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General Crime (part 1)

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General crime

Adair, Gilbert

The act of Roger Murgatroyd. 2006. Read by Glen McCready, 8 hours. TB 14924.

Boxing Day, 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon. TB 14924.

Adam, Paul

Sleeper. 2004. Read by Daniel Philpott, 9 hours 56 minutes. TB 14671.

Rainaldi was a violin-maker and when he was discovered slumped over his workbench, murdered with one of his own chisels, both the police and his friends are at a loss to discover a motive. Then it comes to light that Rainaldi had believed he was on the track of an infamous Stradivari - twin to the one housed in the Ashmolean Museum and subject to two hundred years of myth and rumour. With nothing else to go on, his two close friends pick up the search from where he left off and plunge headlong into a world where great musical instruments change hands for millions, where forgery is an art form and where murder is often a dealer's chosen method of negotiation. TB 14671.

Akunin, Boris

The winter queen: a novel. c2003. Read by Steve Hodson, 10 hours 14 minutes. TB 13773.

Erast Fandorin series; book 1. This book features Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876 - a young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London in his hunt for the conspirators behind this mysterious death. Contains strong language. TB 13773.

Archer, Jeffrey

A matter of honour. 1987. Read by David Sinclair, 12 hours 11 minutes. TB 6834.

He should never have opened the envelope... Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the results can only be pitiful. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter Adam fears can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's wishes, Adam opens the letter, and immediately realises his life can never be the same again. The contents leave him with no choice but to follow a course his father would have described as A Matter of Honour. TB 6834.

Arnott, Jake

He kills coppers. 2002. Read by Stephen Greif, 11 hours 15 minutes. TB 12900.

August 1966 - the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London Street. It is a senseless crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself and brings an end to the victory celebrations. Yet is also marks a beginning for three men whose fates are inextricably bound up with the event and its consequences which come to a head thirty years on. Contains strong language. TB 12900.

Baker, John

Poet in the gutter. 2002. Read by Cornelius Garrett, 7 hours 50 minutes. TB 13256.

Sam Turner series; book 1. Sam Turner has always had a romantic yearning to be Sam Spade. So he tells his men's group in York that he's a private eye - it's better than admitting he's an unemployed alcoholic. But then one of his friends asks for help in tracking an erring wife. So suddenly Sam is a P.I. And the next thing he knows, he's on the track of a serial killer. TB 13256.

Ballard, J G

Super-Cannes. 2001. Read by David Thorpe,13 hours. TB 13581.

Paul Sinclair stumbles on a beguiling mystery when he accompanies his wife Jane to the south of France where she is to work as a doctor in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park set in the hills above Cannes. With the very latest in facilities, Eden-Olympia appears to be a paradise for its hard-working, high-achieving workforce. So what caused Jane's apparently sane and respected predecessor to set out one morning and murder ten people on a shooting spree that would make headlines around the world? Contains strong language. TB 13581.

Barnard, Robert

Sheer torture. 1981. Read by David Sinclair, 6 hours 10 minutes. TB 4342.

Supt. Perry Trethowan series; book 1. Reluctantly Perry Trethowan returned to his ancestral home: his father has been found dead - wearing gauzy spangled tights! TB 4342.

Beckett, Simon

The chemistry of death. 2006. Read by David Thorpe, 11 hours 5 minutes. TB 14526.

When the bizarrely mutilated and long-dead body of a young woman is found in a ditch in Manham, an isolated and insular village in the Norfolk marshlands, it isn't just the fact that she had been a friend that disturbs Dr anthropologist and all too familiar with the different faces of death, until a devastating personal tragedy made him turn his back on his former life and career. Now hidden away as a country doctor, Hunter's past is a secret he hopes will remain buried. So when he's asked by the police to use his arcane skills to help track down the killer, he's reluctant to become involved. Then another young woman disappears. Contains strong language. TB 14526.

Black, Ingrid

The dead. 2005. Read by Tara Ward, 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 14818.

Five years ago Ed Fagan disappeared and since then nothing has been heard from the serial killer known as the Night Hunter. Now a Dublin newspaper has received a letter claiming to be from Fagan with a chilling message: he's going to kill again. At first, the Dublin Metropolitan Police are inclined to dismiss the letter as the work of a crank. Then the body of prostitute Mary Lynch is found and it's only too clear that a murderer is at large again. But is it Fagan? Saxon, a former FBI agent, was writing a book about Fagan when he disappeared and is certain that the killings are not the works of Fagan. But how can she convince the police to look beyond the obvious and to go after the real killer. Contains violence. TB 14818.

Bonner, Hilary

No reason to die. 2004. Read by Richard Derrington, 12 hours 21 minutes. TB 13775.

By a freak chance John Kelly, once a reporter, always a maverick, becomes embroiled in the mystery surrounding a series of disturbing deaths at a tough Dartmoor army training camp. Several young men and women stationed at the bleakly remote Hangridge have died suddenly and tragically, mostly from gunshot wounds that the army claim have been self-inflicted. The army has a plausible explanation for each death individually, but when put together these explanations look very suspicious indeed - Kelly takes his concerns to his old friend Detective Superintendent Karen Meadows and together they attempt to break through the wall of secrecy which the army has erected. Contains strong language. TB 13775.

Booth, Stephen

Black dog. 2001. Read by David Thorpe, 13 hours 22 minutes. TB 14399.

Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 1. When smart, sexy teenager Laura Vernon goes missing one long, hot summer in the Peak District, local police mount a full-scale search operation. But it's retired lead miner Harry Dickinson who finally discovers Laura's body, and he seems bent on obstructing their investigation. Even her parents are holding something back. But what could be more important than finding Laura's murderer? Ben Cooper, a young DC living with tragedy, has known the villagers all his life, but his instinctive feelings about the case are called into question by the arrival of Diane Fry, a ruthlessly ambitious DC from another division. As the investigation twists and turns, Ben and Diane discover that to understand the present, they must also understand the past - and in a world where no one is entirely innocent, pain and suffering can be the only outcome. Contains strong language. TB 14399.

Brett, Simon

The body on the beach. 2000. Read by Simon Brett, 7 hours 25 minutes. TB 12467.

Fethering Mysteries; book 1. Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a self-contained retirement settlement on England's southern coast. Carole Seddon has chosen to retire there, and the last thing she expected to find was a neighbour with a colourful past, or a body on the beach. TB 12467.

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.

Buckley, Jonathan

So he takes the dog. 2006. Read by Richard Burnip, 12 hours 35 minutes. TB 14807.

On a beach in southern England, a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to Henry a homeless eccentric who has been wandering the south-west of England for the last thirty years. A local policeman and his colleague, in piecing together his movements prior to his death, talking to those who knew and observed him, uncover and extraordinary life. TB 14807.

Butler, Gwendoline

Coffin on the water. 1986. Read by Conrad Philips, 2 hours 42 minutes. TB 13533.

Coffin series; book 6. Sequel to: Coffin in Oxford. A number of bodies are dropped on the rising tide of the River Thames. John Coffin, a detective doing his probation in the bleak Docklands of the immediate Post-War era, discovers that these bodies have made this journey for "one hell of a purpose". TB 13533.

Camilleri, Andrea

The shape of water. 2004. Read by Daniel Philpott, 5 hours 1 minute. TB 14639.

Inspector Montalbano series; book 1. The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief, judge and bishop. TB 14639.

Carr, Caleb

The Italian secretary : a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes. 2005. Read by Robbie McNab, 7 hours. TB 14377.

Mycroft Holmes, charged with ensuring the personal safety of Queen Victoria, calls on his brother for help when a number of attempts have been made on her life and when two unexplained deaths occur amongst the staff at her Scottish residencies. Accompanied by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes goes north by train, examining the few facts Mycroft has been able to cryptically supply. To Watson's bafflement he is sure there is a link between these deaths and the murder in the old royal apartments at Holyrood of the secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots: a killing which left a bloodstain that daily refreshes itself and in a room where voices can be heard in the darkest hours of the night. Can Holmes's extraordinary deductive powers solve the historical crime as well as the contemporary one? TB 14377.

Caudwell, Sarah

Thus was Adonis murdered. 1981. Read by Norma West, 7 hours 54 minutes. TB 4266.

Professor Hilary Tamer trilogy; book 1. A group of young barristers become involved in the case of their friend, Julia, who was nearly convicted on a charge of murder during a holiday to Venice. TB 4266.

Cleary, Jon

Winter chill. 1995. Read by Steven Crossley, 10 hours 33 minutes. TB 10808.

An international convention of one thousand lawyers is taking place in Sydney. At three o'clock one morning, the body of one of them is found in the monorail. The next day the body of a security guard is fished out of the harbour, and during the investigation a police officer is ruthlessly gunned down. Three murders. Three different weapons. And a trail that leads to the heart of the city's legal profession. TB 10808.

Cole, Martina

Dangerous lady. Read by Annie Aldington, 16 hours 45 minutes. TB 12949.

Ducking and diving is a way of life down Lancaster Road; all the Ryans are at it, but Michael the eldest, has ambitions beyond petty crime. His little sister, Maura, turns a blind eye to his misdeeds until they cost her the only man she's ever cared about and she decides to join the family "firm". No one thinks a seventeen-year-old blonde can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan. Tough, clever and beautiful and determined not to be hurt again. But when it comes to the crunch, Maura discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone. TB 12949.

Cornwell, Bernard

Gallows thief. 2001. Read by Sean Barrett, 10 hours 2 minutes. TB 13483.

A man in Newgate had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. Captain Hawkes is given the job of investigating, but when his first steps produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, it arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England. TB 13483.

Cutler, Judith

The food detective. 2005. Read by Diana Bishop, 8 hours 18 minutes. TB 14857.

Josie Welford series; book 1. When Josie Welford settles in the idyllic West Country village of kings Duncombe, she honestly believes she can bury her past. The widow of one of Britain's most wanted criminals, she knows what it's like to be an outsider and fervently wishes for a fresh start in life. TB 14857.

Davis, Lindsey

The silver pigs. 1990. Read by Christopher Scott, 9 hours 46 minutes. TB 10320.

Falco series; book 1. Rome AD 70. Private Eye Marcus Didious Falco is approached by 16 year old Socia Camillina. Her uncle, a senator, has his suspicions of a highly profitable, if highly illegal, trade in silver ingots or pigs. For Falco, this is the start of a murderous trail leading to a godforsaken land called Britain, to Emperor Vespasian himself and to Helena Justina, a lady leagues out of his class. He should have listened to his mother; she always said girls would be his downfall. TB 10320.

Diamond, Sarah

The spider's house. 2005. Read by Lucy Scott, 12 hours 15 minutes. TB 14719.

When Anna's husband is offered a job in Dorset she is as happy to move as he is. After the move, however it's a different story. With few ideas for her new novel and little else to do, Anna's getting increasingly restless when she makes a shocking discovery - Rebecca Fisher, the notorious child murderess of the 1960s, was the previous inhabitant of their picturesque old cottage. At first she is just curious, and begins reading up on the case but as she learns more she beomes increasingly convinced that she's close to discovering secrets that have been hidden for years. But someone else has other ideas. An unseen enemy threatens her marriage, her safety and ultimately her life…. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14719.

