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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Murders Unsolved: Cases That Have Baffled the Authorities for Years Subtitle: Murder, Scandals, and Mayhem, Book 3 Author: Mike Riley Narrator: Paul Aulridge Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 12-29-14 Publisher: Maica International LLC Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: Murders Unsolved is a collection of the most baffling cases of murder from around the world during the last century. From the murder of Marilyn Reese Sheppard, the possible basis for the TV show and movie The Fugitive, to the sad and lonely Boy in The Box, and from the cruel murder of Dian Fossey to the still unsolved case of young Amber Hagerman that brought about today's Amber Alert system, these cases are confusing, irritating, and still unsolved! Learn more about the murders of: Listen to the backstories of these cases, the possible suspects, the fumbled investigations, and other incredible facts and theories surrounding them. Also included are any current updates on the cases and where they stand today. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: God'll Cut You Down Subtitle: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi Author: John Safran Narrator: Tom Bromhead Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 11-28-14 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 44 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: God'll Cut You Down combines an unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson. A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came to light. Maybe it was a dispute over money rather than race - or, maybe and intriguingly, over sex. John Safran, a young white Jewish Australian documentarian, had been in Mississippi and interviewed Barrett for a film on race. When he learned of Barrett's murder, he returned to find out what happened and became caught up in the twists and turns of the case. During his time in Mississippi, Safran got deeper and deeper into this gothic southern world, becoming entwined in the lives of those connected with the murder - white separatist frenemies, black lawyers, police investigators, oddball neighbors, the stunned families, even the killer himself. And the more he talked with them, the less simple the crime - and the people involved - seemed to be. In the end, he discovered how profoundly and indelibly complex the truth about someone's life - and death - can be. This is a brilliant, haunting, hilarious, unsettling story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South from an outsider's point of view. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Laundry Man Subtitle: The Jack Shepherd International Crime Novels, Book 1 Author: Jake Needham Narrator: Fred Filbrich Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-14 Publisher: Jake Raymond Needham Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: Once a high-flying international lawyer, a member of the innermost circles of government power, Jack Shepherd has abandoned the savage politics of Washington for the lethargic backwater of Bangkok, where he is now just an unremarkable professor at an unimportant university in an insignificant city. Or is he? A secretive Asian bank collapses under dubious circumstances. A former law partner Shepherd thought dead reveals himself as the force behind the disgraced bank and coerces Shepherd into helping him track the hundreds of millions of dollars that disappeared in the collapse. A twisting trail of deceit leads Shepherd from Bangkok to Hong Kong and eventually to an isolated villa on the fabled island of Phuket where he confronts the evil at the heart of a monstrous game of international treachery. A lawyer among people who laugh at the law, a friend in a land where todays allies are tomorrows fugitives, Jack Shepherd battles the global tide of corruption, extortion and murder that is fast engulfing the new life he has made for himself in Thailand. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel Subtitle: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China Author: Pin Ho, Wenguang Huang Narrator: James Chen Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 02-08-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to Chinas new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family - the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bos secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bos supporters; the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, Bos wife - was just the first rumble of a seismic power struggle that continues to rock the very foundation of Chinas all-powerful Communist Party. By the time it is over, the machinations in Beijing and throughout the country that began with Bos fall could affect Chinas economic development and disrupt the worlds political and economic order. Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang have pieced together the details of this fascinating political drama from firsthand reporting and an unrivaled array of sources, some very high in the Chinese government. This was the first scandal in China to play out in the international media - details were leaked, sometimes invented, to non-Chinese news outlets as part of the power plays that rippled through the government. The attempt to manipulate the Western media, especially, was a fundamental dimension to the story, and one that affected some of the early reporting. A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel returns to the scene of the crime and shows not only what happened in Room 1605 but how the threat of the story was every bit as important in the life and death struggle for power that followed. It touched celebrities and billionaires and redrew the cast of the new leadership of the Communist Party. The ghost of Neil Heywood haunts China to this day. