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Audiobooks Narrated by Lauren Irwin
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"It's the hottest summer on record. Norfolk is parched. One steaming night an old thatched barn at Wild Thyme Farm is torched. The battle to put out the blaze rages.
Detective Sara is on the scene when there's a horrifying discovery: there's a body in the embers.
Sara and her team have been investigating a series of fires breaking out all over the county—but this is the first body.
Accident or murder?
Suspicion soon falls on struggling farm owner Jean Simpson and her daughter, Faye. Mother and daughter had a searing row the day before the barn went up—and now Faye's husband is missing.
At the same time Sara's personal and professional life are reaching boiling point. Her boss wants her to go for promotion. Her boyfriend wants to settle down.
Can Sara solve this case and keep everyone happy—or will it all go up in smoke?"
"It's a stormy December morning when seal-watchers find the body on the beach at Winterton-on-Sea. His clothes have been torn to shreds on the rocks. The bright-orange life jacket didn't save him in the end.
Detective Sara Hirst races to the scene. The washed-up body turns out to be a deckhand who got swept overboard in a storm.
It looks like a tragic accident.
Until another body is found on a pleasure boat drifting out at sea. There are bullet holes in the boat's hull.
This was definitely murder.
But Sara will soon have more to worry about than two dead bodies. Someone from her past is back . . .
There are dark dealings going on in this quiet stretch of Norfolk coast. Detective Sara Hirst must catch a killer before anyone else turns up dead."
"An epic tragicomedy spanning three generations, UGLY explores the horrifying and hilarious truths of man's inhumanity to woman, delivered with unforgettable characters and indelible dark humor in the grand tradition of John Irving.
Three generations of women, one horrifying and hilarious story of defiance.
Charlotte Adams escapes a destitute orphanage in prewar London, only to find herself in the lavish but equally treacherous home of one of England's wealthiest families. Her daughter, Margot Kenworthy, flees to America's heartland, where she takes refuge in a dangerously misunderstood finishing school. Her daughter, Cleo Portman, heads to Hollywood, where she takes on the predatory modeling business in shocking and unprecedented ways.
In the grand tradition of John Irving, David Michael Slater, acclaimed author of Fun & Games and The Vanishing, delivers a sprawling tragicomedy chock-full of remarkable characters and indelible scenes. An unforgettable listen, UGLY is a breakneck rollercoaster of a ride."
"Detective Sara Hirst has moved from London to Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit.
Carnival week in Cromer. It's been an easy-going summer for the Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit—until this morning.
The body of Daisy Shaw, the Carnival Queen, is discovered in a back alley, stretched out on the cobbles. Her long blonde hair lies matted and disheveled around her head, her fingers clutch a sparkly plastic tiara.
Suspicion falls on the carnival crew, especially when it turns out that one of them is Daisy's boyfriend.
The atmosphere in Cromer soon grows nasty. The town turns against the outsiders. The roads are closed. The town descends into chaos. And the murder detectives are right in the thick of it, trying to piece together what happened to Daisy.
The close-knit carnival community is all too used to prejudice and none too keen on helping the police.
Meanwhile, both Sara's mother and boyfriend have bombshells to drop. Can Sara solve the case before anyone else gets hurt?"
"SARA FACES HER TOUGHEST AND MOST BIZARRE CASE YET.
The first body is found forced inside a huge terracotta urn on the lawn of a country manor in a remote corner of North Norfolk.
A few days later, a young woman is found, tied to a golden chair with her throat slashed.
At both crime scenes, the killer leaves a bizarre calling card.
The victims were part of a group of friends at university back in the day. Two of them are dead. Two are still alive—but for how much longer?
The team's new DCI, Hayley Hudson, is convinced the prime suspect is Dom Wilkins, one of the victims' old flames.
But Detective Sara thinks she's missing something obvious. Can she stop a serial killer before they strike again?"
"At fifty-seven, photographer Kay didn't expect to fall head over heels in love, or get married, but the thing she thought she could always count on was Rose's friendship. She and Rose have known each other for over forty years and Rose was supposed to be Kay's maid of honor today at her wedding. So when she pulls her phone from the pocket of her bright yellow dress and sees the message, she's stunned: Kay, I hope today is wonderful. Please don't contact me again, Rose.
