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Adams, Will

The exodus quest. 2009. Read by Nigel Carrington, 10 hours 49 minutes. TB 17995.

On a dusty Alexandrian street, Egyptologist Daniel Knox comes across a Dead Sea Scroll jar that puts him on the trail of an ancient Jewish sect. Then Knox's partner Gaille Bonnard is abducted, and a hostage tape on TV threatens her with execution. Certain she's hidden a message in the broadcast, and with time running out, Knox races across Egypt to the tomb of a heretic pharaoh that may just provide the answer to riddle of the Exodus itself. Contains strong language. TB 17995.

Allbeury, Ted

The long run. 1996. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 10 hours 28 minutes. TB 11288.

The Cold War has ended. But in Washington, London and Berlin, three very different groups of men face a future they distrust. Power seems to have shifted to a gaggle of irresponsible journalists and self-seeking politicians. When a long-dead spy's secrets come to life, they see their opportunity. But can any man seize the reins of power without endangering the very way of life he seeks to protect? Contains strong language. TB 11288.

Allbeury, Ted

Beyond the silence. 1995. Read by Jon Cartwright, 8 hours 32 minutes. TB 10824.

This novel returns to Berlin in the early 1960s and tells the startling story of a spy who wanted to be a good man - and therefore changed the course of history. Lord Carling is one of the great and the good. But once he was just George Carling, a young idealist; and later an intelligence officer for the SIS. Now the whisper has gone round that Carling's information was too good to be honest. So Tim Mathews is sent to talk to him, to find out what Carling has to say about his past and his friends. TB 10824.

Alvtegen, Karin

Betrayal. 2005. Read by Sophie Ward, 7 hours 57 minutes. TB 16976.

When Eva discovers that her husband has been having an affair, her rage drives her into a vengeful action. But then she meets Jonas, who has been keeping a vigil beside his girlfriend. Together they will act to try and redress their wrongs. TB 16976.

Ambler, Eric

The care of time. 1982. Read by Andrew Timothy, 11 hours 16 minutes. TB 4089.

Robert Halliday, ghostwriter and television reporter, is drawn into a complex international web of intrigue. TB 4089.

Anthony, Evelyn

Exposure. 1993. Read by Diana Bishop, 12 hours 36 minutes. TB 10643.

Julia Hamilton is a journalist, heading the new "Exposure" feature on Lord Western's "Sunday Herald". Her first target is Western's rival, business and media tycoon, Harold King, alias Hans Koenig, man of mystery who has obscured the truth of his early years in Germany and will go to any lengths to preserve his secrets. Julia and her colleague Ben Harris go to Germany and meet Jean Adams, niece of King's first wife and begin to uncover the truth, hidden not only by King, but by Western too, who proves to be a far from innocent victim of this particular business coup. Contains strong language. TB 10643.

Archer, Jeffrey

Sons of fortune. 2003. Read by Paul Michael, 14 hours 13 minutes. TB 14983.

It is Greenwich, Connecticut, in the early 1950's, and a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse. Nat Davenport goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Cartwright, son of a wealthy CEO and his wife. During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other's existence. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. Returning a war hero, he finishes school and goes on to become a successful bank executive. Meanwhile, Fletcher has graduated from Yale University and distinguished himself as a criminal defence lawyer and politician. As their lives unfold, both men are confronted with tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, all the time overcoming life's obstacles to become the men they are destined to be. Contains strong language and is unsuitable for family reading. TB 14983.

Archer, Jeffrey

The eleventh commandment. 1998. Read by Peter Marinker, 11 hours 17 minutes. TB 11755.

Connor Fitzgerald is the professional's professional. Servant of his country. The CIA's most deadly weapon. But for the past twenty-eight years. Fitzgerald has been leading a double life. And only days from his retirement from the Agency, he comes across the enemy even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss, the Director of the CIA. And she has only one purpose: to destroy him. Meanwhile, the United States is faced with a new Russian President, determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers. TB 11755.

Ashley, Bill

August 21st 2010. 2006. Read by William Roberts, 16 hours 45 minutes. TB 16030.

In the face of an impending natural disaster that threatens to overwhelm mankind, William Culver, a 12-year old autistic boy, disappears from home. Whilst his father, Jack Culver, the scientist heading the team responsible for predicting the disaster, is torn between his duty to his family and his duty to mankind, Billy's mother, Martha, sets off on a quest that takes her across America in search of her son. What none of them knows is that evil and powerful men on both sides of the world's main religious divide are so busy plotting each other's and, ultimately, man's downfall that they fail to heed the warning about the far greater threat until it's too late. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 16030.

Bagley, Desmond

Bahama crisis. 1980. Read by Michael Stirrup, 8 hours 45 minutes. TB 5007.

Tom Mangan runs a chain of successful luxury hotels in the Bahamas. His future looks even brighter when he clinches a deal with his friend Bill Cunningham for the injection of fifty million dollars in new capital. Then a series of disasters follow which keep the tourists away. When his wife is brutally kidnapped Mangan realises that there is a cruel conspiracy against him and he acts swiftly... TB 5007.

Bagshawe, Tilly

Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the game. 2010. Read by Karen Ziemba, 11 hours 57 minutes. TB 17269.

Sequel to: Master of the game by Sidney Sheldon, TB 5478. It began with Jamie MacGregor, stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter, the powerful Kate Blackwell, who grew her father's company into a world wide conglomerate. Now the story passes to the next generation. Spanning the decades and picking up exactly where Sidney Sheldon's bestselling Master of the Game finished, Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they love, lose, scheme and murder through the 80s up until the present day. TB 17269.

Baker, Keith

Engram. 1999. Read by Janet Maw, 13 hours 53 minutes. TB 12167.

After four years in a coma following a car crash, Meg Winter suddenly regains consciousness. As she begins to pick up the pieces of her life, she cannot remember the crash, but someone thinks she can and is determined to put her to sleep forever. TB 12167.

Baldacci, David

The whole truth. 2009. Read by John Chancer, 12 hours 57 minutes. TB 17273.

Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war, and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way. As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other, the lives of three very different people will never be the same again. As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control? Contains strong language. TB 17273.

Baldacci, David

Hour game. 2006. Read by John Chancer, 15 hours 52 minutes. TB 15847.

Sean King & Michelle Maxwell series; book 2. Sequel to: Split second, TB 15206. Ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic burglary, but soon they begin to suspect links to larger, more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Wrightsburg. The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman turns up in the woods; two high school kids, one shot in the back, the other in the face, are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene of each crime - corresponding to the victim's position on his hit list. As the killing spree escalates it seems that the fractured Battle family are somehow involved and Maxwell and King suddenly find themselves racing to solve an intricate puzzle, one that is full of tantalizing clues but barren of solid evidence, and one that is leaving even the FBI confounded. Contains strong language and violence. TB 15847.

Baldacci, David

The collectors. 2007. Read by John Chancer, 13 hours 22 minutes. TB 15472.

Camel club series; book 2. Sequel to: The camel club, TB 15365. Annabelle, a beautiful con artist, is planning the heist of the century. Jonathan DeHaven, the shy head of the Rare Books Division at the Library of Congress, is planning nothing more than an uneventful day amongst his cherished collection. But something fatal is waiting for him. When fellow librarian Caleb Shaw stumbles upon his colleague's body, his friends in the Camel Club are determined to investigate this inexplicable death. TB 15472.

Baldacci, David

Stone cold. 2009. Read by John Chancer, 12 hours 12 minutes. TB 18265.

Camel club series; book 3. Casino king Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, the woman who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues marshal all their resources to protect Annabelle, yet all their skills may not be enough when a deadly new opponent rips off the veneer of Stone’s own mysterious past: Bagger’s menace pales next to newcomer Harry Finn’s lethality. As bodies and institutions topple, the story rockets toward a shattering finale that will leave the survivors of this explosive tale changed forever. Contains strong language. TB 18265.

Barclay, Linwood

No time for goodbye. 2008. Read by William Hope, 12 hours 39 minutes. TB 16013.

On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer discovers her house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. Her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later, married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made. Contains strong language. TB 16013.

Blair, Michael

If looks could kill. 2001. Read by Desmond Scott, 8 hours 19 minutes. TB 17675.

Thomas McCall thought his busy life couldn't get any more complicated. Until Carla, his former lover, turns up and asks him to hide her for a few days. McCall reluctantly agrees, but Carla never turns up at the hideaway. Her new boyfriend, Vince, is frantic. Why has Carla run away? What will Vince do to her if he finds her? And why, against all sense, does McCall start searching for her? Contains strong language. TB 17675.

Boyd, William

Ordinary thunderstorms. 2009. Read by Damian Lynch, 11 hours 57 minutes. TB 17034.

One May evening in Chelsea, London, when a freakish series of malign accidents and a split-second decision turns Adam Kindred's his life upside down for ever. The police are searching for him. A hired killer is stalking him. He is alone and anonymous in the huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to go but down - underground. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17034.

Boyd, William

Restless. 2007. Read by Beth Chalmers, 11 hours 20 minutes. TB 14908.

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigré living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and to trust nobody. Now years later she must complete one final assignment and this time she needs her daughter Ruth's help. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 14908.

Bradby, Tom

Shadow dancer. 1998. Read by Steven Armstrong, 11 hours 54 minutes. TB 12509.

Colette McVeigh: widow...mother...terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause for all of her thirty-three years. A woman whose brothers are both heavily involved at a senior level in the IRA, whose husband was killed by the British security forces. A woman who is now an informer for MI5. This thriller concerns the choices we make and why we make them. It is a riveting portrait of a group of people torn apart by the strife of civil war and the overwhelming pull of family attachments. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 12509.

Bradby, Tom

Blood money. 2009. Read by William Roberts, 11 hours 55 minutes. TB 17241.

It was New York, 1929. Joe Quinn's first case is one that could put his name up in lights; a banker takes a dive from a tall building onto Wall Street. All the signs point to murder. Pretty soon, the dead man has company; a group of old buddies is being eliminated, in a particularly gruesome manner. For the young detective a case that starts as an opportunity swiftly becomes a nightmare from which he cannot escape. Joe Quinn is about to discover just how tough being an honest cop in a dishonest world can be. Contains strong language. TB 17241.

Brierley, David

Czechmate. 1984. Read by Peter Baker, 13 hours 48 minutes. TB 5959.

A "rabbit" is a man who bolts without warning and nothing causes more panic in the Intelligence Service. Leo Panuska is a "rabbit" and the seeds of his defection were sown years previously in the closing days of the Second World War in Czechoslovakia. TB 5959.

Brodrick, William

The sixth lamentation: a novel. 2003. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 13 hours 50 minutes. TB 14018.

What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal. With her life running out, Agnes Aubret feels it is time to unburden to her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been carrying for so long. Fifty years earlier, Agnes had been living in Occupied Paris, a member of a small group risking their lives to smuggle Jewish children to safety - until they were exposed by a young SS Officer: Eduard Schwermann. As Anselm attempts to uncover Schwermann's past, and as Lucy's search into her grandmother's history continues, their investigations dovetail to reveal a remarkable story. TB 14018.

Brookmyre, Christopher

A big boy did it and ran away. 2005. Read by Kenny Blyth, 13 hours 52 minutes. TB 14165.

Real Life blows. Just ask Raymond Ash. As students, he and his friend Simon thought their futures would be paved with gold discs, gigs and groupies. Instead he's found himself in his thirties, a nervous new father and an even more nervous new English teacher. The last thing on Ray's troubled mind is a band reunion. For one thing, theirs wasn't exactly an amicable split; but a slightly large obstacle is that Simon has been dead for three years. So when Ray glimpses him walking through the Glasgow Airport, he assumes he's seeing things, until Real Life starts getting weirder and more violent than any computer game. Contains strong language. TB 14165.

