
Dead in the Frame
A Pentecost and Parker Mystery, Book 5
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The most dramatic installment yet in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost and Parker series, as Will scrambles to solve a shocking murder before Lillian takes the fall for the crime.
NEW YORK CITY, 1947: Wealthy financier and ghoulish connoisseur of crime, Jessup Quincannon, is dead, and famed detective Lillian Pentecost is under arrest for his murder. Means, motive, and a mountain of evidence leave everyone believing she’s guilty. Everyone, that is, except Willowjean “Will” Parker, who knows for a fact her boss is innocent. She just doesn’t know if she can prove it.
With Lillian locked away in the House of D—New York City’s infamous women’s prison—Will is left to root out the real killer. Was it a member of Quincannon’s murder-obsessed Black Museum Club? Maybe it was his jilted lover? Or his beautiful, certainly-sociopathic bodyguard? And what about the mob hit-man who just happened to disappear after the shots were fired?
With the city barreling toward the trial of the century, each day brings fresh headlines and hints of long-buried scandals from Lillian’s past. Will is desperate to get her boss out from behind bars before her reputation is destroyed. Because the House of D is no kind place, especially for a woman with multiple sclerosis. Or one with so many enemies. Her health failing and being targeted by someone who wants her dead, Lillian needs to survive long enough to take the stand.
With time running out on both sides of the prison walls, Will and Lillian must wager everything to uncover who put their thumb on the scales and a bullet in Quincannon’s head. Before Lady Justice brings her sword down, ending Pentecost and Parker's adventures once and for all.
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Critic reviews
"Spotswood’s newest title takes on another closed-door mystery to great effect. He balances the tension, the red herrings, and the clues well, and fans of the series will be in for a treat. Mystery readers in general would do well to place this series on their TBR lists to enjoy the twists and turns that make these titles a joy to listen."—Library Journal, starred review
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“As always, Spotswood pairs voicey narration (especially in Will’s chapters) with a briskly satisfying fair-play whodunit. Series fans will be satisfied.”—Publishers Weekly
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Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. She has brilliant skills of deduction and is an ace at discovering evidence. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on Détection—the only book published by the great and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette before his death.
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Carol Monda makes this an unforgettable listen
- By Tavish McT on 09-10-13
By: Sara Gran
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Death Takes Me
- A Novel
- By: Cristina Rivera Garza, Robin Myers - translator, Sarah Booker - translator
- Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.”
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So confusing
- By Amazon Customer on 06-03-25
By: Cristina Rivera Garza, and others
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A is for Alibi
- A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
- By: Sue Grafton
- Narrated by: Mary Peiffer
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the first in the popular series featuring California investigator Kinsey Millhone. She's 32, twice divorced, no kids, an ex-cop who likes her work...and who works strictly alone!
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No More for Me
- By Robin on 07-12-08
By: Sue Grafton
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Your Steps on the Stairs
- A Novel
- By: Antonio Muñoz Molina, Curtis Bauer - translator
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their new home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9/11, the man revels in the Portuguese capital's temperate weather and the neighborhood's calmness, meticulously planning the details of their future.
By: Antonio Muñoz Molina, and others
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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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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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Trippy book
- By mary on 01-20-09
By: Kate Atkinson
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Glory Daze
- A Glory Broussard Mystery, Book 2
- By: Danielle Arceneaux
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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After her life was turned upside down by solving the murder of her best friend, Sister Amity Gay, all Glory Brousard wanted was a little peace and quiet. That included getting back to her Sunday morning routine as a bookie in a coffee shop, and planning the annual Mardi Gras gala for her church. But there’s no rest for Glory once the woman who broke up her marriage walks in to CC's Coffee House and asks for help finding her missing husband. It doesn’t take long before Glory finds him . . . with a knife impaled in his chest.
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Amazing and captivating
- By Ivy McQuain on 06-30-25
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Spade & Archer
- The Prequel to The Maltese Falcon
- By: Joseph Gores
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. What we don't know is how Spade became who he is. Spade & Archer completes the picture.
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"A Real Joy"
- By Mark on 04-14-09
By: Joseph Gores
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The Big Sleep
- Philip Marlowe, Book 1
- By: Raymond Chandler
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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I miss Ray Porter
- By Kindle Customer on 03-22-22
By: Raymond Chandler
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The Last Illusion of Paige White
- A Novel
- By: Vanessa McCausland
- Narrated by: Ella Le Fournour, Eva Seymour, Hannah Fredericksen, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Gorgeous, charismatic Paige White has always lived a picture-perfect life. Her meticulously curated social pages exude an old-fashioned, wholesome lifestyle set against a picturesque town in Australia. Images of breakfasts lakeside with her daughter, sunny afternoons in the family van, and romantic picnics with her husband are the envy of her thousands of followers. But when a dark, brooding image pops up on Paige’s page, where she appears waterlogged and disheveled–and shortly after she’s discovered drowned–alarm bells go off.
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Amazing book!
- By Kindle Customer on 07-02-25
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The Black Swan Mystery
- By: Tetsuya Ayukawa
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which is embroiled in a labour dispute. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently. Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer.
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authentic reader
- By Jeffrey Grant on 06-17-25
By: Tetsuya Ayukawa
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Big Name Fan
- A TV Detectives Novel, Book 1
- By: Ruthie Knox, Annie Mare
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Bexley Simon and Sam Farmer aren't detectives, but they play them on TV. Well, played, past tense. The iconic cult hit that was Craven's Daughter ended five years ago, and their friendship died along with it. Fans were disappointed that the pair's legendary chemistry went unfulfilled—and other fans were crushed that the actual spark between actresses Bex and Sam didn't pay off, either. The network never intended for two women to get romantic, in life or onscreen, despite the fans. But the bigger tragedy was the loss of their dear friend, makeup artist Jen Arnot.
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Great Story!
- By Susan E Radcliffe on 03-11-25
By: Ruthie Knox, and others
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Heartwood
- By: Amity Gaige
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Alma Cuervo, Rebecca Lowman, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground.
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The suspense
- By Amy B. McVey on 04-11-25
By: Amity Gaige
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The Doorman
- A Novel
- By: Chris Pavone
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she’d quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily can’t bring herself to leave him. Yet.
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Awful
- By C39LDUTBFFFQ on 06-06-25
By: Chris Pavone
Great as always
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Great story
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Another home run
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Even better: the premise of Lillian being stuck behind bars throughout was unique, compelling, traumatizing and full of suspense. The climactic reveal had the kind of punch you get from the best
Perry Mason or Agatha Christie stories, only with the stylish cut of Knives Out.
The characters chew the scenery and Lillian Pentecost is a force to be reckoned with.
Perhaps some might say the connecting mysteries were too contrived, or the ending was too far fetched, but I loved every moment, especially with the phenomenal narration of Ms. Potter.
I’ve listened to these in order and this is now my favorite of the bunch. There are a few characters and scenes that are best heard with the backstories in the previous books, however thanks to a summary of characters in the beginning, I can recommend this as a standalone.
This is a classic cozy mystery, in the sense there are no F bombs and fade to black sex scenes.
At the same time, the tone can get dark, with powerful themes like the trauma of incarceration,
the failings of the justice system, and LGBTQ life in 1947.
Spectacularly original story; amazing narration
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Intelligence
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