Audio - ISIS Crime 2000

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New Audio - ISIS Crime Titles 2000

Simon Brett The Body on the Beach Published May 2000 by ISIS at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0836-4 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 Simon Brett
A sparkling new series of crime whodunnits, starring the redoubtable Carole Seddon and her worldly wise accomplice, Jude.
Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a self-contained retirement settlement on England's southern coast. So the last thing Carole expects to encounter in Fethering is a new neighbour with an obviously colourful past. ‘Jude’ is not really Fethering ... but neither is the body Carole finds on the beach.
A body that disappears by the time the police arrive.
Only Jude is ready to believe what her neighbour says she saw - and from that moment on the two women resolve to turn detectives.
Simon Brett was born in 1945 and educated at Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first class degree in English.
Apart from a Christmas job as Father Christmas in a department store, he worked for ten years for BBC Radio as a Light Entertainment producer, and then for two years for London Weekend Television, also as a Light Entertainment producer. Since 1979 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of many highly acclaimed crime novels, has edited several anthologies, written children's and humorous books as well as writing prolifically for radio and television.
Simon Brett is married, with three children, and lives in Sussex. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Simon Brett worked as a light entertainment producer in radio and TV before taking up writing full time in 1979. As well as the Charles Paris and Mrs Pargeter detective series, he is also the author of the radio and television series After Henry, the radio series No Commitments and the best-selling How to be a Little Sod . His novel A Shock to the System was filmed starring Michael Caine. Married with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs. Two television companies are currently considering the novels for adaptation.

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Lee Child The Visitor Published October 2000 by Soundings at Ł21.99 ISBN: 1 86042 878 9 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 Hayward Morse
High-flying army career women Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook are both victims of sexual harassment by their superiors. And now they’re both dead. FBI psychological profilers start the hunt for a serial murderer, a smart guy with a score to settle, a loner, an army man, a ruthless vigilante known to them both.
Jack Reacher, former US military cop, is a smart guy, a loner and a drifter. He knew both the victims. For Agent-in-Charge Nelson Blake he’s the perfect match. He’s sure only Reacher has the answers to their burning questions: how did these women die? And why?
Award-winning writer Lee Child proves again that he is more than a match for the genre’s established names - and that Jack Reacher is a uniquely appealing hero, sensitive, unpredictable, dangerous, but always one step ahead.
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.
14 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 15 hrs
About The Author
Lee Child was born in the industrial Midlands. He studied law, and worked for many years in commercial television. He has recently moved with his wife and daughter from Cumbria to New York State. His first two Reacher novels, Killing Floor and Die Trying, were both published by Bantam Press. Killing Floor was recently awarded the Anthony Award in America for the best first novel.

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Michael Connelly Trunk Music Published July 2000 by ISIS at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0-7531-09239 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 Dick Hill
Michael Connelly returns with his most surprising and compelling Harry Bosch thriller yet.
Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch lands himself his first case: a Hollywood producer called Tony Aliso found in the boot of a Rolls Royce, bound and shot twice in the head.
At first it looks as though the Mafia put an end to Tony's tawdry career. But the IRS were on to him, so maybe the mob were covering their tracks? Harry soon finds that nothing is that simple - the supposed mob hitman is in fact an undercover FBI agent. Then, suddenly, he's yanked off the case. But only a bullet can stop Harry when he's searching for the truth...
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.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 57 mins
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. The film rights for all his novels have been sold, with the first three in development by Paramount who are lining up Harrison Ford to play the lead, whilst Blood Work was optioned by Clint Eastwood. 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 The Poet Published February 2000 by ISIS at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0815-1 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
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Read by Buck Schirner
Journalist Jack McEvoy's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems.
But when Jack begins to investigate police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges. He soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work - a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of 'suicide notes' drawn from the work of Edgar Allan Poe. It's the story of a lifetime - except that 'the Poet' already seems to know that Jack is trailing him.
'His methods of killing and eluding detection are infernally ingenious, adding an intellectual charge to the visceral kick of the hunt' New York Times
'The real thing, and the best of its kind since Silence of the Lambs ... An unputdownable masterclass in thriller writing' Time Out
'The most chilling psychopath since Hannibal Lecter' Evening Standard
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 17 hrs 50 mins
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. The film rights for all his novels have been sold, with the first three in development by Paramount who are lining up Harrison Ford to play the lead, whilst Blood Work was optioned by Clint Eastwood. 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 Dibdin Vendetta Published September 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0942-5 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 Michael Tudor Barnes
Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress.
As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk ...
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.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 38 mins
About The Author
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He lives in Seattle and is married to the writer Katherine Beck. He is also the author of Ratking, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the Year. Michael Dibdin reviews regularly for the Independent on Sunday.