Dibdin, Michael

Ratking. 1988. Read by William Gaminara, 9 hours. TB 9449.

Aurelio Zen series; book 1. An investigation into a kidnapping in Italy turns to murder. Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the Establishment before, and lost. From a mundane desk job in Rome, he's unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over a kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families.

TB 9449.

Doherty, P C

The soul slayer. 1998. Read by Peter Barker, 13 hours 35 minutes. TB 13496.

Rebecca Lennox, daughter of a former priest, is neglected and feared by the villagers of Dunmow in Essex. They regard her as cursed, by both her hare lip and her gift of second sight. She finally finds a mortal confidant in a young Catholic priest who comes to the village, but in late summer, a new parson is appointed. Henry Frogmore is more interested in the black arts than the teachings of religion. For him holy orders are merely a convenient cover for his nefarious activities, but in Rebecca and

Michael he finds powerful opponents. And in the ensuing struggle the price for each of them is all too heavy. Contains strong language. TB 13496.

Elton, Ben

Past mortem. 2005. Read by Glen McCready, 11 hours 5 minutes. TB 14168.

With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in rmantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for girlfriends from his past. Meanwhile, back in the present, Newson is secretly in love with Natasha, his lovely but very attached sergeant, and completely failing to solve a series of baffling and gruesome murders. When a school reunion is planned, history begins to repeat itself and the past crashes headlong into the present. Contains strong language. TB 14168.

Ferrars, Elizabeth

Thy brother death. 1993. Read by Norma West, 5 hours 55 minutes. TB 10207.

The letter from a woman in Aberdeen demanding maintenance from her husband and threatening court action if it was not forthcoming was addressed simply to "Professor Carey, Knotlington University". To the amusement of his colleagues, it ended up on the desk of Dr Patrick Carey, senior lecturer in biochemistry and a happily married man. Trouble arrived when the woman turned up on his doorstep. Someone in the department must have given her his address, but who disliked him and his wife enough to cause such embarrassment and who hated this woman so much she died in a locked room in a house deliberately set on fire? TB 10207.

Fesperman, Dan

Lie in the dark. 2006. Read by Sean Barrett, 10 hours 57 minutes. TB 14875.

Vlado Petric series; book 1. Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion; his services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. Unluckily, one premeditated death does land on the detective's desk. It is no abused lover or a distant sniper's victim but the chief of the interior ministry's police. Contains violence. TB 14875.

Flynn, Raymond

Seascape with body. 1996. Read by Steve Hodson, 9 hours 8 minutes. TB 14648.

Eddathorpe series; book 1. Seedy seaside resort Eddathorpe looks like a dead end for exiled policeman, Robert Graham; but an unsolved murder still poisons the lives of six local men whose names were never cleared. There is also the Friday night burglar, and the financially suspicious major. TB 14648.

Francis, Dick

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

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

Fraser, Anthea

One is one and all alone. 1996. Read by Raymond Sawyer, 6 hours 17 minutes. TB 10882.

DCI's Webb and Bennett join forces to tackle a series of shop raids, but are soon overtaken by events which have a shattering effect on Bennett's family, presenting Webb with one of the most traumatic cases of his career. TB 10882.

French, Nicci

The red room. Read by Jane Markham, 12 hours 20 minutes. TB 13514.

Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogations, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in a brutal attack, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found dead near a London canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded her. But it isn't a simple case. Contains violence. TB 13514.

Fullerton, John

The monkey house. 2003. Read by Martyn Read, 11 hours. TB 14799.

Branston Flett is a famous American journalist who comes to wartime Sarajevo with the intent of covering the ethnic conflict. But what he discovers is the netherworld of a city gone mad. A police informant is found drowned in a bathtub of a building that rarely has water. The building is in a Serb enclave detested by the Croats. A Croatian detective with a Serbian wife is suspicious. Meanwhile gunfire, mortar, and artillery ring through the city. Contains violence. TB 14799.

Fyfield, Frances

Blind date. 1998. Read by Rula Lenska, 10 hours 26 minutes. TB 12082.

Elisabeth Kennedy, a disgraced ex-police officer, is haunted by her sister's horrific murder and her own humiliating attempts to lure the killer into a confession. Then she is the victim of a senseless attack and, wanting to hide from the world, she flees the comfort of her mother's house for her own eccentric home - high above the ground in a disused London belltower. But even the safest places are not sacrosanct. Contains strong language. TB 12082.

Gardner, John

Bottled spider. 2006. Read by Patience Tomlinson, 16 hours 49 minutes. TB 14920.

DS Suzie Mountford series; book 1. It is the autumn of 1940, and night after night, Hitler's bombs fall on England, killing hundreds of ordinary people. But there is another terror on the loose. Golly Goldfinch is killing young women - killing them with a noose of piano wire. And the extent of his campaign of slaughter has yet to be revealed. When he snuffs out the life of a popular BBC announcer, it is inexperienced, temporary Detective Susannah Mountford who finds herself investigating the case. TB 14920.

Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo

Southwesterly wind. 2005. Read by Nigel Graham, 6 hours 46 minutes. TB 14614.

Inspector Espinosa series; book 3. Sequel to: December heat. A psychic predicts that Gabriel, a young business executive, will commit murder before his next birthday. As the year progresses, Gabriel slowly unravels under the burden of the prediction, until he is driven to the office of Inspector Espinosa, where he confesses to the potential crime. It's a problem more appropriate for a psychiatrist, but there is something that attracts Espinsoa to this case. As the weather changes and the southwesterly wind - always a sign of dramatic change - starts up, what at first seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur and their only link is the lonely, clever man who sought out Espinosa a few days earlier for help. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14614.

