Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Gillian Linscott The Garden Published June 2003 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 Cater
Holders Hope, Herefordshire, and the roots of a great garden are laid in the long summer of the Edwardian age. Grown from a woman’s desperate need to hold on to beauty, created by a man who plants his love for her, and hated by a husband it humiliates and imprisons.
The lives of two families become bound up with the garden: the Allegris, mine owners with the money to pay for it, and the Thomases, mine workers whose care and skill help shape it. Over some of the most turbulent years of Britain’s history, the garden grows, suffers and is almost destroyed. Lost and overgrown, it waits for a young man from the 21st century to unravel its mystery.
Anne Cater was born and brought up in South Wales. After studying in London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, her career has spanned both theatre and education. She has played a variety of stage roles and for some time belonged to a small theatre company performing eighteenth century pieces in Georgian theatres. She has taught English and Drama to children with learning difficulties and in schools in disadvantaged areas. She has recorded many audio books for Soundings.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
September 2000 Update
Gillian Linscott has been awarded this year’s CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award for Absent Friends, featuring her suffragette detective, Nell Bray.
Gillian Linscott has written seven other novels featuring Nell Bray: Sister Beneath The Sheet, Hanging On The Wire, Stage Fright, Widow’s Peak, Crown Witness, Dead Man’s Music, Dance On Blood.
She is published by Virago.
Her latest The Perfect Daughter will be published by Virago on 16 November 2000.
Nell Bray On Radio
On 4 November 2000 an adaptation of an earlier Nell Bray novel Stage Fright will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Adapted by Michael Bakewell, directed by Enyd Williams and featuring Susannah Corbett as Nell.
Gillian Linscott is the creator of Nell Bray, a militant suffragette who combines detection with the struggle for the Vote and is first introduced to the reader when newly out of Holloway prison for throwing a half brick through the window of 10 Downing Street. (In Sister Beneath The Sheet.) Nell Bray has been translated into German, Spanish and Italian.
Gillian's own contact with Number Ten has been more decorous. She attended press briefings there while working as a BBC parliamentary reporter for local radio stations. Her earlier journalistic career included seven years as a Guardian reporter. She also worked for the Liverpool Post and the Birmingham Post.
She now writes full time and lives in Herefordshire. Interests: horse riding, hill walking, vegetable growing, politics.
Educated: Maidenhead High School, Somerville College, Oxford.
A note on NELL BRAY - by Nell Bray
"I was born in Liverpool in 1877. My father, Charles Bray, a doctor, was working there at the time. I have a brother, Stuart, my senior by three years. My mother Ida (nee Kellman-McCloud) came from Edinburgh. When I was a child we moved around frequently because my father combined a strong sense of duty with tactlessness on a grand scale - a quality some people say I inherited. He was a rebellious younger son from a family of minor landed gentry and twice stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a radical. He'd recover from his political disappointments by going climbing in the Alps - a taste I share. My mother loved amateur theatricals and caused some scandal by taking part in early productions of Ibsen.
As a child, I wanted to be an actress, later a barrister. It was planned that I should follow my brother to Oxford. The death of my father in a diptheria epidemic when I was 17 prevented this. My mother took to travelling and for several years I had to look after her while we wandered around Europe, usually on unfounded rumours that meals and a roof over our heads would be cheaper in the next country. At least during this period I had a chance to develop my interest in languages. When I was 20, we went to Athens, where my mother met and married a German professor of classical archaeology. This meant I was free at last to go up to Oxford. I attended Somerville College for three years.
While I was growing up, we'd always assumed that by the time I reached voting age, the suffrage would have been extended to women. When it became obvious that this was not going to happen I knew that any career or personal ambitions must give way to this struggle. I set myself up as a freelance translator to get enough money to live on and joined the most militant and effective of the groups fighting for the Vote, the Women's Social and Political Union, soon after it was founded by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903."
Short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine:
DEATH OF A DEADMAN Dec 1994
THE BIG FIVE-O Oct 1995
DROWNED OPHELIA July 1996
WINGLESS PEGASUS August 1996
Also short stories in various anthologies, British and American

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Laura Lippman Every Secret Thing Published December 2003 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 Laurence Bouvard
A breath-taking, stand-alone thriller from a multi-award-winning author
For eleven-year-old Ronnie and Alice, the summer holidays come to an abrupt end when they are convicted of murdering a baby they found unattended on someone’s doorstep.
Seven years on, the girls are released from their respective penal institutions. As they’re trying to pick up the pieces of their young lives, a spate of missing children cases throws suspicion on them ; once again, with tragic consequences.
This is a gripping story with a heart-wrenching subject, handled with great sensitivity.
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.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 20 mins

