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Amis, Kingsley

The crime of the century. 1989. Read by Pauline Munro, 4 hours 18 minutes. TB 7674.

Christopher Dane writes detective novels, but on this occasion he is stuck for a plot. At the same time, a killer is on the loose. Dane soon finds himself co-opted onto the committee set up to investigate the murders, and discovers that one of the committee members is actually the murderer. TB 7674.

Anderson, James

The affair of the bloodstained egg cosy. 2008. Read by Cornelius Garrett, 8 hours 15 minutes. TB 16975.

Inspector Wilkins series; book 1. The theft of the diamond necklace and the antique pistols might all be explained, but the body in the lake was a puzzle. Inspector Wilkins is called in but it's going to take some intricate sleuthing to uncover who killed whom and why. TB 16975.

Appiah, Anthony

Avenging angel. 1990. Read by Richard Earthy, 8 hours 8 minutes. TB 9278.

Viscount Glen Tannock, a member of Cambridge's exclusive Apostles society, is found dead, an apparent suicide. When another member of the group dies, Patrick Scott QC knows there is a killer at large. TB 9278.

Atkinson, Kate

When will there be good news?. 2009. Read by Steven Crossley, 10 hours 54 minutes TB 17017.

Jackson Brodie series; book 3. Sequel to: One good turn, TB 15771. In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted. TB 17017.

Atkinson, Kate

Started early, took my dog. 2010. Read by Jane Dunbar, 13 hours 53 minutes. TB 17769.

Jackson Brodie series; book 4. One moment of madness is all it takes for security chief Tracy Waterhouse's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished. TB 17769.

Aubert, Brigitte

Death from the woods. 2002. Read by Trudy Harris, 9 hours 21 minutes. TB 13845.

A beautiful young French girl, Elise Andrioli, is caught in a terrorist bomb leaving her fiance dead and her life in tatters. Although she escapes with her life, she is left blind, mute and quadriplegic. But when a little girl approaches her wheelchair and tells her that she has been witness to a recent series of grisly murders in the woods, Elise is drawn into solving the increasingly haunting murders. TB 13845.

Babson, Marian

A tealeaf in the mouse. 2000. Read by Diana Bishop, 6 hours 58 minutes. TB 12318.

All Robin wanted to do was be part of the gang and his big test was to steal a rich lady's precious cat. But now he has been witness to a horrible murder and he's not sure whether Mr Nording saw his face or not. But Robin is not the only person who knows Mr Nording is guilty of murder. TB 12318.

Badenoch, Andrea

Loving Geordie. 2002. Read by Patricia Jones, 11 hours 44 minutes. TB 12672.

In the midst of the desolation of Glue Terrace, overlooking the River Tyne, lives 15-year-old Leslie, his drug-filled mother and vulnerable younger brother Geordie. When identical twins are found dead, suspicion falls on "Geordie the dafty" but Leslie is convinced of his innocence. Contains strong language. TB 12672.

Baker, John

The Chinese girl. 2004. Read by Paul Tyreman, 7 hours 13 minutes. TB 14230.

Stone Lewis series; book 1. Stone Lewis is just out of jail and looking for a fresh start. With new tattoos on his face - they held him down in the nick and did them for him - he looks scary enough for most people to give him a wide berth. But that doesn't stop a battered Asian girl asking for his help. Ginny has come to Hull from California, looking for her best friend after her letters suddenly stopped. She's beautiful, she's a very long way from home, and Stone agrees to help. Soon he's right back among the vicious city lowlife he was trying to avoid. And before long, as the terrible truth emerges, Stone who is autistic, finds himself surrounded by psychos and Dobermans. TB 14230.

Barnard, Robert.

Bad samaritan. 1996. Read by Nigel Graham, 7 hours 6 minutes. TB 11068.

Rosemary Sheffield, vicar's wife, has lost her faith. A relationship with a young refugee has brought trouble for her in her husband's parish. Mrs Harridance, aided by Selena Meadows, is after Rosemary's positions in the parish. And then there is the dark Stephen Mills. When a body is found after a church fete, Charlie Peace and his boss Mike Oddie must discover whether Rosemary's spiritual crisis has led to murder. TB 11068.

Bayer, William

Pattern crimes. 1987. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 12 hours 7 minutes. TB 6929.

When a succession of mutilated corpses are dumped near the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, it looks as if Israel has its first case of serial murders. The relentless search for the underlying pattern by David Bar Lev becomes a race against time as he uncovers a series of coincidences as bizarre as the Ritual markings on the corpses. What is the link between a right wing rabbi and the release of a Soviet Jew to the West? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 6929.

Beaton, M C

Agatha Raisin and the love from hell. 2009. Read by Penelope Keith, 7 hours 20 minutes. TB 17507.

Agatha Raisin series; book 11. Sequel to: Agatha raisin and the fairies of Fryham, TB 17192. Recently married to James Lacey, Agatha quickly finds out that love is not all it's cracked up to be - the newly weds are living in separate cottages and accusing each other of infidelity. After a fight down the local pub James vanishes - a bloodstain the only clue to his fate - and Agatha is the prime suspect. Determined to clear her name and find her husband, Agatha begins her investigation - and promptly finds a murdered mistress. TB 17507.

Beauman, Sally

Rebecca's tale. 2007. Read by Robert Powell and Juliet Stevenson, 18 hours 43 minutes. TB 15532.

April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. It is twenty years since the inquest, which famously - and controversially - passed a verdict of suicide. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winters' ancient family seat, was razed to the ground. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning. TB 15532.

Billingham, Mark

Lazybones. 2004. Read by Mark Elstob, 11 hours 15 minutes. TB 16938.

Tom Thorne series; book 3. Sequel to: Scaredy cat, TB 15821. Someone - a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman - is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found. How can you escape a past that will do a lot more than just catch up with you? And how can Thorne catch a killer, when he doesn't really care about the victims? Contains strong language and violence. TB 16938.

Bradbury, Ray

Death is a lonely business. 1986. Read by Raymond Adamson, 9 hours. TB 7207.

Venice, California 1949. The old pier is falling into the sea and the roller coaster lies scattered on the ground like dinosaur bones. On the late train a young writer sees a drunk get on; between wine-dark teeth he whispers "death is lonely business" and goes. Later, walking past the canals where the tide sucks through the empty cages of an abandoned circus, the body of an old man moves with the swell. TB 7207.

Bradby, Tom

Blood money. 2009. Read by William Roberts, 11 hours 55 minutes. TB 17241.

It was New York, 1929. Joe Quinn's first case is one that could put his name up in lights; a banker takes a dive from a tall building onto Wall Street. All the signs point to murder. Pretty soon, the dead man has company; a group of old buddies is being eliminated, in a particularly gruesome manner. For the young detective a case that starts as an opportunity swiftly becomes a nightmare from which he cannot escape. Joe Quinn is about to discover just how tough being an honest cop in a dishonest world can be. Contains strong language. TB 17241.

Bradley, Alan

The sweetness at the bottom of the pie: a Flavia de Luce mystery. 2009. Read by Annabel Bates, 11 hours 7 minutes. TB 17054.

Flavia de Luce; book 1. For nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Soon Flavia discovers something even more shocking in the cucumber patch and it's clear that the snipe was a bird of very ill omen indeed. As the police descend on Buckshaw, Flavia decides it is up to her to piece together the clues and solve the puzzle. Who was the man she heard her father arguing with? What was the snipe doing in England at all? Who or what is the Ulster Avenger? TB 17054.

Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney

Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders. 2008. Read by Bill Wallis, 10 hours 27 minutes. TB 16977.

The Oscar Wilde mysteries; book 1. London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. TB 16977.

Brett, Simon

Murder in the museum: a Fethering mystery. 2004. Read by Simon Brett, 8 hours 23 minutes. TB 13975.

Fethering Mysteries; book 4. Sequel to: The torso in the town, TB 12729. Set on the Sussex Downs near the town of Fethering, the Elizabethan house of Bracketts is about to be turned into a museum. It had once been the home of the celebrated poet Esmund Chadleigh and is to become a shrine to his life and poetry - but the transition is far from smooth. Carole Seddon had been reluctant to join the Bracketts Board and now, as she sits in her second meeting, she realises that she should have listened to her instinct. The simmering tension between the Board members is about to boil over. A human skeleton is discovered in the kitchen garden and before too long there is a second body, not yet cold. TB 13975.

