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Thriller playhouse. 1999. Read by various narrators, 1 hour 30 minutes. TB 11967.

The best of the popular Radio 4 series Thriller Playhouse, introducing Simon Callow as Max Carrodos, the famous blind detective and Christopher Cazenove as Norman Conquest (alias 1066), the dashing desperado with a complete disregard for danger. Also starring Lionel Jeffries and Bonnie Langford. TB 11967.

Ablow, Keith

Psychopath. 2005. Read by Jeff Harding, 10 hours 8 minutes. TB 14118.

Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is tapped by the FBI to catch an elusive murderer known as the 'Highway Killer', who has left twelve bodies strewn across twelve states. Clevenger reluctantly accepts the case, but what he and the authorities cannot know is that the Highway Killer isn't just a serial killer - he is also a psychiatrist, whose brilliance as a doctor is matched only by his precision as a murderer. Contains strong language. TB 14118.

Adams, Will

The Alexander Cipher. 2008. Read by Nigel Carrington, 10 hours 43 minutes. TB 16085.

It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a golden Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each packed with diamonds, rubies and gold. This was how he should have remained, but time waits for no-one. 2007 and underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox has been on the trail of Alexander's Gold ever since he can remember. When a tomb is uncovered on the construction site of a new hotel, Daniel believes he has found the clue to what he has been working towards for years. But the discovery has alerted two of the most dangerous men in the world, and Daniel is now a marked man. TB 16085.

Allbeury, Ted

Deep purple. 1989. Read by George Hagan, 8 hours 33 minutes. TB 7620.

Two MI6 investigators who are interrogating Russian defectors, find themselves unravelling a web of conspiracy and treachery. A maze of deception surrounds the possibility of a serious threat to British security. The hero Hoggart increasingly probes and questions until he learns the awful truth. TB 7620.

Allbeury, Ted

Shadow of shadows. 1982. Read by Andrew Timothy, 8 hours 6 minutes. TB 4286.

As an ex-member of the Intelligence Corps, working on counter-intelligence duties during and after World War 2, Ted Allbeury is probably unsurpassed in bringing the shadowy world of counter-intelligence to life. Petrov is a KGB defector and he holds the secrets which link him to George Blake – the arch-spy who did more for the Russians than any other traitor. TB 4286.

Ambler, Eric

The Levanter. 1972. Read by Robert Gladwell, 9 hours 5 minutes. TB 2263.

An engineer of mixed parentage running a family business in the Middle East stumbles unexpectedly into one of the splinter Palestine guerrilla movements. Pitchforked into a terrifying jungle of extremists, he fights for survival against the terrorists' weapons of violence and intimidation. TB 2263.

Ambler, Eric

The light of day. 1953. Read by Anthony Parker, 9 hours 15 minutes. TB 568.

An Englishman making a living racketeering in Athens, is caught up in a dangerous network extending through Turkey and Italy. TB 568.

Anderson, Patrick

Sinister forces. 1987. Read by Ray Jones, 9 hours 49 minutes. TB 7358.

The Royal Marines taught Charlie to kill. Then the politicians sent him to fight a war on a freezing rock in the South Atlantic, and he vowed never again to risk his life for £40 per month. He went to America, and now, instead of killing for Madame Thatcher, he kills for Madame Masters. The USA elects an anti-nuclear president, and sinister forces are massing already to shackle him. They are led by Serena Masters. TB 7358.

Anthony, Evelyn

Bloodstones. 1994. Read by Sian Thomas, 12 hours 3 minutes. TB 10751.

The world's diamond industry is about to explode into anarchy. A new mine is yielding the most beautiful and rare stone in the world - the red diamond. Karakov, the greatest and wiliest jeweller the industry has ever seen, is about to sign an exclusive agreement with Moscow, thus destabilising the diamond trade. From all over the world, the directors of Diamond Enterprises try to stop him, but there is deceit and betrayal even within their own group... TB 10751.

Archer, Jeffrey

A prisoner of birth. 2008. Read by David Thorpe, 17 hours 27 minutes. TB 15907.

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss' daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation. Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums. Their lives will never be the same again. For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the Prosecution's chief witness in an Old Bailey trial. Contains strong language. TB 15907.

Bagley, Desmond

High citadel. 1965. Read by Anthony Parker, 12 hours 45 minutes. TB 1338.

Among the towering peaks of the Andes, a non-scheduled passenger plane is hijacked and forced down. The surviving passengers, stranded at 16,000 feet, embark on a perilous descent, only to find that they are trapped by a formidably-armed Communist force. The enemy is obviously intent on wiping them all out, and as the ill-assorted party realise the odds against them, two breath-taking stories unfold. TB 1338.

Bagley, Desmond

Landslide. 1967. Read by Alistair Maydon, 9 hours 55 minutes. TB 6897.

Bob Boyd has come to Fort Farrell, British Columbia, to carry out a geological survey for the powerful Matterson Corporation, engaged in building a dam. It is a short stay, just long enough for him to get a grubstake together and return to the North-West Territories. Then, like a bolt from an electric shock, he sees the name of the square – Triavant Park. In the ensuing manhunt, his warning that the entire community, as well as the dam, is in danger is ignored - to their peril. TB 6897.

Bailey, Paul

Old soldiers. 1980. Read by George Hagan, 3 hours 15 minutes. TB 3689.

Victor Harker, haunted by sixty-year-old nightmares of the Somme, finds a new friend in another old soldier, Captain Hal Standish. When Standish disappears, there appear, in turn, Tommy a toothless tramp, and a poet called Julian Borrow. But what connects them.....? TB 3689.

Baker, Keith

Reckoning. 2004. Read by Gerry O'Brien, 11 hours 52 minutes. TB 14699.

Ex-FBI agent Tom Gallagher is a man weighed down by the past - first a disastrous marriage, then the guilt of innocent deaths from a botched sting operation. Now he is hoping for a fresh start back in his native Ireland, where his estranged daughter Emma is an ambitious young politician. But a vengeful ghost is about to make an unexpected appearance, plunging him back into his worst nightmare. Contains violence. TB 14699.

Baldacci, David

Split second. 2003. Read by Merv Smith, 11 hours 4 minutes. TB 15206.

Sean King & Michelle Maxwell series; book 1. When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him the life of a presidential candidate and his career. Eight years later, Secret Service member Michelle Maxwell receives a blow to her career. The two join forces, determined to uncover what has happened to them. TB 15206.

Baldacci, David

The camel club. 2006. Read by John Chancer, 16 hours 33 minutes. TB 15365.

Camel club series; book 1. Oliver Stone has no official past. His goal is to keep watch on Washington politics and expose corruption. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theory misfits known as the Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. TB 15365.

Banks, Carla

The forest of souls. 2005. Read by Jilly Bond, 13 hours 3 minutes. TB 14700.

A passion for history cost Helen Kovacs her life. Helen had told no one of her research; even her closest friend, Faith Lange, had no idea – until she began retracing the dead woman's steps. She is troubled, too, by the presence of Jake Denbigh, a journalist investigating her grandfather, a refugee from the Eastern front. Helen's murder, and its consequences, will take Jake and Faith on terrifying journeys: from the mass graves of the Kurapaty Forest to the heart of Faith's own family, where a tragic secret lies hidden. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14700.

Barker, Pat

Border crossing. 2001. Read by James Wilby, 6 hours 54 minutes. TB 13498.

Tom Seymour is a child psychiatrist who has worked in the north of England for many years. One day, while walking by the river, he rescues a young man from drowning, and realises it's a child murderer at whose trial he gave flawed evidence.

TB 13498.

Barling, Tom

Terminate with prejudice. 1982. Read by David Sinclair, 6 hours 5 minutes. TB 4474.

The slippery labyrinths of British Intelligence, a Russian diversionary plot and a cabinet 'sleeper' from the background for and exploration into the psychological motivation of the professional assassin. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 4474.

Barlow, James

The patriots. 1960. Read by Robert Gladwell, 15 hours 59 minutes. TB 2074.

A manhunt and unforeseen consequences, follows a wages hold-up, planned by ex-paratroopers with all the skill learned during the war. TB 2074.

Beaty, David

Eagles. 1990. Read by William Roberts, 7 hours. TB 8840.

A North African dictatorship committed an act of aggression against the U.S. air base at Haddington. Rod Ryan, newly drafted ace pilot, attractive and confident of himself, is obsessed with emulating his father who died in Vietnam and was awarded for bravery. His obsession brings dangers to others and himself. TB 8840.

Beevor, Antony

The Faustian pact. 1983. Read by George Hagan, 7 hours 26 minutes. TB 4759.

The Prime Minister is kidnapped by Red Vanguard who demands the release of all political detainees in Northern Ireland. David Rayner, failed diplomat and now confined to a desk job, discovers that the West German intelligence computer has been sabotaged, but the politicians in Bonn and London have not been informed. Meanwhile inter-service rivalries are emerging and Rayner fears that the PM may be doomed through procrastination. TB 4759.

Bentley, Nicolas

The events of that week. 1972. Read by Robert Gladwell, 6 hours 26 minutes. TB 2108.

When a young English writer plans a quiet Sicilian holiday, the events of his week include an encounter with the Mafia, a kidnapping, drug-trafficking, and an unscheduled trip to Malta and Naples. TB 2108.

Bradby, Tom

The white Russian. 2003. Read by David Weatherly, 16 hours 27 minutes. TB 15266.

This thriller starts in St Petersburg in 1917 as the glittering Empire of the Tsars is on the brink of revolution. For investigator Sandro Ruzsky of the city police, this decaying world is his life. He finds himself investigating the murders of a young couple found frozen into a river and embroiled in a deadly conspiracy. Contains violence. TB 15266.

Bradley, James

The resurrectionist. 2008. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 9 hours 44 minutes. TB 16014.

This book is set in London, 1826. Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's underworld, a place where everything and everyone is for sale, and where - as Gabriel discovers - the taking of a life is easier than it might seem. Contains violence. TB 16014.

Brady, Joan

Bleedout. 2005. Read by Stuart Milligan, 15 hours 8 minutes. TB 14378.

Hugh Freyl is a blind lawyer, scion of Illinois' most influential family. He recounts this story from the grave. David Marion is Freyl's protege and a young convicted killer whose release from prison Freyl has orchestrated. He now stands accused of Hugh Freyl's murder. None from Freyl's powerful inner circle will stand up for David's innocence. The perfect scapegoat for their misdoings, he alone bears the burden of proof. Contains strong language. TB 14378.

Braine, John

The pious agent. 1975. Read by Robert Gladwell, 10 hours 15 minutes. TB 2921.

Xavier Flynn, ruthless British secret agent, is a Catholic with an eye on his record in heaven, a keen eye for a woman, and a born survivor and hero for our times. TB 2921.

