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RNZFB Digital Talking Books Bibliography for Subject Interest Code
Mystery And Detective Stories. November 2013
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24 hours by Greg Iles. When a psychopathic con man kidnaps Will and Karen
Jennings' five-year-old daughter, the couple decide to fight back to save her. Length:
11 hours, 28 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56477
A certain justice by P. D. James. London: Faber, 1997. When Venetia Aldridge QC
defends a man accused of the murder of his aunt, a terrifying chain of events is set in
motion. When Aldridge is found dead at her desk, Dalgliesh and his team are called
in. With the murder of one of their suspects, the case spins into fresh complexities of
horror. Length: 14 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46043
A clear case of suicide by Michael Underwood. Leicester: Ulverscroft, 1982.
Laurence Deegan, QC, had just won his latest case. At fifty, already a distinguished
and famous barrister, he seemed set to become a judge at an early age. The same
evening he slit the veins in both wrists. Why had he done it? His son, a police officer
in the Special Branch, decides to find out. Length: 6 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65960
A coffin for Pandora by Gwendoline Butler. London: Macmillan, 1973. Mary
Lamont is a clever, determine and totally feminine governess living in Victorian
Oxford. Her charge is a intelligent girl who experiences nightmares and daytime
terrors. When a woman is drowned and a child kidnapped it becomes terrifying
apparent to Mary that her own life is in danger. Length: 8 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 61697
A comedian dies by Simon Brett. London: Gollancz, 1979. A rising young comedian
dies, sensationally, as he picks up the microphone. Actor/detective Charles Paris
goes backstage to investigate. The wiring is faulty, no one is to blame but too many
seem to have both the motive and the opportunity to kill. Length: 7 hours, 21 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 61713
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A compelling case by Michael Underwood. [S.l.]: Macmillan, 1989. Stephen Lumley
was guilty of taking part in a robbery at his uncle's jewellery shop or was he? His
lawyer, Rosa, delves into the circumstances of his case and eventually uncovers a
murder of her key suspect. An involved tale of violence, mystery and gut instinct that
travels into the world of the criminal in the shadows of London. Length: 6 hours, 17
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65958
A crime apart by Michael Underwood. A woman is murdered in a London suburb
and we are shown the slow, inexorable progress of the police investigation. Length: 5
hours, 59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65961
A crown of wild myrtle by H. E. Bates. On a small Greek island, at the height of
summer a holidaying Englishman meets Ruth and her older travelling companion, Mrs
Keller. He soon realises the relationship between the women is very uncomfortable
with sinister undertones. He discovers that the girl is, in fact, being held in a sort of
bondage. Length: 4 hours, 36 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 61714
A dark-adapted eye by Barbara Vine. London: Viking, 1986. Set in the respectable
middle-class Essex countryside soon after the Second World War, this story traces
tensions between two sisters. At the centre of the drama is a child whose parentage
remains in doubt as their tale unravels. Length: 11 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 47754
A dead liberty by Catherine Aird. London: Collins, 1986. Lucy Durmast, charged
with murdering one of her father's employees, remains obstinately silent.
Detective-Inspector C.D. Sloan investigates the case. Length: 7 hours, 3 minutes.
RNZFB. Order Number: 63468
A deadly business by Lenny Bartulin. bourne: Scribe, 2008. Jack Susko is trying for
a quiet life in his second-hand bookshop in downtown Sydney. When a wealthy
businessman hires him to locate some books, life gets a little more complicated. Soon
he's up to his neck in family secrets, corruption and murder; plunged into a world he
thought he'd left behind. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex.
Contains violence. Length: 6 hours, 51 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 67734
A decline in prophets by Sulari Gentill. tral Bay, N.S.W.: Pantera Press, 2011. In
1932, Rowland Sinclair is returning home on a luxury liner after months abroad. He
and his companions dine with a suffragette, a Bishop and a retired World Prophet.
The elegant atmosphere on board is charged with tension, but civility prevails - until
people start to die. Then things get a bit awkward and Rowland finds himself,
unwittingly, in the centre of it all. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 9 hours, 35 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 71837
A double coffin by Gwendoline Butler. London :Harper Collins, 1996. John Coffin,
Commander of the Second City of London is called upon by a scholar who is writing
the biography of a Grand Old Man who was a former prime minister, long retired and
almost forgotten. All too soon the sins of the past and present are coming together in
a terrifying denouement. Length: 8 hours, 43 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 61698
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A dying fall by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1985. Detective Chief Inspector
Finch feels his way intuitively through the web of reticence surrounding the death of a
wealthy retired businessman. The money motive is obvious, maybe too obvious?