Brookmyre, Christopher

Quite ugly one morning. 2003. Read by Kenny Blyth, 13 hours 1 minutes. TB 13548.

Jack Parlabane series; book 1. Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Hear it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell? Contains strong language and violence. TB 13548.

Brown, Molly

Cracker: to say I love you. 1999. Read by Steven Hartley, 8 hours 20 minutes. TB 12848.

Cracker series; book 2. Sequel to: The madwoman in the attic, TB 12872. Fitz can find a murderer, prevent catastrophe and still find time to flirt with a pretty policewoman. But he knows only too well the motivations that drive Judith into another man's bed and that push him to the edge of self-destruction. Compared to the complications of Fitz's own life, tracking down a team of co-killers is simple. TB 12848.

Camilleri, Andrea

The snack thief. 2007. Read by Daniel Philpott, 7 hours 22 minutes. TB 16087.

Inspector Montalbano series; book 3. Sequel to: The terracotta dog, TB 14676. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometimes prostitute, whose young son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life - as well as Montalbano's - is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16087.

Campbell, Karen

Wheel fortune. 1973. Read by Arthur Bush, 7 hours 22 minutes. TB 2371.

On holiday in Cornwall, Olivia Browning finds the body of a frogman in a lonely cove and becomes involved in the mystery surrounding a missing anti-submarine device. TB 2371.

Clark, Cassandra

Hangman blind. 2009. Read by Julia Barrie, 13 hours 3 minutes. TB 17238.

Abbess of Meaux mystery; book 1. Set in Yorkshire in 1382, a time of unease and turmoil following the failed Peasants Revolt and the killing of Wat Tyler and John Ball. Hildegard is a rich widow who has taken the veil in the Cistercian priory of Swyne and is seeking a suitable grange for her new institution. Hoping to obtain a gift of such premises, she goes to Castle Hutton. Roger, the lord of Hutton, and his fifth wife Melisen make her welcome, but there are numerous family problems. It is Christmas and the revelries are disrupted by various incidents involving a death. Contains strong language. TB 17238.

Cleeves, Ann

White nights. 2008. Read by Caroline Guthrie, 10 hours. TB 16174.

Shetland Island Quartet; book 2. Sequel to: Raven black, TB 16074. It's midsummer in Shetland, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws a party to launch an exhibition of her work, but when a mysterious Englishman bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he's come from, the evening ends in farce. The following day he is found hanging from a rafter in a boathouse on the jetty and a murder investigation begins. Contains strong language. TB 16174.

Cornwell, Patricia D

Scarpetta. 2009. Read by Lorelei King, 13 hours 17 minutes. TB 16336.

Dr Kay Scarpetta series; book 16. Sequel to: Book of the dead, TB 16031. Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her. He begins to talk and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered and that more violent deaths will follow. Contains strong language. TB 16336.

Cornwell, Patricia

At risk. 2007. Read by Jennifer Woodward, 4 hours 50 minutes. TB 16161.

Winston Garano series; book 1. Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with the task, unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. Contains strong language. TB 16161.

Cox, Josephine

The beachcomber. 2003. Read by Carole Boyd, 12 hours 55 minutes. TB 15012.

The Beachcomber is the story of two people, each with a dream, each lonely in different ways, and just when everything seems to be coming right for them, fate steps in to turn their worlds upside down. A quiet, lonely man, Tom Troy has abandoned all his possessions and walked away from a highly paid job. Kitty Morris has tried to cling on to her zest for life and her sense of humour through times of pain and loneliness. For both Tom and Kitty, it seems there is hope of rebuilding their lives. Yet even now, someone means to wreck both Tom and Kitty's search for happiness. People are jealous and a brutal killer is on the loose. TB 15012.

Crais, Robert

Indigo slam. 2004. Read by William Roberts, 8 hours. TB 13716.

Elvis Cole series; book 7. Sequel to: Sunset express. Meet Elvis Cole, Vietnam Veteran, private eye who carries a .38 and is determined never to grow up. Fifteen year old Teri Hewitt has been left holding the babies now that her dad, Clark has disappeared without trace. She wants Cole to find him. The search reveals a chronically unemployed drug addict caught up in counterfeiting scams and mixed up with the Russian mafia and Vietnamese Gunmen. Contains violence. TB 13716.

Cunningham, E V

The case of the poisoned eclairs. 1980. Read by Patrick Romer, 5 hours. TB 3997.

None of the four divorcees touched the eclairs; the maid who took them home was poisoned. For whom were they intended and was there any further danger? TB 3997.

Curzon, Clare

I give you five days. 1983. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 7 hours 17 minutes. TB 5215.

Gillian's strangled body is found beside the boating lake in a public park. She was the beautiful and clever daughter of a successful barrister with political ambitions. Investigations into the murder reveal many skeletons in the family closet. TB 5215.

Dentinger, Jane

Death mask. 1988. Read by Kate Harper, 8 hours 43 minutes. TB 7868.

Jocelyn O'Roarke, actress and fledgling director, scores a coup when the famous English actor, Frederick Revere, agrees to star in her fund-raising production of "Major Barbara". The play is to save a beautiful old theatre just off Broadway from demolition and all is going well until the curtain call of the first preview night: one of the cast does not straighten up again from his final bow. TB 7868.

Deutermann, Peter T

The cat dancers. 2005. Read by Merv Smith, 13 hours 34 minutes. TB 15302.

Lieutenant Cam Richter arrests a couple of losers who, during a robbery gone wrong, kill three people. The judge frees them on a technicality leaving no one happy but the killers. Their happiness is short lived as vigilante justice kills one in a homemade electric chair. Richter is on the trail of a group who call themselves the cat dancers. As he closes in on the truth he winds up next on the killer's list. Contains violence. TB 15302.

Dexter, Colin.

Last bus to Woodstock. 1975. Read by Robert Gladwell, 9 hours 25 minutes. TB 2842.

Inspector Morse series; book 1. Two girls decide to hitch-hike to Woodstock when there seem to be no buses. Shortly after, one of them is found murdered. Inspector Morse finds the case not as straightforward as he first thought. TB 2842.

Ebershoff, David

The 19th wife. 2009. Read by Multiple narrators, 19 hours 16 minutes. TB 16434.

As a young boy Jordan was expelled from his family’s secretive polygamous Mormon sect. Now his father has been found shot dead and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime. Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth wife of the second Prophet of the Mormon Church, battles for her freedom from her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Contains strong language. TB 16434.

Elton, Ben

The first casualty. 2006. Read by Glen McCready, 12 hours 24 minutes. TB 14570.

It is Flanders in June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. TB 14570.

Faulks, Sebastian

Engleby. 2008. Read by Stuart Crossman, 13 hours 49 minutes. TB 16183.

Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, the reader has to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth? TB 16183.

Ferrars, Elizabeth

Alibi for a witch. 1991. Read by Di Langford, 7 hours 1 minute. TB 11033.

If Lester Ballard had had any say in the matter he wouldn't have been seen in the cheap gabardine suit, the green cotton shirt and the pointed brown suede shoes, but as he was dead, he had no control over such sartorial lapses. Ruth Seabright, governess to Lester's son, Nicky, found his murdered body, and was as baffled by its incongruous attire as by the fact of the murder itself. This, however, was to be the first of many puzzles. Where, for instance was Nick? Who had been searching Ruth's bedroom? And how can a corpse be in two places at once? TB 11033.

Finn, Robert

Adept. 2004. Read by David Thorpe, 13 hours 4 minutes. TB 14217.

David Braun series; book 1. David Braun's troubles begin when he's called to investigate an unusually violent break-in which leaves two criminals dead and a crime scene that raises more questions than it answers. A meeting with the building's sinister owner adds to the mystery. Braun turns to American academic Susan Milton, from the London School of Antiquities, to help him make sense of the situation. Risking their lives, they expose a horrifying secret that's centuries old - but the discovery makes them a target of a ruthless killer the police just can't catch. With time running out, David and Susan race to uncover the killers' true objective even as he closes in on them. Contains strong language and violence. TB 14217.

Finnis, Jane

A bitter chill. 2005. Read by Jane Finnis, 11 hours 31 minutes. TB 14264.

