In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he’d gone from lowly assistant to running the UK’s busiest murder morgue. He couldn’t believe his luck. What he didn’t know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral…
Category: Audiobook Reviews
🎧Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth
This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than 40 years. Philip – elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible –…
🎧93 Women: The Legacy of America’s Deadliest Serial Killer by Benjamin Zand and Tika Thornton
Please note: this series features adult language and references to murder, violence, and sexual abuse that may be upsetting to some listeners. Discretion is advised. How did the deadliest serial killer in US history get away with murder for over 40 years? Samuel Little was serving life in prison for killing three women, when he…
🎧After the Fall by Peter McDonnell & Bobby Chacon | Narrated by Dion Graham
Most Americans say 9/11 is the most significant historical event of their lives. It shocked a suddenly vulnerable nation, killed 3,000 people, and led to the longest war in US history. But for the FBI, 9/11 was also a crime. Dozens of agents at the forefront of the case tell in their own words how…
🎧The First Wife: John Meehan’s Reign of Terror by Tonia Bales & Laura Richards | Narrated by: Rachel Louise Snyder
Many listened to the Dirty John podcast, which introduced the world to John Meehan, a dangerous serial predator who infiltrates the life of Debra Newell and ultimately dies at the hand of her daughter, Terra. But there was an overlooked story that’s now being told, in full, for the first time. In The First Wife: John Meehan’s Reign…
🎧The Hijack by (and Narrated): Owen Bennett-Jones
In 1981, PK326 was on a routine domestic flight from Karachi, Pakistan when it was hijacked and diverted to Afghanistan. The 148 passengers were then held at gunpoint for 13 days in what turned into one of the longest hijackings in history. The hijackers claimed to be fighting for democracy and demanded the release of…
🎧War of the Worlds by H.G Wells | Narrated by: David Tennant
When Earth is invaded by Martians in great mechanical tripods, terror ensues. They are equipped with heat rays and poisonous black gas, intent on wiping out the human race. During the destruction, one man’s story details the monstrous invasion and his struggle to find his wife in the devastation. This is a new one for…
🎧A Killer in the Family by Peter Ross Range | Narrated by: Robert McCollum
Bradford Bishop had it all: a beautiful wife, three towhead sons, a nice home in a quiet Maryland suburb, and a promising career in the US State Department. But on March 1, 1976, he threw it all away. After finding out he’d been passed over for a promotion, Bishop snapped. He went home and, in…
🎧Inside Broadmoor by Jonathan Levi and Emma French | Narrated By Karl Jenkinson
Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK’s most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect…
🎧The Darkwater Bride by Marty Ross | Narrated by a Full Cast
Late Victorian London. When James Miller, the most respectable of Scottish businessmen, is pulled, dead, from the Thames, his daughter is drawn into an investigation which reveals a whole world of secrets and corruption. Alongside local detective Culley, Catriona’s search for her father’s killer leads all the way to the tragic truth behind the ghostly…
At the End of the World is a Book 