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Top 10 Crime & Thrillers

Over the past month there has been an impressive stream of top-notch crime & thriller audiobooks. Holding on at the top is The Woodcutter by Reginal Hill and the latest New James Bond, Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver. We also have some true crime with Terror Cops, insight into what it's like to fight terrorism in Britain today. Stieg Larsson holds his own with The Millennium Trilogy which has topped the charts since they released in audio in 2009. If you’re in any doubt listen to a few of the samples and check out the reviews.


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  • The Woodcutter
    By Reginald Hill
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble
    4.65 (496 ratings)
    Wolf Hadda's life was a fairytale - successful businessman and adored husband. But a knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later Wolf begins to talk to the prison psychiatrist and receives parole to return home. But there's a mysterious period in Wolf's past when he was known as the Woodcutter. Now the Woodcutter is back, looking for truth and revenge...
    UNABRIDGED 16 hrs and 34 mins
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  • Carte Blanche: The New James Bond Novel
    By Jeffery Deaver
    Narrated by Toby Stephens
    4.16 (291 ratings)
    Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. It operates independent of Five, Six and the MoD, with its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission.
    UNABRIDGED 13 hrs and 35 mins
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  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    By Stieg Larsson
    Narrated by Saul Reichlin
    4.53 (1599 ratings)
    Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own family. He employs journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
    UNABRIDGED 18 hrs and 50 mins
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  • Dead Man's Grip
    By Peter James
    Narrated by Jamie Glover
    4.19 (83 ratings)
    Carly Chase is traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 31 mins
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  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    By Stieg Larsson
    Narrated by Saul Reichlin
    4.66 (1308 ratings)
    Lisbeth Salander lies in Intensive Care with a bullet lodged in her head. She will face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Salander is now ready to fight back.
    UNABRIDGED 25 hrs and 13 mins
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  • The Calling of the Grave
    By Simon Beckett
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble
    4.00 (43 ratings)
    'At first glance it could have been anything - a stone, a knotted root - until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...'It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk's teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to find.
    UNABRIDGED 9 hrs and 54 mins
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  • The Sixth Man: A King and Maxwell Thriller
    By David Baldacci
    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
    3.56 (16 ratings)
    After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer-an old friend of Sean King- to look into the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins: while en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. A rash of terrifying events begins to unfold and it is up to King and Maxwell to uncover the truth: is Roy a killer or not?
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 39 mins
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  • Against All Enemies
    By Tom Clancy, Peter Telep
    Narrated by Steven Weber
    3.79 (38 ratings)
    For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. And then...news of a potentially devastating coalition: What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance?
    UNABRIDGED 18 hrs and 17 mins
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  • The Girl Who Played with Fire
    By Stieg Larsson
    Narrated by Saul Reichlin
    4.64 (1340 ratings)
    Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists are murdered and Salander's fingerprints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable behaviour makes her the official suspect, but no-one can find her. Salander may be an expert at staying out of sight, but she also has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.
    UNABRIDGED 20 hrs and 52 mins
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  • Terror Cops: Fighting Terrorism on Britain's Streets
    By Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington
    Narrated by Damian Lynch
    3.45 (20 ratings)
    Terror Cops is a white-knuckle ride into the battle against extremism; the story gives unprecedented insight into what it's like to fight terrorism in Britain today. In his two-decades-long career with the Metropolitan Police, Detective Sergeant Harry Keeble has hunted child murderers and child abusers, drug dealers and hit men.
    UNABRIDGED 7 hrs and 14 mins
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