Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Jack Kerley The Hundredth Man Published August 2004 by HarperCollins Audio at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0-00-719244 4
Read by Kerry Shale
A headless male torso is found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night. The victim is believed to be a prostitute, murdered in a moment of passion. But Carson Ryder, a detective famous for solving a series of brutal murders the previous year, sees something else: the deliberate placing of the body, the lack of blood, the bizarre writing on the skin.
Another torso, another, even stranger, message - and the victim this time is no prostitute. There is a darkness at the heart of these killings which speaks of a psychopath out there in the night. It seems to Ryder, though, that obstacles are deliberately being placed in the way of the investigation and he and his partner decide to go it alone.
But Ryder is himself harbouring a terrible secret. As he hunts a killer, the demons from his own childhood rise again to torment him.
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. 4 hrs Abridged by John Nicholl

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Caroline Lawrence The Secrets of Vesuvius Published July 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0-75286694 X
Read by Michael Praed Michael Praed attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He played Jesus in Godspell at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, Frederick in the West End production of The Pirates of Penzance, starred in a Broadway remake of Ziegfeld’s The Three Musketeers and appeared as Alex in Trevor Nunn’s production of Aspects of Love. Michael recently toured in Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife. Television work includes Robin in Robin of Sherwood and Jake Lovell in The Riders.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs 20 mins Abridged by Patricia Saunders Produced by Kevin Hanssen
About The Author
Caroline Lawrence is American. She grew up in California and came to England when she won a scholarship to Cambridge to study Classical Archaeology, which she followed with a degree in Hebrew and Jewish studies at the University of London. She lives by the river in London with her husband, a graphic designer.

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Caroline Lawrence The Gladiators from Capua Published June 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0-75286 692 3
Read by Michael Beck
It’s March AD 80.
In Rome the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open his new Flavian amphitheatre (now known as the Colosseum). Suspecting that their friend Jonathan is not dead, as they had thought, Flavia, Nubia and Lupus organize an invitation to Rome on the pretence of witnessing this historic event.
Their search for Jonathan leads them straight to the games, where they must face wild beasts, criminals, conspirators and gladiators. It’s Nubia’s turn to employ all her courage and talents, and before the end of the story she is called upon to make the most terrible choice.
A heart-pounding behind-the-scenes account of gladiator fights, executions and beast fights makes this one of the most exciting Roman Mysteries yet.
Michael Beck is a well-known American actor. His film credits include The Warriors and Xanadu. He has made numerous television appearances and has read several John Grisham audiobooks including A Time to Kill, The Chamber, The Runaway Jury, The Rainmaker and The Partner.
2 Cassettes Running Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Abridged by Patricia Saunders Produced by Kevin Hanssen
About The Author
Caroline Lawrence is American. She grew up in California and came to England when she won a scholarship to Cambridge to study Classical Archaeology, which she followed with a degree in Hebrew and Jewish studies at the University of London. She lives by the river in London with her husband, a graphic designer.

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Robert Ludlum The Bourne Identity Published June 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75286 684 2
Read by Jeff Harding
He has no past. And he may not have a future. All he knows is that he was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence shows that plastic surgery has altered his face. Implanted beneath the skin on his hip is a frame of microfilm. And on the film is a number which leads to a bank account in Zurich, the name Jason Bourne ... and four million dollars.
Suddenly Bourne is the target of assassins, and at the heart of a deadly puzzle. In a world of murderous conspirators, he’s fighting for survival as he tries to uncover the layers of his buried past. No one can help him — except the one woman who once wanted to escape him.
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.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 30 mins Abridged by Cathy Douglas Produced by Nicholas Hanssen
About The Author
Robert Ludlum is the author of 24 novels, published in 32 languages in 40 countries, and at one time was the bestselling author in the world with his blend of sophisticated plotting and extreme pace. There are more than 210 million copies of his books in print.

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Robert Ludlum Bourne Supremacy Published July 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75286 796 2
Read by Jeff Harding
Terror is sweeping the globe. The Vice-Premier of the People’s Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and world leaders are asking questions:
Why has Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who will be his next target?
US officials know a shocking truth: there is no Jason Bourne. There never was. But someone has resurrected the name, and if he is not stopped, the world will pay a devastating price.
Jason Bourne must live again. He must utilise his murderous skills as, once more, he is plunged into a dangerous world. This time, the will to survive is not enough. This time, Bourne must reign supreme ...
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.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 10 mins Abridged by Cathy Douglas Produced by Kevin Hanssen
About The Author
Robert Ludlum is the author of 24 novels, published in 32 languages in 40 countries, and at one time was the bestselling author in the world with his blend of sophisticated plotting and extreme pace. There are more than 210 million copies of his books in print.