Aurelia Marcella mysteries; book 2. Sequel to: Get out or die, TB 13482. In late December, 95 AD, Roman settlers in Britannia are preparing to celebrate Saturnalia. Innkeeper Aurelia Marcella's plans for a peaceful holiday are shattered when her brother brings bad news. An enemy in Rome is trying to destroy her family by spreading rumours that they are plotting against Caesar. TB 14264.

Forsythe, Malcolm

The book lady. 1993. Read by David Banks, 5 hours 4 minutes. TB 9947.

Janet West and Laura Stebbing operated the mobile library. When Janet's body was found by the river, Chief Inspector Millson wondered why anyone should murder such a respectable and well-liked woman. Why was she by the river at night and was she alone? There was no obvious suspect, but as the investigation went on he found that there was more to the friendly librarian than he realised. Then Laura took part in a reconstruction of Janet's movements and suddenly there were three suspects and three murders too! TB 9947.

Fossum, Karin

Don't look back. 2009. Read by David Rintoul, 9 hours 8 minutes. TB 17475.

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But the sleepy village is like a pond through which not enough water runs - beneath the surface it is beginning to stagnate. When a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming tranquillity is disturbed forever. Enter Inspector Sejer, a tough, no-nonsense policeman whose own life is tinged by sadness. Contains strong language. TB 17475.

Francis, Dick

Silks. 2008. Read by Tony Britton, 11 hours 13 minutes. TB 17345.

Setting aside his Barrister's wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a thoroughbred, pounding the turf in the heat of a Steeplechase. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered - a pitchfork driven through his chest - Mason's racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life. TB 17345.

French, Tana

In the woods. 2008. Read by John Cormack, 19 hours 2 minutes. TB 16257.

Ryan and Maddox series; book 1. When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hopes that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods. TB 16257.

Fyfield, Frances

Blood from stone. 2009. Read by Rula Lenska, 10 hours 42 minutes. TB 17079.

Marianne Shearer is at the height of her career, a dauntingly successful barrister, respected by her peers and revered by her clients. So why has she killed herself? Her latest case had again resulted in an acquittal, though the outcome was principally due to the death of the prime witness after Marianne's forceful cross-examination. Had this wholly professional and unemotional lawyer been struck by guilt or uncertainty, or is there some secret to be discovered in her blandly comfortable private life? Contains strong language. TB 17079.

Gerritsen, Tess

The Mephisto Club. 2007. Read by Lorelei King, 9 hours 47 minutes. TB 16704.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series; book 6. Sequel to: Vanish. Christmas Eve in Boston is no holy night for medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. In a rundown house a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock. The last person called from the dead girl's phone is Dr. Joyce O'Donnell, a celebrity psychiatrist who's made her name defending serial murderers. But there are other clues that make the police wonder if this slaying was part of a satanic ritual. TB 16704.

Gloag, Julian

Blood for blood. 1985. Read by Raymond Adamson, 12 hours 7 minutes. TB 6528.

Ivor Speake leads a quiet life in a quietly frozen past. The brutal and apparently senseless murder of his closest friend pierces the fragile surface of his ordered life. Gradually he is stirred to try and make sense of this death and examine the possible motives. He finds almost immediately that the brutality was not gratuitous. Slowly the motives multiply from the ordinary - money, passion or betrayal - to vengeance and retribution. TB 6528.

Godfrey, Ellen

Murder behind locked doors. 1989. Read by Laura Brook, 9 hours 8 minutes. TB 8424.

Jane Tregar works for a large headhunting firm, finding top executives to fill high-powered jobs. Suspicion surrounds the death of a vice-president of a major software company, and Jane is asked to obtain a replacement. Her own life is endangered as she unravels the mystery, and she comes to realise that values like loyalty have little value where corporate manipulation and individual ambition are involved. TB 8424.

Gomez-Jurado, Juan.

God's spy. 2008. Read by Gareth Armstrong, 9 hours 14 minutes. TB 16514.

In the days following the death of Pope John Paul II, Rome is under siege to foreign press and thousands of mourners. The last thing it needs is a serial killer on the loose. Paola Dicanti is a profiler who works with the Italian police, but so far all her experience of serial killers is theoretical. This is until she is called to the church of Santa Maria in the Vatican state. A cardinal has been found murdered, his eyes destroyed, his hands cut off. It seems that this is not the first victim - another cardinal was found in similar circumstances but the authorities didn't want a scandal. As Paola begins to build her profile, she is helped by Anthony Fowler, a priest from the States. Fowler is no ordinary priest - he has links to CIA and knows a lot more about the serial killer than Dicanti could ever have guessed. Contains strong language. TB 16514.

Gosling, Paul

The Wychford murder: a Luke Abbott mystery. 1986. Read by Peter Wickham, 9 hours 43 minutes. TB 6901.

Wychford is a charming, quiet West Country village until Mrs Tompkins is found with her throat slashed. Now the golden Cotswold stones are stained with blood and the local people wonder who will be the next victim. Luke Abbott is sent to find the killer and his investigations are to expose the secret loves and hates, the envy, greed and perversion behind the postcard prettiness. TB 6901.

Gosling, Paula

The woman in red. 1983. Read by Norma West, 8 hours 9 minutes. TB 4866.

A man falls to his death from a five storey block of flats inhabited by British expatriates on Alicante. Charles Llewellyn, the local Foreign Office representative, investigates. TB 4866.

Grafton, Sue

B is for burglar. 1986. Read by Liza Ross, 8 hours 10 minutes. TB 10485.

Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 2. Sequel to: A is for alibi, TB 10415. Kinsey Mahone is given a case involving an absent sister and a will to be settled. It begins to look a bit less routine as she finds that the sister has last been seen draped in a lynx coat, headed for Florida, but never got there. Yet someone has got into her home and is squatting there. Kinsey is ordered to drop the case just before she discovers that a neighbour was murdered and, as she digs deeper, she finds a quagmire of conflicting facts and violent emotions. TB 10485.

Granger, Ann

Asking for trouble. 2006. Read by Kim Hicks, 8 hours 12 minutes. TB 17384.

Fran Varady series; book 1. Fran Varady is insolvent, unemployed and, though for the moment she's got the leaky roof of the squat she shares in Jubilee Street over her head, she'll very soon be homeless thanks to the council eviction department. Her dreams of becoming an actress, nurtured when her father and grandmother were still alive, seem a long way off. But Fran is a survivor, which her former housemate, Terry, found hanging from the ceiling of her room, clearly is not. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17384.

Grant-Adamson, Lesley

Guilty knowledge. 1986. Read by Elizabeth Proud, 10 hours 48 minutes. TB 6809.

The story for the "Daily Post" was to be a woman's revelations about life as a great painter's mistress. Instead, the story is murder. Gossip columnist Rain Morgan becomes involved with international art dealers on the French Riviera, a glamorous world underpinned by greed and pride. TB 6809.

Haddon, Mark

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. 2003. Read by Daniel Philpott, 6 hours 24 minutes. TB 13534.

The detective and narrator Christopher Boone is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. Contains strong language. TB 13534.

Hare, Cyril

Tragedy at law. 1990. Read by Steve Hodson, 10 hours 48 minutes. TB 14296.

Inspector Mallet and Francis Pettigrew series; book 1. Judge William Barber's tour of the Southern Circuit starts off as normally as wartime England will permit. But as a strange series of incidents occurs, Francis Pettigrew and Inspector Mallet puzzle over whether these are nasty practical jokes, or is someone trying to murder the Judge? TB 14296.

Hart, Jeanne

A personal possession. 1989. Read by Helen Horton, 4 hours 36 minutes. TB 7984.

The ladies were all in their forties. Zora said, "What we need is one man - reasonably attractive. We could share him." Sally suggested placing an ad. They did and the responses - pathetic, boastful, demented - flooded in. Two months later, Sally Robinson was found murdered. TB 7984.

Hayder, Mo.

The treatment. 2003. Read by Damien Goodwin, 13 hours 45 minutes. TB 13943.

D I Jack Caffrey series; book 2. Sequel to: Birdman, TB 13838. In an unassuming house, on a quiet residential street in south London, a husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they've been bound and beaten and the husband is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. When DI Jack Caffery of the Met's AMIT squad is called in to investigate, the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with necessary detachment. As Jack attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations, the real nightmare begins. Contains strong language and violence. TB 13943.

Heald, Tim.

Red herrings. 1985. Read by Robert Ashby, 6 hours 27 minutes. TB 5990.

