Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Sue Grafton C Is for Corpse Published June 2002 by Macmillan Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0-333-98927 9
Read by Lorelei King

`My name is Kinsey Millhone. I’m a licensed private investigator... thirty-two, twice divorced. I like being alone and I suspect that my independence suits me better than it should. . .’

Kinsey met Bobby Callahan in the gym on Monday morning. By Thursday, he was dead.
He was convinced someone was trying to kill him and it turned out to be true, but no one figured it out in time to save him.
Kinsey had never worked for a dead man before and hoped she wouldn’t have to again. This report was for him . . .
Lorelei King was born in Pennsylvania. Once described as 'the best-known American voice on Radio 4', she has played roles as varied as Patricia Cornwell's forensic detective Kay Scarpetta and Groucho Marx's sidekick. Film work includes The Saint and Notting Hill; on television she is a running character (Natalie Lawrence) in the acclaimed Cold Feet, and she has appeared in Jonathan Creek, Chef, The Comic Strip, Birds of a Feather and Rumpole of the Bailey. On stage she has acted in such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blues for Mr Charlie and Death of a Salesman. She was nominated as Performer of the Year at the 1999 Talkies (the audiobook industry awards).
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Lynn Lauber Produced by Tamsin Collison
About The Author
Sue Grafton lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Steven Humphrey. She is currently working on her next Kinsey Millhone novel.

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Sue Grafton B Is for Burglar Published June 2002 by Macmillan Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0-333-98926 0
Read by Lorelei King

`Female, age thirty-two, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what’s going to happen next...’

Business was slow, and there was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kinsey concern.
She was looking for her sister. She paid up front. And if it seemed a lot of money for a routine job, Kinsey wasn’t going to argue.
She kicked herself later for the things she didn’t see. But by then she was in danger, and money was the last thing on her mind . . .
Lorelei King was born in Pennsylvania. Once described as 'the best-known American voice on Radio 4', she has played roles as varied as Patricia Cornwell's forensic detective Kay Scarpetta and Groucho Marx's sidekick. Film work includes The Saint and Notting Hill; on television she is a running character (Natalie Lawrence) in the acclaimed Cold Feet, and she has appeared in Jonathan Creek, Chef, The Comic Strip, Birds of a Feather and Rumpole of the Bailey. On stage she has acted in such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blues for Mr Charlie and Death of a Salesman. She was nominated as Performer of the Year at the 1999 Talkies (the audiobook industry awards).
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Lynn Lauber Produced by Tamsin Collison
About The Author
Sue Grafton lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Steven Humphrey. She is currently working on her next Kinsey Millhone novel.

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John Harvey Now's the Time Published December 2002 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 Jonathan Oliver
A woman is beaten; a charred body is found in a warehouse: another 4am call for Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick. Gathered together in Now’s the Time are twelve short stories featuring Resnick - lover of justice, jazz and cats. Billie’s Blues is a new story written especially for this collection, reuniting Resnick with the troubled, beautiful Eileen, former stripper and mistress of a gangland boss, now on the run and in fear for her life.
From old foes to upstart pretenders, the city and the jazz-soaked, night-time world of Charlie Resnick come vividly to life
King of crime - the crown is John Harvey’s.’The Times
A graduate of Manchester University, Jonathan Oliver’s theatrical roles include Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, Dolokhov in the National Theatre’s War and Peace and Karenin in Helen Edmundson’s celebrated adaptation of Anna Karenina. TV work includes The House of Eliott and Hannay, and on film, Tavernier’s Death Watch, The Return of the Jediand Burning Ash.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
John Harvey was born in London, and after living in Nottingham for a good number of years, he recently returned to London with his partner and their baby daughter. Initially a teacher of English and Drama. he has been a full-time writer since the age of 37. He learned his trade writing various kinds of pulp fiction - mainly westerns - and has close to one hundred published titles to his credit.
Though principally known as a crime novelist, he continues to write scripts for radio and television, specialising in dramatising his own work and that of others.

