Creator: Kate Burton
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-15
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.16
Review All That Remains / Hachette Audio:
Creator: John Moffatt
Publication date: 2002-05-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.60
Review Appointment with Death / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Steven Pacey
Publication date: 2007-11-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.00
Review Crossfire / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-06-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.02
Review A Certain Justice (BBC Radio Collection: Crimes and Thrillers) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Writing at the peak of her form (which is very high indeed), P. D. James has produced her best book since Innocent Blood. The ideas, energy, and artistry on display in A Certain Justice could keep other, younger writers going for most of their careers; the seventysomething James tosses them off with apparent ease. It's billed as: "An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery," but in A Certain Justice the brooding poet detective takes a backseat to the murder victim-a wonderfully complex and basically unlikeable female lawyer named Venetia Aldridge-and to the equally fascinating Kate Miskin, Dalgliesh's able assistant. Thinking of another young police officer, Kate "suspected that he found something risible, even slightly ridiculous, in the traditions, the conventions, the hierarchy of policing. She sensed, too, that this was a view which AD [Adam Dalgliesh] with part of his mind understood, even if he didn't share it. But she couldn't live her life like that, couldn't be lighthearted about her career. [+]" A Certain Justice would be the perfect mystery to ignite the enthusiasm of people who haven't read any P. D. James. Other examples of her high art available in paperback include The Black Tower, Death of an Expert Witness, A Shroud for a Nightingale, and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. -Amazon. com.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99
Review Shadows in Bronze (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-08-16
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.99
Review Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of: v. 2 (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Susannah Harker
Publication date: 2007-06-30
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.49
Review The Mystery of the Missing Hour: Series 2 (Sapphire and Steel) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-08-05
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.95
Review Enigma / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2003-05-05
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99
Review Five Red Herrings: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Hugh Fraser
Publication date: 2006-06-19
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.13
Review The Unexpected Guest / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Michael Brandon
Publication date: 2007-11-02
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.99
Review Stone Cold / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Publication date: 2006-08-10
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.88
Review Sanctuary Sparrow / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Patrick Girard Lawlor
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-04-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.70
Price: £8.84
Review Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole) / Brilliance Corporation:
Creator: Lorelei King
Publication date: 2002-10-25
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.50
Review Hammer of Eden / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Steven Pacey
Publication date: 2006-01-06
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.00
Review Seven Ancient Wonders / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £16.99
Price: £29.59
Review The Enemy / Random House Audiobooks:Lee Child is a quiet, undemonstrative man who is phlegmatic about his success in the thriller field. The Enemy will no doubt attract the usual enthusiastic acclaim, and it deserves to. One thing that is guaranteed to please Child is the open-mouthed astonishment of American readers who learn that this writer of the most idiomatic American thrillers (with brilliantly realised US locales) is actually English. But there's never a sense of striving for effects in such taut Child novels as Killing Floor and Die Trying. Child simply delivers the goods, US-style-and The Enemy is no exception. Child's usual protagonist, the tough and resourceful Jack Reacher, is in North Carolina on New Year's Day, 1990. Elsewhere, world-shaking events are underway, such as the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. But Jack's job as a Military Police Duty Officer has him concerned with what initially seem to be less significant happenings: a soldier has been found dead in a sleazy motel and when Jack goes to the house of the soldier (a two-star general) to inform his wife, he finds her also dead. Needless to say, events in another part of the globe are having fatal repercussions in the US, and Reacher is soon up to his neck, with the body count rising. As a glimpse into the early life of Jack Reacher (now securely one of the most admired heroes in contemporary thriller writing), this is meat and drink to the Child aficionado. [+]Child foregrounds characterisation in his pacy narratives, and this eighth outing for Jack has all the adrenalin-producing qualities of its predecessors. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: James Macpherson
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.74
Review Set In Darkness (CD: LATEST EDITION) / Orion:
Creator: Neil Pearson
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2004-01-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.37
Review Playing with Fire / Macmillan Audio Books:Playing with Fire is a typical Peter Robinson book. And if that sounds like damning with faint praise, it's anything but. Since Gallows View in 1987, Robinson has been turning out one of the most assured and entertaining series of crime novels in the genre, with his doughty Inspector Alan Banks one of the most solidly drawn of protagonists. But perhaps the real reason behind the considerable success of the books is that unerring combination of brilliantly turned plots and wonderfully evoked locales: the Yorkshire Dales have proved a very fertile stamping ground for Robinson's irresistible brand of restrained mayhem. Banks is handed his most piquant problem in Playing with Fire, and the rural backdrop is once again a key player in the action. On a chill winter's morning, a fire is found to have consumed two narrow boats on the Eastvale canal. Banks and his associate DI Annie Cabbot find themselves examining some grisly remnants: charred bodies found on the remains of the two boats. But who are the victims of what appears to be a calculated act of murder? An enigmatic artist with few friends? A young couple who spent most of their time stoned on illegal substances? Banks and Cabbot quickly find themselves with a host of possible perpetrators on their hands, from the father of the young girl who died in the attack to a duplicitous art dealer. But the heat is turned on for Banks-literally-when the murderous arsonist gets to work again. As in the seminal In a Dry Season, Robinson doesn't shirk from tackling some pretty convoluted plotting, but any confusion the reader is plunged into is very satisfyingly resolved, and Robinson's already strong reputation will grow with this book. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Creator: David Suchet
Publication date: 2004-10-18
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.33
Review Death on the Nile: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-07-19
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.95
Review Three Act Tragedy (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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