Audio - Crime 2001

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New Audio - Crime Titles 2001

Val McDermid Killing The Shadows Published May 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0-00-711356-0
Read by Emilia Fox
Stunning new psychological thriller from Britain’s most exciting, award-winning crime writer.
A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. For one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death.
Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. While working on a case in Toledo her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered. It’s not her case, but Fiona can’t help taking an interest.
Before too long the killer strikes again and again. Fiona finds herself caught in a race against time not only to save a life but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional.
Emilia Fox has appeared in a variety of theatre, film and television productions. Her television appearances include Pride and Prejudice, Stephen Poliakoff's Shooting the Past, and a starring role in Rebecca.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
About The Author
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer livingin South Manchester. Val won the 1995 Golden Dagger Award given by the British Crime Writers' Association for Best Crime Novel of the year for her book Mermaids Singing. Her comples and disturbing stand-alone thriller A Place of Execution won the 2001 LA Times Mystery/Thriller Book Award. She has also written 6 crime novels featuring Kate Brannigan, and 5 more featuring Lindsay Gordon. She has written a non-fiction book on real-life female private eyes, A Suitable Job for a Woman and three psychological thrillers featuring forensic psychologist Tony Hill ('Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' (Guardian)). You will find copies of Val’s Crime Fiction Reviews for the Manchester Evening News here at Tangled Web.
A major ITV series based on Val’s books will be broadcast in 2002 with Robson Green playing the lead role.

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Val McDermid Killing The Shadows Published February 2001 by ISIS at Ł19.99 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 Vari Sylvester
The new best-seller from one of Britain’s top crime writers.
A killer is on the loose, blurring the lines between faces and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for Fiona Cameron, an academic psychologist, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death. She soon finds herself caught in a race against time to save a life and find personal redemption. This is one of McDermid’s best books yet.
Of mixed Scots and English descent, Vari Sylvester trained at RADA and spent her early career in London. She worked extensively with 7:84 England before basing herself in Scotland during the late 70s. She has played leading roles in many theatre productions including several for the Edinburgh Lyceum and has toured with 7:84 Scotland and the Scottish Theatre Company. Television credits include Billy Liar and Taggart.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer livingin South Manchester. Val won the 1995 Golden Dagger Award given by the British Crime Writers' Association for Best Crime Novel of the year for her book Mermaids Singing. Her comples and disturbing stand-alone thriller A Place of Execution won the 2001 LA Times Mystery/Thriller Book Award. She has also written 6 crime novels featuring Kate Brannigan, and 5 more featuring Lindsay Gordon. She has written a non-fiction book on real-life female private eyes, A Suitable Job for a Woman and three psychological thrillers featuring forensic psychologist Tony Hill ('Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' (Guardian)). You will find copies of Val’s Crime Fiction Reviews for the Manchester Evening News here at Tangled Web.
A major ITV series based on Val’s books will be broadcast in 2002 with Robson Green playing the lead role.

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John Mortimer Rumpole Rests His Case Published November 2001 by Penguin Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 014180341X
Read by The Author
When your life at the Bar has been as rich as Rumpole’s, the past is best avoided. Who knows what might have happened to some of the dubious characters he once represented. But in this brilliant new collection of stories, Rumpole finds the past intruding in some strange and mysterious ways.
Of course, some things remain unchanged: Pommeroy’s Wine Bar and She Who Must Be Obeyed, for instance. But there’s a new wind blowing too: for the first rime Rumpole appears on behalf of an asylum-seeker, and - worst of all -his chambers have become a smoke-free zone. Is it time for Rumpole to rest his case?
Sir John Mortimer is renowned as the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey. As well as writing many bestselling novels, he has also written plays, two volumes of autobiography and has adapted numerous works for television. He lives with his wife and youngest daughter in the Chilterns, in the house that once belonged to his father.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Andrew Hewson Produced by Jigga Dunn
About The Author
Sir John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist and former barrister. During the war he worked with the Crown Film Unit and published a number of novels before turning to the theatre with plays that included The Dock Brief and A Voyage Round My Father. He has written many film scripts, radio and television plays, including the Rumpole plays, which won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award. He adapted Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited for television and his translations of Feydeau have been performed at the National Theatre and are published as Three Boulevard Farces.
John Mortimer’s acclaimed biography, Clinging to the Wreckage won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and his In Character and Character Parts contains interviews with some of the most famous men and women of our time. His bestselling novels include Charade, Like Men Betrayed, The Narrowing Stream, Paradise Postponed, Summer's Lease, Titmuss Regained and Felix in the Underworld.
John lives with his wife and youngest daughter in the Chilterns, in the house that once belonged to his father.

