Darlene Allen has narrated 20 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Fallen Angels.
Fallen Angels
Summary
Transplanted Boston Brahmin, Mercy Allcutt, has had some very exciting times as secretary to private investigator, Ernie Templeton. While it’s true she’s been in what she considers a wee bit of trouble (and Ernie considers out-and-out danger) a time or two, she’s determined to continue learning the ways of the “real” world. However, when she sets out to find her wandering boss, Ernie, one hot September afternoon, she not only discovers a corpse, but she also finds Ernie, bound and gagged. Worse, when the police arrive to investigate the crime, they peg Ernie as the killer. Well, Mercy isn’t about to let them get away with that, no matter how many times Ernie tells her to butt out of the police inquiry. The only question is whether she’ll survive her investigatorial efforts once again, or if she’ll become one more “Fallen Angel.”
©2011, 2012 Alice Duncan (P)2014 Alice Duncan
The Ghost Private Eye
Summary
Detectives Alexandra Winter and Jack Daniels have been close friends and partners ever since they started working at the San Diego Police Department. In fact, on their latest case there's only one thing separating them: the fact that Alexandra's been murdered by their main suspect. But that doesn't mean either of them have stopped in their hunt for the killer...
©2013 Devlin Church (P)2014 Banty Hen Publishing
Gertrude, Gumshoe Cozy Mystery Series Box Set: Books 4, 5, and 6
Summary
She's uncouth, uncooperative, and somehow - unstoppable.
In audiobooks four through six, Gertrude tears all over Maine trying to find crimes to solve. She adds another "assistant" to her team, competes in poetry slams, tries to use a handgun, tracks down an ex-spook, and hunts down a ghost.
Will Deputy Hale put an end to her unconventional (illegal) investigative methods? Will Calvin share his true feelings with someone? Will Gertrude figure out who the mysterious Dave really is?
Download today and find out!
©2018 Robin Merrill (P)2018 Robin Merrill
A Slaying in the Orchard
Summary
From USA Today best-selling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes "fresh" new mystery.... Labor Day weekend starts with a bang in Danger Cove when a dead body is found in the orchard of Maria Dolores' mentor and maybe-boyfriend, Merle! While it's clear the murder took place long ago, the police are still keeping Merle tied up, leaving Maria on her own to run the local farmers' market. She's prepared for the petty squabbles, disorganized vendors, and even a rowdy group of costumed pirates - it comes with the territory. But she isn't prepared for the fresh body found in an isolated corner of the market! Maria would like to leave the investigation to the local homicide detective, but he's stretched thin with two separate murders, and her nemesis - the farmer who lost out to her for the manager's job - is demanding quick answers or else. With a nearly endless array of suspects, since the victim had upset just about everyone at the market, Maria has her work cut out for her! Can she prevent another murder in the market...or will she end up the next victim? The Danger Cove series: Secret of the Painted Lady (a Danger Cove Renovation Mystery) Murder and Mai Tais (a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) Death by Scones (a Danger Cove Bakery Mystery) Four-Patch of Trouble (a Danger Cove Quilting Mystery) Deadly Dye and a Soy Chai (a Danger Cove Hair Salon Mystery) Killer Closet Case (a Danger Cove B&B Mystery) Tree of Life and Death (a Danger Cove Quilting Mystery) A Killing in the Market (a Danger Cove Farmers' Market short story in the "Killer Beach Reads" collection) Killer Colada (a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) Passion, Poison & Puppy Dogs (a Danger Cove Pet Sitter Mystery) A Novel Death (a Danger Cove Bookshop Mystery) Robbing Peter to Kill Paul (a Danger Cove Quilting Mystery) Sinister Snickerdoodles (a Danger Cove Bakery Mystery) Hurricanes and Heroes (a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) A Death in the Flower Garden (a Danger Cove Famers' Market Mystery) Divas, Diamonds & Death (a Danger Cove Pet Sitter Mystery) A Slaying in the Orchard (a Danger Cove Famers' Market Mystery) A Secret in the Pumpkin Patch (a Danger Cove Famers' Market Mystery) Deadly Dirty Martinis (a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) A Poison Manicure and Peach Liqueur (a Danger Cove Hair Salon Mystery)
©2017 Gin Jones (P)2018 Gin Jones
Sherlock and Me: The Case of the Starry Night
Summary
Irrepressible. Different. Tenacious. Meet Lucy James, PI in training. Lucy can't seem to finish college and seems stuck in her movie theater job. But she's always been good at figuring out puzzles and a big one drops right in her lap in the shape of an umbrella left behind one rainy night. It turns out something's very wrong at the local art museum and with her best friend, Cindy, and trusty dog, Baskerville, she attempts to find out what. With a little help from her mentor, Sherlock Holmes, Lucy weaves her way through a complicated maze of danger with the occasional spider stepping in to ratchet up the stakes. She meets handsome professor, Eric, along the way and falls for him knowing full well he could be the culprit in the web she's entangled in. Nancy Drew has nothing on this girl, but will her meddling cause trouble to come crashing down on them all?
