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Historical Crime 2015Talking BooksThe titles in this booklist are just a selection of the titles available for loan from the RNIB National Library Talking Book Service. If it is indicated that a title is part of a series, we may have more books in the series and you may like to request them in series order. Don’t forget you are allowed to have up to 6 books on loan. When you return a title, you will then receive another one.If you would like to read any of these titles then please contact the Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or email helpline@.uk.You can search our online catalogue and add titles directly to your wishlist by visiting . You can log onto your account in the My library section with your customer number and pin number. These can be obtained from Helpline. For any further help in selecting books please contact the Reader Services Team on 01733 37 5333 or email libraryinfo@.uk.Ackroyd, Peter. Chatterton. 2006. TB15035.In this novel Peter Ackroyd investigates the death of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century poet-forger and genius, who died at the tender age of eighteen under extremely strange circumstances. Fusing themes of illusion and imagination, delusion and dreams, the author weaves strands from three centuries. The cast is a motley crew of Dickensian eccentrics and rogues, from the outrageous, gin-sipping Harriet Scrope to the tragic Charles Wychwood, on a personal quest for Chatterton's deepest secrets. Read by James Wilby. 10 hours 11 minutes. TB15035.Adair, Gilbert. The act of Roger Murgatroyd. 2006. TB14924.Boxing Day, 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon. Read by Glen McCready. 8 hours. TB14924.Akunin, Boris. The winter queen. c2003. TB13773.Erast Fandorin series; book 1. This book features Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876 - a young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London in his hunt for the conspirators behind this mysterious death. Contains strong language. Read by Steve Hodson. 10 hours 14 minutes. TB13773.Akunin, Boris. Murder on the Leviathan. 2004. TB13884. Erast Fandorin series; book 2. Sequel to: The winter queen, TB13773. An English eccentric and collector is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, as the murderer is one of the 142 first class passengers. Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects to ten, and they are forced to eat together at every meal time in the ship's Windsor Suite until 'the Crime of the Century' is solved. But is the murderer really at the table, and can Erast Fandorin discover his or her identity before Gauche? As more passengers are murdered and the Leviathan heads towards Calcutta, Fandorin needs all his investigative skills to find the truth. Read by Steve Hodson. 10 hours 29 minutes. TB13884.Akunin, Boris. Turkish gambit. 2004. TB14069. Erast Fandorin series; book 3. The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows. Captured by the Turks, he wins his freedom in a game of backgammon, before finding himself the unlikely rescuer of Varvara Suvorova - a 'progressive' Russian woman trying to make her way to the Russian headquarters to join her fiance. Fandorin's efforts to steer clear of affairs of state are thwarted when a traitor is discovered within the Russian camp. Within days, Varvara's fiance has been accused of treason, a Turkish victory looms on the horizon, and there are rumours that one of Lady Astair's Azazel orphans may be making his own bid for power. Fandorin will need to resurrect all of his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love.Read by Steve Hodson. 9 hours 5 minutes. TB14069.Akunin, Boris. Pelagia and the white bulldog. 2006. TB14855. Sister Pelagia series; book 1. Sister Pelagia: bespectacled, freckled, red-haired, woefully clumsy and constantly and knitting, teaches gymnastics and literature - and in her spare time solves crimes. A prized white bulldog has been poisoned, and the Bishop of Zavolzhsk sends Pelagia to investigate the bulldog's death as a favour for his aunt. Read by Jilly Bond. 10 hours 56 minutes. TB14855.Anderson, James. The affair of the bloodstained egg cosy. 2008. TB16975. Inspector Wilkins; book 1. The theft of the diamond necklace and the antique pistols might all be explained, but the body in the lake was a puzzle. Inspector Wilkins is called in but it's going to take some intricate sleuthing to uncover who killed whom and why.Read by Cornelius Garrett. 8 hours 15 minutes. TB16975.Anderson, James. The affair of the mutilated mink. 2008. TB17232. Inspector Wilkins; book 2. The Earl of Burford throws a party in his stately home. Guests include a fading movie star, his producer, an Italian actress, a writer, a painter and an athlete. A murder takes place in the night, and Inspector Wilkins is called in to investigate. Read by Cornelius Garret., 9 hours 40 minutes. TB17232.Ashton, David. Shadow of the serpent. 2011. TB22038.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 1. It's 1880 and the city is gripped by election fever. But while the rich and educated argue about politics, in the dank wynds of the city it's a struggle just to stay alive, especially when a murderous madman seems to have resurfaced after 30 years. Inspector McLevy is lured into a world of politics, perversion, deception and mystery and into the shadow of the serpent. Read by Crawford Logan. 8 hours 40 minutes. TB22038.Ashton, David. Fall from grace. 2008. TB22039.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 2. Revolving around the Tay Bridge Disaster, this story begins with a break-in and murder at the Edinburgh home of Sir Thomas Bouch, the enigmatic, egotistical builder of the Tay Bridge. McLevy is brought in to investigate. With the help of brothel madam Jean Brash, McLevy finds the murderer, but there is much, much more to unfold. Read by Crawford Logan. 10 hours 10 minutes. TB22039.Ashton, David. A trick of the light. 2011. TB22251.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 3. A Trick of the Light sees Inspector McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer. It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathan Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair's money? Meanwhile, a beautiful young American spiritualist, Sophia Adler, is the toast of upper-class Edinburgh with her dramatic seances. However, she could yet prove to be the deadliest woman McLevy and Conan Doyle will ever encounter.Read by Crawford Logan. 11 hours 31 minutes. TB22251.Ashton, David. Nor will he sleep. 2013. TB22252.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 4. 1887. The streets of Edinburgh seethe with youthful anarchy as two rival gangs of students, Scarlet Runners and White Devils, try to outdo each other in wild exploits. After a pitched battle between them, an old woman is found savagely battered to death in Leith Harbour. Enter Inspector James McLevy, a little more grizzled, but unchanging in his fierce desire to mete out justice. As the inspector delves further he meets up with one Robert Louis Stevenson, in the city to bury his recently deceased father. Read by Crawford Logan. 10 hours 25 minutes. TB22252.Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace. 1996. TB11011.Sixteen years have passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of sixteen, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Mr Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice in the crimes, James McDermot, paid the extreme sentence of the law and was hanged on November 21, 1843. But some thought Grace was innocent, and her sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. After a spell in the Lunatic Asylum, it has been decided that she is neither mad nor dangerous, although she now claims to have no memory of the murders. Read by Anne White. 19 hours 9 minutes. TB11011.Bennett, Ronan. Havoc, in its third year. 2005. TB14326.England, 1630s: an unsettled country in turbulent times. John Brigge is the local coroner, a respected man who wants nothing more than to work his farm and be with his wife, now expecting their first child. But when he is called to investigate Katherine Shay, suspected of killing her baby, Brigge finds himself caught up in a vicious power struggle as the Puritan faction demand her execution. Contains violence. Read by Nick Rawlinson. 9 hours 12 minutes. TB14326.Bradby, Tom. Blood money. 2009. TB17241.It was New York, 1929. Joe Quinn's first case is one that could put his name up in lights; a banker takes a dive from a tall building onto Wall Street. All the signs point to murder. Pretty soon, the dead man has company; a group of old buddies is being eliminated, in a particularly gruesome manner. For the young detective a case that starts as an opportunity swiftly becomes a nightmare from which he cannot escape. Joe Quinn is about to discover just how tough being an honest cop in a dishonest world can be. Contains strong language. Read by William Roberts. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB17241.Bradby, Tom. The master of rain. 2007. TB16281.The brutal murder of a Russian woman drags English policeman Richard Field deep into tumultuous, corruption-ridden Shanghai in 1926 as he investigates the expatriate community. Contains violence. Read by Steven Pacey. 15 hours 40 minutes. TB16281.Bradley, Alan. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie: a Flavia de Luce mystery. 2009. TB17054.Flavia de Luce; book 1. 1950. For nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Soon Flavia discovers something even more shocking in the cucumber patch and it's clear that the snipe was a bird of very ill omen indeed. As the police descend on Buckshaw, Flavia decides it is up to her to piece together the clues and solve the puzzle. Who was the man she heard her father arguing with? What was the snipe doing in England at all? Who or what is the Ulster Avenger?Read by Annabel Bates. 11 hours 7 minutes. TB17054.Bradley, Alan. The weed that strings the hangman's bag. 2011. TB20351. Flavia de Luce mystery; Book 2. Aboard her trusty bicycle "Gladys" the young sleuth/aspiring chemist is off on another adventure but this time it gets very dark and dangerous after a famous puppeteer puts on a show in the village hall and a murder ensues. TB20351.Read by Olivia Mace. 10 hours 31 minutes. TB20351.Bramah, Ernest. 12 cases for Max Carrados. 2010. TB22291.The twelve earliest Max Carrados mystery stories (first published in the UK in 1913) are collected here. Carrados, a blind detective, was intelligent, resourceful, and used his highly-developed senses to track down criminals, often in aid of his friend, the private detective Mr. Carlyle. Read by Christopher Oxford. 12 hours 57 minutes. TB22291.Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney. Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders. 2008. TB16977. The Oscar Wilde mysteries; book 1. London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. Read by Bill Wallis. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB16977.Bretherick, Diana. City of devils. 2013. TB20882.1887. James Murray, a Scottish scientist fascinated by the developing research into the study of criminal behaviour, travels to Turin to be apprenticed to Cesare Lombroso, the world-renowned criminologist. But just hours after his introduction to his new mentor, the discovery of a mutilated body in a public square and a note that appears to implicate Lombroso throws his visit in a whole new direction.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 15 hours 16 minutes. TB20882.Brown, Molly. Invitation to a funeral: a tale of Restoration intrigue. 1995. TB11682.In 17th Century London, spy turned playwright Aphra Behn must turn a no-hoper into a successful leading actress. This is not her only problem, however, and the deaths of two brothers, one in her privy, turn out to be linked to the discovery of a secret document which could result in civil war. Read by Patricia Jones. 9 hours 40 minutes. TB11682.Carr, Caleb . The Italian secretary: a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes. 2005. TB14377.Mycroft Holmes, charged with ensuring the personal safety of Queen Victoria, calls on his brother for help when a number of attempts have been made on her life and when two unexplained deaths occur amongst the staff at her Scottish residencies. Accompanied by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes goes north by train, examining the few facts Mycroft has been able to cryptically supply. To Watson's bafflement he is sure there is a link between these deaths and the murder in the old royal apartments at Holyrood of the secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots: a killing which left a bloodstain that daily refreshes itself and in a room where voices can be heard in the darkest hours of the night. Can Holmes's extraordinary deductive powers solve the historical crime as well as the contemporary one? Read by Robbie McNab. 7 hours. TB14377.Carr, Carol K. India Black. 2014. TB22010.Madam of espionage mystery; book 1. In the winter of 1876, the beautiful young madam India Black is busy as usual: keeping her tarts in line and avoiding the police. But when Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies of a heart attack while visiting her brothel, India is thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who are seeking the military secrets Latham carried. India finds herself dodging Russian agents, seducing spies and embarking on midnight sleigh rides, not to mention ignoring the attraction she starts to feel for her handsome and exasperating British co -conspirator. Read by Julie Stark. 9 hours 45 minutes. TB22010.Clark, Cassandra. Hangman blind. 2009. TB17238.Abbess of Meaux mystery; book 1. Set in Yorkshire in 1382, a time of unease and turmoil following the failed Peasants Revolt and the killing of Wat Tyler and John Ball. Hildegard is a rich widow who has taken the veil in the Cistercian priory of Swyne and is seeking a suitable grange for her new institution. Hoping to obtain a gift of such premises, she goes to Castle Hutton. Roger, the lord of Hutton, and his fifth wife Melisen make her welcome, but there are numerous family problems. It is Christmas and the revelries are disrupted by various incidents involving a death. Contains strong language. Read by Julia Barrie. 13 hours 3 minutes. TB17238.Clark, Cassandra. The law of angels. 2011. TB19956. Abbess of Meaux mystery; book 3. Summer, 1384: John of Gaunt refuses to step aside for his ward, the boy king Richard II, and heretics roam the land. In addition portents show that the end of days is imminent. Can Hildegard save the day? Read by Maggie Mash. 16 hours 29 minutes. TB19956.Clark, Cassandra. A parliament of spies. 