Bestsellers
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Gone Before Goodbye
- By: Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon
- Narrated by: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,111
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Performance7,887
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Story7,885
A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! This thrilling full-cast recording features Reese Witherspoon as Maggie and Chris Pine as Marc, supported by Saskia Maarleveld, Peter Ganim, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and James Fouhey. AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable...
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Decent story line but…
- By Denise K on 10-16-25
By: Harlan Coben, and others
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Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
In CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron’s chillingly plausible first standalone, “there is no hiding under the desk” (The New York Times Book Review). When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura...
By: Mick Herron
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The Devil's Bible
- A Cotton Malone Novel
- By: Steve Berry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance105
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Story105
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is...
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The majority of the story spans one day
- By Richard S. Swol on 03-12-26
By: Steve Berry
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Get Shorty
- A Novel
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance49
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Story49
New York Times Bestselling Author “Brilliant...impressive...superb.” —Washington Post Book World “A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.” —Detroit News The classic New York Times bestseller that introduced...
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An Interesting And Well Read Story
- By Frank Donnelly on 11-13-25
By: Elmore Leonard
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The Black Wolf
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Jean Brassard
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,593
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Performance1,535
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Story1,535
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal...
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Very good; prefer previous reader
- By Anonymous on 10-30-25
By: Louise Penny
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The Brothers Karamazov
- (Bicentennial Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall310
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Performance287
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Story287
This program is read by renowned English actor Ben Miles, best known for his narration of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. “Ben Miles's English accent is perfect for the text of this recent, award-winning translation. He delivers narrative sections in a consistent tone, and his expression is...
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Well Worth Your Time
- By Scole on 12-06-24
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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Gone Before Goodbye
- By: Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon
- Narrated by: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,111
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Performance7,887
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Story7,885
A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! This thrilling full-cast recording features Reese Witherspoon as Maggie and Chris Pine as Marc, supported by Saskia Maarleveld, Peter Ganim, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and James Fouhey. AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable...
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Decent story line but…
- By Denise K on 10-16-25
By: Harlan Coben, and others
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Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
In CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron’s chillingly plausible first standalone, “there is no hiding under the desk” (The New York Times Book Review). When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura...
By: Mick Herron
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The Devil's Bible
- A Cotton Malone Novel
- By: Steve Berry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance105
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Story105
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is...
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The majority of the story spans one day
- By Richard S. Swol on 03-12-26
By: Steve Berry
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Get Shorty
- A Novel
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance49
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Story49
New York Times Bestselling Author “Brilliant...impressive...superb.” —Washington Post Book World “A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.” —Detroit News The classic New York Times bestseller that introduced...
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An Interesting And Well Read Story
- By Frank Donnelly on 11-13-25
By: Elmore Leonard
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The Black Wolf
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Jean Brassard
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,593
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Performance1,535
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Story1,535
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal...
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Very good; prefer previous reader
- By Anonymous on 10-30-25
By: Louise Penny
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The Brothers Karamazov
- (Bicentennial Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall310
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Performance287
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Story287
This program is read by renowned English actor Ben Miles, best known for his narration of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. “Ben Miles's English accent is perfect for the text of this recent, award-winning translation. He delivers narrative sections in a consistent tone, and his expression is...
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Well Worth Your Time
- By Scole on 12-06-24
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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Trust No One
- A Thriller
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance59
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Story59
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could...
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Could have been a good story
- By DC Reader on 03-11-26
By: James Rollins
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The Art of Murder
- The Village Detectives, Book 1
- By: Fiona Walker
- Narrated by: Christine Mackie
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance42
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Story42
Welcome to the beautiful English village of Inkbury. Tucked deep in the North Wessex Downs, its only claim to fame is the picturesque riverside that once appeared in a Richard Curtis movie. That is, until the murder…
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the elaborate language, sometimes delicious, sometimes tideous.
- By carmen d on 03-23-25
By: Fiona Walker
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Miss Wolcott's Ghost
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
The next new mystery in Louise Penny’s #1 New York Times bestselling Three Pines mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache...
By: Louise Penny
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- A Lisbeth Salander Novel
- By: Stieg Larsson
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42,221
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Performance27,092
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Story27,143
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly...
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A Classic Mystery with Wonderful Characters
- By Robert on 12-22-08
By: Stieg Larsson
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Dark Rising
- The Shepherds, Book 4
- By: Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall593
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Performance562
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Story562
Only weeks ago, former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson, head of Joshua Bravo team at the Shepherds, helped to defeat Victor, the leader of the devil’s Dark Ones. Now, his boss, Ben Morvant, has tasked him with an even harder mission: Take a vacation.
