Griff Burkett was a school-of-hard-knocks kid, abandoned by his mother, adopted by his highschool football coach. Under his tutelage, Griff earned a scholarship to play college ball and then a multimillion dollar contract with the Dallas Cowboys. Griff had a good heart, but his achilles heel was his arrogance, and his gambling. At the end of his career, deep in debt, a local organized crime kingpin offers him a chance to resolve his loans by throwing a game. Griff agrees, and walks straight into an FBI sting.
After serving time, Griff finds only closed doors. Then he is summoned to the mansion of eccentric millionaire airline owner Foster Speakman. Speakman, a recluse since a car accident left him crippled, is impotent. He offers Griff half a million dollars to impregnate his wife Laura -- discreetly, and with manifold rules. One of which is, if Griff succeeds, he will leave town and never see his child as long as he lives.
Griff has few options. He's still hounded by Detective Stanley Rodarte, who organized the gambling sting, and seems set upon ruining Griff's life. Griff has little means of earning a living, no family, and few friends. So he agrees. Only to quickly realize he's been set up...
Written By : Agatha Christie
Peformed By : Hugh Fraser
Published By : Harper Collins UK
6 hours
Categories : Detective Crime Horror & Suspense Detective Thrillers
Price : $18.75
Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor’s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, and died... More info...
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Written By : Stuart Woods
Peformed By : Debra Monk
Published By : Harper Collins US
5 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Detective Crime Detective Thrillers
Price : $24.95 $14.95
Smart, attractive, and fiercely independent, Major Holly Barker has been forced into early retirement at the age of thirty-seven as the result of a scandalous sexual harassment case. More info...
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Written By : Kate White
Peformed By : Kate Walsh
Published By : Hachette Audio
5 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Detective Detective Crime Thrillers
Price : $26.98 $18.99
Bailey could be the headline of the next true crime story: Four Funerals and a Wedding! More info...
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Written By : Agatha Christie
Peformed By : Nigel Hawthorne and Hugh Fraser
Published By : Harper Collins UK
2 hours
Categories : Detective Crime Horror & Suspense Detective Thrillers
Price : $20.49
Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases – Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man’s Mirror and Triangle at Rhodes – each a classic of characterisation, incident and suspense. More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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