2012. TB20310. Abbess of Meaux series; book 4. Hildegard of Meaux is accompanying the Archbishop of York to London for the opening of parliament, but while packing to leave, the Archbishop's saucier is found brutally murdered. The journey from York to London is fraught with more deadly surprises. Read by Andrew Cullum. 11 hours 7 minutes. TB20310.Clark, Cassandra. The dragon of Handale. 2015. TB21943.Abbess of Meaux mystery; book 5. Set in the 14th century, Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, struggles to decide whether to rejoin the Order and the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity. While walking about the grounds, Hildegard discovers the corpse of a young man in the morgue. His wounds appear to be the ravages of claws, but larger than any animal Hildegard knows of. Despite being warned against it, she goes for a walk in the woods. There she discovers a secret tower, locked and barred, with armed men on guard. Hildegard risks all dangers to seek out the truth.Read by Katie Pattinson. 9 hours 54 minutes. TB21943.Colitto, Alfredo. Inquisition. 2011. TB21867. In 14th-century Italy, Mondino is a university anatomist, a man of science in a land governed by the brutal Inquisition. But the corpse brought to Mondino's laboratory one stormy night defies natural law: The victim is a Templar knight, and his heart has been transformed into a block of iron. Is it alchemy? Or the diabolical work of an ingenious killer? Mondino must outwit both ruthless Inquisitors and vengeful Templars if he's to stop a murderer who threatens to shake the very foundations of Christendom. Read by Leighton Pugh. 13 hours 6 minutes. TB21867.Cornwell, Bernard. Gallows thief. 2001. TB13483.A man in Newgate had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. Captain Hawkes is given the job of investigating, but when his first steps produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, it arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England. Read by Sean Barrett. 10 hours 2 minutes. TB13483.Davis, Lindsey . The silver pigs. 1990. TB10320. Falco series; book 1. Rome AD 70. Private Eye Marcus Didious Falco is approached by 16 year old Socia Camillina. Her uncle, a senator, has his suspicions of a highly profitable, if highly illegal, trade in silver ingots or pigs. For Falco, this is the start of a murderous trail leading to a godforsaken land called Britain, to Emperor Vespasian himself and to Helena Justina, a lady leagues out of his class. He should have listened to his mother; she always said girls would be his downfall.Read by Christopher Scott. 9 hours 46 minutes. TB10320.Davis, Lindsey. Shadows in bronze. 1990. TB9333. Marcus Didius Falco series; book 2. Marcus Didius Falco, imperial gumshoe, takes to the streets of ancient Rome on a mission for his new employer, Emperor Vespasian. Falco's sleazy sleuthing soon puts him on the trail of the villain, Barnabus. Read by Christopher Scott. 14 hours 4 minutes. TB9333.Doherty, P C. The soul slayer. 1998. TB13496.Rebecca Lennox, daughter of a former priest, is neglected and feared by the villagers of Dunmow in Essex. They regard her as cursed, by both her hare lip and her gift of second sight. She finally finds a mortal confidant in a young Catholic priest who comes to the village, but in late summer, a new parson is appointed. Henry Frogmore is more interested in the black arts than the teachings of religion. For him holy orders are merely a convenient cover for his nefarious activities, but in Rebecca and Michael he finds powerful opponents. And in the ensuing struggle the price for each of them is all too heavy. Contains strong language. Read by Peter Barker. 13 hours 35 minutes. TB13496.Doherty, P C. The Waxman murders. 2007. TB15994. Hugh Corbett series; book 15. In 1300, an English privateer named The Waxman was overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of the powerful Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was carrying a casket containing the 'Carta Myste riosa', a collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea charts. Three years later Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic League, comes to England. Rumours have it that he owns the sea charts and Sir Hugh Corbett is sent to negotiate with Von Paulents. Then, on the morning of the fourth Sunday in Advent, Corbett is summoned to a scene of bloody mayhem and murder: Von Paulents, his wife, son and clerk have been barbarously assassinated.Read by Richard Burnip. 9 hours 36 minutes. TB15994.Eco, Umberto. The name of the rose. 1983. TB5212.In 1327, an English friar, William of Baskerville, and a young German monk, Adso of Melk, visit an Italian abbey. On arrival, William is called upon to investigate some bizarre murders. The abbey also holds other secrets. The story is told by Adso, in old age, and conveys the atmosphere of fourteenth century Italy: the pungent foods, the sexual mores, the heresies, the earthly humour and the harsh quality of life. Read by John Livesey. 16 hours 36 minutes. TB5212.Ellory, R J. A quiet belief in angels. 2007. TB15664.1939. In the small, rural community of Augusta Falls, twelve-year-old Joseph Vaughan hears of the brutal assault and murder of a young girl, the first in a series of killings that will blight the community over the next decade. Joseph and his friends are determined to protect Augusta Falls against the evil in their midst and form The Guardians. But the murderer evades them and they watch helplessly as one child after another is taken. Fifty years later, Joseph must confront the nightmare that has overshadowed his entire life. Contains strong language. Read by William Roberts, 16 hours 25 minutes. TB15664.Elton, Ben. The first casualty. 2006. TB14570.It is Flanders in June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Read by Glen McCready. 12 hours 24 minutes. TB14570.Finney, Patricia. Firedrake's eye. 2004. TB14319.1583. In the fetid alleyways of Whitefriars, the loyal courtier Simon Ames is viciously beaten. The random prey of footpads - or the victim of a subtly treasonous act? A nonsense poem written by the lunatic Tom O'Bedlam has become a favourite of London's ballad-sellers. Who has taken the wild meanderings of a madman so seriously - and why? Following a trail of murder, treason and terror, Ames and his dubious friend Becket set out to uncover the truth. But as they dig deep into the human midden that is Elizabethan London, puzzle becomes enigma, then riddle. Contains violence. Read by Cornelius Garrett. 9 hours 44 minutes. TB14319.Finnis, Jane. Get out or die. 2003. TB13482. Aurelia Marcella mysteries; book 1. Set in 91AD in Roman Britain, Aurelia Marcella is a young innkeeper from Italy and runs the Oak Tree Mansion on the road to York. A string of savage murders disrupts her peaceful life, and she and her Roman friends find themselves under attack from a secret native war-band, the Shadow-men, whose aim is to drive all Romans out. A traveller, Quintus, is nearly killed close to the inn, and her and Aurelia must track down the rebel warriors and identify their mysterious masked leader, the Shadow of Death. Can they find and destroy the Shadow of Death before his campaign of terror turns into open rebellion, so that all Romans must get out or die? Read by Jacqueline King. 11 hours 57 minutes. TB13482. Finnis, Jane. A bitter chill. 