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Absolutely AMAZING series!!!!!!
- By crouthamel on 05-06-25
By: Brian Andrews, and others
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The Alex Mason Series, Books 4-6
- An Alex Mason Box Set, Book 2
- By: David Archer, Blake Banner
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall107
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Performance99
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Story99
ODIN is an organization which is above top secret. It coordinates intelligence from the so-called Five Eyes The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – and it acts on that intelligence. For that reason it’s level of security is the highest on the planet.
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The Saga continues
- By Empress Karen on 01-23-26
By: David Archer, and others
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Mission Critical
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall15,673
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Performance14,373
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Story14,307
From Mark Greaney, The New York Times best-selling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man....
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Greaney at his Best (with Jay Snyder)!!!!
- By shelley on 02-20-19
By: Mark Greaney
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LaBrava
- A Novel
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance29
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Story29
New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard delivers his trademark blend of action, sex, violence, humor, and hard-boiled suspense in this thrilling crime classic, LaBrava. Joe La Brava is an ex–Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former...
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Excruciating performance
- By brustfield on 07-26-25
By: Elmore Leonard
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Ember
- The Tier One Thrillers, Book 8
- By: Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,435
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Performance2,277
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Story2,277
After surviving the most dangerous mission of his career, John Dempsey is back at Ember. But Ember has changed—and so has he. Meanwhile, a new adversary sees an opportunity to rise. As Dempsey and Vice President Jarvis soon discover, the world stage is about to get deadlier than ever.
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Long live Dempsey
- By Anonymous on 07-03-24
By: Brian Andrews, and others
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
- By: Martin Edwards
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins, Mark Elstob, Martin Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Story21
Six down-on-their-luck people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust. The challenge seems simple but exciting: Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer in a remote but wonderfully atmospheric village in north...
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Great premise, but...
- By T. Greenman on 12-14-25
By: Martin Edwards
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The Ipcress File
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance39
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Story39
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world....
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Why is this such a popular book?
- By MLC on 05-18-24
By: Len Deighton
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The Gravedigger’s Almanac
- A Novel
- By: Oliver Pötzsch
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance31
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Story31
The New York Times bestselling author of The Hangman's Daughter returns with the first volume in a brand-new mystery series which introduces a gravedigger and young inspector who must stop a serial killer in fin de siecle Vienna—the period during which modern criminology was born. Vienna, 1893...
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Real dark thriller
- By AndreaK. on 08-08-25
By: Oliver Pötzsch
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Call for the Dead
- George Smiley, Book 1
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall348
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Performance301
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Story301
After an unremarkable interview, Circus agent George Smiley determines the subject of a standard security check—a civil servant in the Foreign Office named Samuel Fennan—poses no threat, nor presents any reason for suspicion of espionage. Hours later, Samuel Fennan is found dead by suicide.
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Good, short, intrigue and mystery from the beginnings of the modern era of espionage.
- By Anthro006 on 08-14-24
By: John Le Carré
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The Running Grave
- A Cormoran Strike Novel
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 34 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,228
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Performance5,535
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Story5,532
In this New York Times bestselling installment of the "outrageously entertaining" Strike series (Financial Times), detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will...
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The best one yet
- By Meaghan Bynum on 09-27-23
By: Robert Galbraith
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The Edge
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Erin Cottrell, Will Collyer, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,233
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Performance2,800
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Story2,800
The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America’s dirtiest secrets—can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Silkwell is murdered in rural Maine, government...
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outstanding
- By J Mock Jr on 11-15-23
By: David Baldacci
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The Fix
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Kyf Brewer
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17,432
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Performance15,737
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Story15,674
In this "perfect 'fix' for the thriller aficionado" (Associated Press) #1 New York Times bestseller, maverick FBI detective Amos Decker must forge an uneasy alliance with the Defense Intelligence Agency to prevent an international incident that could spell the end of the United States as we know...
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The Fix
- By BookReader on 05-21-18
By: David Baldacci
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Clown Town
- Slough House, Book 9
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall660
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Performance607
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Story607
David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks’ College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed.
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wit and characters
- By PTM on 09-12-25
By: Mick Herron
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Red Storm Rising
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 31 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,450
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Performance7,381
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Story7,358
When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm...
