Elaine Wise has narrated 48 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 34 ratings. The most-rated is Riley Paige Mystery Bundle.
Blake Pierce: Mystery Bundle
Summary
A two-book mystery bundle by number one best-selling author Blake Pierce, author of Once Gone, a number one best seller on Amazon with over 350 five-star reviews! Here is a bundle of the first books in two Blake Pierce series - the Mackenzie White and Avery Black series - all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Blake Pierce's series.... In Before He Kills (A Mackenzie White Mystery, Book 1), a woman is found murdered in the cornfields of Nebraska, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn't take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose - and that his spree has just begun. Detective Mackenzie White, young, tough, smarter than the aging, chauvinistic men on her local force, finds herself called in grudgingly to help solve it. As much as the other officers hate to admit it, they need her young, brilliant mind, which has already helped crack cold cases that had left them stumped. Yet even for Mackenzie, this new case proves an impossible riddle, something the likes of which she - and the local force - have ever seen. With the FBI called in, together, an intense manhunt ensues. Mackenzie, reeling from her own dark past, her failed relationships, and her undeniable attraction to the new FBI agent, finds herself battling her own demons as her hunt for the killer takes her to the darkest places of her mind. In Cause to Kill (An Avery Black Mystery, Book 1), Homicide Detective Avery Black has been through hell. Once a top criminal defense attorney, she fell from grace when she managed to get a brilliant Harvard professor off - only to watch him kill again. She lost her husband and her daughter, and her life fell apart around her. Trying to redeem herself, Avery has turned to the other side of the law. Working her way up the ranks, she has reached Homicide Detective, to the scorn of her fellow officers, who still remember what she did, and who will always hate her. Yet even they cannot deny Avery's brilliant mind, and when a disturbing serial killer strikes fear into the heart of Boston, killing girls from elite colleges, it is Avery that they turn to. It is Avery's chance to prove herself, to finally find the redemption she craves. And yet, as she is soon to find out, Avery has come up against a killer as brilliant and daring as she. Dark psychological thrillers with heart-pounding suspense, Before He Kills and Cause to Kill mark the debut of riveting new series - and beloved new characters - that will leave you listening late into the night!
©2020 Blake Pierce (P)2020 Blake Pierce
A Trace of Murder
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"A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go." -Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone) From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. In A Trace of Murder (Book #2 in the Keri Locke mystery series), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter. Encouraged by the new lead that has landed, the first in years, she pursues it with all that she has, determined to find her daughter and bring her back alive. Yet Keri, at the same time, receives a phone call from a frantic husband, a famed Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who reports that his wife has been missing for two days. A wealthy socialite with no enemies and little reason to leave her life, he fears the worst has become of his wife. Keri takes on the case, assigned a new partner whom she hates, as Ray still recovers in the hospital. Her investigation leads her deep into the elite Beverly Hills world of the idle rich, to encounters with lonely housewives, and those with shopping-addicted, empty lives. Keri, in over her head in this world, becomes increasingly puzzled by the conflicting signals: did this woman, with a stalker and a lurid, secret past, run away, or was she abducted? Or did something far more sinister happen? A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, A Trace of Murder is book #2 in a riveting new series—and a beloved new character—that will leave you turning pages late into the night. "A masterpiece of thriller and mystery! The author did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side that is so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. The plot is very intelligent and will keep you entertained throughout the book. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page." --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re: Once Gone) Book #3 in the Keri Locke series will be available soon.
©2017 Blake Pierce (P)2017 Blake Pierce
If Only Forever
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35 year old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's historic, abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life and determined to make it a B&B. She had never expected, though, that her relationship with its caretaker, Daniel, would turn her life on its head. Emily is still reeling from Daniel's proposal. As all seems to finally fall into place in her life, she looks forward to an exciting engagement year ahead, from shopping for a venue and a wedding dress, to creating her invite list, to setting a date. But all does not goes as planned. The endless events of the engagement year add more stress than joy, putting pressure on their relationship as they are forced to make hard choices. Adjusting to life as parents doesn't make it any easier, as Chantelle runs into problems at school and as a custody battle looms over them. As Christmas and New Year's approach, the stress is only compounded. Meanwhile, as the B&B adds new guests and staff and as they find more priceless antiques, Emily discovers a shocking secret that just may bring her one step closer to finding her father. Will she and Daniel get married? Or will the stress of the engagement break them apart forever?
