General Crime 2015

General Crime 2015

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Adler-Olsen, Jussi. Disgrace. 2012. TB 19807.

1987. A brother and sister are brutally killed in a summer house in the north of Denmark. The evidence is not strong enough to prove the police theory that the murderer is to be found within a group of boarding school students. Twenty years later, Carl Morck and his assistant Assad stumble over the file documenting the murders. Contains strong language.

Read by Charles Armstrong, 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 19807.

Arlidge, M J. Eeny meeny. 2014. TB21566.

Helen Grace; book 1. The girl emerged from the woods. Traumatised and emaciated; close to death, but alive. Her story seemed too terrible to be true. But it was. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then forced to make a terrible choice. Which would you sacrifice - your life or your conscience? For DI Helen Grace there is now an unseen killer to be hunted down.

Read by Elizabeth Bower, Nigel Pilkington, Lucy Gaskell and Annie Aldington. 9 hours 4 minutes. TB21566.

Barclay, Linwood. Bad move. 2005. TB21786.

Zack Walker; book 1. Zack wouldn't blame you for thinking he's safety-obsessed. But just ask his wife, Sarah, or his teenage kids, Paul and Angie, who endure their share of lectures what he is like. After moving the family to a rural “crime-free” area, Zack realizes their two -faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower. And during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. Shockingly, Zack knows who the victim is - and who might want him dead.

Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB21786.

Barclay, Linwood. Bad guys. 2006. TB21787.

Zack Walker; book 2. Zack Walker is back, and much to his family's relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene, but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang that's been burglarizing Crandall's high-end shops.

Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 16 minutes. TB21787.

Barclay, Linwood. Lone wolf. 2006. TB21788.

Zack Walker; book 3. Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what he's about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father's lakeside fishing camp. Then another body is discovered and a large supply of fertilizer goes missing, evoking memories of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 11 hours. TB21788.

Bauer, Belinda. Rubbernecker. 2013. TB 20864.

Patrick has been on the outside all his life. He follows an obsession with death to study anatomy at university. When he uncovers a crime that everybody else was too close to see, he proves finally that he has been right all along: nothing is exactly as it seems, and that there have been many more lies closer to home.

Read by Andrew Wincott. 8 hours 8 minutes. TB 20864.

Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the perfect paragon. 2010. TB 21008.

Agatha Raisin series; book 16. Agatha Raisin could do with some low-key cases so when Robert Smedley walks through the door, determined to prove his wife has been cheating on him, it seems like the ideal assignment. But unfortunately for Agatha, murder is again just around the corner.

Read by Penelope Freeman. 6 hours 38 minutes. TB 21008.

Beaton, M C. Death of a hussy. 2008. TB 20295.

Hamish Macbeth series; book 5. Wealthy Maggie Baird is neither kind nor generous. So when her car ignites with her in it, there are five likely perpetrators. And finding who did it requires all Hamish Macbeth's extraordinary common sense and insight into human nature.

Read by Stephanie Beattie. 4 hours 51 minutes. TB 20295.

Beaton, M C. Death of a snob. 2013. TB 21110.

A Hamish Macbeth mystery; book 6. When Jane Wetherby offers PC Hamish Macbeth a holiday at her health farm on the isle of Eileencraig, he is more than happy to accept. However, the volatile party of guests includes Morag Todd, an unadulterated snob who criticizes everybody and everything. So when she is found lying at the foot of a cliff with a broken neck, no one seems too broken up about the event - leaving it up to Hamish to solve the death of a snob.

Read by Stephanie Beattie. 4 hours 37 minutes. TB 21110.

Beckett, Simon. Written in bone. 2007. TB 19796.

David Hunter series; book 2. Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favour to a beleaguered police officer, he undertakes a rough sea crossing to the remote Hebridean island of Runa, where a grisly discovery awaits him.

Read by David Thorpe. 11 hours 13 minutes. TB 19796.

Beckett, Simon. Whispers of the dead. 2009. TB 21301.

David Hunter; book 3. In America to escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensics expert David Hunter has returned to the Body Farm in Tennessee. He needs to know whether he's still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms. He agrees to visit the scene of a crime but is unprepared for the state of the victim’s body that awaits him in the remote cabin. The death toll rises. Has he met his match?

Read by David Thorpe. 10 hours 51 minutes. TB 21301.

Billingham, Mark. Death message. 2008. TB 19697.

Tom Thorne series; book 7. The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne has seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? Contains strong language.

Read by Mark Elstob. 11 hours 39 minutes. TB 19697.

Billingham, Mark. Bloodline. 2009. TB 20350.

Tom Thorne series; book 8. When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straight forward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges.

Read by Leighton Pugh. 10 hours 30 minutes. TB 20350.

Billingham, Mark. From the dead. 2010. TB 21012.

Tom Thorne series; book 9. When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him and she contacts DI Tom Thorne who worked on the Alan Langford case. Contains strong language.

