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Emily Critchley
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Three enigmatic sisters. A Boxing Day hunt gone awry. One story, the real story, is finally coming to light.
1999: When successful writer Gillian Larking receives a letter from the nephew of an old friend, she knows that her past has finally caught up with her. Violet Claybourne, her old boarding school roommate, was a girl who captivated Gillian with stories of her charming sisters and their picturesque home at Thornleigh Hall.
Violet Claybourne pulled Gillian into her life, into her family, and changed Gilly's path forever. Violet Claybourne also spent the past sixty years in a psych hospital, and now she wants Gillian to tell her story.
The real story.
1939: Gillian knew upon meeting the Claybourne girls at Thornleigh Hall that they were something more. Rich, enigmatic, bright, unafraid of the world around them, a foreign concept to quiet, unassuming Gilly. Meeting Violet, Emmeline, and Laura was like entering a new world. Gilly longed to be a part of them, and when a terrible Boxing Day hunt goes awry, she gets that wish. But only in a way more terrible than she could ever have imagined. Soon enough Gillian has to confront just how deep her loyalty to the Claybourne girls runs, and what it might cost her, and them, in the process.
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The past three years have been tough for Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered. 17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.
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The Author!
- By Wend Blanchard on 03-18-25
By: Ginny Myers Sain
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The Woman in the Wallpaper
- By: Lora Jones
- Narrated by: Emily Carey, Izzy Meikle-Small, Sarah Slimani
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The lives of three women dramatically collide during the French Revolution: Sofi, a wallpaper factory worker; her sister Lara, a lady’s maid; and a young aristocrat, Hortense. At the factory, the sisters notice something eerie about the intricately illustrated wallpaper: the same mysterious woman appears again and again. But what does it portend?
By: Lora Jones
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One Puzzling Afternoon
- By: Emily Critchley
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street, fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep. Then Lucy goes missing. Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-four and still living in the same small town, when one afternoon she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen.
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Such a poignant story
- By Candi Miller on 12-21-23
By: Emily Critchley
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Everyone Is Lying
- By: Holly Down
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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They say I’m lucky to be alive. But the only thing I can remember are the faces of my husband and baby. The husband and baby they insist don’t exist … I can hear a door slamming, and the low hum of distant traffic. I struggle to open my eyes, and the panic sets in. I have no memory of who I am, why I’m here, where all this pain is coming from …
By: Holly Down
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The Good Samaritan
- A Novel
- By: Toni Halleen
- Narrated by: Adam Verner, Tara Sands, Carolyn Jania, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Sociology professor Matthew Larkin is barely holding on. After the death of his toddler son, his wife divorced him, his teenage daughter abandoned him, and he lost a job he loved. Landing a rare tenure track position at a small college in southern Minnesota, he’s trying to cope with the disaster his life has become. While driving down an empty highway in the middle of nowhere one gloomy Sunday evening, Matthew gets caught in a hailstorm. Pulling off the road to find shelter, he spies a disturbing sight.
By: Toni Halleen
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The Girl from Greenwich Street
- A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America’s First Murder Trial
- By: Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor.
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Very Moving Story
- By Jan on 03-16-25
By: Lauren Willig
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When the Bones Sing
- By: Ginny Myers Sain
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The past three years have been tough for Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered. 17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.
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The Author!
- By Wend Blanchard on 03-18-25
By: Ginny Myers Sain
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Stone Angels
- By: Helena Rho
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Helena Rho
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Angelina Lee feels like she doesn’t belong. Newly divorced, and completely unmoored by the sudden and tragic death of her mother, she hopes studying Korean will reconnect her to her roots, but nothing about Seoul feels familiar. Further complicating matters is the resurgence of an alluring man from Angelina’s past, and fellow classmate Keisuke Ono, an irritatingly good looking Japanese American journalist who refuses to leave her alone. What she’ll barely admit, however, is the true reason behind her trip. She’s convinced the key to understanding her mother’s suicide lies in Korea.
By: Helena Rho
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The Keeper of the Bees
- By: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Jamie MacFarlane has returned a hero from the Great War but with a stubborn chest wound. The government has sent him to their new thermal springs hospital in California “where it was hoped that the brilliant sunshine, the fruits, and the clean air, the eternal summer of a beneficent land” would heal him. But nothing has worked and with his parents now deceased and no one to care for him, it seems the next step is a camp rife with tuberculosis. Realizing this, Jamie begins his Great Adventure on foot toward the ocean.
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The Memory Ward
- By: Jon Bassoff
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Dawn Harvey, Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages. Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall.
