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General Crime 2015Talking BooksThe titles in this booklist are just a selection of the titles available for loan from the RNIB National Library Talking Book Service.Don’t forget you are allowed to have up to 6 books on loan. When you return a title, you will then receive another one.If you would like to read any of these titles then please contact the Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or email helpline@.uk.You can search our online catalogue and add titles directly to your wishlist by visiting . You can log onto your account in the My library section with your customer number and pin number. These can be obtained from Helpline. For any further help in selecting books please contact the Reader Services Team on 01733 37 5333 or email libraryinfo@.uk.Adler-Olsen, Jussi. Disgrace. 2012. TB 19807. 1987. A brother and sister are brutally killed in a summer house in the north of Denmark. The evidence is not strong enough to prove the police theory that the murderer is to be found within a group of boarding school students. Twenty years later, Carl Morck and his assistant Assad stumble over the file documenting the murders. Contains strong language. Read by Charles Armstrong, 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 19807.Arlidge, M J. Eeny meeny. 2014. TB21566.Helen Grace; book 1. The girl emerged from the woods. Traumatised and emaciated; close to death, but alive. Her story seemed too terrible to be true. But it was. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then forced to make a terrible choice. Which would you sacrifice - your life or your conscience? For DI Helen Grace there is now an unseen killer to be hunted down.Read by Elizabeth Bower, Nigel Pilkington, Lucy Gaskell and Annie Aldington. 9 hours 4 minutes. TB21566.Barclay, Linwood. Bad move. 2005. TB21786.Zack Walker; book 1. Zack wouldn't blame you for thinking he's safety-obsessed. But just ask his wife, Sarah, or his teenage kids, Paul and Angie, who endure their share of lectures what he is like. After moving the family to a rural “crime-free” area, Zack realizes their two -faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower. And during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. Shockingly, Zack knows who the victim is - and who might want him dead.Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB21786.Barclay, Linwood. Bad guys. 2006. TB21787.Zack Walker; book 2. Zack Walker is back, and much to his family's relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene, but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang that's been burglarizing Crandall's high-end shops. Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 16 minutes. TB21787.Barclay, Linwood. Lone wolf. 2006. TB21788.Zack Walker; book 3. Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what he's about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father's lakeside fishing camp. Then another body is discovered and a large supply of fertilizer goes missing, evoking memories of the Oklahoma City bombing. Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 11 hours. TB21788.Bauer, Belinda. Rubbernecker. 2013. TB 20864.Patrick has been on the outside all his life. He follows an obsession with death to study anatomy at university. When he uncovers a crime that everybody else was too close to see, he proves finally that he has been right all along: nothing is exactly as it seems, and that there have been many more lies closer to home.Read by Andrew Wincott. 8 hours 8 minutes. TB 20864.Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the perfect paragon. 2010. TB 21008. Agatha Raisin series; book 16. Agatha Raisin could do with some low-key cases so when Robert Smedley walks through the door, determined to prove his wife has been cheating on him, it seems like the ideal assignment. But unfortunately for Agatha, murder is again just around the corner. Read by Penelope Freeman. 6 hours 38 minutes. TB 21008.Beaton, M C. Death of a hussy. 2008. TB 20295. Hamish Macbeth series; book 5. Wealthy Maggie Baird is neither kind nor generous. So when her car ignites with her in it, there are five likely perpetrators. And finding who did it requires all Hamish Macbeth's extraordinary common sense and insight into human nature. Read by Stephanie Beattie. 4 hours 51 minutes. TB 20295.Beaton, M C. Death of a snob. 2013. TB 21110.A Hamish Macbeth mystery; book 6. When Jane Wetherby offers PC Hamish Macbeth a holiday at her health farm on the isle of Eileencraig, he is more than happy to accept. However, the volatile party of guests includes Morag Todd, an unadulterated snob who criticizes everybody and everything. So when she is found lying at the foot of a cliff with a broken neck, no one seems too broken up about the event - leaving it up to Hamish to solve the death of a snob.Read by Stephanie Beattie. 4 hours 37 minutes. TB 21110.Beckett, Simon. Written in bone. 2007. TB 19796. David Hunter series; book 2. Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favour to a beleaguered police officer, he undertakes a rough sea crossing to the remote Hebridean island of Runa, where a grisly discovery awaits him. Read by David Thorpe. 