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Sookie Stackhouse doesn't
have that many relations,
so she really hated to
lose one - but of all the
people to go, she didn't
expect it to be her
cousin Hadley, a consort
of New Orleans' vampire
queen - after all,
Hadley was technically
already dead. But Hadley
is gone, beyond recall,
and she's left Sookie an
inheritance, one that
comes with a bit of a
risk - not least because
someone doesn't want
Sookie digging too deep
into Hadley's
possessions... or her
past. Sookie's life is
once again on the line,
and this time the
suspects range from rogue
weres to her first love,
the vampire Bill.
Sookie's got a lot o do
if she's going to keep
herself alive... 8 CDs,
running time 9 hours 35
mins. This story contains
adult content and
language.
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Master and Commander is
the first of Patrick
O'Brian's now famous
Aubrey-Maturin novels,
regarded by many as the
greatest series of
historical novels ever
written. It establishes
the friendship between
Captain Jack Aubrey RN
and Stephen Maturin, who
becomes his secretive
ship's surgeon and a
secret agent. It contains
all the action and
excitement which could
possibly be hoped for in
a historical novel, but
it also displays the
qualities which have put
O'Brian far ahead of his
competitors: his
depiction of the detail
of life aboard a Nelsonic
man-of-war, of weapons,
food, conversation and
ambience, of the
landscape and of the sea.
O'Brian's portrayal of
each of these is
faultless and the sense
of period throughout is
acute. His power of
characterisation above
all is masterly.
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In a small seaside Irish
town in the late 1950s,
two very different
children are growing up,
shouting their hearts'
desires into the echo
cave, praying their
destiny will lead them
far from Castlebay, a
place empty and grey in
the winter but
overbustling with
visitors in the gaudy
days of summer. One of
the children is Clare,
shopkeeper Tom O'Brien's
younger daughter. A
favourite with the local
schoolteacher, she wins
a scholarship to
University College,
Dublin and seems set for
academic glory. The other
is David Power, the
doctor's son. He dreams
of escape, also via
Dublin, as a medic. But
the paths of these two
children cross again in a
quite unexpected way,
and eventually both their
destinies lead back to
Castlebay.
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London, 1940s Poirot is
cornered by the club bore
and learns of a
mysterious death, one
which sets him off on one
of his most intriguing of
cases. Gordon Cloade is
killed in a London air
raid leaving his vast
fortune to his young wife
Rosaleen, his relatives
however, are all
desperate to get their
share and leaves Rosaleen
fearing for her life.
After discovering
Rosaleen's previous
husband had mysteriously
disappeared in Africa,
Cloade's relatives begin
to swarm and then a
mysterious stranger
appears wishing to
communicate with her only
to be found dead the next
morning. Was the murdered
man, Rosaleen's first
husband? Who murdered him
and why?
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In 1916, Capt. Hastings
has become invalided out
of the Great War and goes
to recover at Style
court, family home of
great friend, John
Cavendish. By an
extraordinary
coincidence, billeted in
the village is a
remarkable little
detective with an
egg-shaped head, who
made an impression on the
Captain while he was in
Belgium. Styles is not a
happy household and as
tensions rise a terrible
and unexpected murder
occurs reluctantly
casting suspicion on the
entire family. There,
Hastings calls upon the
services of the
diminutive Belgian and
begins one of the
greatest partnerships in
crime.
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Massachusetts State
Investigator Win Garano
is given one of his most
challenging cases yet
when he is asked to
investigate the death of
a young British woman
murdered more than forty
years ago. Assumed to be
victim of the Boston
Strangler, blind Jane
Brolin was raped and left
for dead in 1962. With no
DNA and sketchy police
records, this is the
case that will test
Garano to his limits. It
will take him on a
journey through the
archives, into the
latest innovations in
forensic technology, and
into a partnership with
senior officers at London
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A ABC railway guide is
found next to the bodies
of several men and women
all found murdered but
each time Poirot is
warned in advance from
someone signed ABC. Who
is ABC? Can Poirot find
out in time to prevent
the death of a whole
alphabet of victims?