©2017 Sophie Love (P)2017 Sophie Love
Before He Sins
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From Blake Pierce, best-selling author of Once Gone, a #1 best-seller with over 900 five-star reviews, comes book seven in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series. In Before He Sins, priests are turning up dead, their bodies found crucified against church doors throughout Washington, DC. Could this be some sort of act of revenge? Could it be a member of their order? Or a serial killer, hunting priests with a far more diabolical motive? The FBI turns to special agent Mackenzie White, as the case bears a resemblance to the religious overtones of her first case, The Scarecrow Killer. Plunged into the subculture of the priesthood, Mackenzie struggles to learn more about the rituals, about ancient scripture, to try enter the killer’s mind. But Mackenzie is already preoccupied by her hunt for her father’s own murderer, determined to find him this time. And this new killer is more sinister than most, and will push her, in his deadly cat and mouse game, to the very brink of her own sanity. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Before He Sins is book seven in a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you turning pages late into the night. Also available by Blake Pierce is Once Gone: A Riley Paige Mystery, Book 1, a #1 best-seller with over 900 five-star reviews.
©2017 Blake Pierce (P)2018 Blake Pierce
Out of Water
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This is an invitation to drowning. These are the stories of things out of water - of sea bed deserts choked with ghosts; of the lonely, roving children of the fen. Here your garden grows below ground. You will be born into a cradle of your own bones, shadows will burst from your eyes, and your mouth will fill with thorns. Storms will twist inside you, and the ghosts of your past will follow you and chart your future. Here, things are out of place - ectopic and unviable - and you will mourn the unborn, those underwater things out of water.
©2019 Sarah Read (P)2020 Journalstone
Cause to Fear
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From number-one best-selling author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense: Cause to Fear. When a body turns up floating beneath the frozen Charles River, the Boston Police summons its most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black - to close the case. It doesn't take Avery long, however, to realize that this is no isolated murder: it is the work of a serial killer. Other bodies begin to turn up, all of them sharing one thing in common: all are trapped in ice. Is it all a coincidence - or the signature of a particularly deranged killer? As the media converges and Avery suffers pressure from her bosses, she struggles to crack the inexplicable case, too bizarre even for her brilliant mind. At the same time she tries to keep her own depression at bay, as her personal life spirals to a new low. And she does it all while trying to enter the mind of a psychotic and elusive killer. What she will find will shock even her, and make her realizes that nothing is what it seems - and that the worst darkness may sometimes be closest to us. A psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Cause to Fear is book four in a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you listening late into the night.
©2017 Blake Pierce (P)2017 Blake Pierce
Before He Takes
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From Blake Pierce, best-selling author of Once Gone (a number one best seller with over 800 five star reviews), comes book four in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series. In Before He Takes (A Mackenzie White Mystery - Book Four), newly minted FBI agent Mackenzie White is ordered to take on a new and disturbing case. Women are going missing in rural Iowa, and a pattern is emerging. It is feared a serial killer is on a rampage, his pace increasing. Given her Midwestern roots, Mackenzie is chosen as the perfect fit. But Mackenzie is reluctant to return to the Midwest, this time to a starkly rural setting that reminds her too much of her upbringing, of her own ghosts in her closet. She also seeks her own father's murderer, with darkness haunting her at every turn of her trip. Plunged deep into the world of farms, of silos, of slaughterhouses, of long stretches on empty highways, Mackenzie feels as if she's falling back into the depths of her psyche, and into the nightmares she always feared to face. In the deadly game of cat-and-mouse, she finally realizes the psychosis of the killer she is up against, and comes to realize that the land of her upbringing is holding even darker and more twisted horrors than she could imagine. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Before He Takes is book four in a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you listening late into the night. Book five in the Mackenzie White Mystery series will be available soon.
