Audio - Crime 2001

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New Audio - Crime Titles 2001

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage Published February 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-00-711525-3
Read by Joan Hickson
‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ’would be doing the world at large a service!’
It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later. From seven potential murderers, Miss Marple must seek out the suspect who has both motive and opportunity.
Murder at the Vicarage was Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple novel and was an instant success.
"The acknowledged queen of detective fiction’ Observer
"When she really hits her stride, as she does here, she is hard to surpass’ Saturday Review Of Literature
Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television series.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises, dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a great love of the desert.'

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Harlan Coben Tell No One Published November 2001 by Orion Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0752843 745 7
Read by Tim Machin
Every year, Elizabeth and David Beck had been back to Lake Charmaine. But then, on their thirteenth visit, Elizabeth was kidnapped, mutilated and murdered, while David was left for dead. Everv day for the next eight tears David relived the horror of what had happened. And though Elizabeth was buried and her killer incarcerated on Death Row, it still felt as if more than one life ended on that night.
Then an image of Elizabeth’s face on his computer screen brutally rips open the old wounds. Whether a practical joke or evidence of her impossible existence, it demonstrates what happened all those years ago was more than a simple murder. Suddenly Beck is running away from his ordinary life and the people he trusts. He’s chasing a shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope - and warn him to tell no one. But soon Dr Beck himself is being hunted down...
Tell No One is a powerful, pacey and ultimately moving story of old crimes, old secrets, and the desperate struggle to regain a life - whether Dr David Beck has to save, bury or kill…
Harlan Coben has carved out a niche as one of America's most promising Young crime writers. He is the first writer to win all three major US crime Awards, the Edgar, Anthony and Shamus.
Tim Machin trained at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has worked extensively in theatre, both in Canada and in the United Kingdom, ranging from Look Back In Anger to Macbeth, Sex Tips for Modern Girls and Ben Hur. He appeared in the Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged), touring with the Reduced Shakespeare Co. He featured in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on film. He has also done voice?overs and audio books.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
About The Author
Harlan Cobenhas had a varied career. After graduating from College as a political science major, he worked in the travel industry. He stopped when he realised that he wasn't meant to, well, work. He has now written five Myron Bolitar novels; Deal Breaker, Dropshot, Fade Away, Back Spin and One False Move. He was born, raised, and lives in New Jersey with his paediatrician wife Anne and two young children, Charlotte and Benjamin.
Since his critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series debuted in 1995, Harlan Coben has won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Best Paperback Original, the Anthony Award at the World Mystery Conference, and the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. More recently, Publishers Weekly picked One False Moveas one of their Best of 1998 (only nine crime novels from an estimated 1490 were chosen).

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Martina Cole Broken Published December 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 Annie Aldington
DI Kate Burrows thought she’d never face a killer like the Grantley Ripper again. But she was wrong. One by one, children are being abandoned.
Thankfully, they’re rescued from harm. Then one victim is not so lucky, and Kate knows she’s in a race against time to save lives.
As a parent herself, Kate’s finding the case tough and she needs the support of her lover; Patrick Kelly; more than ever. But Patrick’s got problems of his own. A dead body has turned up in his Soho club and, although he insists it’s a set-up, Kate begins to doubt him.
It’s not the first time Patrick’s reputation in the criminal underworld has compromised her position. But now there’s a maniac to catch and Kate can’t let anyone - not even Patrick - get in her way.
Annie Aldington was born in South London, studied at The Guildford School of Acting and followed her drama training with a degree in community theatre. She has worked in television, radio, voice over and in the theatre; acting in roles such as Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and as the distraught housewife in Dario Fo’s Female Parts.
14 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 18 hrs
About The Author
Martina Cole was born in Aveley in Essex and brought up as part of a large, close-knit family, living in and around Dagenham and Rainham. She has a son and daughter and lives in Essex. Her previous novels, Dangerous Lady and The Jump have gone on to become highly successful TV drama series. The Runaway is currently in production for TV.