11 hours 13 minutes. TB 19796.Beckett, Simon. Whispers of the dead. 2009. TB 21301.David Hunter; book 3. In America to escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensics expert David Hunter has returned to the Body Farm in Tennessee. He needs to know whether he's still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms. He agrees to visit the scene of a crime but is unprepared for the state of the victim’s body that awaits him in the remote cabin. The death toll rises. Has he met his match?Read by David Thorpe. 10 hours 51 minutes. TB 21301.Billingham, Mark. Death message. 2008. TB 19697. Tom Thorne series; book 7. The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne has seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? Contains strong language. Read by Mark Elstob. 11 hours 39 minutes. TB 19697.Billingham, Mark. Bloodline. 2009. TB 20350. Tom Thorne series; book 8. When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straight forward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. Read by Leighton Pugh. 10 hours 30 minutes. TB 20350.Billingham, Mark. From the dead. 2010. TB 21012.Tom Thorne series; book 9. When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him and she contacts DI Tom Thorne who worked on the Alan Langford case. Contains strong language. Read by Mark Elstob. 10 hours 42 minutes. TB 21012.Booth, Stephen. Blood on the tongue. 2003 TB 20203. Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 3. It wasn't the easiest way to commit suicide, but Marie Tennent seemed to have just curled up in the freezing snow and stayed there until her body frosted over. Nor is that all. The bodies of a baby and an old man revive a 50-year-old mystery - is the past the only clue to present violence? Read by Laurence Mitchell. 15 hours 15 minutes. TB 20203.Booth, Stephen. Blind to the bones. TB 21014. Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 4. Withens is a small village in the Peak District, but it's no idyll. Dark and dour, it's troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by local family-from-hell, the Oxleys. Now it is the focus of a murder investigation - a young man's body has been found on the desolate moors nearby and the man is an Oxley.2004. Read by Leighton Pugh. 17 hours 40 minutes. TB 21014.Booth, Stephen. One last breath. 2005. TB 21276.Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 5. 14 years ago Mansell Quinn was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he's out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been murdered. As the son of the officer responsible for putting Quinn behind bars, Ben Cooper realizes his own life could be in danger.Read by David Thorpe. 15 hours 49 minutes. TB 21276.Bradley, Alan. The weed that strings the hangman's bag. 2011. TB 20351. Flavia de Luce mystery; Book 2. Aboard her trusty bicycle "Gladys" the young sleuth/aspiring chemist is off on another adventure but this time it gets very dark and dangerous after a famous puppeteer puts on a show in the village hall and a murder ensues. TB 20351.Read by Olivia Mace. 10 hours 31 minutes. TB 20351.Bretherick, Diana. City of devils. 2013. TB 20882.1887. James Murray, a Scottish scientist fascinated by the developing research into the study of criminal behaviour, travels to Turin to be apprenticed to Cesare Lombroso, the world-renowned criminologist. But just hours after his introduction to his new mentor, the discovery of a mutilated body in a public square and a note that appears to implicate Lombroso throws his visit in a whole new direction.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 15 hours 16 minutes. TB 20882.Brody, Frances. Dying in the wool. 2010. TB 21418.Kate Shackleton; book 1. Take one quiet Yorkshire Village, add a measure of mystery, a sprinkling of scandal and Kate Shackleton – amateur sleuth extraordinaire! Joshua Braithwaite went missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again but now his daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding him. As Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed. Read by Sandra Hunt. 11 hours 23 minutes. TB 21418.Brookmyre, Christopher. When the devil drives. 2013. TB 20538. Jasmine Sharp series; book 2. Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way.Read by Elspeth Turner. 14 hours 30 minutes. TB 20538.Burley, W J. Wycliffe and the school bullies. 2006. TB21552.Wycliffe; book 7. Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a singer in a nightclub, the other was a nurse but both were strangled in their own homes in very similar attacks. The press are quick to assume there is a psychopath on the loose but Wycliffe suspects the truth may be somewhat more complex than that.Read by Terence Wilton. 7 hours. TB21552.Carter, Chris. One by one. 2014. TB21588.Robert Hunter; book 5. Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins and Hunter is forced to sit and watch as an unidentified victim is tortured and murdered live over the Internet. Then Hunter receives a new phone call and this time the killer has upgraded his game into a live murder reality show, where anyone can cast the deciding vote.Read by John Chancer. 14 hours 25 minutes. TB21588.Clark, Cassandra. The law of angels. 