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Michael Malone First Lady Published January 2003 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
In the quiet town of Hillston, North Carolina, a young woman’s body is found - her corpse mutilated, tagged and addressed to Lt. Justin Savile V and Police Chief Cuddy R. Mangum.
Meanwhile, Savile finds himself drawn to a seductive Irish rock star, Mavis Mahar, who possesses a strange beauty and an aura of mystery. Cuddy’s secret lover, the governor’s wife, is torn between political duties and private desires, and he must do everything to protect her reputation.
When another death suggests that Hillston has a serial murderer in its midst, Savile and Mangum find themselves threatened by a sinister figure who clearly knows what matters most to each of them.
‘Two of the most memorable police detectives ever to appear in mystery fiction’ Ed McBain
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Michael Malone’s appeal is widespread - to lots of literary fiction, critics and fans of crime writing alike. He has been compared to Cervantes, Dickens and Henry Fielding. He is the recipient of the 0. Henry Award for Fast Love, the Edgar for Red Clay and an Emmy as head writer on a leading US TV series. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with his wife.

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Henning Mankell The Dogs of Riga Published July 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
About The Author
Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm in 1948. The author of many works of fiction, among them the nine books in the Kurt Wallander series, his books have been translated into 19 languages. He has worked as an actor, theatre director and manager in Sweden and more recently in Mozambique, where he now lives and is the head of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo. He won the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature award for Faceless Killers, and the CWA Gold Dagger 2001 for Sidetracked.

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Henning Mankell Sidetracked Published March 2003 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 Sean Barrett
Awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, 2001
A baffling suicide and three vicious murders shatter the tranquil Swedish province, Skane. Is there a connection? Inspector Kurt Wallander must find out.
Midsummer approaches and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former Minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander’s hunt for the girl’s identity and his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him, and those he loves most, into mortal danger.
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 15 mins
About The Author
Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm in 1948. The author of many works of fiction, among them the nine books in the Kurt Wallander series, his books have been translated into 19 languages. He has worked as an actor, theatre director and manager in Sweden and more recently in Mozambique, where he now lives and is the head of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo. He won the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature award for Faceless Killers, and the CWA Gold Dagger 2001 for Sidetracked.

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Michael Marshall The Straw Men Published May 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 Tim Machin
The Straw Men. They kill people. Any people.
Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.
But the key to Sarah’s whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. Provoked by a bizarre message left by his dead parents, Ward begins to investigate that past and finds himself drawn in to the shadowy, sinister world of the Straw Men - and into the desperate race to find Sarah.
‘Brilliantly written and scary as hell’ Stephen King
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.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Michael Marshall is a novelist and screenwriter. Born in Knutsford, Cheshire in 1965, he spent much of his childhood in America, South Africa and Australia, before his family returned to the UK. His teens were spent in Essex until he went up to Kings College Cambridge, where he studied Philosophy and Social and Political Science.
He achieved a 2:1 but spent far more time working with the Cambridge Footlights and on the 1987 National Tour. After college he became part of a comedy group called And Now, In Colour who wrote and performed two series for BBC Radio 4. He worked in graphic design and the writing of corporate videos, before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. He has already established a successful writing career under the name Michael Marshall Smith, his first novel, Only Forward the Philip K. Dick and August Derleth awards and its critically acclaimed successors, Spares and One of Us, have both been optioned for film by DreamWorks and Warner Brothers respectively.
Michael is currently writing an original movie for the UK production company, Shine - working title Friends For Ever. He is also developing a six-part television series called Cityscape with the BBC. Six of Michael’s short stories are currently being adapted for television by London production company, Little Bird. He is currently appearing as a writer/performer in ITV’s cult late night comedy show Dare to Believe. He lives with his wife Paula and cats in North London and Brighton.

