File Updated: 23/10/2005

Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2005
Jonathon King Shadow Men Published February 2005 by ISIS at £17.99 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 £2.50 or £3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Adam Sims
80 years ago, three men – a father and his two sons – vanished without trace whilst working as labourers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Florida Everglades. Years later, a series of letters is discovered by a descendent of these men. Eager to find out what happened, he starts asking questions – and is quickly stonewalled. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists the help of ex-cop Max Freeman.
Living in his isolated shack on an ancient river in the Glades, Max begins his investigation and is surprised to meet resistance at every turn. The search for the truth quickly turns violent - and Max finds that he has more to worry about than just 80-year-old ghosts. There are powerful interests that want to make certain that the shadows of the past remain undisturbed.
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.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Jonathon King is the author of A Visible Darkness and The Blue Edge of Midnight, a Los Angeles Times bestseller and winner of the Edgar Award. A journalist for over twenty years, he has covered crime and criminal courts and is now a national award-winning feature writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinal

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Pat McIntosh The Harper's Quine Published February 2005 by Soundings at £18.99 Buy direct from Soundings: order number (UK) 0191 253 4155 N.B. P&P £2.50 or £3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Kenny Blyth
Murder in the cathedral in medieval Glasgow
Enjoying the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gilbert Cunningham, notary-in-training, sees not only the woman who is going to be murdered, but her murderer as well.
Gil is a recently qualified lawyer whose family still expect him to enter the priesthood. When he finds the body of a young woman in the new building at Glasgow Cathedral, he is asked to investigate. He identifies the corpse as the May Day harper’s mistress and runaway wife of a cruel nobleman, John Semphill. Together with Maistre Pierre, the French master-mason contracted to work on the new building, Gil begins asking questions and seeking a murder weapon in the lanes and yards of the city.
On a trail that includes a second murder and a trip to the Isle of Bute, the plot twists and turns in an entertaining and gripping whodunit.
Kenny Blyth is from Peebles in the Scottish Borders. He trained at Queen Maragaret’s college in Edinburgh, and upon graduating, won the BBC Radio Carleton Hobbs Bursary award 2000. he spent 9 months on the BBC Radio Drama company, being involved in over one hundred radio plays. He continues to enjoy working in radio, voice-overs and television.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Pat McIntosh, like Gil Cunningham, is a graduate of Glasgow University. Born and brought up in Lanarkshire, for many years she worked in Glasgow and is now settled on the West Coast with a husband, three cats and a daughter.

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Ian Rankin Jackie Leven Said Published May 2005 by Orion Audio at £12.99 ISBN: 0-75287 224 9
In Concert - CD Version
Live at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, August 2004. Ian Rankin reads his story Jackie Leven Said, with musical interludes by Jackie (and Michael Cosgrave, keyboards, Deborah Greenwood, vocals), including whole songs by Jackie and Michael which illustrate or illuminate moments in the story. Eight studio songs arc also included
Jackie Leven - is the maverick creator of a long series of critically acclaimed albums, starting with five albums from his legendary (and notorious) rock band Doll By Doll, and continuing on Cooking Vinyl, beginning with The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death (with Mike Scott and Robert Bly), the latest being 2003’s Shining Brother Shining Sister.
Ian Rankin - is the wildly successful Scottish author of a long series of crime novels, featuring D.I. John Rebus, the hard-drinking, hard-thinking, bar-frequenting Edinburgh cop whose approach to the ‘forensics of the soul’ and crime-solving has a near mystical quality. Ian’s books continue to sell in their millions all over the world, his latest ‘Rebus’ novel being 2004’s Fleshmarket Close.
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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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Alexander McCall Smith The Sunday Philosophy Club Published February 2005 by ISIS at £17.99 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 £2.50 or £3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Hilary Neville
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. She edits the Review of Applied Ethics and hosts ‘The Sunday Philosophy Club’ at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city’s Georgian facades, its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert didn’t fall. He was pushed.
With his character, Isabel Dalhousie, Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. As Isabel’s hero, W. H. Auden, maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well.
Hilary Neville was born in Glasgow and read history at Cambridge University before pursuing a publishing career for eight years. After training at Webber Douglas Academy she worked in theatre, TV and radio. Now based in Edinburgh, Hilary has recorded many short stories for the BBC, also dramas, book serialisations and numerous voice-overs. She is a narrator for Sky TV’s History Channel and enjoys performing words-and-music programmes all over Scotland.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs
About The Author
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over forty books, including Heavenly Date and, most recently, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, both works of fiction. His collection of African stories, Children of Wax, received high critical acclaim and has been the subject of an award-winning film.

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Boris Starling Vodka Published February 2005 by ISIS at £24.99 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 £2.50 or £3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Peter Marinker
A taut, shocking story of vengeance, bloodshed and love Moscow, December 1991. Chaos reigns after the fall of Communism. Muscovites are used to queues and empty shelves, but now they have to cope with a dangerous power vacuum and a war between brutal mafiya gangs for control of the city. So when a child’s body is found beneath the ice of the Moscow River, it attracts little attention to begin with. Then a second body is found. And a third.
At the heart of the gathering storm is Red October, Russia’s most famous vodka distillery. Alice Liddel, an American banker, has come to oversee its privatisation, but she has to contend with the charismatic, ruthless Lev - distillery director and mafiya boss. Lev’s archenemy has vowed revenge, and it seems that the bizarre child killings might be a part of this. The last thing Lev needs is a determined young woman in the heart of his criminal empire.
Peter Marinker is a well seasoned actor, performing not only in Great Britain but also in various productions in Canada.
He has taken many roles on stage, as well as appearing in film and television, including episodes of Z-Cars and Casualty. He has also worked extensively in radio.
17 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 21 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Boris Starling graduated with a First from Cambridge and went on to an illustrious career with the Control Risk organisation which specialises in kidnap negotiation, political risk analysis and clandestine investigations. Boris was the youngest ever semi-finalist in the BBC’s Mastermind: his specialist subjects were Tintin and the novels of Dick Francis.

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Robert Wilson The Silent and the Damned Published February 2005 by ISIS at £20.99 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 £2.50 or £3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Sean Barrett
Disturbing. Sensual. Haunting. Mario Vega is seven years old and his life is about to change forever. Across the street in an exclusive suburb of Seville, his father lies dead on the kitchen floor and his mother has been suffocated under her own pillow. It appears to be a suicide pact, but Inspector Javier Falcon has his doubts when he finds an enigmatic note crushed in the dead man’s hand.
In the brutal summer heat, Falcon starts to dismantle the obscure life of Rafael Vega, only to receive threats from the Russian mafia. His investigation into Vega’s neighbours uncovers an American couple with a destructive past and the misery of a famous actor whose only son is in prison for an appalling crime.
Falcon’s efforts at finding the truth reveal that everything is connected and that there is one more secret in the black heart of Vega’s life.
Sean Barrett began his acting career as a child for the BBC and has since made numerous television appearances including roles in Z Cars, Minder, Tales of the Unexpected and Father Ted. He played alongside Noël Coward in the West End and has had film parts in War and Peace, Dunkirk and Sons and Lovers.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Robert Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising and trading in. He has travelled in Asia and Africa and has lived in Greece and West Africa and he draws on this experience for his Bruce Medway novels. He is married and writes from an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.

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