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The Secret Place
- A devastating suspense novel from the one-of-a-kind, international bestselling author
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson, Stephen Hogan
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall415
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Performance376
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Story375
'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL...
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A great read
- By Odilon on 13-10-14
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The Secret Place
- A devastating suspense novel from the one-of-a-kind, international bestselling author
- Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson, Stephen Hogan
- Series: Dublin Murder Squad, Book 5
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 28-08-14
- Language: English
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Where the Light Enters
- The Gilded Hour, Book 2
- By: Sara Donati
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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Story18
Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans to continue her work aiding the disadvantaged women society would rather forget. As Sophie sets out to construct a new life for herself, Anna's husband, Detective Sergeant Jack Mezzanotte calls on them both to consult on two new cases.
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A GOOD YARN
- By Amazon Customer on 29-08-21
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Where the Light Enters
- The Gilded Hour, Book 2
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Series: The Gilded Hour, Book 2
- Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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Desolation Island
- By: Patrick O’Brian
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Abridged
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Overall31
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Performance16
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Story16
On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged… Captain Bligh, of Bounty fame, is now governor of New South Wales and facing mutiny anew, having lost the support of local settlers. Jack Aubrey is commissioned to come to his rescue. With a...
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Desolation Island
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin (abridged), Book 5
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-06-05
- Language: English
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None Left To Tell
- By: Noelle Ihli
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
A riveting novel of historical suspense, from the bestselling author of Ask for Andrea, and based on the harrowing true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Three women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history. Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an...
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What a powerful story
- By Amazon Customer on 11-04-26
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None Left To Tell
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-03-25
- Language: English
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Breakheart Pass
- By: Alistair MacLean
- Narrated by: Mike Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre. The Rocky Mountains, Winter 1873… One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On...
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Breakheart Pass
- Narrated by: Mike Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-11-24
- Language: English
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A Darker State
- By: David Young
- Narrated by: Julia Barrie, Matthew Drew
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance23
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Story23
The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will stretch only so far, when every move she makes is under the watchful eye of the Stasi. Then, when the son of Müller's team member goes missing, it quickly becomes clear that there is a terrifying conspiracy at the heart of this case.
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Best book so far
- By MikeW on 05-03-18
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A Darker State
- Narrated by: Julia Barrie, Matthew Drew
- Series: Oberleutnant Karen Muller, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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Post Captain
- By: Patrick O’Brian
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
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Overall58
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Performance24
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Story24
Whether on land or at sea, can Jack Aubrey stay one step ahead of his enemies? With the Treaty of Amiens, England is at peace. At least for now. . . Accompanied by his friend, ship’s surgeon and spy Stephen Maturin, Captain Jack Aubrey has returned home to England and the life of a country...
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Abridged
- By TomH on 27-09-11
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Post Captain
- Narrated by: Robert Hardy
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin (abridged), Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 17-06-05
- Language: English
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Beneath the Attic
- By: V.C. Andrews
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
“I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic…on my deathbed.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl Forbidden passions have shaped and haunted the Dollanganger family since their first novel—Flowers in the Attic—debuted forty years ago. Now discover...
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Had potential, but the story started too late.
- By Ted on 06-09-19
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Beneath the Attic
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Series: Dollanganger, Book 6
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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Triangle at Rhodes
- A Hercule Poirot Short Story
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. This electric short story begins in October on the island of Rhodes, a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty and calm, or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite startlingly different. The...
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Triangle at Rhodes
- A Hercule Poirot Short Story
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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The Snake Stone
- Yashim the Eunuch, Book 2
- By: Jason Goodwin
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Istanbul 1838. Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is hired to investigate him, but when the man turns up dead, there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, the investigator finds himself in a race against time to uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high—and betrayal is death...
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The Snake Stone
- Yashim the Eunuch, Book 2
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Series: Yashim the Eunuch, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 30-01-24
- Language: English
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Winter in Madrid
- By: C. J. Sansom
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Overall195
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Performance155
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Story154
Abridged edition, narrated by Simon Russell Beale. From the bestselling author of the Shardlake series, C. J. Sansom, comes Winter in Madrid, a standalone historical novel set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. 1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people...
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Interesting historical context - Spanish Civil War
- By chris on 31-05-07
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Winter in Madrid
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-04-07
- Language: English
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The Avignon Affair
- Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers
- By: Gary McAvoy, Ronald L. Moore
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Father Michael Dominic is called to France for an unusual assignment. A 14th-century bishop was found in a crypt buried under the burnt remnants of Notre-Dame—but he’s wearing the ring of a cardinal, and two parchment scrolls had been hidden in his garment sleeve. Who was this 700-year-old custodian of carefully guarded secrets?
