Audio - Crime 2001

File Updated: 31/01/02

New Audio - Crime Titles 2001

Joyce Holms Mr Big Published August 2001 by Soundings at Ł17.99 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 James Bryce
When Chick Mathieson, one of the better known drug barons in Edinburgh, is killed, lawyer Tam Buchanan finds himself wading through the dodgy dealings of the underworld. Freddie McAuslan, the young man arrested for Mathieson’s murder, is an ex-client of Buchanan’s father who has recently done time for a crime that was almost certainly committed by Mathieson. Both Buchanan and his father are convinced of Freddie’s innocence and set out to prove it, aided by Fizz and her grandpa, who is in Edinburgh for an operation on his famous clicking knees. The trail leads to a sheltered housing unit for indigent show-biz geriatrics, run originally by the Comedy Club, a background which, on the surface, could not be further removed from the murky world of Edinburgh crime . . .
‘Engaging and entertaining, it builds to a spectacular climax . . . Deft, daft and definitely delicious’ Val McDermid
James Bryce has over fifteen years’ experience in voice work, including children’s readings, commercial story tapes, voice-over work and over 150 broadcasts for the BBC. Whilst television credits include The Bill, Take the High Road and Taggart, he has also worked extensively in theatre and is a composer of music in the fields of theatre, jazz-rock, folk and brass band.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Joyce Holms grew up in Glasgow now lives in Edinburgh. Suffering from a chronically low boredom threshold she is now living in her thirteenth house and has earned her keep in a variety of jobs in a variety of locations from running a hotel on the Island of Arran to working for an Edinburgh detective agency. Currently running a B&B in the Central Highlands during the Summer months she lives in Edinburgh during the rest of the year.

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Graham Hurley Rules of Engagement Published April 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 Peter Wickham
By the author of Permissible Limits, a novel about corruption, fear and survival
The world is in crisis. The superpowers are on the edge of a nuclear abyss. In Britain, the government acts to safeguard its interests. One key city is sealed off and civil rights are suspended. Supreme power is handed over to one man. The Controller.
The Controller is above the law. The Controller is all powerful. The Controller must be obeyed.
Gillespie knows otherwise . . .
Peter Wickham was bitten early by the travel bug, coming to England from New Zealand as a child. He has worked all over England and Wales in repertory and is determined to work more in Scotland! Acting and directing aboard the Q.E11 took him from Singapore to Venezuela, and a short season in Istanbul followed. In 1990 he directed and appeared in a revue on a tour of Czechoslovakia.
Many TV appearances started in Dixon of Dock Green (during its later years!) and include most recently A Sense of Guilt. But after theatre his favourite medium is sound; he has been heard many, many times on radio, in plays, reading poetry, short stories and serials.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
Graham Hurley is an award winning documentary producer who now writes full time. Away from the typewriter, he pursues a lifetime’s ambition to master windsurfing, colloquial Spanish and the perfect chicken bhuna. He lives, blissfully, with his wife, Lin, in Portsmouth.

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Quintin Jardine Autographs in the Rain Published August 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 James Bryce
The latest Bob Skinner mystery from Scotland’s most exciting crime writer
As Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner takes an evening stroll with Louise Banks, an old flame and now a film star, it seems his biggest worry is that a new colleague is scheming to enlarge his territory at Skinner’s expense.
But when a frightening shot-gun attack sends them diving for cover, it seems danger has chosen to zero in on him once again.
‘If Ian Rankin is the Robert Carlyle of Scottish crime writers, then Jardine is surely its Sean Connery’ Glasgow Herald
James Bryce has over fifteen years’ experience in voice work, including children’s readings, commercial story tapes, voice-over work and over 150 broadcasts for the BBC. Whilst television credits include The Bill, Take the High Road and Taggart, he has also worked extensively in theatre and is a composer of music in the fields of theatre, jazz-rock, folk and brass band.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
Quintin Jardine regularly reaches the No. 1 slot on the Scottish bestseller list (last year actually ousting J K Rowling from the top slot); in Scotland Quintin Jardine even outsells John Grisham. In Scotland, the feeling has definitely been for a while that Jardine is going to be the next crime writer to break and earlier in the year, the Radio Times ran a cover feature on TV detectives and tipped Jardine's crime series as the next potential TV blockbusting franchise as well!
Quintin Jardine is the author of the highly acclaimed Skinner crime series, as well as the Blackstone novels. A former journalist, he was an advisor to Ministers and Civil Servants for nine years and then moved into political PR before becoming an independent PR consultant to the powerful, rich and notorious.
What he calls the "interface between Old Bill and journalism" has been useful in his writing career. "In the Scottish Office you have dealings with the Special Branch boys and in politics you meet some more. I've been working alongside policemen all my life, so I understand how they operate".
Quintin now spends as much time as he can in his villa in Spain which is where he writes his books and where his Oz Blackstone mysteries are set. "Mind you, I had problems last summer. I spent most of my time waiting for the plumber to turn up. And when he did, this nemesis of mine was called... (pausing for dramatic effect before revealing the name of his recalcitrant tradesman... ) Rebus.