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Sookie Stackhouse enjoys
her life, mostly. She's
a great cocktail waitress
in a fun bar; she has a
love life, albeit a bit
complicated, and most
people have come to terms
with her telepathy. The
problem is, Sookie wants
a quiet life - but things
just seem to happen to
her and her friends. Now
her brother Jason is
about to turn into a
were-panther for the
first time. She can deal
with that, but her
normal sisterly concern
turns to cold fear when a
sniper sets his deadly
sights on the local
shifter population.
She's afraid not just
because Jason is at risk,
but because his new
were-brethren suspect
Jason himself may be the
shooter. Sookie has until
the next full moon to
find out who's behind the
attacks - unless the
killer decides to find
her first. 8 CDs,
running time 9 hours 35
mins. This story contains
adult content and
language.
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As well as the
incomparable advantages,
decides Isabel Dalhousie,
there are drawbacks to
the enlightened village
that is
twenty-first-century
Edinburgh, where very
Saturday night ears burn
at dinner parties across
the city, and anyone
requiring the
investigative abilities
of a philosophical soul
know just where to find
her. Jillian McKinlay
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Watson has been
discharged from military
service after suffering
severe wounds, and he is
having no luck finding
accommodation - until a
chance encounter leads
him to a remarkable young
man, and 221B Baker
Street. The arrogant,
irascible Sherlock Holmes
is a master chemist, a
talented musician and an
expert on all aspects of
crime - but, despite his
best efforts, Watson is
in the dark about his
room-mate's profession.
Finally Holmes reveals
that he is a consulting
detective, and soon
Watson is drawn into the
investigation of a
bizarre murder in which
Holmes is involved,
unaware that it is the
beginning of the most
famous partnership in the
history of criminal
detection. An unmarked
corpse, a wedding ring
and a mysterious message
scrawled in blood are the
intrepid pair's only
clues as they follow the
trail of a man driven to
fulfil a terrible oath
which he swore more than
twenty years before.
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Published in 1945,
Sparkling Cyanide is all
about remembrance. It
begins with six
characters recalling the
horrific death of
Rosemary Barton, a
beautiful but shallow
young heiress poisoned by
a cyanide-spiked glass of
champagne whilst
celebrating her birthday
at a smart London
restaurant. Rosemary
haunts all six
characters, each of them
a suspect, throughout
the story - and it's not
until her killer is found
and her ghost laid to
rest that the group laid
rest that the group can
move on, though they
will never forget.
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Every table at Quentins
restaurant in Dublin has
a thousand stories to
tell. There is Monica,
the evercheerful,
Australian waitress; the
enigmatic Signora; and
Patrick and Brenda
Brennan, who have made
Quentins such a legend.
But even their life is
not all it seems. Now
Ella Brady wants to make
a documentary about the
renowned restaurant but,
as she uncovers more of
what has gone on, she
questions the wisdom of
bringing it to the
screen. And when she is
forced to confront a
devastating dilemma in
her own life., Ella
wonders if some stories
should not be told...
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Dorothy L. Sayers' first
Lord Peter Wimsey tale
introduces many of the
author's best-known
characters. Wimsey's
mother, the Dowager
Duchess of Denver, rings
her son with news of
'such a quaint thing'.
She has heard through a
friend that Mr Thipps, a
respectable Battersea
architect, found a dead
man in his bath - wearing
nothing but a gold
pince-nez. Lord Wimsey
makes his way straight
over Mr Thipps, and a
good look at the body
raises a number of
interesting questions.
Why would such an
apparently well-groomed
man have filthy black
toenails, flea bites and
the scent of carbolic
soap lingering on his
corpse? Then comes the
disappearance of oil
millionaire Sir Reuben
Levy, last seen on the
Battersea Park Road. With
his beard shaved he would
look very similar to the
man found in the bath -
but is Sir Levy really
dead?