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - and Other True Cases Subtitle: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Book 12 Author: Ann Rule Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 01-13-14 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 102 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: Real-life murder. Real-life mystery. In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule, America's #1 best-selling true-crime writer. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are shrouded in smoke and mirrors, and when criminals skillfully evade law enforcement in a maddening cat-and-mouse chase? Even the most devoted true-crime listener won't predict the outcome of these truly baffling cases until the conclusions revealed in Ann Rule's marvelously insightful narrative. An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars... A modest preacher's wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument - but there's more to her shattering story than meets the eye. These and other true cases are analyzed with stunning clarity in a collection you won't be able to stop listening to. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases Subtitle: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Book 15 Author: Ann Rule Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Abridged Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: I'll be watching you... Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent - a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but dont look behind you . . . run. Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling account of unknowingly befriending sadistic sociopath Ted Bundy in The Stranger Beside Me, chronicles other fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection, fifteenth in the best-selling series drawn from her personal files. First in line is a stunning case that spanned thirty years and took a determined detective to four states - ending, finally, in Alaska - where he unraveled not one but two murders. A second case appears to begin and end with the hunt for the Green River Killer, focusing on a Washington State man who was once cleared as a suspect in that deadly chain of homicides. But the millionaire property owner believed he had successfully buried his own murderous past and the awful truth behind his young wifes disappearance. She vanished soon after she left for a day at the Seattle Worlds Fair, and her three small children grew up believing their mother had abandoned them. But one amazing witness remained - the missing womans best friend, who heard her last words in a frantic phone call - Hes coming! - before the line went dead. Only since Robert Hansens suicide has the monster within been revealed. In another true story, a petite woman went to a tavern, looking only for conversation and fun. Instead, she met violent death in the form of a seven-foot man who had seemed shy and harmless. Youll feel a chill as you uncover these and numerous other cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: Trusting the wrong person - even someone theyd known intimately, or thought they knew. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases Subtitle: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Book 15 Author: Ann Rule Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 113 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: I'll be watching you. Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent - a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but dont look behind you . . . run. Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling account of unknowingly befriending sadistic sociopath Ted Bundy in The Stranger Beside Me, chronicles other fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection, fifteenth in the best-selling series drawn from her personal files. First in line is a stunning case that spanned thirty years and took a determined detective to four states - ending, finally, in Alaska - where he unraveled not one but two murders. A second case appears to begin and end with the hunt for the Green River Killer, focusing on a Washington State man who was once cleared as a suspect in that deadly chain of homicides. But the millionaire property owner believed he had successfully buried his own murderous past and the awful truth behind his young wifes disappearance. She vanished soon after she left for a day at the Seattle Worlds Fair, and her three small children grew up believing their mother had abandoned them. But one amazing witness remained - the missing womans best friend, who heard her last words in a frantic phone call - Hes coming! - before the line went dead. Only since Robert Hansens suicide has the monster within been revealed. In another true story, a petite woman went to a tavern, looking only for conversation and fun. Instead, she met violent death in the form of a seven-foot man who had seemed shy and harmless. Youll feel a chill as you uncover these and numerous other cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: Trusting the wrong person - even someone theyd known intimately, or thought they knew. