First Detective

In the darkness of a cold December morning, Detective Kim Stone steps through the doors of Halesowen Police Station. She’s about to meet her team for the first time. When the body of a young man is found beheaded and staked to the ground in a secluded area of the Clent Hills, Kim and her new squad rush to the crime scene. This audio edition includes exclusive bonus content.

Detective Katie Scott stares in horror at what she and her service dog Cisco have discovered: seven shallow graves, the bodies of young women each wrapped carefully in a blanket and buried in makeshift coffins. Miles of abandoned farmland stretch out from the treeline behind her. Has Katie uncovered the horrifying graveyard of a monster who has been stealing Pine Valley’s daughters for years?

A retired surveyor found frozen on a mountain he knew by heart. A coroner who blames the cold. A dog who says otherwise. Riley Marsh came home to run a K-9 unit. That's true. It isn't why. After eleven years as a wilderness paramedic in the Washington Cascades, Riley is three months back in Copper Falls, Montana, running the county's search-and-rescue team with Huck, a seventy-pound chocolate Lab who works on a single word and gets paid in a battered orange duck. Her lease is six months. Her boxes are still packed. Then Gordy Sikes doesn't come back from his pre-dawn elk scout, and on the ...

“No badge, no problem. Michael Lister’s first swing at the modern private eye novel is a home run. The Night Of is an instant classic with rich characters and storytelling that grips your heart from first page to last.” - #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly Lucas Burke and Alix "Blade" Baker: A Pair of Determined Detectives In the sun-soaked expanse of Panama City Beach, Florida, Lucas Burke and Alix “Blade” Baker are the area's most tenacious private investigators. Specializing in missing persons cases, their work is more than just a job—it’s a personal ...

Stacey and Laney are twins—mirror images of each other—and yet they’re as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey works hard at school, determined to get out of their small town. Laney skips school and sneaks out of the house to meet her boyfriend. But when Laney disappears one night, Stacey can’t believe she’s just run off without telling her. As the days pass and Laney doesn’t return, Stacey starts dreaming of her twin. The dreams are dark and terrifying, difficult to understand and hard to shake, but at least they tell Stacey one key thing—Laney is alive.

Rescue diver Caleb Keating knows what the river can do to a body. What he doesn't expect is to recognize the man he pulls from beneath a bridge. Wesley Quinn once sat beside Caleb in the grief group he attended after his brother Aiden drowned. Now Wesley is dead, a strange injury marks his wrist, and homicide detective Theo Rourke isn't convinced the river is the whole story. Then another member of the group turns up dead. The trail leads back six years to the drowning of Cameron Baird—Aiden's boyfriend and a probationary firefighter whose death was ruled an accident. Aiden never believed...

A killer call. A murder close to home. A case only DCI Matilda Darke and her team can solve. No one wants to be the first one to die… *** Featuring an exclusive bonus Q&A with author Michael Wood and audiobook narrator Stephanie Beattie. *** 'Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly...

An actress murdered on the beach. A wellness cult with deadly secrets. And a wedding day that might never come. Emmy-nominated actress Emilia Cruz leaves the Screen Actors Guild Awards in a couture gown and a limousine. Hours later, her mutilated body is found in the sand near the breaking Pacific waves. Detective Kaitlyn Carr is called to the scene of the most high-profile murder of her career. The press is watching. The studio is demanding answers. And the clock is ticking. Two suspects emerge: Emilia's obsessive high school boyfriend who flew in from Iowa, and the enigmatic leader of a ...

Keira North falls to her death at a party. What initially seems like it could be an accident is soon revealed to be something far more sinister as Detectives Alex King and Chloe Lane are called in to investigate the secrets and lies that link a group of four friends. The detectives soon find that all of Keira's three closest friends have secrets that someone would kill to keep. As Alex and Chloe are fighting their own demons and struggling to stay on top of the case, Keira's killer is circling the group of friends, who one by one find that their lives are in danger....

She left Lena the house, the guilt, and one final mystery. Then she stuck around to supervise. Lena Larsen hasn't set foot in New Oslo in fifteen years. Now she's back after inheriting her grandmother Ingrid's crumbling Victorian, a mountain of guilt, and one very opinionated ghost who's convinced she didn't die of natural causes. Granny Ingrid is bossy, sharp-tongued, and absolutely certain she was murdered. She's also transparent, confined to the property, and invisible to everyone except Lena. So that's helpful. Between a smooth-talking property developer who won't take no for an answer,...

Gabby McAllister knows what is waiting for her on the other side of that touch. The vision. The fear. The final moments of someone who did not deserve to die. She picks it up anyway. Every single time. Because somebody has to. In River Bend, that somebody is Gabby. It was not always that way. When the series begins, most of the town wants nothing to do with her or her gift — including her own brother Dustin. She is the woman people cross the street to avoid, the one they whisper about, the one nobody quite trusts. But one case at a time, one vision at a time, one murder solved at a time ...

From romance author Kelly Collins comes Set Free, a grumpy sunshine, enemies to lovers, second chance romance standalone novel. Mickey Mercer walks out of prison with fifty-six dollars and vengeance burning in her chest. Her violent ex-boyfriend didn't just steal her freedom—he destroyed her century-old family ranch, scattered her cattle, and emptied every account she had. Now she's got nothing left to lose and everything to fight for. Detective Kerrick McKinley knows dangerous women, and the fierce hitchhiker outside the prison gates screams trouble. He's done with relationships after ...

"Narrator Ben Aldridge gives listeners the perfect introduction to Matthew Venn...it's a smashing start to a third series by Cleeves." -- AudioFile Magazine AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The Long Call from Ann Cleeves—bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series...

Imagine a killer who thinks, "What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?"--and then goes far beyond it. Now imagine four women --a police detective, an assistant DA, a reporter, and a medical examiner --who join forces as they sidestep their bosses to track down criminals. Known as the...

From the Bram Stoker award-nominated author of The Spite House comes a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can’t die. When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton...

In Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Monsieur L'Inspecteur Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec, a modern Poirot who anchors this beloved traditional mystery series Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards. Chief Inspector Armand...

Dr. Elias Calder was supposed to become a surgeon. Instead, after walking away from a prestigious residency, he enters the Panther City Police Academy determined to stop standing on the sidelines of other people’s tragedies.Brilliant in the classroom but hopeless on the range and last in every...

A rocket ride of a thriller—the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson, "the dream team" (Lee Child). All Presidents have nightmares. This one is about to come true. Every detail is accurate—because one of the authors is President Bill Clinton...

First Grave on the Right is the smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper. Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these...

A fun, gay romantic romp, within a cozy mystery setting: When Jack moves into the vintage carriage house he inherits, he has no idea that his book-dealer uncle’s suicide might have been murder: not until a handsome detective comes knocking at his door to ask questions, where the powerful attraction between the two young men leads to much more than just a murder investigation.