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Michael Connelly The Concrete Blonde Published November 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 Dick Hill
Harry Bosch, maverick homicide detective, is hauled into court, the chief defendant in a civil suit against the LAPD. The plaintiffs are the family of ‘The Dollmaker’, a notorious serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest three years before. Their allegation? That Bosch killed the wrong man - an accusation that becomes horribly plausible when a new body is found bearing all the hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying.
To clear his name, Bosch must prove that a copycat killer is at work. But can he?
‘Crackling authenticity . . . cunningly conceived . . . Connelly joins the top rank of a new generation of crime writers.’ Los Angeles Times Book Review
Dick Hill has recorded everything from sci-fi to non-fiction. In 1997, Hill received three nominations for best audiobook recording, a reflection of his character driven style, which he credits to a lifetime of observing and enjoying people. Hill has two grown children, and lives, loves gardens, and cooks with his talented wife, Susie Breck (another highly regarded audiobook narrator) in a medium-sized Midwestern town.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Having graduated in 1980, Michael Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida - this prepared him for the future, giving him the opportunity to observe criminal investigation, human reaction and political corruption first hand. He wrote about police and crime during the violence and murder wave that took place during the infamous cocaine wars and was part of the team that interviewed the survivors of the 1985 crash of Delta Flight 131, a story which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. This eventually led him to land a job as the crime reporter on the LA Times covering mass murders, heat of the passion murders and 'crazy killings' - he had now reached the upper echelons of journalism.
After three years on the crime beat Michael began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymous Bosch - The Black Echo. Though not his first attempt at writing (he had scrapped two other half-finished works) it was published in 1992 and later won the Edgar Award for the best first novel by the Mystery Writers of America. This was the start of something special...
Connelly's novels have won the Anthony, Nero, Maltese Falcon (Japan), Grand Prix (France) and .38 Caliber awards. Clint Eastwood is due to start filming Blood Work in January 2001
Major movie deals are in place for all of Connelly’s novels. Paramount are currently developing three movies and are lining up Harrison Ford to play the lead. His books have sold millions.
Born in Philadelphia, Connelly still lives in LA with his wife and daughter, though he no longer pounds the crime beat in search of a good story, he instead spends his time inventing stories in the comfort of his home.

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Michael Connelly The Black Ice Published August 2001 by ISIS at Ł23.99 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 Dick Hill
CD edition
The official report said suicide. But in a city where murder is a sport, Harry Bosch isn’t ready to blame the victim.
Cal Moore had been investigating the city’s latest drug killing. He ended up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note in his back pocket.
Years ago, Bosch learned the first rule of good police work: don’t look for the facts, look for the glue that holds them together. Now he’s making some very dangerous connections, following a string of bloody murders from Hollywood Boulevard’s drug bazaar to back-alleys south of the border. Bosch is at the centre of a lethal game -and he could be its next victim.
Super-charged with tension, The Black Ice won’t let you go until its explosive ending.
Dick Hill has recorded everything from sci-fi to non-fiction. In 1997, Hill received three nominations for best audiobook recording, a reflection of his character driven style, which he credits to a lifetime of observing and enjoying people. Hill has two grown children, and lives, loves gardens, and cooks with his talented wife, Susie Breck (another highly regarded audiobook narrator) in a medium-sized Midwestern town.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Having graduated in 1980, Michael Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida - this prepared him for the future, giving him the opportunity to observe criminal investigation, human reaction and political corruption first hand. He wrote about police and crime during the violence and murder wave that took place during the infamous cocaine wars and was part of the team that interviewed the survivors of the 1985 crash of Delta Flight 131, a story which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. This eventually led him to land a job as the crime reporter on the LA Times covering mass murders, heat of the passion murders and 'crazy killings' - he had now reached the upper echelons of journalism.
After three years on the crime beat Michael began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymous Bosch - The Black Echo. Though not his first attempt at writing (he had scrapped two other half-finished works) it was published in 1992 and later won the Edgar Award for the best first novel by the Mystery Writers of America. This was the start of something special...
Connelly's novels have won the Anthony, Nero, Maltese Falcon (Japan), Grand Prix (France) and .38 Caliber awards. Clint Eastwood is due to start filming Blood Work in January 2001
Major movie deals are in place for all of Connelly’s novels. Paramount are currently developing three movies and are lining up Harrison Ford to play the lead. His books have sold millions.
Born in Philadelphia, Connelly still lives in LA with his wife and daughter, though he no longer pounds the crime beat in search of a good story, he instead spends his time inventing stories in the comfort of his home.