©2016 Sinda Slagle (P)2017 Sinda Slagle
A Secret in the Pumpkin Patch
Summary
From USA Today best-selling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes a hauntingly good mystery.... It's Halloween, and Maria Dolores is hoping for a trouble-free weekend, the last one before the Lighthouse Farmers' Market closes for the winter. But her hopes are dashed when a state agricultural inspector threatens to shut down the market prematurely...right before a young woman falls to her death from the lighthouse cliff! The local homicide detective thinks it was suicide and won't listen to Maria's extensive list of possible suspects for foul play or the fact that the victim was known for getting into fights that went beyond mere words. Not even Maria's boyfriend, lawyer turned farmer Merle Curtis, can convince the detective otherwise. Now, it's up to Maria to unearth a secret in the pumpkin patch before the killer buries the truth - and possibly Maria along with it - forever. The Danger Cove series: Secret of the Painted Lady (A Danger Cove Renovation Mystery) Murder and Mai Tais (A Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) Death by Scones (A Danger Cove Bakery Mystery) Four-Patch of Trouble (A Danger Cove Quilting Mystery) Deadly Dye and a Soy Chai (A Danger Cove Hair Salon Mystery) Killer Closet Case (A Danger Cove B&B Mystery) Tree of Life and Death (A Danger Cove Quilting Mystery) A Killing in the Market (A Danger Cove Farmers' Market short story in the "Killer Beach Reads" collection) Killer Colada (A Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) Passion, Poison & Puppy Dogs (A Danger Cove Pet Sitter Mystery) A Novel Death (A Danger Cove Bookshop Mystery) Robbing Peter to Kill Paul (A Danger Cove Quilting Mystery) Sinister Snickerdoodles (A Danger Cove Bakery Mystery) Hurricanes and Heroes (A Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) A Death in the Flower Garden (A Danger Cove Famers' Market Mystery) Divas, Diamonds & Death (A Danger Cove Pet Sitter Mystery) A Slaying in the Orchard (A Danger Cove Famers' Market Mystery) A Secret in the Pumpkin Patch (A Danger Cove Famers' Market Mystery) Deadly Dirty Martinis (A Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery) A Poison Manicure and Peach Liqueur (A Danger Cove Hair Salon Mystery)
©2017 Gin Jones (P)2018 Gin Jones
Gertrude, Gumshoe Cozy Mystery Box Set: Books 1, 2, and 3
Summary
The first three installments in the hilarious Gertrude, Gumshoe cozy mystery series collected for you in one place!
Introducing Gertrude, Gumshoe
Gertrude has been called a lot of things: a hoarder, an odd duck, and a crazy cat lady - but she’s never been called a gumshoe. Until now. When her neighbor goes missing, she can’t help but get involved, no matter how many people ask her not to.
Gertrude, Gumshoe: Murder at Goodwill
Gertrude is back! When she finds a murder victim at her local Goodwill, she tries to tell the sheriff’s department everything she knows. Of course, they don’t listen. So of course, she must solve the mystery herself. And the only way she can figure to do this is to go undercover - as the Mattawooptock Goodwill’s newest team member. Anyone who knows Gertrude knows this probably isn’t the best idea. She’ll probably get fired. Or arrested. Or worse.