Brookmyre, Christopher

The sacred art of stealing. Read by Lesley Mackie, 12 hours 24 minutes. TB 13211.

The press tend to talk about bank robberies as daring, ingenious or audacious, never as 'Dadaist', even the ones who know what 'Dadaist' means. But how else does one explain choreographed dancing gunmen in Buchanan Street, or the surreal methods they use to stay one step ahead of the cops? Angelique de Xavia is no art critic, but she is a connoisseur of crooks, and she's sure that this heist isn't the work of the usual sawn-offs-and-black-tights criminal. It's her job to hunt this unique species of thief to extinction - though the fact that it's not just his m.o. that's cute might prove a distraction. Contains violence. TB 13211.

Brown, Dan

Angels and demons. 2001. Read by Hayward Morse, 17 hours 48 minutes. TB 14156.

Robert Langdon series; book 1. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati - dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism - is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, anti-matter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt to prevent the incineration of civilisation. Contains violence. TB 14156.

Cartwright, Justin

The horse of Darius. 1980. Read by Andrew Timothy, 11 hours 17 minutes. TB 3886.

During his final few months in power an attempt is made on the life of the Shah of Iran. His loneliness seems no deeper than that of the desperate people who planned the coup. Contains strong language. TB 3886.

Child, Lee

Die trying. 1998. Read by Garrick Hagon, 16 hours 11 minutes. TB 16364.

Jack Reacher series; book 2. Sequel to: Killing floor, TB 15483. On a Chicago street in bright sunshine, Jack Reacher, is strolling nowhere and sees an attractive young woman, struggling on crutches. Naturally, he stops to offer her a steadying arm. And then he turns around to see a handgun aimed straight at his stomach. Locked in a dark, stifling van racing across America, chained to the woman, Reacher needs to know why he's there. The kidnappers are saying nothing. The woman claims to be an FBI agent. She's tough enough to be one. But at their remote destination, will raw courage and cunning be enough to overcome the hopeless odds? Contains strong language and is unsuitable for family reading. TB 16364.

Child, Lee

Tripwire. 2000. Read by Garrick Hagon, 16 hours 54 minutes. TB 16798.

Jack Reacher series; book 3. Being invisible has become a habit for Jack Reacher. He doesn't want to be found. So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. Especially when he later finds the guy dead. With his fingertips sliced off. Why was he so determined to find him? What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it? And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past? Contains strong language. TB 16798.

Clancy, Tom

Red storm rising. 1987. Read by Hayward Morse, 28 hours 33 minutes. TB 10915.

The Muslim terrorists who destroyed the Soviet Union's largest petrochemical plant thought they were striking a blow for freedom. What they had done, unknowingly, was fire the first shots in World War III. TB 10915.

Clancy, Tom

Without remorse. Read by Garrick Hagon, 27 hours 56 minutes. TB 13839.

Ryanverse series; book 1. John Kelly, codename Mr Clark, has planned a personal mission of revenge but the Pentagon want him for a high-risk operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. As he attempts to juggle the two missions, Kelly will need all his many skills to overcome a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad. Contains strong language and is unsuitable for family reading. TB 13839.

Clark, Mary Higgins

I heard that song before. 2007. Read by Kate Harper, 9 hours 1 minute. TB 15582.

When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel? Contains violence. TB 15582.

Clifford, Francis

Drummer in the dark. 1976. Read by Robert Gladwell, 6 hours 26 minutes. TB 2877.

Moving between Warsaw and London, this fast-paced thriller culminates in an extraordinary confrontation between a British Intelligence Office and an arms smuggler. TB 2877.

Coben, Harlan

Just one look. 2004. Read by William Roberts, 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 15564.

Grace Lawson is living a happy, straightforward life in the suburbs with her husband, Jack, and two young children. But that security is about to come to a brutal end. For when Grace picks up a set of holiday snaps, among them is one shot that doesn't fit: a faded image that Grace doesn't recognise of her husband as she never knew him. Within twelve hours, Jack has disappeared and a brutal hitman is stalking his family. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 15564.

Coben, Harlan

Tell no one. 2005. Read by Jeff Harding, 10 hours 20 minutes. TB 18163.

Eight years after his beloved wife, Elizabeth, was supposedly murdered by a serial killer, Beck receives information that suggests she may still be alive, but his search for the truth could mean setting himself up as the prime suspect in a number of crimes. Contains strong language and violence. TB 18163.

Cole, Emma

Every secret thing. 2007. Read by Tara Ward, 13 hours 45 minutes. TB 16269.

When an old man strikes up a conversation with her on the steps of St Paul's in London, and attempts to tell her the story of a murder that has not been brought to justice, journalist Kate Murray brushes him aside - until he mentions her beloved grandmother. Before she can reply, he walks away and she watches in horror as he is knocked down on the road and killed. That fateful moment unleashes a whirlwind of events that takes Kate back into her grandmother's war-time past and across the Atlantic, but every step she takes is tracked by an unknown and deadly enemy. TB 16269.

Cole, Martina

Faces. 2008. Read by Annie Aldington, 19 hours 28 minutes. TB 16008.

Just before Danny Cadogan's fourteenth birthday, his father, Big Dan, leaves his wife and children to face the wrath of the men sent to collect his gambling debt. Determined to protect his mother, brother and sister, overnight Danny becomes set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world. He becomes a Face. Not just a Face, but the most feared Face in the Smoke. Out for all he can get. At any cost. Danny's ruthlessness doesn't stop at his front door. He rules his family with an iron will - and his fists. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16008.

Cole, Martina

The business. 2009. Read by Annie Aldington, 18 hours 49 minutes. TB 18537.

Imelda Dooley is scared. Really scared. She's played hard and fast and now she's been caught. She's pregnant and now she's on her own. Her father, not a man to mess with, will see that somebody pays for this. And it's not going to be her. So Imelda Dooley tells a lie. A lie that literally causes murders. When Mary Dooley's husband is killed in the night's events, she knows she must graft to keep the family afloat. And graft she does, becoming a name in her own right. But she still has to watch her daughter's life spiral into a vicious, hate-fuelled cycle of drugs and prostitution. Caught up in the carnage that is Imelda's existence are Mary's adored grandchildren, Jordanna and Kenny. Pretty little Jordanna isn't yet three and she already knows far too much. All she can do is look after her baby brother, Kenny, and try not to draw unwanted attention to herself. Set in the East End of London from the tail-end of the seventies up until the present-day, This is a tale of drugs, prostitution and a young girl's fight for survival. Contains strong language. TB 18537.

Collins, Jackie

Poor little bitch girl. 2010. Read by Mary Wilson, 11 hours 54 minutes. TB 17752.

Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is P.A to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. And Annabelle Maestro - daughter of two movie stars - has carved out a career for herself in New York. Then there is Bobby Santangelo Stanislopolous, the Kennedyesque son of Lucky Santangelo. Back in the day he went to high school with Denver, Carolyn and Annabelle. When Annabelle's mother is found shot to death in her Beverly Hills mansion, the friends are thrown together, and secrets from the past have a way of coming back to haunt them. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17752.

Compton, Julie

Tell no lies. 2008. Read by Garrick Hagon, 14 hours 1 minute. TB 16507.

Jack Hilliard is a 35-year-old assistant DA who appears to have it all: intelligence, good looks, a great job, and a solid marriage with his wife, Claire. But Jack finds himself at a crossroads in his life when, on the same night his boss announces his resignation as DA, Jack's subterranean flirtation with his enigmatic lawyer friend Jenny bubbles to the surface. Jack soon learns how easy it is to compromise his values and comfortable life for ambition and desire. Despite Claire's counsel to stand by his beliefs, Jack misrepresents his position on the death penalty to secure the top spot at the DA's office. As the pressures of the campaign mount, he struggles to deny his growing obsession with Jenny, who supports his ambitions at whatever cost. When Jenny is charged with a heinous crime, and Jack is the only one who can prove her innocence, he must make a Hobson's choice: save Jenny by speaking out, or save his marriage and career by remaining silent. Contains strong language. TB 16507.

Connelly, Michael

The Lincoln lawyer. 2006. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick, 12 hours 50 minutes, TB 17784.

Mickey Haller series; book 1. They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln town car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But then his case starts to fall apart. Contains strong language. TB 17784.

Connolly, John

Dark hollow. 2004. Read by Jeff Harding, 14 hours. TB 14119.

Charlie Parker series; book 2. Sequel to: Every dead thing, TB 13979. Private detective Charlie Parker has come home to the Maine landscape of his youth, to the ghosts of his past and to the brutal slaying of a young mother and her son. Forced to embark on a nerve-shredding manhunt, Parker soon closes in on his prime suspect. But someone else is tracking them both and the body count is rising. Contains violence. TB 14119.

Coonts, Stephen

Stephen Coonts's Deep black. 2004. Read by Garrick Hagon, 11 hours 44 minutes. TB 16674.

Deep black series; book 1. When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. What if the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. Contains strong language. TB 16674.

Cooper, Matthew

Dog eats dog. 1987. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 20 hours 43 minutes. TB 7197.

When the company has a monopoly on the diamond market, selling to independent buyers can be a deadly business. Sir Frederic McIntyre hires James Tennyson to take risks for him, but as he tours the world's diamond centres, setting up deals he stumbles into an even more dangerous game: in Central America the US is secretly bombing the guerrilla bases and an international crisis is on the cards. TB 7197.

Cordy, Michael

Crime zero. 2002. Read by Garrick Hagon, 12 hours. TB 12825.

The year is 2008. Violent crime has become an epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States. Everything from the death penalty to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effective, until now. Project Conscience promises to be the solution. It is a bold attempt by a powerful group of scientists, politicians and senior law-enforcement personnel to use gene therapy to treat male criminals and cure violent crime. But among their number are those with a more sinister agenda, who would go further and turn the dream of Project Conscience into the nightmare of Crime Zero. TB 12825.

Cottam, Francis

Dark Echo. 2009. Read by Gareth Armstrong, 10 hours 45 minutes, TB 17843.

Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his father. But his lover Suzanne is uneasy and begins exploring the yacht's past. What she finds is terrifying. Dark Echo isn't just unlucky, it's evil. It was built for Harry Spalding, a soldier and sorcerer who committed suicide yet still casts his inexplicable spell nearly a century after his death. TB 17843.

Creed, John

The day of the dead. 2003. Read by Sean Barrett, 7 hours 56 minutes. TB 13980.

Jack Valentine series; book 2. Sequel to: The Sirius crossing, TB 13104. Jack Valentine thinks he's finished with the covert life but it hasn't finished with him. An old friend's daughter, Alva Casagrande, has been sucked into what looks like a minor league Manhattan heroin vortex and Jack is persuaded to go there to pull her out. Simple enough, until the old friend is fighting for his life courtesy of a pound of Semtex in the wheel-arch of his car. Two days later Jack is in New York, calling on old friendships and provoking ancient hatreds. He soon realises the little Mexican girl's partner is as wealthy and hard-wired as they come and that his friend's daughter carries a hard punch herself. Contains strong language and violence. TB 13980.

Cussler, Clive

Pacific vortex! 2008. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick, 8 hours 44 minutes. TB 16749.