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Michael Connelly The Black Echo Published June 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 Dick Hill
The first novel to feature Michael Connelly’s great detective, the maverick Harry Bosch.
One Sunday Harry Bosch gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. And Harry knows him. Billy Meadows was a fellow tunnel-rat out in Vietnam, running against the VC and against the fear they called the black echo.
At first Meadows looks like just another overdose victim but then comes news that he may have been involved in a huge bank heist eight months earlier, a case which the FBI are investigating. When Harry goes to the Feds to reveal what he has learned, they dismiss both him and his evidence out of hand.
Harry let Meadows down once before. He won’t do it again.
Dick Hill has recorded everything from sci-fi to non-fiction. In 1997, Hill received three nominations for best audiobook recording, a reflection of his character driven style, which he credits to a lifetime of observing and enjoying people. Hill has two grown children, and lives, loves gardens, and cooks with his talented wife, Susie Breck (another highly regarded audiobook narrator) in a medium-sized Midwestern town.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 55 mins
About The Author
Having graduated in 1980, Michael Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida - this prepared him for the future, giving him the opportunity to observe criminal investigation, human reaction and political corruption first hand. He wrote about police and crime during the violence and murder wave that took place during the infamous cocaine wars and was part of the team that interviewed the survivors of the 1985 crash of Delta Flight 131, a story which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. This eventually led him to land a job as the crime reporter on the LA Times covering mass murders, heat of the passion murders and 'crazy killings' - he had now reached the upper echelons of journalism.
After three years on the crime beat Michael began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymous Bosch - The Black Echo. Though not his first attempt at writing (he had scrapped two other half-finished works) it was published in 1992 and later won the Edgar Award for the best first novel by the Mystery Writers of America. This was the start of something special...
Connelly's novels have won the Anthony, Nero, Maltese Falcon (Japan), Grand Prix (France) and .38 Caliber awards. Clint Eastwood is due to start filming Blood Work in January 2001
Major movie deals are in place for all of Connelly’s novels. Paramount are currently developing three movies and are lining up Harrison Ford to play the lead. His books have sold millions.
Born in Philadelphia, Connelly still lives in LA with his wife and daughter, though he no longer pounds the crime beat in search of a good story, he instead spends his time inventing stories in the comfort of his home.

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Robert Crais Hostage Published September 2001 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75284 591 8
Read by Robert Crais
Jeff Talley was a good husband, a fine father, and a frontline negotiator with LAPD’s SWAT unit. But the high-stress, unforgiving job took an unbearable toll, so he takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy commuter district far from the chaos of Los Angeles.
His peaceful existence is interrupted when three young men, fleeing the robbery of a mini-mart, burst into a home and take an accountant and his family hostage. That’s bad enough, but it just happens to be an accountant who launders money for L.A.’s Mafia. Soon, all involved are held hostage by fate; the only one capable of diffusing the crisis is the least stable of them all.
Some parts of this story contain strong language.
`We can now add the name of Robert Crais to the pantheon of great American writers’ Sunday Times
‘… pure audio-cinema’ – Observer (about Demolition Angel)
4 Cassettes Running Time: 6 hrs Abridged by James Daniels Produced by Sandra Burr
About The Author
Robert Crais was born in Louisiana and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. He is the author of nine previous novels, including the bestsellers, Demolition Angel and the Edgar-nominated L.A. Requiem. He has two additional Edgar nominations and Anthony and Macavity Awards for his Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels. In addition to his novels, Crais has written scripts for L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues. Demolition Angel has been purchased by the producer of Jerry Maguire and is in development as a major motion picture.

