Fiction - Crime

These two novellas by seminal crime novelist Anna Katharine Green were first published in 1887.In 7 to 12 the theft of a valuable diamond necklace is reported to the police. Investigation reveals that the circumstances of the crime are not as they...

8 Tales of Noir is just what the title would lead you to expect, eight stories about the darker side of the human condition. Six short stories lead in to two novella length tales.•Two desperate men at a standoff on a residential inner-city street...•A...

A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. - Summary by Cate Barratt Author - E. Phillips Oppenheim. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A Bird in a Gilded Cage by Arthur J. Lamb. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 2, 2011."A Bird in a Gilded Cage" is a song composed by Arthur J. Lamb (lyrics) and Harry Von Tilzer (music). It...

Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales Author - Thomas Hardy. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner. Scrooge has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity or benevolence. He hates Christmas, calling it "humbug", refuses his...

"A thrilling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages. Well worth a read." Bestselling author T.A. Williams.The competition is fierce….Desperate to try and rebuild the reputation of Hopgood Hall, owners Alexi Ellis and Cheryl and Drew Hopgood...

Dan Casey thought he had escaped his past. He was wrong. Will his family pay the price for it? Find out in this thrilling book from a USA Today Bestselling Author.For the past ten years, Dan Casey has lived a relatively quiet life in Virginia. He got...

"An enthralling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages. Well worth a read." Bestselling author T.A. Williams.The start of Cozy Crime series! Welcome to Hopgood Hall.An unlikely duo…When investigative journalist, Alexi Ellis, falls victim to...

Beneath the bustling, respectable exterior of the Kent town of Allensbury lies a world of corruption and greed.When local news reporter Dan Sullivan scents a story in the local council, he begins to ask questions. But when his source dies in...

Valuable land, oil, and murder make strange bedfellows.Denny McConnell, Private Investigator, is hired to research the deeds, land swaps, and old lawsuits regarding Texas ranchland and oil, the rights to which are now disputed by Wendy Axtell Shearer....

Susan Keating Glaspell was born on July 1st, 1876 in Davenport, Iowa.Glaspell, a precocious child, was an active student at Davenport High School. By 18 she was earning a salary at the local newspaper as a journalist, and by 20 she was the author of a...

Wartime secrets, smugglers’ caves, skeletal remains...And the holiday’s only just begun…July 1923 - Iris Woodmore travels to Devon with her friends Percy Baverstock and Millicent Nightingale for her father’s wedding to Katherine Keats.But when...

"A thrilling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages. Well worth a read." Bestselling author T.A. Williams.The high society wedding…Social media influencer Crystabel Hughes is determined her wedding to Giles Preston Smythe will be the talk of...

Has technology been used as a weapon in the murder of two victims? Denny McConnell, PI, is on the case.Denny is hired by Amber Fagerstrom's law firm to help prove her innocent of the murder of Bad Boy Philip McDuggle. When another murder takes place...

A serial killer active in NY City over a period of years goes quiet. Detective Elton Hendricks and his partner could not close the case. Now he has returned with a vengeance to an upstate NY town where Detective Hendricks now works. Is this a copycat...

The second book in the Inspector Alan Grant series.Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the...

"A thrilling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages. Well worth a read." Bestselling author T.A. Williams.A failing hotel…With its reputation in tatters, Alexi Ellis is determined to save her beloved Hopgood Hall from any more bad press. A...

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt...

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was...

A Study in Scarlet is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from the viewpoint of Dr. John Watson and recounts his first experiences of meeting the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and their...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it is among the most famous works of fiction.The novel depicts the plight of the French...

In the stack of envelopes on top of Gideon's desk, one was curiously unlabeled, the same as any random piece of junk. He slid it open nonetheless. All the envelope contained was a simple leaf… dark green with serrated edges, finely divided and lacy....

A harrowing insight into New York City's most notorious detention complex, Rikers Island. The narrative plays through multiple characters who possess a particular position of control and power within the jail, along with the inmates and civilians who...