Dirk Pitt series; book 1. The nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. Maritime trouble-shooter Dirk Pitt finds a single, chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck. A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains, and the Captain's final, note locates the Starbuck's grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex! TB 16749.

Deaver, Jeffery

The bodies left behind. 2008. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick, 13 hours 21 minutes. TB 16690.

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. A phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to the deserted lake to find out. And stumbles onto the scene of a murder. Before she can call for backup, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn flees, along with the only survivor of the crime. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16690.

Deaver, Jeffery

The coffin dancer. 2001. Read by Jeff Harding, 11 hours 58 minutes. TB 13816.

Lincoln Rhyme series; book 2. Sequel to: The bone collector, TB 14514. Lincoln Rhyme is the world's foremost criminologist. But an accident has shattered his spine and confined him to his bed forever. Percey Clay, the owner of a struggling charter flight service, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now the target of an unstoppable professional killer called the Coffin Dancer - a murderer who knows Lincoln only too well. Together, Lincoln and his assistant, NYPD patrolwoman Amelia Sachs, engage in a desperate fencing match of strategy with an evil genius. Contains strong language. TB 13816.

Deaver, Jeffery

Death of a blue movie star. Read by Jeff Harding, 8 hours 55 minutes. TB 12857.

Rune series; book 2. Sequel to: Manhattan is my beat, TB 12834. Rune is struggling to become a filmmaker in New York, shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb attacks on the adult film industry, seemingly perpetrated by religious terrorists. But when one of these explosions shatters the lives of those close to her, Rune suspects that there's more to the attacks than meets the eye. TB 12857.

Deighton, Len

Mexico set. 1984. Read by Robert Gladwell, 14 hours 47 minutes. TB 5651.

Bernard Samson series; book 2. Sequel to: Berlin game, TB 5395. Bernard Sampson's domestic life is in shambles and his career is heading for disaster, but he follows his prey from the stinking heat of the Mexican jungle to the chilly streets of Berlin. His adversary is Erich Stinnes, the KGB major who had arrested him in East Berlin. TB 5651.

Deighton, Len

The Ipcress file. 1962. Read by Peter Reynolds, 10 hours 15 minutes. TB 755.

Harry Palmer series; book 1. Britain's top scientists begin to vanish, and one man can find out what's going on, but his identity must remain a secret if he intends to safeguard the secrets of the West, sniff out treason, and live to tell the tale. TB 755.

Delaney, Frank

Pearl. 1999. Read by Alexander John, 11 hours 58 minutes. TB 12165.

Nicholas Newman is a reluctant discoverer of events that took place during World War II. Placed under huge moral pressure by the terms of a dead friend's bequest, he stumbles upon a secret that directs the violence on the football terraces of Europe. Contains strong language. TB 12165.

DeMille, Nelson

The lion's game. 2000. Read by Garrick Hagon, 26 hours 25 minutes. TB 12464.

John Corey series; book 2. Sequel to: Plum Island, TB 12529. From a special observation post in JFK Airport members of the elite Anti-Terrorist Task Force wait for a passenger arriving from Paris; an alleged Libyan terrorist known as 'the lion'. Amongst those marking time are agents John Corey and Kate Mayfield. At first everything is going as planned, yet it soon becomes apparent that something is horribly wrong. As a bloody trail of terror streaks across the country, John and Kate soon learn that their quarry is more than a man. Until this assignment, Corey has always been lucky, but to survive in a new game with no rules, he must invent a strategy that includes no luck at all. TB 12464.

Dobbs, Michael

The touch of innocents. 1994. Read by Nigel Graham, 11 hours 36 minutes. TB 10128.

Isadora and Paul are both talented and ambitious, she is a journalist, he is a politician. They are also parents and their family commitments draw them into a deadly confrontation. To protect his daughter from scandal, Paul must conspire in the destruction of Izzy's family. When her baby is missing, Izzy refuses to believe she is dead. Searching for the truth she is opposed on every side and this costs her her marriage, her career, her other child, but she will not surrender and Paul will have to use every means to crush her. Contains strong language. TB 10128.

Dobbs, Michael

The Buddha of Brewer Street. 1998. Read by Gordon Reid, 11 hours 45 minutes. TB 11431.

Thomas Goodfellowe series; book 2. Sequel to: Goodfellowe MP, TB 11078. Tom Goodfellowe, his political career and his private life in chaos, finds himself drawn into an international conspiracy surrounding the birth of a new Dalai Lama. It is a murderous race against time, with the fate of millions of people and a great religion at stake. But Goodfellowe can only pursue the fight by destroying those he loves the most, and even then he seems doomed to failure. Someone very close is betraying him at every turn. TB 11431.

Duns, Jeremy

Free agent. 2009. Read by Ashley Cook, 9 hours 19 minutes. TB 17009.

Paul Dark series; book 1. In July 1945 MI6 agent Paul Dark took part in a top secret mission to hunt down and execute Nazi war criminals. Now it's 1969 and a KGB colonel called Slavin has walked into the High Commission with information which indicates that there is a double agent within MI6. Dark has been largely above suspicion during MI6's years of self-recrimination but this time he's in the frame. For some it would be fight or flight time. But perhaps the option is both fight and flight - whatever the consequences. TB 17009.

Durbridge, Francis

The world of Tim Frazer. 2009. Read by Clive Mantle, 5 hours 14 minutes. TB 18275.

Tim Frazer's friend and ex-business partner Harry Denston has gone missing. That's not all - he owes money and there are several people desperate to track him down. Tim Frazer's pursuit involves cars and boats and various characters, but he manages to survive while others around him perish. TB 18275.

Egleton, Clive

The Russian enigma. 1983. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 7 hours 33 minutes. TB 5199.

When the Cuban crisis is making waves internationally, the dead body of double agent George Deakin is causing ripples within the British Secret Service. SIS Chief Charles Winter is faced with a mystery and the strangest coincidence of all is that Deakin's KGB contact in London has recently defected to American Intelligence. TB 5199.

Eisler, Barry

Choke point. 2005. Read by Jeff Harding, 10 hours 36 minutes. TB 14927.

John Rain series; book 3. Sequel to: Hard rain, TB 14213. Government assassin John Rain is a man trying to leave his violent past behind. But after tracking him down in Brazil, his former employers, the CIA, persuade him to take on a high-risk assignment - and one to which his particular skills are well suited: to terminate with extreme prejudice a man who deserves to die. Contains strong language and violence. TB 14927.

Ellroy, James

American tabloid. 2010. Read by John Chancer, 19 hours 58 minutes, TB 17817.

Underworld USA trilogy; book 1. 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant - Howard Hughes' right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy's drive against organised crime. The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men's hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamours for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17817.

Ellroy, James

The black dahlia. 1993. Read by John Chancer, 13 hours 27 minutes, TB 17999.

The L.A. quartet; book 1. Los Angeles, 10th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The black dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17999.

Ellroy, James

The big nowhere. 2005. Read by John Chancer, 17 hours 46 minutes. TB 18153.

The L.A. quartet; book 2. This work is set in 1950s, Los Angeles. The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. Contains strong language and violence. TB 18153.

Ellroy, James

L.A. confidential. 1994. Read by William Roberts, 14 hours 55 minutes. TB 13693.

The L.A. quartet; book 3. Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the LAPD detectives involved, the events will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. Contains strong language and violence. TB 13693.

Fallada, Hans

Alone in Berlin. 2009. Read by Steve Hodson, 25 hours 46 minutes, TB 17820.

Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal, the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming working-class couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the devastating news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of his quiet existence, the usually taciturn factory foreman Otto is provoked into an action that will endanger both his and Anna's life. TB 17820.

Farrow, John

Ice lake. 2001. Read by George Thompson, 14 hours 10 minutes. TB 17893.

Detective Cinq-Mars is lured to a familiar ice fishing spot where a body is found with a bullet through its neck. The investigation into the victim's ties to a pharmaceutical company soon spins out of control into a complex universe: a beautiful native activist trying to save the world; the ruthless members of organized crime sects; and the macho cops of competing police factions. It is up to Cinq-Mars to figure out the conspiracies and the deadly enemies before it is too late. TB 17893.

Faulks, Sebastian

Devil may care. 2008. Read by Crawford Logan, 8 hours 26 minutes. TB 15747.

Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming. Dr Julius Gorner is a name that will become seared into James Bond's consciousness. The name of a man who knows no master but his own power-crazed ego, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed and who will stop at nothing until he has destroyed the very heart of Britain. A Savage execution in the desolate outskirts of Paris sets in motion a chain of events designed to lead only to global catastrophe, as a tide of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf Sixties Britain, a British airliner goes missing over Iraq and the thunder of coming war echoes around the Middle East. Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian called Scarlet Papava. He will need all her help in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet - a man who would dance with the Devil himself. Contains strong language and violence. TB 15747.

Fleming, Ian

Moonraker. 1955. Read by George Hagan, 8 hours 45 minutes. TB 723.

James Bond; book 3. Sequel to: Live and let die, TB 532. The club where James Bond is asked to settle a dispute over ungentlemanly behaviour is embarrassed. The accused is the unimpeachable Sir Hugo Drax, head of the multi-million-pound Moonraker missile programme on which Britain's future depends. TB 723.

Follett, Ken

Whiteout. 2005. Read by Sally Armstrong, 12 hours 20 minutes. TB 14439.

A canister of the deadly Madoba-2 virus has gone missing from a Scottish medical research lab. On Christmas Eve, in a howling blizzard. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success: his grown children have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, the lab's security director, has her career resting on the safety of the drug; and an ambitious local reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the truth to tell it. Their situation takes a turn for the worse when a violent trio of thugs sets out to steal the valuable drug for a client - though what the client has in mind will shock them all. Contains strong language. TB 14439.

Forbes, Bryan

Quicksand. 1996. Read by Johnathan Oliver, 14 hours 45 minutes. TB 11693.

Hillsden trilogy; book 3. Sequel to: A song at twilight, TB 11551. Framed for a murder he did not commit and exiled in Russia as a defector long after the Cold War has ended, Alec Hillsden faces a bleak future. But out of the blue he is offered amnesty - at a price. Given a new identity he returns home to be sent underground again, to uncover a plot begun over fifty years ago with the wartime arrest and subsequent death of an art dealer. Contains strong language. TB 11693.

Forbes, Colin

Terminal. 1984. Read by Sean Barrett, 11 hours 3 minutes. TB 9400.

Tweed and Co series; book 2. Sequel to: Double jeopardy, TB 9243. What is Terminal and why are the British so desperate to find out? What is an ex-CIA hitman turned private investigator doing in Switzerland and for whom is he working? What terrible secret lies behind the barbed wire surrounding the Berne Clinic, guarded by Dobermans and the Swiss army? Why do the people who can answer these questions keep getting murdered? TB 9400.

Forbes, Colin

Avalanche Express. 1977. Read by Clifford Norgate, 10 hours 55 minutes. TB 9450.

The Atlantic Express pulling out of Milan Central has aboard the highest ranking defector ever to come out of the USSR - a man of vital importance to both east and west, and a member of the Politburo. Under the protection of a hand-picked team of British and American agents, headed by Harry Wargrave and the beautiful Elsa Lang, he is tracked down by the massed network of the KGB across half a continent. A blizzard roars down across Europe, matching in its ferocity the pursuit of the Atlantic Express by agents under the command of the highest Soviet authority. TB 9450.

Forsyth, Frederick

Icon. Read by Steven Crossley, 19 hours 8 minutes. TB 10980.