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Myron Bolitar hasn't
heard from Terese Collins
since their torrid affair
ended ten years ago, so
her desperate phone call
from Paris catches him
completely off guard. In
a shattering admission,
Terese reveals the tragic
story behind her
disappearance - her
struggles to get
pregnant, the greatest
moment of her life when
he baby was born... and
the fatal accident that
robbed her of it all: her
marriage, her happiness
and her beloved only
daughter. Now a suspect
in the murder of her
ex-husband in Paris,
Terese has nowhere else
to turn for help. Myron
is compelled to go to
her. But then a startling
piece of evidence turns
the entire case upside
down, laying bare
Terese's long-buried
family secrets... and the
very real possibility
that her daughter may
still be alive.
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A junkie lies dead in an
Edinburgh squat -
spreadeagled, cross-like
on the floor between two
burned-down candles, a
five point star daubed on
the wall above. Just
another dead addict,
until John rebus begins
to chip away at the
indifference, treachery,
deceit and sleaze that
lurk behind the facade of
the Edinburgh familiar to
the tourists. Only Rebus
seems to care about a
death which looks more
like murder every day,
about a seductive danger
he can almost taste,
appealing to the darkest
corners of his mind.
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Leo Demidov, former MGB
officer, is facing his
own turmoil. The two
young girls he and his
wife Raisa adopted have
yet to forgive him for
his part in the brutal
murder of their parents.
They are not alone. Leo,
Raisa and their family
are in grave danger from
someone with a grudge
against Leo. Leo
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When ex-Government
minister Sir Paul Berowne
and local tramp/alcoholic
Harry Mack are both found
with their throats cut in
vestry of St Matthews
Church, the police are
left with an intriguing
mystery. Commander Adam
Dalgliesh heads a
Scotland Yard unit
dealing with politically
sensitive crimes and this
case in particular was
effecting as he had known
Berowne, and shortly
before his resignation
asked for Adam's help
with a anonymous letter.
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For generations, the
legend has been passed
down - a satanic tale of
a gigantic hell-hound, a
devil incarnate who
stalks the wastes of
Dartmoor wreaking a
bloody and terrible
vengeance on the
Baskerville family. What
turns out to be one of
the most interesting
cases of the great
detective's career begins
when a country doctor
visits Holmes and Watson
in London. He brings with
him the legend of the
hound and news of the
sudden death of Sir
Charles Baskerville. Sir
Charles' heir, Henry,
is arriving from America
and the doctor is afraid
for the young man's life.
Holmes despatches Dr
Watson to accompany them
back to the dark and
sombre estate in the
Devon moor. With peril at
every turn and a
murderous escaped convict
at a large, the mystery
deepens. Is the ancient
legend true, or is the
hideous creature merely a
part of a sinister
conspiracy whose origins
are all too diabolically
human?
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In a novel that
challenges as much as it
thrills, filled with the
astonishing tension and
unseen suburban
machinations that have
become Coben's trademark,
Caught tells the story
of a missing girl, the
community stunned by her
less, the predator who
may have taken her, and
the reporter who suddenly
realizes she can't trust
her own instincts about
this story - or the
motives of the people
around her.
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The Columbo of the
Cotswolds - Agatha Raisin
is back in two more
full-cast dramas based on
the bestselling books by
M.C. Beaton. In 'The
Potted Gardener', a
garden festival is
announced, which grips
the village of Carsely
with enthusiasm for water
features and mulch. Then
her archrival at the
festival is found hanged
and Agatha must dig deep
and root out the
wrongdoer. In 'The
Walkers of Dembley'
Agatha and James Lacey
are hired to investigate
the murder of a militant
rambler, forcing them to
go undercover as a
married couple, but it's
a marriage made in hell.
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John Taylor has written
four more mysteries all
inspired by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's original
stories featuring the
world's greatest
detective read by
Benedict Cumberbatch,
these adventures share
all of the suspense of
the original tales. In
these four thrilling
stories, Holmes
experiments with the
science of ballistics,
locates some missing gold
bullion, investigates
the theft of a large
amount of money and
solves the baffling
mystery of the Stovey
murder.