Gardner, Katy

Hidden. 2006. Read by Penelope Freeman, 10 hours 2 minutes. TB 14862.

A trail of blood winding through a squalid flat in Margate leads DCI Dave Gosworth to the body of Jacqui Jennings, her skull smashed with a chisel. For Dave it is just the start of a long and puzzling case. Forty miles away in South London, a young single mother named Melanie Stenning is blissfully unaware of Jacqui's life and death. But that trail of blood will one day lead straight to her door, with terrifying repercussions. Contains strong language. TB 14862.

Goddard, Robert

Borrowed time. Read by Nicholas Farrell, 14 hours 28 minutes. TB 11701.

On a golden summer evening in 1990 Robin Timariot is nearing the end of his six-day tramp along Offa's Dyke. En route he encounters an elegant middle-aged woman and they exchange a few enigmatic and unforgettable words. On returning home he learns that the woman - Louise Paxton - was raped and murdered nearby. Robin, fascinated by her memory, is drawn into the complex motives and relationships of her family and friends, searching for what truly happened. Yet his search threatens many powerful people, people liable to mete out violence and death to anyone on the track of the hideous course of events. TB 11701.

Gosling, Paula

Backlash. 1989. Read by Francine Brodkin, 6 hours 36 minutes. TB 8133.

It's an open season on cops. Officers and men of the Grantham police force are being hunted and shot down, one by one, by somebody who knows more than they should about cops, guns and hate. Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker is the unlucky man assigned to tracking the killer. It is not an easy job. Or a safe one. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 8133.

Hare, Cyril

Tenant for death. 2001. Read by Steve Hodson, 7 hours 40 minutes. TB 13503.

Inspector Mallet series; book 1. Daylesford Gardens, South Kensington, is the unlikely address for the discovery of death by strangulation. Even more unusual is that the house does not belong to the deceased financier. In the meantime, the mysterious tenant, Colin James, has disappeared. Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard is brought in to unravel a complicated trail. TB 13503.

Harvey, John

In a true light. Read by Stephen Greif, 7 hours 20 minutes. TB 12902.

When Sloane, a successful forger, is released from prison after taking part in a high-profile art scam, he finds a letter from the woman with whom he had a passionate affair in his youth. She tells him that years ago she gave birth to his daughter, Connie. She implores Sloane to find her and make peace between them. He agrees, but when he eventually finds her she is in a highly charged relationship with Vincent Delaney, a man whom the police believe has killed once and could kill again. Sloane has to decide whether to walk away or stay and fight for her. And the more Delaney feels cornered, the more unpredictable and dangerous he becomes. Contains strong language. TB 12902.

Hayder, Mo

Birdman. 2003. Read by Damien Goodwin, 11 hours 20 minutes. TB 13838.

D I Jack Caffrey series; book 1. Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies have been found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on wasteland near the Millennium Dome. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes of his past in this. Tortured by a death long ago that he might have prevented, he now employs every weapon forensic science can offer, he knows time is limited; this sadistic killer will strike again. Contains strong language. TB 13838.

Hurley, Graham

Turnstone. 2001. Read by Tim Pepper, 9 hours 45 minutes. TB 13712.

Inspector Joe Faraday series; book 1. Eight-year-old Emma Maloney's dad has gone missing and Detective Inspector Joe Faraday believes he may have been murdered, but these days a hunch is not enough in Portsmouth. Turnstone explores the public and private worlds of Joe Faraday at a time when both are in crisis. Finding Stuart Maloney, dead or alive, develops into a battle not simply for justice but for sanity. Contains strong language. TB 13712.

Ironside, Elizabeth

Death in the garden. 1996. Read by Rachel Atkins, 9 hours 22 minutes. TB 11870.

In 1925, George Pollexfen MP was found dead during the weekend celebrations of his wife Diana's 30th birthday. Six decades later, Diana's great-niece Helena celebrates her own 30th birthday, consumed by the need to conceal the overwhelming secret that governs every part of her life. Presented with her inheritance from Diana, Helena is compelled to unlock the mysteries behind that fateful weekend in 1925. TB 11870.

James, P D

Cover her face. 2002. Read by Stephen Hogan, 7 hours 55 minutes. TB 14053.

Adam Dalgliesh series; book 1. On the same day as the St Cedd's church fete in the grounds of her home, Martingale, Mrs Maxie learns of her son Stephen's engagement. By the next morning, her new parlourmaid, Sally Jupp, is dead. Detective Chief-Inspector Adam Dalgliesh investigates murder in the Elizabethan manor house. TB 14053.

James, Peter

Dead simple. 2005. Read by Tim Bruce, 11 hours 43 minutes. TB 14507.

DS Roy Grace series; book 1. It was a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom is left buried in a coffin and the four friends who know where he is are dead. With three days until the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by the distressed fiance and begins to investigate the shocking events of the night in question. Contains strong language. TB 14507.

Jardine, Quintin

Skinner's rules. 1994. Read by Robbie MacNab, 10 hours 40 minutes. TB 13304.

Bob Skinner series; book 1. Even Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner, Head of Edinburgh CID is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified, but the motive for his brutal death remains a mystery. Then further, seemingly random, killings in the city begin to suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. Contains violence. TB 13304.

Joss, Morag

Fearful symmetry. 2000. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 12 hours 16 minutes. TB 12420.