2011. TB 19956. Crime fiction.Abbess of Meaux mystery; book 3. Summer, 1384: John of Gaunt refuses to step aside for his ward, the boy king Richard II, and heretics roam the land. In addition portents show that the end of days is imminent. Can Hildegard save the day? Read by Maggie Mash. 16 hours 29 minutes. TB 19956.Clark, Cassandra. A parliament of spies. 2012. TB 20310. Abbess of Meaux series; book 4. Hildegard of Meaux is accompanying the Archbishop of York to London for the opening of parliament, but while packing to leave, the Archbishop's saucier is found brutally murdered. The journey from York to London is fraught with more deadly surprises. Read by Andrew Cullum. 11 hours 7 minutes. TB 20310.Cleeves, Ann. Blue lightning. 2010. TB 20499. Shetland Island Quartet; book 4. Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents. When a woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory, Jimmy must investigate the old-fashioned way.Read by Gordon Griffin. 10 hours 33 minutes. TB 20499.Cleeves, Ann. Dead water. 2013. TB 21172.Shetland Island series; book 5. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Willow and Jimmy Perez discover that Markham was chasing a story in his final days, one that must have been significant enough to warrant his death. Read by Kenny Blyth. 10 hours 7 minutes. TB 21172.Coben, Harlan. Back spin. 2009. TB 19958. Myron Bolitar series; book 4. Kidnappers have snatched the son of superstar golfer Linda Coldren at the height of the US Open. Sports agent Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel. Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 25 minutes. TB 19958.Cole, Martina. Hard girls. 2010. TB 20199.A prostitute's body is found lifeless, mutilated and brutally raped, but it's only the first. DCI Annie Carr and Kate Burrows must dig deep if they hope to catch a callous serial killer who knows no limits. For some, prostitution is seriously big business. But how many people will pay the ultimate price? Read by Annie Aldington. 12 hours 43 minutes. TB 20199.Connelly, Michael. Angels flight. 2010. TB 20160. Harry Bosch series; book 6. In the aftermath of the murder of a black lawyer, known for his stance against police corruption, Harry Bosch is expected to brave the LAPD's inward-looking, closed-ranks mentality and find out who killed him. Read by John Chancer, 12 hours 24 minutes. TB 20160.Connelly, Michael. A darkness more than night. 2001. TB 20659. Harry Bosch series; book 7. McCaleb is asked to profile the killer of an unsolved murder. The victim was previously arrested for murder by Harry Bosch but released uncharged. McCaleb picks up a clue that makes Harry a suspect and now they must work together to clear Harry's name.Read by Vincent Marzello. 12 hours 33 minutes. TB 20659.Cornwell, Patricia D. The Scarpetta factor. 2011. TB 20302. Dr Kay Scarpetta; book 17. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to NYC's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. Read by Lorelei King. 13 hours 51 minutes. TB 20302.Cornwell, Patricia D. Dust. 2013. TB 21341.Dr Kay Scarpetta series; book 21. After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike.Read by Liza Ross. 14 hours 49 hours minutes.Delaney, Luke. The toy taker. 2014. TB21269. DI Sean Corrigan; book 3. DI Sean Corrigan and his team have been moved to New Scotland Yard and now four-year-old George Bridgeman has disappeared from leafy Hampstead. Sean, bogged down in admin and logistics, can see no clear path through the investigation. Another child vanishes. How long before abduction becomes murder?Read by Andrew Loudon. 14 hours 11 minutes. TB21269.Dibdin, Michael. End games. 2008. TB 20163.Aurelio Zen series; book 11. Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder and Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. Contains strong language. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes. 11 hours 8 minutes. TB 20163.Dunn, Carola. A colourful death. 2013. TB 21026. Cornish mysteries; book 2. Charity shop worker and amateur sleuth Eleanor Trewynn has a murder to investigate. Rival artists have clashed and when one is found murdered the finger of suspicion lies with the other one, friend and neighbour to Eleanor – but Eleanor is not convinced.Read by Emma Powell. 10 hours 21 minutes. TB 21026.Evanovich, Janet. Four to score. 1999. TB 20915. Stephanie Plum series; book 4. When Maxine fails to turn up in court, bounty-hunter Stephanie has to bring her in. Then Maxine's boyfriend begins to receive notes from her that hint at buried treasure. Cop Joe Morelli is also proving useful, but he can't decide what he wants more - Maxine's bounty or Stephanie's body.Read by Regina Reagan. 7 hours 55 minutes. TB 20915.Finnis, Jane. Danger in the wind. 2011. TB 19595. Aurelia Marcella mysteries; book 4. A fine summer in 100 AD and good government under Trajan Caesar promise well for the Roman settlers in the frontier province of Britannia. Aurelia Marcella runs a busy mansio on the road to York. Then a soldier is murdered in his bed at the inn, and a letter arrives from Isurium, a small fort north of the city inviting Aurelia to a midsummer birthday party. But the missive also reads as a plea for help, referring to "danger in the wind." Read by Monica Kendall. 12 hours 16 minutes.TB 19595.Fossum, Karin. In the darkness. 