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Publication Date:  May 23, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Time Travel/Mystery Narrators:  Kate Handford Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:   14 hours 52 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Edinburgh, 1869:  Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she’s not housemaid Catriona Mitchell—even though Mallory is in Catriona’s body—and Mallory is now officially an undertaker’s assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows… the latest of which is Gray’s oldest sister. Poison is said to be a woman’s ...

  Publication Date:  May 31, 2022 Format:  E-book Genre:   Time Travel Fiction/Mystery Publisher:  Minotaur Books Length:  352  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Audiobook  Synopsis May 20, 2019:  Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869:  Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adj...

Publication Date:  February 15, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Police Procedural Narrators:  Therese Plummer Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  10 hours 4 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis t’s not always easy to live in the hidden town of Rockton, something Detective Casey Duncan knows firsthand. Tucked away in the Yukon wilderness, the community survives—and thrives—because the residents' many secrets stay just that—secret. But what happens when these secrets start to come out? Overnight, no one is safe. It’s not a question of if your secret will come out—but when. Casey and her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, need to find the culprit while protecting those who have been thrust into the spotlight. For a place built on pr...

Publication Date:  February 9, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Police Procedural Narrators:  Therese Plummer Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  10 hours 46 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. It seems like something bigger is happening in the small town they call home. When an injured hiker stumbles from the woods, someone who seems to have come to the Yukon for a wilderness vacation but instead is now fighting for her life, it’s all hands on deck. What – or who – attacked this woman, and why?...

Release Date:  April 8, 2014 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 30 minutes Narrator:  Jennifer Ikeda Genre:  Science Fiction Romance YA Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Twin sisters Moria and Ashyn were marked at birth to become the Keeper and the Seeker of Edgewood, beginning with their sixteenth birthday. Trained in fighting and in the secret rites of the spirits, they lead an annual trip into the Forest of the Dead. There, the veil between the living world and the beyond is thinnest, and the girls pay respect to the spirits who have passed. But this year, their trip goes dreadfully wrong. With all the heart-stopping romance and action that have made her a #1  New York Times  bestselling author, and set in an unforgettably rich and dangerous world, this first epic book in the Age of Legends trilogy will appeal to Kelley Armstron...

Release Date:  February 4, 2020 Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 32 minutes Narrator:  Therese Plummer Genre:  Mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there's always something to worry about. While on a much needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears a baby crying in the woods. The sound leads them to a tragic scene: a woman buried under the snow, murdered, a baby still alive in her arms. A town that doesn't let anyone in under the age of 18, Rockton must take care of its youngest resident yet while solving another murder and finding out where the baby came from - and whether she's better off where ...

Release Date:  April 10, 2012 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 32 minutes Narrator:  Jennifer Ikeda Genre:  YA, Paranormal, Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Maya Delaney's paw-print birthmark is the mark of what she truly is - a skin-walker. She can run faster, climb higher, and see better than nearly everyone else. Experiencing intense connections with the animals that roam the woods outside her home, Maya knows it's only a matter of time before she's able to Shift and become one of them. And she believes there may be others in her small town with surprising talents. Now Maya and her friends have been forced to flee from their homes during a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set. Then they're kidnapped, and after a chilling helicopter crash, they find themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness with nothing but their extraordinary abilities to help them get back home. Re...

Release Date:  April 12, 2011 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 8 minutes Narrator:  Jennifer Ikeda Genre:  YA, Paranormal, Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Strange things are happening in Maya's tiny Vancouver Island town. First, her friend Serena, the captain of the swim team, drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. Then, one year later, mountain lions are spotted rather frequently around Maya's home and her reactions to them are somewhat . . . unexpected. Her best friend, Daniel, has also been experiencing unexplainable premonitions about certain people and situations. It doesn't help that the new bad boy in town, Rafe, has a dangerous secret, and he's interested in one special part of Maya's anatom - her paw-print birthmark. Review: Ever since her best friend drowned strange things have been happening.  Everyone in this strange little town works for the same re...

Release Date:  February 6, 2018 Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 12 minutes Narrator:  Therese Plummer Genre: Mystery/thriller, police procedural Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Casey Duncan is about to face her toughest job as police detective in Rockton yet. When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. She certainly didn’t expect to be the homicide detective on two separate cases or to begin a romantic relationship with her boss. But the very last thing she expected was for the council to drop a dangerous criminal into their midst without a plan to keep him imprisoned, and to keep others safe. Of course Oliver Brady claims he's being set up. But the longer Brady stays...

Release Date:  May 3, 2016 Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  13 hours 42 minutes Narrator:  Therese Plummer Genre: Mystery/thriller, police procedural Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Int...

Release Date:  February 5, 2019 Publisher:  Minotaur Books Format:  ebook Pages:  368 pages Genre:   mystery/thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis: The secret town of Rockton has seen some rocky times lately; understandable considering its mix of criminals and victims fleeing society for refuge within its Yukon borders. Casey Duncan, the town's only detective on a police force of three, has already faced murder, arson, and falling in love in the several months that she's lived there. Yet even she didn't think it would be possible for an outsider to locate the town and cause trouble in the place she's come to call home. When a US Marshal shows up demanding the release of one of the residents, but won't say who, Casey and her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are skeptical. And yet only hours later, the marshal is shot dead and the only possible suspects are the townspeople and Casey's estranged sister, smuggled i...