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Linda Fairstein Cold Hit Published May 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0851-8 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 Liza Ross
A chilling new thriller from the acclaimed Manhattan Assistant D.A. who lives the gritty and glamorous life that she writes about.
Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is called to a crime scene - a young woman pulled from the water, tied to a ladder. But who is she? Her elegant clothes and manicured nails suggest affluent connections, but just how well-connected surprises even Alex.
From a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment, to famous mid-town auction houses, Alex hunts for a killer in a very special world where priceless art meets big money in a lethal mix.
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 25 mins
About The Author
Linda Fairstein is is an Assistant District Attorney and head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Her involvement with such cases as the Preppy Murder and the Central Park Jogger over the past two decades has gained her the reputation of one of the city's toughest prosecutors. She lives in Manhattan with husband.

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Elizabeth Ferrars Don't Monkey with Murder Published July 2000 by ISIS at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0916-6 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 Raymond Sawyer
‘My Irma has been kidnapped away and I am been in anxiety for her life.'
So reads the ungrammatical and cryptic message which brings Toby Dyke and his friend George to East Leat, a lovely Village lost in the Downs.
Psychobiologist Dr Paul Virag has been dragged from his experimental station in Tobago at the whim of an heiress who requested that he chaperone her two prize monkeys across the Atlantic. But what has been an inconvenience to his calm life takes an unexpected turn into a sinister mystery.
Raymond Sawyer studied at Hull University before training for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has appeared extensively in repertory and has toured with the RSC. His work on television includes The Bill, Brookside and Three of a Kind for American TV. He has recorded over 60 audio books and currently lives in South London with his wife Maralyn.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Elizabeth Ferrars was born in Rangoon, arriving in England at the age of three. She grew up in Hampshire and was educated at Bedales School, then took a diploma in journalism at London University. Instead of continuing in journalism, however, she took to writing novels, her first appearing in 1940.
Elizabeth was awarded a special Silver Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association for her continued excellence as a suspense writer. By the time she died in 1995, she had written over 70 books.

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Nicci French Beneath the Skin Published August 2000 by ISIS at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0931-X 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 Julia Franklyn
Zoe is a young schoolteacher, newly arrived in the big city. Jennifer is the mother of three boys, prosperous, respectable, unhappy. Nadia is a children's-party entertainer wondering what to do with her life. Three women with nothing in common except the man who wants to kill them.
But first he wants to see them suffer - and in a series of notes he announces his plans to his terrified victims.
This is Nicci French's most compulsive novel, exploring the extremities of terror and desire, betrayal and trust, the urge to kill and the strength to fight back.
Julia Franklyn has a real passion for talking books and has been reading them for the last fifteen years. She has combined this with a busy career in radio and television both as a presenter and also as a voice-over with thousands of commercials to her credit. For the last eight years she's been a presenter on ITV's Gardener's Diary.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 34 mins

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Sue Grafton D is For Deadbeat Published May 2000 by ISIS at Ł15.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0865-8 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 Liza Ross
Another best-selling title in the Kinsey Millhone alphabet series.
It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo, which wasn't his real name.
The job for which he hired Kinsey Millhone, private investigator, seemed simple enough ... until his cheque bounced.
By the time she caught up with him, he was dead and Kinsey collected far more than she'd bargained for...
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 40 mins
About The Author
Sue Grafton lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Steven Humphrey. She is currently working on her next Kinsey Millhone novel.

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Sue Grafton O is for Outlaw Published February 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0821-6 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
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Read by Liza Ross
A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
The new best-seller from the author of the Alphabet mysteries.

“The Latin term pro bone, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.

The sly wit of Grafton's protagonist sparkles through a complex case that takes Kinsey Millhone back to a past that she thought she'd left behind.
Also available by Sue Grafton from ISIS Audio Books:
A is for Alibi; B is for Burglar: M is for Malice and N is for Noose.
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Sue Grafton lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Steven Humphrey. She is currently working on her next Kinsey Millhone novel.