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Good Story, Good Narrative, Good Book!
- By PatC on 04-11-12
By: Tom Clancy
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Zero Day
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15,486
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Performance13,701
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Story13,654
Combat veteran and U. S. Army investigator John Puller is on the hunt for justice with the help of a homicide detective--but as they face deceptions and dead ends, a powerful force threatens to stop them forever in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. John Puller is a combat veteran and...
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Big fan of David Baldacci, not a fan of Zero Day
- By William R. on 11-22-11
By: David Baldacci
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Tom Clancy Line of Demarcation
- By: M.P. Woodward
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall820
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Performance777
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Story777
The discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series. It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG Claiborne was on an innocuous...
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Covert Operatives that don’t know guns???
- By Eric R. Molicki on 10-01-25
By: M.P. Woodward
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Death Wasn't Invited
- A June's Journey Mystery
- By: Carlene O'Connor
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Based on the hit mobile game, a cozy murder mystery set in 1920s Paris by a USA Today bestselling author, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Agatha Christie. June’s friend has been brutally murdered, and the police have the wrong man. Can she solve the case before the killer catches up to her?
By: Carlene O'Connor
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- George Smiley, Book 3
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall237
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Performance213
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Story213
It’s the early 1960s, and the newly built Berlin Wall looms large. British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, caught in its shadow, feels the chill all too keenly: the preceding years have seen nearly every member of his Berlin spy network either murdered or captured.
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The Perfect Spy Novel
- By Eric Hoglund on 07-03-24
By: John Le Carré
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Last One Out
- A Novel
- By: Jane Harper
- Narrated by: Angeline Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town. Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company...
By: Jane Harper
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The Innocent: A Novel
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20,891
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Performance18,645
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Story18,599
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, America's best hitman must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murder. It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't...
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Story Is OK. Performance, Not So Much.
- By Bill on 08-23-15
By: David Baldacci
New releases
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The Devil's Bible
- A Cotton Malone Novel
- By: Steve Berry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance105
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Story105
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is...
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The majority of the story spans one day
- By Richard S. Swol on 03-12-26
By: Steve Berry
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The Star at Dawn
- By: Kanae Minato
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii, Jenny Yokobori
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
During the National High School Cultural Festival ceremony, Yoshiyuki Shimizu - the current Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a literary giant - was fatally stabbed by a man who rushed out from backstage. The arrested suspect, 37-year-old Akatsuki Nagase, began publishing his memoirs in a weekly magazine following his arrest.
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its fiction within fiction
- By Aus on 03-05-26
By: Kanae Minato
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Trust No One
- A Thriller
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance59
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Story59
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could...
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Could have been a good story
- By DC Reader on 03-11-26
By: James Rollins
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Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
In CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron’s chillingly plausible first standalone, “there is no hiding under the desk” (The New York Times Book Review). When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura...
By: Mick Herron
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Strange Buildings
- A Novel
- By: Uketsu
- Narrated by: Andrew Grace
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. . . . Each of the buildings...
By: Uketsu
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Tú no eres Sherlock Holmes
- By: David Llorente
- Narrated by: Voz Virtual
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
En medio de la crisis económica que sacude España, Ubaldo Contador, un psicólogo de la Policía Nacional, se ve inmerso en una investigación que lo llevará lejos de su hogar y de sus problemas cotidianos. A su lado, la investigadora checa Janka Kopecká lucha por descifrar la mente del implacable criminal conocido como el Mutilador de Praga. Tú no eres Sherlock Holmes es una novela que entrelaza las vidas de estos y otros muchos personajes, cada uno luchando por encontrar su camino en una ciudad que parece devorar a sus habitantes.
By: David Llorente
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The Devil's Bible
- A Cotton Malone Novel
- By: Steve Berry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance105
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Story105
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is...
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The majority of the story spans one day
- By Richard S. Swol on 03-12-26
By: Steve Berry
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The Star at Dawn
- By: Kanae Minato
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii, Jenny Yokobori
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
During the National High School Cultural Festival ceremony, Yoshiyuki Shimizu - the current Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a literary giant - was fatally stabbed by a man who rushed out from backstage. The arrested suspect, 37-year-old Akatsuki Nagase, began publishing his memoirs in a weekly magazine following his arrest.
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its fiction within fiction
- By Aus on 03-05-26
By: Kanae Minato
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Trust No One
- A Thriller
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance59
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Story59
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could...