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John Harvey In a True Light Published April 2002 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 Stephen Greif
The first stand-alone crime novel by John Harvey, author of the acclaimed Resnick series
When Sloane, a successful forger, is released from prison after taking part in a high-profile art scam, he finds a letter from the woman with whom he had a passionate affair in his youth. She tells him that years ago she gave birth to his daughter, Connie. She implores Sloane to find her and make peace between them.
Sloane agrees - but when eventually he finds Connie, she is locked into a highly charged relationship with Vincent Delaney, a man whom the police believe has killed once and will not hesitate to kill again. Sloane has to decide whether to walk away or stay and fight for her. And the more Delaney feels cornered and under pressure, the more unpredictable and dangerous he becomes . . .
‘King of crime - the crown is John Harvey’s’ The Times
A multi-award winning RADA Honours graduate, Stephen Greif has worked for many years with the RSC and the National Theatre in productions including Saturday, Sunday, Monday (nominated Best Actor, Critics Circle), and Death of a Salesman (Olivier Award nominee). His many West End productions include the recent Fallen Angels. He counts among his wealth of TV and film work roles in Shackleton and documentaries Serenghetti Burning and the first Neighbours from Hell. Book narrations include the Phillip Pullman trilogy.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
John Harvey was born in London, and after living in Nottingham for a good number of years, he recently returned to London with his partner and their baby daughter. Initially a teacher of English and Drama. he has been a full-time writer since the age of 37. He learned his trade writing various kinds of pulp fiction - mainly westerns - and has close to one hundred published titles to his credit.
Though principally known as a crime novelist, he continues to write scripts for radio and television, specialising in dramatising his own work and that of others.

