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This thrilling anthology contains five action-packed tales of incredible journeys, a murderous treasure hunt, invaders from outer space and international espionage - all read in full by some of the very best voice actors.

Things in the Middle Florida Keys aren’t as idyllic as they seem. If one looks closely, there’s a layer of dirt just below the surface. The butt-ugly kind of dirt that’s hard to get off. Things move slowly in the Keys—locals call it island time—but there are some for whom it seems that time is at a standstill; whose clocks revolve only around the tides, fish migrations, and the rising and setting of the sun and moon. Jesse McDermitt remembers the Keys the way he’d first found them as a young man.

England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father was captured by the Nazis, Lilli Bergen is desperate to do something pro-active for the Allies. So when she’s approached by the Political Warfare Executive, Lilli jumps at the chance. She’s recruited as a singer for a radio station broadcasting propaganda to German soldiers – a shadow network. But Lilli’s world is flipped upside down when her ex-boyfriend, Bren Murphy, appears at her workplace; the very man she thinks betrayed her father to the Nazis.

In this incendiary thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker, Roland Ford is hunting down a mysterious killer, jockeying for position with the FBI, and risking everything to save a friend in terrible jeopardy. Returning hero and private...

Un suspect trop parfait, des aveux trop faciles... Julie McDowell, avocate commise d'office et présente lors du premier interrogatoire de Sydney, avait déjà le sentiment que quelque chose clochait dans cette affaire. Que s'est-il passé entre Sydney et les membres de la brigade criminelle avant les interrogatoires officiels ? Vingt ans plus, c'est Owen Weston, journaliste d'investigation, qui fait part de ses doutes et revient sur les zones d'ombre du procès de Sydney Noyce... et ce, malgré les intimidations.

Miss Marple, living a quiet life in St Mary Mead, is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Rafiel. Not that they were friends - the old financier was much too irascible and self-centred for friendship - but they had once been allies in solving a series of murders that took place on the tiny...

Winter 1924. When Lady Eleanor Swift unexpectedly finds herself a guest of the reclusive Duke of Auldwyke, she’s determined to enjoy Christmas with all the trimmings at his sprawling manor house. And that includes kisses under the mistletoe and cozying up by the fire with her fiancé, dashing detective Hugh Seldon. Instead, the season of goodwill turns frosty as she finds the Duke’s studious secretary, Mr Porritt, dead in the storeroom. Clasped in his chilly hand is a golden pendant in the shape of a rose.

Winter, 1923. It’s nearly Christmas and Lady Eleanor Swift has received a rather strange letter from an old friend of her uncle. Mr Godfrey Cunliffe has asked her to stay in Cornwall for the holidays–but only because he believes his gardener is trying to poison him! With not a moment to waste Eleanor hurries down to his picturesque manor house with her butler Clifford and handsome beau Detective Hugh Seldon. But they arrive too late to stop the crime…

Alabama's Department of Corrections is plagued by organized crime, managerial incompetence and corporate exploitation. The state prison system has become the worst in the nation and one of the worst in the world. Alabama prisons have the highest murder rate and the highest suicide rate – with an average of one death every other day. This is radicAL, where an incarcerated activist and a fed-up lawyer take you behind the barbed wire fences to show you the root of the problems that those in power are desperate to keep hidden.

Karen Swift, a mother with four children, was reported missing on Oct. 30, 2011, three weeks after she had filed for divorce from her husband. Hunters found her body near a Dyersburg cemetery on Dec. 10, 2011, six weeks after she was reported missing and nine weeks after she had filed for divorce.Prosecutors said David Swift was the last person to see his wife alive when she returned home from a Halloween party.Following the indictment more than 11 years after her death, David Swift was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was living after being remarried.If convicted, David Swift faces ...

Returning to his home town of Middlesborough on a six-month attachment to the Teesside police, criminal psychologist Joe Aston is called in for seven unusual and baffling cases. As a specialist in the controversial field of 'recovered memory', his skills are crucial: only he can uncover the truth by persuading victims, witnesses and suspects to remember what they'd rather forget.

Que se passe-t-il dans la cité de Glenfrome en cet après-midi de canicule qui précède le drame ? Cody Swift retourne "à la maison" pour interroger sa propre mère, Julie Swift, qui se souvient de ce terrible dimanche : les cagettes de fraises qu'il faut transformer en confiture, son fils et ses amis, le trio infernal... Quand les trois garçons rentrent pour le goûter, Julie Swift remarque le T-shirt déchiré de son fils et lui interdit de ressortir avec ses amis pour le punir. Scott et Charlie repartent, c'est la dernière fois que Cody les voit.

As we listen to each character tell their version of the events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds to the final and astonishing denouement of the first, and most magnificent, English detective novel.