Audio - Crime 2006
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Sam Bourne The Righteous Men Published August 2006 by HarperCollins Audio at £15.99 ISBN: 0-00-724388 X
Read by Kerry Shale
Two murders at opposite ends of America, one in the back streets of New York, the other in the backwoods of Montana. A series of killings in every corner of the globe, from the crowded slums of India to the pristine beaches of Cape Town. There can’t possibly be a connection.
That’s the instinct of Will Monroe, a young, British-born reporter on The New York Times until the morning his beautiful wife Beth is kidnapped. Holding her are men who seem ready to kill without hesitation.
Desperate, Will follows a trail that leads to a mysterious sect right on his own doorstep - fervent followers of one of mankind’s oldest faiths. He will have to break through multiple layers of mysticism and ancient prophecy, unearthing riddles buried deep in the bible - until he finds the secret that is said to have animated the world for thousands of years, a secret on which the fate of humanity may depend. But with more murders by the hour, and each clue wrapped in layers of code, time is, running out...
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.
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie The Mysterious Mr. Quin Published June 2006 by HarperCollins Audio at £17.99 ISBN: 0007212585
Read by Hugh Fraser
The Complete Book
Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light - and when he does appear it's usually in the sparkle of sunshine, or surrounded by a spectrum of coloured light pouring through a stained glass window...
In fact, the only consistent thing about the Mysterious Mr Quin is that his presence is always a harbinger of love ... or death.
‘The acknowledged queen of detective fiction’ Observer
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs
About The Author
Agatha Christie at workAgatha 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 Parker Pyne Investigates Published August 2006 by HarperCollins Audio at £15.99 ISBN: 0-00-721259 3
Read by Hugh Fraser
The Complete Book
Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond Street
Without fail, the advert appears in the personal column of the morning paper - courtesy of the ‘heart specialist’ Mr Parker Pyne.
The forlorn, the anxious and the puzzled have all beaten a path to the small, balding ex-civil servant’s office, where, armed with just an intuitive knowledge of human nature and a small retinue of talented employees, like some conjurer he turns their fantasies into reality - for a modest fee, payable in advance…
`Crimes of the heart were his forte’ Observer
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
About The Author
Agatha Christie at workAgatha 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 Spider's Web Published August 2006 by HarperCollins Audio at £15.99 ISBN: 0-00-721167 8
Read by Hugh Fraser
The Complete Book
Adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. ‘Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?’ she muses.
She has the chance to find out when she discovers a body... in her drawing room. Desperate to dispose of it, she attempts to persuade her house guests to become accessories and accomplices. Now, as the search begins for the murderer in their midst, supposing a police inspector arrives…
`I found myself turning the pages with mounting impatience ... Osborne has again enhanced the original’ David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs
About The Author
Agatha Christie at workAgatha 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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Barbara Cleverly The Bee's Kiss Published March 2006 by Soundings at £19.99 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 Terry Wale
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award Winner
It is 1926 and Joe Sandilands is back from India, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. But post-war gaiety soon wears off when Scotland Yard ask Joe to conduct a swift enquiry.
Dame Beatrice Joliffe, a much-respected member of the British establishment has been bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. This Dame was no tweed-wearing fusty type - Beatrice wore evening gowns by Lanvin and perfume by Caron; she drank cocktails and had a younger lover. But it seems that death dogged her footsteps and Joe finds himself investigating the apparent suicides of three young women who had been close to her. When his superiors unexpectedly tell him to close the case and surrender the file, Joe is forced to battle on alone.
Fighting pressure from unseen government forces, he picks his way round the political panic and hostile authorities through to a shattering solution.
A Londoner by birth, Terry made his debut as a professional actor at the age of thirteen. He has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre Company. He is also a director and writer, having won a London Theatre Critics Award nomination for his musical play Judy. Terry now lives in Scotland with his wife, actress Lesley Mackie, and their two children.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs
About The Author
Barbara Cleverly lives in a Suffolk village in a mediaeval house. She used to teach French, English and Latin but has given up working to write full time. Visit the author’s website: www.barbaracleverly.com
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New" Martina Cole Close Published October 2006 by Hodder Headline Audio at £17.99 ISBN: 0755332237 2 Cassettes Running Time: Null
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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Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich Eleven on Top Published June 2006 by Headline Review at £13.00
Read by Lorelei King
Stephanie Plum feels her career as a bounty hunter has run its course. Time to find a job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So she quits. But trouble follows Stephanie, in the form of a maniac returned from the grave for the sole purpose of putting her six feet under.
