Live by Night

Since We Fell

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Dennis Lehane
• Narrated By Katherine Fenton
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When she hit rock bottom, he was there with her every step of the way as she slowly regained her confidence - and her sanity. But his mysterious behaviour forces her to probe for the truth about her beloved husband. How can she feel certain that she ever knew him? And was she right to ever trust him? Since We Fell is a true masterpiece that will keep you in suspense until the very end.

The Force

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Don Winslow
• Narrated By Dion Graham

Detective sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs, drugs and guns in New York. For 18 years he's been on the front lines, doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean. What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now he's caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.

Shutter Island

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Dennis Lehane
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte

Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens, and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward C? The closer Teddy gets to the truth, the more elusive it becomes.

Mystic River

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Dennis Lehane
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
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There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store.

The Drop

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Dennis Lehane
• Narrated By Robert G. Slade
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Bob Saginowski finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

To Kill the President

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Sam Bourne
• Narrated By Jennifer Woodward
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The United States has elected a volatile demagogue as president, backed by his ruthless chief strategist, Crawford 'Mac' McNamara. When a war of words with the North Korean regime spirals out of control and the president comes perilously close to launching a nuclear attack, it's clear someone has to act, or the world will be reduced to ashes. Soon Maggie Costello, a seasoned Washington operator and stubbornly principled, discovers an inside plot to kill the president - and faces the ultimate moral dilemma.

The Jealous Kind

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 46 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton
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On its surface life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, he inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob. He also discovers he must find the courage his father had found as an American soldier in the Great War

I Heard You Paint Houses

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Charles Brandt
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Soon to be a major film directed by Martin Scorsese. "I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors.

In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than 25 hits for the Mob and for his friend Hoffa.

A Traitor in the Family

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Nicholas Searle
• Narrated By Ciarán McMenamin, Lisa Hogg
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Francis O'Neill is an IRA terrorist - and he will kill for the cause. Gentleman Joe is his boss - and he wants power. Liam is his brother - and he wants money. Richard is the British intelligence officer - and he wants to recruit him. Bridget is his wife - and she wants to get out. A Traitor in the Family is the story of a man who remains devoted to a cause while everyone around him gives in to temptation....

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Selwyn Raab
• Narrated By Paul Costanzo

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits.

You Don't Know Me

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Imran Mahmood
• Narrated By Adam Deacon
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An unnamed defendant stands accused of murder. Just before the closing speeches, the young man sacks his lawyer and decides to give his own defence speech. He tells us that his barrister told him to leave some things out. Sometimes the truth can be too difficult to explain or believe. But he thinks that if he's going to go down for life, he might as well go down telling the truth.

Darktown

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Thomas Mullen
• Narrated By Andre Holland
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Atlanta, 1948. In this city all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich white neighbourhoods, on the other Darktown, the African American area guarded by the city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near powerless by the authorities: they can't arrest white suspects; they can't drive squad cars; they must operate out of a dingy basement. When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith, two black cops.

American Tabloid

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 55 mins)
• By James Ellroy
• Narrated By Jeff Harding
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It's 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1,000 days of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant, Howard Hughes' right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hit man. Kemper Boyd, employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy's drive against organised crime.

Orphan X

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Gregg Hurwitz
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Do you need my help? It was always the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. Raised and trained as part of a top-secret programme, he was sent to the worst places in the world to do things his government denied any knowledge of. Then he broke with the programme and disappeared. But now someone's on his tail. Someone who knows he was once known simply as Orphan X.

The Neon Rain

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 22 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton
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Dave Robicheaux has been warned that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead. Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou swamp. Robicheaux uncovers a web of corruption that leads him to a terrifying confrontation with the one horror he fears most of all.

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Now available for the first time in unabridged audio, the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime is brought to life by acclaimed narrator Scott Brick.

Days Without End

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Sebastian Barry
• Narrated By Aidan Kelly
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Having signed up for the US Army in the 1850s, aged barely 17, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and ultimately the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in, they find these days to be vivid. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past.

Dragon Teeth

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Michael Crichton
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Sherri Crichton - Afterword

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. Against this backdrop two palaeontologists pillage the Wild West for dinosaur fossils while deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense.

The Late Show

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Katherine Moennig
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A compelling thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD. Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Robert Gerwarth
• Narrated By John Banks

For the Western allies, 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation and a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of their principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe, this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In this highly original, gripping book, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War.

Nomad

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 39 mins)
• By James Swallow
• Narrated By Colin Mace
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Marc Dane is an MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line. However, the evidence seems to point towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name.

No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Lee Child
• Narrated By Kerry Shale

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. A brand-new novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those previously published only in ebook form: Second Son, James Penney's New Identity, Guy Walks into a Bar, and Deep Down.

Hard Landing: Dan Shepherd, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Stephen Leather
• Narrated By Martyn Read
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As a detective working for an elite undercover squad, Dan "Spider" Shepherd has lied, cheated, and conned in order to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice. When a powerful drugs baron starts to kill off witnesses to his crimes, Shepherd is given his most dangerous assignment yet. He has to go undercover in a top-security prison - a world where one wrong move will mean certain death. Playing his role to perfection, Shepherd gambles everything to move in on his quarry - only to realise that the man he is set to trap is even more dangerous than the police anticipated....

The Circle

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Dave Eggers
• Narrated By Dion Graham

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public...