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James Patterson Violets are Blue Published October 2001 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł14.99 ISBN: 1840324880
Read by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The mastermind of Roses are Red is back - and he’s hot on Alex Cross’s trail. Meanwhile, Alex is drawn in to his most bizarre investigation yet. Two San Francisco joggers are found dead - bitten and hung by their feet to drain the blood from their bodies. Further murders in California, and then on the East Coast as well, completely baffle Alex and the FBI. Is this the work of a cult, of role players, or even of modern-day vampires? Desperate to stop the deaths, Alex teams up with Jamilla Hughes, a savvy woman detective from San Francisco ...and the FBI’s Kyle Craig.
Two fantastic mysteries in one non-stop thriller will have listeners hanging on every word.
‘A master of the suspense genre’ The Sunday Times
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
About The Author
James Patterson grew up Newburgh, New York, fifty miles north of New York City where he currently resides. Patterson majored in English at Manhattan College.
Patterson's first novel published in 1976 when he was twenty-seven years old. Patterson, who says he ‘lives full time’, has since written over half a dozen novels and has been hailed as mastermind of the page-turning thriller.

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James Patterson 1st to Die Published November 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 Pat Starr
1st to Die, the electrifying first novel in a new series from James Patterson, creator of Alex Cross, introduces Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club, whose fight against the criminal mind has only just begun.
As the only female homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing has prepared her for the honeymoon murders.
A brutal maniac begins a killing spree -slaughtering newly-wed couples - and Lindsay takes the case. She is sickened by the deaths, but her determination to bring the murderer to justice is threatened by a personal tragedy. So she turns to Claire, a coroner, Cindy, a journalist, and Jill, an attorney, for help with both crises - and the Women’s Murder Club is born.
Pat Starr is an American actress living in London. She has worked extensively in the theatre with West End roles in The Rose Tattoo, All My Sons and Kennedy’s Children and a one-woman show, Tea With Liszt. Dozens of television appearances include Tender is The Night and Bob Martin. Her 22 movies include Reds and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She also sings regularly with a jazz band in London.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
James Patterson grew up Newburgh, New York, fifty miles north of New York City where he currently resides. Patterson majored in English at Manhattan College.
Patterson's first novel published in 1976 when he was twenty-seven years old. Patterson, who says he ‘lives full time’, has since written over half a dozen novels and has been hailed as mastermind of the page-turning thriller.

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James Patterson Roses are Red Published September 2001 by ISIS at Ł23.99 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 Paul Birchard
CD Edition
‘Betsey, it’s Steve. There’s a man here in our house. He has a gun pointed at me. He says that unless the woman in your office leaves the bank with the money by eight-ten exactly, Tommy, Anna and I will be killed.’
A series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes. Torn between dedication to his job and commitment to his family, Cross cannot ignore the case, despite the risks he knows will come with hunting down a killer - and the heartbreaking cost.
James Patterson takes us from deep inside the mad world of a psychopath’s masquerade right to the heart of fiction’s most brilliant detective. Alex Cross is back in an explosive tale where mind games lead to violence, and the slightest mistake will be punished with death.
Paul Birchard comes from Los Angeles. His work in movies and television includes The Tailor of Panama, Memphis Belle, Poirot, Absolute Hell, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and many others. His solo stage performance of The Pat Hobby Stones by F. Scott Fitzgerald has garnered rave reviews in Dublin, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and he counts himself very fortunate to have worked with the late Lindsay Anderson on the play The Fishing Trip. Paul has read numerous stories and novels for BBC Radio, as well as unabridged audio books.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
James Patterson grew up Newburgh, New York, fifty miles north of New York City where he currently resides. Patterson majored in English at Manhattan College.
Patterson's first novel published in 1976 when he was twenty-seven years old. Patterson, who says he ‘lives full time’, has since written over half a dozen novels and has been hailed as mastermind of the page-turning thriller.