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Lesley Grant-Adamson Flynn Published October 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-1015-6 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 Paddy Glynn
Introducing Laura Flynn - a gutsy private detective with a strong sense of justice.
It is Christmas, and the Flynn Detective Agency is shaky: the case of the missing cat just won't pay the bills. Then a dress designer disappears. Threatening messages and a body in the Thames draw Flynn into a world of betrayal that links the generations of her own London/Irish community.
With masterly skill, Grant-Adamson weaves her narrative into an exciting and original drama.
Paddy Glyn has worked extensively for audio productions, television, theatre and film. Her television credits include The Bill, Brookside and London's Burning. Among her theatre credits she has starred in a one-woman show, Emma, Lady Hamilton, as well as recently playing Hecuba in Euripides' Women of Troy. She has travelled worldwide and lived in New Zealand for some time. Paddy now resides in Oxford.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 55 mins
About The Author
Lesley Grant-Adamson started her journalistic career as a cub reporter in Gloucester she well remembers covering crime and the courts and when the police started to dig up Cromwell Street ... Fred West and his gruesome crimes have coloured some of her work to this day.
Lesley, born in London in 1942, spent much of her childhood in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales before returning to London. She worked on trade magazines and then provincial newspapers before joining the staff of the Guardian where she became a feature writer. She wrote on a full gamut of topics, but had a special interest in environmental issues.
On leaving the Guardian her intention was to write fiction, but for a time that was combined with freelance writing for newspapers, magazines and television. Since her first book, Patterns in the Dust, was accepted, she has been a full time novelist.
She is widely acknowledged to be a leading writer of crime and suspense fiction. Critics have compared her novels with the best of Simenon, Highsmith, Rendell and Elmore Leonard. Her novels have been translated into German, Japanese, Italian and Norwegian. She also writes short stories which have been published in magazines, anthologies and broadcast by the BBC. Her poetry has been published in Wales.
Lesley has spent a large part of 1992-3 living and writing in Andalusia. She was Writer in Residence at Nottingham Trent University and the East Midland Arts area in 1994 - in point of fact, becoming the first British crime writer to be appointed to a British university. She also teaches courses on writing suspense and crime fiction.

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Davis Grubb The Night of the Hunter Published March 2000 by ISIS at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0755-4 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
When Ben Harper goes to the gallows for a bank robbery killing, he leaves his young children John and Pearl to hide the $10,000 that is his share. Soon a strange preacher comes to town and claims to have known their daddy.
He preaches the word of the Lord, but darkness lurks in his heart, a knife lies in his pocket and he wants the money.
Davis Grubb's haunting Gothic masterpiece flows through the rural Depression-era landscape with all the lyrical magic of a fairytale as John and his younger sister flee their malevolent hunter to a terrifying end.
The Night of the Hunter was faithfully adapted for the screen in 1954, a year after its original publication. Directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, it is regarded as one of Hollywood's great films.
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.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 35 mins
About The Author
Davis Alexander Grubb was born in 1919 in Moundsville, West Virginia, a small town on the Ohio River.
From early childhood he was acquainted with river lore and the legendary rogues of the region, which played a large part in shaping his literary imagination. He did one year of art school at the Carnegie School of Technology, sorting stuffed Guatemalan hummingbirds in the ornithology department, but abandoned his studies because of colour-blindness.
This was no disappointment as he had chosen writing as a career at the age of seven. He died in New York in 1980.

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Thomas Harris Red Dragon Published May 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0834-8 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 Peter Marinker
The novel that launched Hannibal Lecter’s legacy of evil
Demonic violence, sinister logic – the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police taunting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls himself… The Red Dragon.
The FBI knows that only one man can hope to catch him – Will Graham – an he has demons of his own to face.
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.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs
About The Author
A native of Mississippi, Thomas Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in New York City. His first novel, Black Sunday was published in 1975, followed by Red Dragon in 1981 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1988.

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Thomas Harris Hannibal Published January 2000 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 Daniel Gerroll
The return of Hannibal Lecter
In one of the most eagerly anticipated literary events of the decade, Thomas Harris takes us once again into the mind of a killer, creating a tour de force of psychological suspense.
Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody but FBI agent Clarice Starling has never forgotten her encounters with him.
Mason Verger, Lecter's surviving victim, is also obsessed with revenge, and soon realises that to tempt the doctor out from his hiding place he must have the most exquisite and innocent-appearing bait; he must have what Dc Lecter likes best.
Utterly original and critically acclaimed, a master story-teller takes you on a journey to hell…
Daniel Gerroll has many stage plays, series and films.
He has appeared in such films as Big Business and Chariots of Fire and on television in Seinfeld, Sex and the City and Cheers.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs
About The Author
A native of Mississippi, Thomas Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in New York City. His first novel, Black Sunday was published in 1975, followed by Red Dragon in 1981 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1988.

