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Author: Jeffery Deaver
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Author Jeffery Deaver
Narrator Todd Boyce
Duration 6h 35m
Gabrielle is sitting in an apartment in Manhattan, watching the clock. Her daughter has been kidnapped, she's shot and killed a man, and is trying to negotiate with the kidnapper. He wants the October List, and he wants money. The doorbell rings...That is the end of Gabrielle's story, and the first chapter of the novel. The next chapter is the scen...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Waters
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Author Sarah Waters
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 18h 55m
New York Times best-selling author Sarah Waters received sweeping critical acclaim for her debut, Tipping the Velvet, and has been a finalist for the Orange and Booker Prizes. In The Night Watch she tells the riveting, intersecting tales of four Londoners during and after World War II. As these four people survive the devastation of war and experie...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Finney Boylan
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Author Jennifer Finney Boylan
Narrator Various
Duration 11h
The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not...
View BookTemperance Brennan Book 4: Fatal Voyage
Author: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Kate Harper
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 4
Duration 11h 48m
When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is called in to identify the victims. A chance discovery concerns her: a severed foot, well away from the main crash site. A deserted house close by is buried so deep in the woods that locals claim to know nothing of its existence. And her examinatio...
View BookConfessions of A Jane Austen Addict
Author: Laurie Viera Rigler
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Author Laurie Viera Rigler
Narrator Liza Ross
SeriesJane Austen Addict, Book 1
Duration 8h 26m
Courtney Stone-sassy, smart and suddenly single-has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen's England. Then one evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza, Absolut, and Elizabeth and Darcy, Courtney wakes up in 19th century England in the body and bed of a girl called Jane Mansfield...A laugh-...
View BookAuthor: Mark Mills
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Author Mark Mills
Narrator Peter Joyce
Duration 10h 16m
Summer, 1942. For the people of Malta, suffering daily bombing raids, the British are the last line of defence against the Nazis. And it is Max Chadwick's job as the information officer to ensure the news the islanders receive maintains morale. So when Max is given proof suggesting a British officer is murdering local women, he knows the consequenc...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
As part of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series: 'Turf Wars', in this short 3rd play of 4, 'How's Your Mother?' by Simon Brett, Michael Maloney stars as mysterious villager Humphrey Partridge. In a gossipy village Humphrey is reckoned to be anti-social, indeed stand-offish. But he always has an excuse - namely that he has to look after his ailing el...
View BookNick Mohammed In Bits - Witness Statement
Author: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 26m
The first play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 31 August 2010. In 'Witness Statement', there's been a robbery and character comedian Nick Mohammed ('Reggie Perrin', 'Sorry I've Got No Head') dons a police helmet and takes statem...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Michael Cochrane
Duration 5h
A sharply comic novel with shades of Waugh's own experiences, 'The Ordeal of Gilbert Penfold - A Conversation Piece', recounts a period of mental confusion and breakdown in the life of Gilbert Penfold, an established novelist of mature years. Prone to moments of paranoia and memory-loss, he attempts to cure himself with a tropical cruise. But his a...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration 2h 20m
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 25m
First broadcast on BBC1 in 1968, The Dominators sees the TARDIS materialising on the planet Dulkis, currently under threat from two alien Dominators and their robotic servants, the Quarks. Their intention is to turn the planet into a raidoactive mass, fuel for their space fleet. The pacifist Dulcians refuse to retaliate, until the Doctor, Jamie and...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Harris
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Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 8h 38m
Crippled by polio, Winnie has little to look forward to. She's sent to an orphanage after her father is reported 'missing presumed dead', and her mother dies while on a drinking spree. Will her life improve at last or will she always be alone?
View BookThe Great Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Author Gerard Manley Hopkins
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 1h 2m
A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian era's greatest writers, Hopkins' reputation has continued to grow since his death. This anthology of works by one of poetry's most daring innovators will undoubtedly become a best-seller. The collection includes 'The Windhover', 'The Caged Skylark', 'Car...
View BookAuthor: G. M. Ford
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Author G. M. Ford
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 9h 11m
Meza Azul Correctional Facility, Arizona, is designed to hold the worst collection of criminals in the USA. It is also prided by its founders for being one hundred percent escape proof. So it is with mixed horror and disbelief that Governor James Blaine discovers 'lifer' and ex-Navy submarine captain Timothy Driver has somehow managed to take contr...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Samantha Womack
Duration 13h 19m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Till We Meet Again by Lesley Pearse, read by Samantha Womack. Susan walks into a busy doctor's surgery and guns down two members of staff. Then she calmly waits for the police. Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. But her client is uncooperative until both women realise that twenty-nine years earlie...
View BookAuthor: Ruth Rendell
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Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 39m
Loopy follows an unnamed man who is struggling to grow up and move beyond the confines of his mother's home. Indifferent to his fianc‚e and bored with his 9 to 5 job, his only outlet is with his local drama group. Following a performance as the wolf in Red Riding Hood, he gradually becomes obsessed with his wolf alter-ego, spending more and m...
View BookAuthor: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 3
Duration 10h 8m
When a peaceful demonstration ends with fifty arrests and the death of a young constable, Superintendent "Dirty Dick" assumes the investigation, forcing Inspector Banks to undertake his own hunt for the killer before his superior's misguided obsession results in further bloodshed. A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ende...
View BookPatrik Hedstrom Book 6: The Drowning
Author: Camilla Lackberg
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Author Camilla Lackberg
Narrator Eamonn Riley
SeriesPatrik Hedstrom, Book 6
Duration 15h 30m
Christian Thydell has been receiving anonymous threats since he began writing his novel The Mermaid. When one message, secreted within a bouquet of flowers, causes him to collapse at the launch party, crime writer Erica Falck is compelled to investigate. Erica's husband detective Patrik Hedstrom, meanwhile, is puzzled by the disappearance of Christ...
View BookAuthor: Jesse Kellerman
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Author Jesse Kellerman
Narrator Sims Adam
Duration 9h 35m
When the world's bestselling thriller writer, William de Vallee, disappears from his luxury yacht while sailing off the LA coast, his best friend and fellow writer Arthur Pfefferkorn decides to pick up where he left off. But little does Arthur know that this impulsive decision is about to change his life for ever...
View BookNick Mohammed In Bits - Daniel Thornthwaite
Author: Nick Mohammed
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Author Nick Mohammed
Narrator Nick Mohammed
Duration 28m
The third play from 'Nick Mohammed in Bits', the BBC Radio 4 series of comic plays showcasing the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters. Originally broadcast 14 September 2010. In 'Daniel Thornthwaite', Nick plays a wildlife expert on the edge of sanity in this fly-on-the-wall look at the making of a major new documentary series. Anna Cr...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
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