AuthorBella Ellis
NarratorKristin Atherton
SeriesBrontë Mysteries, Book 1
Duration10h 19m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Historical Novels
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
The year is 1845, and Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte are sat around the dining room table, laughing merrily as the rain of their Yorkshire summer falls outside. When their brother, Branwell, returns from The Bull Inn, he brings with him the most shocking revelation: that Elizabeth Chester, wife of Robert Chester and mistress of Chester Grange, has gone missing - but the bloody scene found in her bedroom suggests she may have been murdered. The governess at Chester Grange is Matilda French, a close friend of Charlotte's, who resolves to pay her a visit the following day. At Chester Grange, the sisters make the acquaintance of Robert, a rumoured cruel man, who is suspected of having driven his first wife to suicide. Determined that he should be brought to justice, the sisters throw themselves into solving the case. As everyone knows, solving a murder requires sense, morals and a very good imagination - qualities which these sisters have more than enough of...
Maggie Hope Series Book 7: The King's Justice
Author: Susan Elia MacNeal
Author Susan Elia MacNeal
Narrator Susan Duerden
SeriesMaggie Hope, Book 9
Duration 10h 51m
Maggie Hope started out as Winston Churchill's secretary, but now she's a secret agent-and the only one who can figure out how the missing violin ties into a series of horrifying murders. London, December 1943. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope takes a much-needed break from spying to defuse bombs in London. But...
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 9: Splinter the Silence
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 9
Duration 12h 47m
When psychological profiler Tony Hill comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than meets the eye. Could it be murder? But what kind of serial killer wants his crimes to stay hidden? Tony and DCI Carol Jordan begin the hunt for the most dangerous and...
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Author: Bella Ellis
Author Bella Ellis
Narrator Kristin Atherton
SeriesBrontë Mysteries, Book 2
Duration 9h 59m
A new Brontë Mystery from Bella Ellis, a pen name for best-selling author Rowan Coleman. It's Christmas 1856 and Haworth is in the grip of a freezing winter. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are rather losing interest in detecting until they hear of a shocking discovery: the bones of a child have been found interred within the walls of a...
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Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy', the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters - including one that says, 'Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup.' Some of the notes threaten murder and one of them involves a...
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Alexis Tyler Series Book 2: The Nursery
Author: Asia Mackay
Author Asia Mackay
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesAlexis Tyler, Book 2
Duration 10h 42m
Lex Tyler is trying to have it all. But being a working mother is so much more difficult when you're a secret agent for an underground branch of the security services. Platform Eight have been tasked with tracking down and eliminating the traitor in MI6 who has been selling information to the highest bidder through a headhunting website for the cri...
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Author: Bella Ellis
Author Bella Ellis
Narrator Kristin Atherton
SeriesBrontë Mysteries, Book 4
Duration 10h 13m
The fourth adventure in the Brontë Mysteries series. Haworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Brontë have had their books accepted for publication, while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere, creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage. At the same time, a shocking court case has recently concluded, acquitting a workhouse master of murdering...
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Dr Alex Gregory Book 2: Hysteria
Author: Lj Ross
Author Lj Ross
Narrator Hugh Dancy
SeriesAlex Gregory, Book 2
Duration 6h 52m
From the International Number 1 Bestselling Author of the DCI Ryan Mysteries. Hysteria is the second instalment in Ross' brand new Dr Alex Gregory series, narrated by actor Hugh Dancy. Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that h...
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Author: Bella Ellis
Author Bella Ellis
Narrator Kristin Atherton
SeriesBrontë Mysteries, Book 3
Duration 11h 31m
The Brontë sisters' first poetry collection has just been published, potentially marking an end to their careers as amateur detectors, when Anne receives a letter from her friend Lydia Robinson. Lydia has eloped with a young actor, Harry Roxby, and following her disinheritance, the couple has been living in poverty in London. Harry has become...
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Karen Pirie Book 5: Broken Ground
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron
SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 5
Duration 12h 57m
When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not...
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The Last Kingdom Book 12: Sword of Kings
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Matt Bates
SeriesThe Last Kingdom, Book 12
Duration 13h 27m
England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxons battle for territory. Rumours build about the fatal sickness of the King, and the country awaits an heir. A violent clash at sea forces the warrior lord Uhtred to lead his men from his Northumbrian fortress to London and plunge into the eye of the storm. For two kings claim the empty throne and a new king...
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