Length: 8 hours, 21 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65884
A dying light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis. London: Century, 1996. The eighth in
the series of crime novels set in Ancient Rome and featuring the classical sleuth,
Marcus Didius Falco. When a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead,
Falco's investigation plunges him into the fiercely competitive world of olive-oil
production. Length: 13 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71145
A family affair by Michael Innes. Gollancz, 1969. Over a period of twenty years, a
series of highly elaborate art hoaxes have been perpetrated at carefully time intervals.
Inspector Appleby's interest is kindled after hearing an amusing dinner party
anecdote. Appleby then enlists the help of his wife and son and makes the ensuing
investigation a truly family affair. Length: 5 hours, 43 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number:
73392
A fatal attachment by Robert Barnard. London: Corgi, 1993. Lydia, a charming
gifted biographer, had a way with young people, inspiring and encouraging them.
Then she is strangled and Superintendent Mike Oddie found that not everyone
thought Lydia was so charming. Length: 6 hours, 51 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47760
A fatal grace by Louise Penny. No one liked CC de Poitiers and therein lies the
challenge for the Inspector Armand Gamache. He is called in once again from
Montreal to investigate murder in the hamlet of Three Pines. CC has been killed in an
apparent electrical accident and everyone in town has a motive, even the inspector's
good friends. Length: 10 hours, 31 minutes. Order Number: 69295
A fatal inversion by Barbara Vine. Penguin, 1987. In the long hot summer of 1976 a
group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall where they scavenge, steal and sell
the family heirlooms to live. Ten years later the bodies of a woman and child are
discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Who were they and what is the horrifying
truth behind the mystery. Length: 11 hours, 36 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47761
A few right thinking men by Sulari Gentill. tral Bay, N.S.W.: Pantera Press, 2010.
In Australia's 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest
son Rowland has a talent for scandal. While the unemployed line the streets,
Rowland lives in a sheltered world of wealth and culture. Mounting political tensions
fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution. Rowland
Sinclair is indifferent to the politics, until a brutal murder exposes an extraordinary &
treasonous conspiracy. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 9
hours, 58 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 71838
A flat tyre in Fulham by Josephine Bell. The car of Sir John Drewson is used for a
wages snatch whilst he is abroad. On his return he finds himself caught up in a
murder case. Length: 6 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62882
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A going concern by Catherine Aird. Macmillan, 1993. Octavia's last wishes were
unusual. Detective Inspector Sloan is concerned by her request for a police presence
at her funeral and a thorough examination of her body. Then her house is broken into
and her papers ransacked; it seems as though those strange last wishes were
justified. Length: 5 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47765
A great deliverance by Elizabeth George. [London]: Bantam, 1989. Fat, unlovely
Roberta Teys is found in a barn, an axe in her lap, beside her father's corpse. She
confesses her guilt, but the parish priest insists she is innocent. When Inspector
Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers investigate, they uncover a
series of shocking revelations. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex.
Length: 11 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65338
A guilty thing surprised by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1970. The
Nightingales were always a happy couple but someone had reason to quarrel with
Elizabeth and hated her enough to beat her to death. Detective Chief Inspector
Wexford soon discovered that beneath the placid surface of the Nightingales' lives
there were undercurrents and secrets no one had ever suspected. Length: 5 hours,
47 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62331
A hobby of murder by Elizabeth Ferrars London: Collins, 1994. When a retired
botany professor goes to stay with old friends in a sleepy English village, he is bored.