Simon Bognor, a special investigator for Board of Trade, just happens to be on the spot when the body of a VAT inspector is found near the village of Herring St George. It doesn't take long for Simon to discover that there are some very peculiar things going on in the village, and someone is determined that Simon should be frightened into leaving as soon as possible. TB 5990.

Heath, Rachel

The finest type of English womanhood. 2009. Read by Julia Barrie, 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 17529.

It's 1946 and 17-year-old Laura Trelling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home. Then she meets Paul Lovell - a chance encounter that will bring her a new life in pre-apartheid South Africa. Three years earlier, 16-year-old Gay Gibson is no less desperate to escape England. When their paths cross, they find their lives inextricably entangled, with fatal consequences. TB 17529.

Herron, Mick

The last voice you hear. 2005. Read by Anna Bentinck, 11 hours 1 minute. TB 14522.

When a woman dies beneath the wheels of a train and her newly acquired love fails to turn up at the funeral, private investigator Zoë Boehm is hired to find him. And in attempting to unlock the secrets of a woman she's never met, in search of a man who might be anyone, Zoë only finds more questions. As her search leads her nearer to two different kinds of criminal, she starts to wonder if the man she is looking for has found her first. And if he has, is that going to make her another victim. TB 14522.

Heyer, Georgette

Why shoot a butler. 1989. Read by Christopher Scott, 8 hours 54 minutes. TB 10515.

A lonely old man is murdered in a quiet country lane, apparently shot as he was driving home. The only witness to the crime is a pretty young woman with a loaded automatic gun in her pocket, soon to become the main suspect. But why, indeed, shoot a butler? Unless he had seen too much. TB 10515.

Higgins, George V

The Mandeville talent. 1991. Read by Ed Bishop, 10 hours 8 minutes. TB 10056.

Joe Corey is a young disillusioned Manhattan corporate attorney, who is reluctantly drawn into a 23 year old unresolved murder case. The victim was his wife's grandfather, Jim Mandeville, killed with his own 12 gauge shotgun, as sent to the bank where he was president. TB 10056.

Hill, Reginald

A cure for all diseases. 2008. Read by Robbie MacNab, 16 hours 45 minutes. TB 15932.

Dalziel and Pascoe series; book 24. Sequel to: Death comes to the fat man. Convalescing in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort devoted to healing, Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow newcomer and psychologist, who is researching the benefits of alternative therapy. With much in common, the two soon find themselves in league when trouble comes to town. Sandytown's principal landowners have grandiose plans for the resort - none of which they can agree on. One of them has to go, and when one of them does, in spectacularly gruesome fashion, DCI Peter Pascoe is called in to investigate - with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcome support. But Pascoe finds dark forces at work in a place where medicine and holistic remedies is no match for the oldest cure of all! Contains strong language. TB 15932.

Hill, Susan

The various haunts of men. 2004. Read by Steven Pacey, 14 hours 49 minutes. TB 17347.

Simon Serrailler series; book 1. A lonely woman of 53 never returns from a morning run - hidden in her cupboard is an expensive pair of cuff-links with a note: 'To You, with all possible love from your devoted, Me'. A girl vanishes in the dusk - is it to do with her teenage crush on Dava, the blue-eyed 'therapist' whose speciality is 'inner harmony'? Experienced policemen know that most missing persons either turn up or go missing on purpose. But fresh-faced DS Freya Gresham won't drop it - what could possibly link the people who disappear on 'The Hill', young and old, men and women, even a little dog? TB 17347.

Hillerman, Tony

The dark wind. 1983. Read by Ian Craig, 6 hours 54 minutes. TB 5333.

Navajo Indian detective Jim Chee unravels a series of cases in the troubled borderland where the tribal police operate, and where Hopi and Navajo sorcery are at work. TB 5333.

Hinxman, Margaret

The sound of murder. 1986. Read by Tony Chambers, 6 hours 27 minutes. TB 6868.

Retired Sussex policeman, Ralph Brand, is on holiday in Salzburg. In the same hotel is the film crew for "The Sound of Murder", a low-budget film trading on "The Sound of Music". Brand met the star, Armstrong, earlier, and now meets the rest of the crew. It is obvious that there are tensions, and that Armstrong has something to hide. Strangest of all, his wife confides that she is afraid for her life. Very soon the hotel is alive with the sound of murder. TB 6868.

Holdsworth, Ken

The final curtain. 2008. Read by Matthew Field, 6 hours 52 minutes. TB 16169.

With shoulder-length blond hair and cornflower-blue eyes, Ronnie Simmons was quite irresistible to his fellow actors - of both sexes - and in the jaundiced opinion of his boyhood friend, TV soap actor, Nick Carter, he loses his heart with boring regularity. So it came as something of a surprise when Ronnie's sister, Susan, begs him to talk to her brother out of his latest relationship. Being between jobs, Nick sets out for the rural backwater where Ronnie is appearing with an Arts Council sponsored touring company, but behind the idyllic pastoral facade lies a disturbing mystery and Nick is soon involved in violence and murder. TB 16169.

Holme, Timothy

The Assisi murders. 1985. Read by Simon Coady, 6 hours 12 minutes. TB 5757.

Achille Peroni, the Rudolph Valentino of the Venetian police, is bullied by his sister into going on a pilgrimage to Assisi. There he gets involved in a murder enquiry, strictly unofficially, which becomes cunningly entwined with another murder committed seven centuries earlier. TB 5757.

Howatch, Susan.

The waiting sands. 1972. Read by Jacqueline King, 5 hours 36 minutes. TB 8167.

Rachel Lord had a feeling of impending tragedy as she arrived at her friend Decima's remote Highland home for a celebration party. Was it possible that Decima's husband had married her for her money and was now arranging her murder? Six guests were assembled for the celebration. Was death to be the seventh? TB 8167.

Howell, Lis

The flower arranger at All Saints. 2007. Read by Eunice Roberts, 13 hours 13 minutes. TB 16265.

Norbridge Chronicles series; book 1. In picturesque Tarnfield in the north of England, feuds and rivalries between the villagers typically lie dormant. But the arrival of a new local vicar shakes the community up, bringing together an unlikely alliance between Suzy Spencer, part-time television producer and full time mess, and Robert Clark, a conservative widower from the parish. But they are too late to save an unfortunate flower arranger. Contains strong language. TB 16265.

Hunter, Alan

The love of gods. 1997. Read by Alexander John, 5 hours 50 minutes. TB 11554.

As Chief Superintendent George Gently sits on his lawn having Sunday afternoon tea, and listening to his friend's vivid account of the latest meeting of Wolmering's artistic talent, nothing could be further from his mind than untimely death. But his tranquil afternoon is soon to be interrupted with news of the brutal murder of a local poet. TB 11554.

Ison, Graham

The Home Secretary will see you now. 1989. Read by Stephen Thorne, 7 hours 1 minute. TB 8033.

When former actress Elizabeth Lavery is found strangled in her bedroom, both the Commissioner and the Home Secretary are called to Scotland Yard that same night, because of the political implications of the murder. TB 8033.

James, P D

The private patient. 2009. Read by Michael Jayston, 13 hours 35 minutes. TB 17015.

Adam Dalgliesh series; book 14. Sequel to: The lighthouse TB 14910.When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, are confronted with problems even more complicated than the question of innocence or guilt. TB 17015.

Jardine, Quintin

Murmuring the judges. 2004. Read by James Bryce, 11 hours 55 minutes. TB 14307.

Bob Skinner series; book 8. Sequel to: Skinner's ghosts, TB 14407. In Edinburgh's old Parliament House, an armed robbery trial is about to take a macabre turn. While the lawyers tussle over the evidence, the judge suddenly collapses in mortal agony - the victim of an apparent heart attack. For Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner, with his life finally back on track after the near-collapse of his marriage, the last thing he needs is to be faced with the most baffling case of his career. But as the wave of brutal robberies continues, it emerges that Lord Archergait's death may have been murder - and he's not the only judge whose life is in danger. With a gang of ruthless killers still at large, it's down to Skinner to piece together a puzzle of sinister complexity. Contains strong language. TB 14307.

Kaye, M M

Death in Kashmir. 1985. Read by Rosemary Davis, 11 hours 18 minutes. TB 7189.

