Audio - Crime 2001

File Updated: 31/01/02

New Audio - Crime Titles 2001

Ruth Rendell Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Published September 2001 by Random House Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 1-85686-685 8
Read by Jan Francis Jan Francis
`Ghosts in stories are grey, like the people in black and white television or else see-through, but this one had short dark hair and a black leather jacket. Minty didn’t have to see its face to know it was her late fiancé, Jock.’
Jock was supposed to have died in the Paddington train crash. Minty had received a letter from the railway company. But, curiously, the police hadn’t been in touch. And Jock had gone off with all her savings. There were other women that he’d strung along. But Minty didn’t know that.
His ghost reappeared to her at home, at work, in the cinema. He even touched her. Minty started to carry a knife. If he wasn’t made of shadows, would he bleed?
Jan Francis has starred in numerous theatre, film and television productions and has also recorded a number of audiobooks. Perhaps best known for appearing in Just Good Friends, Jan Francis is currently working an a new thriller with David Jason.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by John Lewis Produced by Mike Carrington Wood
About The Author
Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in my View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, The New Girl Friend; a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986; and most recently she was the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre. In 1996, she was awarded the CBE.
Her books have been translated into twenty-two languages and are also published to great acclaim in the United States.
Ruth Rendell is married and lives in a sixteenth-century farmhouse in Suffolk.
Ruth Rendell also writes as Barbara Vine

New Books by Ruth Rendell at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Ruth Rendell at Alibris.com

Candace Robb The Riddle of St Leonard's Published December 2001 by Soundings at Ł18.99 Buy direct from Soundings: order number (UK) 0191 253 4155 N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Stephen Thorne
1369 - In the city of York the harvest has failed and plague has returned. Rumours spread that a spate of deaths at St Leonard’s Hospital is no accident. The hospital is in debt and has suffered theft of valuable treasures; while the appointment of a former prostitute as a lay sister provokes further outrage. Anxious to address the crisis, Sir Richard de Ravenser, Master of the Hospital, requests the services of Owen Archer, spy for his uncle John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, to investigate the deaths. Owen Archer is unwilling to become involved. There is too little to link the one to another: the riddle seems unsolvable. But careful enquiries reveal a further riddle, connected to one of the victims. Is this where the truth lies? ‘A real page-turner with lots of intrigue, murder and general derring-do’ Historical Novels Review Stephen Thorne
Stephen Thorne trained at RADA and then joined the RSC for three years. He has played seasons at the Mermaid Theatre, The Old Vic and the Bristol Old Vic. His television work includes Daniel Peggotty in David Copperfield and several appearances in Dr. Who. He broadcasts extensively and is well known as a reader of the Book at Bedtime and Morning Story.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs

New Books by Candace Robb at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Candace Robb at Alibris.com

Candace Robb A Spy for the Redeemer Published September 2001 by ISIS at Ł18.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Stephen Thorne
Late spring, the year of our Lord 1370. Owen Archer, ex-soldier and spy, is preparing to leave Wales, his work for John of Gaunt completed. But his attempts to return to York are thwarted by a mysterious suicide.
In York, Lucie Wilton is disheartened by her husband’s long absence and concerned by allegations against the apothecary. Then Brother Michaelo brings news, forcing her to journey to her father’s manor outside the city. Increasingly desperate, she accepts the company of a stranger.
Owen’s stay in the land of his birth has aroused divided loyalties in him, for those who serve the Welsh rebel leader would have Owen sign up to fight and never go home . . .
‘A real page-turner with lots of intrigue, murder and general derring-do’ Historical Novels Review
‘A vivid portrait of 14th-century England which gives us a hero who is cunning and capable’ Time Out
Stephen Thorne trained at RADA and then joined the RSC for three years. He has played seasons at the Mermaid Theatre, The Old Vic and the Bristol Old Vic. His television work includes Daniel Peggotty in David Copperfield and several appearances in Dr. Who. He broadcasts extensively and is well known as a reader of the Book at Bedtime and Morning Story.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs

New Books by Candace Robb at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Candace Robb at Alibris.com

Simon Shaw Killing Grace Published May 2001 by ISIS at Ł17.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Martyn Read
A powerful psychological chiller from one of Britain’s most exciting young crime novelists.
There’s something about Lewis that women can’t resist. And being a builder he has easy access to the houses - and beds - of the most attractive of his clients’ wives. 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.
There’s something about Peter McGovern, too. But he’s very different from Lewis. He’s rich. And ugly. They do have something in common, though - Peter’s wife, Julie - and when Lewis and McGovern meet by chance, their lives can never be the same.
And Grace? There’s definitely something about Grace. A blonde angel with a killer tongue, she’s nobody’s fool. So how does she get involved with Lewis and McGovern, sparring in a dangerous game hunter and prey?
Martyn Read trained at the Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television work includes EastEnders and The Bill and he is a former member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. Martyn has also written and dramatised over 20 radio plays, including the award?winning Waving to a Train.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 10 mins

New Books by Simon Shaw at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Simon Shaw at Alibris.com

Boris Starling Messiah Published October 2001 by ISIS at Ł19.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Joe Dunlop
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, an investigator with a celebrated ability to get under the skin and into the minds of the deranged killers he hunts. But as the city swelters and the body-count rises, Red’s own tortured past begins to turn against him - and the city is safe for no one. Sometimes, it is said, it takes a killer to catch a killer . . .
Joe Dunlop’s many TV appearances include Brookside, Take the High Road, Taggart, Keeping Up Appearances and In Suspicious Circumstances. His theatre work includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Wild Oats, and Last Resort. He is also a highly experienced broadcaster and has been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Rep. He continues to perform in many radio plays as well as writing plays for the BBC.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Boris Starling graduated with a First from Cambridge and went on to an illustrious career with the Control Risk organisation which specialises in kidnap negotiation, political risk analysis and clandestine investigations. Boris was the youngest ever semi-finalist in the BBC’s Mastermind: his specialist subjects were Tintin and the novels of Dick Francis.

