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The Village of Eight Graves
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- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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The third title in Japan's most popular murder mystery series - after The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse - fiendish classics featuring Investigator Kosuke Kindaichi.
Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend. In the 16th century, eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village.
Centuries later, a mysterious young man named Tatsuya arrives in town, bringing a spate of deadly poisonings in his wake. The inimitably scruffy and brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi investigates.
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"At once familiar and tantalisingly strange.... It's an absolute pleasure to see his work translated at last" (Sunday Times)
"The diabolically twisted plotting is top-notch." (New York Times)
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- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 578
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 510
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Story4 out of 5 stars 511
For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tiresome
- By nkevinsc on 03-05-15
By: Tasha Alexander
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The Stranger House
- By: Reginald Hill
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
For years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to travellers. People like Sam, a brilliant young mathematician, who believes that anything that can't be explained by maths isn't worth explaining. And Miguel, a historian running from a priests' seminary, who sees ghosts. Sam is an experienced young woman, Miguel a 26-year-old virgin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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an OK read
- By Jen Terry on 01-18-08
By: Reginald Hill
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,036
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,847
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845
A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece
- By Timothy on 02-20-16
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Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
- By: Bonnie MacBird
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 352
London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend - until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star, writes that her illegitimate son by an English lord has disappeared, and she has been attacked in the streets of Montmartre.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a bad story, but too 21st century
- By M B Yorton on 11-11-19
By: Bonnie MacBird
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Powers of Darkness
- The Lost Version of Dracula
- By: Bram Stoker, Valdimar Asmundsson, Hans Corneel de Roos, and others
- Narrated by: Adam Verner, Robertson Dean, Ralph Lister, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Story4 out of 5 stars 318
Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery. In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Asmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, 'Powers of Darkness'), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An unfinished work
- By Kindle Customer on 09-05-18
By: Bram Stoker, and others
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The Undivided
- Rift Runners, Book 1
- By: J J Fallon
- Narrated by: Collen Prendegast
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
The Undivided are divided. The psychic twins, Ronan and Darragh, have been separated by the traitor Druid, Amergin, who has kidnapped Ronan and thrown him through a rift into another reality. Now time is running out for Darragh. If Ronan isn't found soon, they will both die. But his twin brother is lost in a reality where Druids are legend, and there is no magic. Somehow, before the Autumn Equinox, they must find one young man in a world of six billion people...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Story From J. Fallon!
- By Kim on 12-26-13
By: J J Fallon
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The Pale Blue Eye
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Charles Leggett
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 372
When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion—that the man Landor is looking for is a poet—Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could not get through it
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-15
By: Louis Bayard
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Murder Has a Motive
- By: Francis Duncan
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But he has never been able to resist anything in the nature of a mystery - and a mystery is precisely what awaits him in the village of Dalmering. Rehearsals for the local amateur dramatic production are in progress. When the star of the show is found dead, the spotlight falls on Mordecai, whose reputation in the field of crime-solving precedes him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Oh dear....not what I’d hoped for
- By Kathi on 02-05-18
By: Francis Duncan
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The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told
- Best Stories Ever Told
- By: Stephen Brennan - editor
- Narrated by: J. M. Badger, Imelda Pot
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4 out of 5 stars 191
A big, brilliant, spooky collection of classic and contemporary ghost stories that will make you hesitate before turning off that light.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A very mixed review
- By Michael Mayer on 08-05-15
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A Shadow on the Wall
- A Novel
- By: Jonathan Aycliffe
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb that lay beneath the church's crumbling walls. The moment the workman raises the tomb lid, an unspeakable horror escapes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and wonderful narration
- By sidhecat on 08-15-15
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The Count of Monte Cristo [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 52 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 648
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 602
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Story5 out of 5 stars 600
Trust. Betrayal. Revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo is the quintessential masterpiece of Alexandre Dumas. In Edmond Dantes we find an early materialization of the modern superhero. He is a dashing young sailor imprisoned unjustly for treason. While in prison he meets a holy man who imparts to him all his wisdom. The "abbe" also divulges the profound secret of a hidden treasure. Dantes realizes that with such immense wealth, one could wreak a hateful vengeance on one's enemies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The proof is in the narrator!
