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The following are our recommended audiobooks on topics of crime, thrillers and fiction:
- Reef, The
Romance from the depths of the Caribbean to the heights of passion and suspense
- Resurrection Men
Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a...
- Road to Purgatory
It's 1942 and - from the Atlantic to the Pacific - the world is torn apart. Ten years ago Michael O'Sullivan accompanied his gangster father on the road, fleeing from the mobsters who killed his...
- Out of Time
New Fantasy Novel from the Creator of 'Timeslip' and the Producer of 'The Tomorrow People'
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Condemned as immoral when it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's tale of the beautiful young man who 'sold himself...
- Prince of Beverly Hills, The
Rick Barron, a sharp, capable detective on the Beverly Hills force, finds himself demoted after a run-in with a superior officer, but he soon lands a job other cops only dream about: the security...
- Sharpe's Sword
Colonel Leroux answered to no man save the Emperor. With exquisite delicacy he could skin a man alive in search of the secrets...
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
A young lady on a bicycle is being constantly followed by an unknown male cyclist.
- Sherlock Holmes, The Return of - Volume 2
Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson In the third collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon
- Robe, The
A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest for the truth about the Nazarene's robe, a quest that reaches to the very heart of Christianity. Se...
- Running Blind
People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers in the lottery? What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark the...
- Sharpe's Fortress
It is 1803, and closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India is Sir Arthur Wellesley’s army and with it Ensign Richard Sharpe...
- NIGHT TERRORS: Byron's Tale
A mysterious man, a mysterious woman, and supernatural forces come together in a fantastic tale of intrique and suspense
- Mary Barton
Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time...
- Master and Commander
Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series...
- Monkeewrench
Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always...
- Mad Jack
Revisit with the Sherbrooke family in this exciting, romantic adventure in 1811 London.
- Magic Time: Ghostlands
The epic climax of the Magic Time saga finds former lawyer turned visionary leader Cal Griffin continuing his quest across the changed face of America, where machines no longer run and magic holds ...
- Man In My Basement, The
An exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation.
- New York Dead
It Was Just Luck Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness...
- Next (Unabridged)
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn...
- Night Fall (Abridged)
Conspiracy at the highest levels and a race toward an elusive and lethal truth.
- Murder Artist, The
As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He's seen more than his share of blood and...
- Murderers, The
A Philadelphia narcotics cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner's wife and partner are gunned down during an attempted robbery. And in a beautiful mansion, a young woman dies of a heroin...
- Mystic Quest
Twenty-three years have passed since Galen Arvad first exposed the deep magic. Now that magic brings tragedy and darkness to the lives of all who wield it in the world. Galen and his clans suffer a...
- Viking Funeral, The
LAPD Sergeant Shane Scully, hero of the bestselling The Tin Collectors, returns in a thriller that pits him against his closest childhood friend, and endangers the life of the woman he loves.
- Wake-Up Call
"Sweets, I'm okay. I'm okay. Don't worry... It's not my building. " Kristen didn't know what he was saying. He told her to turn on the television...
- We Are All Welcome Here
Bestselling author Elizabeth Berg’s new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.
- Turn of the Screw, The
Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written. The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil that they remain...
- Twilight Whispers
January 2005 Dear Reader, Twilight Whispers was a challenge for me. At the time I wrote it - 1987 - I wanted to push myself as a writer. The result: a book that was longer and more...
- Vendetta
They can run, but they can't hide from the Sisterhood.
- Wizard's First Rule
Millions of readers the world over have been held spellbound by this valiant tale vividly told. Now, enter Terry Goodkind's world, the world of The Sword of Truth. In the aftermath of...
- Work Like Da Vinci
Now, in Work Like Da Vinci, Gelb adapts these principles to the specific demands of the workplace, sharing the innovative solutions to contemporary corporate and career challenges...
- Yankee Clipper. Chapter 11. "The Storm"
Yankee Spirit encounters a fierce storm which causes serious damage.
- Widow Of The South, The
An unforgettable, panoramic portrait of a woman who, through love and loss, found a cause.