Bramah, Ernest

The mysteries of Max Carrados. Read by Simon Callow and Lionel Jeffries, 1 hour 28 minutes. TB 12044.

More from the popular BBC Radio 4 series Thriller Playhouse, starring Simon Callow as the celebrated blind detective, who can shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart. TB 12044.

Brierley, David

Death and co. 1999. Read by Rula Lenska, 10 hours 25 minutes. TB 12002.

Cody is a freelance agent, recruited by the SIS, trained by the CIA, living and working in Paris. Hired to find those who killed the wife and kidnapped the recently adopted Romanian daughter of a Nimes businessman, she runs into an old enemy; she is into something much larger than anticipated. TB 12002.

Brookmyre, Christopher

Quite ugly one morning. 2003. Read by Kenny Blyth, 13 hours 1 minute. TB 13548.

Jack Parlabane series; book 1. Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Hear it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell? Contains strong language. TB 13548.

Brookmyre, Christopher

One fine day in the middle of the night. 1999. Read by Jonathan Hackett, 13 hours 42 minutes. TB 12337.

Gavin is creating a unique "holiday experience" - every facility any tourist who hates "abroad" will ever want is to be available on a converted North Sea oil rig. He hosts a school reunion to test the resort, but a group of terrorists have invited themselves to the party. Contains violence. TB 12337.

Brown, Dan

Digital fortress. 2005. Read by Jeff Harding, 12 hours 45 minutes. TB 15437.

When the National Security Agency's code-breaking machine comes across a code it cannot decipher, the agency calls in Susan Fletcher. She finds that the agency is being held to ransom with a code so complex that it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Contains strong language. TB 15437.

Buchan, John

The house of the four winds. 1993. Read by Robbie MacNab, 9 hours 36 minutes. TB 10381.

Tension is mounting in the Central European state of Evallonia as the government grows more unpopular, and the youth movement vies for power with the pretender to the throne. Dickson McCunn and the Gorbals Die-Hards cannot resist becoming involved yet again in Evallonia politics, and set out to help Prince John. At the centre of the story lies the foreboding House of the Four Winds. TB 10381.

Buckley, William F

High jinx. 1986. Read by Tony Chambers, 8 hours 13 minutes. TB 6902.

It is 1954. Stalin is dead. Georgi Malenkov sits unsurely as party chief and the ruthless Lavrenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots his own rise to power. Britain and the US launch a secret commando raid to overthrow the Soviet-dominated government of Albania. But there has been a leak, which Blackford Oakes is brought in to plug... and to find the traitor. TB 6902.

Burstyn, Varda

Water Inc. 2004. Read by Hayward Morse, 13 hours. TB 14408.

The United States is parched and has a terrible thirst after years of drought. William Ericsson Greele, a brilliant, immensely powerful industrialist, figures he's the man with the solution and Canada is the place to make it happen. Exploiting Quebec's desire for independence, he organizes a consortium to pipe and ship water south. TB 14408.

Byrnes, Michael

The sacred bones. 2007. Read by Steve Hodson, 13 hours 17 minutes. TB 15877.

An ancient artefact is stolen from beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. With thirteen Israeli soldiers dead, and the Palestinians outraged over the desecration of the sacred ground, tensions are running high. Detectives must work against the clock to identify the stolen relic and the thieves, before civil unrest escalates to deadly proportions. Meanwhile, in Vatican city, American scientist Charlotte Hennesey and Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei have been secretly summoned to analyse a mysterious artefact, that could prove to be history's darkest secret: a human skeleton, approximately 2,000 years old, and bearing the unmistakeable marks of crucifixion. With the malevolent eye of Vatican security expert Salvatore Conte watching her every move, Charlotte must work against the clock to uncover an astonishing truth that threatens the very foundations of belief. Contains strong language. TB 15877.

Cain, Tom

The Accident Man. 2008. Read by Steven Crossley, 12 hours 29 minutes. TB

15744.

Samuel Carver series; book 1. Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver. Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. He was once a Royal Marine. Now he's freelance, the frontline weapon of the Consortium, a group so secretive even he does not know the true identities of the people who command. But now Carver wants to quit. He's had enough of death. Then he's sent on one last hit, planned at extremely short notice. The target is a high-ranking terrorist. The means is a car crash in a Paris underpass. When he discovers his victim is the world's most famous woman, he becomes the next target. Contains strong language. TB 15744.

Carey, Peter

His illegal self. 2008. Read by John Eastman, 7 hours 27 minutes. TB 15828.

Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, the precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbour who predicts 'They will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here.' Soon Che too is an outlaw, fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, as he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he slowly, bravely, confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. Contains strong language. TB 15828.

Carlotto, Massimo

The Colombian mule. 2005. Read by Sean Barrett, 4 hours 48 minutes. TB 14138.

When Colombian Arias Cuevas is caught trying to smuggle drugs through Venice airport, his fear isn't fuelled by the idea of prison. He's much more frightened of his aunt - it was her coke he took off with. The cops set up a sting to find out who was to be the recipient of the drugs, and art smuggler Nazzareno Corradi falls straight into the trap. But he's been set up. His lawyer hires 'the Alligator', and his fixer, Max, to find out what's going on. Soon it becomes apparent why Cuevas was so afraid – the aunt, La Tia, has left a bloody trail in her wake, is now looking to do some business in Italy, and she's not about to let anybody get in her way. Contains strong language. TB 14138.

Case, John

The murder artist. 2005. Read by Stuart Milligan, 14 hours 50 minutes. TB 14773.

As a foreign correspondent, Alex Callahan has travelled to the most dangerous corners of the globe, seen blood and death, and known fear. But he has never known the visceral terror that grabs him when his six-year-old twins vanish without a trace. Alex vows to use his own investigative skills to rescue his children. Exploring the secretive world of professional magicians and the eerie culture of voodoo, Alex uncovers a predator unlike any other. TB 14773.

Chaloner, John

Occupational hazard. 1991. Read by George Hagan, 19 hours 36 minutes. TB 9456.

Felix Tolly, veteran TV journalist and anchorman for BBC's Newswatch programmes, knows a major story must be breaking. An assassination attempt on the American ambassador in London is foiled by media mogul Max Beaumont, and the elderly millionaire's life story mirrors the drama and chaos of the century itself. TB 9456.

Child, Lee

Killing floor. 1999. Read by Jay Benedict, 14 hours 2 minutes. TB 15483.

Jack Reacher series; book 1. Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain, just passing through. An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Contains strong language. TB 15483.

Chubin, Barry

The feet of a snake. 1984. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 11 hours 23 minutes. TB 5496.

Michael Adel has fled the Iranian Revolution with family, wealth and charm intact. Through his contacts with the Shah's old cronies he is approached by the CIA to carry out a dangerous one-man mission: to retrieve top secret Western military files left behind in Teheran after the Shah's downfall and now about to fall into Soviet hands. TB 5496.

Clancy, Tom

Tom Clancy's net force. 1998. Read by Jeff Harding, 10 hours 55 minutes.

TB 11909.

It is 2010 and the Internet has become the world's central nervous system. If terrorists are going to subvert the new world order, this is where they will strike. To deter the terrorists Net Force is a team of highly trained operatives whose homeground is the Virtual Reality world of the Net, with the Net Force Strike Teams at the ready to take the battle into the real world with their own devastating firepower. However, programmer and political mastermind Vladimir Plekhanov has devised a scheme to bring chaos to the Net and attain untold power. TB 11909.

Clancy, Tom

Tom Clancy's Op-centre: games of state. 1996. Read by Jack Roberts, 14 hours 49 minutes. TB 10991.

Op-centre series; book 1. In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn't the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United States. TB 10991.

Clark, Mary Higgins

Two little girls in blue. 2007. Read by Kate Harper, 8 hours 46 minutes. TB 15845.

Returning home from a black-tie dinner in New York, Margaret and Steve Frawley find the police in their house and their twin daughters gone. The kidnapper, who calls himself the "Pied Piper", soon makes his terms known: on delivery of a ransom, a phone call will reveal the girls' whereabouts. The ransom is delivered but, when the call comes, only Kelly is in the car parked behind a deserted restaurant. The driver is dead from a gunshot wound and has left a suicide note, confessing to killing Kathy and dumping her body in the ocean. When strange occurrences begin to suggest that Kathy may still be alive, and communicating with Kelly, Margaret finds herself alone in wanting to continue the search for her daughter. TB 15845.

Coben, Harlan

Hold tight. 2008. Read by Larry Belling, 11 hours 19 minutes. TB 16170.

Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill, they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son: "Just stay quiet and all safe." When Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. Contains strong language. TB 16170.

Coben, Harlan

No second chance. 2003. Read by Paul Barrett, 11 hours 42 minutes. TB 15209.

A shocking attack leaves Marc Seidman clinging to life. When he awakens in hospital, he learns that his wife is dead and his baby daughter is missing. A ransom demand is soon made for her return but when the money drop is botched, Marc fears the worst. Will he ever see his daughter again? Contains strong language. TB 15209.

Cole, Martina

The jump. 2004. Read by Annie Aldington, 22 hours 8 minutes. TB 14114.

Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for eighteen years on a charge of armed robbery. Georgio swears he's been set up and, terrified he won't survive the rigours of Parkhurst, persuades Donna to help him escape. Implementing the daring plan takes Donna into a twilight world she never believed existed - a world of brutal sex and casual violence. Finally, she is confronted by a series of shattering revelations that threaten not only everything she believes in but also, ultimately, her own life. Contains strong language. TB 14114.

Coleridge, Nicholas

With friends like these. 1997. Read by Greg Wagland, 14 hours 34 minutes. TB 11097.

Anna Grant is a magazine journalist with a flair for making people talk, and a penchant for danger. She is found dead, killed almost certainly by someone she knew. Four men had a motive to kill her, and all four had the opportunity. This book takes the reader into the heart of the magazine business, where envy, ambition and gossip feed on each other, and where deadly power games are played. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 11097.

Condon, Richard

Winter kills. 1974. Read by Marvin Kane, 10 hours 16 minutes. TB 2647.

Fourteen years after the assassination of President Kegan, his family learns that he has been the victim of a conspiracy. They follow the clues to the horrible, bitter end. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 2647.

Connolly, John

Bad men. 2003. Read by Hayward Morse, 12 hours 40 minutes. TB 13226.

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island's resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island's secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. Contains strong language. TB 13226.

Cook, Robin

Brain. 1981. Read by Simon Vance, 8 hours 42 minutes. TB 5431.

Hidden in a drawer deep in a hospital morgue in New York lies a female corpse whose organs are intact, but whose brain is missing. Martin and Denise, coming across this accidently, find themselves forced to co-operate in ghastly medical experiments. TB 5431.

Cordy, Michael

Lucifer. 2001. Read by Sean Barrett, 9 hours 34 minutes. TB 14701.