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From 1938 to 1969 the
fictional crime novelist
and detective Paul
Temple, together with
his Fleet Street
journalist wife Steve,
solved case after case in
one of BBC radio's most
popular series. They
inhabited a sophisticated
world of chilled
cocktails and fast cars,
where the women were chic
and the men wore cravats
- a world where Sir
Graham Forbes, of
Scotland Yard, usually
needed Paul's help with
his latest tricky case.
The murder of well-known
American Myron Harwood,
found dead in a small
country lane, heralds
the start of a series of
celebrity murders. Each
time, the body is found
with a small, square
piece of white cardboard
bearing the description
'The Marquis'. When the
eighth victim, a girl,
is picked out of the
river with the same card
attached to her dress, a
note from Paul Temple is
delivered to Sir graham
Forbes. The message
reads: 'is it true what
they say about Rita?'
Rita Cartwright was a
private detective
investigating the Marquis
murders - and now she too
has ended up dead. With
the police baffled and
the Home Secretary
specially requesting his
involvement, Paul Temple
has no choice but to
intervene...
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr
Watson arrive at the
fortress like country
house of the reclusive
Jack Douglas when they
receive a coded warning
of imminent danger.
However they have arrived
too late to save him and
must now follow the
bewildering clues left
behind by a murderer who
has seemingly disappeared
into thin air. Only then
will they solve the
mystery of the dead man's
desperate plea, 'Am I
never going to get out of
the valley of fear?'
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A Man Lay Dead
A game of
'murders' at Sir Hubert
Handesley's country house
party becomes far too
realistic for anyone's
liking. First a guest
arrives with a
dangerously lethal dagger
and then, when the gong
sounds to announce the
start of the game, the
victim plays dead in a
very convincing manner.
Chief Detective Inspector
Alleyn believes the
unusual dagger is a vital
clue to the real-life
murder, and soon he's on
the trail of a Russian
secret society. A
Surfeit of Lampreys Like
all good aristocrats,
the Lampreys are charming
but penniless - so a
visit from the wealthy
head of the it family is
greatly anticipated.
However, their Uncle
Gabriel isn't persuaded
to part with his money
and a row ensues. When a
body is found in the lift
leading to the Lampreys'
flat, Chief Detective
Inspector Alleyn finds a
family immersed in hidden
secrets and intrigue.
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The subtitle of this
wonderful memoir declares
its contents: this is 'my
life with Harold Pinter',
not Antonia Fraser's
complete life, and
certainly not that of the
universally renowned
dramatist. In essence,
it is a love story and as
with many love stories,
the beginning and the
end, the first light and
the twilight, are dealt
with more fully than the
high noon in between. The
result is a marvellously
insightful testimony to
modern literature's most
celebrated marriage,
between the greatest
playwright of our age and
a beautiful and famous
prize-winning biographer.
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George Smiley is one of
the most brilliantly
realised characters in
British fiction.
Bespectacled, tubby,
eternally middle-aged and
deceptively ordinary, he
has a mind like a steel
trap and is said to
possess 'the cunning of
Satan and the conscience
of a virgin'. This
dramatisation, set in
London in the late 1950s,
finds Smiley engaged in
the humdrum job of
security vetting. But
when a Foreign Office
civil servant commits
suicide after an
apparently unproblematic
interview, Smiley is
baffled. Refusing to
believe that Fennan shot
himself soon after making
a cup of cocoa and asking
the exchange to telephone
him in the morning,
Smiley decides to
investigate - only to
uncover a murderous
conspiracy with its roots
in his own secret wartime
past. Starring the
award-winning Simon
Russell Beale as Smiley,
and with a distinguished
cast including Kenneth
Cranham, Eleanor Bron
and Anna Chancellor,
this tense thrilling
dramatisation perfectly
captures the atmosphere
of le Carre's masterful
debut novel. 2 CDs,
running time: 1 hour 30
mins
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Agatha Raisin and The
Curious Curate When the
village curate is found
murdered, retired PR
guru Agatha Raisin vows
to bring his killer to
justice, particularly if
the investigation also
brings her closer to her
handsome next-door
neighbour, Colonel
Lacey. To cheer
themselves up, the
inhabitants of Carsely
decide on duck racing and
Morris dancing. But the
village fete is unlikely
to go smoothly while the
killer is among them.
