Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Micky Spillane My Gun is Quick Published January 2003 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 William Dufris
Late one night, in need of strong coffee, Mike Hammer finds himself in an all-night dive with a pretty, but washed-out, redhead. When a grease-ball by the name of Feeney Last walks in and tries to smack the redhead around, Mike soon gives him a taste of his own medicine and gives the girl money to clean up her act and get a real job.
The next day she is found dead. Although NYPD are viewing it as an accident, Mike knows better and sets out to prove murder and find the killer. As the investigation continues, Hammer runs up against the usual rats and lowlife, exploring the importance of certain photographs taken by Nancy, the dead girl, and a disappearing ring.
William Dufris has many radio credits some of which include BBC Radio’s production of Love Story, A Thousand Acres and An American Werewolf in London. He was nominated for a “Talkie” for his reading of the Horse Whisperer and won the Earphone’s Award for The Glass Key.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Mickey Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York and began writing there in the mid-30s after dropping out of university. He worked as a flying instructor for the U.S Army Air Force in World War Two achieving the rank of captain before he left the service. He is best known for his private detective Mike Hammer novels. He also portrayed Hammer in the film The Girl Hunters.

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Cath Staincliffe Bitter Blue Published December 2003 by Soundings at Ł16.99 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 Julia Franklyn
A Sal Kilkenny mystery
It is first day after the Easter break, and Sal Kilkenny is already rushed off her feet. Her daughter Maddie unexpectedly kicks up a fuss about going to school. Sal promises to investigate the offensive poison pen letters being sent to the elegant hotel receptionist, Lucy Barker. A Mr and Mrs Ecclestone seek her assistance in their house purchase, asking her to survey the area for nuisance neighbours or criminal activity.
But these tasks are more troublesome than Sal anticipated. The campaign against Lucy escalates and Sal is unable to nail the perpetrator. Her surveillance duties involve a grim discovery and violent crime. Maddie continues to be stubborn about school and her teachers are complaining. And now a nightmarish sequence of events may become a matter of life and death .. .
Julia Franklyn has a real passion for talking books and has been reading them for the last fifteen years. She has combined this with a busy career in radio and television both as a presenter and also as a voice-over with thousands of commercials to her credit. For the last eight years she's been a presenter on ITV's Gardener's Diary.
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
About The Author
Cath Staincliffe is creator of the Sal Kilkenny mysteries. These books, set in contemporary Manchester (Northern England), feature single-parent, private eye Sal Kilkenny who, like many modern women, has to juggle the demands of work with those of parenthood.
Looking For Trouble (Crocus 1994) was short-listed for the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel and was also serialised on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4.
Cath Staincliffe was raised in Bradford with a few years interlude in Torquay. After graduating with a degree in Drama and Theatre Arts from Birmingham University she moved to Manchester to start a job. She lives with her partner and their three children. Combines working on freelance community arts projects and childcare with writing. She's a keen crime reader and aspiring gardener. A member of the Crime Writers Association and Mystery Women.
Cath has always written poetry and stories (from infant school onwards..) She studied play-writing at university but her writing was sporadic and limited to poetry for several years while she worked as a community artist. Cath devoted more time to writing when on maternity leave with her first child and she attended women's writers workshops at Commonword, Manchester. Her poetry and short stories were published in anthologies and she became interested in developing longer pieces initially in science fiction. She writes in small snatches, in longhand, sitting on the sofa (no room of her own!) and never works out all the plot first - which leads to tricky times. She attends a novel writing group where she gets and gives support and encouragement.
Looking For Trouble was inspired by the crime fiction that Cath likes to read. She chose to develop the domestic life of her heroine, Sal Kilkenny, by making her a mother with all the attendant responsibilities and concerns. Sal is a character whose life reflects the experience of the many women who have to combine business and work with home and family.
The City of Manchester provides a strong background to the stories, there is great diversity of place and atmosphere and the cosmopolitan make-up of the city means Cath can find any number of characters and enterprises to write about.
Cath is a founder member of Murder Squad, a group of seven crime fiction writers who have come together to promote their work and the genre to a wider public. Murder Squad carry out readings, literary projects, residencies and workshops in a whole range of settings. For further details see their website www.murdersquad.co.uk

