Discover the Best Audio Stories in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & Detective

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Title: Death by Chocolate Marshmallow Pie

Series: #6 of A Death by Chocolate Mystery

Author: Sarah Graves

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 40

Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 15

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The island village of Eastport, Maine, is full of delights—including the delicious treats sold at The Chocolate Moose, the waterfront bakery run by Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and Ellie White. But a new bakery in town is proving that you can have too much of a good thing... Summer in Eastport means lobsters and blueberries, though tourists and locals alike always leave a little room for baked goods from The Chocolate Moose. This year’s arts festival, featuring food, games, and rollicking local musicians, means even more sweet-toothed customers. But it’s also bringing competition from a new rival, Choco’s, that’s trying to slice into the action. Choco’s owner, Brad Fairway, is pulling sneaky stunts to divert Moose patrons to his own shop, and Ellie finally confronts him about his tactics. But when Brad is found dead next day—and the weapon is a gun that belongs to Ellie—it’s only a matter of time before she is charged with the crime. Sifting through the victim’s connections, Jake and Ellie sense they’re getting close to the real culprit—a little too close. Can they serve up the solution before the killer dishes up another helping of murder?

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Title: Mother of the Bride Murder

Series: #29 of Lucy Stone

Author: Leslie Meier

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When Lucy Stone arrives at a sprawling French chateau with the whole family, it should be the trip of a lifetime—especially because she’s about to watch her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, marry the handsome, successful man of her dreams. But while navigating the vast countryside estate owned by her daughter's impenetrably wealthy in-laws-to-be, the jet-lagged mother of the bride has a creeping feeling that Elizabeth’s fairytale nuptials to Jean-Luc Schoen-Rene are destined to become a nightmare. Maternal instincts are validated the moment a body is pulled from a centuries-old moat on the property. A young woman has dropped dead under mysterious circumstances—possibly at the hands of someone at the chateau—and unflattering rumors about the Schoen-Rene line and their inner circle flow like champagne. Then there’s the matter of Elizabeth’s hunky ex beau showing up on the scene as she prepares to walk down the aisle... With tensions building, personalities clashing, and real dangers emerging at the chateau, Lucy is determined to protect her family, together for the first time in years, and expose the one responsible. She’ll have to locate the culprit among a list of worldly jilted lovers and potential criminal masterminds or Elizabeth’s trip down the aisle could end in tragedy...

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Title: Fatal Reservations

Series: #6 of Key West Food Critic

Author: Lucy Burdette

Narrator: Laura Jennings

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Hayley Snow looks forward to reviewing For Goodness Sake, a new floating restaurant that promises a fresh take on Japanese delicacies like flambéed grouper with locally sourced seaweed. But nearby land-based restaurateurs would rather see their buoyant competition sink. Sent to a City Commission meeting to cover the controversy, Hayley witnesses another uproar. The quirky performers of the daily Sunset Celebration are struggling to hold onto their performance space. The fight for Mallory Square has renewed old rivalries between Hayley’s Tarot-card reading friend Lorenzo and a flaming-fork-juggling nemesis, Bart Frontgate—but things take a deadly turn when Bart is found murdered. If Lorenzo could read his own cards, he might draw The Hanged Man. He can only hope that Hayley draws Justice as she tries to clear him of murder…

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Title: Murder at the Bomb Shelter

Series: #3 of Rosa Reed Mysteries

Author: Norm Strauss, Lee Strauss

Narrator: Stephanie Németh-Parker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Rosa Reed's holiday with the Forester Family in Santa Bonita has turned into an extended stay, so she decides to make use of her Metropolitan Police training and sets up a private investigative business—just like her mother! But she finds she's not the only one who keeps business in the family, and when one of the members of the prestigious Gainer family is found dead in his bomb shelter, Rosa is invited to take on the case—much to Detective Miguel Belmonte's chagrin. If Rosa doesn't find the killer soon, the summer of '56 just might be her last...

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Title: A Wealth of Deception

Series: #2 of Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery

Author: Trish Esden

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Release date: April 18, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When Vermont antique and art dealer Edie Brown discovers an unsettlingly dark collage by the famed reclusive “outsider” artist known only as Vespa, she opens a Pandora’s Box of deception and danger. Edie teams up with Uncle Tuck and Kala to investigate the background of the collage, but they only uncover secrets that are more disturbing than the artwork itself. As Edie tracks down the validity of the piece, she stumbles into an art underground where some people are willing to kill to keep their schemes a secret. In this second Scandal Mountain Antiques mystery, Trish Esden expertly crafts a complex cast of characters, a breathtakingly gorgeous setting, and a twisty plot that often poses more questions than answers.