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Joyce Holms Bitter End Published July 2002 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 Vanessa Grassick and her neighbour Jamie Ford die in a gas explosion, Tam Buchanan wishes his practice were anywhere but Edinburgh. His law firm is executor of Vanessa’s will and this case is promising serious trouble. While the police report declares the deaths a tragic accident, Tam has reason to believe there’s a lot more to it. But can he afford to suspect a cover-up when Vanessa’s husband is the city’s most influential advocate - a man who could make or break his career?
It’s not long before morality and Fizz’s gentle persuasion win out, and Tam and his irrepressible assistant find themselves scouting for clues in the tiny village of Chirnside, where Mrs Grassick died. Unfortunately, however set they may be on discovering the truth, someone seems even more determined to ensure they never do.
‘Holms is adroit at creating a diverting cocktail of suspense and humour.’ The Times
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.
7 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 Angels Passing Published December 2002 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 Tim Pepper
A Detective Inspector Joe Faraday investigation
Two inquiries: the suspicious death of a fourteen-year-old girl, the murder of a small-time drug dealer. Just another week in the life of one of Britain’s toughest cities. Just another week at breaking point for the police.
For DI Inspector Joe Faraday it means a lonely plunge into Portsmouth’s bleak netherworld of wrecked families and children cast adrift in a society too fragmented to care. For Detective Constable Paul Winter it means a place at the sharp end of a high-profile investigation into the city’s booming drug’s trade. Getting his hands dirty, trying not to think about the death of his wife.
Tim Pepper began his acting career the day after leaving school. He worked in various repertory companies and appeared in films including Get Carter as a teenager. Having travelled the world, working as a lorry driver, croupier, and a night-club compere, he re-entered the profession twelve years ago. He has many TV and theatre credits, including Kavanagh QC, The Vice and A Line in the Sand. He dreams of perfecting his surfing technique and likes to spend his time trying to beat his son at tennis.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs 15 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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Graham Hurley The Take Published September 2002 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 Tim Pepper
Detective Inspector Joe Faraday’s Management Assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead, killed in a head-on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the war against Portsmouth’s surging crimewave.
And now the seemingly untouchable DS Paul Winter has been hurt in a way he could never have predicted: his wife has cancer. It’s inoperable and she had barely three months to live. But when life lays a finger on Paul Winter, he has only one instinct: lash out.
There’s precious little time for grief. A disgraced gynaecological surgeon is missing and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell, and the serial Donald Duck flasher has just upped the ante by inflicting GBH on a woman walking around Langstone Harbour.
Tim Pepper began his acting career the day after leaving school. He worked in various repertory companies and appeared in films including Get Carter as a teenager. Having travelled the world, working as a lorry driver, croupier, and a night-club compere, he re-entered the profession twelve years ago. He has many TV and theatre credits, including Kavanagh QC, The Vice and A Line in the Sand. He dreams of perfecting his surfing technique and likes to spend his time trying to beat his son at tennis.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 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 On Honeymoon with Death Published March 2002 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 Joe Dunlop
The latest Oz Blackstone mystery
For Oz Blackstone and Primavera Philips, the idea to forget their troubled past by returning to L’Escala, the idyllic Spanish village where they were once so happy, is not working out. When a body turns up in the swimming pool of their new villa, they are suddenly very much back in harness again, uncovering a nest of very nasty vipers beneath L’Escala’s sunny exterior.
‘If Ian Rankin is the Robert Carlyle of Scottish crime writing, then Jardine is surely its Sean Connery.’ Glasgow Herald
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.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 30 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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Jonathan Kellerman Billy Straight Published September 2002 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 Jeff Harding
A young boy witnesses a murder but who will find him first - the cops or the killer?
When beautiful Lisa Boehlinger Ramsey is found brutally stabbed to death in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, a highly sensitive investigation begins for Detective Petra Connor and her partner, Stu Bishop. For Lisa was the ex-wife of TV star Cart Ramsey and she had publicly revealed how Ramsey had beaten her up. Suspicion at once falls on the millionaire actor but this is L. A., home of media frenzy and O. J. Simpson, and the brass at the LAPD do not want history repeated.
Meanwhile forensic evidence points to a witness to the murder: twelve-year-old Billy Straight - a very scared little boy, too frightened to come forward, and when Lisa’s parents put a reward on him, only Petra realises the peril in which this child has been placed.
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.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs
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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Jonathan Kellerman Flesh and Blood Published May 2002 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 Jeff Harding
Sometimes home is the last place you want to go.
When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents - which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Years later, at a bachelor party for a colleague, Delaware finds himself uncomfortably watching two strippers performing a degrading display - one of them is Lauren Teague.
And now Lauren’s mother is pleading for Delaware’s help once again. Lauren has disappeared - and she thinks that he can find her. He’s not so sure, but when Lauren’s disappearance turns into a murder investigation, he knows that he owes it to the dead girl to find out what demons drove her to such a horrifying end.
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
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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Lynda La Plante Royal Flush Published June 2002 by Macmillan Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-333-90534 2
Read by Hugh Fraser
High Adventure, furious plotting, blackmail and betrayal.
Edward de Jersey, an immensely wealthy man, owns a successful racing yard and sets high hopes on his magnificent colt Royal Flush winning the Derby. But de Jersey’s luck runs out when his trusted adviser invests his fortune in a fledgling Internet company that crashes, leaving him with mounting debts. In danger of losing everything, de Jersey resurrects his criminal past and attempts to pull off the most audacious robbery in history. Using the Internet and every available technology to draw a team from the present and the past, the preparations for the daring heist begin, the target is the most valuable diamond in the world. Weighing over a hundred carats the Koh-i-noor diamond, known as the Mountain of Light, has an estimated value of over a million per carat . . . hard to steal, even harder to get away with it.
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 4 hrs 30 mins Abridged by Yvonne Antrobus Produced by Tamsin Collison

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David Lawrence The Dead Sit Round in a Ring Published September 2002 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 Julia Watson
Jimmy Stone died of a broken heart - literally: someone put a sharp object between his ribs and pushed, hard. He was found sitting in a circle with three other corpses in the living room of a Notting Hill flat.
Notting Hill - where million-pound houses are just the other side of the tracks from sink estates, where yuppies rub shoulders with hookers, dealers and gangsters - is DS Stella Mooney’s patch. But it’s a tough case and she feels like she’s going round in circles. In fact circles and rings are all over this one: vice rings running girls from Eastern Europe; Internet rings peddling vile murderabilia; the tight family circles of organized crime . . .
And then there are the rings left by empty vodka glasses, and the dark circles under Mooney’s eyes that come from waking up every night at 3 a.m. having dreamed the same killer dream . . .
Julia Watson has a degree in Drama and English from Exeter University. Her work includes Danton’s Death, Major Barbara, She Stoops to Conquer and Wild Honey, all at the Royal National Theatre; a national tour of An Ideal Husband, and The Deep Blue Sea at Watford Palace Theatre. On TV she has appeared in Casualty, Never the Twain and Welcome to Orty-Fou.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. Null

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