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Cath Staincliffe Tower of Silence Published January 2003 by Soundings at Ł16.99 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 Julia Franklyn
Sal is preoccupied with the trimmings of Christmas when she is asked to investigate a suicide. Miriam Johnstone had a history of mental instability and the coroner’s verdict seemed justified. But when Sal eventually agrees to help the family, she starts to have her suspicions.
Meanwhile, she has a personal dilemma on her hands - when should she introduce her daughter to her new boyfriend, Stuart? As this dilemma preys on her mind, she receives a call from a woman desperate for answers about her own child and Sal agrees to tail the difficult teenager. Before long she’s led in unexpected directions that take her closer to danger and heartbreak than ever before…
Julia Franklyn has a real passion for talking books and has been reading them for the last fifteen years. She has combined this with a busy career in radio and television both as a presenter and also as a voice-over with thousands of commercials to her credit. For the last eight years she's been a presenter on ITV's Gardener's Diary.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs
About The Author
Cath Staincliffe is creator of the Sal Kilkenny mysteries. These books, set in contemporary Manchester (Northern England), feature single-parent, private eye Sal Kilkenny who, like many modern women, has to juggle the demands of work with those of parenthood.
Looking For Trouble (Crocus 1994) was short-listed for the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel and was also serialised on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4.
Cath Staincliffe was raised in Bradford with a few years interlude in Torquay. After graduating with a degree in Drama and Theatre Arts from Birmingham University she moved to Manchester to start a job. She lives with her partner and their three children. Combines working on freelance community arts projects and childcare with writing. She's a keen crime reader and aspiring gardener. A member of the Crime Writers Association and Mystery Women.
Cath has always written poetry and stories (from infant school onwards..) She studied play-writing at university but her writing was sporadic and limited to poetry for several years while she worked as a community artist. Cath devoted more time to writing when on maternity leave with her first child and she attended women's writers workshops at Commonword, Manchester. Her poetry and short stories were published in anthologies and she became interested in developing longer pieces initially in science fiction. She writes in small snatches, in longhand, sitting on the sofa (no room of her own!) and never works out all the plot first - which leads to tricky times. She attends a novel writing group where she gets and gives support and encouragement.
Looking For Trouble was inspired by the crime fiction that Cath likes to read. She chose to develop the domestic life of her heroine, Sal Kilkenny, by making her a mother with all the attendant responsibilities and concerns. Sal is a character whose life reflects the experience of the many women who have to combine business and work with home and family.
The City of Manchester provides a strong background to the stories, there is great diversity of place and atmosphere and the cosmopolitan make-up of the city means Cath can find any number of characters and enterprises to write about.
Cath is a founder member of Murder Squad, a group of seven crime fiction writers who have come together to promote their work and the genre to a wider public. Murder Squad carry out readings, literary projects, residencies and workshops in a whole range of settings. For further details see their website www.murdersquad.co.uk

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Terence Strong Dragonplague Published October 2003 by ISIS at Ł20.99 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 John Cormack
This is a nightmare world - one where the twin evils of today stalk side by side, creating the greatest peacetime menace ever known to civilised society: terrorism and hard drugs. No one will escape the nightmare. Especially not the ones who dare to fight it.
After doing a five-year stretch in the Scrubs on a robbery charge, ex-Royal Marine Billy Robson is determined to go straight. Rejecting dubious offers by friends in the East End underworld, he jumps at the one legitimate job going - unaware that he is being ensnared in a web of corruption, addiction and perversion that may cost him his freedom and his family.
The story is woven around a real-life expose of a massive secret operation by a terrorist organisation to flood Britain with heroin.
John Cormack trained as an actor at the drama department of the Arts Educational School. His stage credits include The Shadow of a Gunman and The Plough and the Stars at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre. He played Mr Toad in Tales of Toad Hall and Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, both on tour, and Lord Byron in Don Juan’s Earliest Scrape. Radio drama includes Titanic and Exiles by James Joyce and he has also had the dubious pleasure of being the voice of Gerry Adams for Channel 4 News.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs 30 mins

