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Into the Gray
- Boston Crime Thriller, Book 6
- By: Brian Shea
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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His adversary? Connor Walsh, the brutal Irish mob boss who has dominated the city's underworld, untouched and unchallenged, for decades. Kelly is no stranger to danger. This mission, to dismantle the kingpin's empire from the inside out, requires him to shed his badge, cross the blue line, and plunge headfirst into the city's gritty underbelly. But first, Kelly must survive a sham prison sentence to complete the first act of his dangerous subterfuge: a ninety-day stint in MCI-Cedar Junction, the prison better known as Walpole.
By: Brian Shea
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Below the Line
- A Hollywood Crime Novel
- By: Lowell Cauffiel
- Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Former Detroit homicide detective Edwin Blake broke into show business as a script consultant on cop movies. Now living in Los Angeles five years later, Blake is suffering from clinical depression, is no longer in demand in film and TV–and money is short. But things look up when Blake gets a call from wealthy, oddball producer, Jason “JP” Perry, telling him he wants to hire him for a future cable TV series. But there’s a catch.
By: Lowell Cauffiel
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TekLab
- The TekWar Series, Book 3
- By: William Shatner
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A French diplomat is walking alone down a darkened Paris side street when a killer emerges from the shadows. He stuns the Frenchman, cuts his body into quarters, and leaves a note that reads: "This is for Brazil!" It is the ninth murder in this fashion in the last two months—a string of round-the-world killings that strikes fear into the hearts of all those connected with the bloody Brazilian wars of the past decade.
By: William Shatner
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Headline Murder
- The Headline Hero Series, Book 1
- By: Peter Bartram
- Narrated by: Matthew Jamie
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s August 1962 and Brighton Evening Chronicle crime reporter Colin Crampton needs a front-page story. Then Colin gets a tip-off that Arnold Trumper, who owns the seafront’s miniature golf course, has disappeared. And that Trumper’s vanishing act is linked to an unsolved murder. Powerful people don’t want Colin to find the truth. He uses every newspaper scam he knows to get his scoop. Trouble is Colin’s girlfriend, feisty Australian Shirley Goldsmith, carries the can when a scam misfires. Can Colin win a race against time to land his story—and keep Shirley on-side?
By: Peter Bartram
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Wake the Past
- Detective Sebastian Clifford, Book 6
- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda "Birdie" Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen. Time's running out. This long-lost son isn't just a missing puzzle piece; he's the last hope for a life-saving kidney transplant for his dying half-brother. The stakes couldn't be higher.
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Brilliant series
- By Jacqui on 13-04-24
By: Sally Rigby
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Echoes of the Fall
- By: Hank Early
- Narrated by: Craig Jessen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Earl Marcus has faced a litany of demons in his time, but a grisly murder sends him spiraling into a vortex of long-buried secrets. After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst summer of his life. But worst turns deadly when a body turns up on Earl's front lawn, accompanied by a cryptic letter.
By: Hank Early
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Into the Gray
- Boston Crime Thriller, Book 6
- By: Brian Shea
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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His adversary? Connor Walsh, the brutal Irish mob boss who has dominated the city's underworld, untouched and unchallenged, for decades. Kelly is no stranger to danger. This mission, to dismantle the kingpin's empire from the inside out, requires him to shed his badge, cross the blue line, and plunge headfirst into the city's gritty underbelly. But first, Kelly must survive a sham prison sentence to complete the first act of his dangerous subterfuge: a ninety-day stint in MCI-Cedar Junction, the prison better known as Walpole.
By: Brian Shea
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Below the Line
- A Hollywood Crime Novel
- By: Lowell Cauffiel
- Narrated by: Mike DelGaudio
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Former Detroit homicide detective Edwin Blake broke into show business as a script consultant on cop movies. Now living in Los Angeles five years later, Blake is suffering from clinical depression, is no longer in demand in film and TV–and money is short. But things look up when Blake gets a call from wealthy, oddball producer, Jason “JP” Perry, telling him he wants to hire him for a future cable TV series. But there’s a catch.