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James Patterson Cradle and All Published May 2001 by ISIS at Ł16.99 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 Laurel Lefkow
Kathleen, from privileged Rhode Island; Colleen from a poor Irish village - two teenagers on the opposite sides of the Atlantic whose lives are in great danger. Both girls are pregnant.
A private detective named Anne Fitzgerald suddenly has the case of a lifetime - caught between the certainty of science and the possibility of a miracle which could stop the terrible epidemics now sweeping the globe.
This is James Patterson at the height of his powers in a story that will keep his million of fans on the edge of their seats.
Laurel Lefkow, whose childhood was spent in many parts of the world, has worked in various countries including Kenya, Hong Kong and the U.S.A.
Her theatre credits include A Shayna Maidel (West End), Little Foxes, Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, Look Back in Anger and The Heiress, while her television work has included Tracy Ullman: A Class Act, Small Metal Jacket and In Suspicious Circumstances.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
James Patterson grew up Newburgh, New York, fifty miles north of New York City where he currently resides. Patterson majored in English at Manhattan College.
Patterson's first novel published in 1976 when he was twenty-seven years old. Patterson, who says he ‘lives full time’, has since written over half a dozen novels and has been hailed as mastermind of the page-turning thriller.

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James Patterson Pop Goes the Weasel Published February 2001 by ISIS at Ł17.99 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 Paul Birchard
A top-selling adventure from this No.1 author
James Patterson has created a complex and formidable villain, a tender love story and a plot powered by relentless suspense.
Alex Cross, senior homicide detective is back, determined to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of seemingly unrelated killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate. At the risk of his job, his reputation and those he loves, Cross faces his most fiendish and unpredictable case yet.
Paul Birchard comes from Los Angeles. His work in movies and television includes The Tailor of Panama, Memphis Belle, Poirot, Absolute Hell, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and many others. His solo stage performance of The Pat Hobby Stones by F. Scott Fitzgerald has garnered rave reviews in Dublin, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and he counts himself very fortunate to have worked with the late Lindsay Anderson on the play The Fishing Trip. Paul has read numerous stories and novels for BBC Radio, as well as unabridged audio books.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
James Patterson grew up Newburgh, New York, fifty miles north of New York City where he currently resides. Patterson majored in English at Manhattan College.
Patterson's first novel published in 1976 when he was twenty-seven years old. Patterson, who says he ‘lives full time’, has since written over half a dozen novels and has been hailed as mastermind of the page-turning thriller.

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Iain Pears The Immaculate Deception Published June 2001 by ISIS at Ł16.99 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 Daniel Philpott
When an important and politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, life takes a downward turn for Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad.
Flavia is told to get the painting back at all costs without causing any embarrassment to the country and without paying any ransom. Put in an impossible position, she turns for help to her old mentor, General Taddeo Bottando, who is able to cast a wholly unexpected light on the crime. Flavia herself wonders if the subject of the painting, a classical landscape by Claude Lorraine, might be significant.
In the meantime, her husband, the English art historian Jonathan Argyll, embarks on an investigation of his own. For both Argyll and Flavia, the search for the truth reveals shocking secrets from the past and leads them straight into the path of some very dangerous enemies indeed.
Daniel Philpott has appeared in many theatrical productions including And Women Must Weep and The Strike of 1889. Trained at LAMDA, and runner-up in the BBC CarltorHobbs Award for Radio Drama, his numerous voice credits include: Charge of the Boys’ Brigade for BBC Radio and The Cost of Freedom for Focus on the Family Radio, which received a Peabody Award in New York in 1998.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
lain Pears is a journalist and art historian. After several years working for Reuters, he went to Yale University to complete his book on eighteenth-century British art. He now lives with his wife and children in Oxford.

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Ian Rankin Resurrection Men Published December 2001 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 075285 196 9
Read by James Macpherson
CD Edition
Letting fly at the Chief Superintendent with a full mug of the vending machine’s finest can’t be ignored - Detective Inspector John Rebus is sent back to the Police College for retraining, along with four of the Scottish Force’s more unorthodox detectives. But the unsolved case the malcontents have been assigned to is one some of the team are familiar with. Rebus knew the victim only too well. Is the choice of case deliberate? Are the Big House looking not to resurrect their erstwhile colleagues, but rather, to find a way of getting rid of them for good?
Back in Edinburgh, the case Rebus left behind has thrown up a surprising suspect. Trawling through the guest list of a murdered art dealer’s last private view, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke comes across the signature of Morris Gerald Cafferty, Rebus’s nemesis, recently released from the notorious Barlinnie. Siobhan’s been promoted, but is she really ready to step into John Rebus’s shoes?
Rankin has come up with an even more intricate plot than usual, weaving together bluff and double bluff in many diverse strands with compelling craft. Reader James Macpherson's skilful use of tones and accents populates Rankin's world with a large cast of memorably differentiated characters.
This story contains occasional use of strong language.
As well as many stage and screen roles, Macpherson has been DCI Jardine in Taggart for thirteen years.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 40 mins
About The Author
In His Own Words…

