General Fiction

A Carnivore's Inquiry

Sabina Murray; read by Wendy Hoopes

Katherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. Learn More

Casanova in Bolzano

Sándor Márai; read by Simon Prebble

Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel about Casanova's fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him. Learn More

The Cat Saw Murder

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

The Cat Wears a Noose

by Dolores Hitchens; introduction by Rhys Bowen; read by Janet Metzger

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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

Catch a Falling Clown

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Jim Meskimen

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

Celebutantes

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

Central Park West

by James Comey; read by Cassandra Campbell

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

Cesare

by Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn presents Cesare, a literary thriller and a love story. Learn More

Chariot on the Mountain

by Jack Ford; read by Allyson Johnson

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

Charity

by Len Deighton; read by James Lailey

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Len Deighton presents Book 9 in the Bernard Samson series. Learn More

Charlesgate Confidential

by Scott Von Doviak; read by Peter Berkrot

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

by Eugen Bacon; read by Nene Nwoko

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

Cherry Blossoms

by Kim Hooper; read by Peter Berkrot

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

Child's Play

by Reginald Hill; read by Shaun Grindell

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An inheritance draws a shady long-lost relative out of hiding in "the most elaborate mystery in the Yorkshire series" (Kirkus Reviews). Learn More

China Dream

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

The China Lover

by Ian Buruma; read by Nigel Patterson

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

Choice

by Neel Mukherjee; read by Shaheen Khan, Sofia Engstrand, and Antonio Aakeel

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An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR). Learn More

Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop

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

Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop

by Otto Penzler; read by Graham Rowat and Jennifer Pickens

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Twelve festive crime stories set in New York City's beloved mystery bookstore. Learn More

Christmas Presents

by Lisa Unger; read by Jennifer Pickens

Coupling a picturesque, cozy setting with a deeply unsettling suspenseful plot, Christmas Presents is a chilling seasonal novella that can be enjoyed all year long. Learn More

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A Carnivore's Inquiry

Casanova in Bolzano

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The Cat Wears a Noose

Catch a Falling Clown

Celebutantes

Central Park West

Cesare

Chariot on the Mountain

Charity

Charlesgate Confidential

Chasing Whispers

Cherry Blossoms

Child's Play

China Dream

The China Lover

Choice

Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop

Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop

Christmas Presents