It was summer they began dying of malnutrition. It was the summer of crop failures and of hyper-inflation. It was the Russian summer of 1999... Igor Komarov, leader of the right-wing UPF Party proposes himself as a human icon, claiming he will reform the currency, crack-down on crime and restore Russia's previous glory. However, a stolen document from his desk reveals that this man is no saviour of the nation, but a new Adolf Hitler. Officially the West can do nothing, but a group of Anglo-American patriarchs cannot stand by and watch history repeat itself. TB 10980.

Forsyth, Frederick

The fist of God. 1994. Read by Jon Cartwright, 20 hours 55 minutes. TB 10397.

The Gulf War is a proving ground for military technology but, with all Iraq's arms known to the west, what is Qubh-ut-Allah, the fist of God? Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass for Arab, is sent to Kuwait to report on Iraqi strength and to help the resistance. Later, he is to run the Iraqi spy "Jericho", a sleeper who might provide vital information for money. What is revealed makes the allies delay their invasion for four days, while Martin undertakes his most dangerous assignment ever, to find and destroy the fist of God. Contains violence. TB 10397.

Francis, Dick

Dead heat. 2008. Read by Tony Britton, 11 hours 18 minutes. TB 16271.

The night before the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a prestigious black-tie Gala dinner. It is a fitting testament to the glamour of the occasion that top Chef Max Moreton is cooking the evening's meal. Max is something of a celebrity in Newmarket circles. He is founder of the racing town's favourite Michelin-starred restaurant, the Hay Net. However, spending the night retching in the throes of agony is the last thing Max expects. But much worse is to come, his food is suspected of putting twenty-four of the dinner guests in hospital. Max's pride and professionalism tells him all is not as it seems. Within hours, Max's restaurant is forcibly closed, his reputation teeters on the brink of ruin, and a court case looms. But the day is far from over, and soon Max Moreton finds himself desperately fighting for more than just his livelihood. TB 16271.

Francis, Dick

Silks. 2009. Read by Tony Britton, 11 hours 13 minutes. TB 17345.

Setting aside his barrister's wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a Thoroughbred, pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered - a pitchfork driven through his chest - Mason's racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life. TB 17345.

Francome, John

Back hander. 2005. Read by Martyn Read, 14 hours 20 minutes. TB 14438.

Things are not great for jockey Alan Morrell. He can't get the rides he needs and when he sets up a bloodstock partnership, a tragic accident robs him of the business and his best friend Lee. Now Alan owes £100,000 and his only asset is a racehorse who has yet to be put to the test. But all that fades into insignificance next to the suspicion that Lee's fatal fall was more than an accident. Fellow-jockey Max Ashwood is struggling with the backlash from his affair with a trainer's wife and the little matter of his gambling. There's also the convenient death of another man to whom Max owed money. Two riders, two unexplained deaths - but overshadowing both is a conflict that dwarfs the cosy world of racetrack winners and losers. As the noose closes round the neck of one man's criminal empire, just how many others will swing? TB 14438.

Francome, John

Free fall. 2006. Read by Gareth Armstrong, 9 hours 59 minutes. TB 14836.

Jockey Pat Vincent has ambitions to win the best races and become a wealthy sporting hero. But Pat knows his dreams will never be fulfilled so he's devised a brilliant new scam which, if discovered, would see him warned off for life. But first it's guaranteed to make him rich. TB 14836.

Fremlin, Celia

The long shadow: a novel. 1975. Read by Beth Chalmers, 6 hours 44 minutes. TB 14239.

Imogen's husband, a Classics professor and TV personality, died recently in a car crash. Now an anonymous caller accuses her of murder and alleges that he can prove it. What is even worse, she cannot feel certain that her husband is really dead, for if he is, then who has been disturbing his files; continuing his book he left unfinished; and leaving messages in his hand-writing? Above all, who is the macabre figure occasionally glimpsed in the attic or the study? TB 14239.

French, Nicci

Land of the living. 2004. Read by Anne Flosnik, 10 hours 56 minutes. TB 14003.

Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark, hooded and bound. She doesn't know where she is or who it is feeding her, talking to her, threatening to kill her. Yet Abbie has courage and, above all, hope. She escapes her captor and runs back into the light. But the real world, the safe one, isn't as she remembers it. There are days missing before she disappeared - days when she quit her job and left her boyfriend, did things she can't explain to the police, her friends or even herself. Why won't anyone take her story seriously? Because if Abbie can't convince anybody that it really happened, then maybe he will come for her again. Contains strong language and violence. TB 14003.

French, Nicci

Catch me when I fall. 2005. Read by Beth Chalmers, 9 hours 18 minutes. TB 14816.

Holly Krauss lives life in a whirlwind her husband Charlie, her business partner Meg and her colleagues at KS Associates are left breathless by her energy. But sometimes her wild behaviour leads to reckless mistakes, which soon leave her life spiralling out of control and Holly can do little to stop it. This is most definitely a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. But is Holly solely responsible for what is happening to her? Are her fears for her own safety caused by the paranoia of her illness - or very real danger ...? Contains strong language. TB 14816.

French, Nicci

Complicit. 2009. Read by Mandy Weston, 11 hours 39 minutes. TB 18258.

Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships unravelling as the days themselves unwind. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, love and music turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But is anyone prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer? Contains strong language. TB 18258.

Fullerton, John

Give me death. 2004. Read by Glen McCready, 10 hours 35 minutes. TB 14380.

Reem has completed her training as a so-called terrorist and Nick is her first assignment. Nick has what Reem needs: access from Beirut's besieged Western Sector into the Christian east, and contact with a notorious right-wing warlord. Having lost her family and home, Reem volunteers for the ultimate mission, a suicide attack. Once Nick realises the truth, he must choose between his love for Reem and his duty to the British embassy. Contains violence. TB 14380.

Furst, Alan

Night soldiers. 2005. Read by Stephen Thorne, 17 hours 36 minutes. TB 14468.

In Bulgaria in 1934, nineteen-year-old Khristo Stoianev sees his brother kicked to death by a gang of strutting thugs. Realising the growing menace of Fascism, he takes a risk on the promise of Communism and flees to Moscow. There he is trained as an agent of the NKVD, precursor of the KGB, and forms a close bond with a group of fellow students. His first mission is to Catalonia, where he is soon caught up in the bloody horrors of the Spanish Civil War. It is then that he learns that he is to become the victim of one of Stalin's purges and is forced to flee again, this time to Paris. TB 14468.

Furst, Alan

The Polish officer. 2004. Read by Stephen Thorne, 12 hours 1 minute. TB 14077.

September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. In the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with "partisan" guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbour, de Milja fights in the war of shadows in a world without rules. TB 14077.

Furst, Alan

Spies of the Balkans. 2010. Read by Steve Hodson, 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 18380.

Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers. Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in the Balkans and beyond. And as unknown ships and British 'travel writers' trickle through the port, he is a man very much in demand. Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedonia, Zannis returns to a city holding its breath. Mussolini's forces have retreated - for now - but German sights are fixed firmly on the region. And as the situation in Germany worsens, Zannis becomes involved in an audacious plot - smuggling Jews to Istanbul, through the back door of Europe. The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders, and soon Zannis is embroiled in the resistance, and in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything. Contains strong language. TB 18380.

Fyfield, Frances

Seeking sanctuary. 2003. Read by Andrew Sachs, 9 hours 19 minutes. TB 15107.

When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife' cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him, but in the face of the law, the girls' health and his wife's intransigence, he failed. But, if he lost the battle for their souls in life, he would make amends in death, craftily shaping his will to benefit them so long as they did not follow their mother's example. TB 15107.

Gardner, John

Never send flowers. 1993. Read by Peter Wickham, 8 hours 1 minute. TB 10421.

Laura March, an officer of the British security service, is murdered in Switzerland. James Bond is posted to liaise with the local authorities in the lovely, lively person of Flicka von Grosse. Together they discover some curious information about Laura. Realising there is a link between Laura's murder and four recent high-profile assassinations in London, Rome, Paris and Washington DC, David Draganpol, the internationally famous actor, Bond and Flicka are led into a deadly game of hide and seek around the world ending in a final showdown in Euro-Disney. TB 10421.

Garland, Alex

The tesseract. 1998. Read by Daniel Philpott, 6 hours 30 minutes. TB 12208.

The sun is setting over Manila. In an abandoned hotel on the wrong side of town, Sean prepares for the arrival of Don Pepe, the mestizo gangster who runs the shipping lanes of the South China Seas. As he kills time, Sean discovers that his bed-sheets are stained with blood, the phone lines to his room are dead, and somebody has screwed a steel plate over the spyhole in his door... Contains strong language. TB 12208.

Garner, Seth

The blood partnership. 2009. Read by Stuart Crossman, 7 hours 52 minutes. TB 17102.

Ben Spencer is the ambitious young owner of The Blood Partnership, an online property marketing company. Over the past few months, he has become heavily involved with every member of the wealthy property - including becoming engaged to beautiful young Caitlin Westlake - and now he's beginning to regret it. Things go from bad to worse when Ben's own family are targeted by the Westlakes. Now, he must choose a side and it seems the only way out is death - but whose will it be? TB 17102.

Gerritsen, Tess

The bone garden. 2008. Read by Lorelei King, 11 hours 25 minutes. TB 17376.

Newly divorced Julia Hamill is digging in her back garden when she uncovers a human skull. So begins a story that dates back to the 1830s. Impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpses in order to further his studies in human anatomy. It's a gruesome livelihood that will bring him into contact with a terrifying serial killer. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17376.

Gerritsen, Tess

Gravity. 2010. Read by William Dufris, 10 hours 58 minutes. TB 18584.

Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. Now he must watch from the sidelines! The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control -- and infects the crew with agonising and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the deadly virus, while back home Jack and NASA work against the clock to bring her home. Contains strong language. TB 18584.

Gilbert, Michael

Anything for a quiet life. 1990. Read by Christopher Scott, 8 hours 8 minutes. TB 8188.

Jonas Pickett, solicitor and commissioner of oaths, left London to set up an office in Shackleton. Soon he has more clients than he can handle. The variety of calls upon his services involve him with some IRA thugs at gunpoint ... TB 8188.

Goddard, Robert

Found wanting. 2009. Read by David Rintoul, 9 hours 35 minutes. TB 17224.

Richard Eusden is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, her other ex-husband, Marty Hewitson. Marty is dying, but needs a favour done for him. Eusden sets off on what should be a simple errand, but turns into a race for life, his and Marty's, across Belgium, Germany and Denmark and on into the Nordic heart of a mystery that somehow connects Marty's long dead grandfather with the tragic fate of the Russian Royal Family. Eusden discovers to his dismay that he can trust no-one, in a battle for survival with those who are determined to steal the secret they believe he and Marty hold - and will kill for it if they have to. Every move Eusden makes threatens to be a step into disaster. TB 17224.

Goddard, Robert

Long time coming. 2010. Read by David Rintoul, 11 hours 7 minutes. TB 18588.

Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told, until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36 years in an Irish prison. And he insists that he is innocent of any crime. Contains strong language. TB 18588.

Grisham, John

The associate. 2009. Read by Vincent Marzello, 13 hours 29 minutes. TB 18176.

Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and possibly his entire life. One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men. They have a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him and they make it clear to Kyle that he must do as they tell him, or the video will be made public knowledge. They demand Kyle take a job in New York as an associate at the largest law firm in the world. But Kyle won’t be working for the company, but against it, passing on the secrets of the company’s biggest trial to date. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him and the FBI, who would love to unmask the conspiracy. Will his intellect, cunning and bravery be enough to extricate him from an impossible dilemma? TB 18176.