- With a Vengeance
Maggie O'Brien, a nurse and medic on a SWAT team, has a thirst for justice, and a chip on her shoulder. She lives in the shadow of her father, a famous (or infamous) cop. Is she more like him than...
- Wizard at Large
In the third book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series, will Abernathy finally be able to return to human form?
- Tipping Point, The
A look at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly.
- Society, The
At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She's not the first to die - nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the...
- South
Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out for the last unknown continent, Antarctica, but his ship became locked in sea ice then was crushed and his crew marooned. This is Shackleton's gripping accoun...
- Spandau Phoenix
From the depths of World War II, a buried Nazi secret comes to terrifying life...
- Sky Woman Falling
FBI Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problem...
- Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a...
- So B. It
A dramatic tour de force by the best-selling author of Regular Guy.
- Temple of the Winds
Book Four of "The Sword of Truth", the series first begun in "Wizard's First Rule", returns listeners to the world of Richard Cypher, a simple woods guide who never dreamed he would be named the...
- Temporary Sanity
Martha "Marty" Nickerson, a Cape Cod DA turned defense lawyer, must defend a man who shot his son's presumed killer – on live television. Marty's harrowing hunt for the truth leads to shocking reve...
- Tin Collectors, The
LA police detective Shane Scully is investigated by Internal Affairs.
- Starbuck Chronicles, The (1): Rebel
Nathaniel Starbuck is a rebel, a young Yankee fighting for the South against the North in the American Civil War. It is the summer of ...
- Sullivan's Evidence
Gutsy probation officer Carolyn Sullivan pursues a twisted killer in a case that will defy logic, evidence, and her own street smarts.
- Tales for a Stormy Night
It's midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to tales from the greatest fright-meisters in the world. This volume of late-night listening offers tales, plays, and poem...
- Covenant of the Flame, The
The acclaimed, bestselling master of the high-action thriller unleashes a blockbuster novel of intrigue and suspense in the tradition of First Blood, and The Fifth Profession.
- Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
In this forceful manifesto, Professor E.D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary societ...
- Darkest Fear
A gripping and touching tale of a fathers love mixed in with thrilling chase scenes, another unmissable piece from Cobden at his best...
- Cold Pursuit
Homicide cop Tom McMichael is on the rotation when an 84-year-old city patriarch named Pete Braga is found bludgeoned to death. Not good news, especially since the Irish McMichaels and Portuguese...
- Confederacy of Dunces, A
"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on eit...
- Count of Monte Cristo, The
The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution.
- Divine Comedy, The
Perhaps no other work of literature has aroused so much admiration in so many countries and so many readers as The Divine Comedy. A single listening will reveal its universality as well as Dante's ...
- Divine
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury reveals the redemptive power of divine love through the story of a modern-day Mary Magdalene.
- Doctor Who - The Ghosts of N-Space
Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen and Nicholas Courtney join forces once more for a specially written Doctor Who adventure.
- Death Match
In the matchmaking business, Eden, Inc., guarantees its customers lifelong happiness, so how can they explain these couples' double suicides? Thriller writer Lincoln Child serves up a brilliantly i...
- Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival
Tales of shipwrecks, salvage, pirates and cannibalism from literature's greatest stories about the ocean and the people who risk its wrath.
- Close Quarters
From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict. Here, in the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier...
- All in One Piece
Regina Cutter has a new upstairs tenant, Steven Damelin, a single, young, financial analyst whom she is surprised to hear was involved in a "deal" with her late Aunt Jo shortly before her death. Bu...
- Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity
In this series of essays written over the past twenty years, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates some of the chief spiritual ...
- Best Defense, The
When the sister of "Baby Killer" Kennerman asks for help, attorney Barbara Holloway reluctantly looks into matters and finds that incompetent lawyers and a smear campaign from the local right-wing ...
- 4th Of July
Tension like never before in this heart-racing new novel in the bestselling detective series
- Alan Bennett - Four Stories
Alan Bennett, master storyteller, reads four of his highly-acclaimed stories
- Alan Bennett - Untold Stories Part 3: Written On The Body
Alan Bennett reads five more extracts from Untold Stones, his major collection of new writings Untold Stories. Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling Writing Home.
