CMB Mystery Book Club

Partners in Crime

A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries: Book #2

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over... Read more

Mr. Churchill's Secretary

A Maggie Hope Mystery

Maggie Hope: Book #1

By: Susan Elia MacNeal
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

BARRY AWARD WINNER • Heralding the arrival of a brilliant new heroine, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it.

“With any luck, the adventures of red-haired super-sleuth Maggie Hope will go on forever. . . . Taut, well-plotted, and suspenseful, this is a wartime... Read more

A Is for Alibi - Abridged

A Kinsey Millhone Novel: Book #1

By: Sue Grafton
Narrated by: Judy Kaye
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki - with motive, access and opportunity - was the #1 suspect. The jury thought so too.

Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a gutsy P.I., to find the real killer. The trail is... Read more

Deal Breaker

The First Myron Bolitar Novel

Myron Bolitar: Book #1

By: Harlan Coben
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy,... Read more

Fer-De-Lance

Nero Wolfe: Book #1

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadfully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more... Read more

Still Life

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #1

By: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

In Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Monsieur L'Inspecteur Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec, a modern Poirot who anchors this beloved traditional mystery series

Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of... Read more

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Hannah Swensen Mysteries: Book #1

By: Joanne Fluke
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

DISCOVER THE DELICIOUS MYSTERY THAT STARTED IT ALL!

No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke’s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes—one delicious clue at a time—has made her a bestselling favorite.
And it all... Read more

A Morbid Taste for Bones

Chronicles of Brother Cadfael: Book #1

By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

On an expedition to acquire a saint’s remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murder

It is 1137, and the ambitious head of the Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to the saint’s final resting place in Wales, where he... Read more

The Alienist

By: Caleb Carr
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 20 hours

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1886: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In the... Read more

Open Season

Joe Pickett: Book #1

By: C. J. Box
Narrated by: David Chandler
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now available to stream on Paramount+

The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe... Read more

Cloche and Dagger

Hat Shop Mystery: Book #1

By: Jenn McKinlay
Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Not only is Scarlett Parker's love life in the loo—as her British cousin Vivian Tremont would say—it's also gone viral with an embarrassing video. So when Viv suggests Scarlett leave Florida to lay low in London, she hops on the next plane across the pond. Viv is the proprietor of Mims's Whims, a ladies' hat shop on Portobello Road bequeathed to... Read more

And Only to Deceive

Lady Emily: Book #1

By: Tasha Alexander
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far... Read more

A Potion to Die For

Magic Potion Mystery: Book #1

By: Heather Blake
Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

As the owner of Little Shop of Potions, a magic potion shop specializing in love potions, Carly Bell Hartwell finds her product more in demand than ever. A local soothsayer has predicted that a couple in town will soon divorce, and now it seems that every married person in Hitching Post, Alabama, wants a little extra matrimonial magic to make... Read more

By Book or by Crook

Lighthouse Library Mystery: Book #1

By: Eva Gates
Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family's social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father's law partner. But when her ten-year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of a serious... Read more

A Curious Beginning

Veronica Speedwell Mysteries: Book #1

By: Deanna Raybourn
Narrated by: Angele Masters
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

“The uproarious beginning of a mystery series featuring perplexing mysteries, mischevious capers, a broodingly muscle-bound taxidermist, and a dauntlessly quick-witted lepodiatrist. This series, set in Victorian England, presents two main characters, one of gentility fallen from rank and the other a secret illigitimate of the royal bloodline,... Read more

The Highwayman

Longmire Mysteries: Book #0

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

In an investigation that spans this world and the next, Sheriff Walt Longmire and his best friend Henry Standing Bear take on a case that pits them against a legend: The Highwayman

When Wyoming Highway Patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred from Walt’s jurisdiction to the beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, she starts... Read more

Once upon a Crime

A Brothers Grimm Mystery

The Brothers Grimm Mysteries: Book #2

By: P. J. Brackston
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

From New York Times bestselling author P. J. Brackston comes the prequel to Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints.Gretel—yes, that Gretel—is now thirty-five, very large, still living with her brother Hans, and working as a private investigator. The small, sleepy town of Gesternstadt is shaken to its pretty foundations when the workshop... Read more

Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes

Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery: Book #1

By: Karen Rose Smith
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Daisy, a widowed mom of two teenagers, is used to feeling protective—so when Iris started dating the wealthy and not-quite-divorced Harvey Fitz, she worried . . . especially after his bitter ex stormed in and caused a scene at the party Daisy's Tea Garden was catering. Then there was the gossip she overheard about Harvey's grown children being... Read more

Naked in Death

In Death Series: Book #1

By: J. D. Robb
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING IN DEATH SERIESIt is 2058, New York City. Technology now completely rules the world, but for New York Detective Eve Dallas, one irresistible impulse still rules the heart: passion…Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she’s... Read more

Weekend Warriors

Sisterhood Series: Book #1

By: Fern Michaels
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Life isn’t fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty…if you’re part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn’t do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they’re... Read more