
The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
The Ill-Mannered Ladies, Book 2
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Alison Goodman
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In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as “old maids” to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman.
To most of Regency high society, forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta Colebrook, or Gus, and her twin sister, Julia, are just unmarried ladies of a certain age. But the Colebrook twins are far from useless old maids. They are secretly protecting women and children ignored by society and the law.
When Lord Evan—a charming escaped convict who has won Gus’s heart—needs to hide his sister, Hester, from their vindictive brother, Gus and Julia take Hester and her lover into their home. But Lord Evan’s complicated past puts them all in danger. Gus knows they must clear his name of murder if he is to survive the thieftakers who hunt him. No easy task—the fatal duel was twenty years ago and a key witness is nowhere to be found.
In a deadly cat-and-mouse game, Gus, Julia, and Lord Evan must dodge their pursuers and investigate Lord Evan’s past. They will be thrust into the ugly underworld of Georgian gentlemen’s clubs, spies, and ruthless bounty hunters, not to mention the everyday threat of narrow-minded brothers. Will the truth be found in time, or will dangerous secrets from the past destroy family bonds and rip new love and lives apart?
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An Accidental Courtship
- The Leighs, Book 1
- By: M.A. Nichols
- Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Prudence Leigh is well on her way to being a spinster. That dreadful future may be a few years away, but with every man chasing after her beautiful younger sister, Prudence has little hope of finding love. But when she receives a letter filled with heartfelt declarations, she discovers it’s not too late for her. But for such an ardent beau in writing, the gentleman acts quite strangely in person… Penmanship is not an important skill. Or so Dr. Parker Humphreys thought—until his love letter is delivered to the wrong sister!
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Entertaining, healing, and thankfully clean
- By Cat WMM on 02-03-25
By: M.A. Nichols
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A Wallflower’s Guide to Viscounts and Vice
- By: Manda Collins
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A wallflower and a rake join together to solve a mystery in this charming grumpy/sunshine historical rom-com—the first book in a new series from the bestselling author of A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem!
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So adorable
- By TammZe on 05-23-25
By: Manda Collins
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The Murder of Mr. Wickham
- By: Claudia Gray
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a party at their country estate, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances—characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it’s clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they’re all shocked when Wickham turns up murdered—except, of course, for the killer hidden in their midst.
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Awesome!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-24-22
By: Claudia Gray
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The Secret Life of a Lady
- The Queen's Deadly Damsels, Book 1
- By: Darcy McGuire
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Hannah Simmons is a quintessential wallflower, unassuming, dowdy yet ignored by most. But underneath her plain exterior, Hannah is hiding a thrilling secret! Unbeknownst to the rest of the ton, she is Queen Victoria’s leading femme fatale, slipping unnoticed through the streets of London and listening to scandalous whispers from lords and ladies. But with daggers in her stockings and pistols in her pockets, Hannah's mission is to apprehend a deadly killer.
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Witty with Spicy Romance
- By Rachael on 06-22-24
By: Darcy McGuire
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A Death, A Duke, and Miss Mifford
- Regency Murder and Marriage, Book 1
- By: Claudia Stone
- Narrated by: Tim Fearon
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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After an unsuccessful season in London, Miss Mary Mifford has returned to the village of Plumpton, determined to be the most upstanding spinster the Cotswolds have ever seen. Not even the arrival of the elusive Duke of Northcott can distract Mary from her plan; until the local rector is found bludgeoned to death and Mary is named as the prime suspect.
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Fun Read
- By MJ on 05-30-25
By: Claudia Stone
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Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation
- By: Sarah Yahm
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The night after fleeing her mother's funeral, cellist Louise Rakoff meets aspiring therapist Leon Rosenberg at a Rosh Hashanah dinner in 1974. Over the next two decades, they build a marriage and a family based on honesty, argument, and a shared appreciation of the absurd. But that rock-solid foundation crumbles when Louise is diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease—the same one responsible for her mother's slow, agonizing passing. Determined to spare Leon and their daughter Lydia from her messy decline, Louise makes the simultaneously selfish and altruistic decision to leave her family.
