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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cat Who Cracked a Cold Case Series: #3 of Conrad the Cat Detective Author: L T Shearer Narrator: Imogen Church Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: The Cat Who Cracked a Cold Case by L T Shearer is a charming cosy crime listen for fans of Richard Osman and S. J. Bennett. A crime gone unsolved for five years . . . The life of Lulu Lewis, a retired police detective, took an unforgettable turn when Conrad first introduced himself to her. Unforgettable because: a) Conrad is a special cat. b) Special because he told her so. Yes, that’s right, he can talk. (For obvious reasons, this ability remains a closely guarded secret while they live together on her canal boat, The Lark.) Visiting an old friend in Manchester, the pair stumble across a chilling news report about a trail of bodies found across the city that echo a string of cold case murders from Lulu’s past in London. Joining forces with the local police, the pair must use every ounce of their intuition in order to find a connection between the seemingly random killings – and track down a ruthless murderer . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Solve Murders: A Novel Author: Richard Osman Narrator: Nicola Walker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “Madcap fun, with an entertaining new cast of characters and Osman’s trademark wit. Delightful!” —Shari Lapena From the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . . Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . . As a thrilling race around the world begins, can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer? Solving murders. It’s a family business.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Murderous Plot Series: #6 of The Bookstore Mystery Series Author: Sue Minix Narrator: Rebecca Lachance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: She can plot out the perfect murder mystery… But can she solve one in real life? When an amnesiac man covered in blood mysteriously appears in the woods during her morning run, retired amateur sleuth, Jen, promises to stay away from the case. She has a murder mystery to write, and absolutely no interest in being involved in another case with the Riddleton police force. She just wants to run her bookshop, and write her next book, in peace. But when the body of the millionaire developer Simeon Kirby turns up – the man who has been threatening Jen’s bookshop for years – Jen is thrust into the spotlight of a murder investigation once more. When a police officer is wrongly accused of Simeon’s murder, Jen knows something’s not right. Every second counts as she races to find the real murderer before they can strike again. But can she right the wrongs of this murderous plot? This bookish cozy mystery is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Ellery Adams, and will leave you guessing right up until the final page. Readers are loving A Murderous Plot! ‘This an excellent, fun story which I highly recommend’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NetGalley reviewer ‘I've quickly become a huge fan of this series, and A Muderous Plot did not disappoint me.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NetGalley reviewer ‘I really enjoyed everything about this story, and I absolutely recommend it’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NetGalley reviewer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Swarm of Butterflies: A page turning British cozy murder mystery to keep you guessing Series: #6 of A Dr Nell Ward Mystery Author: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 26, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: When Finchmere's first summer fete turns fatal, Nell has more than just a killer to net... Since their YouTube channel, Following Finchmere, has taken flight, showcasing Dr Nell Ward's sustainability transformation at her family's Finchmere estate, it's her partner and colleague, Rav, who's become the star. Amongst Rav's fan mail and gifts, Nell makes the chilling discovery that one person's obsession with him has metamorphosed into a deadly threat. Just as Finchmere flings open its gates to welcome swarms of visitors to their idyllic summer fete - celebrating rewilding, artisan produce and local crafts - Nell realises the disguised peril has already wormed its way into the heart of Finchmere itself, and the path of destruction soon leads to murder. DI James Clark's and Nell's powers of observation are put to the test to detect the camouflaged predator. With everyone as a suspect, who can Nell really trust when those she loves are in danger? A Swarm of Butterflies is the sixth book in the Dr Nell Ward series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood and Janice Hallett!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between a Flock and a Hard Place: A Meg Langslow Mystery Series: #35 of Meg Langslow Mysteries Author: Donna Andrews Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: 'Listening to Bernadette Dunne perform the Meg Langslow audiobooks gives listeners a sense of coming home to a beloved family.' —AudioFile on The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Earphones Award winner) Listeners will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. Meg's neighbors, the Smetkamps', have won a makeover for their old home from Marvelous Mansions, a flashy, yet dubious company, focused on making historic homes more 'modern.' The company already several days into its makeover of the Smetkamps' house, and tensions are running high--not only between the officious, demanding Mrs. Smetkamp and her neighbors, but also between her and the renovation crew. Meg, who is trying to keep the peace and prevent the makeover crew from trampling on every clause of the county's building code, arrives at the Smetkamps to find that Caerphilly's resident flock of feral turkeys has moved into their yard--or been relocated there by someone who wanted to cause them trouble. The turkeys are huge, territorial, cranky and aggressive - and impossible to move! Meg does what she can to calm down the irate neighbors and help the makeover crew make progress in spite of the turkeys. She comes up with a plan to gather a group of turkey wranglers to snatch them early in the morning. But when they arrive, they find the body of Mrs. Smetkamp in her backyard. Someone stabbed her, and then tried to make it look as if she was attacked by one of the turkeys, but Meg, the Chief, and the Sheriff are not fooled. Together, they must figure out what really happened to Mrs. Smetkamp...and what to do with all these