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John Harvey Off Minor Published August 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0935-2 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 Martyn Read
A Resnick Novel
Little Gloria Summers' body has been found, hidden inside two plastic bin bags in a disused warehouse. Somewhere in the city, a child?killer is on the loose, free to start again.
Then Emily Morrison vanishes on a sunny Sunday afternoon. A week later there are still no clues. Inspector Charlie Resnick is as appalled as the media. But years of patient police work have taught him a thing or two ? including his conviction that those who jump to easy conclusions are often the last ones to solve a crime.
Martyn Read trained at the Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television work includes EastEnders and The Bill and he is a former member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. Martyn has also written and dramatised over 20 radio plays, including the award?winning Waving to a Train.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 10 hrs 34 mins
About The Author
John Harvey was born in London, and after living in Nottingham for a good number of years, he recently returned to London with his partner and their baby daughter. Initially a teacher of English and Drama. he has been a full?time writer since the age of 37. He learned his trade writing various kinds of pulp fiction ? mainly westerns - and has close to one hundred published titles to his credit.
Though principally known as a crime novelist, he continues to write scripts for radio and television, specialising in dramatising his own work and that of others.

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Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train Published December 2000 by ISIS at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0-7531-0976-X 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 William Roberts
Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel made her famous. Two men, a tennis star and a psychopath, meet by chance on a train and ‘swap’ murders. ‘Some people are better off dead - like your wife and my father, for instance’ as Bruno, the rich psychopath puts it, before proceeding to carry out his half of the bargain. A chance meeting and a rash conversation can lead to all sorts of trouble ...
This cunningly plotted melodrama, which inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film of the same name, is a classic in suspense, to be reread with enjoyment time after time.
William Roberts was born and raised in Oregon and northern California. He studied Theatre Arts in both the USA and in Britain, becoming an actor, reader and voice-over artist on radio and television. His television credits include Inspector Morse and Why Lockerbie? and his film credits include Deathwish II and Navy Seals.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 30 mins

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Reginald Hill Arms and the Women Published May 2000 by ISIS at Ł19.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0878-X 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 Michael Tudor Barnes
In the space of a few days, a series of events will set Peter Pascoe and Andy Dalziel off on a case where the stakes have never been higher or closer to home. First, an attempt is made to abduct Peter Pascoe's wife, Ellie. Then Ellie's friend, Daphne Aldermann, is assaulted by a man lurking around the Pascoes' house. Convinced that the crimes are somehow linked to one of Peter Pascoe's cases, either current or past, Dalziel and Pascoe race to find the culprit.
As the search goes on, Peter sends Ellie and their daughter Rosie with Daphne Aldermann to Daphne's vacation home accompanied by Detective Constable Shirley Novello as a police escort. Soon Novello begins to wonder if the stalker drawn to the Pascoe family is connected not by Peter but, rather, by Ellie.
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.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 15 hrs
About The Author
Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire where his Dalziel and Pascoe ( 'the best detective duo on the scene bar none' Daily Telegraph) novels are set. The books have now been adapted into a successful BBC television series.
Reginald Hill says he always regarded himself as a writer of some sort, but until he wrote A Clubbable Woman which introduced Andy Dalziel and a young Peter Pascoe, he had managed to avoid putting his theory to the test. Since then he has received ample confirmation.
Latterly he has cast his net further south with the introduction of Joe Sixsmith, the serendipitous PI whose appearances have helped confirm Hill's claim as 'our finest living crime writer' (Sunday Telegraph). Recently awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for his lifetime contribution to the genre, Hill says he hopes that this is a bit premature and the best is yet to come!

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Peter Lovesey The Reaper Published November 2000 by Soundings at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1 86042 870 3 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 Christopher Scott
The bishop’s body lies at the bottom of a quarry. In his car are a suicide note, a copy of Men Only and a Bible underlined at the text ‘. . . hath devoured thy living with harlots’. His lost phone call was to one Madame Swish.
Devoured by guilt? Or did someone help the bishop move closer to the Lord? He was last seen alive by Otis Joy, the rector of the Wiltshire village of Foxford. Adored by the ladies who fill his pews and collection plates each Sunday, the Reverend Joy had become less popular with the bishop, who had discovered irregularities in the church accounts.
Rich as the devil’s food cake at the church fete, The Reaper is a dark, delicious crime story from the award-winning Peter Lovesey.
Since leaving Drama School, Christopher Scott has worked in theatre throughout the British Isles.
It is perhaps for his radio work that he is best known, having been involved in such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Forsythe Chronicles, as well as numerous Afternoon and Saturday Night Theatre, plays for BBC Radio Drama.
He was also heavily involved with the recording of the complete authorised King James version of the Bible.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs
About The Author
After a career in further education, Peter Lovesey became a full-time author and began his writing career with Wobble to Death in 1970, introducing Sergeant Cribb, the Victorian detective, who went on to feature in seven more books and two television series. His recent novels have alternated between two contrasting detectives: Peter Diamond, and the Victorian sleuth, Bertie. He was Chairman of the Crime Writers Association in 1991-2. He now lives near Chichester.
Peter Lovesey 's crime novels have been translated into 22 languages and 10 of them are currently under film and TV options.
Lovesey's mysteries and short stories have won him awards all over the world. He won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1982 and has won the CWA Silver Dagger three times. He is the winner of the 2000 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. In France he has been awarded the Grand Prix de littérature Policiére and the Prix du Roman d'Adventures and in the USA he has received the Anthony Award, McAvity Award, Ellery Queen Readers' Award and the Mystery Writers of America Golden Mysteries Short Story Prize.