©2017 Blake Pierce (P)2017 Blake Pierce
The Inn at Sunset Harbor Bundle: Books 1 and 2
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This audiobook is a bundle of two books: For Now and Forever and Forever and for Always in Sophie Loves’s The Inn at Sunset Harbor series. This bundle offers the first two books in one audiobook, for hours of listening. In For Now and Forever, Emily Mitchell, 35, living and working in New York City, has struggled through a string of failed relationships. When her boyfriend of seven years takes her out for their long-awaited anniversary dinner, Emily is sure that this time will be different. That this time, she will finally get the ring. When he gives her a small bottle of perfume instead, Emily knows the time has come to break up with him and for her entire life to have a fresh start. Reeling from her unsatisfying, high-pressure life, Emily decides she needs a change. She decides on a whim to drive to her father’s abandoned home on the coast of Maine - a sprawling, historic house where she’d spent magical summers as a child. But the house, long-neglected, is in dire need of repair, and the winter is no time to be in Maine. Emily hasn’t been there in 20 years, when a tragic accident changed her sister’s life and shattered her family. Her parents divorced, her father disappeared, and Emily was never able to bring herself to step foot in that house again. In Forever and for Always, 35-year-old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment, and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life. Tapping her life savings to restore the historic home and with a budding relationship with the caretaker Daniel, Emily prepares to open the Inn at Sunset Harbor as Memorial Day comes. But all does not go as planned. Emily learns quickly that she has no idea how to run a B&B. The house, despite her efforts, needs new, urgent repairs she cannot afford. Her covetous neighbor is still determined to make trouble for her. And worst of all, just as her relationship with Daniel is blossoming, she learns he has a secret. One which will change everything. The Inn at Sunset Harbor is a dazzling new romance series that will make you laugh, cry, and listening late into the night. And it will make you fall in love with romance all over again.
©2019 Sophie Love (P)2020 Sophie Love
The Luck of the Bride
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One of Book Riot's "9 Not-To-Be-Missed Romances Hitting the Shelves this Summer" Can a woman who’s down on her luck find love with a dashing Duke-to-be? Find out in The Luck of the Bride, the next Regency romance in the Cavensham Heiresses series from Janna MacGregor. She's leaving nothing up to chance. Not even love… March Lawson is an orphan who, for the past eight years, has struggled to raise her siblings on a meager allowance. Most women March's age would be picking out ball gowns for the upcoming season. But March's focus is not on finding a husband. First, she must devote her energies to just one man: the coldhearted skinflint who refuses to release her inheritance. Michael Cavensham, the Marquess of McCalpin, is not a heartless man. When he learns that Miss Lawson has been forging his name to procure funds, he can't bring himself to have her arrested - not when the bold-faced embezzler is so enchantingly beautiful. Instead, McCalpin agrees to visit her home to assess the situation more closely. March has no choice but to accept. But how can she manage the handsome trustee who controls her purse strings - when he tugs at her heart strings as well?
©2018 JLWR LLC (P)2018 Journalstone Publishing
Cause to Save
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From number-one best-selling author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense: Cause to Save (An Avery Black Mystery, Book 5). In Cause to Save, serial killer Howard Randall has escaped, and the entire city of Boston is on edge. Women are turning up gruesomely murdered, and everyone suspects Howard is at it again. When Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black - is herself stalked - and when people close to her are brutally killed, one by one - it seems the city’s worst fears are confirmed. But Avery is not so sure. The murders remind her of something she once saw in her past. They remind her of something too close to her heart - something that had to do with a secret she thought she had buried long ago.... The most riveting and shocking book of the series, a psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Cause to Save will leave you listening late into the night.
©2019 Blake Pierce (P)2019 Blake Pierce
Once Solved
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Veteran FBI special agent Riley Paige, one of the FBI’s most brilliant and decorated agents, has devoted her life to hunting down serial killers. Suffering from PTSD, she now spends her time teaching other FBI agents, offering a window into the mind of serial killers. Battling her own demons and plagued by memories, she is ready to pass the baton and retire. Or, is she? The Riley Paige mystery series is a riveting new series with a beloved character that will leave you listening late into the night. Once Solved is a companion short story to the best-selling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the number one best seller Once Gone. Note: The 16 books in the Riley Paige series are available in e-book, print, and audiobook editions.