2005. TB14264. Aurelia Marcella mysteries; book 2. Sequel to: Get out or die, TB13482. In late December, 95 AD, Roman settlers in Britannia are preparing to celebrate Saturnalia. Innkeeper Aurelia Marcella's plans for a peaceful holiday are shattered when her brother brings bad news. An enemy in Rome is trying to destroy her family by spreading rumours that they are plotting against Caesar. Read by Jane Finnis. 11 hours 31 minutes. TB14264.Finnis, Jane. Danger in the wind. 2011. TB19595. Aurelia Marcella mysteries; book 4. A fine summer in 100 AD and good government under Trajan Caesar promise well for the Roman settlers in the frontier province of Britannia. Aurelia Marcella runs a busy mansio on the road to York. Then a soldier is murdered in his bed at the inn, and a letter arrives from Isurium, a small fort north of the city inviting Aurelia to a midsummer birthday party. But the missive also reads as a plea for help, referring to "danger in the wind." Read by Monica Kendall. 12 hours 16 minutes. TB19595.Fowler, Christopher. Bryant and May and the invisible code. 2013. TB20903. Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later she is found dead inside the church. Bryant and May must investigate.Read by Martin Reeve. 9 hours 25 minutes. TB20903.Franklin, Ariana. Mistress of the art of death. 2008. TB20503. Adelia Aguilar series; book 1. In medieval Cambridge four children have been murdered. The townsfolk blame the Jewish population. Hoping that scientific investigation can find the true killer, the king calls for a young prodigy from the University of Salerno.Read by Diana Bishop. 12 hours 55 minutes. TB20503.Franklin, Ariana. The death maze. 2009. TB21132. Adelia Aguilar ; book 2. At King Henry II's court, terrible things are happening. His Queen, Eleanor, is stirring up revolt against her husband. Rumour has it she has poisoned Fair Rosamund - the King's mistress. In a race to prove Eleanor's innocence, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is recruited to help avoid a civil war.Read by Sherry Baines. 14 hours 26 minutes. TB21132.Franklin, Ariana. Relics of the dead. 2010. TB21133.Mistress of the art of death series; book 3. The 12th century monks of Glastonbury have discovered strange skeletons buried in their graveyard. Since Glastonbury is the site of Avalon, are these the remains of King Arthur and Guinevere? The monks hope so. Somebody, however, doesn't want the skeletons identified and is prepared to kill in order to maintain the mystery.Read by Sherry Baines. 12 hours 25 minutes. TB21133.Gardner, John. Bottled spider. 2006. TB14920. DS Suzie Mountford; book 1. It is the autumn of 1940, and night after night, Hitler's bombs fall on England, killing hundreds of ordinary people. But there is another terror on the loose. Golly Goldfinch is killing young women – killing them with a noose of piano wire. And the extent of his campaign of slaughter has yet to be revealed. When he snuffs out the life of a popular BBC announcer, it is inexperienced, temporary Detective Susannah Mountford who finds herself investigating the case. Read by Patience Tomlinson. 16 hours 49 minutes. TB14920.Gardner, John. Troubled midnight. 2006. TB14590. DS Suzie Mountford; book 4. Sequel to: Angels dining at the Ritz. 1943. The skies are full of bombers leading round-the-clock missions against Germany. In the quiet market town of Wantage, the mood of expectation is shattered by the discovery of two badly battered bodies, victims tortured before being beaten to death. Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Livermore and DS Suzie Mountford are assigned to the case.Read by Patience Tomlinson. 8 hours 19 minutes. TB14590.Gooden, Philip. The Salisbury manuscript. 2009. TB17595.In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. At the same time Tom Ansell, a young lawyer, arrives from London to receive a manuscript from one of the Cathedral Canons. Felix Slater wants the compromising memoirs of his late father to be locked away until after his own death. But Slater's death comes much sooner than expected, and it is Tom who discovers the clergyman's body and comes under suspicion for his murder. The manuscript has disappeared. To clear himself, Tom must go in search of the real culprit. Read by Tim Bruce. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB17595. Gray, John MacLachlan. White stone day. 2008. TB16517.Edmund Whitty; book 2. Victorian London. Journalist Edmund Whitty is investigating a quack psychic who has been murdered after revealing a scandal involving Whitty's late brother. Whitty's search for the truth takes him back to Oxford, where a brilliant and eccentric cleric who delights in playing croquet, telling children's stories and taking little girls' pictures, may or may not be involved with a murderous ring of child pornographers.Read by Jeff Bellamy. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB16517.Gregory, Susanna. A plague on both your houses. 1996. TB22265.Matthew Bartholomew; book 1. 1348 and the inhabitants of Cambridge live under the shadow of the Black Death. Physician Matthew Bartholomew is also a teacher of Medicine at Michaelhouse, part of the fledgling University of Cambridge, and is shocked at the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse. A death the University authorities do not want investigated. When three more scholars die in mysterious circumstances, Bartholomew begins his own enquiry. And then the Black Death finally arrives and he is dragged into a quagmire which threatens not only his life, but the continued existence of the University and the future of the town.Read by Charles Armstrong. 11 hours 9 minutes. TB22265.Hannah, Sophie. The monogram murders. 2014. TB21474.Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink placed in the mouth of each corpse. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim.Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 11 hours 15 minutes. TB21474.Heath, Rachel. The finest type of English womanhood. 2009. TB17529.It's 1946 and 17-year-old Laura Trelling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home. Then she meets Paul Lovell - a chance encounter that will bring her a new life in pre-apartheid South Africa. Three years earlier, 16-year-old Gay Gibson is no less desperate to escape England. When their paths cross, they find their lives inextricably entangled, with fatal consequences. Read by Julia Barrie. 12 hours 26 minutes. TB17529.Hilton, John Buxton. Gamekeeper's gallows. 1976. TB3067.Thomas Brunt investigates a case of the missing girls in the High Peak district of Derbyshire in the 1870s.Read by George Hagan. 5 hours 56 minutes. TB3067.Hilton, John Buxton. The quiet stranger: a Derbyshire mystery. 1985. TB5612.A period whodunnit set in the dark satanic mills of late Victorian Derbyshire; Blunt is a young detective constable suffering under the regime of a pompous chief whose idea of good policing is to increase the number of offenders in jail. An enigmatic stranger and a fascinating con-woman take the roots of a crime back to the harsh days of childhood labour in the mills. Read by Simon Coady. 4 hours 23 minutes. TB5612.Jecks, Michael. The last templar. 1995. TB17780. Medieval West Country mystery. 1314, Paris: Pope Clement has destroyed the Order of Knights Templar, wrongly persuaded of their corruption. Watching through a veil of tears as his friends die at the stake, a surviving knight swears vengeance on their accusers. 