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More danger
- By J. Lynch on 25-10-25
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The Avignon Affair
- Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Series: Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-10-22
- Language: English
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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter
- By: Christian Cameron
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance48
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Story48
Tom Swan - soldier, scholar, bastard, spy. Tom Swan and his friends are trying to save Europe from the Turks, but most of his adversaries seem to be other Europeans. This time, an unnamed cabal is trying to kill him and, incidentally, ruin the banks and trade of England, France and Italy. Join Tom Swan on his latest adventure as the likes of Cosimo di Medici, Warwick the Kingmaker, Bessarion the cardinal and Aneas Picclomini the Pope show Tom the Renaissance in all its deadly glory!
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Disjointed Confusion
- By Richard Willans on 05-05-26
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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Series: The Adventures of Tom Swan, Book 4
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-11-21
- Language: English
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Mission To Paris
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance27
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Autumn 1939, war has been declared, and though bullets and bombs are yet to fly, Frederic Stahl’s decision to shoot a film in Paris seems ill-advised. Soon after his arrival, Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America - who can travel across the continent freely - Stahl could be very useful indeed...
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Leasurely paced second world war drama
- By Iain on 08-06-14
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Mission To Paris
- Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll
- Series: Night Soldiers, Book 12
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-01-14
- Language: English
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Night Over Water
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Russell Bentley
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall324
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Performance294
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Story292
At the outbreak of the Second World War, a mismatched group of passengers flee across the Atlantic to escape Britain and – thousands of feet in the air – find themselves facing grave danger. Night Over Water is a masterful historical thriller from Ken Follett. The Eve of War Britain has just...
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Poor narration
- By JamesDevon on 08-11-18
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Night Over Water
- Narrated by: Russell Bentley
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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The French Lesson
- By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Brought to you by Penguin. Fear your neighbour. Praise the Republic. Preach liberty. Hate monarchy. Speak in whispers. Trust no-one. Revolutionary Paris, 1792: As the city spirals into bloodshed, Henrietta Lightfoot a young Englishwoman runs for refuge to the sumptuous home of Grace Dalrymple...
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Dreadful attempt at an Irish accent put me off!
- By Miss S. on 13-08-19
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The French Lesson
- By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Series: The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 28-04-16
- Language: English
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The German Daughter
- An absolutely unputdownable and heartbreaking WW2 novel perfect for 2026!
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Hannah Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...
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A story deftly told
- By Kindle Customer on 15-12-24
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The German Daughter
- An absolutely unputdownable and heartbreaking WW2 novel perfect for 2026!
- Narrated by: Hannah Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-06-24
- Language: English
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Shardlake: Lamentation
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- By: C. J. Sansom
- Narrated by: full cast, Justin Salinger, Bryan Dick, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance31
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1546, and the great heretic hunt is underway across England. The radical Protestant preacher Anne Askew has been arrested and condemned to death and Shardlake is ordered to attend the burning. It's a grisly, cruel spectacle that leaves him feeling disturbed. Rumours are circulating that Anne had connections to his protector, Queen Catherine Parr - and if she falls, he could be next.... His unease deepens when a messenger arrives from Whitehall Palace: the queen is in trouble and asking for his help.
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Sad To Hear The End of Superb Shardlake
- By Highlight on 24-03-21
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Shardlake: Lamentation
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: full cast, Justin Salinger, Bryan Dick, Jessica Hardwick
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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The Case of the Gilded Fly
- A Gervase Fen Mystery
- By: Edmund Crispin
- Narrated by: Paul Panting
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin – crime fiction at its...
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The most irritating book I have ever struggled to listen to.
- By Amazon Customer on 15-05-24
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The Case of the Gilded Fly
- A Gervase Fen Mystery
- Narrated by: Paul Panting
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
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The Devil's Recruit
- Alexander Seaton, Book 4
- By: S.G. MacLean
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance29
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1635, Aberdeen. A girl lies dead in a frozen garden. A young man goes missing after a drunken brawl and a sinister cloaked figure watches from the shadows . . . The missing student, son of a Highland chief, is one of Alexander Seaton's pupils. When the young man's companion turns up bruised and...
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What a Conclusion to the Four Novels!
- By Kindle Customer on 26-05-26
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The Devil's Recruit
- Alexander Seaton, Book 4
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Series: Alexander Seaton, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-01-25
- Language: English
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