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Publication Date:  September 5, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Crime / Mystery Narrator:  Bert Seymour/Tamaryn Payne Publisher:  Macmillan Media Length:   8 hours 15 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis What happened to Lára? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland‘s most infamous unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later, as the city of Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Roberts...

Publication Date:  September 5, 2023 Format:  Ebook  Genre:   Mystery  Publisher:  St. Martins Press  Length:   392 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer, and legend—blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. Greystone is a place he visited as a child, a community he parted ways with. Superstiti...

Publication Date:  September 12, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Horror Fiction Narrator:  Angela Dawe Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   9 hours 6 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it’s the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who've fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet, as though someone tried to claw their way out...and failed. When Laney shows up to...

Publication Date:  September 26, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Biographies/Medical Narrator:  Brian H Williams  Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   7 hours 40 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash.  Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to save the lives of officers shot in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves fee...

Publication Date:  July 6, 2021 Format:  audio  Genre:   Terrorism Thrillers Narrator:  Steve Weber  Publisher:  Simon Schuster Audio  Length:   8 hours 26 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis You just boarded a flight to New York.   There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.   What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.   For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.   The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.   Enjoy the flight. Review: I kept seeing this book a...

Publication Date:  September 5, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Police Procedural Narrator:  Elizabeth Knoweldan Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   9 hours 32 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Fifteen years ago, he confessed to the murder of his wife and children. As a teenager, Hayley DaSilva walked into a nightmare, discovering the bodies of her mother, twin brother, and friend all brutally slaughtered in her home…and her nine-year-old brother missing. Her father, Leonard DaSilva, confessed to the murders, but Ethan was never seen again. He lied. But why?  Now, Hayley has fled her dreadful past in Thamespark—until the call from Detective Sebastian Locke. Little bones uncovered in a shallow grave belong to Ethan…and the investigation reveals hole...

Publication Date:  September 26, 2023 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Romantic Comedy Publisher:  Independently Published Length:   308 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Melissa I should have used my college degree to become a lawyer, politician, or heck, even a Time Lord— hey, it worked for Dr. Who. But no, I had to own a bridal boutique. Turns out that’s a terrible idea for someone with my lousy dating history. Every day, I’m surrounded by the trappings of the perfect wedding, and I’m starting to resent all the smug almost-marrieds. I shouldn’t want to throat punch the brides, right? Then Jamie Riordan moves to Elk Lake with his twelve-year-old daughter. He’s everything I've ever wanted in a guy—ta...

Publication Date:  November 7, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Fantasy/Action Adventure Narrator:  Travis Baldree Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   8 hours 1 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but...

Publication Date:  August 1, 2023 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Historical Fiction  Publisher:  Pegasus Crime Length:   141 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner, his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled over into tirades against all luxuries that tempted his followers toward sin. These sermons led to the infamous "Bonfire of the Vanities”—a series of fires lit throughout Florence for the incineration of everything from books, extravagant clothing, playing cards, musical instruments, make-up, and mirrors to paintings, tapestries, and scul...