Creator: Kevin Whately
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2003-01-17
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.99
Review Morses Greatest Mysteries / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Kevin Whately
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £7.19
Review Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse) / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Bill Paterson
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.37
Review Knots And Crosses CD (Latest edition) / Orion:
Creator: Linda Emond
Publication date: 2007-08-30
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.32
Review Bones to Ashes / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-10-06
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.41
Review Rebus's Scotland (CD): A Personal Journey / Orion:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-01-09
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.75
Review The Mystery of the Blue Train (BBC Audio Crime) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Christopher Ravenscroft
Publication date: 2007-08-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.07
Review Not in the Flesh / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Julie Maisey
Publication date: 2008-05-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.00
Review The Fabric of Sin (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) / Quercus:
Publication date: 2007-02-19
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.99
Review The Scarifyers: The Nazad Conspiracy / Cosmic Hobo Productions:
Creator: Michael Brandon
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2008-10-16
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.89
Review The Brass Verdict (Abridged) (CD) / Orion:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-07-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.00
Review The Return of Sherlock Holmes: v. 3 (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Michael Beck
Publication date: 2005-05-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.78
Review The Partner / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2003-05-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.67
Review A Study in Scarlet: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Neil Pearson
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-01-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.74
Review Cold Is the Grave / Macmillan Audio Books:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-09-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.27
Review Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (Classic Fiction) (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £29.99
Price: £19.68
Review John Le Carre Collection / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Publication date: 2006-07-06
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.00
Review The Hard Way / Random House Audiobooks:The `surprise' factor when reading the thrillers of Lee Child has, it must be admitted, vanished. Most readers who pick up the new book, The Hard Way, will be well aware that this extremely American narrative is, in fact, written by an Englishman. The days when early readers of Child (notably his American fans) would exclaim how amazing it was that Child got all the cultural reference points correct are long gone. And, in a way, that's not a bad thing-now we can judge the novels purely on their own terms. And if The Hard Way doesn't initially appear to be quite as impressive as its predecessors, that's not to say that it isn't a supremely assured piece of work. Child's durable hero is, of course, ex-soldier Jack Reacher. Child's publishers claim 'men want to be him-women want to have him', and there's no denying that's a considerable part of Reacher's appeal. His footloose lifestyle and handy way with the trouble that he's always encountering are handled by Child with great panache. In some ways, Reacher is the perfect existential hero: he owns nothing or no-one, and he is, in his turn, owned by nothing or no one. He is defined by the actions he undertakes-and that definition only lasts as long as the problem he is involved with. [+]This one has an even wider range than usual, starting on a busy New York thoroughfare and moving to a violent finale across the Atlantic in the sylvan depths of the English countryside, with Jack up against some very dangerous opponents. Interestingly, Child's publishers describe Jack Reacher in this novel as `invincible', and (ironically) they put their finger on an interesting point in this latest entry. While Jack has always been supremely capable, earlier books have always had a genuine sense of danger-how the hell would Jack get himself out of the latest lethal situation? Here, the outcome seems less in doubt. But this is a minor quibble-Child could not write a bad book if he tried, and all the narrative momentum that propelled the earlier Reacher adventures is satisfyingly in evidence in his latest outing. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Lorelei King
Publication date: 2008-04-04
RRP: £13.00
Price: £7.33
Review T Is for Trespass (Alphabet Series) / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Publication date: 2004-09-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.89
Review Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.42
Review The ABC Murders (BBC Audio Crime) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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