Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Anne Cleeves The Crow Trap Published October 2002 by Soundings at Ł19.99 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 Anne Dover
At the isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, three very different women come together to complete an environmental study. Each woman knows the meaning of betrayal. Team leader Rachael sees the project is an opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double betrayal by her lover and boss; botanist Anne sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own; Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, has secrets herself to hide.
But when Rachael arrives at the cottage she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide - a verdict Rachael finds impossible to accept. Only when the next death occurs, does a fourth woman appear - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.
Anne Dover’s career spans over 30 years in the entertainment industry. From appearances on variety shows on TV in the 1960s to presenting TV and radio programmes, and acting in a number of TV dramas such as Emmerdale, A Kind of Loving and Pride of Our Alley - a musical adapted by Alan Plater about the life of Gracie Fields.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 15 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Ann Cleeves lived in a North Devon village as a child where her father was the school teacher. She dropped out of Sussex University and took a variety of temporary jobs - child care officer, Women's Refuge worker, and finally as the cook for a Bird Observatory on Fair Isle where she met her husband. They married in 1997 and she enrolled in a social work course at Liverpool University. After qualifying she worked as a probation officer for the Merseyside Probation Service. In 1983 she moved with her family to the Midlands and started to write. In 1987 she and her family moved to the North East and her response to the area and the people provided the inspiration and background for her Inspector Ramsay novels.
Ann Cleeves was Reader in Resident for Northern Arts last year. She has recently moved from Whitley Bay to Huddersfield with her ornithologist husband and their two daughters. She is best known for her Inspector Ramsay novels, set in the Northumberland she knows so well.

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Harlan Coben Gone For Good Published May 2002 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75285 244 2
Read by Tim Machin
Will Klein lost his brother and the love of his life on the same day, eleven years ago. Julie Miller was horrifically raped and strangled in the basement of her parents’ house. Her attacker immediately fled the scene and the country. Despite an international manhunt, and the world’s press, there was never another confirmed sighting. The authorities finally concluded that the perpetrator must have died in his escape.
Unfortunately, Will Klein was left with a more fundamental problem. What drove his only brother to commit such a savage act on the girl that Will loved?
But as the years pass, he gradually turns from this betrayal and begins to rebuild his life. A job and a new partner – Sheila - pastes over the scars and the questions in his mind fade into the background. Then Will’s mother confesses in her final moments that Ken is still alive, and Sheila walks away into the night and disappears closely - pursued by the FBI. Once again, everything Will believes is hanging in the balance ...
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 Abridged by Katrin Williams Produced by Elspeth Santa Clara
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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Michael Connelly Chasing the Dime Published November 2002 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75285 589 1
Read by Alfred Molina
Henry Pierce has a whole new life – new apartment, new phone, new phone line. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that a woman named Lilly had the number before him and she is in some kind of serious trouble.
Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly’s world, and it’s unlike any world he’s ever known. It is a world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life to save the life of a woman he has never met.
His skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly with some precision. But every step takes Pierce deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy and a decision that could cost him everything he holds dear.
This story contains strong and sexually explicit language and some scenes described may he disturbing.
`Slick plotting, far-from-gratuitous thrills, a breakneck pace and superb characterisation’ Guardian (about City of Bones)
Alfred Molina trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He received a Tonv Award nomination for Art, his Broadway debut. Other theatre credits include Fox in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance. Molina’s feature film credits include Boogie Nights, for which he won a SAG Award, Anna Karenina, Maverick, Prick Up Your Ears, Not Without My Daughter and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
4 Cassettes Running Time: 5 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 Last Coyote Published February 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 Dick Hill
Harry’s life is a mess. His girlfriend has left him. He’s drinking too much. And he’s even had to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation.
At first Bosch resists the LAPD shrink but finally he recognizes that something has long been troubling him. In 1961, when Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever accused of the crime.
Harry opens up the decades-old file and is irresistibly drawn into the past. It’s clear that the case was fumbled. His mother was a prostitute, and even thirty years later the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable . . .
Bosch relentlessly follows up old evidence, seeking justice or at least understanding. His investigations lead him to prominent people leading public lives in the Hollywood hills. And Harry finds that old passions don’t die. They cause new murders even today.
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
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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John Connolly The White Road Published November 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 Paul Birchard
In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It’s a case nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker’s speciality.
But Parker is about to enter a living nightmare, haunted by the murderous spectre of a hooded woman, a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the complicity of both friends and enemies in the events surrounding the death. This is not an investigation. This is a confrontation with dark forces, threatening everything Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul.
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.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 45 mins
About The Author
John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968 and is a regular contributor to The Irish Times. He has travelled extensively in the United States.
Connolly was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the four most promising new talents for 1999. Heralded as an author with great promise, John Connolly burst onto the international literary scene in 1999 with the publication of Every Dead Thing. In this country the book went straight onto the Sunday Times bestseller list in both hardcover and paperback. In Ireland the book was also a bestseller and the Americans, who bought it for $1 million (a record advance for a first novel by an Irish writer) , published to massive critical acclaim.
John was a journalist working at the Irish Times when the book was written and accepted for publication. He conducted an enormous amount of research in America where the novel is set, making settings, idioms, procedures and characters authentic.
The question always asked is can an author produce a second novel to match the first?
John Connolly answers that question in the affirmative with Dark Hollow. Connolly has refined his already apparent skills, concentrated his plot line, developed his leading characters and created a villain whose menace is well equal to the awesome Travelling Man in Everydead Thing.