Everyone has hobbies except him. He is soon faced with more pressing worries as he
discovers his host's once happy marriage is on the verge of collapse and a guest dies
at a dinner party. Length: 5 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47766
A hole in the ground by Josephine Bell. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
Returned to Cornwall after a twenty year absence, Martin discovers the secrets
surrounding the gory bundle and blood-soaked sacking he had found on his earlier
stay. Length: 5 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62883
A is for alibi by Sue Grafton. London: Macmillan, 1986. When Laurence Fife was
murdered in a picturesque California town, few cared. With motive, access and
opportunity, his young wife Nikki, is the prime suspect. The jury agreed with the police
and now eight years later she is out on parole. Nikki hires a detective to find the
cunning killer who got away with murder. Length: 7 hours, 44 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46061
A judgement in stone by Ruth Rendell. Hutchinson, 1977. Four members of the
Coverdale family died in the space of fifteen minutes on St Valentine's Day. The
housekeeper shot them down on that Sunday evening while they were watching
opera on television. She was arrested two weeks later but the tragedy neither began
nor ended there. Length: 2 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47767
A killing kindness by Reginald Hill. London: Collins, 1980. In the horrific case of the
Yorkshire Choker, Sergeant Wield calls in clairvoyants, linguists and psychiatrists.
Detective Superintendent Dalziel is sceptical of his colleague's actions. While
confusion and panic reign in the police force, the well-read killer persists in his grisly
acts. Length: 7 hours, 53 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46063
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A kind of healthy grave by Jessica Mann. Tamara Hoyland again investigates a
murder. In 1929 a pornographic painter had burned to death in his caravan. Forty
years later the repercussions were felt by many people. Length: 7 hours, 21 minutes.
RNZFB. Order Number: 73420
A long finish by Michael Dibdin. Bath: Chivers, 1999. After his adventures under
sun-drenched Neapolitan skies, Zen is back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar
and being given another unorthodox assignment. He must release the gaoled scion of
an important wine-growing family who is accused of a brutal murder. Length: 9 hours,
1 minute. RNIB. Order Number: 73377
A mind to murder by P. D. James. London: Faber and Faber, 2002. A hideous
scream pierces the calm of the evening psychotherapy session. The body of a
woman lies sprawled in the basement of the Steen Clinic, a chisel thrust through her
heart. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, relaxing at a literary party close by, hurries to
investigate the murder. Length: 7 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47774
A most contagious game by Catherine Aird. Bath: MacDonald & Co, 1994. When
Thomas retired to Easterbrook Manor, he soon found skeletons in the parish
cupboard. What was the connection between an Elizabethan craftsman and the old
Barbar family? Thomas to finds he has two crimes to solve, one new and the other
over a century old. Length: 6 hours, 9 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46072
A murder or three by Laurie Mantell. Within a matter of weeks in Lower Hutt there
are three bizarre murders: the victim in each case is strangled with pantyhose.
Length: 7 hours, 15 min.. Order Number: 57940
A new lease of death by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1995. Chief Inspector
Wexford has always been certain that Painter was rightfully hanged for brutally
murdering and robbing an old woman, but when clergyman Henry Archer questions
the jury's verdict, Wexford decides to help him to re-investigate the case. Length: 6
hours, 40 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66201
A nice class of corpse by Simon Brett. [S.l.]: Macmillan, 1986. The arrival of the
rich widow, Mrs. Pargeter at the Devereux, a nice residential hotel which caters for
the elderly, acts as a catalyst for disaster. An elderly resident's death leads Mrs.
Pargeter to suspect that behind the veneer of respectability and snobbish pretension
lies something more sinister, a murderer! Length: 5 hours, 44 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 71407
A noble radiance by Donna Leon. London: William Heinemann, 1998. The new
owner of a farmhouse at the foot of the Italian Dolomites disturbs a macabre grave
and sets in train a murder investigation. Commissario Guido Brunetti uses a signet
ring from the corpse to learn secrets of how the man lived before he died. He is lead
to the heart of aristocratic Venice. Length: 7 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65309
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A painted house by John Grisham. Bath: Chivers, 2001. Autumn 1952 and young
Luke has never kept a secret nor told a lie. When migrant pickers come to work the
family's cotton farm there is death and mystery in his life. Luke shelters secrets that
could shatter lives and change his family forever. Length: 12 hours, 47 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 47776
A place called here by Cecelia Ahern. Bath: Chivers, 2007. Since Sandy Shortt's
childhood schoolmate disappeared 20 years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with
missing things. Finding has become her goal. She dedicates her life to finding
missing people, offering devastated families a flicker of hope. Jack is one of those
desperate people. It's been a year since his brother, Donal vanished into thin air.