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Nigel McCrery Strange Screams of Death Published May 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0599-3 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 Paddy Glynn
The body of a young woman is discovered in a disused shed at an American airbase, She has been raped and viciously murdered, Home Office pathologist Doctor Samantha Ryan arrives on the scene and is immediately absorbed in the case and in the strange circumstances of the girl's death.
When two FBI agents arrive from the Behavioural Science Unit at Quantico, the investigation suddenly becomes more urgent. Could the murder be linked to a number of horrific killings both in the United States and Europe over the last few decades? If so, Sam is dealing with an international serial killer - one who has the hunger to slaughter again.
The second in the Silent Witness series, which were made into a popular TV series starring Amanda Burton.
Paddy Glyn has worked extensively for audio productions, television, theatre and film. Her television credits include The Bill, Brookside and London's Burning. Among her theatre credits she has starred in a one-woman show, Emma, Lady Hamilton, as well as recently playing Hecuba in Euripides' Women of Troy. She has travelled worldwide and lived in New Zealand for some time. Paddy now resides in Oxford.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Nigel McCrery worked as a policemen and investigated several murders before he left the force to become on undergraduate at Cambridge University. After being awarded on honours degree in history, he went on to work for the BBC Drama Department. He is married with children and lives in Nottingham.

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Nigel McCrery Silent Witness Published January 2000 by ISIS at Ł14.99 ISBN: 0753105985 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 Paddy Glynn
A Doctor Sam Ryan Mystery
When forensic pathologist, Dr Sam Ryan, is called out to a murder scene, she is far from pleased. Tramping around a graveyard in the dark is not how she'd planned to spend her day off. But then she finds herself fascinated by the case. The evidence seems to point to a peculiar ritualistic killing linked to the black arts. And the murder bears an uncanny resemblance to a local crime committed many years ago.
Then another, related, death is discovered and Sam is under pressure to come up with evidence the police desperately need. By now, though, the killer has decided that Sam is a threat that had far better be removed …
Silent Witness is now a major television series for the BBC.
Paddy Glyn has worked extensively for audio productions, television, theatre and film. Her television credits include The Bill, Brookside and London's Burning. Among her theatre credits she has starred in a one-woman show, Emma, Lady Hamilton, as well as recently playing Hecuba in Euripides' Women of Troy. She has travelled worldwide and lived in New Zealand for some time. Paddy now resides in Oxford.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs
About The Author
Nigel McCrery worked as a policemen and investigated several murders before he left the force to become on undergraduate at Cambridge University. After being awarded on honours degree in history, he went on to work for the BBC Drama Department. He is married with children and lives in Nottingham.

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Val McDermid Common Murder Published December 2000 by ISIS at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-7531-1024-5 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 Vari Sylvester
A protest group hits the headlines when unrest explodes into murder. Already on the scene, journalist Lindsay Gordon desperately tries to strike a balance between personal and professional responsibilities. As she peels back the layers of deception surrounding the protest and its opponents, she finds that no one seems wholly above suspicion. Then Lindsay uncovers a truth that even she can hardly believe …
Of mixed Scots and English descent, Vari Sylvester trained at RADA and spent her early career in London. She worked extensively with 7:84 England before basing herself in Scotland during the late 70s. She has played leading roles in many theatre productions including several for the Edinburgh Lyceum and has toured with 7:84 Scotland and the Scottish Theatre Company. Television credits include Billy Liar and Taggart.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 10 mins
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 living outside 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. 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 two psychological thrillers featuring forensic psychologist Tony Hill ('Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' (Guardian)). Val contributes weekly Crime Fiction Reviews to the Manchester Evening News and kindly supplies us with a copy.