Light divides the universe in two: day and night. Good and evil. Life and death. Now its power, harnessed by a new generation of optical computers, attempts to answer the ultimate question: What happens when we die? But this is perilous knowledge, as brilliant young neurologist Dr Miles Fleming discovers. To find the truth he must challenge the certainties of science and religion, embarking on a journey that jeopardizes his most basic assumptions and beliefs. As he becomes entangled in the schemes of a charismatic religious leader, seeking to exploit what lies beyond death for his own ambitious ends, he realises, too late, that there are some things one should never know. TB 14701.

Cox, Richard

The KGB directive. 1981. Read by Christopher Saul, 12 hours 25 minutes. TB 4239.

Accident investigator Jim Donaldson discovers that the crash of a new export-boosting airliner was engineered by an embittered shop steward, with the KGB spymasters pulling strings behind the scenes. TB 4239.

Creed, John

The Sirius crossing. Read by Sean Barrett, 9 hours 15 minutes. TB 13104.

Jack Valentine series; book 1. A seemingly simple task throws up deadly questions with no immediate answers for Jack Valentine. What were American Special Forces doing in Ireland twenty-five years ago? What is the thread that leads from a deserted mountainside to the offices of the White House? As Valentine draws an old flame and an old friend into his dangerous, pitiless chase, he no longer knows what threatens him most. A dark alliance of men want to kill him for information and he is forced to undertake a terrible storm crossing in a battered, converted trawler - even his own cynicism seems to be dangerous. TB 13104.

Cussler, Clive

The golden buddha. 2004. Read by Tim Machin, 12 hours 13 minutes. TB 14120.

Oregon chronicles series; book 1. Only Cabrillo could convert the interior of a nondescript lumber hauler into a state of the art spy ship - and only he could take the helm on the dangerous covert missions it carries out for whatever U.S. agency pays the price. It's up to Cabrillo and his crew of expert intelligence and naval men to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese. His gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, he'll have to locate - and steal - the all-important artifact. And there are certain people who would do anything in their power to see him fail. TB 14120.

Davis, Anna

Melting. Read by Annie Aldington, 9 hours 45 minutes. TB 13388.

Jason, Fran and Eileen move listlessly from city to city, conning everyone they meet. For years they've been smalltime. Now they're ready to take on something bigger. A chance meeting gives Jason the idea for a grand scam in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, centring on a restaurant called The Melt. The intended victims are young Welsh artist Owen Meredith and his father, a high-kicking multi-millionaire Tom Jones fanatic. The scammers have only each other to hold on to in their self-created world where nothing is solid and real. But these consummate actors are beginning to confuse fact and fiction. Can they really trust each other? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13388.

Deaver, Jeffery

The bone collector. 2006. Read by Jeff Harding, 12 hours 51 minutes. TB 14514.

Lincoln Rhyme series; book 1. New York is in the middle of a huge UN conference when it is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a premiere forensic investigation team, enlisting as his arms and legs a beautiful young police officer, Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind - and slowly begins to tighten the noose. Contains violence. TB 14514.

Deaver, Jeffery

Manhattan is my beat. Read by Jeff Harding, 8 hours 12 minutes. TB 12834.

Rune series; book 1. Rune hasn't been in Manhattan very long, but she's crafty enough to have found a squatters' paradise and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. Mr Kelly, her favourite customer, rents the same video over and over again - Manhattan is my beat - a noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars. That's the tape Rune is picking up from Mr Kelly's shabby apartment when she finds him shot dead. Rune is certain the key to solving the murder is hidden somewhere in the hazy, black-and-white frames of Mr Kelly's beloved movie... TB 12834.

Deighton, Len

Berlin game. 1983. Read by Syd Ralph, 9 hours 40 minutes. TB 5395.

Bernard Samson series; book 1. Bernard Sampson had been behind a desk in Whitehall for five years when his bosses decided that he was the right man to slip into East Berlin and talk Brahms Four out of doing something disastrous. But Samson knew there were a few people he could trust, either in Berlin or at home. Too many missions had gone wrong; too many secrets had leaked. TB 5395.

Deighton, Len

Violent ward. 1993. Read by Steven Crossley, 10 hours 23 minutes. TB 10215.

Mickey Murphy is a criminal lawyer in Los Angeles who does not need to be pulled in as a suspect for a brutal murder, which is what happens when he asks questions on behalf of Ingrid Petrovitch, his childhood sweetheart, who reappears in his life when her husband buys into his firm. What shady business has he got into; how does it connect with the odd English couple, Victor Crichton and Sir Jeremy Westbridge, not to mention the Reverend Egar Stojil, known as Rainbow? TB 10215.

DeMille, Nelson

Plum Island. 1997. Read by Garrick Hagon, 19 hours 10 minutes. TB 12529.

John Corey series; book 1. NYPD Homicide detective, John Corey is recuperating from wounds he received in the line of duty when he was hired to consult on the murder of two biologists who worked on Plum Island conducting animal research for the Department of Agriculture. Had they discovered a vaccine or even a new virus? TB 12529.

Dickinson, Peter

King and joker. 1976. Read by Robert Gladwell, 8 hours 25 minutes. TB 3024.

Princess Louise series; book 1. A thriller set in Buckingham Palace where a practical joker's activities get out of hand. TB 3024.

Dobbs, Michael

Goodfellowe MP. 1997. Read by Gordon Reid, 9 hours 53 minutes. TB 11078.

Thomas Goodfellowe series; book 1. Thomas Goodfellowe asks questions about abuses, and listens more carefully than most to the answers. His overriding concern for ordinary people thrusts him headlong into conflict with the most powerful forces in the land, and there are those who set out to destroy him. Yet he remains a parliamentary detective, intent on pursuing his investigations no matter what the personal cost. For when a man has lost everything, the rules no longer matter. TB 11078.

Dobbs, Michael

Last man to die. 1992. Read by Peter Barker, 11 hours 13 minutes. TB 9796.

Refusing to wait for peace and the freedom it will bring, Peter Hencke is a German POW on the run in spring 1945. Fired by a personal mission that drives him to risk everything in his lonely, treacherous journey back to Berlin. Pursued by mighty armies, and the most powerful and ruthless men in Europe, and helped and loved by two most extraordinary women, Hencke's secret will be hidden until the very last moments of the war. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 9796.

Dobyns, Stephen

The church of dead girls. 1997. Read by Jeff Harding, 14 hours 23 minutes. TB 12138.

One after another, three girls vanish from a small American town. After the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders, oddballs and strangers. When a second girl goes missing, neighbours and lifelong friends start to look at each other with suspicious eyes. Finally, with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town wakens to a horrific nightmare. Contains violence. TB 12138.

Doyle, Richard

Volcano. 2006. Read by Jeff Harding, 16 hours 47 minutes. TB 14808.

An Island people are fighting for their lives - a volcano in the Canaries has erupted - soon ash and lava will annihilate everything, unless the locals can destroy the volcano first. A desperate group set out armed with high explosives. TB 14808.

Duffy, Maureen

Housespy. 1978. Read by George Hagan, 8 hours 50 minutes. TB 3409.

Scully thought his appointment as personal guard to a minister was a dull, safe sidetrack; but he was soon to find that mystery and danger threatened wherever they went. TB 3409.

Easterman, Daniel

Incarnation. 2004. Read by Sean Barrett, 18 hours 32 minutes. TB 14625.

In Northern India a twelve-year old boy is being interrogated by three intelligence officers. His tale is so incredible none dares believe it. He appears to be the reincarnation of a dead British secret agent. His knowledge is that of a grown man, Matthew Hyde, who disappeared in China's Sinkiang province whilst investigating the links between Iraqi nuclear scientists and Chinese research bases. Somewhere there is a massive conspiracy to supply Saddam Hussain with a weapon against which there can be no defence. And only the boy knows the secret. Contains violence. TB 14625.

Egleton, Clive

A different drummer. 1985. Read by Christopher Saul, 8 hours 51 minutes. TB 6330.

It is late afternoon on Christmas Eve and the police force is on its guard for threatened IRA terrorist activity. In the Joint Intelligence Bureau three staff members are left man operations. Then, out of the blue, Operation Silent Night explodes and the lives of three JIB staff members are changed forever. TB 6330.

Eisler, Barry

Hard rain. 2004. Read by Jeff Harding, 11 hours 12 minutes. TB 14213.

John Rain series; book 2. Sequel to: Rain fall, TB 13267. John Rain - jazz fan, whiskey connoisseur and assassin - is dragged out of retirement, first by blackmail and then by revenge. Tatsu, his old nemesis from the Japanese FBI, comes to him with one last job: to find and eliminate a killer at large, a creature with neither compassion nor compunction, whose activities could tip the balance of power in Japan's corrupt politics and who seems to have designs on Rain's few friends. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14213.

Evans, Jon

The blood price. 2005. Read by Jeff Harding, 14 hours 23 minutes. TB 14627.

Paul Wood was just a tourist in battle-scarred Sarajevo. Then an unexpected encounter changed his life. Now he is a desperate woman's only hope of escape. To get her to safety, he must find a way through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia. Pursued by brutal gangsters, unable to leave the country legally, Paul agrees to do a job for a shadowy group of human traffickers, in exchange for safe passage. But when he discovers the secrets seething beneath, the repercussions will propel him on a perilous journey around the world. TB 14627.

Evans, Nicholas

The divide. 2006. Read by William Hope, 13 hours 41 minutes. TB 15900.

Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray? Contains violence. TB 15900.

Fesperman, Dan

The small boat of great sorrows. 2004. Read by Sean Barrett, 11 hours 18 minutes. TB 14306.

Vlado Petric, former detective in war-torn Sarajevo, has left behind his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany. One evening, he finds an American investigator waiting for him. Calvin Pine works for the International War Crimes Tribunal and is requesting Petric's presence at The Hague. When Pine tells him they are after the man who they think is responsible for the terrible massacre of Srebenica, Petric readily accepts. What Petric doesn't know is that he is also being used as bait to lure into the open a murderer from the previous generation; a man whose activities in the Second World War make the current generation of killers look like amateurs. Contains violence. TB 14306.

Finder, Joseph

Killer instinct. 2006. Read by Scott Brick, 12 hours 3 minutes. TB 14871.

Thirty-year-old sales executive, Jason Steadman is a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office. But he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary to move up the corporate ladder. All that changes when Jason meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer just back from Iraq. Jason doesn't realise that actually Kurt is using him to achieve what he wants. TB 14871.

Fleming, Ian

Live and let die. 1954. Read by Duncan Carse, 7 hours 15 minutes. TB 532.

James Bond series; book 2. Sequel to: Casino Royale, TB 516. James Bond travels to New York, Florida, and Jamaica, and meets Mr. Big, a Negro master criminal, and Solitaire an exotic Creole beauty. TB 532.