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Jess Walter Land of the Blind Published September 2003 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 Laurence Bouvard
Caroline Mabry is a police officer working the weekend late shift, a place reserved for department drunks and those approaching retirement. Submerged in loneliness and still fighting the demons from her own past, the last thing she needs is a derelict coming into her station and telling her he wants to confess to a murder. Then comes the realisation that she’s seen his face before.
Nineteen hours later, with the derelict still feverishly writing his confession, Caroline finds herself scrambling to investigate his long, progressively darker and sinister tale. But time might be about to run out.
Originally from Massachusetts, Laurence Bouvard trained at LAMDA and made her professional debut in the West End. Her TV appearances include The Tomorrow People and EastEnders. Laurence has recently recorded The Dud Avocado for BBC Radio 4.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Jess Walter is the author of Over Tumbled Graves and the 1995 nonfiction book Every Knee Shall Bow (re-issued in winter 2001 as Ruby Ridge) as well as co-author of In Contempt. An award-winning journalist who has written for Newsweek, the Washington Post and The Boston Globe, Jess also writes screenplays, short stories and essays. He lives in Spokane with his wife, three kids and a 1963 Lincoln Continental that gets 6 miles per gallon. On the highway.

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Gillian White Copycat Published June 2003 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 Jilly Bond
When Martha moved in next door she and Jennie became friends; at least, Jennie thought they were. Jennie admired everything about Martha her house and husband, her bohemian clothes and exotic children’s names. Martha seemed to take to motherhood so confidently, while for Jennie it was such an effort. Martha tolerated Jennie, took her on holiday, helped with the children but all the time she wondered how much longer she could stand living next to her.
But as time goes on, roles seem to reverse. As Jennie becomes more independent, more successful, Martha’s life falls apart. Less like friends and more like sworn enemies, their relationship turns bitter, twisted - a relationship that only one of them can survive ...
‘A novelist of the highest quality’ Sunday Independent
Jilly Bond has worked extensively in theatre and radio for the past twelve years.
Her credits on stage include Miranda (and Antonio!) in The Tempest, Fiona, the ‘girl’, in When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout and Anita in Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business.
She is regularly heard in dramas for Radio Four and the BBC World Service. Among her roles is Susan Grantly in The Barchester Chronicles. She has read numerous Afternoon Stories for Radio Four and is also a director and writer. She lives in London with her husband and two children
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs
About The Author
Adopted as a baby bay a wealthy industrialist and his wife, Gillian White was brought up in a middle class home in Liverpool and sent to private school. But by the age of fifteen she had been expelled from three schools and sent to a home office approved school for three years, in need of care and protection. Searching for life's thrills and spills she found them, and more, on the streets of sixties London. After three unforgettable years locked up when she learned more about life than she has before or since, she trained to be a journalist and spent five years on a newspaper in Essex. During this time she married the paper's chief reporter and started her family of four.
She exchanged an inherited jade collection for a herd of Friesian cows after her father died, and bought a small farm in wildest Cornwall. This enterprise soon folded, as predicted, so Gillian and her family moved to Devon to farm near Dartington Hall School, which their four children attended.
The school closed down after a notorious national scandal and Gillian invited the remaining pupils and teachers to start a new school in her farm house. The school survives today and is thriving, but Gillian found the noise and over-population of her home hellish and was driven to her bedroom, and this is when and why she started to writes. In the ten years since then three of her novels, Rich Deceiver, The Beggar Bride and Mothertime have been adapted for BBC television, and The Sleeper is to follow soon.
Gillian says that the most pleasing part of being a novelist is that she is allowed to be eccentric! She lives in Totnes with her husband. Her children and grandchildren live nearby.