Exhausted after a gruelling world tour, cellist Sara Selkirk is looking forward to a few months' recuperation at her cottage near Bath. Sara's growing attraction to DCI Andrew Poole causes her to make the mistake of joining an amateur operatics society. The Circus Opera Group is a motley crew. There's faded diva Helene; vain, talentless Cosmo and his long-suffering girlfriend, Poppy; not to mention Andrew's wife, Valerie, who's beginning to grow suspicious. With this uneasy mix of fragile egos, both Sara and Andrew predict trouble ahead. What they don't expect is sudden, violent death... Contains strong language. TB 12420.

Kerrigan, Gene

The midnight choir. 2006. Read by John Cormack, 9 hours 27 minutes. TB 14813.

Dixie Peyton, widow of a small-time criminal, struggles to regain custody of her son. In desperation, she seeks the help of controversial detective Harry Synott, a man obsessed with his own interpretation of justice. All around them, in an Ireland in love with its own prosperity, the greedy and ruthless manoeuvre in pursuit of their own objectives. Contains strong language. TB 14813.

Knox, Bill

Deadline for a dream. Read by James Bryce, 6 hours 42 minutes. TB 13214.

Thane and Moss series; book 1. This introduces the notorious Chief Inspector Thane and Inspector Moss of Glasgow CID. A crime reporter, a gun, a money-worshipping girlfriend and insider knowledge of a factory pay-roll car's movements are a recipe for disaster. After careful planning the reporter brings off the hold-up and carries away a large amount of untraceable bank notes. In panic of the raid however, he shoots a young policeman dead and a full scale murder hunt ensues. TB 13214.

La Plante, Lynda

She's out. 1996. Read by Ann Mitchell, 13 hours 32 minutes. TB 10899.

Dolly Rawlins is out, free after serving a nine year jail sentence for the murder of her husband. Waiting for Dolly is a group of women who all served time with her. They know she has stashed millions of pounds worth of diamonds from a raid and they want a cut. Also waiting is a detective sergeant in the Metropolitan Police, who holds her personally responsible for the death of his sister in the diamond raid ten years earlier and who wants her back inside. TB 10899.

Lawton, John

A little white death. 1998. Read by Sara Coward, 17 hours 39 minutes. TB 14626.

Inspector Troy series; book 3. Sequel to: Old flames. 1963: A Tory government beset by a defection, sexual scandal, cover-up and a ministerial resignation - Frederick Troy, now Britain's most senior police detective, unravels a trail that leads to death at the very heart of the Establishment and a failing administration. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14626.

MacBride, Stuart

Cold granite. 2006. Read by Kenny Blyth, 13 hours 52 minutes. TB 14656.

D.S. Logan McRae series; book 1. It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. If that wasn't enough, Logan also has to contend with a new boss, DI Insch, who doesn't suffer fools gladly and thinks everyone's a fool, and his own ex-girlfriend, the beautiful but chilly Isobel MacAlister, who also happens to be the chief pathologist. The only good news is WPC 'Ball Breaker' Watson, Logan's new guardian angel. The dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. If Logan isn't careful, he's going to end up joining them. Contains violence. TB 14656.

McCall Smith, Alexander

The no. 1 ladies' detective agency. Read by Hilary Neville, 7 hours 20 minutes. TB 13252.

Precious Ramotswe series; book 1. The no. 1 ladies' detective agency consists of one woman - the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, who sets up shop in Gaborone, Botswana. A cross between Kinsey Millhone and Miss Marple, this unlikely heroine specialises in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and imposters. When she sets out on the trail of a missing child, she is tumbled headlong into some strange situations and not a little danger. TB 13252.

McCrery, Nigel

Silent Witness. 1999. Read by Paddy Glynn, 8 hours. TB 13202.

Silent Witness series; book 1. Samantha Ryan, Home Office pathologist, is called to assist in a case where everything seems to point towards a peculiar ritualistic murder. But as Samantha races against time to find the evidence that will trap the mysterious killer, she becomes a threat someone is determined to remove. TB 13202.

McDermid, Val

Report for murder. Read by Vari Sylvester, 8 hours 2 minutes. TB 13895.

Lindsay Gordon series; book 1. Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girl's public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string instants before she is due to go on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder. Who would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? Who had the key to the locked room in which her body was found? And who could have slipped out of the hall at just the right time to commit this calculated and cold-blooded crime? Contains violence. TB 13895.

Mankell, Henning

Faceless killers. 2006. Read by Sean Barrett, 7 hours 56 minutes. TB 14519.

Kurt Wallander series; book 1. One frozen January morning, Inspector Wallander responds to a seemingly routine call out. But when he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred. TB 14519.

Mann, Jessica

The mystery writer. 2006. Read by Anna Bentinck, 9 hours 59 minutes. TB 14827.

It is 1940 and Britain is evacuating its children. Ted Johns, son of the groundskeeper at the manor house in Goonzoyle, finds himself in steerage aboad the SS City of Benares. Also aboard is the heir to Goonzoyle, Jonathan Hicks. When the ship is torpedoed, the two boys find themselves thrown together, but only one of them survives. TB 14827.

Martin, Andrew

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

Jim Stringer series; book 1. A chance encounter leads young Jim Stringer, a railway porter, to move from Yorkshire to London, enticed by the prospect of becoming a railwayman "of the right sort". But when he arrives in the Waterloo of 1903, it is to discover a world of garish pubs, tawdry brothels and mysterious duties. Contains strong language. TB 12757.

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.

Mina, Denise

Garnethill. 1998. Read by Gregor Hunt, 12 hours 17 minutes. TB 11943.

Garnethill trilogy; book 1. Maureen O'Donnell is a psychiatric patient and a survivor of sexual abuse and stuck in a dead-end job and secretive relationship with Douglas, a shady therapist. She is about to put an end to her affair with Douglas when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living room with his throat slit. Viewed by the police and her family as a suspect Maureen sets out to retrace Douglas's last few days and discovers a horrifying trail of rape, deception and suppressed scandal at a local psychiatric hospital. Contains strong language. TB 11943.

