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Review Penguin Books Ltd  / Under Orders Creator: Martin Jarvis
Publication date: 2006-09-07
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.44

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Review Orion  / A Quiet Belief In Angels (CD) Creator: Garrick Hagon
Publication date: 2008-02-11
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.98

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Review Macmillan Digital Audio  / Christine Falls Creator: Timothy Dalton
Publication date: 2008-09-05
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.55

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Review Macmillan Audio Books  / The Devil's Feather Creator: Saskia Wickham
Publication date: 2005-09-08
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.98

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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.

Review HarperCollins Audio  / The Hound of the Baskervilles Creator: Tony Britton
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2008-01-07
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.65

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Review HarperCollins Audio  / Lord Edgware Dies: Complete & Unabridged Creator: Hugh Fraser
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01-19
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.23

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Review Time Warner AudioBooks  / Tears of the Giraffe Creator: Adjoa Andoh
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2003-11-13
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.50

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Review Random House Audiobooks  / Fractured Creator: Phil Gigante
Publication date: 2008-07-03
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.59

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd  / Peril at End House: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) Publication date: 2004-07-19
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.47

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Review Naxos AudioBooks  / The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow (Classic Literature with Classical Music) Creator: David Timson
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-06
Dewey code: 823
RRP: £29.36
Price: £14.13

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Review Random House Audiobooks  / Bones to Ashes Creator: Linda Emond
Publication date: 2007-08-30
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.97

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd  / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: v. 3 (BBC Audio) Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-07-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.89

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Review Macmillan Audio Books  / The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Creator: Nigel Anthony
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2003-07-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £5.96

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Review BBC Audiobooks Ltd  / The ABC Murders (BBC Audio Crime) Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.33

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Review HarperCollins Audio  / Towards Zero: Complete & Unabridged Creator: Hugh Fraser
Publication date: 2006-03-20
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.24

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Review Naxos AudioBooks  / Frankenstein: AND Dracula Creator: et al
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-10-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.99

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Review HarperCollins Audio  / Labours of Hercules: Complete Short Stories: Complete & Unabridged Creator: Hugh Fraser
Publication date: 2005-12-05
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.61

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Review Orion  / Turkish Gambit (CD) Creator: William Hootkins
Publication date: 2005-01-07
Dewey code: 813
Price: £16.99

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Review Hodder & Stoughton  / John Le Carre Collection Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £29.99
Price: £18.69

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Review Macmillan Audio Books  / Sparkling Cyanide Creator: Nigel Anthony
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2003-07-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.49

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Under Orders, A Quiet Belief In Angels (CD), Christine Falls, The Devil's Feather, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Lord Edgware Dies: Complete & Unabridged, Tears of the Giraffe, Fractured, Peril at End House: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow (Classic Literature with Classical Music), Bones to Ashes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: v. 3 (BBC Audio), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The ABC Murders (BBC Audio Crime), Towards Zero: Complete & Unabridged, Frankenstein: AND Dracula, Labours of Hercules: Complete Short Stories: Complete & Unabridged, Turkish Gambit (CD), John Le Carre Collection, Sparkling Cyanide

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