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Michael Cordy Crime Zero Published January 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 Garrick Hagon
The year is 2008. Violent crime has become an epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States. Everything from the death penalty to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effective - until now.
Project Conscience promises to be the solution. It is a bold attempt by a powerful group of scientists, politicians and senior law enforcement personnel to use gene therapy to treat male criminals and cure violent crime.
But among their number are those with a more sinister agenda, who would go further and turn the dream of Project Conscience into the nightmare of Crime Zero.
It is up to Luke Decker, a criminal psychologist disillusioned with genetic science, and geneticist Dr Kathy Kerr, his one-time lover and ideological adversary, to fight this deadly new scheme. A scheme so ruthless and vast that it will irrevocably change the evolution of mankind .
Garrick Hagon's many films include Batman, Star Wars, Cry Freedom, A Bridge Too Far, The Message and Antony and Cleopatra. On British TV he has been seen in A Perfect Spy and Oppenheimer. He has also worked extensively in English Theatre, including appearances at the National Theatre in After the Fall, and in the West End in All My Sons. On BBC radio he is a familiar reader of novels and short stories.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 10 mins

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Judith Cutler Dying to Score Published July 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 Diana Bishop
Sophie Rivers has left behind the stresses of teaching at an inner-city college in Birmingham for a while and has just started seeing the delectable Mike Lowden, one of the country’s most exciting cricketers. When he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in the particularly nasty murder of a rival cricketer, Sophie’s got too much to lose to remain merely a spectator.
The more deeply she becomes involved, the more sinister the circumstances appear. Does she have to nail a bent policeman as well as find the real murderer? Who drove another of Warwickshire’s leading players to his death? And who is the mysterious motorcyclist who has begun to stalk her?
‘Thoroughly sharp, modern, witty and literate’ Margaret Yorke
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.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs
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 For Millions Published January 2002 by ISIS at Ł15.99 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 is rightly proud of her cousin Andy, a famous rock’n’roll star. Andy has just renounced the excesses of the music business for a life of campaigning for good causes.
So why would anyone want him dead?
It all starts harmlessly enough: vandalism, graffiti . . . But when one of Andy’s roadies plunges to his death after swigging the singer’s drink, Sophie begins to fear for her cousin’s life.
And then the killer, tired of being thwarted, turns his attentions to Sophie . . .
‘Thoroughly sharp, modern, witty, and literate’ Margaret Yorke
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.
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 45 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 Hell's Kitchen Published October 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 Paul Birchard
Writing as William Jefferies
The final part of the Location Scout trilogy
Every New York City neighbourhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell’s Kitchen has a darkness all its own. The Hollywood location scout and former stuntman is in the Big Apple hoping to capture the memories of long-time Kitchen residents such as Ettie Washington in a no-budget documentary. But when a suspicious fire ravages the elderly woman’s crumbling tenement, Pellam realizes that someone might want the past to stay buried.
As more buildings and lives go up in flames, Pellam takes to the streets, seeking the twisted pyromaniac. But he is unaware that the fires are merely flickering preludes to the arsonist’s ultimate masterpiece, a conflagration of nearly unimaginable proportions, with Hell’s Kitchen - and John Pellam - at its blackened and searing epicentre.
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 25 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 Blue Nowhere Published May 2002 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 1-84032-333 7
Read by William Hootkins
Imagine yourself in a bar. A man approaches you. He doesn’t seem familiar but he knows your past, your job, your hobbies and your ex-boyfriend’s name. You go for a drink.
This is your first - and last - mistake. You’re the latest victim of the latest killer. A man who can rip away the thin carapace protecting the secrets of your life - before ending it.
'The best psychological thriller writer around' The Times
William Hootkins is an established actor with a wide range of distinguished film, television and theatre credits. He has appeared in such films as Star Wars, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark and A River Runs Through It, as well as the television series Cheers, Black Adder II and Poirot. His theatre work includes Death of a Salesman and A Man for All Seasons, and he recently appeared alongside Helen Mirren in Orpheus Descending.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Peter Mackie Produced by Heavy Entertainment
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 Stone Monkey Published May 2002 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 1-84032-458 9
Read by Kerry Shale
Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop him before he can discover and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City’s Chinese community.
Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of police work - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.
Kerry Shale is an award-winning reader whose credits include such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Labyrinth, as well as a range of Audiobooks and a number of documentary voice-overs for the BBC, Granada and the Discovery Channel.
2 Cassettes Running Time: Null Abridged by Peter Mackie Produced by Heavy Entertainment
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 Hard News Published January 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
The irrepressible heroine of Manhattan is My Beat and Death of a Blue Movie Star is back.
Rune has now graduated to the first rung on the ladder of film documentary success - a major New York network news department. Once there, she finds herself inexorably drawn to the brutal murder of the network head, and to the young drifter accused of the crime, who, she swiftly becomes convinced, could not have been the killer. Despite the weight of evidence against the young man, Rune decides to try and prove his innocence, and finds an unlikely - and untrustworthy - ally in bitchy-but-powerful anchorwoman, Piper Sutton.
But it’s not just the accused that has problems. With her meddling, Rune has herself attracted some unwelcome attention. There’s a hitman in town and it seems that she’s the target . . .
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.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 45 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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