Death in... series; book 1. When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing holiday in Gulmarg, a resort high above the fabled vale of Kashmir, she looks forward to an amusing but uneventful stay, but the discovery of the grotesque corpse of grey-haired Mrs Matthews casts a dark shadow over the party. On learning the real truth about her death, Sarah is plunged into a deadly intrigue of secret messages and, mysterious rendezvous - murder, menace and romance set in the last days of the Raj. TB 7189.

Kellerman, Faye

Straight into darkness. 2006. Read by Adam Sims, 13 hours 1 minute. TB 14606.

In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim being a young society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered; the discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing with an unimaginably evil killer. In the Germany of the time, the investigation cannot be straightforward. Hitler's power is growing, and the Nazis are a strong civic force in the city of Munich. Berg is thrown into a web of danger as senior officers work to their own agendas. Contains violence. TB 14606.

Kent, Christobel

A party in San Niccolo. 2007. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 14 hours 38 minutes. TB 16263.

Gina arrives in Florence to visit an old friend. She is hoping for nothing more than a break from her demanding young family, but as she soon discovers, this most ancient and beautiful of cities has its dark side. Within hours of her arrival, Gina meets the elegant Frances Richardson, who invites her to a party. Before the week is out love, death, family secrets and old memories will come to a head at Frances' party, with dramatic results. TB 16263.

Lackberg, Camilla

The ice princess. 2009. Read by Russell Boulter, 12 hours 19 minutes. TB 17019.

Patrik Hedstrom series; book 1. Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. Erica conceives a memoir about the apparent suicide of her childhood friend, Alex. While her interest grows to an obsession, local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case. When they start working together the truth begins to emerge about this small town with a deeply disturbing past. TB 17019.

Landay, William

The strangler. 2008. Read by Jeff Harding, 13 hours 23 minutes. TB 16417.

Boston, 1963. A city on edge. In the city's underworld, a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims, a murderer whose name is indelibly linked to their city: the Boston Strangler. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16417.

La Plante, Lynda

The red dahlia. 2007. Read by Kim Hicks, 13 hours 32 minutes. TB 15540.

Anna Travis series; 2. Sequel to: Above suspicion, TB 15503. When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder. Horrifically mutilated, severed in half and drained of blood, her death is an ominous mirror image of an infamous 1940s case in Los Angles known as the 'The Black Dahlia'. Detective Inspector Anna Travis is brought in on the case. Contains strong language and violence. TB 15540.

La Plante, Lynda

Clean cut. 2009. Read by Kim Hicks, 13 hours 39 minutes. TB 17112.

Anna Travis series; book 3. Dedicated, intuitive and utterly obsessive, DCI James Langton is ruthless in his pursuit of a gang of illegal immigrants, killers of a young prostitute. When he is horrifically, almost fatally injured by one of them, it falls upon DI Anna Travis to put her own career on hold as she nurses him through his intense frustration and desperation to bring his would-be murderer to justice. Then Anna is assigned to a different case, the brutal killing of a quiet, studious woman whose body was discovered by her daughter returning home from school. A senseless attack with no obvious motive or immediate suspect. Until, chillingly, the case becomes unexpectedly linked with Langton's and Anna finds herself under similar threat from those who almost destroyed his career and his life. TB 17112.

Larsson, Stieg

The girl with the dragon tattoo. 2008. Read by Matt Addis, 16 hours 11 minutes. TB 16729.

Millenium trilogy; book 1. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 16729.

Lennon, Patrick

Corn Dolls. 2007. Read by Steve Hodson, 11 hours 55 minutes. TB 16398.

Tom Fletcher series; book 1. It begins for Tom Fletcher with what looks like a very bloody accident in a farm machinery showroom, and reaches back into the past - his own and that of the local police force - before slamming into the present with all the force of the most up-to-date criminal power in the world. TB 16398.

Lewis, J R

A gathering of ghosts. 1982. Read by Brian Perkins, 5 hours 44 minutes. TB 4672.

A slick businessman's planning application to turn a run-down Northumbrian farm into a leisure complex is thwarted by a conscientious planning officer, out to defend the national heritage. Revisiting the barn to check on the information, he finds someone else has had the same idea - but has not left the old building alive. TB 4672.

McCall Smith, Alexander.

Morality for beautiful girls. Read by Hilary Neville, 6 hours 24 minutes. TB 13825.

The No. 1 ladies' detective agency series; book 3. Sequel to: Tears of the giraffe, TB 13551. Mma Ramotswe, daughter of the late Obed Ramotswe, is now the announced fiancee of Mr J L B Matekoni. It is a fine match: she is the founder and owner of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency and he is the proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. But Precious Ramotswe is not as happy as she should be under the circumstances. The Detective Agency is struggling with its finances and Mr J L B Matekoni is unusually low and neglecting his garage. But with the help of the reliable Mma Makutsi and a few interesting cases, things are bound to get back on course. TB 13825.

McCrery, Nigel

Still waters. 2008. Read by Glen McCready, 9 hours 53 minutes. TB 16355.

DCI Mark Lapsie is on sick leave, suffering from a rare neurological condition that has cross-wired his senses. So he's surprised to be called to the scene of a road accident. But there's something unusual - and familiar - about this case. Contains strong language. TB 16355.

McDermid, Val

A darker domain. 2009. Read by Sally Armstrong, 14 hours 43 minutes. TB 17282.

It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy heiress and son kidnapped in Fife, then a botched payoff, leaving her dead with no trace of the child. So when, over twenty-five years later, a possible clue is discovered by a journalist in Tuscany, cold case expert DI Karen Pirie doesn't hold much hope of unravelling the infamous enigma. She's already investigating a case from the same year. At the height of the miner's strike, Mick Prentice broke ranks to join 'scab' strike-breakers down south. But new evidence suggests Mick's disappearance may not be as straightforward as that - and Karen's investigations take her into a dark domain of secrets, betrayal and the ultimate violence. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17282.

McGregor, Alexander

Lawless. 2008. Read by Joe Dunlop, 8 hours 53 minutes. TB 16410.

Journalist Campbell McBride's first crime book, "The Law Town Killers", is a success but now it's attracting some unwanted attention. McBride's going to have to return to what, when he wrote about it, seemed like a straightforward murder case - a woman strangled by her boyfriend. Whether he's being led or obstructed, McBride starts to think that an innocent man is in jail for murder and that there might be something significant about the black tie that was used to throttle the victim. Contains strong language. TB 16410.

Malone, Michael S

First lady. 2002. Read by Jeff Harding, 13 hours 57 minutes. TB 12756.

A woman's body is found, tagged and addressed to the police detectives Savile and Mangum. It looks like the city of Hillstown in North Carolina has a serial killer on its hands. The city lives in fear - and yet Savile and Mangum have no leads on the murderer the press call the "Guess Who Killer". Contains strong language. TB 12756.

Mankell, Henning

Before the frost. 2005. Read by Sean Barrett, 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 14173.

Linda Wallander series; book 1. Ystad police make a horrific discovery; a severed head, and hands locked together in a prayer. Other incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, have been taking place and Inspector Wallander fears that these might just be the prelude to further attacks on humans. Linda Wallander, preparing to join Ystad police force, arrives at the station and becomes involved in the case. In the process she shows the hallmarks of her father - the flaring temper, the maverick approach - when confronting a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners. Contains violence. TB 14173.

Manotti, Dominique

Lorraine connection. 2008. Read by Peter Wickham, 8 hours 9 minutes. TB 16223.

When a cathode ray tube factory in a small French town is hit first by a strike and then by a suspicious fire, the battle for the take-over of the plant's beleaguered parent company heats up. The Lorraine factory is at the centre of a strategic battle being played out in Paris, Brussels, and Asia for the take-over of the ailing state-owned electronics giant Thomson. Accusations of foul play fly, and rival contender Alcatel calls in its intrepid head of security Charles Montoya to investigate. He soon uncovers explosive revelations and a trail of murders, dirty tricks, blackmail, and corporate malfeasance. Contains strong language. TB 16223.

Meek, M R D

A worm of doubt. 1987. Read by Gwen Cherrell, 6 hours 53 minutes. TB 7708.

Lennox Kemp, a lawyer, has a meeting with Frelis Lorimer - concerning her husband David Lorimer's adultery with an employee Eileen Dolin. Lennox Kemp spells out the legal framework to Frelis Lorimer - who feels that it would not be to her advantage if she sues for divorce due to the financial settlement. Her husband owns the "Tollhouse Garage", which has been losing business. Frelis decides to save the marriage. TB 7708.