Flynn, Gillian

Sharp objects. 2008. Read by Liza Ross, 8 hours 50 minutes. TB 16004.

When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family's Victorian mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows, a precocious 13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town and surrounds herself with a group of vampish teenage girls. TB 16004.

Follett, James

A cage of eagles. 1990. Read by Richard Owens, 7 hours 14 minutes. TB 8311.

The locals call it "Hush, Hush Hall". The British Army calls it No. 1 POW Camp (Officers), Grizedale Hall. British intelligence calls it the Cage of Eagles. The Hall is the biggest concentration of German prisoner-of-war talent in wartime Britain. U-boat ace Otto Kruger, the senior German officer, turns the camp into a clearing house for sending vital intelligence back to the Fatherland. TB 8311.

Follett, Ken

The hammer of Eden. 1999. Read by Peter Marinker, 13 hours 40 minutes. TB 12697.

A commune leader, known as Priest to his disciples, claiming that his group can bend the Governor of California to their will. Only FBI agent Judy Maddox takes their threats seriously. The group has threatened to cause a catastrophic earthquake in forty-eight hours time, and the clock is ticking... TB 12697.

Follett, Ken

The third twin. 1997. Read by Laurel Lefkow, 13 hours 10 minutes. TB 10979.

Jeannie Ferrami, a young scientist, comes across the baffling case of two young men who appear to be identical twins, but who were born to different mothers hundreds of miles apart - Steve, a law student, and Dennis, a convicted murderer. As she investigates this puzzle, powerful but shadowy forces attack her reputation. Once she and Steve solve the mystery they find themselves in more trouble than they could ever have imagined. TB 10979.

Forbes, Bryan

A song at twilight. 1994. Read by Johnathan Oliver, 15 hours 59 minutes. TB 11551.

Hillsden trilogy; book 2. Sequel to: The endless game, TB 11504. This book is set in 1990, when Britain is descending into anarchy, led by its corrupt Prime Minister, Toby Bayldon. Bayldon harbours classified information known to only one other, Alec Hillsden - disgraced MI6 agent, living in Leningrad. Hillsden is trying to smuggle a top secret brief past British security nets. Secrets which detail treachery and murder in the highest places - secrets explosive enough to rock the entire world. Contains violence. TB 11551.

Forbes, Colin

The year of the golden ape. 1999. Read by Peter Wickham, 10 hours. TB 13191.

Masterminding a plan to destroy Israel, Sheik Gamal Tafak has hired professional terrorists - including LeCat, the French Killer, and Winter, the enigmatic Englishman. The action races from Cairo to Hamburg, Paris, London and California. The worldwide conspiracy unfolds. Russia and the West are stunned. A super-tanker bound for San Francisco is hi-jacked, armed with a nuclear bomb. The extremists sail for the Golden Gate bridge, threatening to annihilate America's most beautiful city. Contains violence. TB 13191.

Forbes, Colin

Double jeopardy. 1983. Read by Stephen Thorne, 8 hours 56 minutes. TB 9243.

Tweed and Co series; book 1. Close to midnight on June 2nd, the Summit Express takes the top four Western leaders to meet the Soviet premier in Vienna. One of them is targeted - but which one, and how to save him, is Martel's dilemma. TB 9243.

Forbes, Leslie

Bombay ice. 1998. Read by Elizabeth Proud, 17 hours 14 minutes. TB 11581.

After twenty years of living in London, Rosalind Bengal still wakes dreaming of her childhood in India, where she learnt about meteorology, alchemy and poison. One day Rosalind receives a letter from her sister, now married to a celebrated Bombay film director, saying: 'People tell me he murdered his first wife.' So Rosalind returns to India. With the two sisters' lives under threat, Rosalind begins a dangerous search for the truth. Her best weapon is not a gun, but her knowledge of science. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 11581.

Forsyth, Frederick

Avenger. 2004. Read by Eric Conger, 10 hours 5 minutes. TB 15349.

The Avenger's latest assignment is the toughest of all. A young American aid worker in fractured Yugoslavia met a revolting death at the hands of an ethnic-cleansing squad led by a Serbian war criminal. The boy's billionaire grandfather can afford an expensive revenge, but the trail seems cold, until unstinting bribery and advanced computer hacking techniques trace the links from Serbia to the United Arab Emirates, a private plane, and a corrupt banana republic where the now very rich villain has the president and secret police on his payroll. Assaulting his massively guarded fortress would be a big job even if Dexter had surprise on his side. But the CIA wants to use that Serbian killer as a stalking-horse in an elaborate operation against Al Qaeda, and issues an urgent warning that the avenger is coming... Contains violence. TB 15349.

Forsyth, Frederick

The Afghan. 2007. Read by Steven Crossley, 10 hours 45 minutes. TB 15424.

When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al-Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action. But what can they do? They know nothing about the attack. They have no sources in Al-Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Unless the Afghan is Izmet Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year old veteran of war zones around the world. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before - pass of a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs. Contains strong language. TB 15424.

Francis, Clare

Deceit. 1993. Read by Jacqueline King, 16 hours 22 minutes. TB 10315.

Harry is presumed dead, missing at sea. At his memorial service Ellen's doubts about her husband take shape. As friends and colleagues pay their respects, a web of financial and political scandals surface and the Harry Ellen knew and loved turns out to have had several hidden lives. As she struggles to salvage what she can from the tangle of legal and emotional problems, a colleague of Harry's from the Falklands War enters her life and tries to uncover the truth about his death. The more he tries to help, the more the finger of suspicion points in her direction. TB 10315.

Francis, Dick

Shattered. 2000. Read by Conrad Hornby, 7 hours 53 minutes. TB 12620.

Gerard Logan finds that when his jockey friend dies following a fall at the Cheltenham races, he is involved in a desperate search for a stolen video tape which embroils him in more life-threatening hazards than does his work as a widely-acclaimed glass-blower. Contains violence. TB 12620.

Francis, Dick

Odds against. 1965. Read by John Richmond, 9 hours 13 minutes. TB 747.

Sid Halley series; book 1. While convalescing from a bullet wound, an ex-jockey investigates the mysterious decline of a racecourse, and comes to grips with the violent men responsible. TB 747.

Francome, John

Cover up. 2006. Read by Johnathan Keeble, 9 hours 15 minutes. TB 14588.

They say there’s no thrill like riding a big winner, but jockey Rob Harding has found something better – breeding one. His two-year-old colt Goldeneye is the product of Rob’s own stud farm and, as the horse takes the July Stakes at Newmarket, it seems he can lift Rob's failing business out of the mire. But no amount of prize money can deflect the tragedy waiting around the corner. TB 14588.

Frayn, Michael

Spies. Read by Martin Jarvis, 7 hours 25 minutes. TB 15463.

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of World War II. But the two friends suspect the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith informs his trusting friend, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories. TB 15463.

Freemantle, Brian

Face me when you walk away. 1974. Read by David Strong, 9 hours 48 minutes. TB 2470.

After seven years in a Russian prison camp, Josef is suddenly set free in order to guard politically and emotionally a young writer: Josef knows only too well that his life depends on his success. TB 2470.

French, Nicci

Secret smile. 2004. Read by Anne Flosnik, 9 hours 52 minutes. TB 14472.

When Miranda Cotton gets home from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she breaks off the relationship and throws him out. Getting Brendan out of her life, however, is not so easy. When he starts seeing her sister, what begins as an embarrassment turns into a nightmare. TB 14472.

Fullerton, John

White boys don't cry. 2006. Read by Paul Herzberg, 8 hours 41 minutes. TB 14872.

The murder of Cris Schuter, a former government Minister in South Africa during the apartheid regime, threatens to throw up all sorts of secrets for Sebastian Palfrey. Palfrey, a British newspaper correspondent, grew up with Schuter's son Josh. In fact, they have quite a history together, and along with their political activist buddy Zak, there's plenty they'd all like to keep under wraps. Contains strong language. TB 14872.

Fullerton, John

A hostile place. 2005. Read by Jonathan Hackett, 10 hours 8 minutes. TB 14739.

What really happened to Osama Bin Laden? For Thomas Morgan the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington provide an opportunity to keep one step ahead of the law. With a broken marriage, two children and an overdraft, the former soldier, sometime spy and occasional thief finds a new market for his skills - in Afghanistan, tracking down Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives. And when the world's most wanted man disappears, Morgan's talents command a much higher premium. But only one man knows how to find Washington's arch foe, and only Morgan has the expertise and grit to get close enough to kill him. Trouble is, the two men are enemies. Contains strong language. TB 14739.

Furst, Alan

Dark star. 2004. Read by Stephen Thorne, 17 hours 17 minutes. TB 14148.

Paris, Moscow, Berlin and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys and glittering salons of night time Europe, war is already underway as the Soviet NKVD and the Nazi Gestapo confront each other in a brilliant duel of espionage. Into the fray comes André Szara, foreign correspondent for Pravda and spy. Deputy of the Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. Dark Star captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call "special work". TB 14148.

Gandolfi, Simon

Golden web. 1994. Read by Garard Green, 8 hours 27 minutes. TB 10631.

A yacht, the "Beau Belle", sinks within the Cuban Reef. Aboard were four men who have disappeared. Did any survive? Was the sinking sabotage, or was it, possibly, murder? O'Brien, of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, pits Trent, late of the British intelligence services and his catamaran, "Golden Girl", against the powers of the Mafia and of the Cuban navy in a race to unravel the web of menace and mystery surrounding the sunken vessel. TB 10631.

Gardner, John

Confessor. 1998. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 14 hours 10 minutes. TB

12809.

Herbie Kruger, out of shape and out of form, pulls himself together to delve into the circumstances of the death of his former colleague Gus Keene. Kruger is soon embroiled in a terrifying maze that began in his own past and suddenly leads to the extremely dangerous present. TB 12809.

Gardner, Lisa

The survivors club. 2006. Read by Liza Ross, 14 hours 41 minutes. TB 14737.

The Survivors Club - that's what Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen and Meg Pesaturo call it. They won't consider themselves victims. And now that Eddie Como, the College Hill Rapist, has been shot dead outside a packed courthouse moments before his trial was to begin, all three women are openly ecstatic. They are also the prime suspects in his murder. Contains violence. TB 14737.

Gatiss, Mark

The Vesuvius Club. 2006. Read by Mark Gatiss, 6 hours 38 minutes. TB 15883.

Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde: portrait painter, wit, dandy and rake - the guest all hostesses must have. And most do. But few of his connections or conquests know that Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, and when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse, Number 9 Downing Street, to the seediest stews of Naples, in search of a secret society; one which may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club. TB 15883.

Gilbert, Michael

Smallbone deceased. 1983. Read by Michael McStay, 6 hours 54 minutes. TB 8363.