2012. TB 20169. Inspector Sejer series; book 1. Eva is walking by the river when a body floats to the surface. The dead man has been missing for months, and it doesn't take long for Sejer and his team to establish that he was the victim of a very violent killer. But the trail has gone cold. Read by David Rintoul. 8 hours 52 minutes. TB 20169.Fowler, Christopher. Bryant and May and the invisible code. 2013. TB 20903. Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later she is found dead inside the church. Bryant and May must investigate.Read by Martin Reeve. 9 hours 25 minutes. TB 20903.Franklin, Ariana. Mistress of the art of death. 2008. TB 20503. Adelia Aguilar series; book 1. In medieval Cambridge four children have been murdered. The townsfolk blame the Jewish population. Hoping that scientific investigation can find the true killer, the king calls for a young prodigy from the University of Salerno.Read by Diana Bishop. 12 hours 55 minutes. TB 20503.French, Tana. Faithful place. 2011. TB 20757.The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was 19. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous and failed to run away with him as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank's still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. But what happened to Rosie?Read by Gerry O'Brien. 15 hours 8 minutes. TB 20757.French, Tana. Broken harbour. 2012. TB 21162.Ryan and Maddox series; book 4. In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin, two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first it looks like a suicide pact but there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. And Scorcher's personal life is also tugging for his attention, long buried memories resurfacing. Read by Gerry O'Brien. 17 hours 48 minutes. TB 21162.French, Tana. The secret place. 2014. TB21649.Ryan and Maddox; book 5. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a 9-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's 16 and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place – the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously – Holly found his photograph with the words “I know who killed him” written on.Read by Gerry O'Brien. 18 hours 32 minutes. TB21649.Galbraith, Robert. The cuckoo's calling. 2013. TB 20973. Cormoran Strike; book 1. When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. A war veteran wounded both physically and psychologically, Cormoran Strike's life is in disarray but the case he is working on gives him a lifeline - despite coming at a personal cost. Contains strong language. Read by Robert Glenister. 15 hours 54 minutes. TB 20973.Galbraith, Robert. The silkworm. 2014. TB 21461.Cormoran Strike; book 2. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives. When Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer unlike any he has encountered before.Read by Robert Glenister. 17 hours 18 minutes. TB 21461.George, Elizabeth. Just one evil act. 2014. TB21299.Inspector Lynley series ; book 18. When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, nothing can be done. But five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the media spotlight. DI Thomas Lynley is assigned to handle a situation made delicate by racial issues, language difficulties, and the determination of an Italian magistrate to arrest and convict someone – anyone - for the crime.Read by Elizabeth George. 23 hours 54 minutes. TB21299.Gerritsen, Tess. The sinner. 2010. TB 20090. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles; book 3. Within the walls of a cloistered convent, two nuns are discovered, one dead, one critically injured - victims of a seemingly motiveless, brutally savage attack. Dr. Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli, find themselves part of an investigation that leads to an awful, dawning realisation of the killer's identity.Read by Stephanie Ellyne, 10 hours 33 minutes. TB 20090.Grafton, Sue. T is for trespass. 2008. TB 21425.Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 20. When an elderly neighbour, Gus, has an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up anything suspicious but Kinsey's not convinced, especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care.Read by Liza Ross. 12 hours 46 minutes. TB 21425.Grafton, Sue. U is for undertow. 2010. TB 21426.Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 21. In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned. When the case is reopened after 20 years, Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. While stepping back into the past, Kinsey uncovers more about her own history too.Read by Liza Ross. 13 hours 51 minutes. TB 21426.Grafton, Sue. V is for vengeance. 2012. TB21561.Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 22. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter, Audrey Vance. When Audrey's body is found in a local suicide spot her fiancé is unable to believe she took her own life and hires Kinsey to investigate. It soon emerges that the shoplifter had become caught up in a much larger operation.Read by Liza Ross. 14 hours 54 minutes. TB21561.Graham, Caroline. A ghost in the machine. 2005.TB 20663. Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby series; book 7. For Mallory Lawson inheriting his aunt's beautiful house in Forbes Abbot has enabled him to take early retirement from his appalling teaching job in London, and for his wife Kate to realise her dream of starting her own company. But simple country life is not what it seems, and little differences and squabbles can become violent - even murderous. Read by Paul Shelley. 18 hours 31 minutes. TB 20663.Granger, Ann. Mud, muck and dead things. 2009. TB 20605.Lucas Burton hates the countryside. To him it's nothing but mud, muck and dead things. And he's right. When he turns up at a deserted farm in the middle of nowhere hoping to conduct a lucrative business deal he stumbles across the body of a dead girl. And that's just the start of his problems.Read by Sherry Baines. 11 hours 10 minutes. TB 20605.Gray, Alex. A small weeping. 2005. TB 20221. Lorimer and Brightman series; book 2. The body of a prostitute is discovered in a Glasgow station, sparking a murder hunt that focuses on the city's seamier side. But when the body of a nurse is found dead in a private clinic, with her corpse positioned in an identical way to that of the first victim, DCI Lorimer must decide if this is the work of a serial killer. Read by Angus King. 9 hours 18 minutes. TB 20221.Gray, Alex. Shadows of sounds. 2006. TB 21033. Lorimer and Brightman series; book 3. The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know they are set to be outplayed by the sequence of events happening backstage. Read by Angus King. 9 hours 28 minutes. TB 21033.Griffiths, Elly. Dying fall. 2013. TB21661.Ruth Galloway; book 5. Ruth's old friend Dan Golding thinks he has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever - but he needs Ruth's help. Dan is killed in a fire, leaving Ruth with one clue: the tomb of the Raven King. DCI Nelson is also rediscovering the past. He meets his friend Sandy Macleod, now at Blackpool CID, who tells him there are mysterious circumstances surrounding Dan's death.Read by Karen Cass. 9 hours 59 minutes. TB21661.Hannah, Sophie. The monogram murders. 2014. TB 21474.Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink placed in the mouth of each corpse. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim.Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 11 hours 15 minutes. TB 21474.Haynes, Elizabeth. Under a silent moon. 2013. TB 20846. DCI Louisa Smith series; book 1. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, blood all over the cottage she lived in. At the same time, police respond to a reported female suicide, where a car has fallen into a local quarry. As DCI Louisa Smith and her team gather the evidence, they discover a link between these two women, a link which has sealed their dreadful fate one cold night, under a silent moon.Read by Lucy Price-Brown. 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 20846.Hill, Reginald. The wood beyond. 2009. TB 19878. Dalziel and Pascoe series; book 15. A ravaged wood packed with water-filled craters, men in uniform and a skeletal hand reaching out of the mud. This is not a battlefield, but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre, and another mystery for Dalziel and Pascoe to solve. Read by Geoff Leesley. 13 hours 29 minutes. TB 19878.Hill, Susan. The betrayal of trust. 2012. TB 20469. Simon Serrailler series; book 6. A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed. The remains are identified as those of missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen 16 years ago.Read by Steven Pacey. 11 hours 42 minutes. TB 20469.Hill, Susan. A question of identity. 2013. TB 20991. Simon Serrailler; book 7. One snowy night, an old lady is murdered - dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex. DCS Simon Serrailler and his team are aware of bizarre circumstances surrounding her death - but they keep some of these details secret, while they desperately search for a match. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.Read by Leighton Pugh. 10 hours 45 minutes. TB 20991.Holt, Anne. 1222. 2012. TB 19819. 1222 metres above sea level and the worst snow storm in recent Norwegian history is raging. Marooned in a mountain pass and with night falling, 269 travellers are forced to abandon their train and decamp into a centuries-old mountain hotel. Contains strong language. Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. 10 hours 25 minutes. TB 19819.Hurley, Graham. Touching distance. 2014. TB 21422.Jimmy Suttle series; book 2. A sniper is turning the quiet Devon countryside into a killing ground. Jimmy Suttle is facing a case that could end his career. And his life. Jimmy has barely got his feet under the desk at his new job. Having flown in the face of his superiors on his first big case he now finds himself trying to track down a random, hugely skilled killer before another innocent dies and before the media tear the force apart.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 10 hours 50 minutes. TB 21422.James, Peter. Dead man's grip. 2011. TB 21034. DS Roy Grace series; book 7. Carly Chase is traumatised after being involved in a fatal traffic accident which killed a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered.Read by Mark Elstob. 12 hours 37 minutes. TB 21034.James, P. D. Death comes to Pemberley. 2012. TB 19286. P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of 'Pride and Prejudice', and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted detective story. Read by Sheila Mitchell, 10 hours 15 minutes.TB 19286.Jardine, Quintin. Lethal Intent. 