1316, Devon: The newly appointed bailiff of Lydford Castle, Simon Puttock, is called to a village where a charred body has been found in a burned-out cottage. Unaccustomed to violence in this peaceful area, Simon assumes it's accidental death - but Sir Baldwin Furnshill, recently returned from abroad, quickly convinces him that the victim had been killed before the fire began. As Simon and the astute knight piece together the evidence, word comes of another murder, more horrible by far. Read by Thomas Eyre. 11 hours 21 minutes. TB17780.Hodgson, Antonia. The devil in the Marshalsea. 2014. TB21466.Tom Hawkins; book 1. London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into a hell of a debtor's prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and disease. And the recent grisly murder of a debtor, Captain Roberts, as brought further terror to the gaol.Read by Nigel Peever. 13 hours 34 minutes. TB21466.Horowitz, Anthony. The House of Silk. 2011. TB19283.Sherlock Holmes ; book 1. It is November 1890 and London isgripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221B Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks.Read by Stephen Thorne. 9 hours 29 minutes. TB19283.Horowitz, Anthony. Moriarty. 2014. TB22694.Sherlock Holmes; book 2. Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction , Frederick Chase must forge a path through the darkest corners of the capital to shine light on this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Derek Jacobi. 10 hours 48 minutes. TB22694.James, P. D. Death comes to Pemberley. 2012. TB19286. P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of 'Pride and Prejudice', and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted detective story. Read by Sheila Mitchell. 10 hours 15 minutes. TB19286.Kellerman, Faye. Straight into darkness. 2006. TB14606.In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim being a young society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered; the discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing with an unimaginably evil killer. In the Germany of the time, the investigation cannot be straightforward. Hitler's power is growing, and the Nazis are a strong civic force in the city of Munich. Berg is thrown into a web of danger as senior officers work to their own agendas. Contains violence. Read by Adam Sims. 13 hours 1 minute. TB14606.Lawrence, Margaret. Hearts and bones. 1998. TB12400. Hannah Trevor Mysteries; book 1. Hannah Trevor's fierce independence and disregard for convention sets her apart from the other women of her small town in Maine in 1786. Yet as a midwife, Hannah is intimately involved in the lives of people deeply scarred by the terrible War of Independence against the English. Now, in the midst of a merciless winter, a young wife and mother has been murdered, and in a heartbreaking note, written as she died, she has named her three attackers - one of them is Daniel Josselyn - a wealthy Englishman, a wounded war veteran, and Hannah's secret lover. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 8 hours 45 minutes. TB12400.Lovesey, Peter. Rough cider. 1986. TB13530.In the autumn of 1943 a nine-year-old evacuee witnessed the assault of Barbara Lockwood, a farmer's daughter, by a local youth. Two days later Barbara cut her throat and the youth's head was found in a barrel full of cider. It transpired that he had been killed by a bullet from a Colt '45 and an American soldier was convicted and hung for the crime in 1945. Forty years later the daughter of that soldier arrives in Britain to prove her father's innocence. Read by David March. 2 hours 42 minutes. TB13530.Lovesey, Peter. Bertie and the Tinman: from the detective memoirs of King Edward VII. 1987. TB7152.It is 1886 and Fred Archer, greatest of all jockeys and popularly known as the Tinman, has shot himself. An inquest is arranged with indecent haste: his mind was unhinged by typhoid, say the jury, despite conflicting evidence. Bertie admired Archer and knows the Turf better than any juror: he is suspicious. The Tinman's last words were: "Are they coming?" Bertie, known elsewhere as the Prince of Wales, decides to turn his unique talents to solving the mystery.Read by Tom Crowe. 5 hours 45 minutes. TB7152.McKay, Shirley. Hue and cry. 2010. TB21944. Hew Cullen; book 1. 1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris, uncovers a complex tale of passion and duplicity, of sexual desire in tension with the repressive atmosphere of the Protestant Kirk and the austerity of the academic cloister.Read by Allan Tall. 11 hours 16 minutes. TB21944.Martin, Andrew. The Necropolis Railway: a novel of murder, mystery and steam. 2002. TB12757.Jim Stringer series; book 1. A chance encounter leads young Jim Stringer, a railway porter, to move from Yorkshire to London, enticed by the prospect of becoming a railwayman "of the right sort". But when he arrives in the Waterloo of 1903, it is to discover a world of garish pubs, tawdry brothels and mysterious duties. Contains strong language. Read by Hugh Walters. 7 hours 6 minutes. TB12757.Martin, Andrew. The Blackpool highflyer. 2004. TB13860.Jim Stringer series; book 2. Sequel to: The Necropolis railway, TB12757. When railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Blackpool in the hot summer of 1905, he thinks he's struck lucky. But his dreams of beer and pretty women soon fall away - when his highspeed train meets a huge millstone on the line. In the months that follow as he hunts for the saboteur, Jim is drawn into the beguiling but dangerous world of eccentrics, conmen and cowards. From ventriloquists to funfair salesmen, ticket clerks to dandies, everyone is a suspect in this captivating adventure. Contains strong language. Read by Hugh Walters. 11 hours 24 minutes. TB13860Meyer, Nicholas. The West End horror: a posthumous memoir of John H. Watson. 1978. TB10541.London, March 1895. A month of occurences in the West End. First there was the murder of theatre critic Jonathon McArthy; the police were baffled. Then came the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public was scandalised. What of the ingenue at the Savoy, discovered with her throat slashed, or the police surgeon who disappeared taking with him two corpses from the mortuary? Scotland Yard is mystified, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary. Read by Robert Gladwell. 6 hours 57 minutes TB10541.Morgan, Fidelis. Unnatural fire. 2003. TB13820.Countess Ashby de la Zouche; book 1. Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham and former mistress to Charles II, has fallen on hard times. Forced to turn to journalism, the Countess and her maidservant, Alpiew, gather salacious tit-bits for a scandal sheet. But they encounter more than they had bargained for when a mysterious woman hires them to follow her husband, Beau, whom she suspects of adultery. Their pursuit leads them to playhouses and lecture halls, only to end abruptly in a Covent Garden churchyard. The pair find themselves implicated in murder and to establish the identity of the real killer they must penetrate the mysteries of alchemy. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Read by Fidelis Morgan. 12 hours 10 minutes. TB13820.Morgan, Fidelis. The rival queens. 