Enjoy the best new fiction and bestsellers like The Time Traveler's Wife, Life of Pi, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Water for Elephants in exceptional unabridged editions. We have your favorite authors, from Louis L'Amour to Stephen King to JRR Tolkien.
by Dolores Hitchens; introduction by Joyce Carol Oates; read by Janet Metzger
A prototypical early "cat mystery," written before the subgenre became a staple of cozy mystery fiction, The Cat Saw Murder is an entertaining and endlessly surprising whodunit with a focus on felines. The book is the first in the long-running Rachel Murdock series. Learn More
by Dolores Hitchens; introduction by Rhys Bowen; read by Janet Metzger
A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the "observant [and] appealing" seventy-year-old sleuth (Publishers Weekly). Learn More
A hard-boiled Hollywood PI has to work without a net to save Emmett Kelly from a killer who's not clowning around: "Nostalgic fun" (Publishers Weekly). Learn More
Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are reunited with a distant relative who wants them to cater a New Year's Eve event—and help find a guilty party . . . Learn More
Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper; read by Gigi Bermingham
A high-energy, fashion-forward, name-dropping, comic novel of the “real Hollywood” in the lead-up to the Oscars, as told by two Hollywood insiders. Learn More
This gripping crime fiction debut from former FBI director James Comey takes listeners deep inside the world of lawyers and investigators working to solve a murder while navigating the treacherous currents of modern politics and the mob. Learn More
Based on little-known true events, this astonishing account from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jack Ford vividly recreates a treacherous journey toward freedom, a time when the traditions of the Old South still thrived—and is a testament to determination, friendship, and courage . . . Learn More
A sharp and funny tale of a daring art heist gone wrong—inspired by the same real-life, still-unsolved crime depicted in the Netflix hit series This Is a Robbery. Learn More
Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of Black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, and folklore. Learn More
From the author of the critically acclaimed debut People Who Knew Me comes the story of one man's determination to abandon his will to live. Learn More
by Ma Jian; translated by Flora Drew; read by David Shih
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Month and Year One of Vulture's Spring Books to Watch Out For
One of the year's most anticipated novels in translation, written by an acclaimed Chinese author whose entire body of work has been banned by his home country, and published in the thirtieth-anniversary year of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Learn More
From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collective fantasy follows three star-struck men driven to extraordinary acts by their devotion to the same legendary woman. Learn More
by Neel Mukherjee; read by Shaheen Khan, Sofia Engstrand, and Antonio Aakeel
An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR). Learn More
by Otto Penzler; read by Christina Delaine, Matt Godfrey
Some of the stories in Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop are humorous, others suspenseful, and still others are tales of pure detection, but all of them together make up a charming collection and a perfect Christmas gift for all ages. Learn More
