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Longmire Mysteries: Book #7

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Spur Award winner Craig Johnson has garnered critical acclaim for his Walt Longmire mysteries. In this riveting seventh entry, Wyoming's Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire is pushed beyond his limits. When three hardened convicts escape FBI custody in a mountain blizzard, an armed psychopath leads them up Big Horn Mountain. As Longmire... Read more

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

A Novel

By: Jamie Ford
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Cindy Kay, Mirai, Natalie Naudus, Sura Siu, Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu & Jamie Ford
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

“Besides the excellent historical research Ford incorporates, what makes this book unusual is Ford's compassion for his characters, from Dorothy Moy back through her ancestry. As Dorothy reaches back through generations, finding life-changing events that turn out to be echoes of even earlier events, she begins to realize that along with the... Read more

And It Will Be a Beautiful Life

By: Craig Lancaster
Narrated by: Don Amodio
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Max Wendt has a family . . . but it's sliding sideways, and he has been complicit in its faltering. His wife and his daughter have pulled away from him amid his frequent absences, leaving him to bridge the distance between what he remembers and the way things are now.
Max Wendt has a job . . . but it carries him away from home most of the time,... Read more

The Bangtail Ghost

Sean Stranahan Mysteries: Book #8

By: Keith McCafferty
Narrated by: Rick Holmes
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

In Montana’s Gravelly Range, paw prints and a single whisker discovered at a scene of horrific violence suggest
a woman had been attacked and carried away by a mountain lion. Sheriff Martha Ettinger employs her fiancé,
sometimes-detective Sean Stranahan, to put a name to the gnawed bones comprising all that is left of the body. The
woman’s is the... Read more

A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do

A Novel

By: Pete Fromm
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer-upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, the beginning of something grand, all the more so when they learn that a baby is on the way. But the blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz when Marnie dies in childbirth, plummeting the taciturn carpenter headfirst into the new,... Read more

A Sharp Solitude

A Novel of Suspense

The Glacier Mystery Series: Book #4

By: Christine Carbo
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain & Thérèse Plummer
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

A gripping new mystery from the author of The Wild Inside, set in the magnificent and brutal terrain of Glacier National ParkIn the darkening days of autumn, in a remote region near the Canadian border, a journalist has been murdered. Anne Marie Johnson was last seen with Reeve Landon, whose chocolate Labrador was part of an article she had been... Read more

The Weight of An Infinite Sky

A Novel

By: Carrie La Seur
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation that he would take over the business that had... Read more

Big Skye Littleton

By: Elisa Lorello
Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

In this warm, high-spirited contemporary novel from author Elisa Lorello, big love can happen in the smallest of spaces.Skye Littleton said goodbye to her job, her best friend, and her home in Rhode Island to start over in Billings, Montana, with Vance Sandler, a gorgeous guy she met online. On her cross-country flight, Skye shares her happy... Read more

Assault and Pepper

Spice Shop Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Pepper Reece, owner of the Seattle Spice Shop, thinks she can handle any kind of salty customer—until a murderer ends up in the mix . . .



After leaving a dicey marriage and losing a beloved job in a corporate crash, Pepper Reece has found a new zest for life running a busy spice and tea shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Her aromatic creations... Read more

Guilty as Cinnamon

Spice Shop Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Springtime in Seattle's Pike Place Market means tasty foods and wide-eyed tourists, and Pepper's Spice Shop is ready for the crowds. With flavorful combinations and a fresh approach, she's sure to win over the public. Even better, she's working with several local restaurants as their chief herb and spice supplier. Business is cooking, until one... Read more

Killing Thyme

Spice Shop Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 9 hours

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece is savoring her business success, but soon finds her plans disrupted by a killer . . .



Pepper Reece's to-do list is longer than the shopping list for a five-course dinner, as she conjures up spice blends bursting with seasonal flavor, soothes nervous brides fretting over the gift... Read more

Death Al Dente

Food Lovers' Village Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

The town of Jewel Bay, Montana—known as a Food Lovers' Village—is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family's century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delicacies. But Erin's freshly booming business might go rotten when a former employee turns up dead . .... Read more

Crime Rib

Food Lovers' Village Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Gourmet food market owner Erin Murphy is determined to get Jewel Bay, Montana's, scrumptious local fare some national attention. But her scheme for culinary celebrity goes up in flames when the town's big break is interrupted by murder . . .



Food Preneurs, one of the hottest cooking shows on TV, has decided to feature Jewel Bay in an upcoming... Read more

Butter Off Dead

Food Lovers' Village Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

In an attempt to woo tourists to Jewel Bay and cheer up the townies, Erin Murphy, manager of the specialty local foods market known as the Merc, is organizing the First Annual Food Lovers’ Film Festival, filled with classic foodie flicks and local twists on favorite movie treats. But when her partner in planning, painter Christine Vandeberg, is... Read more

Treble at the Jam Fest

Food Lovers' Village Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Erin Murphy, manager of Glacier Mercantile (a.k.a. the Merc), is tuning up for Jewel Bay's annual Jazz Festival. Between keeping the Merc's shelves stocked with Montana's tastiest local fare and hosting the festival's kick-off concert, Erin has her hands full.



Discord erupts when jazz guitarist Gerry Martin plummets to his death from the rocks... Read more

As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles

Food Lovers' Village Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

In Jewel Bay, all is merry and bright. At Murphy's Mercantile, AKA the Merc, manager Erin Murphy is ringing in the holiday season with food, drink, and a new friend: Merrily Thornton. A local girl gone wrong, Merrily's turned her life around. But her parents have publicly shunned her, and they nurse a bitterness that chills Erin.



When Merrily... Read more

Chai Another Day

Spice Shop Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Seattle Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece probes murder while juggling a troubled employee, her mother's house hunt, and a fisherman who's set his hook for her.



As owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece is always on the go. Between conjuring up new spice blends and serving iced spice tea to customers looking to... Read more

The Solace of Bay Leaves

Spice Shop Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

The Solace of Bay Leaves is the fifth Spice Shop mystery, featuring Pepper Reece, a forty-something single city girl.



When her life fell apart at forty, after she stumbled over her husband, a Seattle police officer on the downtown bike beat, and a parking enforcement officer practically plugging each other's meters, and the law firm where she... Read more

Peppermint Barked

A Spice Shop Mystery

Spice Shop Mystery

By: Leslie Budewitz
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

A Dickens of a Christmas turns deadly . . .



As the holiday season lights up Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece's beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. Add to the mix a tasty staff competition—a peppermint bark-off—along with Victorian costumes for this year's Dickensian... Read more

The Wild Inside

A Novel of Suspense

The Glacier Mystery Series: Book #1

By: Christine Carbo
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Length: 13 hours 1 minute

For fans of Louise Penny, C. J. Box, and Nevada Barr comes a haunting crime novel set in Glacier National Park, where one man finds himself on a collision course with the dark heart of the wild and the even darker heart of human nature.It was a clear, starry night in Glacier National Park. Fourteen-year-old Ted Systead and his father were... Read more