Melville, Jennie

Dead again. 2000. Read by Norma West, 6 hours 25 minutes. TB 12433.

As Joan Dingham awaits her release from prison, her former partners in crime - Beryl, Phyllis and Bee - prepare for her return with hushed excitement. Only one of the original gang is missing - Diana, now deceased. But before the Joan is released, another spate of murders rocks the town. The corpses bear the same markings as those of Joan's victims years before. Senior policewoman Charmian Daniels, is put in charge of these new murder cases - and soon senses an uncomfortable echo of the past inhabiting the present. Then Diana appears out of the blue - but she has been dead for years - hasn't she? TB 12433.

Mills, Mark

The information officer. 2009. Read by Richard Burnip, 10 hours 2 minutes. TB 16737.

For the people of Malta, suffering daily bombing raids, the British are the last line of defence against the Nazis. And it is Max Chadwick's job as the information officer to ensure the news the islanders receive maintains morale. So when Max is given proof suggesting a British officer is murdering local women, he knows the consequences of discovery are dire. With the violence on the war-ravaged island escalating daily, he embarks on a private investigation, hidden from the eyes of superiors, friends and the woman he loves. Contains violence. TB 16737.

Moffat, Gwen

Gone feral. 2008. Read by Rachel Bavidge, 8 hours 4 minutes. TB 16629.

Sophie has inherited the Boathouse, in scenic Cumbria. When the pleasure steamer churns up more than mud from the lake floor and a terrible package is revealed, it changes the lives of all connected with the Boathouse. TB 16629.

Murphy, Haughton

Murder takes a partner. 1987. Read by Elizabeth de Silva, 9 hours 33 minutes. TB 8219.

Set against a background of contemporary New York's theatrical district, the famous artistic director of the National Ballet Company is murdered. Is this a motiveless crime or is it as the first suspect says - before dying himself - a contract killing? Homicide detective Luis Bautista is called in and the gripping hunt for the truth begins. TB 8219.

Murphy, Margaret

The dispossessed. 2005. Read by Carole Boyd, 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 16612.

Bled to death and left in a rubbish bin, the teenaged prostitute is just the first victim. DI Jeff Rickman's investigation into the Afghan refugee's sordid death leads first to the heart of a community who can't - or won't - talk to him. Then the investigation comes home to Rickman's own private life. As the body count starts rising he is framed for a crime he didn't commit. A murderer is trying to make things personal. Very personal. Is he on the trail of a serial killer? Or something even more sinister? TB 16612.

O'Brien, Martin.

Jacquot and the fifteen. 2008. Read by Stephen Thorne, 10 hours 18 minutes. TB 16622.

Jacquot series; book 4. Sequel to: Jacquot and the angel, TB 14584. Marc Dombasle is a successful businessman. He was also the captain of the French Rugby team that beat England at Twickenham twenty years earlier. To mark the anniversary, Dombasle organises a reunion for the members of the winning team. When Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot receives his invitation to attend the party he is reluctant, but an old friend persuades him and he makes his way to the millionaire's sumptuous Cote d'Azur home. But past rivalries soon re-surface and when one of Jacquot's old team-mates commits suicide in a pool-side cabana, his suspicions are aroused. Is there a killer amongst them? TB 16622.

O'Flynn, Catherine

What was lost. 2007. Read by Rachel Atkins, 6 hours 44 minutes. TB 16066.

A lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre's endless corridors - welcome relief from the behaviour of customers, colleagues and the Green Oaks mystery shopper. But as this after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light. Contains strong language. TB 16066.

Padura, Leonardo

Adios Hemingway. 2005. Read by Merv Smith, 4 hours 11 minutes. TB 15303.

The bones of a man murdered forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway. A hard living ex-cop reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate the crime. As he digs into the past, the idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway soon gives way to the truth. TB 15303.

Parrish, Frank.

Face at the window. 1986. Read by Derek Chandler, 6 hours 41 minutes. TB 6247.

Lady Dodds-Freeman is an alcoholic, and the gardener, Dan Tallet, worries about her. Then the body of one of the neighbours is found in her Ladyship's flat, her head smashed in with a gin bottle - and a lot of money is missing. Suspicion falls on Dan and it seems the only way he can clear his name is to find the killer himself. TB 6247.

Patterson, James

2nd chance. 2002. Read by Pat Starr, 8 hours 35 minutes. TB 12912.

The Women's Murder Club series; book 2. Sequel to: 1st to die, TB 13870. The tragic end of the honeymoon murder case left Lindsay Boxer unsure if she could ever return to work. But when a little girl is shot outside a San Francisco church, she knows it's time to reconvene the Women's Murder Club. Working with reporter Cindy Thomas, assistant DA Jill Bernhardt and medical examiner Claire Washburn, Lindsay starts to track a mystifying killer who quickly turns her pursuers into his victims. TB 12912.

Paul, Barbara

The renewable virgin. 1984. Read by Rosemary Davis, 8 hours 58 minutes. TB 5326.

Kelly Ingram is a rising star who has everything going for her. Even the hate between her agent and the producer of her new TV series cannot spoil her success. But then a friend is murdered. Detective Marian Larch of the New York Detective Bureau is assigned to investigate the crime. TB 5326.

Peacock, Caro

Death at dawn. 2008. Read by Lucy Scott, 9 hours 48 minutes. TB 16323.

Liberty Lane series; book 1. Thomas Jacques Lane - radical, romantic, scholar and devoted father - had led an unconventional life but of one thing his daughter, Liberty, is certain: he would never have taken part in a duel. So when she receives a note informing her of his death in just such a manner, Liberty ignores all advice and sets off in pursuit of the truth. With no resources bar her wits, she travels to the Continent and back in search of her father's killer. And as the nation prepares for the coronation of a young Victoria, Liberty uncovers murder and treachery at the very highest levels! TB 16323.

Pearce, Michael

A dead man in Trieste. 2006. Read by Clive Mantle, 6 hours 51 minutes. TB 16463.

Seymour series; book 1. It is 1906. The British consul in Trieste has gone missing, and Special Branch officer Seymour is called to investigate. He's capable and hardworking, but not entirely British - a bit dubious really. So, he's just the man for the job! TB 16463.

Penn, John

Accident prone. 1987. Read by Antony Higginson, 6 hours 37 minutes. TB 7546.

Following the murder of her Mother, Helen Fayne's life becomes a succession of dangerous incidents, each one of which is potentially fatal, leading to the involvement of Detective-Superintendent George Thorne of the Thames Valley Serious Crimes Squad. The case becomes more and more complex as Thorne struggles to unravel the puzzle. TB 7546.

Perry, Anne

No graves as yet. 2004. Read by Cornelius Garrett, 13 hours 49 minutes. TB 16498.

World War I series; book 1. Cambridge 1914. For Joseph Reavley, the idyllic summer is shattered by his parents' deaths in a car accident. Bringing the terrible news, his brother reveals that their father had been travelling to see him about a sinister plot he had discovered. Matthew's job in the secret service means that he would understand the mysterious document their father possessed. However, it is nowhere to be found. TB 16498.

Rankin, Ian

The complaints. 2009. Read by Andrew Watson, 11 hours 29 minutes. TB 17190.

Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'The Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. It's where Malcolm Fox works. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's a man with problems of his own. He has an increasingly frail father in a care home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship - something which Malcolm cannot seem to do anything about. But, in the midst of an aggressive Edinburgh winter, the reluctant Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. Contains strong language. TB 17190.

Rankin, Ian

Doors open. 2009. Read by Jonathan Hackett, 11 hours 48 minutes. TB 16916.

Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off the National Gallery of Scotland. So he devises a plan to lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed. Contains strong language and violence. TB 16916.

Rees, Matt

The Bethlehem murders. 2007. Read by Daniel Philpot, 7 hours 55 minutes. TB 16228.

Omar Yussef series; book 1. For decades, Omar Yussef has taught history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favourite former pupil, George Saba, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla, Yussef is convinced that he has been framed. With George facing imminent execution Yussef sets out to prove his innocence. As Yussef falls foul of his headmaster and the local police chief, time begins to run out for this teacher-turned-detective. His classroom is bombed and members of his family are threatened. But with no one else willing to stand up for the truth, it is up to Omar to act, even as bloodshed and heartbreak surround him. Contains strong language. TB 16228.