Length: 11 hours, 11 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70277
A place in the hills by Michelle Paver. Oxford: Isis, 2002. In ancient Rome, Cassius,
the greatest poet of his age, lost the only woman he ever loved. Two thousand years
later, an archaeologist and her father are driven to solve the riddle Cassius left
behind. Their chance comes when they excavates the valley where Cassius lived and
died. Length: 14 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47804
A place of hiding by Elizabeth George. A young American woman is charged with
murder in Guernsey. Her brother seeks help from the only contact he has in the UK.
His English friend and her husband travel to Guernsey to avert a miscarriage of
justice and discover the crime has its roots in the island's history of Nazi Occupation.
Length: 26 hours, 1 minute. Order Number: 69776
A place of safety by Caroline Graham. London: Headline, 1999. An ex-vicar opens
his rambling rectory to rehabilitate a stream of young offenders. He has no idea he
will encounter blackmail and murder. When his most recent project, the wild Carlotta,
mysteriously disappears, Chief Inspector Barnaby must be called in to help. With no
leads to follow Barnaby must follow his hunches. Length: 10 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46082
A real shot in the arm by Annette Roome. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.
Chris, a housewife, was dead from the neck up until she joined the staff at the local
newspaper and dead from the neck down until Pete touched her! The corpse she
discovers on her first assignment livens things up and does not look like a suicide.
Length: 9 hours, 14 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 54995
A remarkable case of burglary by H. R. F. Keating. London: Collins, 1975. In 1871,
thieves plan to rob a large house. Kitchen maid Janey is to be the inside contact to
help Val to a perfect case of burglary, but not all of the inhabitants react as he
expects. Length: 6 hours, 7 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65262
A rich full death by Michael Dibdin. [S.l.]: Cape, 1986. Young Bostonian Robert
Booth manoeuvres an entree into the Florentine residence of Robert and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. Soon they are all drawn into a series of gory crimes, and the men
begin their own investigation into the murders of English citizens in Florence.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 63057
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A rule against murder by Louise Penny. It is the height of summer, and Armand
and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir
Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. The
Finney family have also arrived for a celebration of their own; to pay tribute to their
late father. As the heat rises and the humidity closes in, a terrible summer storm
leaves behind a dead body. Length: 10 hours, 53 minutes. Order Number: 69297
A series of murders by Simon Brett. [S.l.]: Gollancz, 1989. Charles Paris has been
contracted to play a brainless bobby in a television series. When a particularly
unpromising actress is killed, there seems to be no reason to doubt it was an
accident, except in Charles' mind. Leaving behind a trail of broken resolutions and
empty bottles, Charles indulges in some sleuthing of his own. Length: 5 hours, 23
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71422
A shark out of water: a John Putnam Thatcher mystery by Emma Lathen. New
York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1997. Thatcher is a versatile financier and detective. He
heads to the Western Baltic region to explore an investment opportunity to rebuild the
Kiel Canal. He has his hands full when the fogbound Canal creates chaos for
hundreds of boats and an official is a murdered during a champagne party. Length: 8
hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46101
A shilling for candles: the story of a crime by Josephine Tey. [S.I.]: P. A
supposedly accidental drowning becomes something more deadly when Inspector
Alan Grant finds a bizarre object tangled in the corpse's hair and later indentifies the
body as actress Christine Clay. Length: 7 hours, 7 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
71106
A shock to the system by Simon Brett. Graham Marshall had a pretty wife, two
children, a large house and a good job. He was a success. Then he discovered that
his rosy future was a mere mirage. While he was reeling from this shock he
committed, almost accidentally, his first murder. Length: 7 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 71408
A shroud for a nightingale by P. D. James. [S.l.]: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1971. Two
tragic and mysterious deaths bring Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Adam
Dalgliesh to Nightingale House, a training school for nurses. One student is found
dead amidst tubes and linen, the other in strangely similar circumstances. Contains
violence. Length: 12 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71319
A sight for sore eyes by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1998. A pair of English
teens, have grown up in dysfunctional families. Teddy emerges from a loveless
childhood as a handsome young man. Francine, a mentally fragile girl who became
mute after witnessing her mother's murder, grows into a beautiful woman. Teddy has
committed two murders when he becomes obsessed with Francine. Something
bizarre and twisted is bound to happen. Contains violence. Length: 15 hours, 20
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46102
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A sleeping life by Ruth Rendell. [S.I]: Hutchinson, 1978. Rhoda Comfrey, plain,
middle-aged and a spinster, is discovered stabbed to death and is quickly identified.