Grisham, John

The king of torts. 2007. Read by Vincent Marzello, 13 hours 11 minutes. TB 15106.

The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for hotshot young litigators. Clay Carter dreams of a better job in a real law firm when he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a seemingly senseless street murder. But as he digs into the background of his client, Clay uncovers evidence that implicates one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. If he wins the case, the enormous settlement would make him the newest King of Torts. Contains strong language and violence. TB 15106.

Grisham, John

The appeal. 2008. Read by Vincent Marzello, 14 hours 28 minutes. TB 18329.

In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mould him into a potential Supreme Court justice. TB 18329.

Groff, Lauren

The monsters of Templeton. 2008. Read by Liza Ross, 13 hours 45 minutes. TB 16506.

In the wake of a disastrous affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past- some sinister, all fascinating- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. TB 16506.

Gross, Andrew

Killing hour. 2011. Read by Lewis Hancock, 9 hours 21 minutes. TB 18770.

Dr. Jay Handler's life is perfect: a wife and children he loves; a successful career. But a call comes that changes everything. His troubled nephew, Evan, has killed himself and Jay's brother is in despair. Jay flies to California to help out, and is soon convinced Evan's death was no suicide. The police want him to leave the matter alone but he is determined to dig deeper. When his investigation takes him on a journey into his brother's shady past, Jay finds himself caught up in a world of dangerous secrets and ruthless killers! TB 18770.

Haggard, William

The money men. 1981. Read by Robert Gladwell, 7 hours 24 minutes. TB 3978.

Colonel Charles Russell, formerly head of the Security Executive, asks a Dutch financier privately to invest some money for him, little anticipating the threats and the danger to which he was to be exposed. TB 3978.

Harris, Joanne

Blueeyedboy. 2010. Read by Owain Shaw, 16 hours 28 minutes, TB 17736.

A dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on a web journal called bad guys rock, this is a thriller that makes use of all the multiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered by playing out a life on the internet. Contains strong language. TB 17736.

Harris, Robert

Enigma. 1995. Read by Stephen Thorne, 11 hours 34 minutes. TB 10585.

Based around an actual event, this book is set in 1943 inside Britain's code-breaking centre. Nazi Germany's U-boats have unexpectedly changed their Enigma cipher and the battle of the Atlantic hangs in the balance. In desperation the authorities turn to brilliant young mathematician and codebreaker, Tom Jericho. What follows is a frantic race to crack the U-boat code. Jericho faces an equally baffling enigma: the woman he loves has disappeared and he suspects there might be a spy in the codebreaking centre ... TB 10585.

Harrison, Colin

The finder. 2008. Read by Jeff Harding, 11 hours 53 minutes. TB 16508.

Jin Li, the young, beautiful manager of a Manhattan office-cleaning firm, is on the run. Two Mexican girls on her payroll have just been buried in Brooklyn under a tonne of stinking sewage that she knows was meant for her - she has been 'disposing of' valuable information from top corporations in the city for years, and now the people she has stolen from are out for revenge. Meanwhile, corporate schmoozer Tom Reilly is treating a pair of potential investors to a Yankees game when he receives a threatening letter claiming to know about 'problems' at Good Pharma pharmaceuticals. On the other side of town, mysterious Ray Grant, Jin Li's former lover, is tracked down by her ruthless brother Chen and offered an impossible choice: help Chen find Jin Li, or place his own father in danger. As the hunt for Jin Li gathers pace, the stakes are high on all sides. Will Ray find her before her enemies do? Can Chen and his Shanghai 'associates' be trusted to keep their word? And what is the secret that Ray's father has been hiding that could affect them all? Contains strong language. TB 16508.

Hart, John

The last child. 2009. Read by Jeff Harding, 14 hours 45 minutes. TB 17182.

A suspense that features a thirteen year old boy turns vigilante, a burnt-out cop won't let go, a missing girl, an unsolved case and a small town on the edge of good and evil. Contains strong language. TB 17182.

Heller, Mandasue

The game. 2005. Read by Natalie Macaluso, 10 hours 59 minutes. TB 16164.

When Mary's mother throws her out, the sassy teenager soon learns how tough life can be. Her new friend Lynne is older, more sophisticated. She has a taste for cocaine and isn't above walking the streets for extra cash to pay for it. Mary sticks to a straighter path, until the night Lynne brings Ali and Raiz back to their flat. The women don't know that their sexy new friends are small-time criminals, desperate for alibis for a drug-dealer's murder. All too soon, Mary is in more trouble than she can handle. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16164.

Heller, Mandasue

Snatched. 2009. Read by Joan Walker, 11 hours 20 minutes. TB 16859.

A girl disappears - and suspicion rips through a family and a neighbourhood. It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning. A single mother who left a six-year-old on his own while she went clubbing on a Friday night. An absent father with a hot teenaged girlfriend who didn't seem to care who was minding his former family. The police, the neighbours, the friends, the lovers turn accusing eyes on them both. Suspicious voices ask whether Nicky has run away; whether the fire is really an accident. And meanwhile, time is running out for Nicky. Contains strong language. TB 16859.

Helwig, Maggie

Where she was standing. 2001. Read by Desmond Scott, 8 hours 57 minutes. TB 18445.

Set in the early 1990s, it explores the aftermath of a massacre of protestors by the Indonesian military in occupied East Timor. The military try to conceal the massacre by arresting and "disappearing" witnesses. One of those missing is a Canadian art student whose camera may contain footage of the shootings. Contains violence. TB 18445.

Henderson, Jan-Andrew

Bunker 10. 2007. Read by Grant Ritchie, 4 hours 58 minutes. TB 16211.

At eight o'clock in the evening, on Monday 24th December 2007, Pinewood Military Installation exploded. The blast ripped apart acres of forest and devastated the remote highland valley where the base was located. No official cause was given for the incident. Inside Pinewood were 185 male and female military personnel - a mixture of scientists and soldiers. There were also seven teenagers there. This is the story of their last day. TB 16211.

Hiaasen, Carl

Nature girl. 2007. Read by William Roberts, 10 hours 50 minutes. TB 15901.

Honey Santana - self-proclaimed queen of lost causes - has a Plan. She's working on a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference and dinner-time telemarketers. She's also taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreve and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress to Dismal Key - one of the Everglades' Ten Thousand Islands - for a gentle lesson in civility. What Honey doesn't know is that lurking in the island's undergrowth is Sammy Tigertail, half-blood Seminole Indian and wholly failed alligator wrestler, with death on his mind; and Honey's deranged co-worker, Louis Piejack, now with most of his fingers surgically mis-attached to the wrong knuckles, and intent on revenge. Contains strong language. TB 15901.

Higgins, Jack

East of desolation. 1999. Read by Stephen Rea, 5 hours 40 minutes. TB 12944.

The plane that crashed in the icy desert of Greenland had no passengers and barely any identity. Joe Martin was hired to fly to the scene of the crash by the insurance company involved and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot. But the routine mission spiralled into hair-raising excitement and suspense when a priceless batch of emeralds were added to the mystery. And almost before he knew it, Joe Martin found his life on the line. TB 12944.

Higgins, Jack

A game for heroes. 1999. Read by Christian Hodska, 6 hours 28 minutes. TB 11975.

The war is nearing its end, but the Channel Island of St Pierre is a last redoubt for a unit of fanatical SS troops. The British need to know what they are planning. So they send in Colonel Owen Morgan to find out. He is a veteran of the deadly undercover war against the Nazis. He is unconventional 'officer material' who kills without hesitation and who is viewed askance by his comrades. However, he is also a native of St Pierre with a dangerously personal interest in the situation there. As Morgan goes in on one side of the island, a crack Commando team penetrates the harbour on the other side. TB 11975.

Hoffman, Jilliane

Pretty little things. 2010. Read by Amy Finegan, 11 hours 25 minutes. TB17939.

After a date on Halloween, Lainey Emerson disappears, along with a new boyfriend. This individual, known only by the nickname of El Captain, is the obvious suspect. Bobby Dees, the tenacious special agent of Florida’s crack Crimes Against Children squad, is the one person who may be able to find her and he is both helped and hindered by the fact that he knows only too well how it feels to lose a child. But all of his resources are called upon by a nemesis that always seems to be one step ahead – and time is running out for the missing girl. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB17939.

Hudson, Maggie

Looking for Mr Big. 2001. Read by Raymond Sawyer, 11 hours 30 minutes. TB 14634.

Deena King is a barrister. A tough, professional woman who has made a successful career, putting criminals behind bars. Al Virtue is a professional villain, the brains behind some of the most daring heists the capital has seen. Only once has he been called to pay for his crimes, and Deena King was the prosecuting QC. But now they must form an unlikely alliance, for Deena's son and Al's daughter has vanished from college... TB 14634.

Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew

We know. 2009. Read by Jeff Harding, 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 17483.

A good job, a decent flat, a quiet life - Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems, until a SWAT team smash their way into his place in the middle of the night. Still in pyjamas, he's dragged outside to a waiting helicopter. TB 17483.

Iles, Greg

24 Hours. 2006. Read by Regina Reagan, 10 hours 17 minutes. TB 14893.

From modest beginnings, Will and Abby Jennings have built the life of their dreams with their five-year-old daughter who they love beyond measure. But they have been targeted by Joe Hickey, a genius who has mastered one of the oldest crimes in the world - kidnapping. Contains violence. TB 14893.

Joss, Morag

Half broken things. 2003. Read by Stephen Perring, 10 hours 3 minutes. TB 13988.

Jean, Michael and Steph are three reluctant loners. Damaged and fearful of life, they cannot survive alone for much longer. A mixture of deceit, good luck and misfortune draw them together to Walden Manor, a secluded country house that promises sanctuary and freedom from destitution. Out of an invented past they shape a beautiful present. Does it really matter if their sense of safety is built on delusion? When the idyll is threatened, they discover that because their lives are now worth living, they are also worth preserving, although at an appalling cost. Contains strong language. TB 13988.

Keane, Jessie

The make. 2011. Read by Dawn Murphey, 13 hours 38 minutes. TB 18581.

Life is good for Gracie Doyle -- running her Manchester casino keeps her busy. Until the police turn up at her door one day and her world is turned upside down. She is given news that her two estranged brothers have been viciously attacked. George is in hospital on a ventilator and worryingly, Harry is missing. Gracie has no option but to leave the good life and dip her toe into the murky waters of her East End past. She leaves for London in an attempt to avenge her brothers and in doing so uncovers some unsavoury secrets about the lifestyle they've been leading. Their little games have got them into big trouble with the wrong people! She must keep her wits about her and try to find Harry, or it could prove fatal! Contains violence, strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 18581.

Kellerman, Jesse

The brutal art. 2008. Read by John Chancer, 14 hours 13 minutes. TB 16435.

In a decaying New York slum, an elderly tenant has disappeared, leaving behind a huge collection of brilliant paintings. No one knows anything much about him. For art dealer Ethan Muller, this is the discovery of a lifetime. He displays the pictures in his gallery and watches as they rocket up in value. But suddenly the police want to talk to him. It seems the missing artist had a sinister past. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 16435.

Kellerman, Jonathan

The conspiracy club. 2004. Read by Jeff Harding, 10 hours 8 minutes. TB 14607.

