Audio - Crime 2002

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Janet Evanovich To the Nines Published December 2003 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 Lorelei King
Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she’s pretty damn good at turning situations her way ... and she always gets her man.
Her cousin Vinnie has posted bail on Samuel Singh, who mysteriously disappears just as his work visa is running out. Stephanie is on the case to ensure the elusive Mr Singh doesn’t make his disappearance more permanent. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give a whole new meaning to the word ‘hunter’. In a race against time that takes her from the Jersey Turnpike to the Vegas strip, Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life.
‘Punchy, saucy and stacks of fun. I’m hooked’ Mirror
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).
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 35 mins
About The Author
Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey.
She has won a major crime fiction award for each of her Stephanie Plum novels so far: One for the Money was presented with the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, Two for the Dough won the CWA Last Laugh Award and Three to Get Deadly was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.

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Janet Evanovich Full Tilt Published August 2003 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 Lorelei King
Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie’s life gets shaken up.
A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana, is taking his shots in the political ring. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime - and Jamie gets a story that’s taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway, Max and Jamie are betting their lives on a long shot.
Charlotte Hughes has written a number of acclaimed romance and comedy novels. She lives in South Carolina, USA.
Praise for Full House: ‘A wild mix of intrigue, sex and pyrotechnics’ The Times
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).
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 55 mins
About The Author
Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey.
She has won a major crime fiction award for each of her Stephanie Plum novels so far: One for the Money was presented with the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, Two for the Dough won the CWA Last Laugh Award and Three to Get Deadly was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.

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Janet Evanovich Full House Published January 2003 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 Lorelei King
The first in a new series from the bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, writing with her friend, Charlotte Hughes
Nick Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. Happy in her stable home life as a divorced mother of two, she represents everything the footloose Kaharchek’s always avoided. But she is also irresistibly fascinating - in a car-crash sort of way. Billie finds her instinctive response to Nick’s attention almost as frightening as the mysterious break-ins in her neighbourhood, and the spider invasions her pest-control man seems unable to beat. As fate brings Billie and Nick even closer, they are suddenly thrown into a world of mayhem, seduction and terror - but will it lead to everlasting love?
Plus an exclusive Stephanie Plum adventure
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).
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey.
She has won a major crime fiction award for each of her Stephanie Plum novels so far: One for the Money was presented with the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, Two for the Dough won the CWA Last Laugh Award and Three to Get Deadly was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.

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Linda Fairstein The Bone Vault 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 Liza Ross
The glitzy reception at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art should have been a welcome evening off for Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper. But the event is overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: in an ancient sarcophagus, bound for a show abroad, customs officials have found the body of a young woman. Katrina Grooten was a quiet, studious intern at the Cloisters, home of the Met’s mediaeval art collection. According to museum records, Katrina left her job several months earlier to return to her native South Africa. The discovery of her preserved body shows that she never made it home.
As Alex and NYPD Detective Mike Chapman investigate, they encounter an establishment whose culture is as curious as the exhibits they display.
`Linda Fairstein’s continued rise into the rarified realm of great crime fiction seems unstoppable. She is beginning to defy gravity. The Bone Vault will spin your head and race you away on a blast of originality, chilling real-world detail and turbo-charged writing. If being a nationally acclaimed prosecutor wasn’t enough, Fairstein has become one of America’s most promising and exciting crime novelists’ Patricia Cornwell
A tour de force. Shivers not only the bones but the marrow’ Frances Fyfield
`The Bone Vault is nothing short of brilliant’ Nelson Demille
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Linda Fairstein is is an Assistant District Attorney and head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Her involvement with such cases as the Preppy Murder and the Central Park Jogger over the past two decades has gained her the reputation of one of the city's toughest prosecutors. She lives in Manhattan with husband.

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Jasper Fforde Lost in a Good Book Published January 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 Gabrielle Kruger
Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, literary detective Thursday Next heads back into fiction to search for some answers. Along the way she finds herself helping Miss Havisham close narrative loopholes in Great Expectations and struggling for a deeper understanding’ of The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Paper politicians, lost Shakespearean manuscripts, woolly mammoth migrations, a flurry of near-fatal coincidences, and impending Armageddon are all part of a great plan - but whose, and why?
‘This Scam Has Not Been pulled off with such off-hand finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop’ Independent
Praise for The Eyre Affair
'Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure' Sunday Telegraph
‘Ingenious -- I’ll watch Jasper Fforde nervously’ Terry Pratchett
‘The Eyre Affair is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce’ Independent
‘Quirky, hilarious, charming, inventive, moving, Fforde writes wonderfully’ Manchester Evening News
Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1998, Gabrielle Kruger trained in acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has been in several short films and fringe plays in London, including Light Entertainment, a black comedy she co-wrote, produced and acted in at the Barons Court Theatre, Hammersmith. She is currently co-writing a new sitcom.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 35 mins
About The Author
Jasper Fforde has been writing purely for his own pleasure for the past ten years, and is delighted that this has all changed. Just recently he has traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales and has a passion for aviation. The Eyre Affair is his first novel. Visit the author’s website: www.jasperfforde.com

