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As the Pig Turns
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingM.C Beaton
Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha-and the rest of the village-realize that things aren't as they seem.
A Christmas Homecoming
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingAnne Perry
Anne Perry's latest Christmas novella follows Charlotte Pitt's mother, Caroline, as she travels up the Yorkshire coast with her husband, Joshua Fielding, and his troupe of actors. Their destination is Whitby, the famed landing site of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's tale; the brooding, windswept fishing village is home to theatrical "Angel" Charles Netheridge. Cleverly playing upon the idea of evil as something one has to invite in, Anne Perry delivers another thrilling, ultimately heart-warming tale just in time for Christmas.
City of Whispers
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingMarcia Muller
Private eye Sharon McCone receives an email asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half-brother, Darcy Blackhawk, but he fails to reply to her response. As Sharon digs deeper, she discovers that Darcy sent his message from an Internet café in San Francisco, a city he's never been to before. Sensing that Darcy is in terrible danger, McCone begins a search for him throughout the city. The investigation leads her to the body of a woman at the Palace of Fine Arts, where a witness told her Darcy was headed. As her search widens, Sharon uncovers a connection to an unsolved murder of a young woman who was heiress to a multi-million dollar banking fortune. Sharon must race to solve both murders and ensure her brother's safety, despite the imminent danger that lurks within her own family.
The Missing of the Somme
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingGeoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer has won fans writing about everything from jazz to D. H. Lawrence, from photography to neurotic enlightenment, from Cambodia to Rome. The Missing of the Somme, his remarkable book on the significance of the First World War, is a gem for Dyer fans and history buffs alike. With his characteristic wit and insight, here Dyer weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and film, poetry and sculptures, graveyards, and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War. From one of our most beloved, original authors, a classic book never before published in the U.S.-a personal meditation on war and remembrance.
The Descendants
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingKaui Hart Hemmings
Matthew King was once considered one of the most fortunate men in Hawaii. His missionary ancestors who came to the islands were financially and culturally progressive--one even married a Hawaiian princess, making Matt a royal descendant and one of the state's largest landowners. But now his luck has changed. His two daughters are out of control--10-year-old Scottie has a smart-ass attitude and a desperate need for attention and 17-year-old Alex, a former model, is a recovering drug addict. His thrill-seeking and high-maintenance wife, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat racing accident, and will soon be taken off life support. The King family can hardly picture life without their charismatic mother, but as they come to terms with this tragedy, their sadness is mixed with a sense of freedom that shames them--and spurs them into surprising actions.
Lassiter
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingPaul Levine
Last seen in 1997's Flesh & Bones, Jake Lassiter is a hero unlike any other in the courtroom. Booklist called him "one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction." The former Miami Dolphin is still swimming with sharks in his latest, boldest novel of suspense yet. Amy Larkin is in town, looking for her sister Krista, who vanished without a trace almost two decades earlier. She seeks out Lassiter because he's the last person to have seen her alive. Lassiter volunteers to investigate, and his search for Krista's fate will take him into the underworld of Miami's pornography industry, into the dangerous lives of his friends, and, of course, into the courtroom, where Lassiter's bareknuckle style makes him a formidable opponent.
The Sense of an Ending
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingJulian Barnes
The powerful, unsettling and beautifully-crafted Man Booker Prize-winning novel from one of England’s greatest contemporary writers. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove. 'The Sense of an Ending' is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world’s most distinguished writers. ‘Barnes seems equipped to write with humour and elegance about anything he turns his attention to’ - Financial Times A complete and unabridged reading by Richard Morant.
Plugged
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingEoin Colfer
The adult fiction debut by internationally bestselling writer Colfer is gritty, whiplash-inducing, utterly compelling, and may surprise with its "extreme raunchiness" (Kirkus Reviews). In the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Donald Westlake, Plugged tells the story of Daniel McEvoy, the Irish bouncer of a seedy New Jersey club. Dan has a problem. Well, he has several, but for him the worst is that the girl he loves was just murdered. Until more people around him start dying, and not of natural causes. Suddenly Dan's got the mob, cops, and an unstable lovesick neighbor after him, and the only clue points toward the crooked doctor who gave Dan hair implants before vanishing into thin air. Luckily-or perhaps not so much-he has the dubious help of a volatile detective, a permanently hungover army psychologist, and a mischievous ghost. In Dan's brilliantly unique voice, Colfer, beloved by millions for his Artemis Fowl series, has written a hilarious and very exciting tour de force thriller of head-spinning plot twists, compulsive in the tradition of Carl Hiaasen's best work-a "pitch-perfect comic noir" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Complete with the best banter this side of Elmore Leonard's Detroit, Plugged will leave you shocked, awed, and wanting more.
Blind Fury
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingLynda La Plante
A service station on the M1: dimly lit, run down, poorly supervised, flickering lights, dark corners; a favorite stopover for long-distance truck drivers on their way up north from London. Behind it, a body is found in a ditch, that of a girl barely out of her teens. She appears to have no family, no friends, no connections anywhere. Other girls have gone missing in the vicinity, and no one has stepped forward to claim them. Anna Travis is assigned to the case. Her blood runs cold when she receives a letter from a lifer -- someone she was responsible for arresting in the past -- who writes to her from prison, asking her to visit him urgently, for he claims he knows who the killer is...
Fallen
Audio Download Unabridged ReadingKarin Slaughter
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation teaches its agents to be calm in the face of danger, to always keep a level head, to never take a case personally. For Special Agent Faith Mitchell, all of those rules are shattered the instant she finds a bloody handprint on the door of her childhood home. Her life as a cop and her home life collide in a terrifying instant when she goes to pick her four-month-old daughter up from her mother's, and finds the child left alone in a toolshed, a gangland hostage situation in her mother's bedroom, and her mother vanished into thin air. Will Trent and Sara Linton, the beloved characters from Slaughter's two acclaimed series (and 2010 bestseller Broken) are on the case, going up against a ticking clock and a baffling set of clues. At the center is Faith, who may not know her mother as well as she thought...
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