Agatha Raisin and The
Buried Treasure When
Agatha embarks on a plan
to give up smoking,
little does she know that
it will lead to a
treasure hunt,
humiliation and a rather
nasty murder. The search
to find the killer leads
Agatha and James to the
dreaming spires of
Oxford, where they soon
get intimate - in a
cupboard full of E.M.
Forster first editions.
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This great CD brings
together another two
adventures from the
Columbo of the Cotswolds,
Agatha Raisin. In 'The
Quiche of Death',
Agatha, in her first
extended radio
appearance, is
determined to make her
mark by winning the local
baking competition. When
the judge is poisoned by
her entry, she must
investigate and uncovers
a web of extra-marital
sex and pastry-based
favours. In 'The Vicious
Vet', a handsome vet is
found injected with a
syringeful of
tranquiliser. Eager to
find out if it was an
accident or something
more sinister, Agatha
and James team up to find
out who killed him, but
they resort to barefaced
lies, burglary and
badger watching.
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The Wizard of
Evesham Agatha is alarmed
when her new wizard of a
hairdresser seems keen to
take on more than just
her split ends. She soon
discovers that everyone
in his salon has a
secret, and that he
practises a very dark
magic indeed. However,
James refuses to help.
Has he really ceased to
care for her? The
Murderous Marriage After
pursuing him for nearly
four years, Agatha is
finally about to marry
James Lacey, the
handsome Colonel next
door. But there's just
one little problem...
Then, with her marriage
dreams in tatters,
Agatha has the small task
of returning the wedding
presents, and the
slightly larger one of
clearing her name of
murder.
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This is the second volume
of Agatha Christie radio
mysteries featuring a
full BBC Radio 4 cast.
Including another 3 great
mysteries for your
listening pleasure with
'The Witness for the
Prosecution', ' The
Gates of Baghdad' and
'The Hound of Death' on 2
CDs running for
approximately 1.5 hours.
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The fourth volume of
Agatha Christie's Radio
mysteries introduce you
to another three short
stories with a modern
spin. In 'In a Glass
Darkly', a man witnesses
a murderous attack on a
young woman in a mirror
only to find nothing when
he turns. Can he prevent
his dark premonition
coming true?. In 'The
Dressmaker's Doll', set
in today's cut-throat
fashion industry,
Octavia's triumphant new
dress design are her sole
focus but is it safe for
her to ignore the ominous
dressmaker's doll which
has appeared in her
workshop? In 'The Case of
the Perfect Carer',
Morag is hired to care
after the Cowley sisters
ailing sibling Carmela,
but a jewel theft on the
night of the Hunt Ball
and it seems the perfect
carer may be
implicated...
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A joyous, charming
portrait of city life and
human foibles, which
moves beyond its setting
to deal with deep moral
issues and love, desire
and friendship. Without
resorting to cliched
cliff-hangers, McCall
Smith has mastered the
short, episodic
chapters... Sunday
Express To the casual
observer, the great
enlightened city of
Edinburgh, home of
no-nonsense philosophers
and cream teas, might
appear immune to the
rollercoaster of strong
emotions. But at 44
Scotland Street, as
Matthew and Elspeth
embark on the risky
enterprise of married
love, the raffish
portrait painter Angus
Lordie has a premonition
of disaster. Soon enough
Irene Pollock is shocked
to learn that her small
son Bertie harbours a
highly unsuitable
ambition; and Angus finds
himself facing a large
Glaswegian gangster
bearing gifts.. .
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Sookie Stackhouse would
really like time to get
over being betrayed by
Bill, her long-time
vampire lover, and get
used to her new
relationship with sexy
shapeshifter Quinn - but
instead, she finds
herself attending a
vampire summit, the
destination of choice for
every undead power player
around. She's being used
as a sort-of-human Geiger
counter for Sophie-Anne
Leclerq, vampire queen
of Louisiana. But
Sophie-Anne's power base
has been severely
weakened by Hurricane
Katrina, and she's to be
put on trial for
murdering her king.