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Joyce Holms Hot Potato Published July 2003 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
Solicitor Tam Buchanan and his friend and colleague Fizz Fitzgerald are on a hill-walking holiday in the Scottish Highlands when they witness an horrific car crash. Administering First Aid, Fizz and Buchanan hear the dying wish of the crash victim - a plea to protect the second passenger in the car, an elderly gentleman with a price on his head.
Their charge, Scott McKenzie, more than partial to a wee dram, can remember nothing about the previous few days, let alone why he should be the focus of a deadly manhunt. All they can glean is that a gun was fired and that somewhere there is a building with high ceilings that could be significant. With lives - and careers - in the balance, Fizz and Buchanan refuse to back out now.
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.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 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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Donald James Walking the Shadows Published March 2003 by ISIS at Ł21.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Adam Sims
A drowned village in the South of France called St Juste holds buried secrets from the Second World War. It is swiftly re-emerging as a summer drought empties the reservoir that hides it.
Tom Chapel comes to St Juste to discover why the daughter of local man was abducted, attacked and left in a life-threatening coma after the bequest of her father that left her a 28-million dollar fortune. His search takes him back to the rule of the Vichy government, smuggled Jews and the discovery that someone is harbouring a cold-blooded killer who, forty years later, is trying to preserve his secret.
‘Head and shoulders above authors such as Thomas Harris, Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson’ Sunday Express
Adam Sims trained at LAMDA. His radio work includes Auntie Marne, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Wit, The Group and River Town, all for the BBC. His theatre work includes Mind Millie for Me (West End), Habeus Corpus, Alice in Wonderland (RSC) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also played the role of Corbett in Snake in Fridge, for which he won the award for Best Actor at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, 2001. His film work includes Lost in Space and Band of Brothers.
14 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs 40 mins
About The Author
Donald James is a veteran novelist, a successful writer for television - most recently, he was the scriptwriter of Russia’s War, a ten-part PBS series - and a renowned historian. He lives in England.

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Quintin Jardine Poisoned Cherries Published January 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 Joe Dunlop
A new Oz Blackstone mystery
When Oz Blackstone is offered a major role in a cop movie shooting in Edinburgh, he cannot resist. The self-professed ‘luckiest man on the planet’ sees himself heading for stardom and wealth, but his marriage to Primavera is on the rocks. On the other hand, a brief encounter with the beautiful, self-possessed Susie Gantry is turning into something more long term.
Life looks like a bowl of cherries until ex-lover Alison Goodchild turns up asking for a favour. It’s the least Oz can do for an old flame, but when he finds Alison’s business partner murdered in her flat, he can’t help but feel he’s been set up. And when he discovers a trail of intrigue leading to the movie cast, those cherries begin to taste very sour indeed.
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.
8 Cassettes Running Time: 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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Faye Kellerman Stone Kiss Published March 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 Jeff Harding
The call is brief, but to the point. There has been a murder in the family of Lt. Decker’s half brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. Ephraim Lieber, an Hassidic Jew and former drug addict, was found naked in a seedy Manhattan hotel, a single gunshot wound to his head, and Jonathan’s niece, Shaynda, is missing.
The Rabbi pleads with Decker to come to New York and help the family. He reluctantly agrees, only to find on arrival that Shaynda’s parents have changed their minds about involving him in the case. Faced with a hostile family, a strange city and a local police force mired in international problems, Decker is on his own, thrust into a world divided mercilessly into killers and victims.
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. 13 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
New York Times bestseller Faye Kellerman is the author of the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus thrillers. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jonathan Kellerman, also a bestselling writer as well as a psychologist and their children.

