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The Honourable Schoolboy
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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Story29
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation...
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A complex and well researched story that's let down by the narration.
- By Tom on 29-12-25
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The Honourable Schoolboy
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Series: George Smiley, Book 6
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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The Third Nero
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Lucy Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall185
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Performance164
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Story164
Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble - her new husband may be permanently disabled and they have no funds. So when Palace officials ask her to help expose a plotter in their midst she is obliged to accept their commission. The plot could not be bigger. Ever since he died in AD 68...
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Not the Best in the series
- By Smallbo on 06-09-17
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The Third Nero
- Narrated by: Lucy Brown
- Series: Flavia Albia, Book 5
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits
- World's End Bureau, Book 1
- By: Alys Clare
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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Story28
London, 1880. When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are sceptical. How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond the grave? But after she attends a seance at the Stibbins family home, Lily comes to realize that Albertina is in terrible danger. And soon, so is Lily herself....
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Better than expected
- By The Curator on 19-12-19
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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits
- World's End Bureau, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Series: World's End Bureau, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 15-12-19
- Language: English
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Riviera Gold
- A Novel
- By: Laurie R. King
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance19
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Story19
It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo, where fortunes are won, lost, stolen, and hidden away. So when Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d'Azur in this summer of 1925, they find themselves pulled between the young and the old, hot sun and cool jazz, new friendships and old loyalties, childlike pleasures and very grownup sins...
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Laurie R King is my No 1 favourite
- By Supepsi on 27-05-21
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Riviera Gold
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 16
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
- The Doomsday Books, Book 1
- By: KJ Charles
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance41
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Story41
Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar…
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Lovely story but awful narration
- By Laz on 10-01-24
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
- The Doomsday Books, Book 1
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Series: The Doomsday Books, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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Proof of Guilt
- An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance40
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Story40
Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard must contend with two dangerous enemies in New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd's Proof of Guilt. Can Rutledge solve the apparent murder of a top wine merchant while dealing with interference from his superior, the new Acting Chief Superintendent? Readers...
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Engrossing
- By Amazon Customer on 05-04-20
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Proof of Guilt
- An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries, Book 15
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-01-13
- Language: English
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Sacrilege
- By: S. J. Parris
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall770
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Performance704
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Story700
Fear haunts the streets of London after the assassination of a protestant Prince, and the recurrence of the plague. Giordano Bruno suspects someone is following him, but on confronting his stalker, he realizes it is the woman he once loved – she is on the run, accused of murder. Bruno travels to Canterbury to help clear her name, instructed by Sir Francis Walsingham to also search for the assassin in the shadow of England’s holiest shrine…
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Bruno is a sex pest
- By Michael on 30-10-19
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Sacrilege
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Series: Giordano Bruno Series, Book 3
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-09-13
- Language: English
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A Surfeit of Miracles
- Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, Book 8
- By: J. G. Lewis
- Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Ela Longespée, High Sheriff of Wiltshire, sets out to find the killer of a man found dead inside the nearby circle of ancient stones. Except that the victim is later seen walking in Salisbury and claims to have risen from the dead. He ingratiates himself with the people of Salisbury, and even the bishop, but Ela suspects the man is a charlatan and a murderer. Can she learn the truth when even the jury thinks he's a living saint?
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Historical inaccuracies. Dinosaurs. Charlatan.
- By M. McCabe on 26-02-25
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A Surfeit of Miracles
- Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, Book 8
- Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
- Series: Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: English
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St. Peter’s Fair
- The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
- By: Ellis Peters
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance56
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Story55
St. Peter’s Fair was a grand event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. With the pause in the Civil War during the summer of 1139, the fair would bring some much-needed gaiety to Shrewsbury. But a wealthy merchant is found murdered in the river Severn. Brother Cadfael offers...
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Good Book - Let down by narration
- By Richard on 23-10-07
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St. Peter’s Fair
- The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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The Chase
- Isaac Bell #1
- By: Clive Cussler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall297
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Performance256
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Story257
In The Chase Clive Cussler introduces a historical hero- Isaac Bell. 1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody clue to a fortune lost for over forty years . . . 1906: For two years banks across the western United...
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Its exceptionally good...!
- By AB on 06-08-15
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The Chase
- Isaac Bell #1
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Series: An Isaac Bell Adventure, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-10-11
- Language: English
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The Way of All Flesh
- Raven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 1
- By: Ambrose Parry
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick, Louise Brealey
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall902
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Performance839
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Story836
Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the new medical frontier of anaesthesia.