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Could have been a good story
- By DC Reader on 03-11-26
By: James Rollins
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Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
In CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron’s chillingly plausible first standalone, “there is no hiding under the desk” (The New York Times Book Review). When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura...
By: Mick Herron
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Strange Buildings
- A Novel
- By: Uketsu
- Narrated by: Andrew Grace
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. . . . Each of the buildings...
By: Uketsu
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Tú no eres Sherlock Holmes
- By: David Llorente
- Narrated by: Voz Virtual
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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En medio de la crisis económica que sacude España, Ubaldo Contador, un psicólogo de la Policía Nacional, se ve inmerso en una investigación que lo llevará lejos de su hogar y de sus problemas cotidianos. A su lado, la investigadora checa Janka Kopecká lucha por descifrar la mente del implacable criminal conocido como el Mutilador de Praga. Tú no eres Sherlock Holmes es una novela que entrelaza las vidas de estos y otros muchos personajes, cada uno luchando por encontrar su camino en una ciudad que parece devorar a sus habitantes.
By: David Llorente
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Death in a Strange Country
- A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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“This series has become one of the adornments of current crime fiction. A gem.” —The Scotsman Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging...
By: Donna Leon
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Félicie (Inspector Maigret)
- By: Georges Simenon, David Coward - translator
- Narrated by: David Coward
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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“Simenon was fascinated by peculiarities of human personality, which he described in elegant, simple prose . . . as pure as running water.” —Roger Ebert It’s the height of spring, and Maigret is grappling with doubly unfamiliar circumstances. He’s in the surreal new village of...
By: Georges Simenon, and others
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Acqua Alta
- A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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“Smuggling, sexual betrayal, high-class fakery and, of course, mafia money make for a rich brew.” —Sunday Times (London) As Venice braces for a winter tempest, Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon’s intrepid Italian sleuth, finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the...
By: Donna Leon
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Absolute Deception
- A Jake Mercer Political Thriller, Book Fifteen
- By: Jack Mars
- Narrated by: Bruce Nix
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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When a devastating earthquake strikes during a high-stakes economic summit, Secret Service agent Jake Mercer faces his biggest challenge yet: protecting the President from a natural disaster turned terrorist hunting ground. In Tokyo's collapsing cityscape, can he safeguard democracy's heartbeat amidst the anarchy?
By: Jack Mars
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Suspicion
- A Novel
- By: Seicho Matsumoto, Alafair Burke - introduction, Jesse Kirkwood - translator
- Narrated by: Kenichiro Thomson
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sunday Times) In the middle of the night, a car drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but...
By: Seicho Matsumoto, and others
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Arbroath Smokie Slaying
- Albert Smith's Culinary Capers, Recipe 7
- By: Steve Higgs
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On a culinary tour of the British Isles, a retired detective and a failed police dog intend to taste the smoked fish that made the town famous …… but when the first person they meet turns up dead a few hours later in an apparent suicide neither one of them believes, both man and dog must accept they’ve stumbled into another mystery. All too soon, they wish they hadn’t poked their noses in because what they have uncovered could be truly sinister.
By: Steve Higgs
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Even Gods Bleed
- The Gage Files, Book 4
- By: Dale M. Nelson
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Julian Kessler, the visionary CEO of NOVA AI, has pushed the boundaries of artificial intelligence, blurring the lines between human and machine. But progress comes at a price, and Kessler has made enemies—ones closer than he realizes. And when a ruthless smear campaign threatens to destroy his reputation, he turns to ex-CIA officer turned private investigator Matt Gage to uncover who's orchestrating his downfall and why.
By: Dale M. Nelson
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Family Vows
- Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery, Book 8
- By: Beth Farrar
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Ellie McLellan thought wedding planning would be the toughest challenge of her life. But with Quinn Walsh secretly crafting a surprise, relatives flying in from the UK, and the Cozy Corner Café doubling as their wedding venue, chaos quickly takes center stage. Ellie's nerves have nothing to do with saying "I do"—she just wants everything to go as planned.
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Enjoyable Light reading
- By SLH on 03-17-26
By: Beth Farrar
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Lancashire Hotpot Peril
- Albert Smith's Culinary Capers, Recipe 9
- By: Steve Higgs
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Visiting a small Lancashire town to learn their culinary secrets, a retired detective and his former police dog dream of delicious dishes …… what they get is the dead body of a famous TV chef. Instantly plunged into a mystery that threatens to test their limits, Rex and Albert must stay one step ahead of the killer. However, it seems that everyone around them had a motive for wanting the TV chef to meet an untimely end. With no end of suspects, who can they turn to for help? Everyone around them could be the killer and it quickly becomes clear that someone does not want this mystery solved.