By: Lowell Cauffiel
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TekLab
- The TekWar Series, Book 3
- By: William Shatner
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A French diplomat is walking alone down a darkened Paris side street when a killer emerges from the shadows. He stuns the Frenchman, cuts his body into quarters, and leaves a note that reads: "This is for Brazil!" It is the ninth murder in this fashion in the last two months—a string of round-the-world killings that strikes fear into the hearts of all those connected with the bloody Brazilian wars of the past decade.
By: William Shatner
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Headline Murder
- The Headline Hero Series, Book 1
- By: Peter Bartram
- Narrated by: Matthew Jamie
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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It’s August 1962 and Brighton Evening Chronicle crime reporter Colin Crampton needs a front-page story. Then Colin gets a tip-off that Arnold Trumper, who owns the seafront’s miniature golf course, has disappeared. And that Trumper’s vanishing act is linked to an unsolved murder. Powerful people don’t want Colin to find the truth. He uses every newspaper scam he knows to get his scoop. Trouble is Colin’s girlfriend, feisty Australian Shirley Goldsmith, carries the can when a scam misfires. Can Colin win a race against time to land his story—and keep Shirley on-side?
By: Peter Bartram
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Wake the Past
- Detective Sebastian Clifford, Book 6
- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda "Birdie" Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen. Time's running out. This long-lost son isn't just a missing puzzle piece; he's the last hope for a life-saving kidney transplant for his dying half-brother. The stakes couldn't be higher.
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Brilliant series
- By Jacqui on 13-04-24
By: Sally Rigby
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Echoes of the Fall
- By: Hank Early
- Narrated by: Craig Jessen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Earl Marcus has faced a litany of demons in his time, but a grisly murder sends him spiraling into a vortex of long-buried secrets. After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst summer of his life. But worst turns deadly when a body turns up on Earl's front lawn, accompanied by a cryptic letter.
By: Hank Early
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Vengeance My Only Friend
- By: Timothy Tompkins
- Narrated by: Joel Porter
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A hard-boiled detective takes on corruption and criminals, in a fast-paced story.
By: Timothy Tompkins
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Up in Smoke
- Noir Mysteries Featuring The Smoke, Book 2
- By: Jonathan Call
- Narrated by: Kip Richmond
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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I stopped to get my shoes shined and disaster followed. The guy getting his shoes shined next to me is an ex-con, a street rat, and overall despicable human being. Yet he had plans for the perfect heist. Mastermind? Hardly. But the idea was sound. A bank is scheduled to be demolished. Inside is a long-forgotten secret—a lucrative secret. Empty bank, no guards, no alarms. What can go wrong?
By: Jonathan Call
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The Stone Cypher
- Mysterious Scotland, Book 3
- By: Tormod Cockburn
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Magazine editor and part-time archaeologist, Gill McArdle is getting it together. Or at least, he thinks he is, until the death of a friend throws his life into turmoil. He’s on Orkney, researching an elaborate stone carrying an ancient religious motif. But he’s perplexed as the carving long predates any previous incidence of the symbol’s first use. Either someone is tampering with Orcadian archaeology, or Gill is facing a puzzle that can’t be resolved.
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Good story but.....
- By Kindle Customer on 05-04-24
By: Tormod Cockburn
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Devil's Garden
- By: Ace Atkins
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her—crushed her under his weight—and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict.
By: Ace Atkins
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Kissing Fitz
- Fracktown Gumshoe, Book 4
- By: Debra Gaskill
- Narrated by: V.R. Bryant
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo ‘Fitz’ Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It’s personal too—he’s been casually dating Anna Maria following his disastrous break up with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman. The discovery of a strange coded journal at Anna Maria’s home makes Fitz and Anna Maria’s sister Carlotta wonder if she’s living some sort of double life, one Carlotta wants to know about before the police get wind of it.