©2020 Blake Pierce (P)2020 Blake Pierce
Cause to Run
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A new serial killer is stalking Boston, killing his victims in bizarre ways, taunting the police with mysterious puzzles that reference the stars. As the stakes are upped and the pressure is on, the Boston Police Department is forced to call in its most brilliant - and most controversial - homicide detective: Avery Black. Avery, still reeling from her last case, finds herself up against a rival precinct and a brilliant, cunning killer who is always one step ahead of her. She is forced to enter his dark, twisted mind as he lays clues for his next killing, and forced to look into places in her own mind she would rather not go. She finds herself compelled to seek the counsel of Howard Randall, the twisted serial killer she'd put behind bars years ago, all while her new burgeoning life with Rose and Ramirez is falling apart. And just as things cannot get any worse, she finds out something else: she herself may be the target. In a game of psychological cat and mouse, a frantic race against time leads Avery through a series of shocking and unexpected twists - culminating in climax that even Avery could not imagine.
©2016 Blake Pierce (P)2016 Blake Pierce
Cause to Hide
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From number-one best-selling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense: Cause to Hide. Bodies are being found in the outskirts of Boston, their corpses burned beyond recognition, as the police realize a new serial killer is roaming the streets. As the media converges and the pressure is upped, the Boston Police Department must turn to its most brilliant - and controversial - homicide detective: Avery Black. Avery, still trying to pick up the pieces of her own life - her budding relationship with Ramirez, her reconciliation with Rose - suddenly finds herself thrown into the most challenging case of her career. With scant evidence to follow, she must enter the mind of a psychotic killer, try to understand his obsession with fire, and what clues that offers into his personality. Her trail leads her deep into Boston's worst neighborhoods, to confrontations with its worst psychopaths - and finally, to a twist she could never possibly imagine. In a game of psychological cat and mouse, a frantic race against time, Avery is led too deep into the maze of a killer's mind, and to places darker than she'd ever wish to see. A psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Cause to Hide is book three of a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you turning pages late into the night.
©2017 Blake Pierce (P)2017 Blake Pierce
Watching
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Watching: The Making of Riley Paige, Book One is the first audiobook in a new psychological thriller series by number-one best-selling author Blake Pierce. Twenty-two-year old psychology major - and aspiring FBI agent - Riley Paige finds herself in a battle for her life as her closest friends on campus are abducted and killed by a serial killer. She senses she, too, is being targeted - and that if she is to survive, she must apply her brilliant mind to stop the killer herself. When the FBI hits a dead end, they are impressed enough by Riley’s keen insight into the killer’s mind to allow her to help. Yet the killer’s mind is a dark, twisted place, one too diabolical to make sense of, and one that threatens to bring Riley’s fragile psyche crashing down. In this deadly game of cat and mouse, can Riley survive unscarred? An action-packed thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Watching is audiobook one in a riveting new series that will leave you listening late into the night. It takes listeners back 20-plus years - to how Riley’s career began - and is the perfect complement to the Once Gone series (A Riley Paige Mystery), which includes 13 titles and counting.
©2018 Blake Pierce (P)2018 Blake Pierce
Before He Covets
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From Blake Pierce, best-selling author of Once Gone (a number one best seller with over 600 five-star reviews), comes book three in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series. In Before He Covets, newly minted FBI agent Mackenzie White graduates the FBI Academy in Quantico only to find herself thrown into an urgent serial killer case. Women are turning up dead while camping in a remote national park in West Virginia. Yet the park is vast, and no connection can be found between them. At the same time, Mackenzie receives a call from Nebraska urging her to come home. After many years, a new clue has surfaced about her father's murder. The case no longer cold, Mackenzie desperately needs to help solve it. But the FBI's killer is ratcheting up, and there is no time for distraction as more women turn up missing in the psychological game of cat-and-mouse that follows. This killer is more diabolical - and smarter - than Mackenzie could have imagined. As she goes down a road she fears to travel - deep into her own psyche - she finds a double twist waiting for her that even she could not expect. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Before He Covets is book three in a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you listening late into the night.
©2016 Blake Pierce (P)2017 Blake Pierce
Cause to Dread
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From number one best-selling author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense - the Avery Black Series - which continues here with Cause to Dread (Book 6), also a standalone novel. The series begins with Cause to Kill (Book 1). A man turns up dead in his own apartment, locked in his closet, his body crawling with poisonous spiders, and the Boston police are stumped. As all of their leads collapse, they are dreading the killer will strike again. Desperate, the police have no choice but to turn to Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black. Now retired, Avery, in a low point in her own life, reluctantly agrees to help with the case. But when other bodies start turning up, murdered in grotesque and unusual ways, Avery can’t help but wonder: is there a serial killer on the loose? With the intense media pressure and the stress of having a new, inexperienced partner, Avery is pushed to her limit as she struggles to crack the bizarre cases - and to keep herself from falling into the abyss. Avery finds herself falling deeper and deeper into the twisted mind of the killer, who holds more secrets than Avery could imagine. The most riveting and shocking book of the series, a psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Cause to Dread will leave you resisting to pause late into the night.
