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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:  March 28, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery/horror Fiction Publisher:  One World Length:   282 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so des...

Publication Date:  February 14, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Assassination Thriller  Publisher:  Minotaur Books Length:   347 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audiobook Synopsis As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure never got out.  When he remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate in their times of trouble, Evan found himself slowly back on the government's radar. Having eliminated most of the Orphans in the program, the government will stop at nothing to eliminate the threat they see in Evan...

Publication Date:  January 17, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Private Investigator Mystery  Narrators:  Peter Berkrot Publisher:  Highbridge Audio Length:   11 hours 36 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization—but the attorney in question is Ellen Leicester, the wife who left him fifteen years earlier, and to her, he can’t say no. Initially brought in as a consultant to determine if the racketeering is severe enough to require an all-out investigation by the FBI...

  Publication Date:  January 10, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Psychological Thrillers Publisher:  GP Putnam  Length:   351 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis After reckless behavior costs NYPD detective Leigh O’Donnell her job and her marriage, she returns with her four-year-old daughter to her beautiful hometown of Copper Falls, Ohio. Leigh had stayed away for more than a decade—even though her brother and a trio of loving uncles still call it home—because, while the town may seem idyllic, something rotten lies at its core. Three men in town have drowned in what Leigh suspects to be a triple homicide. She hopes that by finding out who killed them, she just might get her life back on cours...

Publication Date:  January 10, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA, LGBTQ+ Publisher:  Inkyard Press Length:  462 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Edward Dinnissen  leads a charmed life. He’s the Crown Prince of Canada, gets the royal treatment at his exclusive private school, and resides in a ritzy mansion. He thrives off being the perfect prince as he prepares for the Investiture Ceremony on his eighteenth birthday, the final step in his role as heir—and Canada’s future king. But this closeted Crown Prince has just one tiny problem: he’s unsure how to tell his parents, his beloved country, and his adoring fans that he’s gay.   Billy Boone  should be happy with the simple life. His family’s ranch is his favorite place ...

Publication Date:  January 3, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller Narrators:  Julia Wheelan, Kimberly M Wetherall, Shiromi Arserio Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:   7 hours 57 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to joi...

Publication Date:  January 12, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Jan Cramer Publisher:  Raven Street Publishing Length:   9 hours 3 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza.  When Private Investigator Kate Marshall is rushed to hospital after being pulled into a riptide current in the sea, the near-death experience leaves her shaken.  During her recovery, she befriends Jean, an elderly lady on the same ward. Jean tells the harrowing story of how  her three-year-old grandson, Charlie, went missing eleven years ago during...

  Publication Date:  January 10, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/thriller Narrators:  Karrissa Vacker Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   9 hours 55 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her—literally. Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout where she loses track of time, she hasn’t slept in a year. Isabelle's entire existence now revolves around finding him, but she knows she ca...

Publication Date:  January 17, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Karrissa Vacker Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  11 hours 16 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls’ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes. And they were liars. For decades, the friends have kept a secret worth killing for. But ...

Publication Date:  December 27, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir  Narrators:  Max Lloyd Jones  Publisher:  ECW Audio Length:   7 hours 53 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis “Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald, the answer is simple:  hurts less than a broken heart . Those words are painted above the entrance to his shop, Under My Thumb Tattoos, as a reminder. Chris and his brothers were as wild as the wind, in their house among the fields of Alliston, Ontario, when their parents divorced. Shell-shocked, they were uprooted and brought to Toronto by their dad. Their mother’s mental illness worsened in the aftermath, and she disappeared. ...

Publication Date:  January 10, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Joanne Froggett Publisher:  Harper Audio Length:  9 hours 30 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A car accident. Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . . In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil’s Corridor—a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one—Olivia—was found. ...

Publication Date:  January 3, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Publisher:  Kensington Length:  304 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis Snow falls softly outside Molly Bradley’s home on a frigid January night. Inside, half a dozen close friends are gathered to  celebrate the fortieth birthday of Molly’s psychologist husband, Jay. Candlelight gleams against dark wood, wine flows, and the  house rings with laughter. Everybody loves Jay, Molly most of all. Yet next morning, Molly discovers Jay dead on the floor of his  office, his throat brutally slashed. After decades working with the Boston PD, Detective Rita Myers has grown accustomed to the banality of evil—the murders that  make no sen...

  Publication Date:  November 29, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA Fantasy Narrators:  Ell Potter, Will Damron Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:  9 hours 39 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis As a boy, Elias learned the hard way what happens when you don’t heed the old tales. Nine years after his lack of superstition got his father killed, he’s grown into a young man of piety, with a deep reverence for the hallowed sea and her fickle favor. As stories of the fisherman’s son who has managed to escape the most deadly of storms spreads from port to port, his devotion to the myths and creeds has given him the reputation of the luckiest bastard to sail the Narrows. Now, he’s mere days away from getting everything his father ever dreamed ...

Publication Date:  December 6, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Adam Verner, Xe Sands Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  10 hours 39 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note, down-on-her-luck photographer Morgan Mori returns home to Black Harbor and into the web of their family secrets and double lives. The same night she photographs the Reynolds holiday get-together, Morgan becomes witness to a homicide of a cop that triggers the discovery of a long-buried clue. This could finally be the thing to crack open the chilling cold case, ...

  Publication Date:  September 21, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Lisa Larsen Publisher:  Cam Cat Publishing Length:  8 hours 31 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Reese Marigold saved Ann Stone from a life of addiction by introducing Ann to AA and serving as her sponsor in recovery. Despite their differences—Reese is a hopeless romantic, while Ann is a no-nonsense attorney—the women remain close ten years later. So when Reese goes missing after attending Last Chance, an exclusive singles’ retreat off the coast of Hawaii, Ann infiltrates the retreat. Quickly, Ann realizes there’s more to Last Chance than meets the eye. With its extravagant clothes, never-ending interviews, and bizarre dates, Ann begins to suspect the retreat is ...