Creator: Jeff Harding
Edition: Film Tie-in Ed
Publication date: 2006-05-04
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.05
Review The Da Vinci Code (CD) (FilmTie-In Edition) / Orion:
Publication date: 2006-11-16
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.85
Review Silence of the Lambs / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Jenny Funnell
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2006-07-07
RRP: £13.00
Price: £1.94
Review The Seven Dials Mystery / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Peter Capaldi
Publication date: 2002-05-14
RRP: £49.95
Price: £49.95
Review Witch Hunt / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Derek Jacobi
Publication date: 2006-03-13
RRP: £16.99
Price: £16.14
Review Well-schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley Mystery) / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: David Aaron Baker
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-05-20
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £16.38
Price: £7.24
Review Odd Hours (Odd Thomas) / Brilliance Corporation:
Creator: Michael J. Bennett
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-02-04
Dewey code: 823
RRP: £14.95
Price: £68.95
Review Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Great Mystery Series (Great Mystery) / Media Books Audio Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.20
Review A Traitor to Memory / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2006-12-05
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.25
Review Hannibal Rising / Random House Audiobooks:Thomas Harris remains both the progenitor of the modern serial killer novel - and its greatest exponent. Red Dragon was the first appearance of the murderous Hannibal Lecter, and with its success, the Harris imitators burgeoned almost immediately. The Silence of the Lambs, however, moved Harris into really rarefied heights, its achievement boltered by the addition of a strongly drawn heroine, trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling. Hannibal, the last outing for Harris' monstrous Lecter, drew a more controversial response, with Clarice Sterling locked into a bizarre relationship with her cultivated predator, and it looked as if the next book would develop that grim scenario. However, Hannibal Rising goes in a totally unexpected direction - in effect, it's a prequel to the earlier books, returning to Lecter's childhood in World War's Eastern Front. The youthful Hannibal sees his family murdered by the Nazis. But something else happens which alters (and deforms) Hannibal's psyche forever. The boy moves to Paris with the beautiful Japanese widow of his last surviving relative. And soon, an orgy of grisly revenge is in train, wrought on some opponents almost as nasty as Lecter is to become himself. We've seen this before: Hannibal murdering people quite as ruthless as he is - whether this makes the operatic bloodshed satisfying is a matter for every individual reader. [+]Whatever your stance, the effect of Harris' prose is, as ever, utterly irresistible. Hannibal Rising is comparatively uncomplicated, when set against the complex, richly textured Harris novels that came before it. Is there a danger that in showing us how Hannibal became a monster, something is lost of his terrifying mystery? As if to deal with this possibility, Harris keeps Lecter unknowable by removing his customary articulate examination of this own motives (he is still a boy, after all). But the tale of bloody vengeance has a forward trajectory that (whatever your reservations) will render this is a one (or two) sitting reading. And the next book will, surely, recapture that richer Harris texture. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Boris Karloff
Publication date: 2006-03-13
RRP: £5.95
Price: £5.36
Review Classic Dramas Of Suspense (Csa Classic Radio Drama) / CSA WORD:
Authors
- Douglas Preston
- Lincoln Child
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £26.99
Price: £10.75
Review Still Life with Crows / Time Warner International:
Creator: Christopher Lane
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2007-05
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £14.92
Price: £12.69
Review Strike Force / Brilliance Audio:
Publication date: 2002-01-01
RRP: £9.08
Price: £4.26
Review The 39 Steps/Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock Collection) / Alfred Hitchcock:
Creator: Samantha Bond
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £4.74
Review Jackdaws / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Sean Barrett
Publication date: 2003-10-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50
Review Fox Evil / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: David Rintoul
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-02-02
RRP: £13.00
Price: £7.41
Review Betrayal / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Graham Roberts
Publication date: 2002-03
RRP: £53.50
Price: £50.82
Review The Nutmeg of Consolation: Complete & Unabridged (Sound) / Soundings:Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew run aground on a remote island, they labour to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage (taking breaks, of course, to play cricket). Their subsequent adventures lead them to the dreaded penal colony at Botany Bay, and then, as always, back to sea.
Creator: Kate Walsh
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-04
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £8.96
Price: £1.79
Review A Body to Die for / Hachette Audio:
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Creator: Lorelei King
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-16
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.94
Review Isle of Dogs [3 CDs: Abridged] / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Tim Machin
Publication date: 2004-01-02
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.54
Review One False Move (CD) / Orion:Brenda Slaughter, the star player of the Women's Professional Basketball Association, is getting threatening phone calls. Norm Zuckerman, owner of the league, convinces sports agent Myron Bolitar to protect Brenda by promising to deliver her as Myron's next big client. Brenda, who claims she doesn't need protection, enlists Myron to find her missing father-the assumed source of the phone calls and Myron's childhood mentor. It looks like a simple family dispute-overprotective father goes off the deep end when daughter decides to go her own way-until Horace Slaughter shows up dead and the police name Brenda as the primary suspect. What unfolds is a 20-year-old scandal, a series of disturbing family secrets, and an unexpected, if not entirely believable, ending. One False Move leads the reader through the dirty underbelly of the sports world. It has a little bit of everything: all-star athletes, dirty cops, corrupt politicians, and hired killers. It's a whirlwind of a story that Coben pulls off seamlessly with quirky but realistic characters and pages full of great one-liners. One False Move is a compelling thriller that no mystery fan should miss. -Mara Friedman.
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