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 : Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
Peformed By : Marguerite Gavin
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
8 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Horror & Suspense
Download Price : $32.95 $16.95
When a young woman from the Refuge, a shelter for homeless women, is found murdered in the alley, Sister Mary Helen goes to work searching for clues. Listeners will be happy to find that age doesn'... More info...
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Written By : Agatha Christie
Peformed By : Hugh Fraser
Published By : Harper Collins UK
6 hours 40 minutes
Categories : Detective Crime Horror & Suspense Thrillers
Download Price : $20.49
At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found. More info...
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Written By : Kirk Mitchell
Peformed By : Dick Hill
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
13 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Horror & Suspense
Download Price : $39.95 $26.95
FBI Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problem... More info...
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Written By : Agatha Christie
Peformed By : David Suchet
Published By : Harper Collins UK
2 hours 20 minutes
Categories : Detective Crime Horror & Suspense Detective Thrillers
Download Price : $16.99
David Suchet, Poirot to perfection, returns with five further short stories taken from the collection entitled 'Poirot's Early Cases'. More info...
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Written By : Michael Hemmington
Peformed By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Wollcott & Sheridan Aural Performance Library
41 minutes
Categories : Romance Horror & Suspense Horror & Suspense Horror & Suspense Dramatizations
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One night, while dumping a corpse in a swamp, a killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror. 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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