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Val McDermid Report for Murder Published September 2000 by ISIS at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0955-7 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 Vari Sylvester
Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund raising gala at a girl's public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string, instants before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder. Who would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? Who had the key to the locked room in which her body was found? And who could have slipped out of the hall at just the right time to commit this calculated and cold -blooded crime?
Of mixed Scots and English descent, Vari Sylvester trained at RADA and spent her early career in London. She worked extensively with 7:84 England before basing herself in Scotland during the late 70s. She has played leading roles in many theatre productions including several for the Edinburgh Lyceum and has toured with 7:84 Scotland and the Scottish Theatre Company. Television credits include Billy Liar and Taggart.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 30 mins
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 living outside 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. 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 two psychological thrillers featuring forensic psychologist Tony Hill ('Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' (Guardian)). Val contributes weekly Crime Fiction Reviews to the Manchester Evening News and kindly supplies us with a copy.

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Sara Paretsky Hard Time Published April 2000 by ISIS at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0841-0 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 Liza Ross
Murray Ryerson and Detective V.I. Warshawski go back a long way - often allies, occasionally competitors, one-time lovers. When Murray sells his journalistic skills to a entertainment conglomerate it means selling his old friend to a gossip column. But V.I. is too wrapped up in her own troubles to care.
Her problems begin when she swerves to avoid hitting a woman on a dark street. The woman, Nicola Aguinaldo, was on the run from prison, where she was serving time. To her surprise, V. I. finds herself in the middle of an aggressive police investigation.
Hard Time is V.l.'s greatest challenge yet.
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
10 Cassettes Running Time: 13 hrs 40 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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James Patterson When the Wind Blows Published March 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0769-4 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 Liza Ross
An extraordinary thriller from a best-selling author.
Move. She urged her aching body on. She could go faster than this. She knew she could. The hunters were almost here. She could hear, smell, sense their awful presence. She knew what she had to do now, but she was petrified to try it. It was forbidden; it was unthinkable.
Frannie O'Neill, a talented veterinarian whose husband has been recently murdered, comes across an amazing discovery in the nearby woods. Soon after, Kit Harrison, an unconventional FBI agent, arrives on Frannie's doorstep. And then there is eleven-year-old Max - Frannie's amazing discovery - and one of the most unforgettable creations in thriller fiction.
Liza Ross has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. She has twice appeared with the National Theatre Company in The Front Page and Wings. Other theatre credits include The Entertainer, Arms and the Man and Dangerous Corner. Her TV appearances include After the War, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, Chandler's Smart-Alex Kill andOppenheimer.
She also works frequently in radio, working in plays including The Age of Innocence and Superman.
Her many film credits include Batman. She is frequently heard on BBC Radio and has read many audio books.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 55 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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Michelle Spring Nights in White Satin Published September 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0984-0 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 Julia Sands
Michelle Spring returns with a psychologically astute novels that unfolds against the stately backdrop of Cambridge, England. But behind this refined university setting lies something truly sinister.
For private investigator Laura Principal, the case begins unexpectedly at the annual May Ball, a jubilant celebration marking the end of examinations, an avalanche of food and fountains of champagne. Laura is hired to provide security, but somewhere between the dancing and the fireworks, a student disappears.
When Laura starts probing into the missing woman's life, she opens a floodgate of damning secrets and double lives - encompassing a college don's mysterious death and the discovery of the skeletal remains of a baby.
The deeper Laura searches into a tangled past, the more tension mounts in every corner of Cambridge - where someone waits, coiled to strike. And strike again.
For many years Julia Sands lived in Dubai, where she read stories on both radio and television, performing on stage and revue, ran drama workshops and wrote a travel book about the Emirates. She has appeared on BBC Radio and Television, made voiceovers for films and advertisements, and recorded several audio books. She now lives in an old watermill in Worcestershire, and enjoys travel and scuba diving.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Michelle Spring was raised on Vancouver Island. She worked for many years as an academic in Cambridge where she lives with her husband and their two children. She has written several academic books and four Laura Principal thrillers.