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Fabulous book
- By El on 27-11-18
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The Way of All Flesh
- Raven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 1
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick, Louise Brealey
- Series: Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-08-18
- Language: English
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The Manor of Death
- By: Bernard Knight
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance64
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Story64
When a body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, is summoned to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute - but, as Sir John soon discovers, it was no accident. The victim did not drown, as the manor reeve alleges...
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Excellent as always
- By Anonymous on 11-06-25
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The Manor of Death
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Series: Crowner John Series, Book 12
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 20-01-09
- Language: English
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The Dead of Winter
- Three Giordano Bruno Novellas
- By: S. J. Parris
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall282
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Performance252
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Story251
Three gripping tales from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller S. J. Parris. The Secret Dead Summer 1556. A girl’s body is found in a Neapolitan monastery. Novice monk Giordano Bruno is determined to uncover what happened, but his investigation could deliver him into the hands of the Inquisition. The...
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Evocative and a good story
- By Jonathan Coore on 16-01-21
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The Dead of Winter
- Three Giordano Bruno Novellas
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
- Classic crime for Agatha Christie fans
- By: Dorothy L Sayers
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
General Fentiman is found dead in his armchair at London's Bellona Club. His passing appears entirely natural for a ninety-year-old veteran. However, the exact time of his death sits at the centre of a fierce inheritance dispute. If the General died even a minute before his wealthy sister, Lady...
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At last!
- By RW on 08-05-26
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
- Classic crime for Agatha Christie fans
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Series: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Book 5
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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Treachery
- By: S. J. Parris
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall794
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Performance728
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Story732
Summer, 1585: Sir Francis Drake prepares to embark on an expedition by royal commission to cross the Atlantic and seize major Spanish ports, diverting King Philip of Spain’s treasure to Queen Elizabeth. When a ship captain is brutally murdered, and Drake’s life threatened, it becomes clear that someone plans to destroy the expedition before it begins. Giordano Bruno and Sir Philip Sidney hunt for the killer, but are they being lured into a trap?
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Gripping stuff
- By Melvin on 28-06-14
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Treachery
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Series: Giordano Bruno Series, Book 4
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 27-02-14
- Language: English
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Mary Russell's War
- And Other Stories of Suspense
- By: Laurie R. King
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance14
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Story14
In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously been available in print, and one brand-new, never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery - available together for the first time - Laurie R. King blends her long-running brand of crime fiction with historical treats and narrative sleight of hand.
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All the short stories
- By mivona on 18-02-24
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Mary Russell's War
- And Other Stories of Suspense
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-10-16
- Language: English
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A Corruption of Blood
- Raven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 3
- By: Ambrose Parry
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron, Bryan Dick
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall193
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Performance163
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Story161
Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back in the townhouse of Dr James Simpson, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but when word reaches her that a woman has recently obtained a medical degree despite her gender, Sarah decides to seek her out.
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The high standard of the series maintained
- By Kirstine on 24-09-21
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A Corruption of Blood
- Raven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 3
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron, Bryan Dick
- Series: Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-08-21
- Language: English
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The Gilded Lily
- Nicole Rayburn Historical Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Irina Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance52
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Story52
Every old house has its secrets, so it comes as no surprise when a relic of a noble Victorian family is discovered in the new home of historical author Nicole Rayburn and her husband Kyle. Curious about the lovely young woman in the sepia photograph, Nicole delves into the history of the family and stumbles on a long-forgotten mystery.
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good story spoilt by the narration
- By Elizabeth Hedges on 08-12-25
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The Gilded Lily
- Nicole Rayburn Historical Mysteries, Book 5
- Narrated by: Jess Nahikian
- Series: Nicole Rayburn Historical Mysteries, Book 5
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-08-23
- Language: English
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The Accusers
- Marcus Didius Falco, Book 15
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall289
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Performance223
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Story221
Fresh from his trip to Britain, Falco needs to re-establish his presence in Rome. A minor role in the trial of a senator entangles him in the machinations of Silius Italicus and Paccius Africanus, two real-life lawyers at the top of their trade. These notorious ex-consuls play a dangerous game, where success brings rich pickings but a mistrial or a wrong verdict entails huge financial penalties.
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Not sure about the reader/narrator
- By Anne on 13-12-10
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The Accusers
- Marcus Didius Falco, Book 15
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Series: Marcus Didius Falco, Book 15
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-04-05
- Language: English
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Death on the Cherwell
- By: Mavis Doriel Hay
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance50
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Story49
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon only to find the drowned body of the college bursar floating in her canoe.
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Golden Age Detective Story
- By Ginger on 08-08-15
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Death on the Cherwell
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-08-15
- Language: English
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