Gertrude, Gumshoe and the VardSale Villain
Samantha Cooper is missing, and her boyfriend is desperate to find her. Desperate enough to hire Gertrude, Gumshoe. Thrilled to have her first real client, Gertrude gets right to work. But is she really ready for a real case? Can she catch a kidnapper without getting herself kidnapped?
©2018 Robin Merrill (P)2018 Robin Merrill
A Death in the Flower Garden
Summary
From USA Today best-selling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes a brand new mystery.... It's Independence Day weekend, and Maria Dolores, the descendant of Danger Cove's first lighthouse keeper, is the new manager of the Lighthouse Farmers' Market. While she may be a bit uncertain about her career change - trading financial planning for flower stalls and farm-fresh produce - she's still determined to get the market into shape and onto one of the region's "best-of" lists. From the very beginning, though, events conspire against her. Her mentor and attractive local farmer, Merle Curtis, fails to show up to introduce her to the vendors, the stalls are all in the wrong place, and an earthquake shakes up everyone in the market! In its aftermath, Maria realizes the flower vendor is more than shaken up.... She's dead. Maria suddenly finds herself embroiled in a small-town mystery that's got everyone on edge. Will it all lead to the end of Maria's new career? Or worse yet...her life?
©2017 Gin Jones (P)2017 Gin Jones
Fall to Pieces
Summary
When a quilting event falls to pieces, Beatrice works to patch things up. Dappled Hills quilters are eagerly anticipating new events at the Patchwork Cottage quilt shop. The shop’s owner, Posy, has announced "Sew and Tell" socials and a mystery quilt group project. But one day, instead of emailed quilt instructions, the quilters receive a disturbing message about a fellow quilter. When that quilter mysteriously meets her maker, Beatrice decides to use her sleuthing skills to find the killer before more lives are cut short.
©2017 Elizabeth Spann Craig (P)2020 Elizabeth Spann Craig
Angels of Mercy
Summary
Former Boston Brahmin Mercy Allcutt is excited to be renting out suites of rooms to deserving working women in her new home on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. She considers she's performing an act of good-heartedness, no matter skeptical her boss, private investigator Ernie Templeton, is about her endeavor. When her housekeeper's son is arrested for the murder of a Hollywood big-wig, Mercy presses Ernie to solve the case. She's positive Calvin Buck is innocent. Ernie tells her he'll do his best. She's not entirely convinced he means it, so she does some snooping on her own. In the meantime, Mercy not only takes driving lessons from Ernie, but she discovers there's more to being a landlady than meets the eye. Is one of her Angels of Mercy not what she appears to be? Only time, and perhaps Mercy and Ernie, will tell . . .
©2012 Alice Duncan (P)2014 Alice Duncan
Patch of Trouble
Summary
When it comes to solving cold cases, nothing is ever cut and dried…. Quilter Beatrice Coleman is enjoying the sleepy peace of a tranquil afternoon…until it’s interrupted by her friend, Miss Sissy. The elderly lady is making wild claims about narrowly escaping an intruder. And intruders are unusual in tiny Dappled Hills. Miss Sissy isn’t the most reliable of witnesses, and her claims are swiftly discounted - until her mysterious intruder is found dead. Beatrice won’t cut corners as she unravels the threads of both a murder and a puzzling disappearance from decades ago.
©2016 Elizabeth Spann Craig (P)2018 Elizabeth Spann Craig
Introducing Gertrude, Gumshoe
Summary
Gertrude has been called a lot of things: a hoarder, an odd duck, and a crazy cat lady - but she's never been called a gumshoe. Until now. When her neighbor goes missing, she can't help but get involved, no matter how many people ask her not to.
