Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Agatha Christie Murder Is Easy Published February 2004 by HarperCollins Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-00-7170483
Read by Hugh Fraser
Complete and unabridged
Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English, village of Wychwood - or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line.
But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think so - until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby..
‘Contains some clever plotting and enough casting of suspicion to keep you guessing like mad ‘ Books
‘One of Agatha Christie’s best mystery novels, a story fascinating in its plot, clever and lively in its characters and brilliant in its technique’ New York Times
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
About The Author
Agatha Christie at work

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the garden and imagine things. It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises, dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a great love of the desert.'
In 1950 Agatha Christie celebrated the publication of her fiftieth detective novel. Messages of congratulation came to her from many eminent people, including Mr C. R. Attlee, then Prime Minister, who wrote: "I admire and delight in the ingenuity of Agatha Christie's mind and in her capacity to keep a secret until she is ready to divulge it. And I admire, also, another of her qualities, one that is not always possessed by those who produce detective stories, her ability clearly and simply to write the English language."
Born in Torquay, she was encouraged to write by Eden Phillpotts, the famous Devonshire playwright; her first book was rejected by several publishers before it was published in 1920. The wife of a distinguished archaeologist (Professor Max Mallowan of Lodon University), she assisted him in his excavations in Iraq, where he made remarkable discoveries. They lived in a Georgian house overlooking the River Dart.

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Agatha Christie Lord Edgware Dies Published January 2004 by HarperCollins Audio at Ł15.99 ISBN: 0-00-717745 3
Read by Hugh Fraser
CD Version - Complete and Unabridged
Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to get rid of her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride.
After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Agatha Christie at work

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Harlan Coben Darkest Fear Published June 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75286 133 6
Read by Tim Machin
Life isn’t going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and his father has recently suffered a heart attack when, out of the blue, Myron’s college sweetheart, Emily, appears. Her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by a bone-marrow transplant from a donor who has vanished without trace. Then Emily reveals even more shocking news: Jeremy is Myron’s son, conceived the night before Emily’s wedding to another man.
Staggered by the revelation, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor - and gets caught up in a brutal kidnapping and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI.
‘Coben’s genius ... is that he makes it all seem so obvious, then kicks your legs away before the end’ - FHM
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: 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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Harlan Coben One False Move Published January 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75286 119 0
Read by Tim Machin
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he’s about to find out if he’s man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
Twenty years before, Brenda’s mother deserted her. And just as Brenda is making it to the top of the women’s pro basketball world, her father disappears too. A major New York sports agent with a foundering love life, Myron has a professional interest in Brenda. Then it develops into a personal one. But between them isn’t just the difference in backgrounds or the colour of their skin. Between them is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young mafioso on the make, and one secret that some people are dying to keep - and others are killing to protect ...
`The combination of Harlan Coben’s suspenseful thrillers and Tim Machin’s panicky, urgent reading is now my favourite escapist listening’Christina Hardyment, Independent
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 20 mins 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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Michael Connelly The Narrows Published May 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75286 666 4
Read by David Soul
Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is in South Dakota when she gets the call she’s been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her.
Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a new father. He gets a call, too - from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. That fact makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious.
Harry Bosch finds himself square in the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered.
This story contains strong and sexually explicit language, and some scenes described may be disturbing.
`David Soul’s gorgeous, gritty voice could exfoliate an iguana and the plot is convoluted and highly satisfactory ...’ Independent (about the audio of Lost Light)
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: 5 hrs 20 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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Jeffery Deaver Garden of Beasts Published September 2004 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1-84032-794 4
Read by Kerry Shale
Paul Schumann, a German-American living ii New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known equally for his brilliant tactics and to taking only ‘righteous’ jobs. But when a hit goes wrong and Schumann is nabbed, he’s offered a stark choice: kill Reinhard Ernst, the man behind Hitler’s rearmament scheme, and walk free forever, or be sent to Sing-Sing for a life sentence or the electric chair.
The instant Paul sets foot in Berlin his mission becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, with danger and betrayal lurking everywhere. For the next 48 hours, as the city prepares for the coming summer Olympics, Schumann stalks Ernst, while a dogged criminal police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for the American . . .
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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Martin Edwards Take My Breath Away Pbk published July 2004 by Allison & Busby at Ł6.99

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.