By: Steve Higgs
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Genesis (Spanish Edition)
- Robert Hunter, Band 12
- By: Chris Carter
- Narrated by: Miquel García Borda
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Un asesinato como ningún otro. Un asesino más retorcido de lo que jamás ha visto. Un caso que lo llevará al límite. Tras recibir el aviso, Robert Hunter llega a la escena del crimen más escalofriante y brutal a la que ha acudido jamás. El horror aumenta cuando, durante la autopsia, encuentran dentro del cuerpo de la víctima una nota con el verso de un poema dejado por el asesino. Cuando poco tiempo después se encuentra otro cadáver, el método utilizado y la firma del asesino son tan distintos del primero que los forenses al principio no ven ninguna relación entre los crímenes.
By: Chris Carter
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Destiny Island
- AJ Bailey Adventure Series, Book Eighteen
- By: Nicholas Harvey
- Narrated by: Kim Bretton
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When the big-budget reality series Destiny Island sails into Grand Cayman with a brand-new, purpose-built floating film set, the production hires AJ Bailey and Reg Moore to keep the ecosystem safe. But when a routine inspection dive uncovers an interesting but seemingly harmless artefact, the find quickly attracts interest from people who might not be who they claim to be. Half a century earlier, rising film star Kit Soderberg arrives on the island under the cover of a science conference, tasked with an unofficial mission to coax the superpowers towards de-escalation
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Kim Bretton fabulous again
- By Steven K. Manfred on 03-13-26
By: Nicholas Harvey
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A Summertime Murder
- The Isle of Wight Killings, Book 5
- By: Mary Grand
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Susan never imagined herself an amateur sleuth, and she certainly never goes looking for trouble, preferring days spent walking her loyal dogs Libs and Rocco, and maybe even a dip in the sea to cool off after this interminable heatwave. When she hears of a break-in at the vet's where her new neighbour works, Susan's curiosity is piqued. And then, a few days later, the lead vet, Peter, mysteriously disappears. They assume it's business related until his body is washed up on the beach close to his clifftop home.
By: Mary Grand
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Code Dead
- A Sam Taylor Thriller
- By: Ben Baldwin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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When former MI6 agent Selwin Birks is found dead in his Costa Blanca villa, police call it a suicide. A few days later, MI5 agent Chris Kane is also found dead, killed on his boat. But the local police can see no connection. Maverick Government agent Sam Taylor knows better....
By: Ben Baldwin
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Cold Target
- By: Dan Ames
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Joe Reacher is used to working in the shadows. A former military intelligence operative and now a Treasury agent, he's spent years tracking dangers most Americans never know exist. But when a decorated Special Forces officer goes dark in Michigan's Upper Peninsula—and bodies begin turning up in the snow—Reacher knows this one is different. The man behind it is a soldier. A patriot. And the man who once saved Reacher's life.
By: Dan Ames
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Inspector Cadaver (Inspector Maigret)
- By: Georges Simenon, William Hobson - translator
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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“Open any of his novels—from the outset, the magic operates: from the first paragraph you are caught in the jaws of a trap that will not release you until the full-stop at the end of the last page, and even then with the book closed, you remain dizzy and panting as you try to regain your...
By: Georges Simenon, and others
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A Bad, Bad Place
- By: Frances Crawford
- Narrated by: Brede McDermott, Bobby Rainsbury
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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If it hadn’t been for her wee stupid dog, Sid Vicious, 12-year-old Janey Devine might never have stumbled upon the corpse of Samantha Watson. And then maybe she’d still be able to sleep at night. And maybe her nana wouldn’t be so worried sick all the time. And maybe Billy “The Ghost” Watson, a notorious gangster, wouldn’t be on her tail—for it’s Billy’s daughter who was left for dead on those train tracks, and now Billy wants answers.
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Rich Characters
- By AudibleFan on 03-21-26
By: Frances Crawford
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A Honeymoon of Havoc
- A Closed-Circle Travel Cozy Murder Mystery
- By: Victoria Tait
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s love at first light on a golden Sri Lankan beach… until the tide turns deadly. Café owner, Keya Varma, is overjoyed to escape the English Cotswold winter for tropical sunshine, and her happiness soars when her CSI partner surprises her with a marriage proposal. A quiet ceremony on a golden beach seems the perfect start to their life together. But paradise loses its sparkle when a priceless sapphire disappears, and a body is found on the sand. With the local police quick to accuse the newlyweds, Keya’s honeymoon takes a disastrous turn. Caught between suspicion and island ...
