Creator: Laural Merlington
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £30.04
Price: £15.15
Review Fast Track (Rules of the Game (Brilliance)) / Brilliance Audio:
Creator: Jilly Bond
Publication date: 2005-12
RRP: £45.50
Price: £47.49
Review Oxford Letters / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Gordon Griffin
Publication date: 2007-01-01
RRP: £53.50
Price: £55.49
Review Plots and Errors / Soundings Audio Books:There's nothing cute or coy about the relationship between Jill McGown's two high-ranking British police officers-Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd(whose first name has never been mentioned) and Detective Inspector Judy Hill of the (fictional) Bartonshire cop shop. They have been together for many years, and still maintain separate residences. She is smart and ambitious, determined to succeed on her own, even though her present unplanned pregnancy might slow things down; he is supportive, but secretly wishes for a more old-fashioned kind of relationship. They know each other well: she tolerates his smugness and flair for dramatic effect; he appreciates her cool logic and occasionally brilliant insights. Together, Lloyd and Hill make up one of the most interesting and believable detecting duos in current crime fiction-the kind of people you can actually imagine having over for dinner. In Plots and Errors, McGown uses that hard-earned believability to anchor a complicated story as full of plot twists and false leads as any Agatha Christie play. (She even constructs it like a play, with acts and scenes set off by appropriate quotes from Hamlet). The book opens with the suspicious suicide of two middle-aged private detectives, Andy and Kathy Cope. Then, a short time later, their only client, a member of the wealthy (and dysfunctional) Esterbrook family, is found murdered. It seems all the deaths are somehow connected. [+]As we shuttle between the Esterbrook family estate in Bartonshire and a yacht anchored in Cornwall, we rely on the solid comfort of Lloyd and Hill to help us achieve closure. -Dick Adler.
Creator: Susan Ericksen
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-07-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £19.10
Price: £8.35
Review An American Killing / Brilliance Corporation:
Creator: Jilly Bond
Publication date: 2008-03-01
RRP: £53.50
Price: £55.49
Review Pelagia and the Black Monk / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Sandra, Burr
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 813.6
RRP: £30.04
Price: £15.09
Review Fisherman's Bend (Jane Bunker) / Brilliance Audio:
Creator: John Bolen
Edition: Library ed
Publication date: 2009-05-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £33.49
Price: £33.49
Review The Sea-Hawk, with EBook / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 2006-07-15
RRP: £41.50
Price: £41.50
Review Beneath the Snow / Magna Story Sound:
Creator: Multivoice
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-08-17
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £19.10
Price: £8.87
Review Mrs. Pollifax Pursued / Brilliance Corporation:
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2009-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £30.59
Price: £28.41
Review Still Life / Brilliance Audio:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 2003-01
RRP: £50.50
Price: £50.50
Review Treason's Harbour / Soundings:This segment of the Aubrey saga is set in Malta, where the captain's "small, sweet-sailing frigate" is undergoing repairs. The island, however, is swarming with Napoleonic agents, which means that Stephen Maturin must do everything in his power to avert sabotage. A typical O'Brian cocktail of action and intrigue.
Creator: James Bryce
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £45.50
Price: £45.50
Review The Sporran Connection / Soundings Audio Books:
Creator: Stephen Hoye
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-07-08
Dewey code: 813.6
RRP: £17.49
Price: £40.99
Review Volk's Shadow: A Novel / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Regina Reagan
Publication date: 2007-07-01
RRP: £50.50
Price: £50.50
Review The Perfect Husband / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 2006
Price: £18.50
Review Der Gefangene. 6 CDs / Random House Audio:
Publication date: 2004-11
RRP: £50.50
Price: £50.50
Review The Killing Kind / ISIS Audio Books:Spider-bites are a nasty way to die, and there is a man out there with an unusual taste for insect venom of all kinds and for the deaths of those who disagree with or affront him. John Connolly's sleuth Charlie Parker is free of the ghosts of his slaughtered wife and child, but sooner or later new ghosts come to him demanding silently that he avenge them. In The Killing Kind, it is not Grace, the ex-girlfriend whose faked suicide he is hired to investigate, so much as the dead fanatics she was killed for writing a thesis on. The Aroostook Baptists disappeared into the gloomy woods of North Maine in the sixties and nothing more is known until road workers find a mass burial. Connolly provides his usual excellent combination of snappy one-liners (many of them from Parker's gay assassin sidekicks Angel and Louis) together with scenes of the utmost terror. Parker soon realises that the spider killer, Elmer Pudd, is only the tool of someone far worse, a sanctimonious artist in intolerance and mayhem-and it is only by carefully measured doses that we come to realise just how bad that is going to be. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Francis Matthews
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £39.95
Price: £41.94
Review Black Plumes: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-03-01
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £50.50
Price: £52.49
Review The First Casualty / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Annie Aldington
Publication date: 2008-08-01
RRP: £54.50
Price: £54.50
Review Good Hope Station / Soundings Audio Books:
Creator: Susan Ericksen
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-07-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £30.04
Price: £40.34
Review An American Killing / Brilliance Audio:
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