2005. TB21235.Skinner; book 15. Gangsters have infiltrated Edinburgh. MI5 are on their case and, unknown to Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner, have set up a drug-dealing sting to flush the them out. The resulting mayhem throws everyone into confusion until they realise the gangsters are preparing a hit on one of the Royal family. Meanwhile someone is trying to wreak revenge on the police force. Are the crimes linked?Read by James Bryce. 12 hours 52 minutes. TB21235.Kallentoft, Mons. Midwinter sacrifice. 2012. TB 19518. The snow covered all the tracks, as the killer knew it would. But it couldn't hide the victim, the man who now hung from a lonely tree on a frozen plain. Malin Fors is first on the scene. A 31-year-old single mother, Malin is the most talented and ambitious detective on the Linkoping police force, but also the most unpredictable. Contains violence and strong language. Read by Lisa Milne-Henderson. 15 hours 47 minutes.TB 19518.La Plante, Lynda. A face in the crowd. 2012. TB 19951. Prime Suspect series; book 2. The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotland Yard's investigation into the death of sex worker Della Mornay, two grim facts become immediately clear to her. First, that the constabulary's old boy club is determined to hinder, harass, and undermine the new female Detective Chief Inspector at every turn. And second, that their murder victim isn't Della Mornay. Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. 8 hours 24 minutes. TB 19951.Leon, Donna. Wilful behaviour. 2009. TB 20720. Commissario Guido Brunetti series; book 11. When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student.Read by Steve Hodson. 10 hours 22 minutes. TB 20720.MacBride, Stuart. A song for the dying. 2014. TB 21244.Ash Henderson series; book 2. Eight years ago, the Inside Man abducted and killed four women. He left another three in critical condition, their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside. Then he disappeared. Until now. Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation but one of Oldcastle's most vicious criminals has made sure that he spends the rest of his life in prison. As things take a gruesome turn, wheels start to turn to get Ash released and working on the case. Contains violence. Read by Tom Carter. 14 hours 5 minutes. TB 21244.MacBride, Stuart. Shatter the bones. 2011. TB 19066. Logan McRae series; book 7. Alison and Jenny McGregor - Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation - are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit 'Britain's Next Big Star'. They're in all the gossip magazines and everyone loves them. But their reality-TV dream turns into a real-life nightmare! Contains violence and strong language. Read by Cameron Mowat. 13 hours 59 minutes. TB 19066.McPherson, Catriona. Dandy Gilver and the reek of red herrings. 2014. TB21644. Dandy Gilver; book 9. On the rain-drenched, wave-lashed, wind -battered Banffshire coast, herring drifters brave the storms to catch their silver darlings. It's nowhere for a child of gentle Northamptonshire to spend Christmas. But when odd things start to turn up in barrels of fish - with a strong whiff of murder most foul - that's exactly where Dandy Gilver finds herself. Read by Stephanie Beattie. 9 hours 28 minutes. TB21644.Mankell, Henning. The troubled man. 2011. TB 20752.Kurt Wallander series; book 10. Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winters day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case.Read by Sean Barratt. 15 hours 8 minutes. TB 20752.Mark, David. Dark winter. 2013. TB 20322. DS Aector McAvoy series; book 1. An elderly man - the only survivor of a fishing trawler tragedy - is found murdered at sea. A young girl - the last surviving member of a family slaughtered in Sierra Leone - is hacked to death with a machete. Someone is killing sole survivors in the manner they had escaped death. Detective Sergeant McAvoy of Humberside CID investigates. Read by Andrew Cullum. 8 hours 9 minutes. TB 20322. Mark, David John. Original skin. 2013. TB 20561. DS Aector McAvoy series; book 2. Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is marked in their own way. And soon each will be branded by the same sinister foe. Read by Andrew Cullum. 13 hours 29 minutes. TB 20561.May, Peter. The chessmen. 2013. TB 20925.Lewis trilogy; book 3. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.Read by Tom Carter. 9 hours 32 minutes. TB 20925.Mina, Denise. The end of the wasp season. 2011. TB 21435.Alex Morrow; book 2. When millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial hangover. But the legacy of a lifetime of self-serving is widespread, the carnage most acute among his family.Read by Sally Armstrong. 13 hours 11 minutes. TB 21435.Montanari, Richard. The stolen ones. 2013. TB 21484.Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne; book 7. Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt, the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city, killing his prey. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head and left sitting on a bench in a local park. But it is just the beginning of a trail of evil that leads back to the hospital and the nightmares it still contains.Read by William Hope. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB 21484.Paretsky, Sara. Indemnity only. 2012. TB 20193.V I Warshawski; book 1. V I has been hired by the vice-president of one of Chicago's biggest banks to find the girlfriend of his son. However, what should have been a simple job has turned gruesome. Someone is dead, lies have been told, and threats have been made. Read by Lorelei King. 7 hours 27 minutes. TB 20193.Parris, S J. Sacrilege. 2012. TB 20239. Giordano Bruno series; book 3. Summer, 1584. The Protestant Prince William of Orange has been assassinated by a fanatical Catholic, and there are whispers that Queen Elizabeth will be next. Fear haunts the streets of London, and plague is driving citizens away. Giordano Bruno, philosopher and spy, chooses to remain, and finds that someone is following him. Contains strong language.Read by Matt Addis, 16 hours 24 minutes. TB 20239.Perry, Anne. Paragon walk. 2009. TB 20385. Thomas Pitt series; book 3. In the affluent London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable and baffling crime was committed, a young woman was raped and murdered. Once again the team of Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, set themselves against the murderer.Read by Maggie Mash. 10 hours 24 minutes. TB 20385.Pryor, Francis. The lifer's club. 2014. TB21525.Alan Cadbury is a professional archaeologist, a man who likes to unravel the mysteries and meaning of the past. Giving an archaeology course in the 90s he met Richard Lane, now a senior detective. DCI Lane enlist him to help on a difficult case, an honour killing perpetrated eight years ago. Oh yes, archaeology can be a very dirty business....Read by David Thorpe. 16 hours 33 minutes. TB21525.Purser, Ann. The hangman's row enquiry. 2010. TB 20574. Ivy Beasley series; book 1. Ivy Beasley, the beloved cantankerous spinster from the Lois Meade mysteries, has teamed up with a mysterious newcomer to the village and also her cousin, a widow with time on her hands and money in her purse. Together they're determined to solve the murder of Gus's elderly neighbour. Read by Anna Harwich. 10 hours 2 minutes. TB 20574.Rankin, Ian. Standing in another man's grave. 2012. TB 20133. Inspector Rebus series; book 18. It's 5 years since Rebus retired but here sees his return and not only is Rebus as stubborn and anarchic as ever, but he finds himself in trouble with Rankin's latest creation, Malcolm Fox of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit. Read by Jonathan Hackett. 14 hours 23 minutes.TB 20133.Rankin, Ian. Saints of the Shadow Bible. 2013. TB 21092. Inspector Rebus series; book 19. John Rebus is back on the force but a thirty-year-old case is being reopened, with Rebus and his team from back then suspected of corruption and worse. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer - and determined to use Rebus for his own ends – the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer.Read by Jonathan Hackett. 12 hours 56 minutes. TB 21092.Robb, Candace. The nun's tale. 1998 TB 20244.Owen Archer mystery; book 3. When a young nun dies of a fever in the town of Beverley in the summer of 1365, she is buried quickly for fear of the plague. But one year later a woman appears, talking of relic-trading and miracles and claiming to be the dead nun resurrected. Murder follows and the worried Archbishop of York asks Owen Archer to investigate. Read by Andrew Cullum. 11 hours 54 minutes. TB 20244Robinson, Peter. Before the poison. 2012. TB 21171.A successful Hollywood composer, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales. Now, after his wife's death, Chris rents a house in the Dales so he can come to terms with his grief. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, he finds himself distracted by the history of the property.Read by Simon Slater, Sandra Duncan and Al Senter. 13 hours 53 minutes. TB 21171.Robinson, Peter. Friend of the Devil. 2012. TB 21483.Inspector Banks series; book 17. When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut, DI Annie Cabbot gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same morning, 19-year -old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys, and DCI Alan Banks is called in.Read by Richard Burnip. 15 hours. TB 21364.Russell, Leigh. Cold sacrifice. 2013. TB 21275.DS Ian Peterson series; book 1. When three dead bodies are discovered in quick succession on his home patch in Kent, DI Ian Peterson becomes too embroiled in a complex murder investigation to worry about his forthcoming promotion or the state of his marriage.Read by Peter Wickham. 9 hours 38 minutes. TB 21275.Sherez, Stav. A dark redemption. 2012. TB 20951. Carrigan and Miller series; book 1. DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller are forced to face up to past fears and confront future paths as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young Ugandan student. Plunged into an underworld of illegal immigrant communities, they discover that the murdered girl's studies at a London College may have threatened to reveal things that some people will go to any lengths to keep secret. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 35 minutes. TB 20951.Shields, Kieran. The Salem Witch Society. 