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Title: A Caribbean Mystery: A Miss Marple Mystery

Series: #10 of Miss Marple Mysteries

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Emilia Fox

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murderer As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier’s yarn about a murderer he had known. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her a snapshot of this acquaintance, the Major was suddenly interrupted. A diversion that was to prove fatal.

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Title: Wolfhound Century

Series: #1 of The Wolfhound Century

Author: Peter Higgins

Narrator: Neil Dickson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 0 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.

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Title: The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mystery

Series: #4 of Miss Marple Mysteries

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Richard E. Grant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.  Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says “I can’t go on,” but Miss Marple questions the coroner’s verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone—as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.

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Title: A Murder Is Announced: A Miss Marple Mystery

Series: #5 of Miss Marple Mysteries

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Emilia Fox

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.” A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it.

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Title: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: A Miss Marple Mystery

Series: #9 of Miss Marple Mysteries

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Emilia Fox

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer. One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure, poisoned by a deadly cocktail. It seems likely that the cocktail was intended for the beautiful actress. But while the police fumble to find clues, Miss Marple begins to ask her own questions, because as she knows—even the most peaceful village can hide dark secrets.

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Title: A Pocket Full of Rye: A Miss Marple Mystery

Series: #7 of Miss Marple Mysteries

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Richard E. Grant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In Agatha Christie’s classic, A Pocket Full of Rye, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme. . . .

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Title: Child of Vengeance: A Novel

Author: David Kirk

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Release date: March 12, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto. Japan in the late 16th century was a land in turmoil. Lords of the great clans schemed against each other, served by aristocratic samurai bound to them by a rigid code of honor. Bennosuke is a high-born but lonely teenager living in his ancestral village. His mother died when he was a young boy, and his powerful warrior father Munisai has abandoned him for a life of service to his Lord, Shinmei. Bennosuke has been raised by his uncle Dorinbo, a monk who urges the boy to forgo the violence of the samurai and embrace the contemplative life. But Bennosuke worships his absent father, and when Munisai returns, gravely injured, Bennosuke is forced to confront truths about his family's history and his own place in it. These revelations soon guide him down the samurai's path—awash with blood, bravery, and vengeance. His journey will culminate in the epochal battle of Sekigahara—in which Bennosuke will first proclaim his name as Mushashi Miyamoto. This rich and absorbing epic explores the complexities of one young man's quest while capturing a crucial turning point in Japanese history with visceral mastery, sharp psychological insight and tremendous narrative momentum.

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Title: The Liars' Gospel: A Novel

Author: Naomi Alderman

Narrator: Matthew Wolf, Moira Quirk, Neil Dickson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: March 12, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An award-winning writer reimagines the life of Jesus, from the points of view of four people closest to him before his death. This is the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four people tell their stories. His mother grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his faith, the High Priest of the Temple tries to keep the peace, and a rebel named Bar-Avo strives to bring that peace tumbling down. It was a time of political power plays and brutal tyranny. Men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. In the midst of it all, one inconsequential preacher died. And either something miraculous happened, or someone lied. Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the period -- massacres and riots, animal sacrifice and human betrayal -- The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story entirely new.

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Title: Fever: A Novel

Author: Mary Beth Keane

Narrator: Candace Thaxton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Release date: March 12, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” who becomes, “in Keane’s assured hands…a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring character” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Mary Beth Keane has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she’d aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined “medical engineer” noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an “asymptomatic carrier” of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary—proud of her former status and passionate about cooking—the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict. Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive—the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers—Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.

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Title: The Bull Slayer: A Plinius Secundus Mystery

Series: #2 of The Plinius Secundus Mysteries

Author: Bruce Macbain

Narrator: Richard Powers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Release date: March 5, 2013

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sometimes murder is only a distraction from the real betrayal. Pliny, a respectable young senator and lawyer, is the newly appointed governor of Bithynia, a turbulent frontier province rotting with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome. When a high Roman official is found murdered on a desolate hillside miles from the capital, Pliny must untangle numerous threads in the investigation, including a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer, a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets, and a boy who struggles toward manhood though stricken with the 'sacred disease.' But as Pliny pursues one baffling lead after another, he is being betrayed where he least expects it. His beautiful wife, neglected and lonely in an alien city, falls desperately in love with a handsome young provincial, and the affair threatens to bring not only pain but ruin to Pliny's career.