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Bernard Knight Fear In The Forest Published January 2003 by Clipper Audio at Ł44.95 ISBN: 184197 814 0
Read by Paul Matthews
June 1195. A tall, brown mare gallops into the sleepy village of Sigford, its rider dragged by the stirrup, the broken shaft of an arrow protruding from his back. The embroidered badge on the dead man’s tunic identifies him as a senior officer of the Royal Forest. But with plenty of money still in the victim’s purse, the motive is a mystery. When a second forest officer is violently attacked, County Coroner Sir John de Wolfe begins to uncover evidence of a sinister conspiracy. And why is his unscrupulous brother-in-law, the sheriff Sir Richard de Revelle, taking such an interest in the case?
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'Crowner John is a splendid character, full of imperfections and faults, but ultimately the triumphing hero ‘of the piece’ London Evening Standard
11 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs
About The Author
In His Own Words…
Forensic pathologist, barrister and writer, born and spent most of life in Cardiff.
Started life as a farmer, then a hospital laboratory technician, then a medical student. Qualified in 1954, was a regular Army doctor in Malaya for three years during the terrorist Emergency (in a hospital like MASH!) Started forensic pathology in 1959 with Dr Francis Camps in London, became a Home Office pathologist in 1965. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1966. Retired in 1996 as Professor of Forensic Pathology in University of Wales, Cardiff.
Consultant to Amnesty, went on missions to Uganda to examine torture victims and to Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War to investigate atrocities. Received the CBE in 1993 for services to forensic pathology. Now a private forensic consultant, involved in cases all over the world, such as the Vatican banker, Roberto Calvi exhumation a few months ago.
Was the pathologist who recovered all twelve bodies in the Fred West case in Gloucester in 1994.
Began writing as a medical student, was editor of the student magazine, The Leech. Wrote first detective novel in 1961, The Lately Deceased publ. Herbert Jenkins. Then a string of others, Mistress Murder, Russian roulette, Policeman's Progress, Tiger At Bay, Thread of Evidence for Robert Hale and several in Welsh. Numerous foreign language editions.
Wrote non-fiction popular medical books, Murder, Suicide or Accident (Hale) about forensic pathology and Discovering the Human Body, an illustrated history of anatomy and physiology ( Lippincott and Heinemann) Turned to historical novels in '70s, about 12th century Wales, called Lion Rampant and Madoc, Prince of America.
In 1977 wrote biography of Milton Helpern, famous Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, went into five editions and foreign translations.
Turned to radio and television drama, numerous radio plays for BBC and scripts for BBC & ITV, especially S4C. Wrote story-lines for The Expert series for BBCTV, with Marius Goring - then wrote link novel The Expert for Sphere. Wrote scripts for and was technical advisor to District Nurse, Bergerac, etc. Also written ten textbooks of forensic medicine and pathology between 1972 and 1996, including the most widely-used standard textbook in UK, USA and Japan - books mostly published by Arnold (Hodder), Churchill, Blackwells etc. Most recent book (1998) was Lawyers Guide to Forensic Medicine (Cavendish).
Now writing the Crowner John series of historical mysteries for Simon & Schuster's Pocketbooks. Based on the first coroner for Devon in 1194, as I am very interested in and have lectured and written on, the origins of the English coroner and of the much older Chinese coroner - have lectured on the latter in China and Hong Kong.
Three Crowner John novels so far, The Sanctuary Seeker & The Poisoned Chalice (1998) and Crowner's Quest (1999). Contracted for three more, the first to be The Awful Secret early next year. BBC are negotiating for a radio play based on Crowner John.

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Bernard Knight The Grim Reaper Published January 2003 by Clipper Audio at Ł39.95 ISBN: 184197 420X
Read by Paul Matthews
May 1195, and Sir John de Wolfe is called upon to unravel the mystery of a series of murders. A Jewish money-lender, a London harlot, a dissolute priest and a burgess suspected of abusing young boys, are all brutally slain. The common factor is a Biblical text, left at each murder scene, which reflects the alleged sin of the victim. So the killer must be literate and Bible-learned, and in an age where only one percent of the population can read or write this can only mean one thing. The murderer is a priest.
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9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs
About The Author
In His Own Words…
Forensic pathologist, barrister and writer, born and spent most of life in Cardiff.
Started life as a farmer, then a hospital laboratory technician, then a medical student. Qualified in 1954, was a regular Army doctor in Malaya for three years during the terrorist Emergency (in a hospital like MASH!) Started forensic pathology in 1959 with Dr Francis Camps in London, became a Home Office pathologist in 1965. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1966. Retired in 1996 as Professor of Forensic Pathology in University of Wales, Cardiff.
Consultant to Amnesty, went on missions to Uganda to examine torture victims and to Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War to investigate atrocities. Received the CBE in 1993 for services to forensic pathology. Now a private forensic consultant, involved in cases all over the world, such as the Vatican banker, Roberto Calvi exhumation a few months ago.
Was the pathologist who recovered all twelve bodies in the Fred West case in Gloucester in 1994.
Began writing as a medical student, was editor of the student magazine, The Leech. Wrote first detective novel in 1961, The Lately Deceased publ. Herbert Jenkins. Then a string of others, Mistress Murder, Russian roulette, Policeman's Progress, Tiger At Bay, Thread of Evidence for Robert Hale and several in Welsh. Numerous foreign language editions.
Wrote non-fiction popular medical books, Murder, Suicide or Accident (Hale) about forensic pathology and Discovering the Human Body, an illustrated history of anatomy and physiology ( Lippincott and Heinemann) Turned to historical novels in '70s, about 12th century Wales, called Lion Rampant and Madoc, Prince of America.
In 1977 wrote biography of Milton Helpern, famous Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, went into five editions and foreign translations.
Turned to radio and television drama, numerous radio plays for BBC and scripts for BBC & ITV, especially S4C. Wrote story-lines for The Expert series for BBCTV, with Marius Goring - then wrote link novel The Expert for Sphere. Wrote scripts for and was technical advisor to District Nurse, Bergerac, etc. Also written ten textbooks of forensic medicine and pathology between 1972 and 1996, including the most widely-used standard textbook in UK, USA and Japan - books mostly published by Arnold (Hodder), Churchill, Blackwells etc. Most recent book (1998) was Lawyers Guide to Forensic Medicine (Cavendish).
Now writing the Crowner John series of historical mysteries for Simon & Schuster's Pocketbooks. Based on the first coroner for Devon in 1194, as I am very interested in and have lectured and written on, the origins of the English coroner and of the much older Chinese coroner - have lectured on the latter in China and Hong Kong.
Three Crowner John novels so far, The Sanctuary Seeker & The Poisoned Chalice (1998) and Crowner's Quest (1999). Contracted for three more, the first to be The Awful Secret early next year. BBC are negotiating for a radio play based on Crowner John.