Moffat, Gwen

Man trap. 2004. Read by Kara Wilson, 6 hours 54 minutes. TB 13767.

In a remote Highland glen, Ruth Ogilvie - a single mother - is losing the battle to keep her wayward daughter focussed on schoolwork rather than the laird's student son. The laird, however, is unconcerned about his offspring, as he obsessively pours all his energies into outshining Balmoral when he opens his wife's castle and grounds to members of the public. But then a string of violent events occur. TB 13767.

Morgan, Fidelis

The ambitious stepmother. 2004. Read by Fidelis Morgan, 11 hours 49 minutes. TB 14253.

Countess Ashby de la Zouche series; book 3. Sequel to: The rival queens. The Countess Ashby de la Zouch would not be every parent's choice of chaperone for a beautiful teenager. The second Mrs Alderman Franklyn-Green, however, is willing to go to any lengths to get rid of her unwanted stepdaughter Virginia. And the promise of 100 guineas and a sojourn in the land of gay balls and all-night gambling is sufficient to secure the Countess's services. Sadly, the exiled English Court at St Germain is far from the den of iniquity the Countess and her maidservant Alpiew were hoping for. Worse, any hopes of enjoying fine French cuisine are dashed when a fellow guest is poisoned. Once more the Countess and Alpiew are plunged into a dangerous investigation. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14253.

Mortimer, John

Rumpole of the Bailey. 1991. Read by Nigel Graham, 7 hours 32 minutes. TB 8609.

Rumpole series; book 1. Horace Rumpole is 68 next birthday with an unsurpassed knowledge of blood and typewriters and a penchant for quoting poetry. TB 8609.

Mountain, Fiona

Bloodline. 2005. Read by Karen Cass, 9 hours 7 minutes. TB 14250.

Natasha Blake series; book 2. Sequel to: Pale as the dead. "Cinderella is in the bluebell woods at Poacher's Dell". The anonymous note means nothing to ancestor detective Natasha Blake. Then one of her clients, an enigmatic old man who had commission a family tree of his granddaughter's boyfriend, is shot dead at his isolated farm in the Cotswolds just as shocking facts about the past are brought to light. Is there a link? Despite Natasha's reluctance to delve deeper, she knows that family histories hide many secrets, and that sometimes they can kill. TB 14250.

Myerson, Julie

Something might happen. 2003. Read by Di Langford, 8 hours 36 minutes. TB 13375.

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. As the police go about their routine investigation, Tess's world of nappies, Elastoplast and fish fingers begins to unravel. Suddenly nothing is certain, the mundane becomes charged with significance, established relationships begin to crumble to and places that once were safe are safe no longer. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13375.

Nugent, Andrew

The four courts murder. 2006. Read by John Cormack, 6 hours 41 minutes. TB 14754.

When a Dublin high court judge is found dead - slumped in his chair, his neck snapped by a well-aimed kick - many would say he got what he deserved. But Inspector Denis Lennon and Sergeant Molly Power soon unearth a far more dangerous and complex case than simple revenge. Contains strong language. TB 14754.

O'Neill, Gilda

Make us traitors. 2004. Read by Marie McCarthy, 7 hours 22 minutes. TB 14490.

The O'Donnell family ran their manor in the East End with a fist of iron, keeping control of their gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. But gang warfare brought horror and sorrow with it, losing Catherine O'Donnell her life and finally bringing murder and violence into the heart of the family. Now Eileen O'Donnell is out of prison and her sons Luke and Brendan are running the show. It ought to be time for some peace and quiet. Instead, the trouble is only just beginning. Contains strong language. TB 14490.

Pearce, Michael

Death of an effendi. 1999. Read by Nigel Carrington, 5 hours 11 minutes. TB 12434.

Cairo, 1909. The murder capital of the world, where deaths are two a piastre. But the death of Tvardosky, an effendi? That is something different. Effendi - the Egyptian elite - are important. Gareth Owen, the Chief of Cairo's Secret Police (the Mamur Zapt), is called in to investigate. It seems powerful people might have preferred Tvardosky dead before the financier's meeting in Crocodilopolis. TB 12434.

Pearl, Matthew

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

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

Pears, Iain

The Titian Committee. 1992. Read by Daniel Philpott, 6 hours 52 minutes. TB 12456.

A Jonathan Argyll mystery; book 2. Sequel to: The Raphael affair. A member of the famous Titian Committee is found murdered in a Venetian public garden. General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad sends his assistant Flavia di Stefano to Venice to investigate. The Venetian carabinieri suspect some over-zealous mugger, but Flavia has other ideas, and calls on the services of art historian Jonathan Argyll, in Venice to buy a picture collection from the Maresa di Mulino. Then another member of the committee is found dead, and the Marchesa's collection is stolen. Following a tortuous trail, Flavia and Argyll discover yet another murder, and come close to unravelling a mystery from Titian's own life. TB 12456.

Penny, Louise

Still life. 2006. Read by Adam Sims, 10 hours 27 minutes. TB 14687.

The picturesque village of Three Pines is a safe haven to its residents - no one can remember the last time they needed a policeman. When the body of a well-loved local woman is discovered on Thanksgiving Sunday, lying spread-eagled in the maple woods, the community is shocked. There must have been an accident - a hunter's arrow gone astray. No one could want Jane Neal dead. As Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec, sets about his investigation, he realises the small community is not quite as harmonious as it first appears. Contains violence. TB 14687.

Pepper, Andrew

The last days of Newgate. 2006. Read by Jeff Bellamy, 13 hours 18 minutes. TB 14752.

