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Publication Date:  September 20, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Legal Thriller Narrators:  Helen Laser Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing  Length:  11 hours 41 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect.  She has maintained a spotless reputation—until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an old friend, Rik Dudek, to act as her attorney in th...

Publication Date:  May 4, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Rebecca Lowman Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio Length:  8 hours 49 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year:  Protect her . Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realize...

Publication Date:  July 1, 2008 Format:  Audio Genre:   Suspense Thriller Narrators:  Dick Hill Publisher:  Brilliance Audio  Length:  17 hours 0 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard's office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse's own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse's bombshell: Dr. Shepard's own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer...

Publication Date:  July 6, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir Narrators:  Danny Trejo, Donal Logue Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio  Length:  13 hours 19 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He’s been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he’s a hero beloved by recovery communities and obsessed fans alike. But the real Danny Trejo is much more complicated than the legend. Raised in an abusive home, Danny struggled with heroin addiction and stints in some of the country’s most notorious state prisons—including San Quentin and Folsom—from an early age, be...

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 22, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller/Suspense Narrator:  Elizabeth Knowelden Publisher:  Penguin Audio         Length:  11 hours 58 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis You won't want to leave...until you can't. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée,...

Publication Date:  June 2, 2020 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio  Narrator:  Jane McDowell Length:   7 hours 57 minutes Genre:  Police Procedural, suspense, mystery Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Synopsis: A serial killer strikes every Halloween - the bodies of his victims resurfacing years later - and with Halloween only days away, it is up to FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to stop the killer before he strikes again. How has this killer gone undetected for so long? How many victims have there really been? And who will he target next? FBI Special Agent Riley Paige must fend off her own demons and her dysfunctional family life as she races against time to enter the mind of a diabolical killer days away from striking again - one who may even be more brilliant than her. Can she stop him in time? Review:  This se...

Publication Date:  March 1, 2017 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio  Narrator:  Elaine Wise Length:   6 hours 38 minutes Genre:  Police Procedural, suspense, mystery Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Synopsis: In  Before He Covets , newly minted FBI agent Mackenzie White graduates the FBI Academy in Quantico only to find herself thrown into an urgent serial killer case. Women are turning up dead while camping in a remote national park in West Virginia. Yet the park is vast, and no connection can be found between them.  At the same time, Mackenzie receives a call from Nebraska urging her to come home. After many years, a new clue has surfaced about her father's murder. The case no longer cold, Mackenzie desperately needs to help solve it.  But the FBI's killer is ratcheting up, and there is no time for distraction as more women turn up...

Release Date :  November  18, 2020 Publisher:  Spectrum Audio Format:  Audio Length:  2 hours 35 Min Narrator:  Virginia Rose & Aaron Shedlock Genre:   Romance  Buy:    Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis:  She’s my employee. I’m her boss’s boss. Hell, I own the company. Pursuing Lillian Burkette was a line I shouldn’t cross. Until a work trip from hell changed everything. I didn’t just step over the line. I annihilated the damn thing.   When it comes to her, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do.  I’d even kill for her. When they say the corporate world is a jungle … they have no idea. Review: This could have been a really good book if it hadn't been so short.  I feel like the author skipped a lot of the build up, the struggle and romance and just gave us a synopsis of what the book could have been. The narrators were fine and enga...

  Release Date:  May 02, 2008 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 3 minutes Narrator:  Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney Genre:  Native American Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. The descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry, their lives intertwine; only the youngest generation, of mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past continues to play in their lives. Evelina Harp is a witty, ambitious young girl, part Ojibwe, part white, who is prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a ...

Release Date: November 26, 2018 Publisher:  I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the hell do I read? Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 56 Min Narrator:  Michael Crouch Genre: YA, LGBT Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Wyatt is 15, and nobody in his homophobic small town of Lincolnville, Oregon, knows that he’s gay. Not even his best friend (and accidental girlfriend) Mackenzie. Then he discovers a secret from actual history: Abraham Lincoln was in love with another guy! Since everyone loves Lincoln, Wyatt’s sure that if the world knew about it, they would treat gay people differently, and it would solve everything about his life. So Wyatt outs Lincoln online, triggering a media firestorm that threatens to destroy everything he cares about - and he has to pretend more than ever that he’s straight.... Only then he meets Martin, who is openly gay and who just might be the guy Wyatt’s been hoping to find. Review: I loved this...

Release Date: November 11, 18, 2013, March 5, 2014 Publisher:  Tantor Audio  Format:  Audio Narrator:  Claire Wexford Genre:  Romance Buy:   Amazon Synopsis:  Knight & Play:   There's only one thing in life Lucien Knight really hates, and that's husbands who cheat on their wives. There's only one problem in Sophie Black's life. Her cheating husband... From the moment Lucien & Sophie meet, the seal is set. CEO of Knight Inc. Lucien Knight is catch-your-breath gorgeous and damaged by his troubled past in Norway. All grown up and relocated to London, he's built his empire of adult clubs from the ground up to become the gorgeous patron saint of the sex industry. No one knows the dark childhood secrets that have given Lucien a backbone of steel.  No one until Sophie Black, that is... From the moment girl-next-door Sophie accepts the job as Lucien Knight's PA, she understands h...

August 4, 2020 Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours  Narrator:  Bailey Carr, January LaVoy, Samantha Desz Genre:  Mystery/Thrillers Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the “gripping and unforgettable” (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town’s dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. Ever since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall has become a household name—and the last hope for people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The new season of Rachel's pod...

Release Date:  December 20, 2018 Publisher:  Anansi Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 13 minutes Narrator:  Fiona Reid Genre:  Religion/Sprituality, Animism Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Enchantment. By Dr. Sharon Blackie’s definition, a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many-layered world, a profound and whole-hearted participation in the adventure of life. Enchantment is a natural, spontaneous human tendency - one we possess as children, but lose, through social and cultural pressures, as we grow older. It is an attitude of mind which can be cultivated: the enchanted life is possible for anyone. It is intuitive, embraces wonder, and fully engages the mythic imagination - but it is also deeply embodied in ecology, grounded in place and community. Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairytales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon Blackie offers a set of practi...

Release Date:  October 15, 2019 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 26 minutes Narrator:  Jane McDowell Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  After lying dormant for 10 years, an elusive serial killer strikes again, leaving few clues—and the only way for FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to catch him in the present is to solve the riddles of the past. Women are turning up dead, and in this dark psychological thriller, Riley Paige realizes she is in a race against time. The murders of the past were too perplexing to be solved back then. Can Riley solve them 10 years cold? And connect the dots to the present-day crimes? When Riley finds her personal life in crisis, playing cat and mouse with a brilliant psychopath may just be too much for her. Especially since there is something that is just not sitting right with this case…. Review: People in a small town are winding up dea...

Release Date:  November - December, 2019 Publisher:  Stella Gray Format:  Audio Narrator:  Sebastian York & Elena Wolfe Genre:  Romance Buy:   Series Synopsis:  The Deal:  On my 18th birthday my father, the senator, gives me the gift he thinks every little girl dreams of. The man of my dreams, and the wedding to match. Stefan Zoric is heir to an elite worldwide modeling agency. Practically a prince. My arrangement is simple, as far as sham marriages go. I give him my virginity, behave as the perfect wife and he'll pay for the college degree my father found irrelevant. But I don't want to be the perfect wife. I want him to want me the way I want him. I want him to confide in me. But Stefan has secrets that he holds close, dangerous secrets. And soon I'm wondering what kind of devil have I made a deal with? The Secret:  On the day I was married, I promised to love, honor, and obey my husband, Stefan. Little d...