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Peter May The Firemaker Published July 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 Laurence Bouvard
Three murders. Two lovers. One burning truth.
Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on his hands. She has a broken life behind her and a lonely future, dedicated to her profession, ahead. He has survived two decades of violent change by marrying himself to a career, which now promises, at last, to bring him the respected place in Chinese society that his family lost in the Cultural Revolution.
Neither of them is ready for the consequences of asking the wrong questions about the dead man; the ones that lead to the terrifying truth.
Originally from Massachusetts, Laurence Bouvard trained at LAMDA and made her professional debut creating the role of Maria Elena Holly in the original cast of the West End musical, Buddy. Her other theatre credits include leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Wuthering Heights, Speed-the-Plow, and Persephone in Stravinsky’s Persephone at the BBC Proms. Her appearances on TV include EastEnders and The Tomorrow People.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Peter May, winner of the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award in 1973, went on to become a television screenwriter, creating three major TV series - The Standard, Squadron and the Gaelic-language drama serial, Machair. He has published seven novels; The Reporter, based on the BBC TV series, The Standard; Fallen Hero, a novelisation of the Granada TV series of the same name; Hidden Faces, a political thriller set in Brussels (published as The Man With No Face in the U.S.); and The Noble Path, a very human story played out amidst the ruins of Pol Pot’s Cambodia. The first of his China novels, The Firemaker, a scorching thriller set in contemporary Beijing, resulted from extensive research in China where he received unprecedented access to the Chinese police. The sequel, The Fourth Sacrifice, was published in hardback and paperback in 2000, and the third in the series, The Killing Room, came out in hardback in December 2000 and paperback in May 2001. He is married and lives with his wife, writer Janice Hally, in rural Argyll, Scotland, and in France.
Peter May spent six months in Beijing and travelling across China as part of his research for the books and continues to visit regularly. He also gained unprecedented access to the normally Chinese police force, due in part to his friendship with Commissioner Wu He Ping, a former policeman from Beijing. Peter’s trips to China have also provided him with a wealth of stories – from drinking competitions with Shanghai detectives to banquets where the menu included deep fried scorpions encrusted in ants. (He is a keen cook, and does all the cooking at home, specialising in Chinese dishes.)
Peter also discovered that many crime writers in China are policemen, who produce their own magazine of short stories every two months, called The Woodpecker. This may be due to the fact that young police officers take classes in Western crime fiction - Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie are favourites. Peter is an honorary member of the Beijing Chapter of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association.

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Peter May The Runner Published May 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
A top Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of an international event. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his Beijing mistress. Both men’s deaths are connected to an inexplicable series of ‘accidents’ that have taken the lives of some of China’s best athletes.
Detective Li Yan finds himself in charge of what could be his last investigation for the Beijing police. Hampered by uncooperative officials and dogged by a vindictive rival fore his job, his only hope of a breakthrough is a champion runner, the sole member of the Chinese athletics team who seems willing to talk. But she will only talk to American psychologist Margaret Campbell – and now the runner has disappeared.
‘A fascinating series’ Sunday Telegraph
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.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Peter May, winner of the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award in 1973, went on to become a television screenwriter, creating three major TV series - The Standard, Squadron and the Gaelic-language drama serial, Machair. He has published seven novels; The Reporter, based on the BBC TV series, The Standard; Fallen Hero, a novelisation of the Granada TV series of the same name; Hidden Faces, a political thriller set in Brussels (published as The Man With No Face in the U.S.); and The Noble Path, a very human story played out amidst the ruins of Pol Pot’s Cambodia. The first of his China novels, The Firemaker, a scorching thriller set in contemporary Beijing, resulted from extensive research in China where he received unprecedented access to the Chinese police. The sequel, The Fourth Sacrifice, was published in hardback and paperback in 2000, and the third in the series, The Killing Room, came out in hardback in December 2000 and paperback in May 2001. He is married and lives with his wife, writer Janice Hally, in rural Argyll, Scotland, and in France.
Peter May spent six months in Beijing and travelling across China as part of his research for the books and continues to visit regularly. He also gained unprecedented access to the normally Chinese police force, due in part to his friendship with Commissioner Wu He Ping, a former policeman from Beijing. Peter’s trips to China have also provided him with a wealth of stories – from drinking competitions with Shanghai detectives to banquets where the menu included deep fried scorpions encrusted in ants. (He is a keen cook, and does all the cooking at home, specialising in Chinese dishes.)
Peter also discovered that many crime writers in China are policemen, who produce their own magazine of short stories every two months, called The Woodpecker. This may be due to the fact that young police officers take classes in Western crime fiction - Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie are favourites. Peter is an honorary member of the Beijing Chapter of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association.

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Val McDermid The Distant Echo Published November 2003 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 Joe Dunlop
It’s four in the morning, at the end of a cold December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the dying body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead. And the only suspects are four young men stained with her blood.
Twenty-five years later, Fife police mount a cold case review of the murder. But when one of the original four students dies in a suspicious house fire and another in a bungled burglary, it looks as if somebody is inflicting their own twisted brand of justice. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. If Alex Gilbey wants to stay alive, he must find out who it is and who really killed Rosie all those years ago.
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.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 15 hrs 5 mins
About The Author
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer livingin South Manchester. Val won the 1995 Golden Dagger Award given by the British Crime Writers' Association for Best Crime Novel of the year for her book Mermaids Singing. Her comples and disturbing stand-alone thriller A Place of Execution won the 2001 LA Times Mystery/Thriller Book Award. She has also written 6 crime novels featuring Kate Brannigan, and 5 more featuring Lindsay Gordon. She has written a non-fiction book on real-life female private eyes, A Suitable Job for a Woman and three psychological thrillers featuring forensic psychologist Tony Hill ('Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' (Guardian)). You will find copies of Val’s Crime Fiction Reviews for the Manchester Evening News here at Tangled Web.
A major ITV series based on Val’s books will be broadcast in 2002 with Robson Green playing the lead role.

