Creator: George Baker
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1994-11-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £23.99
Review Simisola / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2009-04-16
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.24
Review The Sign (CD) / Orion:
Publication date: 2004-05-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.00
Price: £7.95
Review Strangers on a Train (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-09-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.99
Review Blackout / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Douglas Wilmer
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2002-07-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.72
Review The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1 / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Emilia Fox
Publication date: 2005-12-05
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98
Review The Man in the Brown Suit: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-09
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.13
Review Cross / Headline:James Patterson has a position that is unassailable - as one of America's most reliable crime and thriller writers, his best-selling status is assured. But it has to be said that he has tested the patience of his long-time readers by the series of books written in collaboration with other, lesser-known writers, in which it seemed that his own participation was the least important element. True Patterson fans will always welcome books such as Cross as the real deal: unadulterated James Patterson, sans collaborators. Here we have Patterson's favourite protagonist, Alex Cross, in the days when he was making his mark in the Washington, DC Police Department. To his horror, he witnesses his wife being murdered in front of him by an unknown killer. Years pass, and Cross has left the FBI for his former profession as a psychologist. He feels he has come to terms with the events of the past, but then receives a call from his ex-partner John Sampson, requesting a favour in tracking down a serial rapist in Georgetown. Soon, the case presents connections to the death of Alex's wife - is he finally being given the chance to catch her murderer? This is James Patterson, doing what he does best: delivering a narrative in which there is not an ounce of wasted fat. Alex Cross is always, of course, a strong protagonist, and the personal element here energises an already kinetic storyline. James Patterson, we are reminded, needs no collaborators. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Phil Gigante
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-04-29
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £25.76
Price: £26.35
Review Black Lightning / Brilliance Audio:
Creator: James Macpherson
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.19
Review Set In Darkness (CD: LATEST EDITION) / Orion:
Creator: David Timson
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-02-29
Dewey code: 823
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.17
Review The Return of Sherlock Holmes / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: David Horovitch
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2003-07-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.67
Review And Then There Were None / Macmillan Audio Books:
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2008-07-03
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.00
Review The Last King of Scotland / Faber and Faber:
Creator: Stephanie Cole
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-11-17
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.24
Review The Body in the Library: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Philip Franks
Publication date: 2008-05-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.66
Review The Mystery Mile / Hachette Audio:
Authors
- James Patterson with Michael Ledwidge
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.00
Review Step on a Crack / Headline:
Creator: James Macpherson
Publication date: 2002-01-02
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.80
Review Resurrection Men (CD) / Orion:Rebus is back. Resurrection Men, the 13th DI Rebus novel, finds Ian Rankin's doughty detective off the case. He explodes at his superior DCS Gill Templar over the increasingly frustrating murder inquiry into the savage killing of an Edinburgh art dealer and his punishment is a spell cooling his heels at the Scottish Police College in central Scotland. Rebus balks at his "retraining" but he's not alone: he's part of an ill-assorted group of similar officers-all with an attitude problem and a dislike of the institution they find themselves in. Given an old unsolved case to work on the group is obliged to polish up their teamwork while supervisors assess the reprobates. But some of the team have secrets not unconnected to the case they've been handed and Rebus finds that anything goes when it comes to keeping the past obscured. This is Rankin in top form with Rebus rejuvenated by the edgy new milieu he's dropped into. Complicating things, the Scottish Crime Squad asks Rebus to act as a link to someone who can deliver the inside dirt on an old nemesis, gangster "Big Ger" Cafferty. In Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke has to take over the case of the murdered art dealer and, like Rebus, finds herself getting closer to the unpleasant Mr Cafferty. Forget the miscast John Hannah in the TV movies, this is the real Rebus: gritty, idiomatic and etched in prose that wastes nae a word in its redefining of the crime novel. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2007-11-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.95
Review A Sea of Troubles / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Deni Francis
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2007-05-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.95
Review The Night Ferry / Hachette Audio:Michael Robotham's first literary successes were not in the thriller field. The autobiographies of such celebs as Ricky Tomlinson and Geri Halliwell would be rendered in considerably less impressive English if Robotham had not been the ghost-writing conduit for these non-writers. He spent time with these personalities, absorbing their stories and converted them into books that showcased sometimes very slender talents in the best possible light. As one of publishing world's most acclaimed ghost writers, Michael Robotham could have continued to make a comfortable living, but (fortunately for we crime fans) he turned to the field of the psychological thriller, and with some sharply written and assured novels, he has moulded a career as a crime novelist of real accomplishment - all the while doing this under his own name. The Night Ferry is possibly Robotham's most striking novel yet, recapturing the adrenalin rush of his first novel, The Suspect. Here, DCI Alisha Barber agrees to attend a school reunion, even though she knows such occasions are often grisly ones. Alisha has received a letter from someone she hasn't heard from in quite a while, Cate Beaumont, asking for help. Cate is pregnant and in danger - and before the two women can talk, she is hit by a speeding car (which also kills her husband). Alisha is there as she dies - and learns the pregnancy is a fake. But why the deception - and the death? With the help of an ex-associate, DI Vincent Ruiz, Alisha soon finds herself investigating a dark world of slavery and sexual trafficking. [+]It's possible that Michael Robotham might be tempted back into ghost-writing, but aficionados of strong and acerbic thrillers will hope that he isn't. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2008-01-07
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.46
Review The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency: Return of Note and the Ceremony v. 6 (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: David Shaw Parker
Publication date: 2007-11-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.44
Review Not Safe After Dark: v. 2 / Macmillan Digital Audio:
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