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Quintin Jardine Thursday Legends Published April 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 James Bryce
For Deputy Chief Constable Skinner the Thursday night football game at a local gym has been an unbroken ritual for twenty-five years. Along the way players have come and gone, but a hard core remains, with each match a little older, a little slower, but as fiercely competitive is a gang of teenagers.
Until a former player- is found murdered in a manner that shocks even a veteran like Skinner, and suddenly the Thursday Legends have more to worry about than dodgy knees.
Former Head of Special Branch Alec Smith made plenty of enemies during a long career, and there is no shortage of suspects. But as Skinner’s investigation gathers pace, everything points to the Legends themselves. Is someone targeting this disparate group of colleagues and friends in some bizarre scheme of retribution?
Or is the murderer one of them?
James Bryce has over fifteen years’ experience in voice work, including children’s readings, commercial story tapes, voice-over work and over 150 broadcasts for the BBC. Whilst television credits include The Bill, Take the High Road and Taggart, he has also worked extensively in theatre and is a composer of music in the fields of theatre, jazz-rock, folk and brass band.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 13 mins
About The Author
Quintin Jardine regularly reaches the No. 1 slot on the Scottish bestseller list (last year actually ousting J K Rowling from the top slot); in Scotland Quintin Jardine even outsells John Grisham. In Scotland, the feeling has definitely been for a while that Jardine is going to be the next crime writer to break and earlier in the year, the Radio Times ran a cover feature on TV detectives and tipped Jardine's crime series as the next potential TV blockbusting franchise as well!
Quintin Jardine is the author of the highly acclaimed Skinner crime series, as well as the Blackstone novels. A former journalist, he was an advisor to Ministers and Civil Servants for nine years and then moved into political PR before becoming an independent PR consultant to the powerful, rich and notorious.
What he calls the "interface between Old Bill and journalism" has been useful in his writing career. "In the Scottish Office you have dealings with the Special Branch boys and in politics you meet some more. I've been working alongside policemen all my life, so I understand how they operate".
Quintin now spends as much time as he can in his villa in Spain which is where he writes his books and where his Oz Blackstone mysteries are set. "Mind you, I had problems last summer. I spent most of my time waiting for the plumber to turn up. And when he did, this nemesis of mine was called... (pausing for dramatic effect before revealing the name of his recalcitrant tradesman... ) Rebus.

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H.R.F. Keating Breaking and Entering Published March 2001 by ISIS at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0333902793 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 H.R.F.Keating
A new novel in the award winning Inspector Ghote series
All Bombay is buzzing with the murder of a millionaire found stabbed to death in his tightly secure mansion. Every inspector in the branch hopes to be the one to nail the killer, including Inspector Ganesh Ghote. Unfortunately, he is the only officer not assigned to the case . . .
H. R. F. Keating was the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. He has served as Chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association and the Society of Authors, and in 1987 was elected President of the Detection Club.
He has written numerous novels as well as non-fiction, but is most famous for the Inspector Ghote series, the first of which, The Perfect Murder, was made into a film and won a CWA Gold Dagger Award, as did The Murder of the Maharajah.
In 1996 H. R. F. Keating was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature. He is married to the actress Sheila Mitchell and lives in London.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
H.R.F.Keating is one of Britain's most highly acclaimed crime novelists, born on the 31st Oct 1926. He is the creator of Inspector Ghote, of the Bombay C.I.D., hero of 21 crime novels, and is the author of eleven other crime novels, four mainstream novels, and of "Writing Crime Fiction" (A&C Black,1994), "Sherlock Holmes, the Man and His World" (Hudson 1979), and "Crime and Mystery: the 100 Best Books" (1987) together with numerous short stories. He was awarded the American George N. Dove Award in 1995. "The Perfect Murder" (1964 - made into a film by Merchant Ivory), the first book about Inspector Ghote, and "The Murder of the Maharajah" (1980) were both awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and in 1996 he was the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger for a lifetime's achievement. He was the Chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1970-1971 and in 1985 was elected President of the Detection Club in succession to G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Julian Symons (stepped down 2001). He is an Edgar Allan Poe special award winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is at present serving on its Council. Harry Keating is married to the actress and audio books reader Sheila Mitchell and also writes as Evelyn Hervey.
Latest News/Work in Progress:

He recently had a story The Fatal Step, featuring Miss Unwin, the governess-sleuth he has written of as Evelyn Hervey, in the second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology.