Kay is incredibly happy with her husband, Murray, who makes her feel so happy and loved. But without Rose in her life she feels lost. She and Rose have stuck together through it all; getting each other through tough break-ups, problems with children and losing Kay's beloved mum. Rose is Kay's person. How can she possibly want to say goodbye?
Murray encourages Kay to go back to a box of photographs she's kept of her dearest friends and family for many years. As Kay looks through the faces, she recognizes people faces she hasn't seen for years and wonders if they could help to her unlock the key to why Rose wants to say goodbye.
As Kay sets out to find the people she's let go, she hopes she will get a chance to convince Rose this doesn't have to be goodbye. But the journey will change her forever…"
"Just who can you trust when no one around you is who they seem?
The final spell-binding book in The Witch's Kiss trilogy by authors and sisters, Katharine and Elizabeth Corr.
Life as a teenage witch just got harder for Merry when her brother, Leo is captured and taken into an alternative reality by evil witch Ronan. Determined to get him back, Merry needs to use blood magic to outwit her arch-rival and get Leo back. Merry is more powerful than ever now, but she is also more dangerous and within the coven, loyalties are split on her use of the magic. In trying to save Leo, Merry will have to confront evil from her past and present and risk the lives of everyone she's ever loved. Given the chaos she's created, just what will she sacrifice to make things right?"
"Can true love's kiss break your heart . . . ?
The spellbinding sequel to The Witch's Kiss by authors and sisters, Katharine and Elizabeth Corr.
It's not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She's drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven, drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack. But Merry is not the only one whose fairy tale is over.
Big brother Leo is falling apart and everything Merry does seems to push him further to the brink. And everything that happens to Leo makes her ache for revenge. So, when strangers offering friendship show them a different path, they'd be mad not to take it . . .
Some rules were made to be broken, right?
The darkly magical sequel to The Witch's Kiss burns wickedly bright."
"In this YA fantasy romance debut, a teenage girl is about to learn that the only thing more dangerous than being a witch is falling in love.
Sixteen-year-old Merry is fed up with her feuding family and nonexistent social life. High school is a terrible time to have magic shooting from her fingertips without warning.
Then Merry meets sweet, sensitive Jack, and can't resist falling under his spell. There's just one problem: he's part of an evil, centuries-old curse that Merry is supposed to break. Is Merry about to lose her heart and her life? Or will true love's kiss save the day?"
"Selene is the youngest daughter in a gifted line of healers, born to serve as the king's royal physician. Yet when Selene's mother Persaphe embroils her in a plot to kill the king, Selene finds herself poisoning the very man she is sworn to protect.
Things seem bleak, but there is another problem—the poison doesn't work, and the king doesn't die. Rather, he awakes from his coma paralyzed, aware of the attempt on his life, and furious.
With the palace in a state of upheaval and everyone hunting the king's poisoner, Persaphe flees, leaving Selene the task of rehabilitating the man she aimed to kill, all while hiding her true role in his demise. What follows is a journey spanning years and continents, as a king and his servant develop into unlikely friends . . . and more. Yet the closer Selene grows to the king, the more her secret weighs on her, as does her growing fear that Persaphe—having failed to kill him once—might return to try again."
"A peaceful suburban neighborhood is shaken to the core when a teenage girl goes missing
Sara felt she had turned her life around by marrying Edward. But their relationship comes under strain as they struggle to fulfil their dream of becoming parents.
Yet when their best friends' daughter suddenly disappears and her husband begins to act suspiciously, Sara feels her world is collapsing around her.
Someone's not telling the truth and Sara is determined to find out who and why.
However, tracing the movements of those she suspects brings her closer to home than is comfortable.
What happened to the young girl and just what kind of man did Sara marry?"
"From the author of the sensational bestseller, The Lost Apothecary, comes a spellbinding gothic whodunit introducing two enigmatic women who set out to solve a most unusual mystery.
May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium...
1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identity of the people who killed them, her skills are highly sought after by widows and investigators alike.
Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister’s death, but to do so, she must embrace the unknown and overcome her own logic-driven bias against the occult. When Vaudeline is beckoned to England to solve a high-profile murder, Lenna accompanies her as an understudy. But as the women team up with the powerful men of London’s exclusive Séance Society to solve the mystery, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves...
Written with alluring suspense and sultry prose, The London Séance Society is an entrancing tale that explores the blurred lines between truth and illusion and reveals the grave risks women will take to avenge the ones they love."