St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with religious anger and political unrest. Pyke, a sometime Bow Street Runner, sometimes crook, becomes embroiled in the investigation but quickly realises he has stumbled into something more sinister and far reaching. Contains strong language. TB 14752.

Perry, Anne

The Cater Street hangman. 1998. Read by Robbie MacNab, 9 hours 50 minutes. TB 13293.

Inspector Pitt Mysteries; book 1. The Ellison household is the epitome of Victorian respectability. Their comfortable London home is cared for by efficient servants, while the Ellison daughters take tea with their friends or do good works for charity. Sheltered from the grim realities of the outside world, even the gruesome murder of a young girl of their acquaintance is not permitted to alter their privileged, stifling routine. Clearly the unfortunate girl must have kept bad company, and deserved her hideous fate. TB 13293.

Peters, Ellis

The assize of the dying. 1991. Read by Di Langford, 6 hours 48 minutes. TB 9398.

Two vintage tales of murder most foul. "The assize of the dying": Louis Stevenson tells the four responsible for his conviction for murder that he will call them to meet him at the Assize of the Dying. Two unexpected deaths follow, and a young couple determine to unmask the real murderer. "Aunt Helen": a story of blind obsession and psychological suspense starting with what looks like the perfect murder. TB 9398.

Pryce, Malcolm

Aberystwyth mon amour. Read by Gareth Armstrong, 6 hours 27mins. TB 13140.

Schoolboys are being murdered all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that finding out what is happening to the boys is not going to be easy. TB 13140.

Rayner, Claire

First blood. 1992. Read by Jacqueline King, 13 hours 16 minutes. TB 10166.

Dr George Barnabas series; book 1. Dr George Barnabas, the new American forensic pathologist causes sparks to fly when she encounters DCI Gus Hathaway on her first case for the local police. Richard Oxford, author and hospital patron is found dead for no apparent reason and when her ideas are not taken seriously she has to do the sleuthing herself. TB 10166.

Rendell, Ruth

The secret house of death. 1982. Read by Joe Dunlop, 7 hours 40 minutes. TB 9326.

Susan Townsend was the only resident with no interest in the affair going on next door, or the neighbourhood gossip about it. Yet it was she who found the bodies of the lovers, locked not in passion but in death. And it was Susan whose own life would be imperilled by a monstrous crime far beyond the imaginings of the vilest tongues. TB 9326.

Rickman, Phil

The wine of angels. 2006. Read by Rebecca Lacey, 16 hours 3 minutes. TB 14659.

Merrily Watkins series; book 1. A paradise parish of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses, and a huge, haunted vicarage were not what the Revd Merrily Watkins ever had in mind. Nor had she wanted to walk into a local dispute over a play about a curious 17th century cleric accused of witchcraft ... a story that certain old-established families would rather remained in obscurity. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. And also - as Merrily and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition spanning centuries. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14659.

Ripley, Mike

Angel confidential. 1995. Read by Vincent Brimble, 8 hours 44 minutes. TB 10787.

No self-respecting London taxi driver would do anything but run a mile if somebody jumped in the back of their black Austin FX4S and yelled "Follow that cab!" But for Angel it is just the start of another case. TB 10787.

Rohmer, Sax

The mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu. 1992. Read by Bruce Montague, 9 hours 47 minutes. TB 9415.

Sir Crichton Davies was dead and under his sleeve, among the tracks of cocaine needles, was a mark like the imprint of red painted lips. The deadly Zayat kiss presages London coming under the malignant shadow of the power of Fu Manchu. Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie follow his trail to the opium deans and fogbound docks of Limehouse, in a desperate bid to outwit the most evil genius of the Orient. TB 9415.

Saylor, Steven

Roman blood. 2002. Read by Peter Wickham, 14 hours 25 minutes. TB 14252.

Roma Sub Rosa series; book 1. Rome, 80 B.C. and Cicero is about to conduct his first important case, the defence of well-heeled farmer Sextus Roscius against the charge of killing his hated father. Gordianus the Finder, hired by Cicero to dig up evidence, soon learns why the elder Roscius was lured to his death: a summons from Elena, a young prostitute pregnant with a possible heir. Gordianus's investigations lead him on the track of a brutal conspiracy, uncovering some sordid truths about the Roscius family in time for Cicero to set off the expected courtroom fireworks and invoke the wrath of the dictator Sulla. Contains violence. TB 14252.

Shaw, Simon

Killing grace. 2001. Read by Martyn Read, 11 hours 10 minutes. TB 13110.

Grace Cornish series; book 1. A natural playboy, but without the money, Lewis has two simple rules: never get involved and never stick around, but with Julie he breaks the code. Peter McGovern is very different from Lewis, he's rich and ugly. They do have something in common though - Peter's wife, Julie. Grace is a blonde angel with a killer tongue and she's nobody's fool. So how does she get involved with Lewis and McGovern, sparring in a dangerous game of hunter and prey? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13110.

Spring, Michelle

Every breath you take. 1998. Read by Patricia Jones, 8 hours. TB 12365.

Laura Principal series; book 1. Laura Principal, ex-academic turned private investigator, and her friend Helen Cochrane are forced by a cash-flow crisis to take in a lodger. Laura has misgivings about Monica Harcourt whose jumpy behaviour strikes an odd chord. When Monica is found sadistically murdered, Laura plunges headlong into an investigation that creeps ever closer to home until more than one life is at stake... Contains strong language. TB 12365.

Stallwood, Veronica

Death and the Oxford box. 1994. Read by Carmen Lynne Williams, 8 hours. TB 11150.

