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THE TIMES AUDIOBOOK OF THE WEEK The bodies never stay buried forever . . .' On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace...

Hailed as one of America’s most insightful and inventive storytellers, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard now takes listeners on a breathtaking journey of suspense and high adventure. Back in high school, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly were known as The Godmothers, the girls...

Darwin, Summer, 1963. The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at a body that had been dragged from the shallow marshland. He didn't need a coroner to tell him this was a bad death. He didn't know then that this was only the first. Or that he was...

When a bloated body is found floating in international waters, twenty miles out at sea, Lily Dawn is called back to the Caribbean. But this is not a happy homecoming. She hasn’t seen her parents since moving to Miami ten years ago, and now her sister has been declared legally dead.

Gina Gambino wants revenge. Her life has been turned upside down with the murder of her two hoodlum sons, but she knows who's done it. Her target is Don Francini, leader of one of the most powerful mafia families in Palermo. Using her brain and her body, Gina worms her way into his household, becoming first his housekeeper then his mistress, weaving a complicated web of poison and murder. It seems her plans are going well until one disastrous night.

Shaken by PTSD from a traumatic case, brilliant FBI Agent Sage West recovers in a psychiatric clinic tucked away in the vast Midwest farmlands—when a local case demands his expertise, and local cops need his help before a killer strikes again….Tranquility turns to turmoil when a fellow patient, and friend, is found dead. Dismissed as suicide, Sage senses a sinister plot targeting mental illness. Now he must piece together the clues before the killer strikes again—if his own frail psyche can hold…

Death comes calling in Still County, and it's making a scene. When a stranger turns up on Apex land with a deer's head where his own should be, Rita Jonas, Apex's new Head of Law Enforcement Operations, catches the case. Then, a longtime resident gets killed the same way. Two victims, no...

They took over her town. Now they want her gone. Rita Jonas never planned to return to Still County, Wyoming. But after years with the NYPD, she's back—to care for her ailing father and reluctantly step into his old role as sheriff. She quickly learns that her hometown isn't the place she left...

It’s the case that could make DS Alex Morrow’s career. A suburban home invaded in the dead of night and a vulnerable old man taken hostage. It’s a black and white case and it shouldn’t be hard to solve… The two strangers who forced their way into the house demanded millions the family didn’t have and shouted for a man nobody had heard of. It had to be a mistake, and a bad one at that. But Alex Morrow can’t be depended on and the bosses know it.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'You've lost someone?' 'My baby sister. You must locate her. I need to know she's safe and sound. This is my dying wish. You have three weeks to get it done.' Frankie Elkin is about to undertake the strangest mission of her career. She has been asked by serial killer...

When the body of a man in 18th-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, Journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the '45 Rebellion has enraged the right-wing group Spirit of the Gael, which is connected to a shadowy group called Black Dawn linked to death threats and fake anthrax deliveries to Downing Street and Holyrood. When a second body - this time in the Redcoat uniform of the government army - is found in Inverness, Rebecca finds herself drawn ever deeper into the mystery.

He died with a secret. Now someone's killing to keep it hidden. Trevor Bachman was a family man with a quiet life—until he turned up dead in the trunk of his own car. No enemies. No warning. But Sheriff Rita Jonas knows better. Trevor was sitting on something big—something Apex Global wanted...

In Still County, some things won't stay buried. Others won't stop burning. When a mild-mannered accountant is found gruesomely murdered in his modest home, Sheriff Rita Jonas knows it’s no random crime. The victim had political ties to powerful men that could unravel what's left of Still...

Some secrets don't stay buried. Some were never meant to be found. Sheriff Rita Jonas has her hands full. Vandalism is on the rise at Apex Global's sites, and tensions between the townspeople and the corporation are heating up. When a construction crew uncovers a shallow grave on the edge of...

When the badly decayed body of an elderly woman is unearthed, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury, are called in on the case. The body provides only two mysterious clues to the identity of the murderer: someone with a deadly knowledge of household plants used shears to clip the fingertips off the corpse's right hand. But this dearth of evidence is not Lapslie's only problem.

Still Life With Crows: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden...

When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she's able to wash away the blood - but not the terror. Unwelcome newcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenage son are treated with suspicion by the locals, including the sheriff. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town's placid surface for the truth - except the killer. Now Elizabeth must risk everything to save her family and unmask the killer - before the current of evil flowing through Still Creek drags her under.

When whispers of environmental scandal turn into murder among the crop circles of experimental farmland, FBI Agent Harley Cole is thrust onto a trail littered with corruption and corpses. With each clue entwining tighter around industry secrets, Cole’s search for justice grows more urgent—as does her need to ensure that no more death blooms.

Wenn es Winter wird und Schnee und Eis alle Spuren verwischen, erwacht in den einsamen Wäldern Brandenburgs das Böse. Über Nacht verschwinden Mädchen und Jungen auf mysteriöse Weise. Kein Kind wird je wiedergesehen. Nur ein Mädchen taucht unerwartet und verstört wieder auf, seine Lippen sind seitdem verschlossen. Erst als ein verzweifelter Vater auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln beginnt, bricht es sein Schweigen. Doch damit dreht sich die Spirale des Bösen nur noch schneller.

Westly and Raider are coming to grips with the new world and the tremendous changes since the solar storm caused the nationwide power failures. The problems in the Flagg household seem to focus on a coming confrontation between good people and those at the Crater of Diamonds. Wes, in the process of warning others of the danger, realized sometimes in a world gone mad, doing the right thing for the right reasons is not good enough. Sometimes, he has to do the wrong things for the right reasons to fix what’s gone wrong.