2003. TB13865.Countess Ashby de la Zouche; book 2. London 1699. The intrepid and impecunious heroines, the Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant Alpiew, are once more scavenging for scandal to entertain the readers of the scurrilous rag, the 'London trumpet'. With the bailiffs, as ever, in hot pursuit, the Countess and Alpiew seek refuge in a philosophical lecture at the York Buildings Concert Hall. But their expectations of a dull evening are confounded when one of the players staggers on to the stage, her hands dripping with blood. A doyenne has been decapitated under their very noses. The unlikely sleuths find themselves uncovering a web of intrigue and corruption that extends to the highest echelons of society and the judiciary. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Read by Fidelis Morgan. 12 hours 16 minutes. TB13865.Morgan, Fidelis. The ambitious stepmother. 2004. TB14253.Countess Ashby de la Zouche; book 3. The Countess Ashby de la Zouch would not be every parent's choice of chaperone for a beautiful teenager. The second Mrs Alderman Franklyn-Green, however, is willing to go to any lengths to get rid of her unwanted stepdaughter Virginia. And the promise of 100 guineas and a sojourn in the land of gay balls and all-night gambling is sufficient to secure the Countess's services. Sadly, the exiled English Court at St Germain is far from the den of iniquity the Countess and her maidservant Alpiew were hoping for. Worse, any hopes of enjoying fine French cuisine are dashed when a fellow guest is poisoned. Once more the Countess and Alpiew are plunged into a dangerous investigation. Contains passages of a sexual nature.Read by Fidelis Morgan. 11 hours 49 minutes. TB14253.Mosse, Kate. Sepulchre. 2008. TB16222.October 1891: A young girl, Leonie Vernier, and her brother, Anatole, are invited to leave the gas-lit streets of Paris and travel south to a mysterious country house - La Domaine de la Cade - near Carcassonne. There, in the ancient, dark woods, Leonie comes across a ruined sepulchre and is drawn into a century's old mystery of murder, ghosts and a strange set of tarot cards that seem to hold enormous power over life and death. October 2007: Meredith Martin decides to take a break from her research trip in Paris - where she is studying Claude Debussy - and head down south to a beautiful hotel in the woods. She becomes fascinated by the history of the place and particularly by the tragic events of one Halloween night more than a century before that shocked the small community. Thus her fate becomes entwined with that of Leonie. But it is only when she too stumbles over a secluded glade in the forest that she realises that the secrets it contains are far from dead and buried. Unsuitable for family reading. Read by Rachel Atkins. 21 hours 42 minutes. TB16222.Nadel, Barbara. Last rights. 2006. TB16057.Francis H; book 1. Francis H is an undertaker in the London Borough of West Ham in the 1940s. The Second World War is in full swing and the Borough is being pounded on a nightly basis by the German Luftwaffe. Francis H is a World War 1 veteran so he also has to deal with the continuing fears and delusions that still haunt him from the trenches of Flanders. One night, in the middle of a raid, Francis meets what appears to be a madman running across the rubble screaming about being stabbed. But Francis can see no sign of blood on the man, so he passes him by. However, two days later the man's body turns up at Francis' parlour. Contains violence. Read by Martyn Read. 10 hours 30 minutes. TB16057.Nadel, Barbara. After the mourning. 2007. TB16344.Francis H; book 2. It is October 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock is called out to Epping Forest to attend to the corpse of a young gypsy girl who has died suddenly. At the wake, a gypsy named Lily claims to see a vision of the 'Blessed Virgin'. Meanwhile the Military Police are looking for a German spy - Martin Stojka - who they believe is a Nazi spy. Then Lily is found stabbed through the chest. Could it be a crime of passion or cold-blooded murder? Is Martin Stojka who he says he is? There is someone lurking in the shadows who will stop at nothing to find what Martin has in his possession. Contains violence. Read by Martyn Read. 9 hours 37 minutes. TB16344.Peacock, Caro. Death at dawn. 2008. TB16323.Liberty Lane; book 1. Thomas Jacques Lane - radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father - had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Liberty ignores all advice and sets off in pursuit of the truth. With no resources bar her wits, she travels to the Continent and back in search of her father's killer. And as the nation prepares for the coronation of a young Victoria, Liberty uncovers murder and treachery at the very highest levels! Read by Lucy Scott. 9 hours 48 minutes. TB16323.Parris, S J. Sacrilege. 2012. TB20239. Giordano Bruno series; book 3. Summer, 1584. The Protestant Prince William of Orange has been assassinated by a fanatical Catholic, and there are whispers that Queen Elizabeth will be next. Fear haunts the streets of London, and plague is driving citizens away. Giordano Bruno, philosopher and spy, chooses to remain, and finds that someone is following him. Contains strong language.Read by Matt Addis. 16 hours 24 minutes. TB20239.Parris, S J. Treachery. 2014. TB21245.Giordano Bruno; book 4. Summer, 1585. As fear of a Spanish Armada builds, Sir Francis Drake prepares to embark on an expedition to seize major Spanish ports, diverting Philip of Spain's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno, radical philosopher and spy, accompanies his friend Sir Philip Sidney to Plymouth to oversee Drake's departure. But when a ship’s captain is brutally murdered, and Drake's life threatened, it becomes clear that someone plans to destroy the expedition before it begins.Read by Greg Wagland. 20 hours 23 minutes. TB21245.Pearce, Michael. A dead man in Trieste. 2006. TB16463.Seymour series; book 1. It is 1906. The British consul in Trieste has gone missing, and Special Branch officer Seymour is called to investigate. He's capable and hardworking, but not entirely British - a bit dubious really. So, he's just the man for the job! Read by Clive Mantle. 6 hours 51 minutes. TB16463.Pearce, Michael. A dead man in Istanbul. 2006. TB17213. Seymour; book 2. The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly strange circumstances while attempting to swim the Dardanelles Straits, the passage between Europe and Asia, heavily used by warships, liners, tankers and cargo vessels of all kinds. A romantic attempt to repeat the legendary feat of Leander, as the Embassy says? Or an attempt to spy out a possible landing place for a British military expedition, as the Turks insist? Whichever, Cunningham has ended up with a bullet in his head.Read by Bill Wallis. 6 hours 28 minutes. TB17213.Pearce, Michael. A dead man in Athens. 2007. TB17214.Seymour; book 3. Set in Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlords, has what he calls the Great Idea - a vision of a new Greece which unites all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean. Not such a great idea, in the view of other countries, among them Britain, which believes in letting sleeping dogs lie. And cats. Including the one recently poisoned in Athens and which belonged to the exiled former Sultan. Unfortunately, as is the way with the Balkans, rumours start flying around; one being that this was a sighting shot for the ex-Sultan himself. Such gossip could start a war. Something has to be done. Enter Seymour, of the CID, who has had some experience of this sort of thing before. Contains strong language. Read by Clive Mantle. 