Dedicated young psychologist Dr Jeremy Carrier is unschooled in the ways of violent crimes and incalculable evil - until his life is irreversibly touched by both. When his romance with Nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, he is left emotionally devastated and being warily eyed by police seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved killing. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work. But when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn, the suspicion surrounding Jeremy intensifies and the only way for him to prove his innocence is to follow the trail of a cunning psychopath. Contains violence. TB 14607.

Kennedy, Douglas

The big picture. Read by Jeff Harding, 12 hours. TB 13299.

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hotshot - six-figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But with the WASP lifestyle come the sing: Ben hates it. When he realises that the state of his marriage has less to do with baby-induced sleeplessness and more to do with a wife who's playing outside the ground, a moment of madness provides Ben with the opportunity to redesign his life. But as the rollercoaster trajectory of his new existence takes hold, he begins to question the price of fulfilment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else. Contains strong language. TB 13299.

Kernick, Simon

The last 10 seconds. 2010. Read by Damian Lynch, 8 hours 54 minutes. TB 17746.

An undercover cop, a policewoman and a sadistic killer - as they race towards a terrifying confrontation only one thing is certain: they're all going to have to fight very hard just to stay alive. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17746.

Kilborn, Jack

Afraid. 2009. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick, 9 hours 53 minutes. TB 16904.

Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a full-time police force. Until now. A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed. A classified secret weapon programmed to kill anything that stands in its way. Now it's headed for the nearest lights to do what it does best. Isolate. Terrorize. Annihilate. Soon all phone lines are dead and the road is blocked. Safe Haven's only chance for survival rests on the shoulders of an aging county sheriff. And as the body count rises, the sheriff realizes something even more terrifying, maybe death hasn't come to his little town by accident. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16904.

Knox, Tom

The marks of Cain. 2010. Read by Daniel Philpott, 14 hours 20 minutes. TB 17783.

In America a young man inherits a million dollars, from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile, across Europe old men and women are being killed, in the most barbaric and elaborate of ways. And a brilliant scientist has disappeared from his laboratory in London, taking his extraordinary experiments with him. Tying these strange events together is an ancient Biblical curse, a medieval French tribe of pariahs, and a momentous and terrible revelation: something that will alter the world forever. One couple is intent on discovering this darkest of secrets, others will kill, and kill again, to stop them. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17783.

Koontz, Dean R

Relentless. 2010. Read by Jeff Harding, 9 hours 25 minutes. TB 17923.

Hostile reviews may have hastened the deaths of some writers, but Cubby Greenwich is made of sterner stuff. At least this is what he tells himself, meanwhile obsessing about the scathing review of his latest bestseller by Shearman Waxx in a national newspaper. A feared and therefore revered critic, Waxx has an aura of mystery about him that has carried him far as an arbiter of taste, but the mystery itself is about to break cover. In an unexpected encounter with Waxx, Cubby says one innocent word, but it is the wrong word, and it seems to trigger an inhuman fury in the critic, who becomes bent on destroying Cubby and everything he loves. TB 17923.

Koontz, Dean R

The husband. 2006. Read by Jeff Harding, 9 hours 40 minutes. TB 14915.

"We have your wife." Landscape gardener Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of a joke. He was busy planting beds for one of his clients when his phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighbourhood on a bright summer day having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Contains strong language and violence. TB 14915.

Koontz, Dean R

The darkest evening of the year. 2008. Read by Michael FitzPatrick, 9 hours 40 minutes. TB 16233.

Amy Redwing recklessly risks everything in her chosen field of dog rescue, when she confronts a violent drunk in order to rescue Nickie, a beautiful golden retriever. Amy has no misgivings. Dogs always do their best, and so will she. Riding shotgun nervously is her friend and lover, Brian, an architect who would marry her if only she were not so committed to these crazy heroics! But everything is due to change in the Redwing household. Someone is trying to destroy Amy. Amy believes her attacker is Wes Greeley, just released after an eighteen-month stretch, thanks to Amy's testimony, for egregious animal cruelty. TB 16233.

Kray, Roberta

The villain's daughter. 2010. Read by Jacqueline Boatswain, 15 hours 58 minutes. TB 18298.

Small-time villain Sean O'Donnell walked out on his family almost twenty years ago and hasn't been heard of since. Now his daughter, Iris, has returned to the East End to find out just what happened. But it isn't going to be easy. Everyone close to Iris seems to be keeping secrets. When the mysterious Guy Wilder offers to help Iris uncover the truth, he changes everything. As the son of the local criminal matriarch, though, Guy has plenty of problems of his own. Contains strong language. TB 18298.

Langfield, Martin

The malice box. 2007. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 17 hours 32 minutes. TB 16404.

When Robert Reckliss is sent a copper puzzle box, he has no idea his life is about to undergo violent transformation. An acquaintance kills himself, and an old friend reveals the existence of an arcane weapon that could wipe out the western world. It falls to Robert to hunt down this weapon, this Malice Box. The weapon is primed to explode in seven days and Robert must undergo a quest in order to track down the keys vital to prevent detonation. Contains strong language. TB 16404.

Larsson, Stieg

The girl with the dragon tattoo. 2008. Read by Matt Addis, 16 hours 11 minutes. TB 16729.

Millenium trilogy; book 1. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 16729.

Larsson, Stieg

The girl who played with fire. 2009. Read by Matt Addis, 18 hours 53 minutes. TB 16935.

Millennium trilogy; book 2. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander's innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 16935.

Larsson, Stieg

The girl who kicked the hornets' nest. 2009. Read by Matt Addis, 22 hours 48 minutes. TB 17065.

Millennium trilogy; book 3. Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17065.

Laurie, Hugh

The gun seller. 1996. Read by Jonathan Hackett, 12 hours 46 minutes. TB 11585.

If you're selling double glazing, or cosmetics, or vacuum cleaners, then your job is difficult, but it's straightforward. You must ring bells and smile a lot. But when you have an entirely different kind of product on offer - when, for example, you're trying to unload a prototype military helicopter, capable of five hundred miles an hour and a thousand corpses a minute - the technique is more complicated. Contains strong language. TB 11585.

Le Carre, John

Absolute friends. 2003. Read by Margaret Williams, 15 hours 6 minutes. TB 18214.

Unassuming Bavarian tour guide Ted Mundy is actually a retired British double agent. After September 11, 2001, old friend and former colleague Sasha contacts him with a new mission: to stop an impending war in Iraq and become very rich in the process. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 18214.

Le Carre, John

The mission song. 2007. Read by Michael Jayston, 11 hours 45 minutes. TB 15374.

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the very-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Inspired by his mentor, Brother Michael, he trains as a professional interpreter in minority African languages. TB 15374.

Leather, Stephen

The long shot. 2006. Read by Martyn Read, 18 hours 58 minutes. TB 14922.

The plan is so complex, the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert. Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination. But he doesn't know who the target is of where the crack marksmen will strike. Contains violence. TB 14922.

Lehane, Dennis

Shutter Island. 2003. Read by Stuart Milligan, 9 hours 17 minutes. TB 17581.

It is the 1950s and experiments with drugs, conditioning and brain surgery are all the rage both in the psychiatric profession and in the shadow world of government agencies. US Marshal Teddy is summoned to a remote hospital for the criminally insane to look for a missing patient and finds his own future and sanity on the line. Contains strong language. TB 17581.

Levin, Ira

A kiss before dying. 2000. Read by Amy Finegan, 8 hours 31 minutes. TB 17534.

The boy most likely to succeed is now the man most wanted for murder. A brilliant young psychopath goes from honour student, class president, and war hero to killer of his pregnant lover. Unable to stop, he gets away with murder after murder - blind to the one fatal weakness that can expose him. TB 17534.

Lewis, Kevin

Kaitlyn. 2006. Read by Jacqueline Boatswain, 12 hours 49 minutes. TB 17627.

The Wilson family was torn apart the night little Christopher was almost killed. Though the two year-old survives the brutal attack by his drunken father, his older sister Kaitlyn is convinced it's all her fault. Christopher is taken into care and never returns to the family home on the notorious Roxford estate in South London. But the bond between the siblings remains strong, and as Kaitlyn gets older she dreams of a new life away from the violence of the estate and her mother's dangerous addictions. But most of all, she dreams of being reunited with her little brother. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17627.

Lewis, Susan

Wicked beauty. 2003. Read by Trudy Harris, 21 hours 26 minutes. TB 14361.

Laurie Forbes series; book 2. Sequel to: Silent truths, TB 14255. Forbidden love, uncontrolled passion and the ultimate exploitation of power. Tim and Rachel Hendon are riding high on an ideal marriage and growing political success. Tim is already in the Cabinet and, as they celebrate yet another election victory, they have no idea that they are on the eve of a nightmare that is going to devastate their lives. After a high-profile murder, Katherine Summer has disappeared. Is she the killer? Or will the information she has on top government officials make hers the next body to turn up on the coroner's table? Certain that Katherine is alive and in hiding, acclaimed reporter Laurie Forbes joins forces with Rachel Hendon to discover the truth behind one of the world's most secretive and dangerous organisations. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 14361.

Ludlum, Robert

The prometheus deception. 2001. Read by Hayward Morse, 20 hours 25 minutes. TB 13731.

For twenty years Nick Bryson was at the top of the Directorate, a clandestine branch of US intelligence. On retirement he discovers that the mysterious Directorate was in fact Soviet deception operation, and that his entire adult life has been controlled. Nick has one last chance to set things right. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 13731.

Ludlum, Robert

The apocalypse watch. 1995. Read by William Dufris, 23 hours 55 minutes. TB 10707.

Harry Latham is a multilingual officer who, after thirty months in deep cover, traces and enters the Bruderschaft Valley in the Hausruck Alps and finds, to his horror, a processing centre for those dedicating themselves to the emergence of the Fourth Reich. Harry is captured, betrayed by his own people and, without his knowledge, undergoes surgery to invade his brain. He is then permitted to escape, for the particular information he now carries puts scores of innocent people under suspicion, which in turn puts groups and organisations against one another. TB 10707.

Lupton, Rosamund

Sister. 2010. Read by Dawn Murphy, 11 hours 9 minutes. TB 18159.

When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is stunned to discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life and unprepared for the terrifying truths she must now face. The police, Beatrice's fiance and even their mother accept they have lost Tess but Beatrice refuses to give up on her. So she embarks on a dangerous journey to discover the truth. Contains strong language. TB 18159.

Lyall, Gavin

The conduct of Major Maxim. 1982. Read by Robin Browne, 9 hours 12 minutes. TB 4691.

Harry Maxim series; book 2. Sequel to: The secret servant, TB 13856. A spy story with a sense of high adventure: Major Harry Maxim. SAS-trained and still mourning the loss of his wife to a terrorist bomb, is asked to help Corporal Blagg, on the run from his battalion in Germany. There has been a shoot-out in a back alley and their secret service do not choose to know. Maxim must use the pin-striped, old-boy network, cloak and dagger variety. TB 4691.

McCarthy, Ava

The insider. 2010. Read by Grainne Gillis, 11 hours 12 minutes. TB 17364.

Until recently, the toughest part of Henrietta 'Harry' Martinez's life was hiding her troubled past. But now the former hacker turned security expert is in danger. Someone wants her dead. Her father Sal taught her everything he knew about taking risks, but he made a bad gamble with an anonymous trader known as the 'Prophet'. Sal was jailed for fraud; now the Prophet wants Harry to pay up. TB 17364.

McDermid, Val

The wire in the blood. 2004. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 15 hours 13 minutes. TB 14257.