Sookie knows the queen is
innocent, but others
have their doubts. And
there are some vamps who
would like to finish what
nature started. With
secret alliances and
backroom deals the order
of the day - and night -
Sookie must decide which
side she'll stand with,
and quickly, for her
choice may mean the
difference between
survival and all-out
catastrophe. 8 CDs,
running time 9 hours 35
mins. This story contains
adult content and
language.
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Elspeth McGillicuddy
boards the 4.50 train
from Paddington to visit
old friend, Miss Marple
as her train travels
alongside another train,
she witnesses a tall,
dark man strangling a
blonde woman. She reports
what she has witnessed
but to no avail, there
is no sign of murder or
any persons reported
missing matching her
description but Miss
Marple believes her.
Using maps and train
tmietabels, she
pinpoints the exact spot
where the body must be
and aided by Lucy
Eyelesbarrow they go on
the tricky task of
uncovering a murder and a
cunning murderer...
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in the 17th century, a
witch was burned in a
stone circle. 350 years
later, an investigative
journalist checks in at a
nearby clinic to have
cosmetic surgery, only
to die a week later.
Dalgliesh and his team,
arrive to investigate
only for a equally
horrific death to occur
and now find themselves
confronted with problems
involving witchcraft,
illegitimacy and the past
and present all come to
the fore in this gripping
adaptation.
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Hardly anyone ever leaves
Des Moines, Iowa. Bill
Bryson did, and after
ten years in England he
decided to go home - to a
foreign country. In an
ageing Chevrolet
Chevette, he drove
nearly 14, 000 miles
through through 38 states
to compile this hilarious
and perceptive
state-of-the-nation
report on small-town
America.
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When down-at-hell lawyer
Mickey Haller gets the
news that his old
colleague Jerry Vincent
has died, he also gets
an unexpected windfall.
Harry left instructions
that Mickey should
inherit all of his
clients - putting
Mickey's stalled career
back on track at a
stroke. The only problem
is that Vincent was
murdered, shot at close
range in his office
garage, and the
detective handling the
case - a certain Harry
Bosch - is convinced the
killer must be one of
Vincent's clients.
Suddenly Jerry Vincent's
legacy is beginning to
look more like a poisoned
chalice, and now Mickey
is faced with the biggest
challenge of his career:
how to successfully
defend a client who might
just be planning to
murder him.
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Matthew Reill returns
with his biggest and
fastest adventure yet.
With the end of the world
fast approaching, at the
hands of a long foretold
global catastrophe, Jack
West Jr must rebuild the
final pieces of the
fabled, ancient
'Machine' - the only
thing that can prevent
the end. But he is out of
clues, out of leads...
until he is presented
with an archaic text
about five unnamed
warriors, great
historical figures who
were all in some way
connected to the
mysterious Machine. Soon
he is on the trail of a
legendary list of greats:
from Moses to Genghis
Khan and Napoleon, and
finally to one most
unlikely warrior - the
unknown 'Fifth' who it is
said will be there 'at
the end of all things'.
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The news of rising young
surgeon Stephen Maxie's
sudden engagement comes
as a bombshell to his
family as the gather at
Martingdale, their
Elizabethan manor house,
for the annual St Cedd's
village fete. Worse,
however, is to come.
Sally Jupp, unmarried
mother and the
household's recently
recruited parlourmaid,
will that very evening be
strangled in her bed.
When Detective Chief
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh
is called in to
investigate, he
discovers no shortage of
motives for the murder -
and more than one fianc
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George Smiley is one of
the most brilliantly
realised characters in
British fiction.