Regan, Linda

Behind you. 2009. Read by Christopher Oxford, 7 hours 39 minutes. TB 17359.

Banham and Grainger series; book 1. Christmas: a time of peace and goodwill. Oh not it isn't, thinks Detective Paul Banham, called out to a suspicious death at the local theatre, right in the middle of the pantomime. Was it an accident - or murder? On the other side of the curtain Banham and his squad find rivalries, grudges and illicit liaisons begin to surface. A second death leaves Banham in no doubt that there's a murderer on the loose - but the panto is sold out and show must go on. TB 17359.

Reichs, Kathy.

Bare bones. 2008. Read by Liza Ross, 9 hours 57 minutes. TB 17171.

Temperance Brennan series; book 6. Sequel to: Grave secrets, TB 15104. First there's the newborn skeleton found in a wood stove. Then a pilot and passenger are found burnt, covered in a strange black substance. Most puzzling is a cache of bones, some animal and some human. All the pieces seem to lead back to an isolated farm. Can Dr Brennan decipher the clues in time? TB 17171.

Raymond, Derek

The devil's home on leave. 1993. Read by Raymond Sawyer, 7 hours 32 minutes. TB 11590.

Working for the Met's Unexplained Deaths division attracts little fame or glory, but one Detective Sergeant who harbours a compulsion to investigate the mysteries of mankind gone bad, encounters one of the most appalling murders he has ever seen. Five plastic carrier bags each contain the carefully dissected and boiled remains of the victim. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 11590.

Reah, Danuta

Only darkness. 1999. Read by Patricia Jones, 10 hours 14 minutes. TB 12391.

One stormy night, waiting for the late train home, Debbie Sykes sees that the woman who usually shares her vigil is not there, only a sinister figure looming between her and the safety of the street. The next day, she hears that the missing woman has been found murdered. Contains strong language. TB 12391.

Rendell, Ruth

The water's lovely. 2007. Read by Sian Thomas, 9 hours 59 minutes. TB 17114.

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. In the dream she and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather through the bedroom to a chamber floored and walled in marble. The white thing in the water floated towards her and her mother said "Don't look!". The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Nine years on, she and her sister Heather still lived in the same house divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had been demolished. But, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 17114.

Rendell, Ruth

End in tears. 2007. Read by Nigel Anthony, 10 hours 14 minutes. TB 16283.

Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery; book 20. Sequel to: The babes in the wood, TB14421. While investigating a series of unrelated murders, Inspector Wexford discovers that the victim of a piece of falling concrete, pushed off a highway overpass, is somehow linked to the bludgeoning death of a teenager killed after a late night out with her friends. Contains violence. TB 16283.

Ridpath, Michael

Free to trade: there's a killing to be made. 1995. Read by Alex Jennings, 11 hours 32 minutes. TB 10723.

Paul Murray is a junior bond trader who loves his job and is keen to make a good impression. When Debbie, a colleague of his, is found dead, his life is turned upside down. Paul's search for an explanation becomes a crusade as he uncovers a web of deception, fraud and murder. The trouble is, Paul has no idea who is out to get him, let alone what they want to hide and, in a business where there is definitely a killing to be made, he has every reason to feel paranoid. TB 10723.

Rigbey, Liz

Summer time. 2004. Read by Liza Ross, 14 hours 12 minutes. TB 14629.

The mysterious drowning of her father soon brings back previous unresolved family tragedies back into focus. Dangerous secrets begin to surface and Lucy finds she is being pursued, both by a stalker in her present and a past that seems strangely incomplete. TB 14629.

Robinson, Peter

A necessary end: an Inspector Banks mystery. 2002. Read by Owain Shaw, 11 hours 46 minutes. TB 16163.

Inspector Banks series; book 3. Sequel to: A dedicated man, TB 15357. In the usually peaceful town of Eastvale, a simmering tension has now reached breaking point. An anti-nuclear demonstration has ended in violence, leaving one policeman stabbed to death. Fired by professional outrage, Superintendent 'Dirty Dick' Burgess descends with vengeful fury on the inhabitants of 'Maggie's Farm', an isolated house high on the daleside. Inspector Alan Banks is uneasy about Burgess's handling of the investigation. But he has been warned off the case. Soon Banks realizes that the only way he can salvage his career is by beating Burgess to the killer. Contains strong language. TB 16163.

Rubens, Bernice

Nine lives. 2002. Read by Di Langford, 7 hours 33 minutes. TB 12585.

The killer's modus operandi is the same in each instance: strangulation, always with a guitar string. And though the murders are taking place up and down the country, there is one other similarity that Inspector Wilkins can't help noticing. Each victim is a psychotherapist. Contains strong language. TB 12585.

Sampson, Catherine

Falling off air. 2005. Read by Clare Wille, 9 hours 18 minutes. TB 14722.

From the warmth of her living room, Robin Ballantyne is horrified to witness the suicide of an activist and highly respected community figure. Paula's death soon reveals that she has been haunted by dark secrets and unanswered questions, and that this mysterious figure had known all about Robin, her family and the estranged father of her twins, TV producer Adam Wills. When Robin ends her extended maternity leave and returns to work at the Corporation, tragedy moves even closer to home, and she finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation, hounded at every turn by police and press. She must discover the truth before she loses everything, forever. Contains violence. TB 14722.

Sansom, C J

Dark fire. 2005. Read by Christian Rodska, 18 hours 2 minutes. TB 16415.

Shardlake series; book 2. Sequel to: Dissolution, TB 16284. It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister - and a new assignment. TB 16415.

Sewart, Alan

Drink! For once dead. 1983. Read by Christopher Scott, 4 hours 57 minutes. TB 4740.

Yorkshire police are surprised to find certain fingerprints on a beer mug after a break-in at a workingmen's club - they are the prints of a Lancashire criminal who died six months ago. Was the science of fingerprint identification infallible? Harry Chamberlane decides to find out and comes face to face with death. TB 4740.

Shaw, Catherine

The three body problem: a Cambridge mystery. 2008. Read by Liz Hollis, 9 hours 14 minutes. TB 16322.

Cambridge, 1888, Miss Vanessa Duncan is recently arrived from the countryside to teach. But everything changes when Mr Akers, a Fellow of Mathematics, is found dead. When a second and then third mathematician are murdered, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. TB 16322.

Simpson, Dorothy.

The night she died. 1981. Read by Bruce Montague, 7 hours 7 minutes. TB 3919.

Inspector Thanet series; book 1. Inspector Thanet is called in to investigate the death of a young, beautiful, but enigmatic housewife. TB 39196.

Smith, Deborah

The stone flower garden. 2002. Read by Barbara Cartwright, 12 hours 50 minutes. TB 15265.

Childhood friends are torn apart by a murder that has never been solved. They are faced with long-buried secrets as the darker side of a family's saga is revealed. Contains violence. TB 15265.

Smith, Frank A

Thread of evidence: a mystery. 2001. Read by Conrad Hornby, 10 hours 20 minutes. TB 13401.

DCI Neil Paget has a knack for getting the most difficult cases in Shropshire. There's always a red herring, and nothing is ever what it seems. However this case is more baffling than average. A prominent local businessman is found dead in a hotel room only minutes from his home. The crime scene is flooded with his blood and there's evidence that a second person was in the vicinity moments after the murder. Everyone the victim was associated with seems to have a motive, and Paget's motley crew of officers turn up a new suspect every time they find a clue. TB 13401.

Smith, Martin Cruz.

Polar star. 1989. Read by Frank Duncan, 13 hours 39 minutes. TB 8923.

Arkady Renko series; book 2. Sequel to: Gorky Park, TB8923. After being considered politically unreliable, Arkady Renko is now working as a second-class seaman aboard the Soviet factory ship Polar Star. When the body of a Russian girl, who worked on board ship, is discovered, Renko becomes involved in an investigation that uncovers drug trafficking and espionage. TB 8923.

Stout, Rex

The golden spiders. 1996. Read by John Chancer, 6 hours 30 minutes. TB 12169.

Nero Wolfe series; book 22. Sequel to: Triple jeopardy. Wolfe picked up his current book from his desk, manoeuvred himself into a comfortable position and started reading. I went to my desk and pulled the typewriter towards me. I corrected the ad for tomorrow's 'Times', it read: Woman with spider earrings and scratch on cheek who on Tuesday, driving a car, told boy at 35th Street and 9th Avenue to get a cop, please communicate with Nero Wolfe. There wasn't one chance in a million it would get a nibble, but it did. TB 12169.