7 hours 10 minutes. TB17214.Pearce, Michael. Death of an effendi. 1999. TB12434.Cairo, 1909. The murder capital of the world, where deaths are two a piastre. But the death of Tvardosky, an effendi? That is something different. Effendi - the Egyptian elite - are important. Gareth Owen, the Chief of Cairo's Secret Police (the Mamur Zapt), is called in to investigate. It seems powerful people might have preferred Tvardosky dead before the financier's meeting in Crocodilopolis.Read by Nigel Carrington. 5 hours 11 minutes. TB12434.Pears, Iain. An instance of the fingerpost. 1997. TB11906.We are in Oxford in the 1660s, a time and place of intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of the New College, is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses. Each witness tells his or her version, but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Read by Stephen Thorne. 25 hours 39 minutes. TB11906.Pepper, Andrew. The last days of Newgate. 2006. TB14752.St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with religious anger and political unrest. Pyke, a sometime Bow Street Runner, sometimes crook, becomes embroiled in the investigation but quickly realises he has stumbled into something more sinister and far reaching. Contains strong language. Read by Jeff Bellamy. 13 hours 18 minutes. TB14752.Perry, Anne. The Cater Street hangman. 1998. TB13293. Inspector Pitt Mysteries; book 1. The Ellison household is the epitome of Victorian respectability. Their comfortable London home is cared for by efficient servants, while the Ellison daughters take tea with their friends or do good works for charity. Sheltered from the grim realities of the outside world, even the gruesome murder of a young girl of their acquaintance is not permitted to alter their privileged, stifling routine. Clearly the unfortunate girl must have kept bad company, and deserved her hideous fate. Read by Robbie MacNab. 9 hours 50 minutes. TB13293.Perry, Anne. Resurrection Row. 2009. TB21801.Inspector Pitt; book 4. It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab - and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm, previously decently buried. Inspector Pitt is determined to unearth the truth - even if the digging puts his own life at perilous risk.Read by Maggie Marsh. 9 hours 56 minutes.TB21801.Perry, Anne. A New York Christmas. 2014. TB21800.An Inspector Pitt Christmas novella. In New York, at the turn of the century, where new American money and old English aristocracy collide, a young bride's secret past could destroy her future. Thomas Pitt’s daughter, Jemima, in America as a chaperone until her friend's wedding, is instead drawn into the crisis, and must decide whom to trust, and how to thread her way through the dangerous streets of this cold, brash new city.Read by Martine Richards. 3 hours 26 minutes. TB21800.Perry, Anne. No graves as yet. 2004. TB16498.World War I series; book 1. Cambridge 1914. For Joseph Reavley, the idyllic summer is shattered by his parents' deaths in a car accident. Bringing the terrible news, his brother reveals that their father had been travelling to see him about a sinister plot he had discovered. Matthew's job in the secret service means that he would understand the mysterious document their father possessed. However, it is nowhere to be found. Read by Cornelius Garrett. 13 hours 49 minutes. TB16498.Peters, Ellis. A morbid taste for bones: a mediaeval whodunnit. 1977. TB3210. Cadfael series; book 1. Brother Cadfael is sent to a remote Welsh village to recover the bones of a saint for his Monastery. He encounters murder and poisoning before he can fulfil his mission. Read by Stephen Jack. 8 hours. TB3210.Peters, Ellis. One corpse too many: a medieval whodunnit. 1979. TB3542. Cadfael; book 2. In a medieval Monastery, Brother Cadfael discovers 95 corpses after a massacre, where there should have been only 94. Read by Andrew Timothy. 8 hours 30 minutes. TB3542.Reilly, Matthew. The tournament. 2013. TB21323.England, 1546. The Black Death stalks the land and with it deadly conspiracies against the young Princess Elizabeth. In the midst of this fevered atmosphere comes an unprecedented invitation from the Sultan in Constantinople. He seeks to assemble the finest players of chess from the whole civilised world and pit them against each other. The prize is the honour of Christendom. Roger Ascham, Elizabeth's teacher and mentor, resolves to take Elizabeth with him when he accompanies the English chess champion to the Ottoman capital – to both keep her out of harm’s way and continue her education in the art of power and politics. But once there, the two find more danger than they left behind.Read by Helen Bourne.11 hours 52 minutes. TB21323.Robb, Candace. The apothecary rose. 1998. TB19441.Owen Archer mystery; book 1. A medieval whodunnit set in the city of York, where men are dying in mysterious circumstances. Owen Archer, a reluctant sleuth, apprentices himself to an apothecary, Nicholas Wilton, in an attempt to unravel the mystery. But it is via Wilton's beautiful young wife Lucie that the truth is revealed.Read by Ian Redford. 10 hours 33 minutes. TB19441.Robb, Candace . The Lady Chapel. 1994. TB19889. Owen Archer mystery; book 2. High summer in the year of our Lord 1365, and Owen Archer finds himself once again called upon by Archbishop Thoresby to exercise his skills as detective. Read by Peter Wickham. 11 hours 20 minutes. TB19889.Robb, Candace. The nun's tale. 1998 TB20244.Owen Archer mystery; book 3. When a young nun dies of a fever in the town of Beverley in the summer of 1365, she is buried quickly for fear of the plague. But one year later a woman appears, talking of relic-trading and miracles and claiming to be the dead nun resurrected. Murder follows and the worried Archbishop of York asks Owen Archer to investigate. Read by Andrew Cullum. 11 hours 54 minutes. TB20244Robb, Candace M. The king's bishop. 2001. TB21502.Owen Archer mystery; book 4. King Edward wants William of Wykeham confirmed as Bishop of Winchester, but Pope Urban V is stalling, deterred by the man's wealth and political ambition. Thus Owen Archer finds himself heading a deputation from York to Fountains Abbey, to win support for Wykeham from the powerful Cistercian abbots. Ignoring advice, he places his old comrade Ned Townley in charge of the fellow company to Rievaulx, hoping to dispel rumours of Ned's involvement in a mysterious death. But just days out of York trouble erupts: a friar and Ned both vanish, following news of murder at Windsor. Owen asks John Thoresby, at Court in his role as Lord Chancellor, for help, little knowing it will involve him with the King's mistress, Alice Perrers, ever a dangerous enemy. Read by Ian Redford. 10 hours 28 minutes. TB21502.Rubenfeld, Jed. The interpretation of murder. 2006. TB14977.This novel is inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protege and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a luxurious apartment overlooking the city, the mayor of New York calls upon Freud to use his revolutionary new ideas to solve the crime. Contains strong language. Read by Jeff Harding. 14 hours 33 minutes. TB14977.Sansom, C J. Dissolution. 