Another classic Michael Gilbert thriller, set within the legal profession. The mystery begins when the body of a client is found dead in a deed-box of the impeccable legal firm of Horniman, Birley and Crane. But why? And how was the Horniman system broken? A classic English murder mystery. TB 8363.

Gilstrap, John

Scott free. 2003. Read by Martin T Sherman, 11 hours 28 minutes. TB 14236.

Scott series; book 1. After recklessly accepting a lift in a light plane to get to a rock concert, Scott escapes with his life when the plane goes down, killing the pilot. Alone in the wild, Scott must dig deep to survive whilst his father frantically rallies the rescue effort. But when he makes a desperate bid for safety and stumbles on a remote, inhabited cabin, his problems truly begin as he becomes a witness to preparations for a terrible crime that only he can prevent. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14236.

Gimenez, Mark

The colour of law. 2005. Read by Jim McLarty, 12 hours 6 minutes. TB 15311.

In this story of politics, greed and murder, a Dallas corporate lawyer could lose everything he holds dear. He has reluctantly agreed to defend a black, heroin-addicted prostitute, in a murder trial where the victim's father is a senator with presidential ambitions. Contains violence. TB 15311.

Goddard, Robert

Set in stone. 2000. Read by Michael Kitchen, 11 hours 7 minutes. TB 12521.

Recovering from the recent death of his wife in a tragic accident, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband, long-time friend Matt, in their home in the country. Disturbed by memories of his wife, and an attraction for Lucy, he starts having weird dreams. TB 12521.

Goodman, Carol

The lake of dead languages. 2002. Read by Wendy Karstens, 13 hours 13 minutes. TB 15258.

This psychological thriller is one woman's journey back to the dramatic past she thought she'd left behind. She returns as a Latin teacher to her alma mater, Heart Lake, a private girls school deep in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Newly separated from her husband, she hopes to find sanctuary at her old school, but is disturbed to find that old legends still haunt the school. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 15258.

Gray, John MacLachlan

The fiend in human. 2003. Read by Patrick Romer, 15 hours 5 minutes. TB 13268.

Edmund Whitty series; book 1. In seedy Victorian London, William Garvey, a serial killer, is shortly to hang for his crimes. Balladeer Mr Owler kidnaps a journalist, Edmund Whitty, to force him to get a confession from Garvey. They embark on a strange journey, where copycat murders continue despite Garvey's incarceration. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13268.

Green, George Dawes

The juror. 1995. Read by Laurel Lefkow, 9 hours 18 minutes. TB 10741.

Annie is a perfect jury candidate, innocent, honest and old fashioned enough to think a syndicate hit is still murder. However, she is also a perfect candidate for the Teacher, the Mafia's most sinister representative, who needs one juror to return a verdict of not guilty. Fighting for her son's life and for her own she is stalked, seduced and terrorised, but it is a mistake to underestimate a woman protecting her only child. TB 10741.

Grisham, John

The broker. 2005. Read by Vincent Marzello, 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 15474.

With 14 years left on a 20 year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker

Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. Smuggled out of the country, he's given a new identity in Italy. But he has enemies from his past. Contains violence. TB 15474.

Grisham, John

The summons. 2002. Read by Vincent Marzello, 9 hours 50 minutes. TB 14980.

This book is set in Ford County, Mississippi - a place rich in colourful characters and dark family secrets. This tells the story of a dying judge who leaves his dissolute sons three million dollars in used bank notes. TB 14980.

Haggard, William

The meritocrats. 1985. Read by Derek Chandler, 6 hours 25 minutes. TB 5663.

International tension mounts as Russia and America intrigue for ANNE, a British invention and still at a dangerously unstable experimental stage - ANNE stands for Advanced Non-Nuclear Explosive and is a bomb of such intense heat that tanks in its path wither to fused lumps of metal. TB 5663.

Haggard, William

Visa to limbo. 1978. Read by Andrew Timothy, 5 hours 51 minutes. TB 3677.

Colonel Charles Russell, former Head of Security Executive, plans a holiday in Israel, but Intelligence there fear that his proneness to accidents might prove an embarrassment - and he certainly meets more than his fair share of these. TB 3677.

Hall, Adam

The Berlin memorandum. 1965. Read by David Broomfield, 7 hours 45 minutes. TB 235.

A Quiller novel; book 1. The risk of almost inevitable death is undertaken by a man working alone against a resurgent Nazi organisation with its secret headquarters in Berlin. TB 235.

Hamid, Mohsin

The reluctant fundamentalist. 2007. Read by Satya Bhabha, 4 hours 46 minutes. TB 15527.

At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man begins the tale that has led to his fateful meeting with an uneasy American stranger... Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. He thrives on the energy of New York, his work at an elite firm, and his budding relationship. For a time, it seems that nothing will stand in the way of his meteoric rise to success. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his relationship crumbling and his exalted status overturned. TB 15527.

Hannah, Sophie

Little face. 2006. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 11 hours 46 minutes. TB 14882.

Alice's baby is two weeks old when she leaves the house without her for the first time. On her eager return, she finds the front door open, her husband asleep on their bed upstairs. She rushes into their baby's room and screams. 'This isn't our baby! Where's our baby?' Her increasingly hostile husband swears she must be either lying or mad. One week later, Alice and the baby have disappeared. Contains strong language. TB 14882.

Hardy, Jules

Mister candid. 2004. Read by William Dufris, 12 hours 30 minutes. TB 14604.

The mind of a murderer; the heart of a saint. For seventeen years the FBI have been hunting down "Mr Candid": a killer with a difference. His victims are evildoers the law can't touch. But are his actions those of a maniac or a saviour? Born into a life of privilege and wealth on America's East Coast, Charlie Kane was a child prodigy. Reading the 'New York Times' at the age of three, a mathematical genius at thirteen, he went to Harvard where he found the love of his life and a place in the world. Until one Thanksgiving; seventeen years ago; when Charlie's world was torn apart and the entire Kane family all but vanished. Contains violence. TB 14604.

Harris, Joanne

Gentlemen & players. 2006. Read by Steven Pacey, 13 hours 17 minutes. TB 14494.

Set in a long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for staff and the boys, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Beneath the rivalries, disputes and crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. Contains strong language. TB 14494.

Harris, Robert

The ghost. 2007. Read by Richard Burnip, 10 hours 21 minutes. TB 15938.

The narrator this novel is a professional ghostwriter. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house. But it doesn't take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. Contains strong language. TB 15938.

Harrison, Harry

Rebel in time. 1983. Read by Simon Vance, 8 hours 22 minutes. TB 5146.

There was something strange about Colonel McCulloch's behaviour: as head of security at a top secret service station near Washington he had good reason to be secretive. But why should he be hoarding gold in large quantities? And why should he be taking an interest in the American Civil War? TB 5146.

Harvey, Jack

Blood hunt. 2002. Read by Christian Rodska, 13 hours 5 minutes. TB 15113.

Gordon Reeve's brother has been found dead in his car in San Diego – the car was locked from the inside, a gun in his hand. In the US to identify the body Gordon comes to realise that his brother has in fact been murdered. What's more, it is soon obvious that his own life is in danger. Once back in Scotland he finds out that there have been more visitors than usual to his house and his home has been bugged by professionals. But Reeve is a professional too. Ex-SAS, he was half of a two-man unit with someone he came to fear, then to hate. It looks like his Nemesis is back. TB 15113.

Hayder, Mo

Pig Island. 2006. Read by Peter Kenny, 10 hours 37 minutes. TB 14891.

Investigative journalist Joe Oaks is on the trail of a strange creature caught on some amateur film footage: a figure so deformed it can hardly be human. Recently arrived on the remote Scottish island where it was sighted, he is determined to expose the creature as the religious hoax. Contains strong language. TB 14891.

Herron, Mick

Down cemetery road. 2004. Read by Anna Bentinck, 13 hours 27 minutes. TB

14488.

Sarah Tucker - a young married woman, bored and unhappy with her life - becomes obsessed with trying to find a little girl who disappears after a neighbouring house is destroyed by a massive explosion. She is soon left wondering if she has ever known the truth about anything as her attempts at investigation reveal that people she thought long dead are still alive and those living are fast joining the dead. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14488.

Hiaasen, Carl

Skinny dip. 2005. Read by Jeff Harding, 13 hours 53 minutes. TB 15965.

Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She's just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner by Chaz, her scumbag husband, and survived to tell the tale. But rather than reporting him to the police, she decides to stay dead and - with a little help from her friends and a few of Chaz's enemies - instead of getting mad, she's going to get even. TB 15965.

Higgins, Jack

A prayer for the dying. 1996. Read by John Cormack, 6 hours 22 minutes. TB 10992.

No one becomes a contract killer and expects to hang around to collect a pension. Sooner or later, even the best make mistakes. Even Martin Fallon, the most ruthless of them all... Fallon was the best you could get with a gun in his hand. His first mistake was to cross powerful crime boss Jack Meehan. His last, to seek redemption for his soul. TB 10992.

Higgins, Jack

Eye of the storm. 1992. Read by Michael McStay, 7 hours 26 minutes. TB 9909.

Sean Dillon series; book 1. The mortar attack on Number Ten Downing Street when the War Cabinet was meeting on Thursday 7th February 1991 is now a matter of history. It has never been satisfactorily explained. "Eye of the Storm" brilliantly persuades the reader of events leading up to the abortive attack – and beyond. As always the reader meets a remarkable cast of characters. Most remarkable of all, perhaps, are Myra Harvey who thrives within the London underworld and Angel, the young Irish girl who falls under Dillon's spell. TB 9909.

Highsmith, Patricia

Strangers on a train. 1999. Read by William Roberts, 10 hours 10 minutes. TB 13255.

Two men, a tennis star and a psychopath, meet by chance on a train and 'swap' murders. 'Some people are better off dead - like your wife and my father, for instance' as Bruno, the rich psychopath puts it, before proceeding to carry out his part of the bargain. A chance meeting and a rash conversation can lead to all sorts of trouble... TB 13255.

Household, Geoffrey

Watcher in the shadows. 1981. Read by David McAlister, 1 hour 49 minutes. TB 12996.

When a parcel bomb explodes on Charles Denham's doorstep he realises that an enemy from the past is out to destroy him. TB 12996.

Household, Geoffrey

Doom's caravan. 1971. Read by Gabriel Woolf, 7 hours 20 minutes. TB 1702.

A chilling story of counter-espionage set in the Lebanon during the Second World War. TB 1702.

Hurd, Douglas

Truth game. 1972. Read by Anthony Parker, 9 hours 49 minutes. TB 2035.

The Foreign Secretary has been killed in an aircrash. The Prime Minister decides to promote a senior back-bencher rather than remodel his government on the eve of an election. But when an old love affair catches alight, forgotten jealousies flare into life again. TB 2035.