Stuart, Ian.

Death from disclosure. 1992. Read by Bruce Montague, 5 hours 4 minutes. TB 9679.

Bank inspector David Grierson comes to Cressford to investigate a complaint that confidential information has been disclosed. The manager's body is found in a chalk pit, which seems to end the matter, but why should anyone buy the company owning the moribund pit, and how were the manager and Laura Stearn involved in the web of corruption David uncovers? TB 9679.

Symons, Julian

The Kentish manor murders. 1988. Read by George Hagan, 7 hours 9 minutes. TB 7578.

Sheridan Haynes, famous Conan Doyle expert, is asked to give a private performance of his readings to a rich recluse. A visit to the tycoon with his weird lifestyle and surroundings triggers off a bizarre series of events culminating in a sudden and puzzling death. The mystery deepens, reaching a violent and shattering climax with Sheridan fighting for his life. TB 7578.

Taylor, Alison

Unsafe convictions. 1999. Read by Steve Hodson, 13 hours 8 minutes. TB 12430.

Trisha Stanton is murdered and her ex-husband is wrongly convicted of the crime. When evidence of his innocence is found, Superintendent Michael McKenna is called in to search for evidence of police corruption, and to find the real killer. TB 12480.

Templeton, Aline

Night and silence. 2007. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 10 hours 35 minutes. TB 16807.

The rural idyll of life in a remote Welsh valley has turned sour for the Cordiners. For David, life in the local police force is deathly dull after the exhilaration of working for the Met. For Tessa, the hostility of the local community is a daily torment. Then a young nurse is found dead at a nearby beauty spot, her corpse strewn with wild flowers in some sick and sinister private ceremony. Caught up in the challenge of a murder investigation, David misses the signs that danger is stalking his wife in their secluded cottage. TB 16807.

Templeton, Aline

Cold in the earth. 2005. Read by Kate McGoldrick, 12 hours 30 minutes. TB 14616.

D. I. Majory Fleming series; book 1. As a catastrophic virus devastates the Scottish Countryside, killing cattle and destroying lives, DI Majory Fleming finds herself at the stormy heart of a troubled, trapped community. A dead body, a missing girl, and a mysterious family's dangerous obsession with bull running provide a sinister backdrop to DI Flemings first murder investigation. TB 14616.

Thomson, June

Shadow of a doubt. 1981. Read by Gretel Davis, 9 hours 14 minutes. TB 4486.

Hawton Hall is a successful and very expensive, psychiatric clinic run by the equally successful Dr. Jordan. When his rather timid, grey-haired wife disappears his main concern is to avoid scandal. Then his pretty secretary is murdered. TB 4486.

Thompson, Brian

The widow's secret. 2009. Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw, 7 hours 55 minutes. TB 16978.

Bella Wallis discovers her plots in the alley ways, drawing rooms and dirty laundry of Victorian London. Under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam she takes revenge upon the scoundrels that litter London Society by destroying them - in print. So when Bella discovers a crested cigar case at the scene of a murdered prostitute she and her friends are determined to solve the mystery and to avenge the wretched girl's death. But the owner of the coat of arms is a dangerous and powerful man, and the world he inhabits far murkier than Bella could ever have imagined. TB 16978.

Underwood, Michael

A clear case of suicide. 1982. Read by Robbie MacNab, 6 hours 42 minutes. TB 9721.

Laurence Deegan, QC, had just won his latest case. At fifty, already a distinguished and famous barrister, he seemed set to become a judge at an early age. The same evening, his triumph still fresh, he ran his bath, got into it and slit the veins in both wrists. Why had he done it? His younger son (a police officer in the Special Branch) takes it upon himself to find out. It is this investigation that provides the core and detail of a most intriguing mystery. TB 9721.

Vargas, Fred

Wash this blood clean from my hand. 2008. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 13 hours 55 minutes. TB 16218.

Between 1943 and 2003, nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made; suspects confessed their crime and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: the presumed murderers lost consciousness during the night of the crime and have no recollection of it. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help. History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence. Contains strong language. TB 16218.

Vine, Barbara

The birthday present. 2009. Read by Paul Blake and Ruth Sillers, 10 hours 21 minutes. TB 16568.

Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War, and sleazy politics, "The Birthday Present" is the story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of a troubled era. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give his girlfriend Hebe a present to remember. Involving a fashionable new practice known as 'adventure sex', a man arranges for her to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him. TB 16568.

Walker, Martin

Bruno, Chief of Police. 2008. Read by Ric Jerrom, 8 hours 13 minutes. TB 16980.

Bruno series; book 1. When an old man is found viciously murdered, a swastika carved in his chest, the obvious conclusion is that this killing must be racist. Suspicion falls on the son of the local doctor, found in flagrante playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia. TB 16980.

Walters, Minette

The echo. 1997. Read by David Thorpe, 10 hours 12 minutes. TB 11059.

Why did Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, die of starvation in the garage of wealthy architect Amanda Powell? Six months on from the bizarre tragedy, Amanda is suddenly obsessed with her dead visitor, and is eager to talk to journalist Michael Deacon. Deacon's curiosity is intense, particularly as Amanda's wealth can only be explained if her husband is dead. TB 11059.

Walters, Minette

The ice house. 1998. Read by Nicolette McKenzie, 10 hours 41 minutes. TB 11501.

The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange. Ten years before, Phoebe Maybury's husband David had vanished from there. But does the discovery of an unidentifiable corpse in the old ice house now mean that the police can finally close the case? Deep-buried prejudices surface when Inspector Walsh and Sergeant McLaughlin delve into private lives and secret passions. TB 11501.

Welsh, Irvine

Filth. 1998. Read by Jonathan Hackett and Jacqueline King, 14 hours 54 minutes. TB 12417.

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially, kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, and a string of increasingly extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Contains strong language. TB 12417.

Williams, David

A terminal case. 1997. Read by Sion Probert, 7 hours 52 minutes. TB 11555.

The parishioners of Bryntaf, a leafy Cardiff suburb, are far from being shocked when the vicar of St. Samson's announces he is divorcing his wife. Some are surprised, though, when he adds that he expects to remarry - an attractive, young widow - and still keep his job. But his intentions go for nothing when the widow, a hospital consultant, is brutally murdered, her body mutilated with one of her own scalpels. TB 11555.

Wilson, Derek

Unquiet Spirit. 2007. Read by Nigel Carrington, 5 hours 43 minutes. TB 16318.

Nathaniel Gye. St Thomas's College, Cambridge, has a ghost - or so some people believe. How to deal with the sightings on F staircase is an issue which bitterly divides the fellows. And when a TV unit of ghostbusters is called in and a professor collapses with a heart attack during the proceedings, the college really is in a fix. So Nathaniel Gye is called in to make discreet investigations. As he tries to tease out the twisted strands of this strange affair he finds out that this unquiet spirit did not commit suicide ten years previously, but was the victim of a more recent murder. TB 16318.

Winspear, Jacqueline

Maisie Dobbs. 2005. Read by Maggie Maxwell, 8 hours 42 minutes. TB 16099.

Maisie Dobbs series; book 1. After serving as a nurse at the Front in France, Maisie returned to London in 1929 to become a private investigator. Her first cases combines gripping mysteries that force her to face a ghost that has haunted her for over ten years. TB 16099.

Wright, Edward

The silver face. 2004. Read by Hayward Morse, 12 hours 45 minutes. TB 14547.

Step back into 1940s L.A., to the neon lit streets and smoky bars, where glamour lives - and death just might come calling. TB 14547.

Wright, L R

Menace. 2001. Read by Aileen Seaton, 9 hours 26 minutes. TB 17662.

Edwina Henderson is now in charge of the RCMP detachment in Gibsons, British Columbia. When a woman reports a theft and then another reports a break-in, Eddie considers both complaints insignificant. But as she and her new second-in-command begin to investigate, they are led into a confrontation with a dangerous stalker. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17662.

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Last rituals. 2008. Read by Kim Hicks, 11 hours 35 minutes. TB 17000.

A young man is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out. A student of Icelandic history in Reykjavik, he came from a wealthy German family who do not share the police's belief that his drug dealer murdered him. TB 17000.

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