Only Child

Flood

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Burke’s newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her—so she can kill him with her bare hands.

In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss’s renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger... Read more »

Hawaiian Masquerade

By: Rachelle J. Christensen
Length: 5 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

When Lexi Burke escaped the remnants of a cold winter in Chicago for the beaches of Kauai, it wasn't a random vacation. She left the hectic pace of Burke Enterprises behind with enough money to retire at age thirty-two, intent on settling into the idyllic existence of island life ... until she met local photographer Derek Mitchell-a talented man... Read more »

Deception Cove

By: Owen Laukkanen
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

A rescue dog, an ex-Marine, and an ex-convict are caught in the crosshairs of a ruthless gang in remote Washington state in this "first-rate thriller" (Associated Press) for "fans of CJ Box and Michael Koryta" (Booklist).
Former US Marine Jess Winslow reenters civilian life a new widow, with little more to her name than a broken-down house, a... Read more »

Strega

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

Andrew Vachss’s implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk... Read more »

The Billionaire's Stray Heart

By: Rachelle J. Christensen
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Jordan Burke, billionaire owner of Burke Enterprises, doesn't have time to date. His sister thinks it's time for him to find love and sets him up with her best friend, but Jordan can't leave his work behind. After the disastrous date, a stray puppy saves his life, and Jordan meets a woman who makes him rethink his priorities. Madison is... Read more »

Lone Jack Trail

By: Owen Laukkanen
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

A veteran Marine and an ex-convict find themselves on opposite sides of the law in this propulsive new thriller from award-nominated suspense master and "damn fine storyteller" Owen Laukkanen (Kirkus Reviews).

Could your closest friend be a killer?

When a body washes up outside Deception Cove, Washington, Jess Winslow-once a US Marine, now a... Read more »

Blue Belle

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss’s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the... Read more »

The Refugee’s Billionaire

By: Rachelle J. Christensen
Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

A Cuban refugee and a billionaire wannabe.

Shawn Halstrom has an assignment: travel to Atlanta, Georgia, to investigate the Heart of Atlanta refugee center so that Burke Enterprises can make a donation. The job should take two weeks tops, but he wasn’t planning on falling for a Cuban refugee named Carolina Diaz. She’s a single mother who isn’t... Read more »

Hard Candy

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke — the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children — is up against a soft-spoken messiah who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire... Read more »

Blossom

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a living. But he draws the line at the psychopaths and predators who stalk children. Sometimes he draws... Read more »

Sacrifice

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

What — or who — could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan’s Child"? In search of an answer, a man named Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins. For this vigilante and unlicensed private eye has made it his business... Read more »

Down in the Zero

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children. Now Burke is back, investigating... Read more »

Footsteps of the Hawk

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

A pulse-quickening new crime novel featuring Burke, ex-con, private investigator, and rumored hit man who harbors a pathological hatred for those who prey on children.

In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rogue cops are stalking him. The coolly seductive Belinda Roberts wants him to free a man charged with... Read more »

False Allegations

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

Burke, ex-con, mercenary, and rumored hit man, makes his living by preying on New York’s most vicious predators and occasionally avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss’s mercilessly suspenseful new novel, Burke fnds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt and innocence are as disposable as the sheets in a Times... Read more »

Safe House

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York’s meanest streets. In this blistering thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest case yet, one that involves an underground network of abused women and the sleekly ingenious stalkers... Read more »

Choice of Evil

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth, is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Erectus and who seems determined to wipe gay bashers from the face of the earth. As the killer’s... Read more »

Dead and Gone

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

Career criminal Burke’s skill at working the feathery edges of the law are legendary, and this isn’t the first time he’s been hired to trade cash for an abducted kid. But when the meet turns out to be an ambush, Burke’s partner is killed and he’s left for dead. Dumped on the steps of the ER, Burke hovers between life and death. While the police... Read more »

Pain Management

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

Burke is back, but still lurking in the shadows, unable to return home. He is prowling the unfamiliar streets of Portland, Oregon, in search of a runaway teen. By all accounts, Rosebud Carlin is a happy, well-adjusted girl. She doesn’t fit the profile of the runaway kids Burke knows so well . . . and once was. But there’s something about her... Read more »

Only Child

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s been years since Burke has been home, years since he’s seen his “family” and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty, and his wallet thin, his skills and his crew remain razor sharp. So when he is contacted by a mob boss to investigate the murder of his illegitimate... Read more »

Down Here

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once prosecuted, Burke deals himself in. That means putting together a distrustful... Read more »

Mask Market

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: David Joe Wirth
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

They meet in a no-name diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his client is gunned down by a professional hunter-killer team. Burke slips away, unsure if he’s been spotted. Later, when he examines the dossier, he discovers that the missing woman is Beryl Preston, a... Read more »

Terminal

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: David Joe Wirth
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

When the former shot-caller of the country’s most feared white supremacist prison gang contacts Burke, he comes with references…and the promise of a huge score. Terminally ill, the ex-con needs major cash to gamble on the long-shot possibility of a cure that’s available only in Switzerland. The one card he has to play is a small-time degenerate... Read more »

Another Life

By: Andrew Vachss
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

The only person Burke has ever called “father,” a legendary crime planner known throughout the underground as the Prof, is in a coma, barely clinging to life in the off-the-books hospital where the crew stashed him after their last job went off the rails. So when Pryce, a shadow-man with deep (and very dark) government connections, offers a... Read more »