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Very Enjoyable, Listened to in 2 days
- By Dee Sup. on 03-15-25
By: Jon Bassoff
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The Last Days of Kira Mullan
- A Novel
- By: Nicci French
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that ruined friendships, stalled her fledgling restaurant, and forced her to move out of her comfortable flat, she’ll do anything to get back to normal. She and her partner Felix—who has been a saint through her recent troubles—move into a new flat for a fresh start. Nancy is taking her pills, seeing her therapist, and avoiding unnecessary stress. She’s doing absolutely everything right, but something is still very, very wrong. On the first day in the new flat, she hears them again.
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So boring!
- By doccjg on 03-26-25
By: Nicci French
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I Would Die for You
- A Novel
- By: Sandie Jones
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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California, 2011: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in the small seaside town of Coronado with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting a writer to knock on her door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the biggest British band of the 1980s—unveiling the threads of a life she left behind years ago. The same day, her daughter goes missing and the school claims her aunt picked her up . . . but she doesn’t have an aunt. Convinced of a link between the two, Nicole is forced to revisit long-abandoned memories from her past to protect everything she now holds dear.
By: Sandie Jones
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The Stranger Beside Me
- By: Caroline England
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Katy Henry is lost and lonely. A single mother, plagued by fatigue and anxiety, she rarely has time for friends. But when she encounters Sibeal Matthews, all this changes. Sibeal is everything that Katy is not: assured, headstrong and charming. Katy soon finds herself pulled out of her isolation into a fierce friendship. But Sibeal is not all that she seems. Tragedy haunts her, and for all her feistiness, she is startlingly dependent on her brother, Gabriel.
By: Caroline England
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Name Not Taken
- A Novel
- By: Madeleine Henry
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Devon Ferrell and Richard Belmont are engaged, in love, and from two different worlds. Devon is as eager to please Richard’s elite parents as she is to leave the traumas of her childhood behind. After all, the Belmonts are her family now. But being brought into the fold is unbalancing her. There are the piercing stares from Richard’s brother, the confounding whispers about Devon’s moods and health. It’s as if the Belmonts are looking for reasons to reject her, to fill her with self-doubt and put her on edge. It’s working. And no one seems to be on Devon’s side. Not even Richard.
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It’s intriguing and messy
- By Lily on 03-20-25
By: Madeleine Henry
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A Venetian Escapade
- A Historical Romance Mystery (The Continental Capers of Melody Chesterton, Book 1)
- By: Sarah F. Noel
- Narrated by: Vicki-Jo Eva
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 1911, and war is brewing across Europe. However, Melody Chesterton, an independent young woman with her own fortune, has more important things on her mind. Melody is determined to do more with her life than marry well; she wants exciting escapades with perhaps some romance sprinkled in along the way. Chaperoned by her older brother, Rat, who secretly works for Britain's newly formed Secret Service Bureau, Melody sets off for the first stop on her Grand Tour of Europe, Venice.
By: Sarah F. Noel
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Where You Belong
- By: S.J. King
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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It seemed like a dream come true when we first moved in. A chance to leave my stressful job behind and fix things with James. But something gnaws at me each morning as I wave my husband off to work from our gated community, accept a coffee from Lin, our housekeeper, and watch my kids play in these eerily perfect, car-free streets. When a neighbor’s body is found floating in a pool during a party, the other wives say it was a tragic accident. But there are also whispers about the family who lived in our villa before us—just vanished one day, they say.
By: S.J. King
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The Lamplighter’s Bookshop
- By: Sophie Austin
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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When Evelyn Seaton and her mother are ejected by the bailiffs from their Yorkshire manor house, the blame lies squarely with Evelyn’s father, a gambler and chancer who has left them destitute. Seeking refuge with an elderly aunt in an unfashionable corner of York, their predicament is intensified by the spiteful Lady Violet. Realising that only an income will save them, Evelyn secretly answers an advertisement for a bookshop assistant at the dusty and shambling Lamplighter’s Bookshop. But she is not the only candidate …
By: Sophie Austin
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The Three-Candle Prayer
- A Novel
- By: Abe Moss
- Narrated by: Nick Mondelli, Candace Fitzgerald
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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When Kit's fiancée orders a DIY seance kit online, he's not sure whether to be relieved or horrified. On the one hand, Faith's nightly rituals seem to provide peace during the most upsetting time of her life, following the sudden and violent deaths of her parents. But on the other hand… Kit begins experiencing increasingly frightening phenomena. Bodiless footsteps stalk him in the halls. A sinister phantom watches him sleep from the foot of the bed.
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Stephen King? Is that you?
- By R. Green on 03-16-25
By: Abe Moss
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Mrs. Cook and the Klan
- Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America's Heartland
- By: Tom Chorneau
- Narrated by: David Lee Garver
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times. The next day her funeral made national news due to the eerie presence of a small army from the Ku Klux Klan, its members, donned in full regalia, drawn from three surrounding states.
By: Tom Chorneau