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Leighton Pugh
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Andrew Taylor
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A secret mission…
1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover.
A terrible choice…
When Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Alfred is given an ultimatum by the Czech Resistance. They will arrange for him to return to England, but only if he leaves his son Hugh behind as collateral.
A young boy stranded in Nazi terrain…
Hugh is soon taken under the wing of a Nazi colonel – Helmuth Scholl. But even though Scholl treats Hugh well, his son, Heinz, is suspicious of this foreigner. And as the war across the continent intensifies, they are set on a path that will ultimately lead towards destruction…
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Praise for Andrew Taylor:
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‘Effortlessly authentic … gripping … moving and believable. An excellent work’ C. J. Sansom
'Taylor has long been the pre-eminent chronicler of beautifully atmospheric historical crime' The Times
‘A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era’ Financial Times
‘This is how historical crime should be written, with rich authenticity underpinning a twisting plot’ The Times
‘One of the most reliably enjoyable of historical novelists’ The Sunday Times
‘An atmospheric pleasure, full of twists and memorable characters’ The Times
‘With a fast-moving, complex plot underpinned by solid but unobtrusive research and plenty of drama and intrigue, Taylor brings the 17th century to life so vividly that one can almost smell it’ Guardian
‘Once again, Taylor combines his detailed research with a deviously twist-laden storyline’ Observer
‘A most artful and delightful book, that will both amuse and chill, and it will have you desperate to search out a quiet corner to continue your acquaintance with it’ Daily Telegraph
'Taylor's mastery of plot and character show to great effect in a story that has a depth few other historical crime novels can match' Sunday Times
'A hugely engaging, atmospheric historical thriller with not one but two smart and lovable protagonists. Andrew Taylor is one of our finest storytellers' Antonia Hodgson
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Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, Sarah’s life is thrown into disarray as she is transported to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand, and to the British Raj in 19th-century India.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and disorganized
- De Miranda en 03-16-22
De: Kirsten McKenzie
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The Parisian
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 144
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- De Placeholder en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 894
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 789
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 788
The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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Death at Greenway
- A Novel
- De: Lori Rader-Day
- Narrado por: Moira Quirk
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story & characters that kept me company
- De Kim Fountain en 10-24-21
De: Lori Rader-Day
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Weekend at Thrackley
- De: Alan Melville
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley. The house is gloomy and forbidding, but the party is warm and hospitable except for the presence of Jacobson, the sinister butler. The other guests are wealthy people draped in jewels; Jim cannot imagine why he belongs in such company. After a weekend of adventure with attempted robbery and a vanishing guest, secrets come to light, and Jim unravels a mystery from his past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect for Your Next Weekend, Wherever You Are
- De John en 07-04-19
De: Alan Melville
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The Barrakee Mystery
- De: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrado por: Peter Hosking
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? And who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent? This first story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, takes him to a sheep station in the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well... mixed blood and divided loyalties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story from another time....
- De VtAdrienne en 06-15-15
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The Christmas Card Crime
- And Other Stories
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin, Anne Dover
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping. And lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder.... This collection of mysteries explores the darker side of the festive season, from unexplained disturbances in the fresh snow to the darkness that lurks beneath the sparkling decorations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aahhh... Just The Right Blend Of Mystery, Murder And Christmas.!!
- De John en 12-04-18
De: Martin Edwards
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These Names Make Clues
- De: E. C.R. Lorac
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the house of the Graham Coombe, the celebrated publisher of Murder by Mesmerism. The clues of the hunt have been devised by Coombe's thriller-writer friends, disguised on the night under literary pseudonyms. The fun comes to an abrupt end, however, when 'Samuel Pepys' is found murdered in the telephone room in bizarre circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun story.
- De peter en 03-12-22
De: E. C.R. Lorac
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Prince of Spies
- The Richard Prince Thrillers, Book 1
- De: Alex Gerlis
- Narrado por: Rupert Bush
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 237
1942: a German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him.... In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife. Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival - and the war effort - hangs in the balance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ending?
- De T Smith en 02-24-21
De: Alex Gerlis
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Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrado por: Stephanie Daniel
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,049
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,499
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,490
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A series that just gets better
- De Barbara Kindle Customer en 02-01-11
De: Kerry Greenwood
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The Royal Correspondent
- A Novel
- De: Alexandra Joel
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel - set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s - about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story engaging. Narrator not so much.
- De Anne M. Kelley en 09-15-22
De: Alexandra Joel
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The Bermondsey Bookshop
- De: Mary Gibson
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss' struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate has only her own brave spirit and dreams of finding her father to keep her going. She has barely enough money to feed herself, or to pay the rent. The factory where she works begins to lay off people and it isn't long before she has fallen into the hands of the violent local money-lender.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A glimpse into the past
- De Luci-Lu en 10-27-21
De: Mary Gibson
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A Few Right Thinking Men
- The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Sulari Gentill
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
Rowland Sinclair is an artist and a gentleman. In Australia's 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet Rowland has a talent for scandal. He relies on the Sinclair fortune to indulge his artistic passions and friends: a poet, a painter and a brazen sculptress. Mounting tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution, but Rowland Sinclair is indifferent to the politics...until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary and treasonous conspiracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stumbled Upon this Gem!
- De CaptiveBooks en 12-18-24
De: Sulari Gentill
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The Jewel in the Crown
- The Raj Quartet, Book 1
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 22 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Superb writing, subverted by spiritless narration
- De mgale en 10-13-10
De: Paul Scott
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The Grand Dark
- De: Richard Kadrey
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 425
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 383
From the best-selling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrison - a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos. The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war’s horrifying despair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kadrey does it again!
- De Lilah Quinn en 06-14-19
De: Richard Kadrey
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Between Two Thorns
- The Split Worlds Series, Book 1
- De: Emma Newman
- Narrado por: Emma Newman
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
The new season is starting and the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned with the task of finding him - with no one to help but a dislocated soul and a mad sorcerer. There is a witness, but his memories have been bound by magical chains only the enemy can break. A rebellious woman trying to escape her family may prove to be the ally Max needs. But can she be trusted? And why does she want to give up eternal youth and the life of privilege she’s been born into?
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1 out of 5 stars
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I hate writing Bad reviews but.....
- De Joseph Reeves en 04-26-17
De: Emma Newman
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Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders
- De: Tessa Arlen
- Narrado por: Madeleine Leslay
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Charming and feisty Poppy Redfern stumbles into murder in this exciting new World War II historical mystery series from critically acclaimed author Tessa Arlen. In a remote English village, two popular women who are dating American servicemen are found strangled, and Poppy must team up with a pilot to unearth chilling secrets before she becomes the next victim.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect! Can't Wait for More!
- De Meg en 12-17-19
De: Tessa Arlen