2008. TB16284.Shardlake series; book 1. It is 1537 and Thomas Cromwell has ordered that all monasteries should be dissolved. Cromwell's Comissioner is found dead, his head severed from his body. Dr Shardlake is sent to uncover the truth behind what has happened. His investigation forces him to question everything that he himself believes. Contains violence. Read by Christian Rodska. 13 hours 42 minutes. TB16284.Sansom, C J. Dark fire. 2005. Read by Christian Rodska, 18 hours 2 minutes. TB16415.Shardlake series; book 2. Sequel to: Dissolution, TB16284. It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister - and a new assignment. TB16415.Sansom, C J. Sovereign. 2007. TB17174.Shardlake; book 3. It was autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. Contains strong language. Read by Mark Elstob. 20 hours 25 minutes.TBH 17174.Sansom, C J. Revelation. 2008. TB17175.Shardlake; book 4. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac locked in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake promises his widow, for whom he has long had complicated feelings, to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to both Cranmer and Catherine Parr - and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. Contains strong language. Read by Mark Elstob. 19 hours 22 minutes. TB17175.Saylor, Steven. Roman blood. 2002. TB14252.Roma Sub Rosa series; book 1. Rome, 80 B.C. and Cicero is about to conduct his first important case, the defence of well-heeled farmer Sextus Roscius against the charge of killing his hated father. Gordianus the Finder, hired by Cicero to dig up evidence, soon learns why the elder Roscius was lured to his death: a summons from Elena, a young prostitute pregnant with a possible heir. Gordianus's investigations lead him on the track of a brutal conspiracy, uncovering some sordid truths about the Roscius family in time for Cicero to set off the expected courtroom fireworks and invoke the wrath of the dictator Sulla. Contains violence. Read by Peter Wickham. 14 hours 25 minutes. TB14252.Saylor, Steven. Arms of Nemesis. 2003. TB14272.Roma Sub Rosa series; book 2. Sequel to: Roman blood, TB14252. South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome's wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacus Slave Revolt. Unless they are found within five days, Crassus vows to massacre his remaining ninety-nine slaves. Gordianus the Finder must unravel the mystery. Contains violence. Read by Peter Wickham. 11 hours 19 minutes. TB14272.Shaw, Catherine. The three body problem: a Cambridge mystery. 2008. TB16322.Cambridge, 1888, Miss Vanessa Duncan is recently arrived from the countryside to teach. But everything changes when Mr Akers, a Fellow of Mathematics, is found dead. When a second and then third mathematician are murdered, it becomes a race against time to solve the case.Read by Liz Hollis. 9 hours 14 minutes. TB16322.Speller, Elizabeth. The return of Captain John Emmett. 2011. TB18875.Laurence Bartram; book 1. 1920. The Great War has been over for two years and Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. He is persuaded to look into the death of John Emmett and as he unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed.Read by Christopher Oxford. 14 hours 25 minutes. TB18875.Speller, Elizabeth. The strange fate of Kitty Easton. 2012. TB19746. Laurence Bartram; book 2. When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place. But it soon becomes clear to Laurence that while the rest of the country is alight with hope for the first time since the end of the war, the Wiltshire village is haunted by its tragic past. Contains violence, strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Read by Jenny Coverack. 13 hours 6 minutes. TB19746. Stratmann, Linda. The poisonous seed. 2013. TB21370.Frances Doughty; book 1. When a customer of William Doughty’s chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William’s daughter, nineteen year old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing fathers reputation and save the business. She soon becomes convinced that the death was murder, but unable to convince the police, she turns detective. Armed only with her wits, courage and determination, and aided by some unconventional new friends, Frances uncovers a startling deception and solves a ten year old murder. There will be more deaths, and a secret in her own family will be revealed before the killer is unmasked, and Frances will find that her life has changed forever.Read by Natalie Castka. 12 hours 53 minutes. TB21370.Tallis, Frank. Mortal mischief. 2006. TB14679. Liebermann Papers series; book 1. In the world of 1900s Vienna, Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst - and disciple of Freud. Liebermann's good friend Oskar Rheinhardt is a Detective Inspector - hard working, but lacking Liebermann's insights and forensic eye and so it is through Rheinhardt that Liebermann is called upon to help with police investigations surrounding the death of a beautiful young medium, in what seems at first to be supernatural circumstances. Read by Richard Burnip. 13 hours 15 minutes. TB14679. Tallis, Frank. Vienna blood. 2007. TB16320.Liebermann Papers series; book 2. In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud - his friend Dr. Max Liebermann - to assist him with the case. The investigation draws them into the sphere of Vienna's secret societies - a murky underworld of German literary scholars, race theorists, and scientists inspired by the new evolutionary theories coming out of England. Unsuitable for family reading. Read by Richard Burnip. 14 hours 36 minutes. TB16320. Tallis, Frank. Fatal lies. 2008. TB20397. Liebermann Papers; book 3. Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian's military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the city's famous woods, a young cadet is found dead his body lacerated with razor wounds. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend - and disciple of Freud - Doctor Max Liebermann, to help him with the investigation. Read by Richard Burnip. 13 hours 57 minutes. TB20397.Taylor, Andrew. The scent of death. 2013. TB20957.Manhattan, 1778. A city of profiteers, loyalists and double agents. New York is home to a tide of refugees seeking justice from the British crown. Edward Savill is sent from London to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists. No sooner does he land than he becomes embroiled in a murder.Read by Peter Wickham. 14 hours 47 minutes. TB20957.Trow, M J. The adventures of Inspector Lestrade. 1985. TB5648.Inspector Lestrade series; book 1. It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse walled up in Shanklin Chine. This is only the first of a series of brutal killings that make the desperate race to avert the next death a personal battle whirling from ballroom to barroom and from vicarage to spiritual gathering. Read by Ray Jones. 7 hours 40 minutes. TB5648.Winspear, Jacqueline. Maisie Dobbs. 2005. TB16099.Maisie Dobbs series; book 1. After serving as a nurse at the Front in France, Maisie returned to London in 1929 to become a private investigator. Her first cases combines gripping mysteries that force her to face a ghost that has haunted her for over ten years.Read by Maggie Maxwell. 8 hours 42 minutes. TB16099.Wright, Edward. The silver face. 2004. TB14547.Step back into 1940s L.A., to the neon lit streets and smoky bars, where glamour lives - and death just might come calling. Read by Hayward Morse. 12 hours 45 minutes. TB14547. ................
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