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Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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It’s the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, antimonarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence. Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide campaign of terror, but to what end? At the same time, a bizarrely garbed figure has been spotted on the rooftops and in the grimy back alleys of the capital.
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One of the better tributes
- By ozgribbo on 20-09-2024
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Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Series: Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2022
- Language: English
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A Murder in Time
- Kendra Donovan Mysteries Series, Book 1
- By: Julie McElwain
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
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Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates.
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absolutely excellent
- By Nick on 23-09-2024
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A Murder in Time
- Kendra Donovan Mysteries Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Series: Kendra Donovan, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-02-2017
- Language: English
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Murder Your Employer
- The McMasters Guide to Homicide
- By: Rupert Holmes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Neil Patrick Harris
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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Who hasn't wondered for a split second what the world would be like the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you've probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death.
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catchy title
- By Anonymous User on 20-07-2024
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Murder Your Employer
- The McMasters Guide to Homicide
- Narrated by: Simon Vance, Neil Patrick Harris
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2023
- Language: English
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The Thornless Rose
- Elizabethan Time Travel Series, Book 1
- By: Morgan O'Neill
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Brook
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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What happened to Dr. Jonathan Brandon, a dashing RAF flight surgeon, who disappeared from London in 1945? Kidnapping? Murder? Or did Brandon merely vanish of his own free will, seeking another life? American teacher Anne Howard is stunned by a different explanation - that her British grandmother's long-lost fiance was unwillingly wrenched back through time to Elizabethan England. Anne knows time travel is nonsense - until she is handed a fresh-cut thornless rose, a bloom extinct for over 400 years.
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Great story great narration
- By Maddie on 30-08-2024
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The Thornless Rose
- Elizabethan Time Travel Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Brook
- Series: Elizabethan Time Travel, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2018
- Language: English
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The Mapping of Love and Death
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 7
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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It's 1932 and the remains of missing cartographer Michael Clifton are found in a former battlefield in France. When it's clear he was murdered, his wealthy parents hire Maisie to find the woman who wrote a series of love letters discovered among Michael's belongings. The lover identifies herself only as "The English Nurse". Maisie must also wrestle with memories of serving as a nurse herself in the Great War - memories that she has tried so hard to obliterate.
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A fitting last book in a quietly captivating series.
- By annela on 30-09-2018
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The Mapping of Love and Death
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 7
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Series: Maisie Dobbs, Book 7
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-02-2012
- Language: English
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Murder at the Polo Club
- Cleopatra Fox Mysteries, Book 7
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Summer has arrived along with a plethora of social events that keep Cleo and her cousins busy. Between balls, dinners, concerts and picnics, they attend the final match between two proud polo clubs. When the winning team’s captain is found murdered in the stables, everyone assumes the opposing team’s captain killed him. After all, he was found holding the murder weapon, and everyone knows they hated each other.
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Truly awesome
- By Catherine on 05-06-2024
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Murder at the Polo Club
- Cleopatra Fox Mysteries, Book 7
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Series: Cleopatra Fox Mysteries, Book 7
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2023
- Language: English
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The Big Nowhere
- By: James Ellroy
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
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A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the '50s. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness.
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Genius
- By Ms Elizabeth Fallon on 11-06-2022
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The Big Nowhere
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Series: LA Quartet, Book 2
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2016
- Language: English
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The Lady from Zagreb
- Bernie Gunther, Book 10
- By: Philip Kerr
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Bernie Gunther is back, in deeper trouble than ever in this new novel from the master of the historical thriller. Summer, 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke. One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, Bernie receives another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema.
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The Lady from Zagreb
- Bernie Gunther, Book 10
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Bernie Gunther, Book 10
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2022
- Language: English
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Murder in First Class
- A Miss Underhay Mystery, Book 8
- By: Helena Dixon
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Kitty Underhay is looking forward to a week of long lunches and wedding planning with her husband-to-be, Captain Matthew Bryant. But the plan is derailed when he is called on to collect a former comrade-in-arms, arriving on the 15:50 from Paddington. As the train bearing Simon Travers pulls up to the platform, a piercing scream rises over the screech of its brakes. Travers is dead in his seat, a dagger in his heart. Only a few individuals had access to Travers’s compartment, and Kitty must find out which of these seemingly benign passengers is, in fact, a cross-country killer.
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Now you’re talking
- By Beaver on 26-09-2023
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Murder in First Class
- A Miss Underhay Mystery, Book 8
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Series: A Miss Underhay Mystery, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2022
- Language: English
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A Proud Woman: A Tabitha & Wolf Mystery
- Tabitha & Wolf Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Sarah F. Noel
- Narrated by: Vicki-Jo Eva
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Tabitha, Lady Chesterton, the Countess of Pembroke, is newly widowed at only 22 years of age. With no son to inherit the title, it falls to a dashing, distant cousin of her husband's, Jeremy Chesterton, known as Wolf. It quickly becomes apparent that Wolf had consorted with some of London's most dangerous citizens before inheriting the title. Can he leave this world behind, or will shadowy figures from his past follow him into his new aristocratic life in Mayfair? And can Tabitha avoid being caught up in Wolf's dubious activities?
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A Proud Woman: A Tabitha & Wolf Mystery
- Tabitha & Wolf Mysteries, Book 1
- Narrated by: Vicki-Jo Eva
- Series: Tabitha & Wolf Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2023
- Language: English
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Past Caring
- By: Robert Goddard
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
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Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Straford resign at the height of his career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly reject him? Why, 70 years later, should people go to such lengths to prevent the truth coming out?
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Pure brilliance
- By Sam J on 05-04-2019
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Past Caring
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2009
- Language: English
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The Butterfly Collector
- By: Tea Cooper
- Narrated by: Emily Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators, the Scott sisters, who lived nearby, so she cannot believe her luck when she discovers a butterfly never before sighted in Australia.
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Keep me entertained
- By Katherine Avery on 04-02-2023
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The Butterfly Collector
- Narrated by: Emily Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2022
- Language: English
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The Lost Plot
- The Invisible Library, Book 4
- By: Genevieve Cogman
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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In a 1920s-esque America, Prohibition is in force, fedoras, flapper dresses and tommy guns are in fashion and intrigue is afoot. Intrepid librarians Irene and Kai find themselves caught in the middle of a dragon vs dragon contest. It seems a young librarian has become tangled in this conflict, and if they can't extricate him, there could be serious political repercussions for the mysterious library. And, as the balance of power across mighty factions hangs in the balance, this could even trigger war.
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So good!
- By Anonymous User on 23-02-2023
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The Lost Plot
- The Invisible Library, Book 4
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Series: The Invisible Library, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2021
- Language: English
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Prussian Blue
- Bernie Gunther, Book 12
- By: Philip Kerr
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail. Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a distant memory.
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Gripping story
- By Anonymous User on 30-10-2023
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Prussian Blue
- Bernie Gunther, Book 12
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Bernie Gunther, Book 12
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2022
- Language: English
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Journey to Munich
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 12
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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It's 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie - who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter - to retrieve him. However, the man she holds responsible for her husband's death has learned of her journey and is also desperate for her help....
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Riveting from start to finish
- By Dr Rachel S Stone on 18-05-2023
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Journey to Munich
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 12
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Series: Maisie Dobbs, Book 12
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 06-10-2016
- Language: English
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A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
- By: Kate Khavari
- Narrated by: Jodie Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is the first woman to hold the position at University College of London. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn’t expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors’ wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin. Dr. Maxwell, Saffron’s mentor, is the main suspect, and evidence quickly mounts.
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A solid frist in a series
- By Anonymous User on 06-03-2023
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A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
- Narrated by: Jodie Harris
- Series: Saffron Everleigh Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Merchant's House
- By: Kate Ellis
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth, has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman and a newborn baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As the investigation continues, Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy, a sexual obsession and desperate longing.
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Spoiled by corny narration.
- By soo jay on 02-11-2021
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The Merchant's House
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Series: DI Wesley Peterson, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-10-2017
- Language: English
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'Til Death Do Us Part
- By: Amanda Quick
- Narrated by: Louise Jane Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning - a black mirror, a funeral wreath, a ring set with black jet stone. Each is engraved with her initials.
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Great story, Grating performance
- By The Reading Room on 12-07-2024
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'Til Death Do Us Part
- Narrated by: Louise Jane Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2016
- Language: English
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The Tudor Vendetta
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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London, 1558. Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth's intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil, and archrival Robert Dudley.
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enjoyable
- By justine hurne on 27-06-2015
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The Tudor Vendetta
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Series: Elizabeth I, Spymaster, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-10-2014
- Language: English
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The Engraver's Secret
- By: Lisa Medved
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor, Claire Warrillow
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Spanish Netherlands, 1620s: raised by her father Lucas to know her mind, Antonia Vorsterman sees everything that goes on in her world - all the rivalries and jealousies that course through the artists' studios and workshops of Antwerp. Drawn into the lively household of the artist Peter Paul Rubens, whose work her father engraves for a living, Antonia begins to see a life of colour and possibility for herself - until Lucas entrusts her with a terrible secret that will alter the course of their family's future.
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very interesting glimpse into history
- By Burnettz on 23-06-2024
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The Engraver's Secret
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor, Claire Warrillow
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2024
- Language: English
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