By: Debra Gaskill
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Eye for an Eye
- DCI Andy Gilchrist, Book 1
- By: T.F. Muir
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Striking during heavy rain and choosing only victims who abuse women, 'The Stabber' has police baffled. After the sixth man is found murdered, having been stabbed to death through his left eye, DCI Andy Gilchrist is at his wit's end. Struggling against his self-serving and autocratic boss, Gilchrist is left furious when he is taken off the case at a crucial point. Driven by his fear of failure, and desperate to redeem his career and his reputation, Gilchrist vows to catch The Stabber alone.
By: T.F. Muir
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Fallen King
- A Jesse McDermitt Novel (Caribbean Adventure Series, Book 6)
- By: Wayne Stinnett
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The quiet and solitude found in the backcountry and wetlands of south Florida has been shattered. Someone is using explosives to fish the ecologically fragile patch reefs in the shallow waters of Florida Bay, north of the Keys. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt doesn't like explosions in his backyard. Knowing his penchant for inserting himself in matters best left to the authorities, his friends withhold information from him about the destruction to the delicate, living corals. Jesse doesn't much like this, either.
By: Wayne Stinnett
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Without Remorse
- The Harry Starke Novels, Book 9
- By: Blair Howard
- Narrated by: Tom Lennon
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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On a balmy afternoon in May 2002, wealthy stockbroker Peter Nicholson was turkey hunting with three friends in Prentice Cooper State Forest when he tripped, fell on his shotgun, and accidentally shot himself … dead, but did he? Fifteen years later, as a last resort, Nicholson’s mother asks Harry Starke to find the truth. As we all know, Harry loves a cold case, but … as always, there’s a twist in the tale.
By: Blair Howard
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Fallen Hero
- A Jesse McDermitt Novel (Caribbean Adventure Series, Book 10)
- By: Wayne Stinnett
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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A young treasure diving couple is sadistically murdered in the back country of the Florida Keys - and Jesse McDermitt's friend is the prime suspect. The reclusive federal agent and former combat Marine launches his own investigation in the face of overwhelming evidence. McDermitt is certain of his friend's innocence. When a third victim's body is discovered lodged among the mangrove roots on Knockemdown Key, the race to stop a serial killer begins. Detective Devon Evans will do anything to apprehend the killer before he claims another victim.
By: Wayne Stinnett
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Shades of Knight
- The SpoCompton series, Book 5
- By: Frank Zafiro
- Narrated by: Ellie Gossage, Dan And
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Knight family is well-known in Spokane, thanks to the family patriarch, Solomon, founding a regional grocery chain. Each of Solomon's adult children seem to have gone their own way. Jocelyn is a cop. Nicky is a criminal. Susan and Harold are both striving to make it in the business, each in their own way. Marigold is an artist. And Lily, the youngest and frailest of them, is missing—sucked into the dark recesses of the drug world.
By: Frank Zafiro
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Celebrity Skin
- Violet Darger FBI Mystery Thriller, Book 12
- By: L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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When a homemade explosive device detonates on the set of a network sitcom, FBI profiler Violet Darger heads to Hollywood to investigate. Her gut tells her this is only the first of what will be multiple attacks. Her gut is right. Darger enters the strange world of the studio lot. Elaborate sets surround her. Actors and crew members stream past in all directions. The excitement vibrates in the air—the passion necessary to capture the collective dreams of a culture within the lens of a camera.
By: L.T. Vargus, and others
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The Man Nobody Saw
- By: Peter Cheyney
- Narrated by: Andrew Sterling
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Johnny Vallon exchanges the dangers of total war for the equally hazardous challenges of Chennault’s Investigations. And in the heart of London, murder hits home – right in Chennault’s office. Chennault, himself, owner of the flourishing detective agency, is found slumped over his desk. Heart trouble is the official diagnosis. But Vallon knows better, and proves it.
By: Peter Cheyney