About The Author
Martin Edwards Born at Knutsford, Cheshire (setting for Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford") and educated in Northwich and at Balliol College, Oxford University, taking a first class honours degree in law. 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 book - about 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. Member of the Murder Squad collective of crime writers and chairman of the nominations sub-committee for the CWA Diamond Dagger.
WRITING CAREER
My writing falls into six categories:-

Crime Novels
I have published seven novels set in Liverpool and featuring solicitor Harry Devlin. The first, All The Lonely People, was short-listed for the John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of the year (the eventual winner was Walter Mosley). In 2002 I published a stand-alone psychological suspense novel, Take My Breath Away and my latest book, The Coffin Trail, is the first in a new series set in the Lake District whose principal characters are a historian and a police officer. In addition, I completed The Lazarus Widow, the final novel by the late Bill Knox featuring his popular Thane and Moss.
Crime Short Stories
My short mystery stories have appeared in a wide range of anthologies edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Mike Ashley, Rosemary Herbert, Jurgen Ehlers, Anne Perry and others, as well as in magazines in England, USA and Japan. The stories collected in Where Do You Find Your Ideas? and other stories (which features an introduction by Reginald Hill) divide into three groups: Harry Devlin stories, historical mysteries (including Sherlockian pastiches) and contemporary suspense stories. Recently, ’24 Hours from Tulsa’ appeared in The Best British Mysteries.
Crime Anthologies
I conceived and edited three anthologies of crime writing, fact and fiction, for the Northern Chapter of the Crime Writers Association: Northern Blood , Northern Blood 2 and Northern Blood 3 . I co-edited with Robert Church a similar volume for the East Anglian Chapter; Anglian Blood . In 1995 I was asked to take over as editor of the national CWA anthology and decided to establish a new series, with the stories in each volume linked by a common theme. So far there have been eight volumes in the series (the current publishers are the Do-Not Press), and it has yielded several CWA Dagger winners and nominees. In 2003 I edited a special volume, Mysterious Pleasures, to celebrate the CWA’s Golden Jubilee. The previous year I edited Murder Squad, an anthology of collective members’ fiction with an introduction by Val McDermid. .
Writing About Crime Fiction
I have written about and reviewed detective novels for numerous publications. Currently I write a a regular column for Sherlock. 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 ed.Jay P. Pedersen) The Great Good Place? (ed. Peter Nover), Oxford Companion To Crime & Mystery Writing (ed. Rosemary Herbert) and Oxford Good Fiction Guide (ed. Jane Rogers).
True Crime
As well as occasional articles about true crime cases, I have written an illustrated book on how the police take a homicide case from crime scene to court. Its titles are: Catching Killers, Urge to Kill, and Motive to Murder, depending on whether you look at the UK, US or Australian editions!
Legal Writing
I have published seven legal books (two 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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Nicci French Land of the Living Published May 2004 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 Anne Flosnik
Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded, bound at her hands and feet. She doesn’t know where she is or how she got there. A man she never sees feeds her and talks to her. He promises to keep her alive for now, but says he will kill her - like the others.
But Abbie has spirit, strength and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds she is alone, tells herself stories, remembers her life, talks to her captor and plots her survival. Above all, she dreams of returning to normal, everyday life - the land of the living.
Anne Flosnik narrates audiobooks for the Library of Congress as well as for several commercial audiobook publishers in the USA. A native of Great Britain, she utilizes numerous accents with ease. Anne’s work has garnered a Listen Up award, as well as an American Library Association Notable Children’s Recording award.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs
About The Author
Nicci French is a journalist who lives in Suffolk. She is the author of six bestselling novels.

