Detective & Mystery Stories

10LB PENALTY

by Dick Francis

read by Ian Wallace

running time 5hrs 45mins

Amateur jockey Benedict Juliard finds himself in danger when he is targeted by the increasingly violent enemies of his father's bid to become Prime Minister.

21ST BIRTHDAY

by Maxine Paetro & James Patterson

read by January LaVoy

running time 8hrs 49mins

Will she live to see her twenty-first birthday? When a distraught mother pleads with reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, Tara, and her baby granddaughter, Cindy goes straight to SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The prime suspect is Tara's husband, but he tells a conflicting story that paints Tara as a wayward wife, not a missing person. Is this a tragic case of domestic violence? Or is the truth linked to a more complex network of killings? As the case grows into something far bigger than any of them could have imagined, the Women's Murder Club will need to work together to unpick the truth from a web of lies.

4.50 FROM PADDINGTON

by Agatha Christie

read by Rosemary Leach

running time 7hrs 35mins

Elspeth sees a man strangling a woman in a passing train. But who will take her story seriously? The indomitable Miss Marple of course.

THE 5TH HORSEMAN

by Maxine Paetro & James Patterson

read by Pat Starr

running time 8hrs

A young mother is recuperating in a top San Francisco hospital when suddenly she's gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. How and why did this happen? Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer discovers that this is not the hospital's first suspicious case. Other patients have taken unexpected and devastating turns for the worse just as they're planning to go home. Are these just appalling coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives?

61 HOURS

by Lee Child

read by Jeff Harding

running time 14hrs 30mins

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. Reacher's original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything...

7TH HEAVEN

by Maxine Paetro & James Patterson

read by Carolyn McCormick

running time 8hrs

A string of fatal arson attacks has broken out in San Francisco. The targets have one thing in common: they are all rich, successful, married couples. With four couples dead, Detective Lindsay Boxer is determined to put a stop to the killings and trace the murderer. Michael Campion was a people's hero who publicly battled against a rare and debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without trace, the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines. But what is the link between the Campion case and the arson attacks? Lindsay, and her friends in the Women's Murder Club, must race to find the suspects and stop the cold-blooded killer, and fast.

ABATTOIR BLUES

by Peter Robinson

read by Richard Burnip

running time 12hrs 20mins

When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. As they struggle desperately to find the missing boy who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time where it's their turn to become the prey . . .

THE BABES IN THE WOOD

by Ruth Rendell

read by Cecilia Laughton

running time 14hrs 20mins

After a weekend in Paris with her husband, Mrs Dade returns home to discover that her teenaged children, along with their teen-sitter, have disappeared. She is convinced that they drowned when the River Brede burst its banks. Wexford's investigation calls into question his assumptions about the way people behave.

THE CADAVER GAME

by Kate Ellis

read by Gordon Griffin

running time 10hr 30mins

When the decaying body of a murdered woman is discovered in a suburban house, DI Wesley Peterson has problems establishing her true identity. But as he tries to find out more about the mysterious woman, he finds he has another more disturbing case to investigate. Book 16 of the series.

DAISY IN CHAINS

by Sharon Bolton

read by Antonia Beamish

running time 12hrs 30mins

Hamish Wolfe is charming, magnetic and very persuasive. He receives adoring letters every day from his countless admirers. He's also a convicted murderer, facing life in prison. Maggie Rosie is a successful lawyer. Reclusive and enigmatic, she only takes on cases she can win. Hamish is convinced that Maggie can change his fate. Maggie is determined not to get involved. She thinks she's immune to the charms of such a man. But maybe not this time...

EAGER TO PLEASE

by Julie Parsons

read by Gerald Sanctuary

running time 12hrs 15mins

Rachel Beckett has served twelve long years for the murder of her husband, though she has always denied it. Now free she wants revenge on the real murderer, her brother-in-law, Daniel Beckett.

FACELESS KILLERS

by Henning Mankell

read by Sean Barrett

running time 7hrs 57mins

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. Wallander's life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time.

GALE WARNING

by Dornford Yates

read by Richard Simpson

running time 10hrs 30mins

Jonathan Mansel heads a small private organisation dedicated to the detection of serious crime 'by methods sadly unavailable to the regular police'. An aristocratic member of his team is murdered and the avengers set out in pursuit of the killer.

HAGGARD HAWK

by Douglas Watkinson

read by Terrence Hardiman

running time 8hrs 30mins

Nathan Hawk is a recently retired police officer. A widower with four children scattered all over the world he has gone to live in a typical English village. He's trying to kill time, time he never had as head of a Murder Squad. Then, driving home one night from a dinner party he comes across a brutal murder and he's right back where he used to be..catching a killer. Book 1 of the series.

I, ALEX CROSS

by James Patterson

read by Garrick Hagon

running time 7hrs

Alex Cross hears the news that his niece Caroline has been murdered, and she was not this killer's only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible. Alex and Bree are soon facing some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain - they will do anything to keep their secrets safe. As Cross closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable...

THE JACKAL MAN

by Kate Ellis

read by Andrew Wincott

running time 12hrs

A teenage girl is left for dead but survives. She describes her attacker as having the head of a dog, and DI Wesley Peterson is baffled. But when the body of another young woman is found, archaeologist Neil Watson discovers that Wesley’s strange murder case bears sinister similarities to four murders that took place near Varley Castle in 1903. Book 15 of the series.