Stephanie realizes that her old job may be the solution rather than the problem after all. So she takes an office position working for Ranger, the sexiest bounty hunter on two continents. But as competition ratchets up between the two men in her life - her tough cop boyfriend, Joe Morelli, and Ranger - can Stephanie take the heat? Can you?
Between the adventure and the adversity there’s attitude, and Stephanie Plum’s got plenty in Eleven On Top.
Praise for Janet Evanovich
‘Pithy, witty and fast-paced’ The Sunday Times
‘Punchy, saucy and stacks of fun. I’m hooked’ Mirror
‘Crime writing at its funniest… classic black comedy’ The Big Issue
Lorelei King was born in Pennsylvania. Once described as 'the best-known American voice on Radio 4', she has played roles as varied as Patricia Cornwell's forensic detective Kay Scarpetta and Groucho Marx's sidekick. Film work includes The Saint and Notting Hill; on television she is a running character (Natalie Lawrence) in the acclaimed Cold Feet, and she has appeared in Jonathan Creek, Chef, The Comic Strip, Birds of a Feather and Rumpole of the Bailey. On stage she has acted in such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blues for Mr Charlie and Death of a Salesman. She was nominated as Performer of the Year at the 1999 Talkies (the audiobook industry awards).
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Brenda Scott Royce
About The Author
Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey.
She has won a major crime fiction award for each of her Stephanie Plum novels so far: One for the Money was presented with the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, Two for the Dough won the CWA Last Laugh Award and Three to Get Deadly was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.
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Jack Kerley The Death Collectors Published May 2006 by HarperCollins Audio at £13.99 ISBN: 0-00-721173 2
Read by Kerry Shale
A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man.
Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp’s ‘Art of the Final Moment’ remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamp’s portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes - and half a dozen victims, each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art
When tiny scraps of Hexcamp’s ‘art’ begin appearing at murder scenes alongside gruesomely displayed corpses, Detective Carson Ryder and his partner Harry Nautilus must go back three decades in search of answers.
Meanwhile an auction has been announced and the death collectors are gathering. These wealthy connoisseurs of serial-killer memorabilia will pay millions to acquire Hexcamp’s art –unless Carson and Harry can beat them in their quest for the anti-grail.
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.
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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John Le Carre
John Le Carre The Mission Song Published September 2006 by Hodder & Stoughton Audio at £14.99 ISBN: 1 84456 204 2
Read by David Oyelowo
Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine year old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman’s daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome. Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector.
Soon a rising star in his profession. he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration Services and - inevitably - the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens. a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him.
Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his reawakened African conscience. By turn thriller, love story and comic allegory of our times, The Mission Song recounts Salvo’s heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy, and into the heart of lightness.
David Oyelowo is well known far his television roles in Spooks and As Time Goes by and has appeared in the films As You Like It and A Sound of Thunder. He won an Ian Charleson award for his lead performance in Henry V with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs Abridged by Peter Mackie Produced by Heavy Entertainment
About The Author
John Le Carre was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford he taught at Eton are five years in the British Foreign Service. The Mission Song is his twentieth novel.
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Henning Mankell Faceless Killers Published February 2006 by ISIS at £18.99 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
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a blood bath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred.
Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer whose personal life is in a shambles. But now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and mounting xenophobia.
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.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs
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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Sara Paretsky Fire Sale Published February 2006 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 Lorelei King
A dangerous, depressed place reeking of bad memories, South Chicago is the neighbourhood private investigator V. I. Warshawski left a long time ago. But now she’s back, drawn to the streets of her childhood once again to do a favour for a friend.
It was never going to be easy, and when the mother of a local girl asks her to look into claims of sabotage at the factory where she works, V.I. quickly finds herself caught up in something far more sinister.
They say that home is where the heart is, but now, as she lies by the roadside with a piece of hot, twisted metal embedded in her shoulder, looking up at the factory’s smouldering remains, Warshawski is beginning to wonder whether a trip down memory lane was such a good idea after all.
Lorelei King was born in Pennsylvania. Once described as 'the best-known American voice on Radio 4', she has played roles as varied as Patricia Cornwell's forensic detective Kay Scarpetta and Groucho Marx's sidekick. Film work includes The Saint and Notting Hill; on television she is a running character (Natalie Lawrence) in the acclaimed Cold Feet, and she has appeared in Jonathan Creek, Chef, The Comic Strip, Birds of a Feather and Rumpole of the Bailey. On stage she has acted in such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blues for Mr Charlie and Death of a Salesman. She was nominated as Performer of the Year at the 1999 Talkies (the audiobook industry awards).
11 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 14 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Bestselling author Sara Paretsky has written eight V.I. Warshawski novels. She is also the author of a short story collection, Windy City Blues and the editor of A Woman’s Eye and Women on the Case. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their golden retriever.
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