Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Harlan Coben No Second Chance Published May 2003 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-7528679 0
Read by Tim Machin
Dr Marc Seidman is living in the classic American Dream in New Jersey with his beautiful wife, Monica, and their baby daughter, Tara. But this happy idyll is brutally ripped apart when his home is broken into and he is gunned down. When he wakes up in hospital, his wife is dead and Tara is missing. For weeks there is no word. Then a ransom demand is made. But something goes terribly wrong during the money drop. The ransom vanishes and the kidnappers get free.
An agonising eight months passes with no word and no clues, and Marc remembers the ransom note’s ominous warning: There will be no second chance. The police, believing that Tara is probably dead, start to move on. And then, when Marc has just about given up all hope of seeing his daughter again, he gets a package with a chilling note attached: `Want a second chance? And inside the kidnapper provides proof that Tara is still alive ...
`Tim Machin reads with total involvement ...’ Christina Hardyment, Independent, about Gone for Good
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. 7 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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Martina Cole Maura's Game Published April 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 Annie Aldington
The dangerous lady is back and she’s as lethal as ever . . .
Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. Since then she’s retired from a life of crime to be with the only man she’s ever loved. But enemies from her past are closing in and they’re about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan.
Maura’s Game is an explosive novel of East End violence and corruption from one of the most original voices in fiction today. Martina Cole’s unique blend of emotional drama and shocking realism combine in this electrifying new bestseller.
Annie Aldington was born in South London, studied at The Guildford School of Acting and followed her drama training with a degree in community theatre. She has worked in television radio, voice over and in the theatre, acting in roles such as Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like it and as the distrait housewife in Dario Fo’s Female Parts.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 15 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Martina Cole was born in Aveley in Essex and brought up as part of a large, close-knit family, living in and around Dagenham and Rainham. She has a son and daughter and lives in Essex. Her previous novels, Dangerous Lady and The Jump have gone on to become highly successful TV drama series. The Runaway is currently in production for TV.

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Michael Connelly The Concrete Blonde Published April 2003 by Orion Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0-75285 710 X
Read by Dick Hill
When maverick LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker - the city’s most bizarre serial killer.
But now Norman Church’s widow is accusing Bosch of killing the wrong man - and to make things worse, Bosch has just received a taunting note that appears to be from the Dollmaker himself ... Same handwriting, same awful poetry.
Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer determined to repeat the Dollmaker’s grisly feats and destroy Bosch’s career in the process?
This story contains strong language, and some scenes described may be disturbing.
`A crime-writing genius ... his Harry Bosch stories are genuine modern classics’ Independent on Sunday
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.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs 20 mins Abridged by Martha Brandt Directed by Bill Weideman
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 Lost Light Published May 2003 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75285 743 6
Read by David Soul
When he left the LAPD, Harry Bosch took a file with him - the case of a film production assistant murdered four years before, possibly linked to a $2,000,000 robbery on the movie set. The LAPD - now operating under post 9/11 rules, or lack thereof - think the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim are lost in the Federal zeal, and when it seems the Feds want to close down the investigation to aid their terrorist hunt, Bosch quickly falls foul of both his old colleagues and the FBI.
David Soul brings his intimate knowledge of Los Angeles to his vibrant reading of this clever, credible and timely addition to `the most impressive body of work by any writer of crime thrillers now active’ (Washington Post).
This story contains strong and sexually explicit language, and some scenes described may be disturbing.
`Slick plotting, far-from-gratuitous thrills, a breakneck pace and superb characterisation’ Guardian (about the audio of City of Bones)
Born in the Midwest of the United States, David Soul grew up also in Germany, son of a Lutheran minister. He learned his screen skills appearing in episodes of shows Bewitched and Star Trek. After seeing him in the Dirty Harry film Magnum Force, Aaron Spelling cast him in Starsky and Hutch, making him a household name worldwide, and incidentally giving a great boost to the musical career which had been running in parallel with his acting: four chart albums. Future plans include film, television, stage and radio projects on both sides of the Atlantic. This is his first audio book reading.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs 40 mins Abridged by John Nicholl Produced by Nicholas Jones
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 Bad Men 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 Hayward Morse
In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three hundred years of peace.