Hurley, Graham

Permissible limits. 1999. Read by Shirley Dixon, 15 hours 43 minutes. TB 12139.

When Ellie's husband is killed in an accident her world falls apart. Her husband's company is in debt and, in order to keep it going, she must learn to fly the World War II fighter plane on which the firm's prosperity was built. She must also find answers to the questions of what really lies behind her husband's death. Contains strong language. TB 12139.

Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew

I see you. 2008. Read by Scott Brick, 10 hours 52 minutes. TB 15889.

When bestselling thriller writer Andrew Danner wakes up in a hospital bed with no idea how he got there, he is horrified to be told that he is responsible for the murder of his ex-fiancee. In the resulting celebrity trial, Drew is exonerated on the grounds of temporary insanity caused by a recent brain tumour. But he still has no idea if he did kill Genevieve, and is desperate to find out. Haunted by what appear to be his bizarre night-time actions - did he really cut his own foot with a knife? – Drew is shocked when another woman is discovered dead, murdered in the same way as Genevieve. Trying to clear his name and understand what's happening to him, Drew enlists the help of a tame forensic scientist, a sympathetic detective, his staunch friend Chic who has helpful underworld connections, and an over-confident teenager. Can Drew discover what really happened that night and unmask the real killer? Contains violence. TB 15889.

Iles, Greg

Dark matter. 2003. Read by Jeff Harding, 15 hours 16 minutes. TB 13986.

For nearly fifty years the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence has been to create a computer that can think like a human being. Has that day finally dawned? David Tenant is the man assigned by the President as Ethical Oversight Advisor to the secret National Security Agency project called Trinity. Like the others in the inner circle at Project Trinity, he knows the benefits that this technology can have, but he also knows the dangers. As a participant in the testing, David begins to experience severe side effects, and he isn't the only one. Contains strong language. TB 13986.

James, Donald

Walking the shadows. Read by Adam Sims, 16 hours 40 minutes. TB 13726.

A drowned village in the South of France called St Juste holds buried secrets from the Second World War. It is swiftly re-emerging as a summer drought empties the reservoir that hides it. Tom Chapel comes to St Juste to discover why the daughter of a local man was abducted, attacked and left in a life-threatening coma after the bequest of her father that left her a 28-million dollar fortune. His search takes him back to the rule of the Vichy government, smuggled Jews and the discovery that someone is harbouring a cold-blooded killer who, forty years later, is trying to preserve his secret. Contains strong language. TB 13726.

Jessup, Richard

Threat. 1981. Read by David Sinclair, 10 hours 37 minutes. TB 4274.

The target for the mysterious 'X' is the 100-storey St. Cyr Tower, a luxury hotel and apartment block, home of kings, oil tycoons and film stars and boasting one hundred per cent security. How then is it that 'X' can come and go as he pleases, leaving warnings of bombs? TB 4274.

Johnstone, Doug

Tombstoning. 2006. Read by Robbie MacNab, 8 hours 22 minutes. TB 14745.

Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances and you were the last person to see him alive, what do you do? Well, if you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you get the hell out of there and don't return. Not for at least fifteen years. TB 14745.

Kanon, Joseph

Alibi. 2005. Read by Adam Sims, 14 hours 38 minutes. TB 14740.

Set in 1946 Venice, Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator, confronts a city still at war with itself and haunted by the atrocities of the recent past, when he falls in love with a Jewish woman. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14740.

Keneally, Thomas

The office of innocence. 2003. Read by Steven Pacey, 10 hours 50 minutes. TB 15542.

Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he becomes entangled with a menage a trois and dangerously attracted to a married woman whose husband is a POW, who confesses that she has been tempted by a charismatic American sergeant. Before Father Darragh can dissuade her, she is murdered. Suspecting the sergeant, yet believing he might save his soul, Darragh gets drawn ever further into a morass his complacent superiors deplore and towards a showdown that could cost him his life. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15542.

Kernick, Simon

Relentless. 2007. Read by Mark Elstob, 9 hours 19 minutes. TB 15693.

John Meron, a happily married father of two who's never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life for ever: his friend Jack Calley, a high-flying City lawyer, is screaming down the phone for help. As Meron listens, Calley is murdered. His last words, spoken to his killer, are the first two lines of Meron's address. Contains strong language. TB 15693.

Kerr, Philip

Gridiron. 1995. Read by Adam Henderson, 13 hours 3 minutes. TB 10795.

In Los Angeles, a dazzling new building - GRIDIRON - has been built in which every aspect is controlled by an advanced computer system. On the eve of its opening, things start to go wrong. Then the building seals up its exits, trapping the team inside. Deaths start to escalate, and it is gradually realised that GRIDIRON itself has turned against them. TB 10795.

Langley, Bob

Blood river. 1989. Read by Stephen Thorne, 9 hours 10 minutes. TB 7710.

When a helicopter crashes on the Namibian border the implications are ominous. It was carrying a document of overwhelming significance to the future of South Africa and there is growing suspicion in the South African security services that it may have fallen into the wrong hands... With that doubt unresolved, a high-ranking minister arrives in London to begin talks with the British Government. At the same time a crack ANC team lands in England. TB 7710.

Lawson, Mike

The inside ring. 2006. Read by William Dufris, 9 hours 31 minutes. TB 14951.

Joe DeMarco is running out of time. Someone has made an attempt on the president's life, but the wrong man is dead. How could this happen when the president and those nearest to him are protected by a group of men known as the Inside Ring? Contains strong language. TB 14951.

Le Carre, John

The Russia house. 2008. Read by Michael Jayston, 13 hours 54 minutes. TB 16047.

Documents have been smuggled out of Russia indicating that the Soviet defence system is in utter shambles, but England and the United States are uncertain about the validity of the information. London publisher "Barley" Blair is recruited to go to Russia and uncover the facts, but no one plans on his falling in love with Katya. TB 16047.

Leasor, James

Frozen assets. 1989. Read by Michael McStay, 8 hours 47 minutes. TB 8454.

In war-ravaged Afghanistan, the Russians come across the corpse of a 17th century explorer preserved in an ice cave. On the cadaver they discover the long lost secret of a rare and precious metal, Rhodium. If they can locate the source of this potentially priceless substance, they will be in a dominant position on the international scene. The stakes are high and death is the price for interference. Now enter Dr Jason Love ... TB 8454.

Leather, Stephen

The birthday girl. 2007. Read by Martyn Read, 17 hours 53 minutes. TB 14952.

Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she is his adopted daughter, the perfect all - American girl - and the past is another country. Or so it seems. But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is subject to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help. Contains violence. TB 14952.

Leather, Stephen

The double tap. 2006. Read by Martyn Read, 17 hours 14 minutes. TB 14832.

The assassin - the world's most successful contract killer. Ice cool, accurate and elusive. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each of his targets. An ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfect sacrificial bait. When the FBI discover the next name on the assassin's hitlist, Cramer is set up to take his place. Contains violence. TB 14832.

Lewis, Susan

Silent truths. 2002. Read by Anna Bentinck, 21 hours 52 minutes. TB 14255.

Laurie Forbes series; book 1. When journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on Beth Ashby's doorstep minutes after Beth's husband, political high flier Colin Ashby, has been arrested for murder, neither can even begin to guess the shocking repercussions that will result for them both. TB 14255.

Louvish, Simon

The death of Moishe-Ganef: a Levantine tale. 1986. Read by Gabriel Woolf, 7 hours 10 minutes. TB 6592.

Moving between a schismatised Israel and the nightmare of war-torn Lebanon is Joe Dekel, ex-intelligence officer, TV critic and dissident - Israel's only religious anarchist. He is striving to maintain his neutrality but when a friend is murdered, opting out becomes untenable. Despite the subject-matter the book is full of anarchic humour and is a barbed assault on the myths and mores of modern Israel. TB 6592.

Lucarelli, Carlo

Almost blue. 2003. Read by Daniel Philpott, 4 hours 57 minutes. TB 13609.

Ispettore Negro series; book 1. A serial killer is terrorising the students of Bologna. Rookie female detective Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. Only one witness can positively identify the killer...and he's blind. Simone spends his days in solitude, listening to Elvis Costello's Almost Blue and scanning the radio waves of the city to eavesdrop on other people's lives. He likes to imagine what people are like - based on the tone and 'colour' of their voice - and his acute hearing sets alarm bells ringing upon hearing the voice of the killer. Contains strong language. TB 13609.

Ludlum, Robert

The Bourne identity. 1993. Read by Jon Cartwright, 20 hours 44 minutes. TB 11165.

Bourne series; book 1. Who is Jason Bourne? And why does he have four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? This is the story of a man who has lost his memory, and his search to find out who he is and what he has done. He starts with one clue: someone wants him dead. And the more he discovers, the more terrifying his quest becomes. Contains violence. TB 11165.

Lyall, Gavin

The secret servant. 1982. Read by Gordon Griffin, 8 hours 57 minutes. TB 13856.

Harry Maxim series; book 1. A suicide at the ministry of defence, a hand grenade through the door of number ten, a Czech defector with a file worth killing for... the whole sequence of incidents points the finger at John Tyler. Professor John Tyler is a nuclear strategist and insatiable lecher. Harry Maxim – SAS major on special assignment to Downing Street - is under orders to watch Tyler's back. Contains strong language. TB 13856.

McCarthy, Cormac

No country for old men. 2005. Read by William Roberts, 7 hours 14 minutes. TB 15071.

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches along and across the border. Contains strong language. TB 15071.

McClure, Ken

Past lives. 2006. Read by Robert G Slade, 8 hours 21 minutes. TB 14946.

When successful neurosurgeon John MacAndrew performs a routine operation, the patient undergoes a severe personality change post-surgery. Hartman's tumour is diagnosed, a rare condition that leaves its victims deranged and destined to be confined to mental institutions. Blamed by the patient's husband for the dreadful outcome, MacAndrew retreats to his native Scotland to lick his wounds. TB 14946.

McDermid, Val

The mermaids singing. 2003. Read by Stephen Thorne, 12 hours 9 minutes. TB 14341.

Tony Hill series; book 1. A serial killer is on the loose in the northern city of Bradfield. Four men have been brutally killed by savage knife wounds. In each case, the men have been mutilated and tortured, though the mutilations are not identical and nothing obvious appears to connect the victims. Fear grips the city; no man feels safe. Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is brought in to profile the killer, to work alongside Detective Inspector Carol Jordan. Contains strong language. TB 14341.

MacLaverty, Bernard

Cal. 1983. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 5 hours 25 minutes. TB 4717.

A political thriller that is also a haunting love story. The setting is Ulster and the 'star-crossed' lovers a sensitive youth, drawn unwillingly into IRA violence as the driver of a getaway car, and the local librarian whose husband has been mortally wounded by the Republicans. TB 4717.