The difficulty for Chief Inspector Wexford is that nobody has seen Rhoda or learned
anything of her activities since she left home twenty years before. Length: 8 hours, 9
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66208
A splash of red by Antonia Fraser. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.
Jemima Shore is staying at her friend Chloe's flat, when Chloe disappears. Everyone
loved Chloe, whose fragile looks hid a considerable talent as a novelist. However,
friends often remarked that compared to her public life, her private life had been a
very disorderly. Length: 8 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 69947
A sprig of sea lavender by J.R.L. Anderson. [S.l.]: Gollancz, 1978. The only clue to
the identity of a girl found dead on the train was a sprig of sea lavender discovered
under her seat. This was to lead Chief Inspector Piet Deventer to the arrest of many
people involved in various crimes and to his own happiness. Length: 6 hours, 51
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65566
A suitable vengeance by Elizabeth George. Bantam, 1991. Detective Inspector
Thomas Lynley, has come back to his ancestral home with his prospective bride. A
local savage murder becomes the catalyst for a series of lethal events that shatters
the calm of the picturesque Cornish village. A long buried family secret tears apart
families and friendships, altering Thomas' life forever. Contains strong language.
Length: 13 hours, 34 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47813
A tale etched in blood and hard black pencil by Christopher Brookmyre. London:
Little, Brown, 2006. All the facts are known about the bodies; names, evidence,
motives and a lot more. Still too many assumptions about what happened twenty
years ago can lead people astray. So, why has the murderer never been caught?
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length:
11 hours, 50 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 50446
A taste for death by P. D. James. London: Faber, 1986. The bodies were discovered
by Emily, a spinster of the parish of St Matthews in Paddington and her unlikely
companion, a young waif. Both bodies had their throats cut with gaping precision; one
is a local tramp, the other an ex-Minister of State. Adam Dalgleish finds himself
confronted with the most confused and convoluted case of his career. Length: 18
hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66023
A tealeaf in the mouse by Marion Babson. London: Constable, 2000.
Eleven-year-old Robin will be able to join a popular gang at school if he kidnaps the
prize-winning cat of old Mrs. Nordling. When he sneaks into the Nordlings' house, he
sees a brutal crime being committed, and the murderer will stop at nothing to learn
who the witness was. Contains violence. Length: 6 hours, 49 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 63218
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A thin dark line by Tami Hoag. Oxford: Isis, 1999. Terror stalks the streets in the
bayou country of Louisiana. A beautiful woman has been murdered and her
suspected stalker and killer is free on a technicality. The detective involved is
accused of planting evidence and must pursue justice with the help of the deputy who
found the body. The stalker has turned his evil attentions to the deputy who feels she
can't trust anyone. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 17
hours, 58 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45836
A touch of Frost by R. D. Wingfield. London: Corgi Books, 1995. A corpse in the
public lavatory, a missing schoolgirl, a robbery at a notorious strip-joint, a hit and run
offence and a multiple rapist on the loose; Detective Inspector Jack Frost is reeling
under the strain. His paperwork is in arrears and his self righteous colleagues would
love to see him sacked but everything is under control, he hopes. Length: 13 hours.
RNIB. Order Number: 71349
A trail of ashes by Marion Babson. Bath: Chivers, 1985. When her husband dies in
a road accident, Rosemary and her two children travel to New Hampshire to be near
her sister Celia, but with Celia acting secretively and a rash of deadly forest fires
afflicting the town, Rosemary realises she must act quickly before a fiery killer strikes
again. Length: 5 hours, 45 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63217
A traitor to memory by Elizabeth George. Ibis. When a woman is killed on a quiet
London street, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley embarks upon an investigation
that tests his personal loyalty and professional honour. With his long time partners
Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata, he must untangle the dark secrets and passions
of a family whose history conceals a horrific crime. Contains strong language.