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Gwen Moffat The Raptor Zone Published October 2003 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 Patricia Gallimore
On the foggy coast of Oregon lies a tiny community in seeming wilderness. The people there lead an urban lifestyle that encompasses both gourmet food and a passion for the natural world. The only crime in Sundown is that of exploitation, as the local logging industry destroys the habitat of the spotted owl.
In this civilized enclave are several authors, most notably Lois Keller, the successful crime writer and her more unfortunate husband, Andy, a screenwriter. When Andy introduces his ‘assistant’ Gayleen, he puts the cat among the pigeons, and in his perverse humour attaches a bumper sticker to his wife’s car: I LOVE SPOTTED OWLS. ROASTED.
When Miss Pink arrives in Sundown on the heels of Andy and Gayleen, she finds a volatile situation. Some people have taken matters into their own hands. Raptors have begun to operate in the canyons and not all of them are feathered.
Patricia Gallimore has been broadcasting regularly for the BBC since winning the Carleton Hobbs student drama award. She is currently best known for her role as Pat Archer in The Archers, with whom she shares strong beliefs in conservation and organic growing. Her other work includes poetry recitals, film dubbing and voice-overs.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Gwen Moffat’s day job was rock climbing and she broke moulds. As the first woman guide she carved a niche in the macho world of professional mountaineering; as a crime writer she specialises in wild country: from the Rockies and deserts of America to the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides.
She delights in research. For Grizzly Trail she worked cattle on a Montana ranch; for Last Chance Country (based on Death Valley) she rented a house in the Mojave Desert. Her main protagonist, Melinda Pink, follows her creator’s interests: surpassing her in some, falling short in others. Miss Pink is an intrepid rider but not much of a climber, she is a perceptive investigator and a large woman of imposing presence (Moffat is tiny, unobtrusive but as inquisitive as a cat). Both are ageing now, politically incorrect, and greatly concerned with injustice and abuse: towards animals, the environment and people. Such concerns surface in the mysteries - from traffic in endangered species in Rage to incest in The Lost Girls, and the media invasion of a remote crofting community in Quicksand.
Agent: Juliet Burton (020 8762 0148/fax 8743 8765)
e-mail: juliet.burton@virgin.net
Meet the Author in Washington DC
Gwen Moffat will be attending Bouchercon 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City from October 31st to November 4th and would be happy to meet readers with common interests in wild places, crime, cats, and that formidable old bat Melinda Pink.

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Fiona Mountain Pale as the Dead Published October 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 Karen Cass
Natasha Blake is a detective with a difference. She's an ancestor detective, an ambitious young genealogist with a passion for history. Her investigations involve secrets, scandals and supernatural happenings; forgotten tragedies and buried crimes. The trails she must follow lead her from her Cotswold home to ancient houses, deserted chapels, overgrown graveyards and into cyberspace.
The disappearance of a young girl, Bethany, appears to be linked in some way to Lizzie Siddall, the haunting, ethereal Pre-Raphaelite model and artist, wife of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Lizzie's tragic life was cut short by an overdose of laudanum. Was it accident or suicide? Why is Bethany so obsessed with her, and at the same time so determined to put herself beyond the reach of her lover, Adam?
Karen Cass began her acting career with the Footlights as an undergraduate at Cambridge. After graduating she completed three years acting training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where she was awarded the Evelyn Laye Prize for Best Actress in a musical and was chosen to represent LAMDA in the William Poel Festival at the Royal National Theatre. Karen made her professional debut at the Newcastle Playhouse and has since worked extensively in theatre all over the country. Recent television appearances include Birds of a Feather and EastEnders.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 10 mins

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James Patterson The Jester Published June 2003 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 Neil Dickson
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers that his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night like devils. Nothing is known of their identity, only that they search for a relic worth more than any throne in Europe. No man has been able to stand in their way until Hugh, taking on the role of a jester, infiltrates the enemy’s castle. And when a man is fighting for freedom, for his wife, and for everything he holds dear, he will prove a formidable opponent.
With unstoppable pace and the plot of a heart-stopping thriller, this is a breathtaking adventure set in eleventh-century France.
Neil Dickson is a London-trained theatre actor with numerous stage credits. His American television credits include leading roles in the mini-series A.D., Sins, and Voice of the Heart, and several TV movies including Freedom Fighters and Murders in the Rue Morgue. On film he stars in Chasing Chekov, Peak Experience, Lionheart, and King of the Wind.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs
About The Author
James Patterson grew up Newburgh, New York, fifty miles north of New York City where he currently resides. Patterson majored in English at Manhattan College.
Patterson's first novel published in 1976 when he was twenty-seven years old. Patterson, who says he ‘lives full time’, has since written over half a dozen novels and has been hailed as mastermind of the page-turning thriller.

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