New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
BBC Audiobooks
2005 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
BBC Audiobooks
APRIL-JUNE 2005
Charlotte Armstrong
Mischief
Published May 2005 by BBC Audiobooks at £15.99
ISBN: 1405685131
An unsuitable babysitter is left in a hotel room for the evening to look after Bunny, the daughter of Peter and Ruth Jones. When the first choice of babysitter had pulled out, Eddie the hotel elevator operator found them a substitute in his niece, Nell. A stranger called Jed starts drinking with Nell, then Bunny wakes up and things start getting dangerous ...
Charlotte Armstrong was an American author who received the prestigious Edgar Allen Poe Award and died in 1969. Mischief was turned into a film called 'Don't Bother to Knock' with Marilyn Monroe, Ann Bancroft and Richard Widmark.
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Simon Brett
Dead Romantic
Published May 2005 by BBC Audiobooks at £15.99
ISBN: 140568514X
Madeleine Severn is a tutor at the Garrettway School of Languags, she has a young outlook on life and is proud of her looks. Eighteen-year-old student Paul Grigson idolises Madeleine and during a date of his own he sees Madeleine with the married Bernard Hopkins. When Bernard arranges to meet Madeleine again, he feels jealous, but like most teenagers, Paul's moods change like a chameleon's. This is a romantic triangle surely destined for disaster and death.
Simon Brett worked as a radio and TV producer before taking up writing full-time. He is the author of the extremely popular Charles Paris and Mrs Pargeter detective series.
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Andrew Garve
The Late Bill Smith
Published May 2005 by BBC Audiobooks at £15.99
ISBN: 1405685158
Sue Hammond worked for a travel agency, as a Group Travel courier. She was packing for her sixth trip in as many months - this time to the Aegean - when there was a sudden loud noise on the balcony outside her bedroom. The French doors were pushed open and a man appeared, with blood streaming down his face. The man was Bill Smith, salesman for the London Metal Exchange, which should have been a reasonably safe, humdrum job, though he did travel all over the world because of it. But Bill's life suddenly didn't seem safe - or at all humdrum. And Sue, to her amazement, found that her own job became not only much more exciting but considerably more dangerous, because of the new man who had so surprisingly entered her life.
Andrew Garve was one of Paul Winterton's pseudonyms. He worked as a journalist and travelled widely, and was a founding member of the Crime Writers' Association.
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Alanna Knight
Enter Second Murderer
Published May 2005 by BBC Audiobooks at £15.99
ISBN: 1405685166
. Detective Inspector Faro has reopened the case of the 'Gruesome Convent Murders' for which one murderer has already been caught and executed, although he claimed to be innocent of the second murder. Faro's stepson Vince is determined to help with the detection. Behind the middle-class exterior of Victorian Edinburgh society lie betrayal and greed. The list of prime suspects is long because many had good reason for silencing the lovely, exotic, and amoral Lily Goldie, and even a police colleague is under suspicion.
Alanna Knight is still writing new mysteries and has just written her fiftieth novel. 'Enter Second Murderer' is the first in the series featuring Detective Inspector Faro.
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Gwen Moffat
Lady with a Cool Eye
Published May 2005 by BBC Audiobooks at £15.99
ISBN: 1405685174
Things at the Plas Mawr Adventure Centre in North Wales have been going well, but cracks have now begun to appear in the cheerful facade of the school. Charles Martin, the warden, is a weak man with an unfaithful wife, Bett, who has briven him to drink. Jim Lithgow and Nell Harvey are both instructors and appear to be having an affair - and Lithgow is married; Bett, it seems, is also having an affair with another married instructor, Rowland Hughes; and supervision of the boys when they are out in the hills seems most inadequate. And then Bett is found dead in her husband's crashed Jaguar, which she could barely drive, submerged at the foot of the cliffs some miles away. Further developments show that what is at first assumed to be accident or suicide, is in fact a murder case. Miss Pink, one of the school's directors, puts two and two together and realises that the school is being used as a cover for something more serious than a few love affairs ...
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Ellis Peters
The Knocker on Death's Door
Published May 2005 by BBC Audiobooks at £15.99
ISBN: 1405685069
The knocker hung on a very special door which was apparently cursed. Then the door was moved from an old house, once an abbey to the village church. Legend said that sinners who grasped the knocker had their hands burned by the cold iron. But Gerry Bracewell didn't die of burns, neither did a second victim. Had they knocked on death's door or was a more down-to-earth killer at large? Detective Chief Inspector George Felse, returning from a weekend in Wales, had passed through the village of Mottisham and watched the ceremony enacted to rededicate the door. Soon he would be called back to investigate murder ...
Ellis Peters was the pseudonym of Edith Pargeter and she received awards for her crime writing and was the creator of the Brother Cadfael books. She had a keen interest in local history.
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