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Kevin Wignall Among the Dead Published April 2003 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 Glen McCready
Emily Barratt is dead . . .
When a group of friends accidentally kill a fellow student they decide not to own up. After all, they weren’t at fault - the girl ran out in front of the car. Some things are not so easily forgotten, however, Ten years later, they’re all haunted in their own ways, and strangers to each other.
But they’re about to become reacquainted. Two of them die within the course of a few weeks and the circumstances arouse unanswered questions. For one person, their common past dominates his whole life and the search to find out who wants him dead forces him to face his own guilt and the torment of the part he played in Emily Barratt’s death.
Glen McCready trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art where he graduated with Honours in 1991. Since then, he has worked extensively in theatre, film, television, radio and in numerous voice-overs. His stage credits include Edward Lyons in Blood Brothers, Sgt. Trotter in The Mousetrap (both in the West End) and numerous roles in provincial productions including Greg in Relatively Speaking and Idle Jack in Dick Whittington (twice!). His film credits include Ten Blind Mice and Sushi-Jalapenos.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 45 mins
About The Author
Kevin Wignall was born in Belgium and lives in the west of England, where he is a fulltime writer. He first novel, People Die was described by The Face as `A killer-thriller with humour and heart’.

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Laura Wilson Hello Bunny Alice Published September 2003 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 Anna Bentinck
Seven years after the suicide of her lover, the brilliant comic Lenny Maxted, former Bunny Girl Alice Jones is leading a quiet, almost reclusive life in an Oxfordshire farmhouse. In the long hot summer of 1976, Lenny’s comic partner, Jack Flowers, turns up on her doorstep out of the blue. Alice has not seer him since Lenny’s funeral, but surprise and pleasure turn into an all too familiar sense of unease when she discovers that he is distressed and drinking heavily. At the same time, a car containing human remains is fished out of a Wiltshire lake .. .
'A writer with pedigree goods to deliver' Literary Review
Anna Bentinck has made over 800 broadcasts for BBC radio. Her animation voice work includes the series 64 Zoo Lane, while on TV she has played Mary Dickens in Charles Dickens and Mary Rutherford in the Marie Curie series. On film she has been seen in The Trojan Women, Alice in Wonderland and To the Devil a Daughter.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs
About The Author
Laura Wilson was brought up in London and has degrees in English Literature from Somerville College, Oxford and UCL, London. She has worked briefly and ingloriously as a teacher, and more successfully as an editor of non-fiction books. She has written history books for children and is interested in history, particularly of the recent past, painting and sculpture, uninhabited buildings, underground structures, cemeteries and time capsules. She lives in London with a basset hound.

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Robert Wilson The Blind Man of Seville Published June 2003 by ISIS at Ł20.99 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 Sean Barrett
Gold Dagger award-winner, Robert Wilson introduces the Spanish detective Javier Falcon.
Semana Santa - Holy Week in Seville, and a most unholy sight awaits homicide detective Javier Falcon. A leading restauranteur has been found dead in his apartment, bound and gagged before a TV screen. Unable to close his eyes because the killer had removed his eyelids, his struggles to avoid the pictures flickering before him have caused terrible injuries.
With each new development in the case, with each new victim, the killer demonstrates an uncanny ability to delve into the darkest secrets of his prey - and into Falcon’s own family history. The professional, dispassionate fagade Falcon has constructed begins to disintegrate as he, too, is forced to confront the unimaginable.
Sean Barrett began his acting career as a child for the BBC and has since made numerous television appearances including roles in Z Cars, Minder, Tales of the Unexpected and Father Ted. He played alongside Noël Coward in the West End and has had film parts in War and Peace, Dunkirk and Sons and Lovers.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Robert Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising and trading in. He has travelled in Asia and Africa and has lived in Greece and West Africa and he draws on this experience for his Bruce Medway novels. He is married and writes from an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.

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