MacLean, Alistair

Seawitch. 1979. Read by Nigel Graham, 7 hours 24 minutes. TB 10231.

The massive oil rig is the hub of a great empire, the pride of its billionaire owner. Lord Worth, predatory and ruthless, has clawed his way to great wealth. Now he cares only for his daughter and for Seawitch. John Cronkite, troubleshooter for the world's top oilmen, and Worth's ex-victim, is spoiling for revenge. In one terrifying week, Worth's world explodes. TB 10231.

McNab, Andy

Remote control. 1997. Read by Ric Jerrom, 12 hours 54 minutes. TB 11573.

Nick Stone series; book 1. Ex-SAS soldier Nick Stone is working in the USA when an old friend Kevin tips him off about the Canary Wharf bombing. Nick flies to see him, only to find that Kevin and his family have been brutally murdered. TB 11573.

McNab, Andy

Boy Soldier. 2006. Read by Annie Aldington, 6 hours 46 minutes. TB 15447.

Boy Soldier series; book 1. Danny Watts' grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor - one of the worst sort and an SAS explosives expert who betrayed his country and his Regiment for money - drug money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. At least, that's what seventeen-year-old Danny is told when his hopes of becoming a soldier are destroyed for ever. But he knows something the army doesn't seem to know. Fergus Watts is alive and in the UK, living in secret under an assumed name - but where? Burning with fury and desire for revenge, Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. In doing so, he sets in train an explosive sequence of events which throw Danny and Fergus together on the run from the people who want Fergus, and now Danny, dead. Contains violence. TB 15447.

Manning, Charles

48 South. 1990. Read by Robert Gladwell, 13 hours 35 minutes. TB 8720.

A thriller set in the South Atlantic where the British Task Force is bombarded by missile-armed Corsairs piloted, for the most part, by Argentinian women. TB 8720.

Martin, Andrew

The Necropolis Railway: a novel of murder, mystery and steam. 2002. Read by Hugh Walters, 7 hours 6 minutes. TB 12757.

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. TB 12757.

Mason, David

Shadow over Babylon. 1993. Read by Nigel Graham, 19 hours 47 minutes. TB 10031.

A tense and detailed account of how a British/American assassination squad got into Iraq and penetrated the defences of the most difficult target in the world. By chance, the American National Reconnaissance Office uncovered the plot, and its efforts to piece the plans together and find the team are revealed. One man managed to track down the conspirators, and their fate is revealed. Did it actually happen? Contains strong language. TB 10031.

Mills, Kyle

Smoke screen. 2003. Read by Jeff Harding, 11 hours 47 minutes. TB 13736.

Trevor Barnett is the scion of an old tobacco family. He is 31 and will come into a $10 million trust fund when he turns 60 so long as he has been in continuous employment from graduation until his 60th birthday with the cigarette company his ancestor founded. His capacity for useful candour gets him promoted to a senior PR job at just the point where a maverick CEO tries to blackmail the US government and people by shutting down the entire tobacco industry--to demonstrate that multi-billion lawsuits and endless regulation aside, America cannot do without tobacco. Trevor, though, has a different agenda which is to bring common sense and humanity to the debate; he also wants to hang onto his personal wealth and get the woman he loves--which is harder than it sounds, since she is an anti-smoking advocacy lawyer. Contains strong language. TB 13736.

Mills, Mark

The whaleboat house. 2005. Read by Stuart Milligan, 11 hours 11 minutes. TB 14385.

The men of Long Island have fished the wild Atlantic waters for centuries. But for Conrad Labarde, recently returned from the Second World War, the nets hold a sinister catch - the body of Lillian Wallace. Her death is declared an accident but deputy police Chief Tom Hollis is convinced the truth of the tragedy lies in the twisted histories of local families. But the enigmatic Labarde insists on pursuing his own investigation. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14385.

Némirovsky, Irène

David Golder. 2007. Read by Bill Wallis, 5 hours 29 minutes. TB 15497.

Golder was born into poverty on the Black Sea, and has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is beginning to show the strain. But, as his body betrays him, so do his wife and child. TB 15497.

Nichol, John

Stinger. Read by Martyn Read, 11 hours. TB 13116.

RAF pilot Sean Riever heads for the mountains of Afghanistan. His work with mine-clearance takes him as close to war as he wants to get. But when a passenger plane is shot down by a stinger missile, the ghosts of the past return to haunt him. Contains violence. TB 13116.

Nichol, John

Point of impact. 1996. Read by Christian Rodska, 10 hours 52 minutes. TB 11599.

RAF Tempests are crashing on apparently routine missions, and no one knows why. The Accident Investigation Bureau is blaming pilot error. Suspicious of a cover-up Flight Lieutenant Drew Miller, whose own friends have been among the fatalities, determines to find out more. It soon becomes clear that the key to the mystery is in the cockpit of the Tempest - but how can he unlock it without ending up dead himself? TB 11599.

Patterson, James

Lifeguard. 2005. Read by Garrick Hagon, 8 hours 20 minutes. TB 14528.

Everything is going right for lifeguard Ned Kelley. He is involved with Tess, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and what's more, a million dollars is within touching distance; his share of the score for the robbery of some world-class art. All he has to do is trigger alarms to throw the cops off the scent. But when Tess is brutally murdered and the others involved in the robbery are massacred, Ned is the prime suspect. He has been set up. Contains strong language. TB 14528.

Patterson, James

When the wind blows. 2000. Read by Liza Ross, 9 hours 49 minutes. TB 14012.

Frannie O'Neill series; book 1. Frannie O'Neill, a young and talented veterinarian whose husband was recently murdered, comes across an amazing discovery in the woods near her animal hospital - 11-year-old Max. Soon after, Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on Frannie's doorstep. Contains strong language. TB 14012.

Patterson, Richard North

Balance of power. 2004. Read by Pat Starr, 23 hours 58 minutes. TB 14320.

Five months into his term, President Kilcannon and his fiancée, television journalist Lara Costello, have decided to marry. But the occasion is followed by a terrible tragedy: a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire. Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence throughout the US. In a high-stakes game of politics and legal manoeuvring, where ideals collide in the Senate, the courtroom and across the country, President Kilcannon is determined to win at any cost. But in the clash over gun rights and violence, the cost to both Kilcannons may be even higher than the President imagined. Contains violence. TB 14320.

Pearl, Matthew

The Dante club. 2004. Read by Adam Sims, 15 hours 54 minutes. TB 14387.

The literary geniuses of the Dante Club are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante in obscurity and the members of the Dante Club must fight to keep their sacred literary cause alive. But their plans fall apart when a series of murders occur that are modelled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno. With the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its literary existence and find a way to stop the killer. Contains violence. TB 14387.

Penney, Stef

The tenderness of wolves. 2006. Read by Jacqueline King, 14 hours 22 minutes. TB 14903.

1867, Canada - As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders – but do they want to solve the crime, or exploit it? Contains strong language. TB 14903.

Potter, Dennis

Blackeyes. 1987. Read by Raymond Sawyer, 6 hours 50 minutes. TB 7649.

This disturbing psychological thriller centres on Maurice James Kingsley, an aging novelist who, after 20 years of writer's block, produces a new book which becomes the surprise hit of the season. Kingsley's niece believes the story to be hers, and sudden death soon intervenes in this subtle and complex thriller of the literary world. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 7649.

Puzo, Mario

The last don. 1996. Read by Adam Henderson, 17 hours 26 minutes. TB 11303.

Don Domenico - the head of the last great Mafia family, the Clericuzio family - decides to create for his grandchildren a life free from the criminal branding of the mafia. But there are seeds of evil in the family's history, and killing is still what the Clericuzio do well. Here there is honour among thieves, villainy among supposedly honourable men, and a family divided against itself. Contains strong language. TB 11303.

Puzo, Mario

The Godfather. 1998. Read by Jeff Harding, 18 hours 15 minutes. TB 15039.

The Godfather series; book 1. The godfather is an American Mafia leader who stops at nothing to gain and hold power, on the surface a friendly, reasonable man, but in fact a despot and ruthless gang leader. Contains strong language. TB 15039.

Rainsford, Patricia

A secret place. 2008. Read by John Cormack, 11 hours 13 minutes. TB 15848.

Gina Brennan is on the run from a lot of things, especially prison. She and two cellmates have escaped and it looks like they're nearly home free. That's until wealthy solicitor Billy Hendrick has his brains blown out in his Lexus and the girls are seen running from the car. Although he's a cop, Rob O'Connell is also on the run. His wife is in a coma and he's ducking and diving to avoid the looming grief. He buries himself in the Hendrick investigation and the puzzle of what three young petty criminals could possibly have to do with the assassination. Contains strong language. TB 15848.

Rathbone, Julian

Homage. Read by Russell Bentley, 10 hours. TB 13103.

Reformed alcoholic, ageing hippy, victim of a dysfunctional marriage, British private eye Chris Shovelin answers a call for help from the other side of the world. Arriving in San Diego he discovers Jefferson, the friend in need, lying on the floor of his apartment with a hole in his head. Shovelin's instinct is to run, but China Heart, chic and mega-rich, wants him to take over where Jefferson failed and find Jerry Lennox, her missing brother. TB 13103.

Rayne, Sarah

Spider light. 2006. Read by Diana Bishop, 13 hours. TB 14810.

Following the shattering and all too public tragedy in her life, Antonia Weston has come to the sleepy market town of Amberwood seeking peace and anonymity. But that peace is soon threatened by a series of disturbing incidents - incidents that eerily echo of a past she is trying to forget. Contains violence. TB 14810.

Renton, Tim

Hostage to fortune. 1997. Read by Greg Wagland, 8 hours 38 minutes. TB 11247.

Prime Minister James Bishop is under immense political pressure. In his personal life, his wife Margaret is a gambler and is deeply in debt. Events spin out of control when Margaret is lured into a gambling syndicate. Bishop finds himself fighting for his job, his family and his very life as his political enemies and his own wife resort to desperate measures. TB 11247.

Ridpath, Michael

The predator. 2006. Read by Sean Barrett, 10 hours 20 minutes. TB 14780.

At top investment bank Bloomfield Weiss, they teach them to be winners, predators, killer deal-makers. On the bank's training course in New York, Chris and Lenka were part of a close-knit gang of trainees, working and playing hard. When a failed affair within the group sparked a violent confrontation, they covered up its tragic outcome. Ten years later, a helpless Chris watches Lenka's life-blood soak into the snow of a Prague street. Then others die...and it looks like Chris might be next. Contains violence. TB 14780.

Ridpath, Michael

On the edge. Read by Sean Barrett, 11 hours 58 minutes. TB 14688.