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Michael Malone Time's Witness Published May 2004 by ISIS at Ł24.99 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
Murder and sleaze, but not much Southern comfort in this old town ...
If times have changed in Hillston, North Carolina, it’s only on the surface. Officially, prejudice may be having a harder time but the ghosts of the Old South sleep lightly. A young black man is on Death Row, and the invisible empire of the Klan is again rearing its very ugly head. At the same time, a dirty tricks campaign is mounting against the womanising candidate for state governor - who also happens to be the husband of Hillston’s chief of police’s one true love ...
The resulting tale is funny, potent and chilling and gives a second chance to meet two of crime fiction’s most engaging characters, the aristocratic and charming Detective Justin Savile V, and his wisecracking partner, Cuddy Mangum.
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.
18 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 21 hrs 25 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 Return of the Dancing Master Published May 2004 by ISIS at Ł22.99 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
The Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award has produced his finest work to date
Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of Harjedalen in northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: the tango and a conviction that someone is after him. He has no close friends, no close neighbours, and by the time his body is found, Molin is almost unrecognisable.
Stefan Lindman, a police officer on extended sick leave, hears of the death of his former colleague and, to take his mind off his own problems, decides to involve himself in the case. What he discovers, to his horror and disbelief, is a network of evil almost unimaginable in this remote district, and one which seems impossible to link to Molin’s death.
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.
14 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 15 hrs 55 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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Henning Mankell The White Lioness Published February 2004 by ISIS at Ł20.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Sean Barrett
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award
In peaceful southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate.
Immediately, Wallander has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no conception of how far he will have to go in search of the killer and the origin of the crime.
Wallander and his associates find themselves caught up in a conspiracy involving renegade members of South Africa’s secret service and a former KGB agent, all of them set upon halting the recently freed Nelson Mandela from rising to power. In an increasingly globalised world, in which terrorism knows no frontiers, Wallander must work with colleagues in South Africa to prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.
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. 15 hrs 40 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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Val McDermid The Distant Echo Published April 2004 by HarperCollins Audio at Ł13.99 ISBN: 0-00-717879 4
Read by Peter Capaldi
Some Things Just Won’t Let You Go.
The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl’s body in the snow, her blood scarlet against the white ground...
Four a.m. on a freezing Fife morning and four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman lying in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later the police mount a `cold case’ review of Rosie’s unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when one of them dies in a suspicious house fire and another in a burglary gone bad, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice. For the remaining two there is only one way to avoid becoming the next victim - find Who really killed Rosie all those years ago.
`A powerful psychological thriller ... atmospheric and complex’ Express
‘A classic... McDermid pulls out all the stops. Impeccable’ Guardian
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs Abridged by Kati Nicholl
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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Val McDermid The Torment of Others Published June 2004 by HarperCollins Audio at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0-00-718476 X
Read by Colin Buchanan
On a blood-soaked mattress lies a dead prostitute, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago - murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of Derek Tyler.
But there’s no way Tyler could have killed the latest victim. He’s been locked up in a mental institution since his trial, barely speaking a word. So is there a copycat? All his years of experience tell top criminal psychologist Dr Tony Hill that there isn’t - but that would make the murders literally impossible. While Hill tries to crack Tyler, DCI Carol Jordan and her team mount a desperate undercover operation to trap the murderer, a decision that will have terrible consequences.
Now Tony Hill is prepared to think the unthinkable. And his incredible theory will lead him into a terrifying face-off with one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered ...
‘McDermid’s capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing’ The Times
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs Abridged by Kati Nicholl
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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James Patterson The Big Bad Wolf Published February 2004 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 Garrick Hagon
Alex Cross’s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom. They are being bought and sold. It seems that a shadowy predator known only as ‘The Wolf’ is behind this terrible trade, bringing a new reign of terror to organised crime.
Alex eventually grows impatient with the FBI’s clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track his new prey and to rescue some of the victims. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancée, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.
Garrick Hagon's many films include Batman, Star Wars, Cry Freedom, A Bridge Too Far, The Message and Antony and Cleopatra. On British TV he has been seen in A Perfect Spy and Oppenheimer. He has also worked extensively in English Theatre, including appearances at the National Theatre in After the Fall, and in the West End in All My Sons. On BBC radio he is a familiar reader of novels and short stories.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 15 mins
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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Ian Rankin A Good Hanging Vol 2 Published February 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0-75286 045 3
Read by James Macpherson
Four stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus and set in Edinburgh - a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accident and long hidden jealousy.
In The Gentleman’s Club, Rebus battles with the dilemma: in a suicide, who was to blame and who was the victim. In Tit for Tat, he tries to explain an arson attack on a seemingly innocent bird watcher. Monstrous Trumpet investigates an art theft and a crime of passion, with a little help from Inspector Cluzeau. And in Being Frank, Rebus’s friend Frank the tramp alerts Rebus to a Council of War ...
‘[His] consistent level of excellence is unmatched in the field of British crime fiction’ Marcel Berlins, The Times
As well as many stage and screen roles, Macpherson has been DCI Jardine in Taggart for thirteen years.
2 Cassettes Running Time: 2 hrs 40 mins Abridged by Elspeth Santa Clara Produced by Nicholas Jones
About The Author
In His Own Words…

Born in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland In 1960. Attended local comprehensive school, then went on to University of Edinburgh. MA in English Literature (specialising in US Literature). Then started studying towards a PhD in the Modern Scottish Novel, but wrote my own stuff instead. Early "successes" were with poetry and the short story. One story raged out of control and became, my first novel, The Flood.
Married in 1986 and moved to London. Worked as a secretary at the National Folktale Centre, then as a journalist (rising to acting editor) on monthly music magazine hi-fi Review. Dropped out in 1990 and moved to the French countryside. This pastoral idyll failed to stop me writing dark, dark fictions.
Was elected a Hawthornden Fellow in 1988. Won Chandler-Fullbright Award in 1992. Won CWA Short Story Dagger in 1994 (or was it '95?); same story shortlisted for 1995 Anthony award. Won the Short Story 'Dagger' again in 1996, and celebrated by moving back to Scotland.
Two sons, Jack and Kit. Er.....that's it.

Ian Rankin is the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh.
A contributor to BBC2’s ‘Newsnight Review’, he also presented his own TV series ‘Ian Rankin’s Evil Thoughts’, on Channel 4 in 2002. His most recent novel, Resurrection Men, was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller in both hardback and paperback. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh.

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