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Bernard Knight The Tinner's Corpse Published January 2003 by Clipper Audio at Ł37.95 ISBN: 184197 7322
Read by Paul Matthews
Crowner John is summoned to investigate the murder of a tin miner. The victim worked for Devon’s most powerful and successful mine owner, Walter Knapman. There seems to be only one motive - to .sabotage Walter’s business. But the tinners have their own laws, and they are none too pleased at Crowner John’s interference. How on earth can Crowner John sort all this out when his own life is in turmoil?
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`Detection and suspense are combined with historical authenticity’ Daily Mail
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
In His Own Words…
Forensic pathologist, barrister and writer, born and spent most of life in Cardiff.
Started life as a farmer, then a hospital laboratory technician, then a medical student. Qualified in 1954, was a regular Army doctor in Malaya for three years during the terrorist Emergency (in a hospital like MASH!) Started forensic pathology in 1959 with Dr Francis Camps in London, became a Home Office pathologist in 1965. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1966. Retired in 1996 as Professor of Forensic Pathology in University of Wales, Cardiff.
Consultant to Amnesty, went on missions to Uganda to examine torture victims and to Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War to investigate atrocities. Received the CBE in 1993 for services to forensic pathology. Now a private forensic consultant, involved in cases all over the world, such as the Vatican banker, Roberto Calvi exhumation a few months ago.
Was the pathologist who recovered all twelve bodies in the Fred West case in Gloucester in 1994.
Began writing as a medical student, was editor of the student magazine, The Leech. Wrote first detective novel in 1961, The Lately Deceased publ. Herbert Jenkins. Then a string of others, Mistress Murder, Russian roulette, Policeman's Progress, Tiger At Bay, Thread of Evidence for Robert Hale and several in Welsh. Numerous foreign language editions.
Wrote non-fiction popular medical books, Murder, Suicide or Accident (Hale) about forensic pathology and Discovering the Human Body, an illustrated history of anatomy and physiology ( Lippincott and Heinemann) Turned to historical novels in '70s, about 12th century Wales, called Lion Rampant and Madoc, Prince of America.
In 1977 wrote biography of Milton Helpern, famous Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, went into five editions and foreign translations.
Turned to radio and television drama, numerous radio plays for BBC and scripts for BBC & ITV, especially S4C. Wrote story-lines for The Expert series for BBCTV, with Marius Goring - then wrote link novel The Expert for Sphere. Wrote scripts for and was technical advisor to District Nurse, Bergerac, etc. Also written ten textbooks of forensic medicine and pathology between 1972 and 1996, including the most widely-used standard textbook in UK, USA and Japan - books mostly published by Arnold (Hodder), Churchill, Blackwells etc. Most recent book (1998) was Lawyers Guide to Forensic Medicine (Cavendish).
Now writing the Crowner John series of historical mysteries for Simon & Schuster's Pocketbooks. Based on the first coroner for Devon in 1194, as I am very interested in and have lectured and written on, the origins of the English coroner and of the much older Chinese coroner - have lectured on the latter in China and Hong Kong.
Three Crowner John novels so far, The Sanctuary Seeker & The Poisoned Chalice (1998) and Crowner's Quest (1999). Contracted for three more, the first to be The Awful Secret early next year. BBC are negotiating for a radio play based on Crowner John.

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