- By J. Fraas on 12-21-15
By: Alexandre Dumas
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 734
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 630
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Story4 out of 5 stars 630
The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Then the archaeologists and grave robbers came in search of the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars, which they found clutched in the hand of the mummy. Few heeded the ancient warning, until all who came in contact with the Jewel began to die in a mysterious and violent way, with the marks of a strangler around their neck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mother of all Mummy-Stories
- By Dorothea on 03-15-08
By: Bram Stoker
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The Snow Empress
- By: Laura Joh Rowland
- Narrated by: James Yaegashi
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 64
Chosen by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2007, The Snow Empress showcases author Laura Joh Rowland's deep understanding of 17th-century Japan and her impeccable gift of storytelling. This thrilling novel finds samurai detective Sano Ichirõ working to gain freedom for his son by investigating the murder of a lord's beloved mistress.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Japanophile delight
- By Lee M. MD on 03-21-09
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The Ripper's Shadow
- A Victorian Mystery
- By: Laura Joh Rowland
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Jack the Ripper begins his reign of terror. Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer, supplements her meager income by taking illicit boudoir photographs of the town's local ladies of the night. But when two of her models are found gruesomely murdered within weeks of one another, Sarah begins to suspect it's more than mere coincidence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really not a good book.
- By Robin Thompson on 08-25-17
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This Dark Endeavor
- The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Book 1
- By: Kenneth Oppel
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 245
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Story4 out of 5 stars 215
Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures... until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon The Dark Library, and secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are discovered. Father forbids that they ever enter the room again, but this only peaks Victor's curiosity more. When Konrad falls gravely ill, Victor is not be satisfied with the various doctors his parents have called in to help. He is drawn back to The Dark Library....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chilling and oddly poignant
- By Debra on 10-23-11
By: Kenneth Oppel
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Instruments of Darkness
- A Novel
- By: Imogen Robertson
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4 out of 5 stars 139
In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not The Best, But Not Too Bad...
- By MJ on 01-13-13
By: Imogen Robertson
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- Muffin Drill
- 05-24-23
Great story, but the narrator…
Yokomizo’s books have all been great so far, and this one was excellent aswell, except the narrator really made me frustrated listening as certain points. All of the characters except for the main sounded like grumpy old women. Even Detective Kindaichi was portrayed with a raspy whisper that made it not only difficult to follow, but did not capture the characters essence at all. I seriously doubt the narrator took into account the backstory of kindaichi that was elaborated upon in the Honjin Murders. Other than that, good book. The Honjin Murders and Inugami Clan books were a lot better though, the format was much different, and the perspective of more than one character was used, which I found more interesting. But a must read for Japanese Detective Novel fans none the less
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- Faye Raye
- 03-28-23
Thoroughly Enjoyable Classical Suspense.
Every consumer of mystery novels will love the tales of Detective Kindachi. I'm loving this original series, and this third book was as enjoyable as the previous two. I'm looking forward to the fourth book!
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- Melanie's Grandma
- 08-10-23
Best so far
I have read a few of detective kendachi books but this one has been the best so far. It’s told from a different perspective that is not the detective himself which I usually enjoy but I was pleasantly surprised by this other point of view in the developing story. Thoroughly good plot with plenty of complications which build up suspense and complexity. I really recommend it.
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- Honoria Hughes
- 10-26-23
Best mystery book I've listened to this year.
I'm enjoying this book very much because of the setting, the time period and the narrator, who has an Australian accent. The plot is engaging and is keeping me in suspense. I think I know who the killer is, but I'm only half way through the story. I can't wait to find out the motive behind the killings, and to learn more of the back story behind the main character's early childhood. I plan to get more audio books from this author.
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