Alex Calder series; book 1. How close to the edge would you go? From his past as an RAF fighter pilot to his job as a bond trader in the City, Alex Calder is a man known for taking big risks and winning. But when colleague Jennifer Tan decides to pursue a sexual harassment case against her boss, Calder witnesses the ugly side of his world, and the tragic. For Jen commits suicide and Calder quits in disgust. One year on, Calder is running a flying school in Norfolk. But the past won't disappear. Calder sees the tragic events of twelve months earlier in an even more sinister and terrifying light. And this time, he'll risk his reputation, his livelihood and even his life on seeing justice is done. Contains strong language. TB 14688.

Ryan, Chris

The hit list. 2000. Read by Steve Hodson, 13 hours 30 minutes. TB 12466.

When Robert Maxwell is assassinated at sea by an unknown agency, it can only be a matter of time before the dark secret at the heart of the British Establishment is exposed to the light of day. SAS soldier Neil Slater has left the Army. While trying to make a new life for himself as a teacher, terrorists attempt the kidnap of one of his pupils. Slater intervenes, and the episode ends violently. Dismissed from the school, it seems that he is to be drawn back into the covert world. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 12466.

Ryan, Robert

Dying day. 2007. Read by Steven Pacey, 10 hours 35 minutes. TB 15515.

It is 1948 Europe is at peace, but a new war is just beginning. Laura McGill, a beautiful woman in her mid-twenties, is waiting on a street corner in Piccadilly, London, with a Colt.32 in her handbag. She is desperate to find out what happened to her sister Diana. Both Laura and Diana were Special Operations Executive (SOE) spies during World War Two. One night in 1944, Diana was flown into occupied France in a Lysander and never returned. Could she still be alive? Contains strong language. TB 15515.

Sebastian, Tim

War dance. 1996. Read by Nicholas Clay, 11 hours 4 minutes. TB 11834.

As a British soldier in Bosnia, Colonel Tom Blake meted out his own unofficial justice to the killers he saw around him. To his men, he was a hero - to his superiors, a dangerous maverick. Only Blake didn't stop in Bosnia. When the president of a tiny central European republic is assassinated and the Balkans threaten to erupt again, he is sent to help guard the fragile peace. However, in Whitehall, Washington and Moscow, the deals have already been redrawn, and one man of principle cannot be allowed to stand in the way of political expediency. TB 11834.

Seymour, Gerald

Holding the zero. 2000. Read by Sean Barrett, 14 hours 10 minutes. TB 12450.

A suspense novel set against the backdrop of the Gulf War where two of the world's greatest snipers fight out a debt of honour in the hills of northern Iraq. TB

12450.

Sheldon, Sidney

Bloodline. 1978. Read by Patricia Jones, 10 hours 30 minutes. TB 10737.

Elizabeth Roffe, the adopted daughter of a rich and powerful father, possessed beauty, intelligence and youth. At his death she had to obey his behest and take command of his mighty global empire, which made Elizabeth the richest girl in the world. Someone, somewhere, was determined that she must die and, in a story spanning three continents, Sidney Sheldon spins a hypnotic, exotic web of love and ambition, of danger and death. TB 10737.

Simpson, John

Moscow requiem. 1981. Read by Robert Gladwell, 10 hours 22 minutes. TB 4043.

Political thriller with an explosive scenario ranging over the USSR, Europe and the Middle East. TB 4043.

Smith, Martin Cruz

Wolves eat dogs. 2005. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 12 hours 50 minutes. TB 14455.

Russian cop Arkady Renko prowls the apartment of one of the men who has done well out of privatization and neo-capitalism and has suddenly jumped out of a tenth floor window. The dead man's cupboard is full of salt and he was clutching a salt-shaker when he died. No-one wants to investigate madness, but Renko suspects that there is more to it than that. When the dead man's partner turns up with his throat cut in a cemetery in the Ukraine, his bosses get him out of their hair by sending him to investigate - in the overgrown deserted towns and returning woodlands around the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl power plant. Contains strong language. TB 14455.

Smith, Murray

The devil's juggler. 1995. Read by Nigel Graham, 24 hours 16 minutes. TB 10832.

A lone corpse in New York's Grand Central Station; an SAS soldier missing during the Gulf War; carnage in a South American cemetery: all these deaths shout out for vengeance. From the nerve centre of the British Secret Service, the ranks of the New York Police Department and an outlaw Dublin cell of the IRA, three men begin their battle against an international terrorist network and a cocaine cartel. Their orders: infiltration. The game plan: a dance with the devil, with death as the prize. TB 10832.

Smith, Tom Rob

Child 44. 2008. Read by Richard Burnip, 15 hours 19 minutes. TB 15979.

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue. Contains strong language. TB 15979.

Smith, Wilbur

Wild justice. 1992. Read by Andrew Cuthbert, 16 hours 59 minutes. TB 10143.

The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training, but even in the hail of bullets which follows, he knows that this is only the beginning of a nightmare. Stride is the one man who might find the twisted genius who holds the world hostage, if only his every move were not anticipated by the enemy. Contains violence. TB 10143.

Stevens, Gordon

Kara's game. 1996. Read by John Cormack, 17 hours 5 minutes. TB 11108.

In Bosnia, the lives of a group of SAS men are saved by a remarkably brave woman named Kara. In return, they spirit her sick son to hospital. TB 11108.

Stourton, Ivo

The night climbers. 2007. Read by David Thorpe, 9 hours 46 minutes. TB 15850.

James, a first-year student at Cambridge, is overwhelmed by the thrill of opportunity and startled by his own hunger for friendship. He finds himself seduced by a covert and exclusive circle of friends - the 'Tudor Night Climbers' - who scale the university's turrets after dark, transforming it into a dangerous playground of spiralling heights. When still only a novice member of his tribe, James begins to fall for the only female in the group, the enigmatic and beautiful Jessica, and is soon at the heart of a fatal love triangle with the reckless and charismatic leader of the group, Francis. When a volatile relationship finally explodes, the Night Climbers' funding suddenly dries up, until Francis dreams up a heist that will secure them millions, but will also test their very souls. TB 15850.

Strong, Terence

Cold Monday. 2004. Read by Peter Wickham, 14 hours 46 minutes. TB 14533.

Hunted by the brutal killing of his UN interpreter wife in Bosnia, ex-SAS operative, Ed Coltrane, is consumed with the need to hunt down her murderers. Drinking too much and spending too much on his search, his life is going into meltdown. Just as it seems he can fall no further, a former colleague informs him that one of his wife's killers is in London, as a guest of the British government. Certain unofficial figures in the corridors of power would like to see this man disappear, and they'd like Ed Coltrane to accept the contract. What Coltrane doesn't know, in accepting to commit what amounts to a state-sanctioned murder, is that an elaborate game of bluff and double-bluff is being played throughout Europe. Certain high-ranking officials have a vested interest in his failure and removal. Contains violence. TB 14533.

Strong, Terence

Dragonplague. 1987. Read by John Cormack, 13 hours 19 minutes. TB 13439.

In today's twilight world the twin evils of terrorism and narcotics stalk side by side. Creating a satanic force of corruption, addiction and perversion that consumes all before it. No one will escape the nightmare. Not the former Royal Marine who dares to fight it. Not his wife and son for whom he risks everything, nor past and future lovers. All will feel the tentacles of terror during the desperate struggle for freedom – and life itself. Tortured passions and human frailty and strength combine in this powerful story of courage against all odds. TB 13439.

Taylor, Andrew

The four last things. 2007. Read by Ric Jerrom, 10 hours 53 minutes. TB 15368.

Roth series; book 1. Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder's on a cold winter afternoon, and the nightmare begins. It is as if the child has disappeared into a black hole with no clues to her whereabouts - until the first grisly discovery in a London graveyard. More such finds are to follow, all at religious sites. In a city haunted by religion, what do these offerings signify? Contains strong language. TB 15368.

Thomas, Craig

A wild justice. 1995. Read by Stephen Thorne, 13 hours 22 minutes. TB 11013.

In one of the most hostile and lawless places in the Russian Federation, an American gas company executive is found dead. The crime is unlikely to be solved. In Washington, the chief executive of the gas company and his wife are murdered in their opulent mansion during an interrupted robbery. John Lock, State Department expert on Russia and former CIA agent, vows revenge on the killers of his beloved sister, Beth, and her husband. TB 11013.

Tracy, P J

Want to play? 2003. Read by Laurence Bouvard, 11 hours 59 minutes. TB 13752.

Magozzi & Grace MacBride series; book 1. In this electrifying debut, the slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a sickeningly inventive serial killer striking again in a city paralysed by fear. When the two separate investigations converge on an isolated catholic boarding school, decades old secrets begin to fall away. It seems an old killer has resurfaced. Yet still the killer's real identity remains dangerously out of reach ... Contains strong language. TB 13752.

Vine, Barbara

Grasshopper. 2000. Read by Emilia Fox, 17 hours 30 minutes. TB 12566.

In a semi-fictionalised North London, a group of twenty-something slackers spend their nights walking the roofs of Maida Vale. On one of these walks they see a couple through an open window, a sighting with profound consequences that reverberate through all their lives. TB 12566.

Wallace, Edgar

The Ringer. 1927. Read by John Webster, 7 hours 31 minutes. TB 876.

An exciting thriller showing Scotland Yard at grips with a super-criminal whose identity remains obscure until the end. TB 876.

Walter, Jess

Citizen Vince. 2005. Read by William Dufris, 9 hours 34 minutes. TB 14776.

Small-time East Coast criminal Vince Camden was relocated to Spokane under the Witness protection program after serving up a couple of his old buddies to the Feds. In his seedy suburban tract house Vince wakes up every morning at 1.59AM before his alarm goes off, and starts counting all the dead people he knows. On this particular day, Vince feels more paranoid than ever that someone's out to get him. The people he encounters on his daily routine are jittery and out of sorts. But the real games begin when his walk home takes him across the path of detective Dupree at the scene of a grisly shooting. Contains violence. TB 14776.

Wignall, Kevin

Among the dead. Read by Glen McCready, 6 hours 42 minutes. TB 13197.

When a group of friends accidentally kill a fellow student they decide not to own up. After all, they weren't at fault - the girl ran out in front of the car. Some things are not so easily forgotten, however. Ten years later, they're all haunted in their own ways, and strangers to each other. But they're about to become reacquainted. Two of them die within the course of a few weeks and the circumstances arouse unanswered questions. TB 13197.

Wilson, Laura

My best friend. 2002. Read by Anna Bentinck, 9 hours 35 minutes. TB 14532.

A quiet Suffolk village, 1944. At 14 Gerald Haxton is a lonely boy who regards his still-born twin, Jack, as his only friend. His mother, a famous children's writer, guards Jack's memory fiercely, claiming him as the model for her fictional boy detective, and Gerald, disturbed and unpopular, has no hope of competing. Playing in the woods, he discovers the body of his elder sister. She has been beaten to death and her boyfriend, a young G.I., is hanged for the crime. TB 14532.

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