Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £19.96
Price: £7.84
Review The Seeing (Soul Tracker) / Zondervan Publishing House:
Creator: Jeff Harding
Publication date: 2004-11-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.99
Review The Bourne Ultimatum (CD) / Orion:
Creator: Tim Machin
Publication date: 2003-07-03
Price: £16.99
Review Tell No One (CD) / Orion:
Publication date: 2004-02-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.49
Review The Last Juror / Random House Audiobooks:Like many of John Grisham's better books, The Last Juror is at its best when evoking the past-Mississippi in the early 1970s-and less effective when constructing the bait-and-switch plotting with which he makes a pointed argument about the law. When Danny Padgitt (one of a family of bootleggers that is effectively a large criminal conspiracy) is convicted of rape and murder, the jury cannot agree on the death penalty-and life sentences in this time and place are liable to be as little as nine years. Padgitt threatens the jury and when, once he is out, the jurors who heard his case start being executed, conclusions are there to be jumped to. Grisham is arguing that justice has to be seen to be done, rather than specifically for the death penalty or even life-means-life sentencing. Though his case is loaded, it is never entirely sentimentalised partly because these events are seen through the eyes of one of his most engaging narrators-a young northern-newspaper editor out to make a name and a fortune for himself, but also committed to the truth and a saintly African-American matriarch who serves on the Padgitt jury. This is a deeply populist book, but never a stupid one. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Roe Kendall
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-10-15
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.49
Price: £11.57
Review Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Laura Brattan
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-07-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £42.50
Price: £29.82
Review Blue Genes (Isis) / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Katherine Borowitz
Publication date: 2004-11-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.95
Review Fatal Voyage / Random House Audiobooks:Tempe Brennan, Kathy Reichs' forensic anthropologist heroine, often finds herself in physical jeopardy. In Fatal Voyage, her fourth outing, someone is trying to kill her and also to destroy her professional reputation with trumped-up charges of unethical behaviour. Tempe is called in when a plane full of college athletes goes down in the remoter parts of the forests of North Carolina. She finds herself investigating a spare foot she rescued from coyotes, a foot which is significantly more decomposed than the crash victims and which has symptoms of gout, a disease most of the dead young people had no time to contract. There is a locked house and walled courtyard out in the woods that do not appear on any maps and it seems almost as if her simple knowledge of their being there has offended the powerful of the world. As always, Kathy Reichs manages to combine a detailed knowledge of who the dead were and how they died with a profound sense of the sadness of things. This is a book that never lets us forget amid the dissections and tests for genetic markers that each human death is that of a tragic and irreplaceable human being. Tempe is one of the more attractive of the current crop of women detectives simply because she is flawed and vulnerable as well as smart, righteous and brave. Reichs never lets you forget that crime novels should acquaint us with good people as well as human evil. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Janet McTeer
Publication date: 2006-10-16
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.93
Review The Red Dahlia / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.00
Review The Star of the Sea / Random House Audiobooks:Tragedy is a word too often used. Nevertheless, in Star of the Sea Joseph O'Connor manages to achieve a real sense of the tragic, as personal dramas of the most distressing kind play themselves out against the background of the Irish potato famine and the almost equal nightmare of the mass emigration that it caused. As passengers die of starvation and disease in steerage, a drama of adultery, inadvertent incest and inherited disease plays itself out in first class. O'Connor raises, and does not attempt definitively to answer, real questions about responsibility and choice. Bankrupt aristocrat Meredith is emigrating, pursued by the hatred of his tenants and the memory of his mad-hero father. His children's nurse, Mary, has memories of lost love to torment her, as well as of the husband and child who died of hunger. And the ballad singer Mulvey has both his monstrous past and the certain promise that he will be tortured to death by the Liable Men should he not kill Meredith. This is a kaleidoscopic novel, whose events are seen in many idioms, from many points of view-it is a rich novel that knows that there are limits to the sense that can be made of history. -Roz Kaveney.
Authors
- Clive Cussler
- Dirk Cussler
RRP: £56.50
Price: £57.99
Review Black Wind / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Aoife McMahon
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2007-07-02
RRP: £15.99
Price: £22.66
Review The Last Testament / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2004-05-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.00
Price: £19.95
Review Strangers on a Train (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £44.99
Price: £26.99
Review The Collected Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (BBC Audio) / Arthur Conan Doyle:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £24.99
Price: £19.67
Review Soul Tracker: Unabridged (Soul Tracker) / Zondervan Publishing House:
Creator: Nigel Anthony
Publication date: 2004-04-16
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.30
Review The Secret of Chimneys / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 2005-06-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.95
Review With No One as Witness / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Neil Pearson
Publication date: 2006-01-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.76
Review Gallows View / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2006-05-02
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.49
Review The Death Collectors / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2007-07-20
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.93
Review Word Play - the Minette Walters Collection: "The Ice House" , "The Sculptress" , "Scolds Bridle" (Wordplay) / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Publication date: 2004-06-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.65
Review Truecrime / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
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