Latest book: A Detective in Love, a successor to The Hard Detective, (2001)

In preparation: The Dozy Northern Tart (also featuring Harriet Martens, the ‘Hard Detective’)

George N. Dove Award Received (U.S. plaque for the Serious Study of Mystery Fiction)

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Faye Kellerman Stalker Published June 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 Liza Ross
It begins with a policewoman’s sixth sense, like a silent tap on the shoulder. The feeling that someone’s watching you, following you. And this isn’t the first time newly trained Cindy Decker has been threatened. A year ago, as she and a friend left a gym, someone took pot-shots at them. No one was hurt but months later her friend was killed when her car was hijacked. And now Cindy? is wondering if she is next.
For someone is after her, trailing her down dark mountain roads, breaking into her apartment, destroying her belongings. Cindy has no shortage of suspects: someone relating to the unsolved carjacking; even one of her LAPD colleagues, for as the daughter of one of its best known detectives, Peter Decker, hers has not been a straightforward induction. Fiercely independent and with reckless abandon, Cindy launches a private investigation, keeping her father in the dark.
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
New York Times bestseller Faye Kellerman is the author of the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus thrillers. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jonathan Kellerman, also a bestselling writer as well as a psychologist and their children

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Jonathan Kellerman Dr Death Published June 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 Jeff Harding
When Eldon Mate, medical buraucrat turned self-proclaimed mercy killer, is the victim of a grisly Hollywood Hills slaying - hooked up to the macabre "Humanitron" with which he has despatched dozens of people - veteran cop Milo Sturgis is assigned to the case. Baffled, Milo consults his friend, psychologist Alex Delaware, who realises quickly that lack of suspects is not the problem - there are many who might want the controversial Mate dead: those whose beliefs cause them to see the "Angel of Death" as the devil incarnate, a disgruntled relative of one of Mate’s "travellers" or, as a shadowy FBI agent suggests, even a homicidal psychopath. Furthermore, Mate’s lawyer has disappeared and the death doctor’s mentally unstable son has been hanging around.
Praise for Jonathan Kellerman
'Kellerman has built up an impressive reputation by writing consistently stylish and literate novels that offer a rich mixture of psychological tension and bleak but acute and compassionate social observation' James Melville
'A good read, topical and genuinely engrossing' Time Out
'Endlessly intriguing; as good as they come' Literary Review
'As ingenious as ever ... first-rate' Express
'Kellerman has created a sympathetic and engaging hero' The Times
'Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying psychodrama' The Sunday Telegraph
'Wholly absorbing' Evening Standard
'Kellerman writes thrillers which nag the nerve ends' Literary Review
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Jonathan Kellerman was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles. He received a BA in Psychology at UCLA and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Southern California, where he is currently Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine.
His internship and post-doctoral fellowship were at the Children's Hospital/USC School of Medicine, where he became founding director of the Psychosocial Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology. He is the author of numerous articles in the scientific and popular press, two books on psychology - Psychological Aspects of Childhood Cancer and Helping the Fearful Child - two children's books - Daddy, Daddy, Can you Touch the Sky? and Jonathan Kellerman's ABC of Weird Creatures - which he also illustrated, and fourteen consecutive bestselling novels.
His first crime novel When the Bough Breaks was published in 1985, became an American bestseller and was adapted as a television film. He has published a novel every year since then, most of which feature Dr Alex Delaware a former child psychologist and Detective Milo Sturgis of the Los Angeles Police Department. These include: Blood Test, Over the Edge, The Butcher's Theatre, Silent Partner, Time Bomb, Private Eyes, Devil's Waltz, Bad Love, Self-Defence, The Web, The Clinic and Survival of the Fittest. In 1998 Little, Brown published Billy Straight, which though set in Los Angeles featured a female protagonist in the LAPD.
There are currently over 20 million copies of his books in print, translated into two dozen foreign languages.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards over the years: The Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award, the Edgar Allen Poe, the Anthony Boucher, the American Psychological Association's Media Award and Keynote Address, the Psyche Award of the Foundation of the LA County Psychological Association and the Distinguished Alumnus Award and Lecture of the Department of Psychology/UCLA.
He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, have four children. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Ed McBain Candyland Published August 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 Jeff Harding
Shocking, bold and compulsively readable, Candyland is a ground-breaking literary event.
Evan Hunter is known for his powerful novels and screenplays, Ed McBain for portraying the soul of the cop. They have distinct voices but both are storytellers of worldwide acclaim. In Candyland, they join for the first time to write one story - a powerful novel of obsession.
Benjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful architect - and a man obsessed. In New York on business, he spends the night in a compulsive search for female companionship. His dizzying descent leads to searing self-revelation. Part 1 of Candyland is a fever-pitched search for identity in classic Hunter style.
Part 2 opens in Ed McBain territory. Three detectives are discussing the homicide of a young prostitute. As the events of the previous night come into focus, Thorpe becomes an ever more possible suspect. The detailed police investigation is pure McBain.
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 45 mins
About The Author
Evan Hunter was born in New York City in 1926. he is widely recognised as one of America’s most popular novelists, as well as a successful writer for television and cinema whose credits include the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. He lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.
As Ed McBain he holds the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. His books have sold over one hundred million copies and include both the 87th Precinct and the Matthew Hope series of novels, as well as those published under his own name of Evan Hunter.
Ed McBain is one of the true greats of crime writing. He is the only non-British author ever to be awarded the Crime Writers Associations Diamond Dagger Award - the ultimate accolade for a crime writer. His 87th precinct series, featuring Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues has set and maintained the standard for crime fiction through more than 50 novels of extraordinary quality. He now joins the Gollancz list with two new 87th Precinct novels, of which this is the first.