Kate Ivory series; book 1. Feisty novelist Kate Ivory enjoys her early morning run with the (mainly) women's jogging group. It gets her away from the word processor and she hears all the local gossip. This morning, as the group runs by the Isis, Rose tells how her husband walked out on her, taking the valuable enamel mourning-boxes given to her by her grandmother, who is coming to visit. The group plans to steal the boxes back again. How could they guess that their amateurish raid would provide the cover for a far more sinister crime? TB 11150.

Starling, Boris

Messiah. Read by Joe Dunlop, 15 hours 10 minutes. TB 13900.

London is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy nights and a killer stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left behind, only corpses with silver spoons in place of their tongues. Set against this merciless butcher is Detective Superintendent Red Metcalfe. But as the city swelters and the body-count rises, Red's own tortured past beings to turn against him - and the city is safe for no one. Sometimes, it is said, it takes a killer to catch a killer. Contains strong language. TB 13900.

Suskind, Patrick

Perfume : the story of a murder. 1986. Read by Norma West, 8 hours 44 minutes. TB 6725.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born under a fishmonger's slab in 18th century Paris shortly before his mother was executed for murder. He was handicapped but gifted from the start for he had no smell of his own which made people reject him, yet his sense of smell was exceptionally sharp. A chance meeting with an ageing parfumier on the Pont au Change sets him on the road to fame - and on the bloody path to murder. TB 6725.

Symons, Julian

A three pipe problem. 1975. Read by David Strong, 7 hours 37 minutes. TB 2698.

Sheridan Haynes, actor and admirer of Sherlock Holmes, takes on the identity of his idol and tries his hand at unravelling a typical mystery. TB 2698.

Taylor, Alison

The house of women. 1998. Read by Steve Hodson, 12 hours 23 minutes. TB 12451.

Old Ned Jones chokes on his food - or so his shocked family assume when they find him dead. Detective Inspector McKenna, his day soured by the

loss of promotion, is only interested in the extraordinary house of women Ned inhabited. But McKenna's colleague at the lab believes Ned was murdered. TB 12451.

Trow, M J

The adventures of Inspector Lestrade. 1985. Read by Ray Jones, 7 hours 40 minutes. TB 5648.

Inspector Lestrade series; book 1. It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse walled up in Shanklin Chine. This is only the first of a series of brutal killings that make the desperate race to avert the next death a personal battle whirling from ballroom to barroom and from vicarage to spiritual gathering. TB 5648.

Underwood, Michael

Crooked wood. 1980. Read by Andrew Cuthbert, 5 hours 53 minutes. TB 9788.

Clive Donig was on trial for the murder of Stanley Fulmer, a shady solicitor. The prosecution contended that he was a professional killer, hired by one of Fulmer's clients whom he had cheated. Was someone trying to nobble the jury? A complex trial and investigation brings an unexpected climax. TB 9788.

Walker, Sue

The reckoning. 2005. Read by Jonathan Hackett, 12 hours 43 minutes. TB 14638.

They buried three girls. They buried the killer. But did they bury the truth? In June 1973 the bodies of three missing teenagers were found on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. And when his father was arrested for the murders, 11-year-old Miller McAllister's life fell apart. But when, thirty two years later, Miller is given the legal archive and a letter his father wrote to him just days before his death, suddenly everything looks less clear. Could Douglas have been innocent after all? And if he didn't kill the girls - who did? Contains strong language. TB 14638.

Walters, Minette

The breaker. 1998. Read by Nigel Carrington, 11 hours 1 minute. TB 11695.

Twelve hours after a woman's body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, her traumatised three-year-old daughter is discovered in Poole, apparently abandoned. But why was Kate killed and her daughter, a witness allowed to live? Police suspicion centres on a young actor, obsessed with pornography, but attention shifts towards the murdered woman's husband. Contains strong language.

TB 11695.

Watson, Colin

Coffin scarcely used : a Flaxborough novel. 1983. Read by Joe Dunlop, 7 hours 3 minutes. TB 6023.

Flaxborough is a quiet market town in the east of England, discreetly prosperous and respectable. But beneath the provincial surface strange passions seethe and the owner of the local paper is found dead beneath an electricity pylon, wearing his slippers and with his mouth full of marshmallows. Accident, suicide or murder? TB 6023.

Welsh, Louise

The cutting room. 2003. Read by Tam Dan Burn, 9 hours 7 minutes. TB 14283.

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness. Contains strong language. TB 14283.

Wilson, Laura

Dying voices. 2001. Read by Lucy Scott, 7 hours 11 minutes. TB 12631.

It was the media circus that only the British tabloids can create: the kidnapping of beautiful Susan Blackstock by a radical group - and the refusal of her multimillionaire husband to pay the ransom. Eight-year-old Dodie never saw her mother again. Now twenty-nine, Dodie has struggled to step out from the shadows of the past tragedy and her father's wealth. But a visit from two policemen changes everything. They bring the news she has waited for years to hear. Her mother's body has been found - but she has been dead only forty-eight hours. Contains strong language. TB 12631.

Wilson, Robert

The blind man of Seville. 2003. Read by Sean Barrett, 17 hours 45 minutes. TB 14534.

Javier Falcon series; book 1. Semana Santa - Holy Week in Seville, and a most unholy sight awaits homicide detective Javier Falcon. A leading restauranteur has been found dead in his apartment, bound and gagged before a TV screen. Unable to close his eyes because the killer had removed his eyelids, his struggles to avoid the pictures flickering before him have caused terrible injuries. With each new victim, the killer demonstrates an uncanny ability to delve into the darkest secrets of his prey - and into Falcon's own family history. The professional, dispassionate facade Falcon has constructed begins to disintegrate as he is forced to confront the unimaginable. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 14534.

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