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Patricia Wentworth The Chinese Shawl Published July 2000 by ISIS at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0943-3 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 Diana Bishop
A Miss Silver Mystery
Classic, carefully crafted crime from this much-loved mistress of the genre.
There were so many people who wanted Tanis Lyle dead that, when she is finally murdered at night in the Priory ruins, it needs Miss Silver to separate the determinedly guilty from the reluctantly innocent.
And first she has to solve the mystery of the Chinese shawl
Diana Bishop has worked extensively in theatre, including repertory in all directions, seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and tours with the Arts Council and the British Council. She has been a member of the BBC Radio Company and made many television appearances.
She is also a writer for both theatre and radio. Her work includes plays, short stories and poetry.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 5 mins
About The Author
Patricia Wentworth was born in India in 1878 and educated privately in London. Her first novel, A Marriage under the Terror was published in 1910, her last in 1961.
A writer mainly of mystery and detective novels, she is probably best-known for her creation of Miss Maud Silver, a character spanning more than 30 years.

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Gillian White Mothertime Published March 2000 by ISIS at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0811-9 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 Juliet Prague
Christmas Eve, North London. The Townsend children have hung up the last strand of tinsel, and all is aglow with the mystery of Christmas.
And then their mother staggers home drunk, Caroline Townsend, ex-beauty, failed actress, divorcée, has just been jilted by her lover. Will Christmas be doomed again this year?
It is time for desperate measures.
Wildly funny, completely original and full of insights about marriage, adolescence and the lethal defences we all use to hide behind, Mothertime is worth a decade of psychotherapy - and is far more entertaining.
Juliet Prague was born in London to Dutch/German parents. She trained at the Drama Centre and has worked extensively in theatre, TV and audio. Her theatre appearances include An Evening with Gary Lineker at the Theatre Royal Windsor, Square Rounds with the Royal National Theatre, Woyzeck with Hull Truck, as well as seasons with Birmingham Rep. and the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. On television she was in Comedy Wavelength and puppeteer and presenter on the children's series TTV.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 45 mins
About The Author
Adopted as a baby bay a wealthy industrialist and his wife, Gillian White was brought up in a middle class home in Liverpool and sent to private school. But by the age of fifteen she had been expelled from three schools and sent to a home office approved school for three years, in need of care and protection. Searching for life's thrills and spills she found them, and more, on the streets of sixties London. After three unforgettable years locked up when she learned more about life than she has before or since, she trained to be a journalist and spent five years on a newspaper in Essex. During this time she married the paper's chief reporter and started her family of four.
She exchanged an inherited jade collection for a herd of Friesian cows after her father died, and bought a small farm in wildest Cornwall. This enterprise soon folded, as predicted, so Gillian and her family moved to Devon to farm near Dartington Hall School, which their four children attended.
The school closed down after a notorious national scandal and Gillian invited the remaining pupils and teachers to start a new school in her farm house. The school survives today and is thriving, but Gillian found the noise and over-population of her home hellish and was driven to her bedroom, and this is when and why she started to writes. In the ten years since then three of her novels, Rich Deceiver, The Beggar Bride and Mothertime have been adapted for BBC television, and The Sleeper is to follow soon.
Gillian says that the most pleasing part of being a novelist is that she is allowed to be eccentric! She lives in Totnes with her husband. Her children and grandchildren live nearby.

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Gillian White The Sleeper Published January 2000 by ISIS at Ł14.99 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 Tracey Lloyd
A mystery from the past becomes a terrifying ordeal in the present, and a traditional family Christmas turns into a nightmare.
In a wintry resort an old woman goes missing from her residential hotel for the elderly, the inappropriately named Happy Haven. And in a remote farmhouse not far away, the Moon family gathers for its traditional Christmas. Clover Moon, the farmer's wife, looks forward to the forthcoming festivities with quiet desperation and dread. She knows that her mother-in-law, Violet, regards her as an inadequate and unsuitable wife for her beloved only son, but when strange accidents start happening she begins to wonder whether Violet could actually be trying to kill her. And what dreadful secrets in Violet's own childhood are coming back to haunt her? As gales and blizzards cut off power and maroon the Christmas gathering, where did the body come from that is swept into the farmhouse cellar by the rising flood water?
Tracey Lloyd trained as an actress at RADA and worked in the theatre until her third child was born. She then pursued a career as a freelance writer, with periods spent in East Africa and the South Pacific. As part of a professional partnership, Tracey specialised in the use of drama in language teaching and went on to take a degree, followed by a certificate in the teaching of English as a foreign language. Since then, she has combined writing with freelance work as a language and voice teacher.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Adopted as a baby bay a wealthy industrialist and his wife, Gillian White was brought up in a middle class home in Liverpool and sent to private school. But by the age of fifteen she had been expelled from three schools and sent to a home office approved school for three years, in need of care and protection. Searching for life's thrills and spills she found them, and more, on the streets of sixties London. After three unforgettable years locked up when she learned more about life than she has before or since, she trained to be a journalist and spent five years on a newspaper in Essex. During this time she married the paper's chief reporter and started her family of four.
She exchanged an inherited jade collection for a herd of Friesian cows after her father died, and bought a small farm in wildest Cornwall. This enterprise soon folded, as predicted, so Gillian and her family moved to Devon to farm near Dartington Hall School, which their four children attended.
The school closed down after a notorious national scandal and Gillian invited the remaining pupils and teachers to start a new school in her farm house. The school survives today and is thriving, but Gillian found the noise and over-population of her home hellish and was driven to her bedroom, and this is when and why she started to writes. In the ten years since then three of her novels, Rich Deceiver, The Beggar Bride and Mothertime have been adapted for BBC television, and The Sleeper is to follow soon.
Gillian says that the most pleasing part of being a novelist is that she is allowed to be eccentric! She lives in Totnes with her husband. Her children and grandchildren live nearby.