Until now. Men are descending on Sanctuary to hunt down and kill the wife of their leader and retrieve the money that she stole from him. All that stands in their way are a young rookie officer, Sharon Macy, and the island’s strange, troubled policeman, the Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island’s secrets. He knows that Sanctuary will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. But the band of killers is set to desecrate Sanctuary and unleash the fury of its ghosts. All hell is about to break loose ...
Hayward Morse trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he was awarded the Silver Medal. He has since worked in regional theatres in Britain, the USA and Canada. His appearances include roles in the musicals Canterbury Tales and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance opposite Alan Bates in the Broadway production of Butley.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 10 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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John Connolly Every Dead Thing Published May 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
The Travelling Man is on the move. Few will survive the journey.
Former New York detective Charlie Parker was drunk when the Travelling Man operated on his wife and daughter. The Travelling Man is an artist of death, making human bodies his canvas and taking faces as his prize. And now another girl is missing...
Dogged by terror and driven by rage, through the swamps of America’s darkest underbelly, Parker pursues a man and his revenge only to discover that, sometimes, nothing is more shocking than the truth.
‘Superb characterisation, chilling, thought-provoking - a terrific thriller’ Mirror
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs 15 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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Natasha Cooper A Place of Safety Published December 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 Marie McCarthy
Barrister Trish Maguire needs all the time she can find to help her young half-brother adjust to life after the violent death of his mother. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks Trish to investigate one of his private charities, a magnificent art collection built up before 1914 and lost for most of the 20th century.
Taking a crash course in the murkier aspects of the art world, Trish is determined to unlock the secrets she is sure are hidden in the collection. Her research takes her not only into the heart of an engrossing love story, but also the agonising reality of life in the trenches of the First World War. She soon discovers a web of deceit that has spanned the decades since, catching all kinds of people in its filaments.
Marie McCarthy has worked extensively in repertory at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Churchill Theatre and The Salisbury Playhouse. Her West End credits include Dangerous Obsession, Beauty and the Beast, and London Cuckolds. She also appeared in the fifth series of Red Dwarf for BBC 2 and worked on a short film entitled The Bar. Radio credits include Waiting and Double and Quits for LBC.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs
About The Author
Clare Layton is another pseudonym of Natasha Cooper, who was born in London and educated at a Berkshire convent, worked in publishing for ten years before leaving to write full time. Her first crime novel, written under the name Natasha Cooper, was Festering Lilies published in 1990, the year she joined the Crime Writers’ Association. The millennium saw her taking the chair of the CWA and publishing both Prey to All, her tenth crime novel, and Clutch of Phantoms, her first foray into Clare Layton’s world of psychological suspense. Barry Forshaw wrote of Clutch of Phantoms: ‘Those who follow the impeccable thrillers of Natasha Cooper will be intrigued by the inauguration of a new nom de plume, Clare Layton… Cooper could not help but write a novel overflowing with psychological acuity under any name… As this brilliantly orchestrated piece moves towards its sombre finale, the reader is both beguiled by an intense novel of character and obliged to confront the myths and realities of how much we are in thrall to genetic inheritance.’
Simon Shaw called it ‘a tense and gripping thriller’ in the Mail on Sunday, and Ian Rankin wrote: ‘Clare Layton is one to watch: this is a gripping psychological thriller with above average intelligence from a writer who knows her stuff. Highly enjoyable and thoroughly recommended.’
Her first six Natasha Cooper crime novels form the tongue-in-cheek series that stars Willow King, a severe civil servant with a secret double life as glamorous romantic novelist, Cressida Woodruffe. They allowed Cooper to take a frivolously irreverent look at various institutions that affect life in Britain, and to challenge the lazy habits of those who make judgements about people on the basis of their appearance.