©2018 Blake Pierce (P)2018 Blake Pierce
The Bone Weaver's Orchard
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He's run away home. That's what they say every time one of Charley Winslow's friends vanishes from The Old Cross School for Boys. It's just a tall tale. That's what they tell Charley when he sees the ragged grey figure stalking the abbey halls at night. When Charley follows his pet insects to a pool of blood behind a false wall, he could run and let those stones bury their secrets. He could assimilate, focus on his studies, and wait for his father to send for him. Or, he could walk the dark tunnels of the school's heart, scour its abandoned passages, and pick at the scab of a family's legacy of madness and murder. With the help of Sam Forster, the school's gardener, and Matron Grace, the staff nurse, Charley unravels Old Cross' history and exposes a scandal stretching back to when the school was a home with a noble family and a dark secret - a secret that still haunts its halls with scraping steps, twisting its bones into a new generation of nightmares.
©2019 Sarah Read (P)2020 Journalstone
Forever and for Always
Summary
Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life. Tapping her life savings to restore the historic home, and with a budding relationship with the caretaker, Daniel, Emily prepares to open the Inn at Sunset Harbor as Memorial Day comes. But all does not go as planned. Emily learns quickly that she has no idea how to run a B&B. The house, despite her efforts, needs new, urgent repairs she cannot afford. Her covetous neighbor is still determined to make trouble for her. And worst of all, just as her relationship with Daniel is blossoming, she learns he has a secret. One which will change everything. With her friends urging her to return to New York City and her ex-boyfriend trying to win her back, Emily has a life-changing decision to make. Will she try to stick it out, to embrace small-town life, her father’s old house? Or will she turn her back on her new friends, neighbors and life - and on the man she has fallen in love with?
©2016 Sophie Love (P)2017 Sophie Love
The Wind in the Willows
Summary
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is a delightful children's book that captures the attention of listeners of all ages. Set in England, Grahame brings animals to life for an adventure full of mishaps and lessons. One of the main characters in the story, Mole, befriends the water vole, Rat. Together, they explore the beautiful landscape of England by boat and eventually leading to a visit with Toad. Although Toad is a friendly creature, he has a bad habit of getting himself in trouble. After taking up various hobbies, Toad decides that motor vehicles are the best form of transportation. Mole and Rat soon realize that they must put an end to Toad's wild ambitions, because they care about him and want to save his life. Badger, the kind and wise one from the woods, helps them to come up with a way to help Toad. Through many more misadventures and failed attempts to keep Toad out of trouble, Toad is caught and arrested by police for stealing a motor vehicle. Luckily, he is able to escape from prison and reunite with his friends. The contrite fellow then discovers that while he was gone, his home was over taken by weasels. The three friends must go on this one last quest to regain Toad's home before they can live happily ever after.
©2015 A.R.N. Publications (P)2015 A.R.N. Publications
Luring
Summary
Luring (The Making of Riley Paige - Book 3) is book number three in a new psychological thriller series by number one best-selling author Blake Pierce. A serial killer is using barbed wire to kill a series of women, and the FBI, at a loss, must break protocol and turn to its brilliant 22-year-old academy recruit Riley Paige to solve the case. Riley Paige is accepted into the grueling FBI academy and is determined to finally keep a low profile and work hard with her peers. But that is not meant to be, as she is hand-picked to help her mentors to profile and hunt down a serial killer that has terrified the nation. What sort of diabolical killer, Riley wonders, would use barbed wire to kill his victims? There is no time for Riley to make a mistake in this deadly game of cat and mouse, with her own future on the line, and with a killer out there that may just be smarter than her. An action-packed thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Luring is book three in a riveting new series that will leave you listening late into the night. It takes listeners back 20 plus years - to how Riley’s career began - and is the perfect complement to the Once Gone series (A Riley Paige Mystery).
©2019 Blake Pierce (P)2019 Blake Pierce