THE KALAHARI TYPING SCHOOL FOR MEN

by Alexander McCall Smith

read by Hilary Neville

running time 6hrs 30mins

Precious Ramotswe faces competition from the new 'Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency' set up by Cephas Buthelezi. Meanwhile Mma Makutsi sets up a typing school for men and finds romance. Vol. 4 of the series

THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

by Agatha Christie

read by Hugh Fraser

running time 8hrs 45mins

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’.

MACBETH

by Jo Nesbo

read by Derek Riddell

running time 17hrs

When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it’s up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. But he’s also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He’s convinced he won’t get what is rightfully his....unless he kills for it. Part of the ‘Hogarth Shakespeare’ series, where renowned authors adapt Shakespeare’s works for the present day.

THE NAKED NUNS

by Colin Watson

read by Edward Peel

running time 7hrs 35mins

Inspector Purbright receives a very strange telegram, which leads to the discovery of strange passions lurking under the surface of respectable Flaxborough.

OBJECTS OF DESIRE (X Rated)

by C J Emerson

read by Charlotte Strevens

running time 9hrs 45mins

A new life in Wales has not turned out to be the rural fantasy that social worker Jess imagined when she left London for a simpler, more fulfilling future. But it seems there is no escape from evil - even in such a beautiful landscape. A dark and disturbing tale. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

PAGANINIS GHOST

by Paul Adam

read by Sean Barrett

running time 9hrs

A dazzling young Russian virtuoso performs a sell-out recital on Paganini's violin in the cathedral in Cremona. Then one of the audience, a shady Parisian art dealer, is found dead in his hotel room, a fragment of sheet music belonging to the virtuoso hidden in his wallet. But how did the dead man get hold of it? And why? Gianni and Antonio investigate the murder and find themselves at the centre of a tantalising story of love, deception and greed. Following a trail that leads back to Paganini, his lover Elisa Bonaparte (Napoleon's sister), Catherine the Great of Russia and a long-lost priceless treasure, the two friends must unravel another mystery that has gone unanswered for over a century, one that may hold the answer to the modern-day murder. Sequel to The Rainaldi Quartet. Book two in the series

Q IS FOR QUARRY

by Sue Grafton

read by Liza Ross

running time 13hrs

In the summer of 1969, the decomposed corpse of a young female was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1 Despite months of investigation, she remained unidentified and the case unsolved. Now, 18 years later, Kinsey Milhone is on a quest to identify the girl. But what Kinsey does not expect is that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again - not just once, but twice.

RAFFLES: THE COMPLETE SERIES 1-3

by E W Hornung

read by Miscellaneous

running time 9hrs 14mins

Jeremy Clyde stars as the cricket playing A. J. Raffles, with Michael Cochrane as his jeweller sidekick, Bunny. Together they embark upon a series of well-planned crimes against the highest of society.

THE SACRED STONE

by The Medieval Murderers

read by Edward Peel

running time 16hrs

1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters stumble across a strangely-shaped stone which has fallen from the sky. Over the next six hundred years, the Sky-Stone will fall into the hands of crusading knights, a wicked manor-lord of Devon, a group of radical young kabalists, the dying King Henry III and a band of travelling players. But treachery, discord and violent death follow for all who seek to possess it.

THE TAINTED RELIC

by The Medieval Murderers

read by Stephen Thorne

running time 15hrs

Five interlinked mysteries from some of the finest historical writers in the UK: Simon Beaufort, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Michael Jecks, Bernard Knight and Ian Morson. Each author brings their own characters to the tale, which spans over nine hundred years.

U IS FOR UNDERTOW

by Sue Grafton

read by Liza Ross

running time 14hrs

In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned. When the case is reopened after twenty years, Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone claiming to have recalled a disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery - he may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh's body. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too . . .

THE VALLEY OF FEAR

by Arthur Conan Doyle

read by Ian Wallace

running time 6hrs 30mins

A cipher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin the case which has Sherlock Holmes battling against his arch enemy, Dr Moriarty.

THE WAITER

by Ajay Chowdhury

read by Mikhail Sen

running time 9hrs 22mins

Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that might just change his life ... for better or for worse. Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the day he caters a birthday party for his boss's friend on Millionaire's Row, his simple new life becomes rather complicated. The event is a success, the food is delicious, but later that evening the host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool.Suspicion falls on Rakesh's new wife, Neha, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family, with the help of his boss's daughter Anjoli. Kamil and Anjoli prove a capable team - but as the investigation progresses, Kamil struggles to keep memories of the case that destroyed his career in Kolkata at bay. . . and his past will soon catch up with him in some rather unexpected ways.

X

by Sue Grafton

read by Liza Ross

running time 13hrs 40mins

P I Kinsey Millhone is helping the widow of her old friend, Pete Wolinsky, with her IRS audit. This seemingly innocuous task takes a treacherous turn when Kinsey finds a coded list. It soon leads her to an unhinged man with a catalogue of ruined lives left in his wake. As Kinsey delves deeper into the investigation she quickly becomes the next target of this tormentor. But can Kinsey prove her case against him before she becomes the next victim

THE YELLOW DOG

by Georges Simenon

read by Terrence Hardiman

running time 4hrs

In the windswept seaside town of Concarneau, a local wine merchant is shot. In fact, someone is out to kill all the influential men and the entire town is soon sent into a state of panic. For Maigret, the answers lie with the pale, downtrodden waitress Emma, and a strange yellow dog lurking in the shadows...

THE ZIG ZAG GIRL

by Elly Griffiths

read by Daniel Philpott

running time 8hrs

When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick: the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick is an old friend of Edgar's. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another 'trick', the Wolf Trap, he knows that they are all in danger...Book 1