Length: 27 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47817
A trick of the light by Louise Penny. In the green depths of spring, morning breaks
on a woman in a bed of flowers; her eyes wide, her neck broken. Her death is a
mystery, so is the woman herself. As Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team
investigate, they expose a secret that rots at the very heart of their community. A
secret that will implicate someone they've trusted for years. Length: 12 hours, 7
minutes. Order Number: 73097
A Venetian reckoning by Donna Leon. London: Pan books, 1995. Commissario
Guido Brunetti digs deep into the secret lives of the once great and good for the
answers to two separate tragedies. In a seedy Venetian bar lies the clue to a crime
network reaching far beyond the laguna. It will take another violent death in Venice
before the forces of justice can begin. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 9 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65311
A very fishy business by Ian Clarke. Porirua, N.Z.: National Pacific Press, 2010.
Ralph travels to the Coromandel Peninsula to assist Captain Rothfall, an unpopular
marine inspector, with an investigation into a local fishing vessel that has not returned
from sea. When Rothfall's frozen body is found in a refrigerated chamber, suspicion
falls on Ralph and he must clear his name. Length: 7 hours, 56 minutes. Order
Number: 66901
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A very proper death by Alex Juniper. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books, 1990. The
caller claims to have seen Marni in her nightgown, comments on her floral sheets and
he knows about her son's death. Very few people know about her son and her very
private life, so who is spying on her? Her Boston real estate firm's rival is using
intimidating tactics, maybe it is them. Still she distrusts everyone, including her
ex-lover, her therapist and the past as she remembers it. Length: 8 hours, 6 minutes.
VAILS. Order Number: 63639
A watery grave by Joan Druett. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2007. It's 1838
and Wiki Coffin, half-blood Maori son of a Salem ship captain, waits in Virginia to
board the famous United States Exploring Expedition. A convoy of ships filled with
astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists and sailors are charged with exploring the
world. A woman's body, a sheriff who suspects the murderer is on board the convoy
and Wiki is deputized to find the killer. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 8 hours, 9 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 52914
A welcome grave by Michael Koryta. Lincoln Perry ended his Cleveland police
force career after punching out Alex Jefferson for his affair with Perry's fiance. Now
Alex has been murdered and his widow wants Perry's help. An estranged son, a
million dollar estate that is a target for revenge and a pair of deadly assailants make
Perry's life a misery. Then the cops are determined to see Perry in jail. Length: 11
hours, 31 minutes. Order Number: 63927
Abracadaver by Peter Lovesey. London: Macmillan, 1972. Performers in London's
music halls have been falling victim to a series of bizarre and humiliating practical
jokes. When a young woman is murdered during her disappearing act, Sergeant
Cribb must go undercover in the riotous music halls of nineteenth century London to
catch a vicious killer. Length: 7 hours, 21 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71345
Accident by Nicholas Mosley. Two young undergraduates and two older staff
members are brought into a conflict situation by Anna, one of the under graduates.
An accident compounds the situation. How can the problems of professional ethics be
resolved? Length: 6 hours, 32 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 63428
Account unsettled by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Tony
White. [S.l.]: H. What Elie sees through the keyhole of Michel's bedroom turns his
dislike for Michel to bitter hatred. Ugly, unloved and brilliantly clever, he decides that
the handsome young Romanian is too lucky - and too happy - to be allowed to live.
Length: 5 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 72399
Adept by Robert Finn. London: Snowbooks, 2004. David Braun's troubles begin
when he investigates an unusually violent break-in which leaves two criminals dead
and a crime scene that raises more questions than it answers. He uncovers a
centuries old secret that makes him a target of a ruthless killer. With time running out
he must uncover the killer's true objective. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 13 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47824
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Mystery And Detective Stories
Adios Hemingway by Leonardo Padura Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish
by John King. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2005. The bones of a man murdered forty
years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway. A hard living ex-cop
reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate the crime. As he digs into the past,
the idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway soon gives way to the truth. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 4 hours, 11 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 55029
African sky by Tony Park. After a fatal German bombing mission Paul never flew
another plane. Instead he has a desk job in a Rhodesian pilot training school. When a
trainee is reported missing and a young woman raped and murdered Paul joins forces
with a young policewoman to uncover the truth. They soon find a crime that has
escalated into a crisis that could change the war. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 14 hours, 17 minutes. VAILS. Order
Number: 50447
After effects by Catherine Aird. London: Macmillan, 1996. Detective Inspector Sloan
is investigating the deaths of two hospital patients. Only one thing links them, a drug
trial being carried out for Gilroy's Pharmaceuticals. The man in charge of the trial has
disappeared and animal rights activists have raided Gilroy's. Then a man's body is
found with a file on the drug. