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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Pickwick Affair: A Detective Novel of 1930 Subtitle: The Cyrus Skeen Mystery , Book 7 Author: Edward Cline Narrator: Tom Allard Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-14 Publisher: Edward Cline Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: After having some breathing room from his last case, which brought him up against Islamic operatives in San Francisco in The Black Stone, Cyrus Skeen and his wife take a short vacation on a luxury bus, the Pickwick Stage. But the bus is held up by gangsters. Skeen goes into action and foils the hijacking. But his heroism engenders even more problems and perils. Set in San Francisco in March 1930, Skeen moves around in a familiar milieu dampened by the Depression and the growth of Hooverville shanty towns of foreclosed and impoverished men in the shadow of the city's wealthier neighborhoods. "Reality," Skeen tells his wife, "has called in its markers" of inflation and fatal government management of the economy. Dilys, his wife, is beginning a new painting, and Skeen's first political article has been accepted in a prominent cultural magazine. At the end of The Chameleon, Skeen had told his wife that "Something wicked this way comes." In The Pickwick Affair, he runs head on into a gangsters working for a government agency dedicated to "detoxifying" Americans and instilling fear into them - with a dollop of corruption which always accompanies the imposition of tyranny.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Ice Cream Man Author: Katri Lipson, Ellen Hockerill (translator) Narrator: Amy McFadden, Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 10-07-14 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: Two years after the end of World War II, a director sets out to mimic real life by creating a film without a script, where the actors learn the story and their part in it as they go. The tale unfolds of a young couple on the run during the Nazi occupation, but soon the characters they play begin to take on lives of their own. As the lines between fiction and reality blur, the Secret Police become convinced that the director holds information that could compromise the nations security, and they decide to interrogate him about his fictional plot. Fear and desire merge in this imaginative world where coincidence is never just that, and overlapping identities and unconventional romance offer a playful notion of truth. Winner of the 2013 European Union Prize for Literature.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Gallows Thief Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 09-25-14 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: 1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue. The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent - but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause and Rider Sandman, once of the First Foot Guards, is given the job. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England, a country which he and others in Wellington's army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemen's clubs and taverns, talking to aristocrats, fashionable painters, their models, and their mistresses, dodging professional cut-throats and deceptive swordsmen, Sandman uncovers a conspiracy of silence, a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them. Sandman is a wonderful character, as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets, dank jails, or the looming scaffold, and uncorrupted by politicians, sneering gentlemen, or frightening bruisers, an investigator in the making and a brilliant, but very different, hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans. Critic Reviews: "Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generationCornwell at his best is utterly compelling. And this is Cornwell at his best." (Daily Mail) "Page for page, sentence for sentence, scene for heart-stopping scene GALLOWS THIEF is the strongest historical novel I have read this yearhe tells a cracking yarn and fills it with vivid characters and writes crisp dialogue and gets the period detail right..it is hard to stop readingit is masterly." (Sunday Telegraph)

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Root of All Evil Author: Roberto Costantini, N. S. Thompson (translator) Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 08-18-14 Publisher: Quercus Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: Tripoli, 1960s: During the years in which post-colonial Libya fell prey to the sprawling greed of the West, Michele Balistreri suffered a succession of blows that would scar him for life. The death of his mother; the unspeakable horror that befell his best friend's family; his father's role in Gaddafi's ascent to power; and the innocent blood pact that would corrupt the course of his future. Rome, 1982: In the wake of a ruinous blunder, a ground-down Commissario Balistreri escapes his regrets through sex, alcohol, and gambling. His sole responsibilities are now a stilted investigation into the death of a South American student, and a tiresome obligation - as a gratitude to the man who saved his career - to a rising television starlet needing protection from the pitfalls of fame. As the risks to this girl, Claudia Teodori, begin to rise along with her reputation, the sorrows of Balistreri's past also start to push back into his present. Both of their fates are inextricably linked - and this driven, obsessive young woman must help this damaged detective fight a foe that follows her and refuses to forget him.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Otherwise Engaged Author: Amanda Quick Narrator: Louisa Jane Underwood Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 08-07-14 Publisher: Lamplight Audio Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: One does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight. Amity Doncaster barely escapes. Her quick thinking, and her secret weapon, save her. But the monster known as the Bridegroom, who has left a trail of female victims in his wake, has survived the wounds she inflicts and will soon be back. As Amity prepares to confront the criminal, she must also face feelings she can't run away from. Critic Reviews: "Tautly written, with enough twists to keep readers on their toes, Quick's novel features a double love story, a bit of gothic flair and a passionate scientist hero to spice up the plot" (RT Book Reviews)

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Save the Last Dance for Me Author: Ed Gorman Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 07-15-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: With the nations eye on Black River Falls, McCain chases a snake handlers killer. Fundamentalist preacher John Muldaur isnt afraid of snakes - he uses them every week in his services - but hes convinced that the Pope is trying to kill him. Iowa lawyer Sam McCain, the poorest attorney in a thriving town, listens patiently to the self-declared reverends outlandish theories about being targeted by a papal hit squad, and agrees to investigate the matter simply to get Muldaur out of his office. But that night at a wild religious service, McCain sees Muldaur proven right. The holy man is killed by poison - not from one of his rattlesnakes, but from a Pepsi bottle laced with strychnine. On the campaign trail for president, Vice President Nixon is on his way to town to make a speech, and McCain is asked to find Muldaurs killer before the national media arrives. What he finds is a conspiracy just as improbable as the Catholic hit men - but far more deadly.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow Author: Ed Gorman Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 07-15-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: In the thick of the Cold War, McCain investigates death threats against an alleged red. The citizens of Black River Falls are polite, understanding, and respectful - except when it comes to communism. Joe McCarthy has been dead for two years, but men like Richard Conners are still fighting to clear themselves of his accusations. A liberal who served faithfully under Roosevelt and Truman, only to be slandered as a red during McCarthys witch hunts, Conners has begun getting death threats written in blood. He hires private investigator Sam McCain to protect him, but no sooner has Sam taken the case than Conners turns up dead.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Baklava Club Author: Jason Goodwin Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 06-26-14 Publisher: Whole Story Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and hes held captive in an unused farmhouse. Little do the kidnappers realise that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies. Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. As he draws closer to the prince's whereabouts, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career. Critic Reviews: "Jason Goodwin's much-loved Inspector Yashim returns to solve one final mystery - his most thrilling and most colourful case yet" "When you read a historical mystery by Jason Goodwin, you take a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth" (New York Times)

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Kingdom Author: Robyn Young Narrator: Nick McArdle Format: Unabridged Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 06-19-14 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: From earliest childhood, Robert Bruce has pursued his destiny, but the road has been a hard one. Behind him lie battles, murder, intrigue, defeat, and betrayal, and though he has at last achieved his ambition to wear the crown, he has not yet learned the true meaning of kingship. In Kingdom, Robert must come through his greatest tests, both personal and political, to lead his people towards the encounter with the English at Bannockburn which will echo down the centuries. Kingdom is the thrilling final installment in the internationally best-selling Insurrection trilogy.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Death in St James's Park Author: Susanna Gregory Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 06-01-14 Publisher: Soundings Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: Five years after Charles II's triumphant return there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court - and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an expression of outrage at the postal service. As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Chaloner cannot understand why an incompetent man is put in charge of the investigation while he is diverted to make enquiries about the poisoning of birds in the King's aviary in St James's Park. Then human rather than avian victims are poisoned, and Chaloner knows he has to use his own considerable wits to defeat an enemy whose deadly tentacles reach into the very heart of the government....