eighteen months ago, when a young woman vanished without a trace. She’s no nearer to the truth of what happened to Amy Fisher, but with two children missing now, too, the stakes have never been higher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Solid first book
- By Carla C. Galeano Ferreyra, David Tapia Cubillo on 10-18-18
By: D. S. Butler
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Deadhead and Buried
- English Cottage Garden Mysteries, Book 1
- By: H.Y. Hanna
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 783
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 669
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 665
City girl Poppy desperately wants to pay off her debts, quit her dead-end job, find her father...oh, and keep a plant alive. But she knows that these are just hopeless dreams - until the day a letter arrives. Suddenly, Poppy is on a train heading deep into the English countryside to claim a mysterious inheritance. And the last thing she expects to receive is a cottage garden nursery - complete with romantic climbing roses, scented herbs, a bossy, talkative ginger cat...and a dead body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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English cozy comfort
- By cstardancer on 08-02-19
By: H.Y. Hanna
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The Body on the Beach
- A Fethering Mystery
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 981
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 984
Recently retired, Carole Seddon is residing in Fethering in the cottage she purchased with her ex-husband. There she maintains a quiet and sensible life with the companionship of Gulliver, her Labrador retriever. But everything changes when she and Gulliver, while taking their daily constitutional, find a corpse on the beach. What's more, there are two wounds on its neck. The body mysteriously disappears and the police dismiss Carole as a befuddled middle-aged woman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reminds me of "Rosemary & Thyme" TV series
- By Crochetaway on 11-17-14
By: Simon Brett
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Rock Point
- A Sharpe & Donovan Series Prequel Novella
- By: Carla Neggers
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Seven years after suffering an unspeakable loss, Finian Bracken is recently out of seminary and leaving Ireland to serve a small parish in the quaint but struggling fishing village of Rock Point, Maine. Here he meets FBI Agent Colin Donovan for the first time...and discovers the dangerous secrets he left back home in Ireland. Smugglers are using the Bracken family’s old whiskey distillery as cover for their illicit activities—and the violent group isn’t going down without a fight.
By: Carla Neggers
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The Man with a Load of Mischief
- A Richard Jury Novel, Book 1
- By: Martha Grimes
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,361
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Performance