New Books by Boris Starling at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Boris Starling at Alibris.com

Boris Starling Storm Published August 2001 by ISIS at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0-7531-095 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Lesley Mackie
A storm on the North Sea; a catastrophic ferry accident; hundreds dead. DCI Kate Beauchamp survives but her fight to stay alive bears a high price: a burden of guilt that she lived while her friends died; a terror of water; a frozen inner core that never melts.
Hoping to exorcise her demons, Kate insists on leading the hunt for a murderer who has left a unique calling-card on his victim’s body.
Into this emotional cauldron steps the last person Kate wants to see - her estranged father, Frank, in Aberdeen to conduct the enquiry into the sinking.
But as Kate and Frank struggle to carry out their investigations in a sweltering heatwave, a vortex of violence threatens to endanger their very lives.
Elemental rage, bloody Greek myth, man’s capacity for cruelty, the insane imaginings of a killer, all intermingle in Storm to create a novel of stunning ferocity.
Born in Dundee and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow, Lesley won a Laurence Olivier Award in 1986 for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the musical play Judy. Her earliest appearances were opposite Billy Connolly in The Great Northern Welly-Boot Show and The Wicker Man, for which she recorded the title song. Lesley lives in Scotland with her two children and husband, actor Terry Wale.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Boris Starling graduated with a First from Cambridge and went on to an illustrious career with the Control Risk organisation which specialises in kidnap negotiation, political risk analysis and clandestine investigations. Boris was the youngest ever semi-finalist in the BBC’s Mastermind: his specialist subjects were Tintin and the novels of Dick Francis.

New Books by Boris Starling at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Boris Starling at Alibris.com

Gillian White Grandfather's Footsteps Published March 2001 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-1094-6 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Jilly Bond
Jessica seems to have everything desirable - a glamorous job and a handsome Italian lover . . . but all is not well. Her lover wants a baby, and Jessica is unable to give him one. It is her secretary, plain, common Brenda, who can give her what she needs, for Brenda is pregnant.
And so a bargain is struck. It is strictly business but Jessica has not allowed for Brenda’s family, or for the appalling twist of fate that moves them from their council estate in Pimlico to right next door.
A bittersweet tale of two cultures colliding.
Jilly Bond has worked extensively in theatre and radio for the past twelve years.
Her credits on stage include Miranda (and Antonio!) in The Tempest, Fiona, the ‘girl’, in When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout and Anita in Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business.
She is regularly heard in dramas for Radio Four and the BBC World Service. Among her roles is Susan Grantly in The Barchester Chronicles. She has read numerous Afternoon Stories for Radio Four and is also a director and writer. She lives in London with her husband and two children
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 13 mins
About The Author
Adopted as a baby bay a wealthy industrialist and his wife, Gillian White was brought up in a middle class home in Liverpool and sent to private school. But by the age of fifteen she had been expelled from three schools and sent to a home office approved school for three years, in need of care and protection. Searching for life's thrills and spills she found them, and more, on the streets of sixties London. After three unforgettable years locked up when she learned more about life than she has before or since, she trained to be a journalist and spent five years on a newspaper in Essex. During this time she married the paper's chief reporter and started her family of four.
She exchanged an inherited jade collection for a herd of Friesian cows after her father died, and bought a small farm in wildest Cornwall. This enterprise soon folded, as predicted, so Gillian and her family moved to Devon to farm near Dartington Hall School, which their four children attended.
The school closed down after a notorious national scandal and Gillian invited the remaining pupils and teachers to start a new school in her farm house. The school survives today and is thriving, but Gillian found the noise and over-population of her home hellish and was driven to her bedroom, and this is when and why she started to writes. In the ten years since then three of her novels, Rich Deceiver, The Beggar Bride and Mothertime have been adapted for BBC television, and The Sleeper is to follow soon.
Gillian says that the most pleasing part of being a novelist is that she is allowed to be eccentric! She lives in Totnes with her husband. Her children and grandchildren live nearby.

New Books by Gillian White at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Gillian White at Alibris.com

Robert Wilson The Company Of Strangers Published October 2001 by ISIS at Ł21.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Sean Barrett
Lisbon 1944. The baking summer streets of the capital seethe with spies and informers, and the endgame of the intelligence war is being fought silently. The Germans have rocket technology and atomic know-how. The Allies are determined that the ultimate ‘secret weapon’ will not be realised.
Into this sophisticated world come Andrea Aspinall, mathematician and spy, and Karl Voss, an embittered and traumatised military attaché to the German Legation on a mission to save Germany from annihilation.
Andrea and Voss attempt to find love in this corrupted paradise. After a night of terrible violence, Andrea is left with a secret which provokes a lifelong addiction to the clandestine world, from the brutal Portuguese fascist regime to the paranoia of Cold War Germany. And there, in an ice-gripped East Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets are held not by governments but by those closest to you.
Sean Barrett began his acting career as a child for the BBC and has since made numerous television appearances including roles in Z Cars, Minder, Tales of the Unexpected and Father Ted. He played alongside Noël Coward in the West End and has had film parts in War and Peace, Dunkirk and Sons and Lovers.
14 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs 40 mins
About The Author
Robert Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising and trading in. He has travelled in Asia and Africa and has lived in Greece and West Africa and he draws on this experience for his Bruce Medway novels. He is married and writes from an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.

New Books by Robert Wilson at Amazon.co.uk

Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Robert Wilson at Alibris.com