Tony Hill series; book 2. Sequel to: The mermaids singing, TB 14341. Tony Hill is asked by the Home Office to form a national task force of trained psychological profilers, a hit squad capable of moving in on particular complex cases. He gives his new team the details of thirty missing teenagers and asks them to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer, Shaz Bowman, comes up with a concrete theory. She is ridiculed by the rest of her group until a killer murders and mutilates one of their number. Contains strong language and violence. TB 14257.

McIntyre, Hope

How to seduce a ghost. 2008. Read by Norma West, 12 hours 19 minutes. TB 16409.

Although she loves her boyfriend Tommy, Lee is suffering from commitment phobia because, as a ghost-writer, she values her privacy above all else and she can't bear his mess. But whilst Lee tries to remain in denial about the state of her crumbling home, a neighbour is suddenly killed in a fire, and it looks like arson. Lee is drawn into a murder investigation as there is a second fire and another murder closer to home. As her home deteriorates further and her precious privacy comes under increasing pressure from all sides, could it be that Lee herself is in danger? TB 16409.

McNab, Andy

Firewall. 2001. Read by Clive Mantle, 14 hours 31 minutes. TB 15013.

Nick Stone series; book 3. Sequel to: Crisis four, TB 14985. Nick Stone is offered enough money to mean he won't have to work again. The work he has to do to get it involves recovering stolen sensitive military secrets from Russian organised crime. In Finland Stone discovers that he's a pawn in a much bigger game than he had imagined. Contains strong language. TB 15013.

Martin, Andrew

The Blackpool highflyer. 2004. Read by Hugh Walters, 11 hours 24 minutes. TB 13860.

Jim Stringer series; book 2. Sequel to: The Necropolis railway, TB 12757. When railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Blackpool in the hot summer of 1905, he thinks he's struck lucky. But his dreams of beer and pretty women soon fall away - when his highspeed train meets a huge millstone on the line. In the months that follow as he hunts for the saboteur, Jim is drawn into the beguiling but dangerous world of eccentrics, conmen and cowards. From ventriloquists to funfair salesmen, ticket clerks to dandies, everyone is a suspect in this captivating adventure. Contains strong language. TB 13860.

Matthews, Adrian

The apothecary's house. 2005. Read by Adrian Matthews, 17 hours 39 minutes. TB 14546.

When an old woman storms into the Rijks Museum demanding the return of her painting, archivist Ruth Braams cannot quell her curiosity. Together with Myles, her gay confidant, Ruth delves into the history of the piece of looted Nazi art. However, it seems the old woman is not the only claimant and soon she begins to receive sinister threats. As they escalate Ruth realises there must be more to the painting's popularity and she enters into increasing lethal adventures as she investigates. TB 14546.

Matthews, John

The shadow chaser. 2007. Read by Stephen Thorne, 16 hours 37 minutes. TB 16808.

Andre Lemoine, one of the world's leading geneticists, is on the verge of the medical breakthrough of the century: a link with rare primates that could unlock a vital key in the search for a cure for AIDS. But part of Andre's quest is driven by a pressing medical threat within his own family, and when his breakthrough brings him into conflict with two ambitious ruthless rivals - it plunges Andre into the race of his life; a race which takes Andre from the dark jungles of Africa and Brazil to the seamy back-streets of Paris and Philadelphia. For Andre the stakes have never been higher. Because, as the threat to those Andre loves looms stronger, it becomes a race through the shadows of his family's dark past to, ultimately, face death head-on. TB 16808.

May, Peter

The firemaker. 2003. Read by Laurence Bouvard, 14 hours 21 minutes. TB 14208.

Li Yan series; book 1. Three murders. Two lovers. One burning truth. Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on his hands. She has a broken life behind her and a lonely future, dedicated to her profession, ahead. He has survived two decades of violent change by marrying himself to a career, which now promises, at last, to bring him the respected place in Chinese society that his family lost in the Cultural Revolution. Neither of them is ready for the consequences of asking the wrong questions about the dead man; the ones that lead to the terrifying truth. Contains violence. TB 14208.

Moffat, G J

Daisychain. 2009. Read by Joe Dunlop, 10 hours 2 minutes. TB 17368.

Logan Finch has just about everything he ever wanted - a penthouse apartment in Glasgow's city centre and a shot at making partner one of Scotland's largest law firms. But he still pines for the woman he thought was 'the one' who left him without explanation over 12 years ago. On DC Rebecca Irvine's first day in her new job she is called to a murder scene in the affluent Southside of Glasgow. The victim is Penny Grant, Logan's former girlfriend. And her 11-year-old daughter, Ellie, is missing. TB 17368.

Mofina, Rick

Cold fear. 2001. Read by Angela Willson, 12 hours 37 minutes. TB 18437.

While camping with her family in Montana's Glacier National Park, a 10-year-old girl disappears. As a multi-agency task force launches a massive search, the little girl fights to survive in the wilderness while her mother enters her own life-and-death race to rescue her child. Because someone else who knows a dark secret from the past wants to find her daughter, too. Contains strong language. TB 18437.

Morrall, Clare

The man who disappeared. 2010. Read by Karina Fernandez, 13 hours 31 minutes. TB 17973.

What would you do if, out of the blue, your husband disappeared and you found out he was a suspected criminal? When reliable, respectable Felix Kendall vanishes, his wife Kate is left reeling. As she and their children cope with the shocking impact on their comfortable lives, Kate realises that, if Felix is guilty, she never truly knew the man she loved. But as she faces the possibility that he might not return, she also discovers strengths she never knew she had. TB 17973.

Mosby, Steve

Still bleeding. 2010. Read by Robert Angell, 10 hours 31 minutes. TB 17642.

Alex Connor is running away from life. After his wife's death he wanted nothing but oblivion. Only his friend Sarah kept him going. Now she's been murdered, and though the police have the killer they don't have her body. Paul Kearney is a policeman. It's his job to look death in the eye - however sinister form it takes. Wound together by their search, if they're going to save themselves and the people they love, they need to go to a place where normal rules don't apply, a place where life is only the first thing you lose. Contains strong language. TB 17642.

Moss, Robert

Moscow rules. 1985. Read by Steve Hodson, 17 hours 45 minutes. TB 6140.

Sasha's father, a Hero of the Society Union, is killed by a KGB agent whom he caught raping a little German girl during the last days of the war. When Sasha finds out he swears to destroy the corrupt political system which allows KGB brutality to fester. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 6140.

Neville, Katherine

The eight. 2006. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 24 hours 38 minutes. TB 16684.

For centuries a secret has been carefully hidden from those who would abuse its power. One daring and enigmatic woman gives her life to defy the rules and protect history from changing course forever. With France aflame in revolution, and the power of her king checked, the nuns of Montglane Abbey are forced to unearth a secret buried for a thousand years within their fortress walls. As the women scatter across the world they take with them the pieces of a mythical chess set given to Charlemagne by eight mysterious Moors. Embedded in each piece of the chess service is a code. Contains strong language. TB 16684.

Nichol, John

Vanishing point. 1997. Read by Nigel Carrington, 9 hours 16 minutes. TB 11470.

Six years after RAF ace pilot Mark Hunter is released from imprisonment in Iraq, his fellow servicemen still suffer the effects of the Gulf War. Why is the information about the cocktail of drugs given to the forces classified? Why is there a wall of silence around Iraqi chemical weapons? In his quest to find out the answers, Mark's only hope lies in Dr Natalie Kennedy, a UN scientist heading a team inspecting Iraq's weapons. But he only has ten days before his squadron returns to Kuwait. TB 11470.

Pamuk, Orhan

My name is Red. 2001. Read by David Thorpe, 22 hours 58 minutes. TB 17495.

In the late 1590s, the Turkish Sultan secretly commissions an illuminated book: a celebration of his life and his empire. At a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Then one of the miniaturists is murdered. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17495.

Patterson, James

Beach road. 2007. Read by Jeff Harding, 7 hours 3 minutes. TB 14945.

Tom Dunleavy has a law firm in the legendary East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. When an old friend of his is arrested for a triple murder near a movie star's mansion, Tom is in the public eye for the first time in his life. Dante Halleyville asks Tom to represent him in what could be the trial of the century. Contains strong language. TB 14945.

Patterson, James

Hide & seek: a novel. 1996. Read by Kathy Reynolds, 7 hours 1 minute. TB 18218.

Singer Maggie Bradford has fame, two children, and a new husband named Will who is an actor and former soccer star. But Maggie, who once killed an abusive husband, suspects Will of sexually abusing her daughter. She confronts him and soon is on trial for murder. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 18218.

Patterson, James

Sail. 2009. Read by Laurel Lefkow, 7 hours 43 minutes. TB 16837.

As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes the boat to vanish without a trace and the family are lost, presumed dead. Until now. When a message in a bottle is washed up on a shore, it becomes apparent that there must have been at least one survivor. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16837.

Pincher, Chapman

The penthouse conspirators. 1970. Read by George Hagan, 8 hours 15 minutes. TB 1483.

Exciting story of intelligence at high level, the struggle between the Secret Intelligence Service and Russia's K.G.B. TB 1483.

Puzo, Mario

The Sicilian. 2000. Read by Jeff Harding, 14 hours 17 minutes. TB 15040.

The Godfather; book 2. Sequel to: The Godfather, TB 15039. Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him. At sea, amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land, Michael must find a way through the labyrinthine deceits that surround him, while Giuliano prepares himself for a final confrontation with Don Croce, Capo di Capi of the Sicilian Mafia. Contains strong language and violence. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 15040.

Rathbone, Julian

Dangerous games. 1991. Read by Sean Barrett, 9 hours 26 minutes. TB 9675.

A Ukrainian Jew is shot in Vienna, a KGB police chief is targeted and a Green from Kiev is blown up in Barcelona. When the evidence seems to point to a man known to be dead, it's time for the police to re-evaluate. After all, how does a dead man kill? Contains strong language. TB 9675.

Rayne, Sarah

The death chamber. 2008. Read by Diana Bishop, 14 hours 10 minutes. TB 16711.

Georgina Gray's history is closely bound up in Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside. It's there that her great-grandfather worked as a prison doctor in the 1930s; where his involvement in a bizarre experiment would change the course of his life forever. TV presenter Chad Ingram plans to conduct a new experiment in the old execution chamber of the now-disused gaol, which will have horrifying consequences. TB 16711.

Reichs, Kathy

Death du jour. 1999. Read by Liza Ross, 12 hours 40 minutes. TB 12281.

A Dr Temperance Brennan forensic thriller set in Montreal. On a bitterly cold March night, in the grounds of an abandoned convert, the forensic anthropologist is exhuming the remains of a nun who died in 1888. What will she find when she finally lifts the rotting coffin lid? TB 12281.

Ridpath, Michael

See no evil. 2006. Read by Sean Barrett, 11 hours 12 minutes. TB 14747.

Alex Calder series; book 2. Sequel to: On the edge, TB 14688. When an old college friend pays Alex Calder an unexpected visit, he is drawn once more into the City's shady underbelly. For Kim is married to Todd, son of South African newspaper tycoon Cornelius van Zyl. Todd wants Alex's help to investigate the mystery of his mother's murder 18 years previously. Contains strong language. TB 14747.

Rivers, Gayle

The killing house. 1988. Read by Stephen Thorne, 10 hours 6 minutes. TB 7933.

Cast out of the SAS in unsavoury circumstances, Tim Bell turns mercenary. The lust for money and revenge takes hold, and his skills enable him to devise a fiendish plan to hold New York to ransom. Can he be stopped? An old friend realises, almost too late, the deadly threat Tim poses, and the chase begins! Unsuitable for family reading. TB 7933.