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Judith Cutler Dying On Principle 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 Diana Bishop
Sophie Rivers thinks she’s fallen on her feet when a temporary research post takes her to George Muntz College, just yards from her Birmingham home. Her new employer offers pleasant, even lavish, facilities and state-of-the-art equipment. Perhaps, though, all is not as comfortable as it seems, as Melina, a computer technician, may have been about to explain. For once Sophie doesn’t have time to listen. But when Melina is found dead, it’s soon clear that other people are keen to hear what Sophie herself has to say - both her home and her college office are bugged.
There are any number of suspects. There’s the elusive Principal; Melina’s former colleague, Dr Trevelyan, rapidly confined to a psychiatric ward, and Richard Fairfax, the powerful property tycoon who enters Sophie’s life. Then there’s the fact that the College seems to lack only one thing: students . . . Diana Bishop
Diana Bishop has worked extensively in theatre, including repertory in all directions, seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and tours with the Arts Council and the British Council. She has been a member of the BBC Radio Company and made many television appearances.
She is also a writer for both theatre and radio. Her work includes plays, short stories and poetry.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Judith Cutler, like her heroine Sophie Rivers, lives and works in Birmingham. She is, however, older and less fit than Sophie, and is married with a teenage son. She taught for many years in a big inner-city college, but is now a part-time lecturer for the University of Birmingham's Continuing Studies Department. Judith shares her heroine's liking for music: a trustee of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Benevolent Fund she is also on the Committee of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society. Judith is also the Secretary of the Crime Writers Association.
Judith has enjoyed considerable and popular success with her first four novels featuring Sophie rivers, all of which have a Birmingham setting. She has also written a number of short stories, most notably for the BBC Short Story slot. She is currently working on a new Sophie Rivers novel.

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Judith Cutler Dying to Write Published January 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 Diana Quick
From the author of the highly acclaimed Power series.
For lecturer Sophie Rivers a writing course on the outskirts of Birmingham is a bit of a busman’s holiday. Still, creative inspiration might strike. But then, knowing Sophie’s luck, so might a murderer . . .
She can hardly believe it when a fellow student is found dead in her room. And when a course tutor goes missing, it’s clear that one of the students might be interested in death as reality rather than a literary concept.
But who is responsible? Sophie can’t control her investigative instincts, especially when she herself becomes a victim . . .
Diana Quick has been a member of both the RSC and the RNT, as well as working extensively in contemporary drama for the Royal Court, Soho Theatre Co and in the West End She is best known on TV as Julia in Brideshead Revisited for which she was nominated for Bafta and Emmy Awards. Her many films include The Duelists, Wilt, Saving Grace, and for release in 2001 The Affair of the Necklace and The Discovery of Heaven. She is a frequent broadcaster and is writing her first book, Waiting for Dr. Quick.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Judith Cutler, like her heroine Sophie Rivers, lives and works in Birmingham. She is, however, older and less fit than Sophie, and is married with a teenage son. She taught for many years in a big inner-city college, but is now a part-time lecturer for the University of Birmingham's Continuing Studies Department. Judith shares her heroine's liking for music: a trustee of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Benevolent Fund she is also on the Committee of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society. Judith is also the Secretary of the Crime Writers Association.
Judith has enjoyed considerable and popular success with her first four novels featuring Sophie rivers, all of which have a Birmingham setting. She has also written a number of short stories, most notably for the BBC Short Story slot. She is currently working on a new Sophie Rivers novel.

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Jeffery Deaver Death Of A Blue Movie Star 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 Jeff Harding
Rune, the quirky, irrepressible heroine of Manhattan is My Beat, is struggling to become a filmmaker in New York, shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb attacks on the adult film industry, seemingly perpetrated by religious terrorists.
But when one of these explosions shatters the lives of those close to her, Rune suspects that there’s more to the attacks than meets the eye. Aided by NYPD bomb squad expert Sam Healey and armed with nothing more than a video camera and her courage, she plunges into the underbelly of Manhattan on a dangerous search for the real killer.
Suspenseful and pacy, the story explodes in a shocking conclusion which, in true Deaver style, delivers a thrilling double-whammy punch.
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. 8 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Jeffrey Deaver is a true craft master and his international profile has rocketed since his first Lincoln Rhyme novel, The Bone Collector, hit the silver screen early this year in a big-budget feature from Universal Studios starring Denzel Washington as Lincoln and Angelina Jolie as Amelia. This was the second of his books to be made into a film. The first was A Maiden's Grave which was filmed by HBO (released as "Dead Silence") starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin.
Deaver has been a full-time author for ten years. He's written many best-selling suspense novels and has been nominated three times for Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America and is the two-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 's Award for Best Short Story of the Year.
He has had a varied career. He wrote his first book at age 11 (mercifully unpublished) and has been writing ever since. Former editor of his school's literary magazine, he has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University in New York. He practiced law for eight years' though by his own admission he was a dreadful lawyer and preferred to socialise with the opposite side of cases over a beer, rather than go for the throat in the courtrooms of New York.
He was also a folksinger, songwriter and music researcher for a time and was, believe if or not, a professional poet for a few years, though the most he ever made at that business was six dollars in one year.
Deaver, who 's divorced with no children, spends most of his time in Virginia, with his large German Shepherd, writing books, short stories and film scripts. His hobbies are travelling, cooking, collecting wine and entertaining - most recently he gave a medieval feast (with costumes and authentic recipes from the 1300s) for fifty people.