Born in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland In 1960. Attended local comprehensive school, then went on to University of Edinburgh. MA in English Literature (specialising in US Literature). Then started studying towards a PhD in the Modern Scottish Novel, but wrote my own stuff instead. Early "successes" were with poetry and the short story. One story raged out of control and became, my first novel, The Flood.
Married in 1986 and moved to London. Worked as a secretary at the National Folktale Centre, then as a journalist (rising to acting editor) on monthly music magazine hi-fi Review. Dropped out in 1990 and moved to the French countryside. This pastoral idyll failed to stop me writing dark, dark fictions.
Was elected a Hawthornden Fellow in 1988. Won Chandler-Fullbright Award in 1992. Won CWA Short Story Dagger in 1994 (or was it '95?); same story shortlisted for 1995 Anthony award. Won the Short Story 'Dagger' again in 1996, and celebrated by moving back to Scotland.
Two sons, Jack and Kit. Er.....that's it.

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Danuta Reah Only Darkness Published February 2001 by ISIS at Ł17.99 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 Patricia Jones
A talented new crime writer with an accomplished thriller.
Debbie Sykes is a young college lecturer whose ordered life is about to be changed forever.
Waiting for the train home she notices that the woman she usually shares her evening vigil with is not there. The man they call the Strangler has murdered her and dumped her body on the railway track.
Strange things start to happen to Debbie when her story is publicised by an unscrupulous journalist and only Rob Neave, ex-policeman, appears aware of the danger she is in.
The clock is ticking, and it looks as though time is running out . . .
Patricia Jones has had a varied acting career. Theatre work includes An Inspector Calls, Murder in the Red Barn and Strippers, although she is perhaps best-known for her role of Jean Turnbull in the long-running children’s TV serves, Byker Grove.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs
About The Author
Danuta Reah lives in Sheffield with her artist husband. She currently works as an education consultant and as a university lecturer in English Language.
She is a fan of comics and graphic novels, and is interested in the relationship between popular fiction, folklore and anthropology. She is a published cartoonist and writes textbooks on English Language and Linguistics.

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Kathy Reichs Fatal Voyage Published July 2001 by Random House Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 1-85686-655-6
Read by Katherine Borowitz
When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is called in to painstakingly identify the victims.
But a chance discovery concerns her; a severed foot, found away from the main crash site. A deserted house nearby is buried so deep in the woods locals claim not to know of its existence. And her examination of the foot throws up more questions than it answers.
Before she can make any progress, an anonymous accusation is levelled against her and Tempe has to fight to save her professional standing. Air tragedy aside, she fears another corpse lies somewhere in the woods. Pitting herself against a conspiracy of silence, Tempe vows to bring justice for her mystery victim ...
Katherine Borowitz has appeared in various films including Baby Boom and The World According to Garp. She also read Kathy Reich's previous novel Death Du Jour.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs Abridged by Sloane Seaman Produced by Elisa Shokoff
About The Author
Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciare et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec, and has as a result part based her novels on her vast experience in the area of forensic science where she specialises in bones. At present she is one of only 50 people certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and very few of these are women. Like her leading character Dr Brennan, Kathy Reichs has to not only function but excel in the masculine world of law enforcement.
Kathy Reichs is often called upon to be an expert witness in criminal trials and it is her testimony which can sometimes make the difference between getting a conviction and not. She has recently returned from a trip to Tanzania and Rwanda where she was part of a team gathering evidence against those accused of genocide in the region. Due to the nature of her work death threats are not uncommon and she keeps the whereabouts of her family as secret as possible.
The last Katy Reichs novel, Deadly Decisions, sold over 128,000 in its Heinemann edition, while Deja Dead was the most successful crime fiction debut ever – a No 1. bestseller in the UK, Ireland and Canada, spending 3 months on the New York and Sunday Times lists, with a record-breaking 7 weeks at No 1. She divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal.

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