Ryan, Chris

Firefight. 2008. Read by Mark Elstob, 10 hours 50 minutes. TB 16678.

Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. A veteran of the most dangerous missions the Regiment could throw at him, his life was torn apart the day a terrorist attack killed his family. He leads a life of grief-stricken obscurity, until he accepts a job that will take him straight back into a brutal theatre of war. Only one person can help prevent the disaster that is waiting to happen, and that person is being held by Taliban forces. As Tom reluctantly prepares to undertake this final mission, he does so in the knowledge that it will stop a devastating terrorist attack - as well as achieve an ulterior motive of his own. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16678.

Ryan, Chris

The kill zone. 2010. Read by James Hutchinson, 12 hours 45 minutes. TB18362.

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly - or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban's kill zone, they know just what to expect. When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the Regiment is tasked to retrieve the weapons at all costs. SAS legend Jack Harker has to lead an eight-man mission into a suspected Taliban facility. He's suspicious about what the aims of the mission really are - and it's about to go noisy. Contains strong language and passages of violence. TB 18362.

Ryan, Robert

Early one morning. 2006. Read by Steven Pacey, 10 hours 36 minutes. TB 16471.

Morning, noon and night series; book 1. In the Roaring Twenties an Englishman and a Frenchman were fierce rivals not only on the European race circuits but also for the sensuous Eve Aubicq. When war breaks out both sign up for missions in Occupied France. They cause havoc to the Nazis until their cover is blown and they are captured and tortured. TB 16471.

Ryan, Robert

Empire of sand. 2009. Read by Clive Mantle, 11 hours 41 minutes. TB 18486.

1915: while the war in Europe escalates, a young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence is in Cairo, awaiting his chance for action. Lawrence is convinced that an Arab revolt is the only way to remove the Ottoman presence, and leave a free, self-governed Arabia. Soon alarming reports reach him of trouble in Persia, orchestrated by infamous German agent Wilhelm Wassmuss. Intent on taking down Wassmuss, Lawrence assembles a small group and travels to Persia. Little does he know that his actions will bring about a resolution that might just save the lives of millions of men in the trenches of Europe. TB 18486.

Sansom, C J

Winter in Madrid. 2006. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 22 hours 56 minutes. TB 16071.

The year is 1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. Britain now stands alone, as General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett: ex-public schoolboy, traumatised veteran of Dunkirk and, now, reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old schoolfriend turned shady Madrid businessman, he finds himself involved in a dangerous game - and surrounded by memories. TB 16071.

Sebastian, Tim

Saviour's gate. 1991. Read by Frank Duncan, 11 hours. TB 8809.

Marcus is a British correspondent in Moscow. He is also a British agent engaged in a desperate attempt to make sense of events in the Soviet Union. TB 8809.

Seeber, Claire

Bad friends. 2010. Read by Meriel Scholfield, 11 hours 50 minutes. TB 17645.

En route from ending a destructive love affair, TV producer Maggie Warren is involved in a freak accident. When invited to discuss her trauma on a chat-show, Maggie comes face-to-face with fellow survivor, the beautiful but damaged Fay Carter. One by one the tentacles of Maggie's past mistakes seem to be reaching inexorably into her future. And the secret Maggie has tried so hard to bury is coming back to haunt her. TB 17645.

Seymour, Gerald

The walking dead. 2007. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 18 hours 35 minutes. TB 16119.

A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr - and many innocents will die with him. For David Banks, an armed protection officer charged with neutralising the growing menace to London's safety, his role is not as clear-cut as it once was. The certainties which ruled his thinking are no longer black and white. Banks has begun to realise that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 16119.

Seymour, Gerald

The killing ground. 1997. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 20 hours 28 minutes. TB 11241.

Charlotte Parsons is invited to resume her job as a nanny to the children of a well-to-do Sicilian family. But this time she is the central figure in a plot to trap Mario Ruggerio, head of the Sicilian Mafia, the man who masterminds a multi-billion dollar international drug trade. She is to be live bait and she is about to enter the killing ground. Contains strong language. TB 11241.

Shah, Eddy

Ring of red roses. 1992. Read by Frank Duncan, 17 hours 28 minutes. TB 9823.

Mark Duncan, Falklands veteran and SAS officer, is assigned to Moscow to investigate his friend, Victor Oldenbourg's kidnapping. Duncan and the eccentric, half Muslim Moscow policeman, Captain Myelowski, are caught up in a web of political intrigue, originating in the Kremlin. Oldenbourg and his family are in mortal danger and their fate could determine the political future of the new socialist republics. TB 9823.

Sheldon, Sidney

Morning, noon and night. 1995. Read by Liza Ross, 7 hours 58 minutes. TB 10615.

The drowning of wealthy Harry Stanford sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. Following the funeral, a striking young woman appears. She claims to be his daughter and entitled to a share of his estate. Is she genuine, or is she an impostor? Behind the facade of fame and glamour of the Stanford family is a hidden web of blackmail, drugs and murder. TB 10615.

Slaughter, Karin

Genesis. 2010. Read by Liza Ross, 15 hours 33 minutes. TB 17696.

Georgia series; book 1. Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlantas Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. Contains strong language. TB 17696.

Smith, Carol

Family reunion. 2000. Read by Rachel Atkins, 10 hours. TB 12345.

Odile Annesley is approaching eighty and has been living alone in France for forty years. Upon contacting her scattered grandchildren to give them details of her will, the granddaughters see it as the perfect opportunity for a family get together. Clemency, the perfect wife and mother; London property dealer, Madeleine; Paris dress designer, Elodie; academic Canadian Isabelle; Cherie, the misfit and Harry, the golden haired boy. Then the killing starts, the secrets spill and it is clear that despite their shared characteristics, one of them is very different indeed... Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 12345.

Strong, Terence

Wheels of fire. Read by Martyn Read, 17 hours 10 minutes. TB 14720.

Summoned to war-torn Bosnia to replace a Liaison Officer in the Royal Wessex Regiment, ex-SAS man Jeff Hawkins soon realizes he's been pitched into a task far more dangerous than he had imagined. Hawkins' main role is to keep the UN aid convoys running at all costs. But his new Company commander isn't up to the job. It's vital that one huge convoy breaks the siege of Sarajevo to deliver essential provisions and medical supplies before Christmas. Defying all odds, the twin-air horns of a hundred trucks blast defiantly as their giant wheels begin to roll on a journey to hell and back. Contains strong language and violence. TB 14720.

Strong, Terence

Rogue element. 1998. Read by Peter Wickham, 21 hours 40 minutes. TB 13387.

When Roddy Littlechild refused a favour to MI5, his world collapses. He is accused of murder and the evidence against him is overwhelming. Only his brother-in-law Chris Lomax, an expert tracker just retired from the SAS, believes in Littlechild's innocence. Lomax, together with Sam Browne (a defence lawyer as renowned for her fiery temperament as for her good looks) takes on the police, government and legal system in a harrowing attempt to prove his friend's innocence. TB 13387.

Taylor, Andrew

The judgement of strangers. 2007. Read by Ric Jerrom, 10 hours 9 minutes. TB 15539.

Roth series; book 2. Sequel to: The four last things, TB 15368. It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past, brings home a new wife to Roth. Soon the murders and blasphemies begin. But does the responsibility lie in the present or the past? And can Byfield, a prisoner of his own passion, break through to the truth before the final tragedy destroys what he most cherishes? Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 15539.

Taylor, Andrew

The barred window. 2008. Read by Simon Shepherd, 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 16480.

One evening in 1967, Thomas Penmarsh lost everything he valued. Now, in 1993, he sleeps in a room with a barred window, looked after by Cousin Esmond. This psychological drama hints at madness, fear and sudden death without spilling a drop of blood. TB 16480.

Thomas, Craig

Jade tiger. 1995. Read by Crawford Logan, 15 hours 3 minutes. TB 10896.

The dragon, the bear and the tiger. For espionage veteran Kenneth Aubrey, the world is suddenly full of clues which don't match up. He needs to crack a defector with only weeks to break the death game between China, Russia and the West. TB 10896.

Thomas, Craig

Wolfsbane. 1996. Read by Stephen Thorne, 10 hours 49 minutes. TB 10755.

Richard Gardiner had one simple desire - to forget the horrors of war and return to the normality of civilian life. Betrayed to the Gestapo in Paris in August 1944, and escaping from an SS train headed for the death camps, he returned to his Resistance group, only to be betrayed once more. Many years later, he returns to France for a holiday, but his past confronts him in the person of a waiter at his hotel. TB 10755.

Thompson, Jim

The killer inside me. 2010. Read by Christopher Ragland, 5 hours 51 minutes. TB 17921.

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and devastating. TB 17921.

Tracy, P J

Live bait. 2004. Read by Laurence Bouvard, 10 hours 19 minutes. TB 13961.

When elderly Morey Gilbert is found lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet-hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution. And soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found killed with the same cold precision. Contains strong language and violence. TB 13961.

Van Lustbader, Eric

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne legacy. 2005. Read by Garrick Hagon, 20 hours 27 minutes. TB 17545.

Bourne series; book 4. Sequel to: The Bourne ultimatum, TB 11360. Jason Bourne has gradually come to realise who and what he really is - a strange amalgam of a man named David Webb, and a deadly killer. Now David Webb is living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. But someone is reaching out to take him out of the game for ever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered already. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Bourne to save his life and family. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17545.

Vyleta, Dan

Pavel and I. 2008. Read by Richard Burnip, 12 hours 4 minutes. TB 16621.

Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, "Pavel and I" mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two characters: Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pavel home with thoughts of stealing from him, but ultimately stays on to help nurse him back to health. A friendship of mutual need and genuine tenderness develops. When a dead Russian spy is delivered to Pavel's frozen apartment, Pavel and Anders find themselves caught in the beginnings of a Cold War conspiracy of epic proportions. TB 16621.

Walters, Minette

The chameleon's shadow. 2008. Read by Christian Rodska, 11 hours 28 minutes. TB 16294.

When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. Contains violence. TB 16294.

Welsh, Louise

The bullet trick. 2006. Read by Steward Ennis, 9 hours 25 minutes. TB 14933.

William Wilson is a conjuror fallen on hard times. So when he gets booked for a string of gigs in Berlin, he is hoping his luck is on the turn. Amongst the showgirls, the tricksters and the femmes fatales of Berlin's cabaret scene, William can abandon his heart, his head and, more importantly, his past. But somehow secrets have a habit of catching up with him. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14933.

West, Morris

Eminence. 1999. Read by Jeff Bellamy, 12 hours 28 minutes. TB 13624.

Secret passions and conflicts divide the Vatican, the Pope lies in coma, dying. With the media rife with reports of the dying pontiff's personal diaries, full of doubts about his papacy and the future of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Rossini's dubious past threatens to rise up and engulf him. Contains violence. TB 13624.

Wiltse, David

The fifth angel. 1985. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 9 hours 4 minutes. TB 6307.

Mark Stitzer was once the star paratrooper in an elite corp of the U.S army, specially trained to infiltrate Moscow and create terror. Accidentally buried alive on a training exercise, his mind goes over the edge: the exercise becomes reality. Contains strong language. TB 6307.

Yorke, Margaret

Cause for concern. 2009. Read by Sheila Mitchell, 8 hours 7 minutes. TB 17210.

Martin Trent expects his mother to do everything he wishes, and she does because the threat of violence is ever present. When Adam Wilson moves into the village he and his housemate become concerned for Susan's safety, but is this concern too late? TB 17210.

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