Creator: Martin Jarvis Publication date: 2006-09-07 RRP: £12.99 Price: £7.44
Review Under Orders / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Garrick Hagon Publication date: 2008-02-11 RRP: £14.99 Price: £4.98
Review A Quiet Belief In Angels (CD) / Orion:
Creator: Timothy Dalton Publication date: 2008-09-05 RRP: £17.99 Price: £9.55
Review Christine Falls / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Saskia Wickham Publication date: 2005-09-08 RRP: £14.99 Price: £2.98
Review The Devil's Feather / Macmillan Audio Books:Sometimes, an author is obliged to change pace when their usual territory is becoming over-farmed - not least by themselves. And at first glance, The Devil's Feather would appear to represent a radical new direction for Minette Walters. But - wait a minute - why would Walters need to dip into a new genre of novel? After all, she is now unquestionably in the upper echelons of British crime queens, quite as successful as P D James and Ruth Rendell at mining darker psychological territory, with (in her case) a strong sociological underpinning. Such books as Acid Row and Fox Evil have been bitter pictures of Britain as much as they have been crime novels. The Devil's Feather is more ambitious than any of her preceding work, notably in the massive international canvas (including a war-torn country) that is the novel's backdrop. Five women have been savagely killed in the Sierra Leone conflict. Connie Burns is a correspondent for Reuters who asks awkward questions about the arrest of three young soldiers accused of the crime. Their forced confessions (after savage beatings) count for little in the middle of the Civil War, and Connie's theory - that the murders were committed by a foreigner indulging his own sanguinary fantasies in the middle of a war - proves to be very dangerous for her. Her attempts to track the killer down bring catastrophe on her own head, and she is forced to escape, going to ground in Dorset and dealing with the psychic scars she has been left with. It is, of course, inevitable that she will be tracked down even in the safety of the English countryside by her implacable opponent. [+]
As the foregoing conveys, this is very different territory from that which Walters has made her own, but she proves equally adept at the International blockbuster thriller as at any of her more tightly focused British novels. It goes without saying that the character portrayal (notably of the terrified Connie) is an on-the-nail as ever, and the considerable tension engendered by The Devil's Feather may glean a whole new legion of readers for Walters. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Tony Britton Edition: Abridged Ed Publication date: 2008-01-07 RRP: £13.99 Price: £5.65
Review The Hound of the Baskervilles / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Hugh Fraser Edition: Unabridged Publication date: 2004-01-19 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £16.99 Price: £10.23
Review Lord Edgware Dies: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Adjoa Andoh Edition: Abridged edition Publication date: 2003-11-13 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £15.99 Price: £7.50
Review Tears of the Giraffe / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Creator: Phil Gigante Publication date: 2008-07-03 RRP: £16.99 Price: £8.59
Review Fractured / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2004-07-19 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £12.99 Price: £9.47
Review Peril at End House: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: David Timson Edition: New title Publication date: 2006-06 Dewey code: 823 RRP: £29.36 Price: £14.13
Review The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow (Classic Literature with Classical Music) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Linda Emond Publication date: 2007-08-30 RRP: £16.99 Price: £8.97
Review Bones to Ashes / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: New edition Publication date: 2005-07-18 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £17.99 Price: £8.89
Review The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: v. 3 (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Nigel Anthony Edition: Abridged edition Publication date: 2003-07-18 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £13.00 Price: £5.96
Review The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 2005-03-21 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £12.99 Price: £8.33
Review The ABC Murders (BBC Audio Crime) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Hugh Fraser Publication date: 2006-03-20 RRP: £16.99 Price: £10.24
Review Towards Zero: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Authors
- Bram Stoker
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Creator: et al Edition: Abridged Publication date: 2001-10-31 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £19.99 Price: £12.99
Review Frankenstein: AND Dracula / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Hugh Fraser Publication date: 2005-12-05 RRP: £19.99 Price: £11.61
Review Labours of Hercules: Complete Short Stories: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: William Hootkins Publication date: 2005-01-07 Dewey code: 813 Price: £16.99
Review Turkish Gambit (CD) / Orion:
Publication date: 2006-11-02 RRP: £29.99 Price: £18.69
Review John Le Carre Collection / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Nigel Anthony Edition: Abridged Ed Publication date: 2003-07-18 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £13.00 Price: £6.49
Review Sparkling Cyanide / Macmillan Audio Books:
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