©2016 Robin Merrill (P)2016 Robin Merrill
Angel's Flight
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It's a warm August morning in 1926 Los Angeles, California. Mercedes Louise Allcutt (Mercy to her friends) is thrilled to be going to her job as secretary to private investigator Ernie Templeton - until she opens the door and discovers her mother on the doorstep. Known to her friends as Honoria and her daughters as The Wrath of God, Mrs. Allcutt is the very last person earth whom Mercy wants to see, barring a couple of coldblooded murderers she's met in the past few weeks. But that's only the beginning of Mercy's latest adventure. Add a couple of phony spiritualists, a Hollywoodland gossip columnist who gets bumped off during a seance, a semi-famous starlet, and several other colorful characters, and Mercy Manages to find herself in very deep waters indeed.
©2009 Alice Duncan (P)2013 Alice Duncan
Gertrude, Gumshoe: Slam is Murder
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There just isn't enough crime in Mattawooptock, so Gertrude has to convince Calvin to go to the big city - Portland, where she will go undercover as the newest slam poet on the scene. But have any actual crimes been committed, or is this just Gertrude's wild imagination at work?
©2017 Robin Merrill (P)2017 Robin Merrill
Gertrude, Gumshoe and the VardSale Villain
Summary
Samantha Cooper is missing and her boyfriend is desperate to find her. Desperate enough to hire Gertrude, Gumshoe. Thrilled to have her first real client, Gertrude gets right to work. But is she really ready for a real case? Can she catch a kidnapper without getting herself kidnapped?
©2017 Robin Merrill (P)2017 Robin Merrill
Gertrude, Gumshoe and the Clearwater Curse
Summary
Twenty years ago, a teenager drowned in Clearwater Lake. Now, her ghost is haunting its shores. Gertrude knows there's no such thing as ghosts, and she's going to prove it - even if it means spending some time in the water herself.
©2018 Robin Merrill (P)2018 Robin Merrill
Gertrude, Gumshoe: Gunslinger City
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Gertrude's never been so busy. There's been a murder at a Wild West theme park, and Gertrude is on the scene. But she can't stay long, because there's been another murder in Mattawooptock. To complicate matters, Deputy Hale has lost his patience with her eccentric sleuthing. Can she avoid his handcuffs long enough to solve a murder? Or two?
©2018 Robin Merrill (P)2018 Robin Merrill
Thanksgiving Angels
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Thanksgiving Angels brings Mercy Allcutt and Daisy Gumm Majesty together for the first time when Mercy's parents buy a winter home in Pasadena, CA, and force Mercy to visit for Thanksgiving. To Mercy's shock, Mrs. Allcutt hosts a séance, conducted by Daisy. Mayhem ensues.
©2015 Alice Duncan (P)2015 Alice Duncan
Lost Among the Angels
Summary
Historical cozy mystery set in Los Angeles, CA, in 1926. Mercy Allcutt, Boston Brahmin, wants to experience life in all its grittiness. How better than by working for a down-on-his luck PI in Hollywood? Once she discovers what PI actually stands for, she knows Mr. Ernest Templeton is the boss for her. Raised in the ivory tower of proper Boston, when well-bred Mercy gets a job with Ernest Templeton, Private Investigator, she's ecstatic. Ernie, a jaded ex-cop, is incredulous. Together, they must cope with a stray child, kidnapping, blackmail, murder, a toy poodle, a vamp, a stalker, Mercy's overactive imagination and Ernie's strong protective streak. Throw in a speakeasy, Chinatown, and a couple of down-and-dirty criminals, and Mercy and Ernie are in for a drama that will put the motion picture industry to shame...if they can survive long enough to tell the story.
©2006 (print) 2009 (e-book) Alice Duncan (P)2013 Alice Duncan
Gertrude, Gumshoe: Murder at Goodwill
Summary
Gertrude is back! When she finds a murder victim at her local Goodwill, she tries to tell the sheriff's department everything she knows. Of course, they don't listen. So of course, she must solve the mystery herself. And the only way she can figure to do this is to go undercover - as the Mattawooptock Goodwill's newest team member. Anyone who knows Gertrude know this probably isn't the best idea. She'll probably get fired. Or arrested. Or worse.
©2016 Robin Merrill (P)2017 Robin Merrill