Bespectacled, tubby,
eternally middle-aged and
deceptively ordinary, he
has a mind like a steel
trap and is said to
possess 'the cunning of
Satan and the conscience
of a virgin'. When word
reaches The Department -
an ailing section of
British military
intelligence - that
Soviet missiles are being
installed close to the
West German border, it
seems the perfect
opportunity to show
Control and Smiley,
their rivals over at the
Circus, that The
Department still has
value. Former spy Fred
Leiser is lured back from
retirement to
investigate, and manages
to cross the border into
East Germany in a
dangerous night-time
operation. But the world
has changed since The
Department's glory days
during the Second World
War. The harsh realities
of the Cold War now
prevail, and there is no
place for
heroes... Starring the
award-winning Simon
Russell Beale as Smiley,
and with a distinguished
cast including Ian
McDiarmid and Phillip
Jackson, this tense
thrilling dramatisation
perfectly captures the
atmosphere of le Carre's
masterful debut novel 2
CDs, running time: 1
hour 30 mins
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If you think your
relationships are
complicated, think
again: you haven't seen
anything like the ones in
Bon Temps, Louisiana.
Sookie Stackhouse is
dealing with a whole host
of family problems,
ranging from her own kin
(a non-human fairy and a
telepathic second cousin)
demanding a place in her
life, to her lover
Eric's vampire sire, an
ancient being who arrives
with Eric's 'brother' in
tow at a most inopportune
moment. And Sookie's
tracking down a distant
relation of her ailing
neighbour (and ex),
Vampire Bill Compton. In
addition to the multitude
of family issues
complicating her life,
the werewolf pack of
Shreveport has asked
Sookie for a special
favour, and since Sookie
is a obliging young
woman, she agrees. But
this favour for the
wolves has dire results
for Sookie, who is still
recovering from the
trauma of her abduction
during the Fairy War. 8
CDs, running time 9
hours 35 mins. This story
contains adult content
and language.
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The Terrible Tourist
Now
that their marriage plans
have collapsed, Agatha
is furious to find that
James is taking a holiday
on the island where they
were to have their
honeymoon. But when she
sets out in pursuit of
him, she stumbles upon
another murder. The
Fairies of Fryfam Having
been hurt by James once
too often, Agatha takes
a trip to the Cornish
villages of Fryfam and is
soon disturbed by some
strange lights at the
bottom of the garden.
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Society's eligible women
are in mourning. Lord
Peter Wimsey has married
at last, having finally
succeeded in his ardent
pursuit of the lovely
mystery novelist Harriet
Vane. The two depart for
a tranquil honeymoon in a
country farmhouse but
find, instead of a
well-prepared love nest,
the place left in a
shambles by the previous
owner. His sudden
appearance, dead from a
broken skull in the
cellar, only prompts
more questions. Why would
anyone have wanted to
kill old Mr Noakes? What
dark secrets had he to
hide? The honeymoon is
over, as Lord Peter and
Harriet Vane start their
investigations. Suspicion
is rife and everyone
seems to have something
to hide, from the local
constable to the
housekeeper. Wimsey and
his wife can think of
plenty of theories, but
it's not until they
discover a vital fact
that the identity of the
murderer becomes clear.
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This dramatisation set in
the early 1960s, see
George Smiley
investigating a murder in
a public school. Out of
loyalty to an old friend,
he looks at the
mysterious case of the
wife of one of the school
masters found bludgeoned
to death. However his
investigation raises a
multitude of questions
but to discover the
truth, Smiley must lift
the lid on a world of
dangerous hatreds and
hidden passion...
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Sookie Stackhouse enjoys
her job as a cocktail
waitress in Bon Temps,
Louisiana, even though
she sometimes gets tired
of the constant chatter -
and not just the gossip;
Sookie can read minds.
It's taken time, but
she's finally found cute,
dateable guys whose
minds she can't read. And
okay, so most of them
happen to be vampires,
but no man is perfect,
right? When the horribly
mutilated body of a
were-panther is found in
the parking lot of
Merlotte's Sookie agrees
to use her telepathic
talent to track down the
murderer. What she
doesn't realise is that
there is a far greater
danger than this killer
threatening Bon Temps: a
race of unhuman beings,
older, more powerful and
far more secretive than
the vampires or the
werewolves, is preparing
for war. And Sookie is an
all-too-human pawn in
their ages-old
battle... 8 CDs, running
time 9 hours 35 mins.
This story contains adult
content and language.
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