Read by Mark Elstob. 10 hours 42 minutes. TB 21012.

Booth, Stephen. Blood on the tongue. 2003 TB 20203.

Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 3. It wasn't the easiest way to commit suicide, but Marie Tennent seemed to have just curled up in the freezing snow and stayed there until her body frosted over. Nor is that all. The bodies of a baby and an old man revive a 50-year-old mystery - is the past the only clue to present violence?

Read by Laurence Mitchell. 15 hours 15 minutes. TB 20203.

Booth, Stephen. Blind to the bones. TB 21014.

Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 4. Withens is a small village in the Peak District, but it's no idyll. Dark and dour, it's troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by local family-from-hell, the Oxleys. Now it is the focus of a murder investigation - a young man's body has been found on the desolate moors nearby and the man is an Oxley.

2004. Read by Leighton Pugh. 17 hours 40 minutes. TB 21014.

Booth, Stephen. One last breath. 2005. TB 21276.

Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 5. 14 years ago Mansell Quinn was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he's out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been murdered. As the son of the officer responsible for putting Quinn behind bars, Ben Cooper realizes his own life could be in danger.

Read by David Thorpe. 15 hours 49 minutes. TB 21276.

Bradley, Alan. The weed that strings the hangman's bag. 2011. TB 20351.

Flavia de Luce mystery; Book 2. Aboard her trusty bicycle "Gladys" the young sleuth/aspiring chemist is off on another adventure but this time it gets very dark and dangerous after a famous puppeteer puts on a show in the village hall and a murder ensues. TB 20351.

Read by Olivia Mace. 10 hours 31 minutes. TB 20351.

Bretherick, Diana. City of devils. 2013. TB 20882.

1887. James Murray, a Scottish scientist fascinated by the developing research into the study of criminal behaviour, travels to Turin to be apprenticed to Cesare Lombroso, the world-renowned criminologist. But just hours after his introduction to his new mentor, the discovery of a mutilated body in a public square and a note that appears to implicate Lombroso throws his visit in a whole new direction.

Read by Jonathan Oliver. 15 hours 16 minutes. TB 20882.

Brody, Frances. Dying in the wool. 2010. TB 21418.

Kate Shackleton; book 1. Take one quiet Yorkshire Village, add a measure of mystery, a sprinkling of scandal and Kate Shackleton – amateur sleuth extraordinaire! Joshua Braithwaite went missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again but now his daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding him. As Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed.

Read by Sandra Hunt. 11 hours 23 minutes. TB 21418.

Brookmyre, Christopher. When the devil drives. 2013. TB 20538.

Jasmine Sharp series; book 2. Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way.

Read by Elspeth Turner. 14 hours 30 minutes. TB 20538.

Burley, W J. Wycliffe and the school bullies. 2006. TB21552.

Wycliffe; book 7. Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a singer in a nightclub, the other was a nurse but both were strangled in their own homes in very similar attacks. The press are quick to assume there is a psychopath on the loose but Wycliffe suspects the truth may be somewhat more complex than that.

Read by Terence Wilton. 7 hours. TB21552.

Carter, Chris. One by one. 2014. TB21588.

Robert Hunter; book 5. Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins and Hunter is forced to sit and watch as an unidentified victim is tortured and murdered live over the Internet. Then Hunter receives a new phone call and this time the killer has upgraded his game into a live murder reality show, where anyone can cast the deciding vote.

Read by John Chancer. 14 hours 25 minutes. TB21588.

Clark, Cassandra. The law of angels. 2011. TB 19956. Crime fiction.

Abbess of Meaux mystery; book 3. Summer, 1384: John of Gaunt refuses to step aside for his ward, the boy king Richard II, and heretics roam the land. In addition portents show that the end of days is imminent. Can Hildegard save the day?

Read by Maggie Mash. 16 hours 29 minutes. TB 19956.

Clark, Cassandra. A parliament of spies. 2012. TB 20310.

Abbess of Meaux series; book 4. Hildegard of Meaux is accompanying the Archbishop of York to London for the opening of parliament, but while packing to leave, the Archbishop's saucier is found brutally murdered. The journey from York to London is fraught with more deadly surprises.

Read by Andrew Cullum. 11 hours 7 minutes. TB 20310.

Cleeves, Ann. Blue lightning. 2010. TB 20499.

Shetland Island Quartet; book 4. Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents. When a woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory, Jimmy must investigate the old-fashioned way.

Read by Gordon Griffin. 10 hours 33 minutes. TB 20499.

Cleeves, Ann. Dead water. 2013. TB 21172.

Shetland Island series; book 5. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Willow and Jimmy Perez discover that Markham was chasing a story in his final days, one that must have been significant enough to warrant his death.

Read by Kenny Blyth. 10 hours 7 minutes. TB 21172.

Coben, Harlan. Back spin. 2009. TB 19958.

Myron Bolitar series; book 4. Kidnappers have snatched the son of superstar golfer Linda Coldren at the height of the US Open. Sports agent Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel.