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Narrated by:
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Julia Franklin
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By:
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Mick Herron
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When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney’s jewellery shop, she certainly doesn’t expect to wind up in a coffin. But she’s about to become entangled with a strange collection of characters, starting with suicidal Tim Whitby, who’s dedicating what’s left of his life to protecting Katrina Blake from her late husband’s brothers, Arkle and Trent.
Unfortunately for Zoë, Arkle has a crossbow, Tim has nothing left to lose and even Katrina has her secrets.
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This Is What Happened
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 149
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice. Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to infiltrate the establishment and thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk. Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero - if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well written, but disappointing
- By Meg on 02-04-18
By: Mick Herron
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Nobody Walks
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 438
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 395
The death of Tom Bettany's estranged 26-year-old son brings him back to London. His return sparks the interest of everyone from mobsters to MI5 officers - he may have thought he left his old life as a spy behind, but nobody just walks away. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets the voicemail from an English woman he doesn't know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead. Liam was smoking dope on his London balcony when he fell....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Slough House
- By ili pika on 07-02-19
By: Mick Herron
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The Secret Hours
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 890
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 794
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 794
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service “to investigate historical over-reaching.” Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer—and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just about perfect
- By June Lapidow on 09-28-23
By: Mick Herron
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Dolphin Junction
- Stories
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Emma Powell, Gerard Doyle, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4 out of 5 stars 92
Now, for the first time, Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five stand-alone nerve-racking and thrilling crime fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zoë Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wicked treats
- By A+A on 11-24-21
By: Mick Herron
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Silverview
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 832
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 710
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Story4 out of 5 stars 704
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Le Carré's SILVERVIEW brings him and us back home
- By Close Listener on 10-14-21
By: John le Carré
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The Usual Santas
- A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
- By: Helene Tursten, Mick Herron, Martin Limon, and others
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen, John Keating, Barbara Caruso, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 60
Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.
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3 out of 5 stars
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18 Xmas crime stories run the gamut
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 12-07-23
By: Helene Tursten, and others
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Karla's Choice
- A John le Carré Novel
- By: Nick Harkaway
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Nick Harkaway
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 204
George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Smiley
- By Robert F. on 10-31-24
By: Nick Harkaway
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The Odessa File
- The Odessa Series, Book 1
- By: Frederick Forsyth
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"...of a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger...and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed the movie more.
- By A. G. on 03-22-25
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Night Soldiers
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,906
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,564
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,569
New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Alan Furst novel!
- By Placeholder on 04-27-11
By: Alan Furst
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Call for the Dead
- George Smiley, Book 1
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 210
After an unremarkable interview, Circus agent George Smiley determines the subject of a standard security check—a civil servant in the Foreign Office named Samuel Fennan—poses no threat, nor presents any reason for suspicion of espionage. Hours later, Samuel Fennan is found dead by suicide. Suddenly finding himself under intense scrutiny, Smiley realizes the Circus intends to blame him for Fennan's death. Rather than remain idle, Smiley begins his own investigation into the nature of the man's demise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good, short, intrigue and mystery from the beginnings of the modern era of espionage.
- By Anthro006 on 08-14-24
By: John Le Carré
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Case Histories
- A Novel
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,712
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,315
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,315
Case One: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case Two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case Three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trippy book
- By mary on 01-20-09
By: Kate Atkinson
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The Cold, Cold Ground
- Detective Sean Duffy, Book 1
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,983
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,487
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,462
Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job—especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen to this book. You won't be disappointed.
- By Christopher on 01-21-12
By: Adrian McKinty
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Precipice
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 264
In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
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5 out of 5 stars
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outstanding in every way
- By Rosalind Britton on 10-10-24
By: Robert Harris
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The Searcher
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,940
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,651
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,618
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFULLY DREARY IRISH ATMOSPHERE & STORY
- By McSusie on 10-06-20
By: Tana French
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- Sashabear Lucas
- 10-08-23
Slow and repetitive
First I enjoy this author & wanted to like this offering. When I cannot find one character to care for either good or evil, the story becomes flat
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- Susan715NY
- 03-26-25
Great Lead Character & Narrator
Zoe Boeme is a clever, compelling woman and her cases always involve lots of twists and turns.
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- Simone
- 11-22-23
This will be my last of this series!
I have been listening to Mick Herron’s Oxford series because of his wonderful slow horses series. I also like the main character Zoe and wanted to follow her, but I can’t take anymore. The stories are very slow and tedious. It takes forever for something to happen. For instance, finding a key takes what seems like an hour. I’m going to finish this book and do myself a favor and not read or listen to anymore Oxford series. I do not have a problem with the narration as some of the other reviews state however, the overall experience is just not fun.
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- Patti Antonacci
- 01-05-22
Narrator voice overwhelms
Love Mick Herron, but this narrator should be on the stage, not reading books.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-07-24
Characters suitably crazy
Mr Herron has a lively imagination and ms Franklin is up to the task of developing the voices of the crazy criminals
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- martha giardina
- 03-18-24
Not as good
Perhaps it is the reader making the story so dull, or maybe the story itself is also just dull.
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- DCRazorback
- 11-22-24
Well paced and unpredictable
Another great read/listen! How he manages to craft these funny and diabolically clever characters is truly a marvel. The vocal performance is incredible, I now look for any audio books she does, and she is one of my must listen presenters.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Deresky
- 08-06-23
Complex story, needs attention.
I really like his style, especially as it relates to the Slow Horses series. This like all has complex scene/story line changes which without the benefit of seeing paragraph, chapter or page changes means the reader can't daydream as when these occur the story loses its sense.
Audible should advise/manage narratives to limit the highs and lows of the narrator's voice as many audio systems cannot handle them in conjunction with the deteriorating hearing of the demographic that listens to this type of book.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-26-22
Excellent story; well-read; poor audio edits
An exciting tale, great narration. However in the final 2-3 chapters seems like the editors failed to complete their review. A few obvious misreads, pauses and corrections left on the tape rather than edited out.
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- Lobster_Farmer
- 07-04-24
A tale of Death to bide your time by
Entertaining in a macabre sort of way. Recommended for those who cherish Mick Herron and his cast of independence-tainted characters
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