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  The Secret House

  Edgar Wallace

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  A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B. Smith, the head of the secret police, the connections to blackmail are not long in coming. Were these men shot by the blackmailer? Who is actually what he seems to be? (Summary by Don W. Jenkins)

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  The Fetch

  Jack Gerson

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  It's the 1980s, and Alistair Matheson is forging a quietly ambitious path in government. All is going to plan until a brief encounter with a man who looks exactly like him throws Alistair's ordered world into chaos.
  
  As this doppelganger crosses his path time and again a series of events are set in motion with increasingly disturbing consequences. Is this double a spy? A conman? Or could he be something infinitely more sinister?
  
  
  ©2017 Big Finish Productions (P)2017 Big Finish Productions

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  Bone of Contention - A Cold Case...

  Kristi Rose

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  From USA Today Bestselling author comes an action-packed, roller coaster ride new cold case mystery series that will have your pulse racing. For fans of Kendra Elliott and Debra Webb  
  US Marshall Mallory Bodine’s short visit back to her central Florida hometown quickly turns into work. When a skeleton is unearthed in her mom’s back yard, Mallory is caught-up in the middle of a cold case murder investigation as she searches for answers. 
  Who killed the perky, loveable schoolteacher? 
  Four local hoodlums are a convenient fit as the killers – for the lazy, complacent sheriff, that is – but the local detective and Mallory want the truth.  
  Was it an act of vandalism that got out of hand? Or something more sinister? 
  Digging through fourteen years of lies won’t be easy. 
  Murder never is. 
  Meet Mallory Bodine, fugitive hunter.  
  No case has been cold too long—and for Mallory—the dead are not forgotten.

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  Life in a Supermarket Basket

  Michael Evanichko

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  Life in a Supermarket Basket is a darkly comic, emotionally charged story about a man who dies on the parking lot asphalt of his favorite grocery store and is given one bewildering chance to make sense of the life he squandered. As he is led through the afterlife by an impatient spirit guide, with each memory triggered by one of his supermarket items, he’s forced to confront the truths he buried, and the strange, unexpected mercy that might still be waiting for him. 
  Blending absurdity with genuine emotion, the story unfolds in supermarket purgatory where humor and heartbreak sit side by side. Characters from his past and present collide in scenes that are sharp, surreal, and unexpectedly tender, revealing the fragility of a life built on avoidance, longing, and small acts of grace. 
  Praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a gleefully cynical riff on life, death, and second chances,” and named a finalist in the 2023 American Fiction Awards, Life in a Supermarket Basket explores what it means to be seen, forgiven, and possibly redeemed—even in the unlikeliest of aisles.

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  Murder at the Vicarage - Unabridged

  Agatha Christie

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  "The Murder at the Vicarage" is Agatha Christie's first novel featuring the mild-mannered but brilliantly incisive Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living a quiet life in the little village of St. Mary Mead who often steps in to assist the local constabulary in solving their most baffling cases.  
  In this story, narrated by Rev. Leonard Clement - the local vicar - the townspeople are shocked when Colonel Protheroe - a wealthy magistrate who is widely disliked in the village - is found shot to death in the vicarage. Suspects abound as the local inspector proceeds with his investigation and discovers that almost everyone in the village had a motive for ending the Colonel's life. It is only when Miss Marple - local gardener and renowned busybody - takes an interest in the case, that the puzzle pieces begin to fall into place.  
  One of the most widely admired detective stories of the early 20th century, "The Murder at the Vicarage" launched a number of Miss Marple novels and further established Agatha Christie as the premiere mystery writer of her era. It is presented here as it was originally published in 1930 and has been narrated by renowned audiobook performer Sara Nichols.

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  Giants' Bread Book V - George...

  Agatha Christie

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  Book V: George Green brings Giants' Bread to its final and most revealing movement. What began with the public mystery of a new masterpiece now returns to the hidden lives that made such a work possible. In this closing volume, Christie gathers together the strands of memory, love, identity, artistic hunger, and sacrifice that have shaped the novel from the first pages. 
    
   George Green appears at first as an ordinary man, practical, observant, and apparently far removed from the world of genius and high art. Yet in Giants' Bread, ordinary appearances rarely tell the whole truth. The final book slowly uncovers the meanings behind concealment, survival, and transformation. The question that has haunted the novel becomes unavoidable: what does genius consume, and who pays the price for its creation? 
    
   The emotional force of the story returns through Joe, Sebastian, and the lives touched and wounded by Vernon's destiny. Love does not vanish, but it changes shape. Ambition does not disappear, but it becomes harder to separate from guilt. Music, once feared like a beast and pursued like salvation, now stands as both triumph and testimony. 
    
   George Green is the culmination of Agatha Christie's sweeping psychological romance. It is suspenseful not because it depends on murder, but because it asks who a person truly is beneath names, roles, and public legends. For listeners who have followed the journey from Abbots Puissants through love, sophistication, war, and loss, this final volume delivers revelation, melancholy, and the grandeur of a life transformed into art.

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