By: Sarah Yahm
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Misophonia
- A Novel
- By: Dana Vowinckel
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s another scorching summer in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging maternal grandparents. All told, the plucky teen would much rather be at home in Germany, exploring Berlin with her best friend, Anna, or with Avi, her doting Israeli father, a cantor at their local synagogue with whom she has shared a special bond ever since her mother, Marsha, abandoned the family. Instead, she’s stuck halfway around the world, homesick and tortured by the sound of her grandparents’ chewing.
By: Dana Vowinckel
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Give Me a Shot
- A Novel
- By: Gia De Cadenet
- Narrated by: Ryan Lee Dunlap, Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Mo Sarda carefully guards his peaceful life from other people’s messy feelings. He co-parents his daughter with no drama, sits quietly at family gatherings, tends to his beloved plants, and volunteers to teach blacksmith skills at the local Folk School. No one seems to get him, except for his family, and that’s completely fine with Mo—there’s no one else he needs. Then along comes Jessica Anderson and her damn crossbow.
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A new and wonderfully different approach to a romance novel.
- By Aims31 on 05-07-25
By: Gia De Cadenet
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Mystery on Hidden Lane: An Utterly Gripping Cozy Mystery Novel
- An Eve Mallow Mystery, Book 1
- By: Clare Chase
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Seasoned obituary writer Eve Mallow has a new assignment: to tell the life story of famed musician Bernard Fitzpatrick. A chance to spend a few days in the sweet little village of Saxford St. Peter, walking the country lanes with her beloved dachshund, Gus, and meeting new people sounds like a dream. But it turns out that Bernard’s life was much less interesting than his death. On the day she arrives, news breaks that the charismatic cellist was the victim of a grisly murder. Could this quaint English village be hiding a dark secret?
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Obituary Writer and a Mean Musician
- By Debbie on 04-02-20
By: Clare Chase
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The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
- By: Liza Tully
- Narrated by: Emma Ladji
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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After weeks of fielding phone calls from parties desperate for the world-renowned detective’s help, a case comes across assistant Olivia Blunt’s desk that just might be worthy of mentor Aubrey Merritt’s skills. On the evening of her sixty-fifth birthday party, Victoria Summersworth somehow fell over her balcony railing to her death on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain. She was a happy woman—rich, beloved, in love, and matriarch of the preeminent Summersworth family. The police have ruled it a suicide, but her daughter Haley thinks it was murder.
By: Liza Tully
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A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
- Countess of Harleigh Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Dianne Freeman
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than she did as a wife. After an obligatory year spent mourning her philandering husband, Reggie, she puts aside her drab black gowns, leaving the countryside and her money-grubbing in-laws behind. With her young daughter in tow, Frances rents a home in Belgravia and prepares to welcome her sister, Lily, arriving from New York - for her first London season.
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Exceptional blending
- By tzinnamon on 07-01-18
By: Dianne Freeman
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A Novel Disguise
- Lady Librarian Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Samantha Larsen
- Narrated by: Marni Penning
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn’t murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort’s librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah’s missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered by Mr. Samir Lathrop, the local bookseller, who tries to save her from drowning while she's actually just washing up in a lake after burying her brother.
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SUCH a TREAT!
- By Julie Ann on 06-03-23
By: Samantha Larsen
I loved all the characters!
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Great story wonderful author.
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Another rollicking adventure!
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Riding Anger into Action
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The story was fantastic
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Two amazing ladies
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I love that Lord Evan’s sister is not miraculously restored to perfect health in Chapter 1 of Book 2, after all that happened in the first book. We truly pick up where we left off.
I love that there’s an element of murder mystery in the unraveling tale of what actually happened in the duel of 20 years ago.
Our narrator has found her voices and settled in well. I admit that I was worried about it in the first book— but she’s hit her stride and now I hope she reads (performs) the whole rest of the series!
I love the setup for the third book.
I do not love that I have to wait for it to be written! I have a feeling I will listen to both books multiple times before Book 3 drops.
A faithful continuation of a great story!
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Wonderful!
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Great sequel
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Malevolence meets its match! Bravo Gus!
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