Creator: Sean Barrett
Publication date: 2004-05
RRP: £56.50
Price: £56.50
Review The Return of the Dancing Master / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Roger Allam
Edition: Library edition
Publication date: 2008-08-01
RRP: £58.50
Price: £58.50
Review A Prisoner of Birth / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Michael Jayston
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £57.44
Price: £54.56
Review Single and Single: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Laurence Bouvard
Publication date: 2003-01
RRP: £47.50
Price: £47.50
Review Mistress of Justice / ISIS Audio Books:Taylor Lockwood, jazz-playing paralegal heroine of Mistress of Justice, is one of the smart, sassy heroines in whom Jeffery Deaver specialised before he invented the austere, paralysed criminalist Lincoln Rhyme. Like Rune in Manhattan Is My Beat, Taylor is clever, but not quite as good at things as she thinks she is-she trusts a few too many people and lets her preconceptions get in her way; Deaver has always done a nice line in the detective who gets things wrong quite a lot of the time. Taylor is brought in by Reece, a Wall Street hot-shot, to work out who has stolen a crucial document and where they have hidden it. Along the way, she uncovers most of the dirty little secrets of the partners of the firm and finds herself having to exercise judgement about each of them; she has refused to follow her father into the law because of her music, but she finds herself caught up in justice all the same. This is an early book that Deaver has reworked-it has the technical slickness that is now his hallmark, but keeps the joie de vivre that it has to some extent replaced. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: John Bolen
Edition: Library ed
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £39.49
Price: £39.49
Review The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Joe Dunlop
Publication date: 2003-08
RRP: £45.50
Price: £45.50
Review Wearing Purple: An Oz Blackstone Mystery (Soundings) / Soundings:
Creator: Hugh Ross
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £57.44
Price: £57.44
Review A Place of Safety: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: J. Charles
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-09-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £20.04
Price: £10.38
Review The Medusa Stone / Brilliance Corporation:
Creator: Carol Higgins Clark
Publication date: 2003-01-31
RRP: £46.94
Price: £46.94
Review Deck the Halls / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Paul Michael
Publication date: 2004-01
RRP: £63.19
Price: £63.19
Review Sons of Fortune / Chivers Audio Books:The author of Sons of Fortune, Jeffrey Archer, is one of the most controversial figures of our age, both as a man and a writer. Jeffrey Archer triumphed over a well-publicised series of disasters to become one of the bestselling writers of the century, and a millionaire several times over. All his mishaps (both financial and personal) merely added to the public image of a writer as one of the great survivors-a man who took all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and bounced back. His books were always his salvation-many readers were spellbound by his narrative abilities. In fact, Sons of Fortune has encomiums by four newspapers praising the author. Of course, famously, Jeffrey Archer was detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure, and this is his first major novel to appear following his incarceration. But Archer fans are not likely to desert him for this little setback, and the new book will ensure the kind of attention that made such predecessors as First Among Equals such copper-bottomed bestsellers. The concept here is one that has exercised writers since Shakespeare-twins separated by the vicissitudes of chance and reunited under very different circumstances. In Hartford, Connecticut, two brothers are denied the opportunity to grow up together. Fletcher Davenport enjoys life as the son of a millionaire, while his brother Nat grows up under less advantaged circumstances, as the son of a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. [+]The brothers grow to adulthood not knowing of each others' existence, and Nat distinguishes himself as a war hero in Vietnam before returning to great success as a financier. Fletcher goes from a prestigious law career to become a senator. Ironically, the two men fall in love with the same girl, and when murder enters the equation, one brother has to defend the other against the most severe of charges. Detailing the American background with great gusto, Archer paints his narrative in broad brushstrokes that may lack subtlety but keep the reader transfixed for the whole length of this epic narrative. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: William Roberts
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-11-30
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £45.50
Price: £45.47
Review Strangers on a Train / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Nigel Anthony
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-06-29
Dewey code: 823
RRP: £58.69
Price: £58.69
Review The Babes in the Wood (Inspector Wexford) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Russell Boulter
Publication date: 2007-07-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £53.50
Price: £53.50
Review The Chinaman / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Diana Bishop
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £42.50
Price: £42.50
Review The Silent Pool / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Gordon Griffin
Publication date: 2005-11
RRP: £32.50
Price: £32.50
Review Death of a Go-between / Soundings Audio Books:
Creator: Jeff Harding
Publication date: 2008-11-01
RRP: £54.50
Price: £54.50
Review A Quiet Flame / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-10
RRP: £54.50
Price: £54.47
Review The Treatment / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Martyn Read
Publication date: 2006-10-01
RRP: £62.50
Price: £62.50
Review The Long Shot / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Annie Aldington
Publication date: 2007-05-01
RRP: £57.50
Price: £57.50
Review Broken / ISIS Audio Books:Leading an investigation into the neglect and abandonment of a number of young Grantley children throws DI Kate Burrows into contact with the most vile and repugnant of criminals. As a mother herself, Kate finds their crimes almost incomprehensible. And with the case becoming ever more sinister, she knows she needs to find answers quickly. Emotionally drained by the rigours of the investigation, it's a real struggle for Kate to find the energy to deal with the complex problems unfolding in her domestic life. Despite assurances to the contrary it seems Patrick Kelly, hardman and love of DI Burrows' life, is still firmly entrenched in the East End underworld. When a body turns up in Patrick's seedy Soho club it seems he has finally got in over his head and the only person in a position to help him is Kate. Set in familiar Cole territory of East End London, Broken is every bit as gritty and compelling as The Ladykiller. The story as it unfolds is gruesome, uncomfortable and peppered with violence but it is also carefully and thoroughly researched. Martina Cole knows what life in Grantley is and does not shy away from using the strong language of the street in addition to enough cockney rhyming slang to put any would-be pearly king to the test. A well-paced, gripping page-turner with strong, credible female characters, Broken definitely fits the unputdownable category. [+]-Sarah Crawford.
Creator: Graham Padden
Publication date: 2004-10-15
RRP: £44.50
Price: £44.47
Review Laughing Boy / Magna Story Sound:
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