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Title: Thicker than Water

Author: W. C. Tuttle

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Join Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens as they set out to solve the mystery of a hold up for Sheriff 'Slim' Caldwell in the frontier town of Red Arrow.

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Title: Drifter's End

Author: Ray Hogan

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this Western duo, we see one town's citizens bring in a lawman to drive out its gunslinger and outlaws and a jaded ex-soldier with a serious score to settle.

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Title: Without the Moon

Author: Cathi Unsworth

Narrator: Jon Glover

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Lamplight Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing - and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone.

Out on the streets, something nastier is stirring: London's prostitutes are being murdered, their bodies left mutilated to taunt the police. As he follows a bloody trail through backstreets, Greenaway must use all his skill to stop the slaughter.

Critic Reviews:

"The First Lady of noir writing." (David Peace)

"Brilliant and brave, Without the Moon blends murder and magic to create a vision of London as a spiritual maze...an atmosphere that is so charged it can almost be touched. The best work yet from a genuine, original talent." (John King)

Members Reviews:

Evocative Blitz Thriller

Cathi Unsworth weaves her well written story around actual killings that took place in London during early WW2. Unsworth is a well-regarded historian who specialises in the local history of the Soho area, and in this book she uses her extensive knowledge to create a true-crime novel that engages throughout. The narration is fantastic as well.

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Title: Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders

Author: Kate Griffin

Narrator: Nicole Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from Paradise - the criminal manor run with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger.

Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises a singular scheme to discover the truth. But as Kitty's scandalous and terrifying act becomes the talk of London, she finds herself facing someone even more deadly and horrifying than The Lady.

Bold, impetuous and blessed with more brains than she cares to admit, it soon becomes apparent that it's up to the unlikely team of Kitty and her stagehand friend, Lucca, to unravel the truth and ensure that more girls do not meet with a similar fate.

Members Reviews:

A new favourite heroine!

I've waited a couple of years for an audio version of this book after a friend read it in hardcopy and strongly recommended.

It was totally worth the wait. This is a thrilling story, with a Great London backdrop. The characters are interesting and colourful, the plot is suitably macabre and in Kitty we have a wonderfully drone heroin to cheer for.

Would recommend to any mystery fans, or fans of just great stories.

What a delight!

Phenomenal writing and characterisation. Story telling at its best set amongst the backdrop of Victorian London.

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Title: Death of a Cattle King

Author: Wayne D. Overholser

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Life is difficult enough for Sam Holt with the neighbouring ranches warring over turf, authority and complicated love triangles, when the Paiutes decide to get involved, too....

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Title: The Bloody Quarter

Author: Les Savage

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Previously unsuccessful businessman Paul Hagar manages to secure the most sought after quarter section in all Converse County, but hanging on to it will set him against some very ruthless adversaries....

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Title: Witch Hammer

Author: M. J. Trow

Narrator: M. J. Trow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-16

Publisher: Soundings

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

July 1585. Desperate to escape Sir Francis Walsingham's clutches and pursue his chosen career as a professional playwright, the young Christopher Marlowe abandons his Cambridge studies to join Lord Strange's men, a group of travelling players.

En route to perform at Oxford, the players are rehearsing amongst the famous Rollright Stones on the Warwickshire border when their efforts are interrupted by the discovery of the corpse of actor-manager Ned Sledd, found beneath the King's Stone, a silver-handled bodkin buried deep in his throat.

Is it an act of witchcraft, a human sacrifice to mark the witches' festival of Lammastide? Or could the killer have a more personal reason to wish Sledd dead? Kit Marlowe determines to find out.

Members Reviews:

Marlowe continues to 'play' around in an exciting mystery series

"Witch Hammer" is a continuation of M.J. Trow's Christopher (Kit) Marlowe mystery series, the third episode, and the author seems to be picking up momentum! It is now 1585, two years after "Silent Court" and we find Kit is eager to get to London! Eager he is to try out his talents on the theatre scene there--and eager he is to try to get away from the clutches of Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's master spy intelligencer. Kit wants no part of this sinister (albeit vital) part of Her Majesty's government.

By chance he meets up with Lord Strange's Men, a theatrical group who've been traveling the countryside, performing and hoping to avoid the plague that sometimes affects London. As chance would have it, he joins this group, feeling confident that perhaps, just perhaps, this may be his ticket to theatrical success. "I am no actor," he says, "but I do write plays and poetry."

Alas, though, Walsingham's clutches are not so easy to escape and, once again, Kit's on a mission. This mission, needless to say, involves not one but two murders and it's up to Kit to solve them. And important to this series, it seems, is the meeting of Kit and another contemporary of the theatre, a young William Shakespeare ("You're not a bad writer," Kit tells him. "Perhaps one day you'll be as good as me!"

In tending to his responsibilities, Kit faces a strong subject of the time: witches and witchcraft. Coupled with the murders, what's a young playwright to do?

Again, Trow's story deals in subterfuge, deceit, magic, and tricks in this compelling story. The author's penchant for good, strong historical detail is quite commendable and actually helps propel the storyline. While, of course, taking liberties with history, Trow doesn't disavow the obvious nor the factual. We know what's going to happen to Kit eventually (every student of British literature does), but the author doesn't get maudlin; in fact, he handles the inevitable quite well. This is an exciting series!

Kind of a mess

This book could have used a good editor. Scenes just end without transitions. There are way to many characters to keep track of. I found it very hard to follow at times.

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Title: Dry Bones in the Valley

Author: William MacLeod Raine

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Fen Yont wanted it all - all the cattle, all the range, the biggest part of Arizona territory. One man stood in his way: Rufe Rogers, wanted for robbery and murder.

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Title: Patterson

Author: Lauran Paine

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This Western duo from Lauran Paine includes tales of murder, cattle rustling and lawmen. Two stories with mystery at their hearts.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes in the Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society

Author: John Gregory Betancourt

Narrator: Alan Weyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-16

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Holmes and Watson investigate spies and amateur beggars in this thrilling addition to the Sherlock Holmes mythos, based on one of the unpublished tales mentioned in the original series.

Members Reviews:

Amateur Mendicant Society

This title parallels the Sherlock Holmes story of part of the Five Orange Pips. Detroit MI has had The Amateur Mendicant Society since 1946 and is still active with over 70 members, meeting four times a Year.

Thin Gruel

Note that this "tome" is a grand total of 28 pages. And that's with very large type. This is just a mediocre Holmes short story that at best should have been included in a collection.