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Jeffery Deaver Manhattan is My Beat 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 Jeff Harding
Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn’t been in Manhattan very long. But she’s crafty enough to have found a squatter’s paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. It’s a passion she shares with her favourite customer, Mr Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same video over and over again: a film noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars. It’s called Manhattan Is My Beat.
That’s the tape Rune is picking up from Mr Kelly’s shabby apartment when she finds him shot to death. She is certain the key to solving the murder is hidden somewhere in the hazy, black-and-white frames of Mr Kelly’s beloved movie . . .
‘The best psychological thriller writer around’ The Times
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.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Jeffrey Deaver is a true craft master and his international profile has rocketed since his first Lincoln Rhyme novel, The Bone Collector, hit the silver screen early this year in a big-budget feature from Universal Studios starring Denzel Washington as Lincoln and Angelina Jolie as Amelia. This was the second of his books to be made into a film. The first was A Maiden's Grave which was filmed by HBO (released as "Dead Silence") starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin.
Deaver has been a full-time author for ten years. He's written many best-selling suspense novels and has been nominated three times for Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America and is the two-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 's Award for Best Short Story of the Year.
He has had a varied career. He wrote his first book at age 11 (mercifully unpublished) and has been writing ever since. Former editor of his school's literary magazine, he has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University in New York. He practiced law for eight years' though by his own admission he was a dreadful lawyer and preferred to socialise with the opposite side of cases over a beer, rather than go for the throat in the courtrooms of New York.
He was also a folksinger, songwriter and music researcher for a time and was, believe if or not, a professional poet for a few years, though the most he ever made at that business was six dollars in one year.
Deaver, who 's divorced with no children, spends most of his time in Virginia, with his large German Shepherd, writing books, short stories and film scripts. His hobbies are travelling, cooking, collecting wine and entertaining - most recently he gave a medieval feast (with costumes and authentic recipes from the 1300s) for fifty people.

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Jeffery Deaver The Coffin Dancer Published February 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 Jeff Harding
Taking place within the space of one harrowing weekend, this is a fascinating and fast-paced thriller from the best-selling author of The Bone Collector.
Lincoln Rhyme is the world’s foremost criminalist. But an accident has shattered his spine and confined him to his bed forever.
Percey Clay, the owner of a struggling charter flight service, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now the target of an unstoppable professional killer called the Coffin Dancer - a murderer who Lincoln knows only too well.
Together, Lincoln and his assistant, NYPD patrolwoman Amelia Sachs, engage in a desperate fencing match of strategy with an evil genius.
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.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Jeffrey Deaver is a true craft master and his international profile has rocketed since his first Lincoln Rhyme novel, The Bone Collector, hit the silver screen early this year in a big-budget feature from Universal Studios starring Denzel Washington as Lincoln and Angelina Jolie as Amelia. This was the second of his books to be made into a film. The first was A Maiden's Grave which was filmed by HBO (released as "Dead Silence") starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin.
Deaver has been a full-time author for ten years. He's written many best-selling suspense novels and has been nominated three times for Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America and is the two-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 's Award for Best Short Story of the Year.
He has had a varied career. He wrote his first book at age 11 (mercifully unpublished) and has been writing ever since. Former editor of his school's literary magazine, he has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University in New York. He practiced law for eight years' though by his own admission he was a dreadful lawyer and preferred to socialise with the opposite side of cases over a beer, rather than go for the throat in the courtrooms of New York.
He was also a folksinger, songwriter and music researcher for a time and was, believe if or not, a professional poet for a few years, though the most he ever made at that business was six dollars in one year.
Deaver, who 's divorced with no children, spends most of his time in Virginia, with his large German Shepherd, writing books, short stories and film scripts. His hobbies are travelling, cooking, collecting wine and entertaining - most recently he gave a medieval feast (with costumes and authentic recipes from the 1300s) for fifty people.

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