By: Victoria Tait
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Blind Pursuit
- By: Rob Sinclair
- Narrated by: Ben Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Callum Murphy thought he was happily married to a corporate consultant. But when police show up at Callum's work site, informing him of his wife Lea's death – his world starts to crumble. Within a few hours, Callum is told that Lea was, in fact, an MI6 agent who was killed because of intelligence only she had, strangers with guns break into his home and he's forced to run for his life. Thrust into a terrifying chase across Europe, Callum has to dodge British police and shadowy MI6 operatives who believe he knows more than he's letting on.
By: Rob Sinclair
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The Third Girl
- Castillac Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Nell Goddin
- Narrated by: Becket Royce
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Boston girl Molly Sutton moves to a small village in France to lick her wounds after a divorce. Castillac is charming, the croissants amazing, the wine delectable. Molly's new life is full of contentment, if a bit short on excitement. But then a girl goes missing... and Molly's world gets turned upside down. Truth be told, no one in the village feels safe. They struggle to believe such darkness could exist in a friendly village, where people spend most of their time thinking about nothing more frightening than what to have for lunch.
By: Nell Goddin
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Murder for Love
- Castillac Mysteries, Book 4
- By: Nell Goddin
- Narrated by: Becket Royce
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful corpse. Zero clues. Peace in Castillac shattered once more. When another native of the French village is found dead, Molly and the gendarmes are stumped. Complicating matters, Ben is hired to defend Molly’s prime suspect. Uh oh, mixing romance with detective work can be a dangerous business… or at least, it can lead to some unsteady conclusions. Will Molly figure out where she’s gone wrong in time to nail the killer? Or will her scheme to unmask the murderer at Lawrence’s disco birthday party fall apart?
By: Nell Goddin
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The Luckiest Woman Ever
- Castillac Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Nell Goddin
- Narrated by: Becket Royce
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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A widow in a mansion. Dark secrets. And poison, deadly poison. After amateur detective Molly Sutton stumbles on a dead body, she wastes no time before eavesdropping and elbowing her way into conversations all over the French village of Castillac. But when Chief Dufort is about to clap handcuffs on the wrong man, she’s got to do more than chat to save him. Will she have the stuff—and the skill—to pull it off?
By: Nell Goddin
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The Missing Girl Of Cartagena
- A gripping international detective crime thriller
- By: Pablo Poveda
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Some girls vanish. Others are made to disappear… When Elsa Rey goes to the police to report her sister missing, no one seems interested. No one except Inspector Francisco Rojo. At first, Rojo thinks Lucía’s disappearance is just another dead-end case in a city already drowning in violence, corruption, and unrest. Another young woman swallowed by the night. Another file that will gather dust while everyone moves on. But something feels wrong. Too many people are nervous. Too many questions go unanswered. And too many powerful men want Rojo to leave it alone. Cartagena, 1992. The city is...
By: Pablo Poveda
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La galleta de la fortuna
- Un misterio de asesinato de harry chin
- By: Ralph Griffith
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Algunos caminan hacia atrás para ver de dónde vienen. Pero un hombre sabio siempre camina de lado, así puede ver de dónde viene y tener cuidado de adónde va. La galleta de la fortuna Para el inspector federal Harry Chin, un viaje a Perth se suponía que serían unas vacaciones cortas. Una oportunidad para dar una conferencia sobre el frío y clínico mundo de la ciencia forense en una facultad de derecho. Mientras abre una galleta de la suerte en el legendario restaurante Li Po, el aire se rompe con el estruendoso estallido de una ejecución profesional. En un abrir y cerrar de ojos, ...
By: Ralph Griffith
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Death in Darkness
- Castillac Mysteries, Book 8
- By: Nell Goddin
- Narrated by: Becket Royce
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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A disturbed wife. A nanny. And a pack of cowardly, lying friends. Simon Valette, a cultured and successful Parisian, moves his family to Castillac looking for peace and quiet. Before they've had a chance to settle in, someone is found murdered in their library. Molly and Ben work double-time to disentangle all the lies--including those told by their own friends. Will they manage to trap the killer before another victim trusts the wrong person and winds up dead?
By: Nell Goddin