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Title: Who Killed Jerusalem?

Author: George Albert Brown

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 54 minutes

Release date: April 11, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on? With a tour-de-force narration by the multi-award-winning Patrick Lawlor, who uses his uncompromising talent to bring every character to life with an astonishing vocal range. “A BIG, JOYOUS BOOK, WORTH READING SIMPLY FOR THE FUN OF IT.”—BLUE INK REVIEW “A ZANY, INVENTIVE, AND MULTILAYERED FEVER DREAM OF MURDER AND MAYHEM”—KIRKUS REVIEWS A seamless melding of (i) the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose, (ii) the side-splitting humor of John Kennedy Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces, and (iii) the fabulous world of William Blake. In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco’s golden-boy poet laureate (based on Blake), is found dead in a locked, first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight. Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet’s death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem’s coterie (updated amalgams of characters from Blake’s work). Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective’s clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged outlook, get into the dead poet’s mind. Fighting his way through blasphemous funerals, drug-induced dreams, poetry-charged love-making, offbeat philosophical discussions, and much, much more, he begins to piece together Jerusalem’s (Blake’s) seductive, all-encompassing metaphysics. But by then, the attempts to kill Ded and the others have begun. Before Ded’s death-dodging luck runs out, will he be able to solve the case, and perhaps, in the process, develop a new way of looking at the world that might allow him to replace his unhappiness with joy?

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Title: Death with All the Trimmings

Series: #5 of Key West Food Critic

Author: Lucy Burdette

Narrator: Laura Jennings

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

It may be Christmastime, but thoughts of peace on earth, goodwill toward men don’t seem to extend to the restaurant biz. Hayley has been assigned to interview Edel Waugh, chef/owner of Key West’s hottest new restaurant. But off the record, Edel reveals someone’s sabotaging her kitchen and asks Hayley to investigate. Things heat up fast when the restaurant is set on fire—and a body is discovered in the charred wreckage. Is someone out to destroy the chef’s business—or actually kill her? Amid holiday festivities like the lighted boat parade and visiting relatives who stir up mixed emotions, Hayley needs to smoke out an arsonist and a killer who may turn up the heat on her next…

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Title: Death at Whitechapel

Series: #6 of Victorian Mystery

Author: Robin Paige

Narrator: Helen Johns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Kathryn Ardleigh is becoming accustomed to the high-society circles of her recently Lorded husband Charles Sheridan. And she has found a kindred spirit in Jennie Jerome Churchill, whose carefree lifestyle has made her a frequent topic in the tabloids. But there is a more serious scandal threatening Jennie—and the political future of her son Winston. She is being blackmailed by someone who has made a heinous accusation—someone who claims to have proof that Winston's father was none other than the notorious Jack the Ripper...

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Title: Death on the Tower

Series: #2 of Higgins & Hawke

Author: Lee Strauss

Narrator: Pamela Dillman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When the body of a British National is found at the base of the common house tower in Boston, assistant medical examiner Dr. Haley Higgins has no reason to believe it wasn’t suicide. That is, she didn't until investigative reporter Samantha Hawke gets an anonymous tip: the victim, a Mrs. Olivia Gray, was pushed from the seventh floor to her death. The question is why? Haley and Samantha must work together to unravel secrets that go back to a time that no one wants to remember—when shameful acts were sanctioned and death licked at everyone’s heels. What did Mrs. Gray know, and who wanted to silence her?

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Title: Death at Rottingdean

Series: #5 of Victorian Mystery

Author: Robin Paige

Narrator: Helen Johns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: Police & Detective

Publisher's Summary:

For Kathryn Ardleigh and her newly Lorded husband Charles, a seaside holiday in Rottingdean is a much-needed respite. Known as Smuggler's Village, the cozy hamlet sits upon a labyrinth of hundred-year-old tunnels through which contraband goods were once smuggled in and out of England. But when the body of a coast guard is found on the beach, the couple suspect the town is still plying the illicit trades of its past. And with the help of a young writer named Rudyard Kipling, they're about to discover that something's rotten in the town of Rottingdean...