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Cutting Teeth
By: Chandler Baker
Narrated by: Chandler Baker & January LaVoy
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and Emma Rosenblum, author of Bad Summer People.
"LaVoy is a well-accomplished audio narrator across multiple genres, and most audiobook lovers will immediately recognize her virtuosic voice with its incisive tones. Here, for the large cast, she gives exceptional and distinct narration... Read more
Forget Me Not
By: Julie Soto
Narrated by: Callie Dalton & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A wedding planner and her grumpy ex must work together to plan a celebrity event in this deliciously spicy and funny novel from the creator of Generation Me.
Ama Torres is an optimistic wedding planner who doesn’t believe in marriage. But weddings? They’re amazing. Elliot Bloom is a brooding florist who hates owning a flower shop…until a... Read more
The Last Dance
By: Mark Billingham
Narrated by: David Threlfall
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated.
Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner) Alex. Working with new... Read more
The Quiet Tenant
By: Clémence Michallon
Narrated by: Gilli Messer, Elena Rey, Valerie Rose Lohman, A...
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • GMA BUZZ PICK • “A bravura feat of storytelling...daring and completely satisfying.” —James Patterson, #1 best-selling author
A PULSE-POUNDING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER NARRATED BY THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM: HIS 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HIS GIRLFRIEND—AND THE ONE... Read more
Speak of the Devil
By: Rose Wilding
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect one another in this electrifying debut thriller.
New Year’s Eve, 1999.
Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they... Read more
The Senator's Wife
By: Liv Constantine
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal her husband, her reputation—even her life—in this seductive novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish.
“A deadly cocktail of medical mystery, family drama, and psychological... Read more
Fire with Fire
By: Candice Fox
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Jay Aaseng takes an outstanding, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller and makes it even better with a pitch-perfect execution." —AudioFile
Candice Fox's Fire with Fire is a non-stop, gripping thriller from "a bright new star in crime fiction." (James Patterson)
A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop.
Four people with... Read more
The Twenty
By: Sam Holland
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough—but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers daubed above the corpses reveal the horrific truth: the killer is counting down. But to what end? Adam has no idea—until Dr. Romilly Cole... Read more
View audiobookWarrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Named One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023
"Actor Isabella Star LaBlanc excels at leading the reader deeper into the story with a tone that exudes both intriguing mystery and genuine emotion." —BookPage
"Isabella Star LaBlanc, a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota narrator, accurately delivers Native intonations and rhythms while narrating a second book... Read more
The Eden Test
By: Adam Sternbergh
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Carlotta Brentan performs fascinating monologues of Daisy and Craig. She captures the rhythm and the cadence of each of their voices and does a fine job of revealing their distinct personalities. As the story unfolds and Daisy and Craig find themselves in physical danger, Brentan's ability to ramp up the tension to an excruciating... Read more
View audiobookWhere Are the Children Now?
By: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, facing peril once again as adults.
Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children?... Read more
Heart of the Nile
By: Will Thomas
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"Antony Ferguson transports listeners to London in late 1983 for a mystery involving a mummy, a giant ruby, and a murder...The sharp writing and Ferguson's narration capture all the bizarre twists and turns."- AudioFile Magazine
London, 1893: deadly doings are afoot in the British Museum and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn... Read more
Wonderland
By: Jennifer Hillier
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of the hugely popular thrillers Things We Do in the Dark, Little Secrets, and Jar of Hearts comes Wonderland, a roller coaster of a listen. Now in audio for the first time!
After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle, she takes a new job in Seaside,... Read more
The Soulmate
By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Jessica Douglas-Henry
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listeners will be captivated as the narrators create tension and drop hints about the real problem in this “ideal” family." —Booklist on The Younger Wife
"Narrators Barrie Kreinik and Jessica Douglas-Henry enhance the air of anxiety by weaving an engaging web of emotion. Their Australian accents aid in the immersive nature of the narrative and... Read more
The Kind Worth Saving
By: Peter Swanson
Narrated by: Keith Szarabaijka, Kathleen Early, Helen Laser ...
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“The inventive Mr. Swanson never lets the willing reader down. With The Kind Worth Saving, he surpasses his own high standard.” — Tom Nolan, Wall Street JournalIn this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the... Read more
View audiobookThe Angel Maker
By: Alex North
Narrated by: Rosalie Craig
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
"Narrator Rosalie Craig is especially adept at providing varying voices to assist the listener in identifying characters." - AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by London Evening Standard Award–winning actor Rosalie Craig, who also plays Virginia in Netflix's 1899.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows... Read more
Stone Cold Fox
By: Rachel Koller Croft
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.
*now including a special bonus chapter!
Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she... Read more
Lying Beside You
By: Michael Robotham
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this “expertly paced and psychologically acute” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) thriller from Michael Robotham that’s “one of his best, suspenseful and hard to put down” (Stephen King).
Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven survived a family massacre. The killer? His brother Elias.
Now Elias is applying for release... Read more
Better the Blood
By: Michael Bennett
Narrated by: Richard Te Are & Miriama McDowell
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Maori screenwriter and directorA tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman is juggling single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a... Read more
View audiobookThe Girls Who Disappeared
By: Claire Douglas
Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt & Clare Corbett
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit.”—Jane Corry, author of The Dead ExA journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and... Read more
View audiobookThe Love Match
By: Priyanka Taslim
Narrated by: Reena Dutt
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“Jane Austen meets Bengali cinema” (Publishers Weekly) in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com about a Bangladeshi American teen whose meddling mother arranges a match to secure their family’s financial security—just as she’s falling in love with someone else.
Zahra Khan is basically Bangladeshi royalty, but being a princess doesn’t pay the... Read more
The Least Among Us
By: Gwen Florio
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Public defender Julia Geary’s star is rising, and now she’s got her first murder case defending local denizen Ray Belmar in the death of a homeless man. But Julia’s professional and personal challenges are mounting. First, she’s assigned an intern whose arrogance is insufferable. Then, her widowed mother-in-law, whose home Julia and her son... Read more
View audiobookA Dangerous Business
By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars …”From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girlsMonterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been... Read more
View audiobookThe Light We Carry
By: Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
2024 Grammy® Award Winner • #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big... Read more