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John MacLachian Gray The Fiend in Human Published February 2004 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 Patrick Romer
London, 1852: the capital city of crime, where murder and hangings are public entertainment, where reporters and balladeers battle to scoop the next grisly, exclusive revelation.
Awaiting execution, is the celebrated William Ryan, known as Chokee Bill, whose stranglings have set the capital abuzz. Balladeer Henry Owler has extracted a True Confession from the killer that should make his fortune, except that Ryan has claimed that he is innocent, saying that the real Fiend is still on the loose.
Enlisting the help of investigative journalist Edmund Whitty, Owler sets about saving the life of Chokee Bill, attempting to discover the real murderer before he strikes again. But fate has some twists in store and the killer is closer than they can ever suspect.
Patrick Romer has had a love of words, language and poetry since a young boy. He was born in Hong Kong, where he worked as a radio announcer and producer. He returned to England to train at Drama College. He has been a professional actor since 1975, playing everything from panto in Crewe to Shakespeare with the RSC. He has enjoyed being a reader for the RNIB since the 1980s. Patrick lives in Devon with his wife and daughter.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
John Maclachlan Gray As well as being a novelist John MacLachlan Gray is a many times award-winning writer and composer for stage film and television, including the phenomenally successful Billy Bishop Goes to War. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Patricia Hall Dead Reckoning Published February 2004 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 Michael Tudor Barnes
An Ackroyd and Thackeray Mystery
The future of Earnshaw’s mill hangs in the balance. Staff cuts need to be made and the union is threatening strike action. With racial tensions already high, mass redundancies at the heart of Bradfield’s Muslim community could cause even more trouble. Problems spiral out of control when Simon Earnshaw is found murdered and DCI Michael Thackeray and his team set about an investigation.
Meanwhile, Thackeray’s girlfriend, reporter Laura Ackroyd, is investigating the problems faced by the Muslim community - arranged marriages and strict religious codes. She is alerted to the case of Saira Kham, a promising student who appears to have gone missing. Despite assurances from her family that Saira is safe, her friends have been unable to contact her and are worried.
Industrial and race relations continue to deteriorate and it isn’t long before violence spills onto the streets of Bradfield ...
After reading Classics at London University Michael Tudor Barnes trained at RADA for five years was a member of the National Theatre Company. He has also worked with the RSC, has played leading roles both home and abroad and has and over 600 radio broadcasts to his credit. Television work includes The Bill and Softly, Softly, but he is probably best known to viewers as Willy Roper in EastEnders.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs
About The Author
Patricia Hall is the pseudonym of journalist Maureen O'Connor who was brought up in the area of West Yorkshire she uses as the background to her crime novels.
She is the daughter of a headmaster and was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and Birmingham University, where she read English Literature and edited the student newspaper. She moved into a career in journalism, on the staff of The Guardian, the London Evening Standard and the BBC and freelancing for a range of newspapers and magazines, radio and TV programmes, mainly as a writer on education. The Poison Pool, her first novel, was published in 1991.
She is married and has two grown-up sons and now lives in Oxford.

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Mick Herron Down Cemetary Road Published June 2004 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 Anna Bentinck
Sarah Tucker - a young married woman, bored and unhappy with her life - becomes obsessed with trying to find a little girl who disappears after a neighbouring house is destroyed by a massive explosion. She is soon left wondering if she has ever known the truth about anything as her attempts at investigation reveal that people she thought long dead are still alive and those living are fast joining the dead.
What begins in suburban south Oxford ends on a remote and unwelcoming Scottish island. The hunt for the missing child takes Sarah out of her marriage and onto a journey with a troubled ex-soldier who is on the run from murderous and apparently official enemies.
A brooding sense that there are secret forces ranged against her make this story of a young woman caught in a web of deception powerful and dramatic.
Anna Bentinck has made over 800 broadcasts for BBC radio. Her animation voice work includes the series 64 Zoo Lane, while on TV she has played Mary Dickens in Charles Dickens and Mary Rutherford in the Marie Curie series. On film she has been seen in The Trojan Women, Alice in Wonderland and To the Devil a Daughter.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Mick Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and was educated there and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a degree in English literature. After graduation he made Oxford his home, although he now commutes into London. Down Cemetery Road is his first novel.

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Joyce Holms Payment Deferred Published January 2004 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 James Bryce
Murray Kinston has served three years for molesting his daughter. He now claims he was framed and his only hope of getting her back is an old friend, solicitor Tam Buchanan.
In Tam’s view the friendship ended the day Murray was convicted, but his new assistant has other ideas. When Buchanan first met ‘Fizz’, he was fooled by her innocent appearance and convinced she would be unable to stand the pace of his busy Edinburgh office. But her cherubic looks belie the reality - soon to be a law student, she’s bright and single-minded with a talent for making people talk.
Tam finds himself helping Fizz to dig into Murray’s past and she is soon convinced she knows who set him up - but then a development permanently rules out her suspect and she begins to wonder if her confidence in his innocence is entirely justified.
James Bryce has over fifteen years’ experience in voice work, including children’s readings, commercial story tapes, voice-over work and over 150 broadcasts for the BBC. Whilst television credits include The Bill, Take the High Road and Taggart, he has also worked extensively in theatre and is a composer of music in the fields of theatre, jazz-rock, folk and brass band.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs
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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