2013. TB 20265.A young woman is found savagely murdered, a pitchfork thrust through her neck, her body arranged in the shape of a star: the death pose of a witch. Someone - or something - is reviving the terror of the notorious Salem Witch hunts. And only one man - a brilliant, eccentric loner with a dazzling mind and a fascination with witchcraft - can keep the evils of the past at bay. Read by Liza Ross, 15 hours 4 minutes. TB 20265. Sigurardottir, Yrsa. My soul to take. 2010. TB 19642. Thora Gudmundsdottir series; book 2. A grisly murder is committed at a health resort situated in a recently renovated farmhouse, which turns out to be notorious for being haunted. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is called upon by the owner of the resort - the prime suspect in the case - to represent him. Her investigations uncover some very disturbing occurrences. Read by Joan Walker. 12 hours 9 minutes. TB 19642.Simms, Chris. Hell's fire. 2009. TB 20583.DI Jon Spicer; Book 4. A charred corpse and satanic paraphernalia are found on the blackened alter of a torched church in Manchester. The killer is prepared to commit unspeakable acts of evil in homage to his god. Jon Spicer is in hot pursuit. Contains strong language. Read by Laurence Mitchell. 10 hours 26 minutes. TB 20583.Simms, Chris. The edge. 2009. TB 21086.DI Jon Spicer; book 5. DI Jon Spicer receives a phone call saying that his younger brother has been found murdered on the moor. The only clue on the corpse is a message on his mobile from his girlfriend Zoe. She and Dave were involved with some bad people, and with him gone, they want their pound of flesh from her. Contains strong language. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 25 minutes. TB 21086.Simms, Chris. Cut adrift. 2011. TB 21175.DI Jon Spicer series; book 6. DI Jon Spicer's investigation into the vicious slaying of a Russian asylum-seeker grinds to a halt when the man's identity turns out to be false. It seems the only truth to his story was the fact that he was found drifting off the British coast in a small boat. Before the man's true identity can be discovered, more asylum-seekers start to die. Contains strong language. Read by Phillip Bretherton. 10 hours 36 minutes. TB 21175.Tallis, Frank. Fatal lies. 2008. TB 20397. Liebermann Papers; book 3. Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian's military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the city's famous woods, a young cadet is found dead his body lacerated with razor wounds. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend - and disciple of Freud - Doctor Max Liebermann, to help him with the investigation. Read by Richard Burnip. 13 hours 57 minutes. TB 20397.Taylor, Andrew. The scent of death. 2013. TB 20957.Manhattan, 1778. A city of profiteers, loyalists and double agents. New York is home to a tide of refugees seeking justice from the British crown. Edward Savill is sent from London to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists. No sooner does he land than he becomes embroiled in a murder.Read by Peter Wickham. 14 hours 47 minutes. TB 20957.Taylor, Marsali. A handful of ash. 2014. TB21540.Cass Lynch; book 3. Liveaboard skipper and amateur sleuth Cass Lynch is busy at marine college in Scalloway, until one night she finds an acquaintance dead in a doorway, whose hand is smeared with peat ash. Rumours spread of a strange ritual linked to the witches once burned in Shetland's ancient capital, of horned figures abroad in the night, and townsfolk behaving strangely. At first Cass dismisses these as mere superstition, until there's a second murder, and she begins to wonder if the devil really does walk in Scalloway.Read by Trish Mullin. 12 hours 40 minutes. TB21540.Wilson, Laura. The riot. 2013. TB21579.DI Ted Stratton; book 5. August 1958. London is hot and tired, and nowhere more so than Notting Hill, where DI Stratton has just been posted. Stratton's new manor is dirt poor and rife with racial tension between Teddy Boys and black immigrants. Notorious landlord Danny Perlmann, a Polish refugee, is making a fortune off the high rents he charges to immigrants – and prostitutes. When Perlmann's rent collector is murdered, Stratton is called to investigate. Read by Sean Barrett. 11 hours 9 minutes. TB21579.Wingfield, R D. A killing Frost. 2008. TB 21437.Jack Frost series; book 6. On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them. But it is when two young girls are reported missing in quick succession that the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights.Read by Stephen Thorne. 13 hours 18 minutes. TB 21488.Winspear, Jacqueline. Birds of a feather. 2005. TB 20687. Maisie Dobbs; book 2. Called in to investigate the disappearance of a rich man's 18-year-old daughter, Maisie Dobbs senses tensions in the man's household, and discovers there are many reasons why the young woman might have left home.Read by Kim Hicks. 10 hours 23 minutes. TB 20687.Zouroudi, Anne. The bull of Mithros. 2012. TB 20009. The mysteries of the Greek detective; book 6. Hermes Diaktoros, the inimitable Greek Detective, returns in a tale of shipwrecks and sloth, sun-drenched islands and slow-burning revenge. Read by Sean Barrett, 8 hours 41 minutes. TB 20009. ................
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