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Robert Wilson A Small Death in Lisbon Published December 2000 by ISIS at Ł21.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0985-9 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 Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger Award
At the start of the Second World War, a Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals.
Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon.
Inspector Ze Coelho is put in charge of the investigation, and soon finds that his search for the truth leads him further and further into complex and murky dealings, past and present gradually coming together and ending in shocking revelations.
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. 17 hrs 12 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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R.D. Wingfield Winter Frost Published February 2000 by ISIS at Ł19.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0689-2 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
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Read by Stephen Thorne
The fifth book to feature DI Jack Frost.
The series has been adapted far television as A Touch of Frost starring David Jason.
Winter in Denton is a busy time for DI Jack Frost whose unsolved crime figures are mounting.
A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes; armed robbery; a ram raid at a jewellers and a buried skeleton is uncovered.
But Frost's main concern is for the safety of a missing schoolgirl. The dead body of another little girl from the same school is found… Frost's prime suspect, strongly protesting his innocence, hangs himself in his cell, leaving a note blaming Frost for driving him to suicide.
Coarse, insubordinate and fearless, DI Jack Frost is in serious trouble.
Stephen Thorne trained at RADA and then joined the RSC for three years. He has played seasons at the Mermaid Theatre, The Old Vic and the Bristol Old Vic. His television work includes Daniel Peggotty in David Copperfield and several appearances in Dr. Who. He broadcasts extensively and is well known as a reader of the Book at Bedtime and Morning Story.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
Until 1970 R. D. Wingfield worked for an international oil company, writing crime plays for radio in his spare time. The success of his radio work meant the day job had to go and he became a full-time writer. His plays have been broadcast all over the world and translated into many languages. In addition to thrillers and serials he has written comedy scripts for the late Kenneth Williams. R. D. Wingfield is married with one son and lives in Basildon, Essex.

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Margaret Yorke Evidence to Destroy Published August 2000 by ISIS at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-7531-0922-0 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 Josephine Tewson
Lydia Cunningham - a respectable solitary widow - knows she's in for trouble when her restless, twice-married daughter Thelma returns home. Thelma has brought with her a young man with an unsavoury past who quickly sets about ingratiating himself with Lydia. But it is Lydia’s own past that finally overtakes her, sending her headlong to the very edge of insanity.
Josephine Tewson trained at RADA and spent her early years working in repertory theatre. She created the part of Muriel in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind with Julia McKenzie. She is best known for her comedy roles on television and has appeared with most of the top comedians. These credits include the landlady in Shelley, Terry and June, and Liz in Keeping up Appearances. She is currently appearing in the BBC programme Sunburn.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 40 mins
About The Author
Margaret Yorke was born in Surrey, but lived in Dublin until 1937, before moving back to England. During the war, she served in the Woman's Royal Naval Service as a driver. She then worked in the libraries of two Oxford colleges, the first woman ever to work in Christ Church library. A campaigner for Public Lending Rights for authors in Britain, she was also chairman of the Crime Writers' Association between 1979 and 1980.
Her first novel was published in 1957, but after eleven `problem' novels, she turned to the subject of crime with Dead in the Morning which was published in 1970. With No Medals for the Major (1974), she began writing novels of suspense, which include The Point of Murder, Serious Intent and, most recently, Act of Violence.
In 1982, she won the Swedish Academy Detection award for the best translated novel, The Scent of Fear. Her books are translated and published in 16 countries, including the United States and the Czech Republic. In 1993, she won the Golden Handcuffs award which is given in recognition of the popularity of the country's leading crime writer within the library service and to its borrowers.
She lives in a small village in Buckinghamshire.

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