The team of Barack Obama and Joe Biden returns--but this time in an audiobook mystery, delightfully narrated by Joe Barrett. Listeners will get a closer look at their unique relationship and overhear their conversations. Their different personalities and styles are deftly rendered by Barrett, who gives Obama the cool and unemotional tone one would expect and Biden a gruff yet warm voice. When Joe Biden's favorite conductor dies in a mysterious accident, President Obama comes to his Delaware home to tell him of the death. Listeners will be moved to hear Biden confess that he's disappointed that the president seems to have made new friends and left him behind. Barrett raises the tension when the pair realize the conductor was murdered and they team up to find the killer. Adding to the atmosphere are historical and campaign tidbits and good-hearted humor.
Pub Date: Jan. 22, 2018
Duration: 6 hrs, 15 mins
Publisher: Audible Inc./ Brilliance Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Novelist Benet Archdale and housemaid Carol Stratford are two young, single parents who have no reason to know each other. They become tangled in a nightmarish spiral of kidnap, fraud, family violence and death. Ruth Rendell creates psychological suspense in thrillers that are compulsively readable or, in this case, listenable. British actress Imelda Staunton's reading is perfectly paced, and the characters are well defined. You'll have a hard time turning it off.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 9 hrs
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Emerson and Peabody are at it again! Uncovering antiquities takes a back-seat as the romantic archaeologists track down the master criminal who is stealing Egypt's ancient treasures. With the help of their precocious son, Ramses, the intrepid pair unravel this mystery in crowded bazaars, desert camps and the heart of the Black Pyramid. Barbara Rosenblat's reading fully measures up to the tale. She is a master of timing and nuance. Rosenblat's power for character interpretation has grown with each book in this amusing series. This is the best one yet.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 12 hrs
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc.
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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