Creeping Ivy was something of a turning point, with Willow/Cressida taking only a walk-on role. That novel belongs to Trish Maguire, Cooper’s new heroine, who features in novels that are grittier and more realistic than the earlier series. Trish is a thirty-something barrister, specialising in family law. Reviews of Prey to All include: 'Trish is an engaging character, warm and human, and well drawn’ (Donna Leon, The Sunday Times); ‘Natasha Cooper possesses the ability to write some of the most dark and realistic crime novels around’ (Birmingham Post); ‘Cooper’s novels are a welcome alternative [to the violence of much recent crime fiction]: convincing and hard-hitting, they explore how ordinary people get caught up in appalling events’ (The Times); ‘Natasha Cooper is another writer who deals with real life. Trish Maguire, a lawyer, is a flesh and blood character with a likeable personality…The ending of this accomplished novel is both bitter and believable’ (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph).
In the late 1990s, Cooper decided to add an extra dimension to her writing life, looking not so much at current crime and investigation as at the long-term effects of violence on perpetrators, sufferers, and their friends and family. In order to distinguish these novels from her others, she writes them as Clare Layton. The first, Clutch of Phantoms, is a two-hander. One of the principal characters is 74-year-old Livia Claughton, just out of prison after an extended life sentence for the murder of her husband and his mistress. The other is her grand-daughter, a 27-year-old hotshot City trader, who believes her grandparents died in a car crash. Their developing relationship, as well as the friendship Livia makes with an 11-year-old arsonist, and Cass’s dealings with Christopher Bromyard, make this novel warm as well as hard-hitting.
The second Clare Layton novel (which is about Ginty Schell, a thirty-year-old freelance journalist investigating not only her own past and character, but also rape, the self-protecting instincts of the establishment and the difficulties faced by men in a world in which their traditional skills and attitudes are no longer needed) was published in paperback by HarperCollins at the end of 2001. She is now at work on her third.
In addition to her two novel-writing personae, she also reviews for a variety of newspapers and journals, including Crime Time and The Times Literary Supplement. She regularly speaks at crime-writing conferences and on the radio, and participated at a debate at the Oxford Union on the James Bulger murder. She is a member of The Unusual Suspects. In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library, an award that goes `to the author whose work has given most pleasure to readers’. Her main interests outside work lie, as readers of her early crime novels may guess, in food and wine. She is a good cook and an even better eater, and she believes that one of the greatest pleasures in life is to sit over a leisurely meal with friends, talking….a lot.

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Robert Crais The Last Detective Published September 2003 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75285 320 1
Read by James Daniels
Elvis Cole is once again coming to terms with his life as a PI on the streets of Los Angeles. He loves his girlfriend, Lucy Chenier, but his constant exposure to the California under-classes has stretched their relationship to the limit - especially when Cole’s job brings danger too close to her beloved son Ben. The young boy is rapidly becoming the light in both their lives. Perhaps if Elvis cannot be a father to him, at least he could be a mentor.
Then the demons from Elvis’s past finally come to visit. Ben is snatched from Cole’s secluded home. The kidnappers call: ‘Five-Two, I’ve got the boy, this is payback’. Who is capable of such a crime? The only clue is that ’Five-Two’ was his unit designation in Vietnam - a life that he has avoided thinking about for over twenty years. But now he must embark on a journey into his own past to try to protect his future.
For it seems that this kidnapper is not only someone who knows him, but someone who owes him ...
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 4 hrs Abridged by Jan Nowasky Directed by Laura Grafton
About The Author
Robert Crais was born in Louisiana and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. He is the author of ten previous novels, including the bestsellers, Demolition Angel and the Edgar-nominated L.A. Requiem. He has two additional Edgar nominations and Anthony and Macavity Awards for his Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels. In addition to his novels, Crais has written scripts for L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues. Demolition Angel has been purchased by the producer of Jerry Maguire and is in development as a major motion picture.

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Jeffery Deaver The Vanished Man Published June 2003 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł0.00 ISBN: 1-84032-463 5
Read by Kerry Shale
A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protégée to ferret out a master illusionist they’ve dubbed `the conjurer’ who baits them with gruesome murders. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
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: approx. 2 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 Mistress of Justice 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 Laurence Bouvard
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in a Wall Street law firm and her evenings playing jazz piano anywhere she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece asks her help locate a stolen document that could cost him the multimillion dollar case he’s defending ... and his career.
Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant man, Taylor agrees, but as she delves deeper into life behind Hubbard, White & Willis’ closed doors, she uncovers more than she wants to know. She discovers secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn who would resort to such extremes.
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
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 Vanished Man Published August 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 Jeff Harding
Forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner and lover Amelia Sachs face an unstoppable killer with sinister tricks up his sleeve.
When a killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom, the police have him surrounded within minutes. A scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. The ambitious Sachs, and the quadriplegic Rhyme, must work together to ferret out a master illusionist they’ve dubbed ‘the conjurer’, who baits them with gruesome murders. As the fatalities rise, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
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. 14 hrs
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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Martin Edwards Take My Breath Away Published November 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 Gordon Griffin
A gripping psychological thriller from a master of the legal mystery Lawyer turned writer Nic Gabriel is intrigued by his friend’s cryptic story about the connections between several strange and sudden deaths; he can’t resist the opportunity to meet with Dylan Rees and hear some more. But at Dylan’s glitzy party, Nic can only watch in horror as his friend is murdered by the ex-girlfriend who had apparently committed suicide over him five years before. Stunned by the brutal attack, Nic vows to discover the meaning behind his friend’s enigmatic tale.
Meanwhile, Roxanne Wake is thrilled to be starting her new job at Creed, the country’s leading human rights law firm. It is a dream opportunity for a young lawyer, but Roxanne has a secret that she dare not tell her new employers - she is determined to keep her past hidden at all costs.
After graduating from The Rose Bruford College, Gordon Griffin worked extensively in the theatre. On TV he has appeared in A Family at War, When the Boat Comes In and Playschool and more recently The Fragile Heart and Byker Grove. His film credits include The Likely Lads, Killing Time and The Gingerbread House. He has recorded almost 200 audiobooks including an award-winning recording of A Tale of Two Cities.
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About The Author
Martin Edwards Born at Knutsford, Cheshire (setting for Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford") in 1955. Educated at a grammar school in Northwich and at Balliol College, Oxford University, taking a first class honours degree in law in 1977. Trained as a solicitor in Leeds and moved to Liverpool on qualifying in 1980. Published first legal article at the age of 25 and first text book - on the legal aspects of buying a business computer - at 27. Became a partner in the firm of Mace & Jones in 1984, Married with two children; now living in Lymm.
WRITING CAREER
My writing falls into four categories:-

Crime Fiction
I have published five novels about the Liverpool solicitor and amateur detective, Harry Devlin. The first, All The Lonely People, was published by Piatkus in 1991 and was short-listed for the John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of the year (the eventual winner was Walter Mosley). I am currently working on the sixth, The Devil In Disguise. Short stories about Harry Devlin have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and in various anthologies and I have also used the short form to experiment with a wide variety of other types of crime story.
Crime Anthologies
I conceived and edited two anthologies of crime writing, fact and fiction, for the Northern Chapter of the Crime Writers Association: Northern Blood (Didsbury Press;1992) and Northern Blood 2 (Flambard Press;1995). I co-edited with Robert Church a similar volume for the East Anglian Chapter; Anglian Blood (Rampant Horse Press;1995). I was then asked to take over as editor of the national CWA anthology, which had failed to find a publisher during 1995. I decided to establish a new series, with the stories in each volume linked by a common theme. Perfectly Criminal (Severn House) appeared in December 1996 and will be followed in 1997 by Whydunit?
Writing About Crime Fiction
I have written about and reviewed crime fiction for a wide variety of magazines, including Folio, CADS and MILLION. In addition, I have had essays published in 100 Great Detectives (ed. Maxim Jakubowski), Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers (third ed. Lesley Henderson; fourth ed. as St. James Guide To Crime & Mystery Writers Jay P. Pedersen) and the forthcoming Oxford Companion To Crime & Mystery Writing (ed. Rosemary Herbert) .
Legal Writing
I have published six legal books (one as co-author) as well as over 400 articles for newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Times, Good Housekeeping, Car Mechanics, International Management and Amateur Gardening. I have also contributed to a number of multiple-author textbooks, mainly on my specialist subject of employment law.

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