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Bad Girls Author: M. William Phelps Narrator: J. Charles Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 09-03-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 24 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: "Phelps's writing reads like a mystery novel." Suspense Magazine The crime stunned quiet Mineral Wells, Texas: 49-year-old Bob Dow shot execution-style in his own bed, his invalid mother locked in the next room - and a cache of homemade porn, starring the town's underage girls. The two accused killers - teen lovers Bobbi Jo Smith and Jennifer Jones - were on the run, intent on going out in a cross-country blaze of glory. M. William Phelps exposes a gripping tale of sexploitation, lust, and betrayal, while questioning the court's fateful verdict in a tantalizing forensic puzzle. Were both girls equally guilty of murder? Or was one merely a pawn in the other's dainty, blood-stained hands? "One of America's finest true-crime writers." Vincent Bugliosi Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: No Regrets: And Other True Cases Subtitle: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Volume 11 Author: Ann Rule Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 08-22-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed into the soaring West Seattle Bridge, causing millions in damages; and following his inexplicable disappearance at age 80. Was he a suicide, a man broken by one costly misstep? Had he run off with a lifelong love? Or did a trail of gruesome evidence lead to the home Rolf shared with his wife, Ruth? On an island where everyone thought they knew their neighbors, the veneer of the Neslunds' marriage masked a convoluted case that took many years to solve. And, indeed, some still believe that the old sea captain will come home one day. "The Sea Captain" is a classic tale as blood chilling as murder itself. Along with six other equally riveting, detailed accounts of destruction and murder committed without conscience or regret, Ann Rule takes listeners into frightening places they never could have imagined in No Regrets. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Lost Girls Subtitle: An Unsolved American Mystery Author: Robert Kolker Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 07-09-13 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 463 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, in a compelling tale of unsolved murder and Internet prostitution. One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert, after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life, went missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought much about what had happened to the 24-year-old: She was a Craigslist prostitute who had been fleeing a scene - of what, no one could be sure. The Suffolk County Police, too, seemed to have paid little attention - until seven months later, when an unexpected discovery in a bramble alongside a nearby highway turned up four bodies, all evenly spaced, all wrapped in burlap. But none of them Shannan's. There was Maureen Brainard-Barnes, last seen at Penn Station in Manhattan three years earlier, and Melissa Barthelemy, last seen in the Bronx in 2009. There was Megan Waterman, last seen leaving a hotel in Hauppage, Long Island, just a month after Shannan's disappearance in 2010, and Amber Lynn Costello, last seen leaving a house in West Babylon a few months later that same year. Like Shannan, all four women were petite and in their 20s, they all came from out of town to work as escorts, and they all advertised on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage. In a triumph of reporting - and in a riveting narrative - Robert Kolker presents the first detailed look at the shadow world of escorts in the Internet age, where making a living is easier than ever and the dangers remain all too real. He has talked exhaustively with the friends and family of each woman to reveal the three-dimensional truths about their lives, the struggling towns they came from, and the dreams they chased. And he has gained unique access to the Oak Beach neighborhood that has found itself the focus of national media scrutiny - where the police have flailed, the body count has risen, and the neighbors have begun pointing fingers at one another. There, in a remote community, out of sight of the beaches and marinas scattered along the South Shore barrier islands, the women's stories come together in death and dark mystery. Lost Girls is a portrait not just of five women, but of unsolved murder in an idyllic part of America, of the underside of the Internet, and of the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Empty Promises Subtitle: And Other True Cases Author: Ann Rule Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 07-03-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 149 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful young wife, a rising star in America's top-ranked computer corporation, and a prosperous husband, the scion of a family building business. With an adorable son and a gorgeous home, the couple seemed to have it all. But a furtive evil permeated their days and nights, dragging them into a murky world of drugs, sordid sex, and con operations. In this realm, one of them would prove to be a virtual innocent, the other a manipulator with no conscience. Sudden, violent death brought their charade of a fairy-tale romance to a tragic end - with a brutal crime that might never have come to light were it not for the stubborn detectives and prosecutors whose fight for justice spanned an entire decade. Empty Promises recounts several other cases where the search for love brought only lies and betrayal - a cautionary primer, perhaps, for those who trust too much too soon. Powerful because they strike so close to home, the cases in Empty Promises will leave listeners shaken by the realities of love gone terribly - and fatally - wrong. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Shocking True Story Author: Gregg Olsen Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-13 Publisher: Crime Rant Classics Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: Kevin Ryan is a writer in the much-maligned genre of true crime who desperately needs a devious, over-the-top story for the subject of his next book. How else can he keep his wife Valeries roots dyed and keep himself from handing out taco samples at the local supermarket? When Kevin isn't Googling himself or spot checking his books' stock at stores around the country or online, hes bringing the hazards (ie, criminals and other crazies) of his job home to wife Val and twin daughters Taylor and Hayley. Kevin is on the hunt for the big one, the story that could break him out of the mid-list and onto the bestseller lists. And then theres a knock at the door - a story finds him... A distraught 20-year old Jett Carter shows up at the Ryan house because her mother and sister are imprisoned - perhaps if Kevin writes their story and reveals the truth, he might help exonerate them. The Carters' tale is the perfect white-trash-attempted-murder-love-triangle that Kevins editor will love and his fans will devour. He begins to write "Love You to Death." Then on a beautiful summer day, the wheels of homicide are set in motion and Kevins own story begins to eclipse the crime he is chronicling. When his #1 fan is murdered and another body turns up, the Ryans life in Port Gamble and all that Kevin holds dear is in jeopardy. Somewhere in "Love You to Death" and within the "bunch of low rent losers" he's interviewing is the killer. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Empty Promises and Other True Cases Subtitle: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Book 7 Author: Ann Rule Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Abridged Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 06-12-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 22 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful young wife, a rising star in America's top-ranked computer corporation, and a prosperous husband, the scion of a family building business. With an adorable son and a gorgeous home, the couple seemed to have it all. But a furtive evil permeated their days and nights, dragging them into a murky world of drugs, sordid sex, and con operations. In this realm, one of them would prove to be a virtual innocent, the other a manipulator with no conscience. Sudden, violent death brought their charade of a fairy-tale romance to a tragic end - with a brutal crime that might never have come to light were it not for the stubborn detectives and prosecutors whose fight for justice spanned an entire decade. Empty Promises recounts several other cases where the search for love brought only lies and betrayal - a cautionary primer, perhaps, for those who trust too much too soon. Powerful because they strike so close to home, the cases in Empty Promises will leave listeners shaken by the realities of love gone terribly - and fatally - wrong. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Rage to Kill and Other True Cases Subtitle: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Volume 6 Author: Ann Rule Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Abridged Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 06-12-13 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her best-selling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out at innocent victims. Torn from the headlines, here is the case that shocked a nation: the Seattle city bus ride that turned to mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. Ann Rule unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. The catastrophe left three dead - including Cool - and dozens injured. While the scene unfolds as in a terrifying movie, Rule finds very real answers to the haunting question How could this happen? - and expertly constructs the unseen chain of events that resulted in an explosive and shattering tragedy. Included here are six other sensational cases that illuminate Rule's unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. No one can match Rule's meticulous research, or reveal the motives to murder in such explicit and chilling detail. You may think you know who is safe and who is dangerous; in A Rage to Kill, Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Millionaire's Wife Subtitle: The True Story of a Real Estate Tycoon, his Beautiful Young Mistress, and a Marriage that Ended in Murder Author: Cathy Scott Narrator: Joell A. Jacob Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 06-07-13 Publisher: Cathy Scott Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime Publisher's Summary: The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, 49-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art dealer. Until one morning in 1990, when George was approached on the street by an unidentified gunman - and was killed in cold blood. Before the shooting, George had been on the way to his girlfriends's apartment. Mary-Louise Hawkins was 28 years old and had once worked as George's publicist. But ever since they became lovers, George's estranged wife, Barbara, was consumed with bitterness. As she and George hashed out a divorce, Barbara fueled her anger into greed - especially after a judge turned down her request for $5,000 a week in alimony. Barbara, who stood to collect $4.3 million in life insurance, was immediately suspected in George's death. But it would take authorities almost 20 years to uncover a link between her lawyer, Manuel Martinez, and the hitman who killed George. In 2010, Martinez agreed to testify against his client... and Barbara eventually pled guilty to charges of grand larceny, conspiracy to commit murder, and murder in the first degree. This is the shocking true story of The Millionaire's Wife. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com