turkeys! A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trouble is Brewing Series: #5 of Tea by the Sea Mystery Author: Vicki Delany Narrator: Shaina Summerville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: Members of the Greenhaugh and Hill families are staying at Lily's grandmother's bed and breakfast, and now they've gathered at Tea by the Sea to sip some delicious blends while they shower bride-to-be Hannah Hill with presents. But the last package Hannah unwraps contains a beheaded Raggedy Ann doll and triggers a bloodcurdling scream. A doll like this was the last gift from her father before he died long ago, and she's chilled to the bone. Lily senses that the shocking anonymous gift just might be related to other tensions she's picking up on. The mothers-in-law have been sniping at each other—and then Lily, out walking her dog, overhears the groom's father, Ralph, offering his son a very sizable bribe to call off the wedding. She's relieved when Greg angrily turns him down, but with so many people steamed at each other, can this event possibly go smoothly? The answer is no. It suddenly has to be postponed—when Ralph is found dead in his bed, a bottle of whiskey beside him. When tests indicate the booze was infused with a lethal substance, it becomes a murder case, and of course, accusations are flying wildly with the guests all too willing to believe the worst about each other. Now, to find out whether all this family drama led to a fatality, Lily will have to turn up the heat . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summers End Series: #5 of A Shady Hollow Mystery Author: Juneau Black Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen. It's late August in Shady Hollow, and intrepid reporter Vera Vixen agrees to chaperone the school’s annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture. Naturally, her good friend Lenore Lee comes along to help her. But when the group enters the tomb one morning, they find a corpse that is distinctly more. . . modern than expected. Digging deeper, Vera and Lenore discover that the deceased was involved in the recent excavation at the site, and very unpopular with their colleagues—including Lenore’s sister, Ligeia. Now the fox and raven must delve into the dark world of academia and archaeology to clear Ligeia’s name. Some creature at Summers End thought they were clever enough to get away with the perfect murder. Can Vera and Lenore unearth the truth in time?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Murder at the Rusty Anchor Series: #6 of Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery Author: Maddie Day Narrator: Rachel Dulude Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: Set in a picturesque Cape Cod town, the latest in this cozy mystery series by the Agatha Award–winning author will delight fans of Lorna Barrett's Booktown series and Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile mysteries, as bike-shop owner Mackenzie 'Mac' Almeida and her fellow book club sleuths solve a bookstore murder. A rainy July weekend in Westham means the beaches are empty and business is dead at Mac's Bikes but couldn't be livelier inside the Rusty Anchor Pub. But come Monday morning one patron is not so lively when the chef opens up and finds a body behind the bar. It's last call for Bruce Byrne, an elderly high school teacher who's been around so long it seems like he taught everybody. When Mac's friend Flo, the librarian, makes the list of suspects, Mac gathers the Cozy Capers Book Group to clear her name. With no end in sight to the rain, the group has plenty of time to study the clues and sort through a roll call of suspects to determine who decided to teach Mr. Bryne a lesson. But with a killer desperate to cover their tracks, Mac and the group will be tested as never before . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722589 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Murder for the Sages Series: #3 of Sunflower Cafe Mystery Author: Amy Lillard Narrator: Lisa S. Ware Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: The unusual death of local herb farmer, Ginger Reed, is the talk of Yoder. Naturally, Sissy is intrigued. The official report classifies Ginger's demise as an accident, concluding that she ran herself over with a tractor. But Sissy's cousin, Naomi, a friend and longtime employee of Ginger's, insists that's impossible. When she asks for Sissy's help in unearthing the truth, Sissy's on the case—accompanied as ever by her loyal Yorkie companion, Duke . . . The deeper Sissy digs, the longer the list of suspects grows—and none of them are Ginger. Near the top is Ginger's resentful sister-in-law, Mallory. Next is Naomi's brother, Lloyd, who's bitter about the oil derrick presumably pumping black gold from Ginger's land—land that once belonged to his family. Naomi herself could be a suspect—it's her tractor, after all. But the investigation stalls when Naomi makes a shocking turnaround in her story. Is she lying? And if so, why? Then a missing dog, a desperate lawyer, and a teenage con artist are added to the mix, and the puzzle becomes hopelessly complicated. If Sissy doesn't solve it quickly, she'll be lost in the weeds as a killer reaps a deadly harvest . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Come Shell or High Water Series: #1 of Haunted Shell Shop Mystery Author: Molly MacRae Narrator: Callie Beaulieu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Cozy Mystery Publisher's Summary: As a professional storyteller, Maureen Nash can't help but see the narrative cues woven through her life. Like the series of letters addressed to her late husband from a stranger—the proprietor of The Moon Shell, a shop on Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The store is famous with shell collectors, but it's the cryptic letters from Allen Withrow, the shop's owner, that convince Maureen to travel to the small coastal town in the middle of hurricane season. At the very least, she expects she'll get a good story out of the experience, never anticipating it could end up a murder mystery . . . In Maureen's first hours on the storm-lashed island, she averts several life-threatening accidents, stumbles over the body of a controversial Ocracoke local, and meets the ghost of an eighteenth-century Welsh pirate, Emrys Lloyd. To the untrained eye, all these unusual occurrences would seem to be random misfortunes, but Maureen senses there may be something connecting these stories. With Emrys's supernatural assistance, and the support of a few new friends, Maureen sets out unravel the truth, find a killer, and hopefully give this tale a satisfying ending . . . while also rewriting her own.