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Nigel McCrery Faceless Strangers Published September 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 Paddy Glynn
A Doctor Sam Ryan Mystery
A new Silent Witness mystery featuring Dr Sam Ryan
When the beautiful wife of a local MP is found naked and murdered in their home, the entire resources of the Cambridge Constabulary are brought to bear. But when the decomposed body of a homeless drug addict is discovered, it is an entirely different matter. Police resources are stretched and there is no money left to deal with the case. Nevertheless Detective Sergeant Stanley Sharman is determined to solve the murder and he approaches Dr Sam Ryan, now working independently in Cambridge, to help him. Between them they form an uneasy alliance, working together to track down the killer of a girl without a past and: without an identity.
Paddy Glyn has worked extensively for audio productions, television, theatre and film. Her television credits include The Bill, Brookside and London's Burning. Among her theatre credits she has starred in a one-woman show, Emma, Lady Hamilton, as well as recently playing Hecuba in Euripides' Women of Troy. She has travelled worldwide and lived in New Zealand for some time. Paddy now resides in Oxford.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 5 mins
About The Author
Nigel McCrery worked as a policemen and investigated several murders before he left the force to become on undergraduate at Cambridge University. After being awarded on honours degree in history, he went on to work for the BBC Drama Department. He is married with children and lives in Nottingham.

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Val McDermid Booked For Murder Published October 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 Vari Sylvester
A Lindsay Gordon mystery
Why would anyone want to kill Penny Varnavides, bestselling author of the teen dream series? It can’t have been the freak accident it first appeared - Penny’s death was an exact replica of the murder method in her forthcoming book. Apart from Penny, only three people knew the plot: her literary agent, her editor and her ex-girlfriend Meredith.
In memory of her old friendship with Penny, Lindsay Gordon agrees to investigate. Reluctantly she leaves her Californian haven for the fraught world of London publishing. And as her investigation reveals an incendiary mixture of soured relationships and seething rivalries, Lindsay must face the frightening truth. Someone in Penny’s literary or love life must have been driven to murder . . .
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.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 45 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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Val McDermid Union Jack Published July 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 Vari Sylvester
Journalist Lindsay Gordon is more accustomed to investigating murder than being suspected of it. But when union boss Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. In an investigation that draws her inexorably into her own past, Lindsay is forced to confront hard moral choices before she can clear her name.
‘Tough, exciting, moody and unpredictable’ The Times
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.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 20 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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Val McDermid Final Edition Published April 2001 by ISIS at Ł16.99 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
When she returns from a self-imposed exile in Italy, journalist Lindsay Gordon finds her world turned upside down. The lover she thought would wait for her has found a new partner; an ex-lover has been murdered; and a former colleague has been jailed for the crime.
But the jury’s verdict is challenged and soon Lindsay is embroiled in an investigation involving blackmail, stolen government documents and the vested interests of a group of people determined to keep her from finding the truth.
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.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 30 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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