- Brideshead Revisited
A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great classic story of a lost golden age.
- Change of Gravity, A
For Ambrose Merrion, life is first and foremost a matter of people taking care of one another, with society picking up the slack when family and friends aren't enough. For Danny Hilliard, who agree...
- Cinnamon Kiss
A violent and vicious plot that stretches back to the battlefields of Europe.
- Between, Georgia
In Between, Georgia , population 90, a feud that began the night Nonny was born is escalating, and a random act of violence will set the torch to a thirty-year-old stash of highly flammable secrets...
- Beyond The Gathering Storm
As a youth, Henry was rescued from terrible circumstances by the Delaneys. Their love and care for him helped to heal those painful memories, and he now has grown into a young man of character and ...
- Big Dig, The
Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redhead private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment. After all, the Big Dig,...
- Hymn: Alan Bennett And The Medici String Quartet
Recorded live for BBC Radio 4, Hymn is a memoir of music in childhood, written by Alan Bennett and George Fenton
- Jazz 101
Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers through Szwed's fluid, entertaining prose. Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, Jazz...
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The
The legend of the hound which has brought terror to the Baskerville family for generations brings Sherlock Holmes up against...
- Hundredth Man, The
When bizarre and cryptic messages are found on a pair of corpses in Mobile, Alabama, junior police detective Carson Ryder and veteran cop Harry Nautilus find themselves in a mysterious...
- Hunt for Red October, The
A deadly serious game of hide-and-seek is on. The CIA's brilliant young analyst, Jack Ryan, thinks he knows the reason for the sudden Red Fleet operation: the Soviets' most valuable ship...
- Leigh: A Novel
Linda Leigh Sinclair is born into the privilege of Ivy Manor, but her overwhelming desire for freedom for herself and others leads her into the modern civil-rights movement. Choosing the dangerous ...
- Live Bait
Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored - ever since they solved the Monkeewrench case, the Twin Cities have been in a murder-free dry spell, as people no longer seem...
- Lords of the North, The
‘The Lords of the North’ is a powerful story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an England of turmoil, upheaval and glory.
- Just a Minute: The Best of 2006
Four specially selected episodes of the perennially popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons...
- Kilo Class
It's one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built . . . silent at under five knots, and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch. It's the weapon every Third World...
- La Vagabonde
Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls Colette's own years as a dance-hall performer in turn-of-the-century Paris, where she takes the listener backstage and into the demimonde of Renée Nér...
- Hope before Us, The
Uncovering a diabolical Nazi plot, Marge Emerson is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France where she meets a conscientious objector whose outspoken belief in God challenges her own fragile...
- Dragonsdawn
The beautiful planet Pern is threatened by falling Thread that destoys all
- Dragonseye
Thread: deadly silver strands that fall from the sky like rain, devouring every organic thing in their path - animals, plants, and people alike. Who could believe that such a horrible thing could...
- Eloquent Silence
Lauri is a dedicated young teacher for the deaf. Her past conceals a wound still unhealed, her present is a facade, and she uses her career to hide her loneliness. Drake, daytime TV's most popular...
- Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise
Laylora – the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that...
- Dollar Daze: The Bottom Dollar Girls in Love
This third installment of the popular series about the Bottom Dollar Girls from Cayboo Creek finds their love in bloom. Attalee is hot and heavy with her beau, Dooley. But Elizabeth is pining for h...
- Dracula
For a century Bram Stoker' s Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal...
- Gathering of Spies, A
In 1943, America thought it had rounded up all the German spies on its soil. Now Germany's greatest weapon - a woman with special talents, both for tradecraft and for death - is headed home with...
- Great Escape, The
With only bare hands and crude tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored uniforms and clothes. A split-second operation as delic...
- Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams...
- Far From the Tree
Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant façade. But secretly, her marriage is falling apart and...
- Final Truth
True-crime writer Regan Landry has followed several explosive stories but none more challenging than that of convict Lester Barnes, a rapist and murderer, who persuades the intrepid author to reinv...
- Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a "human" being, and then gives it life. The...
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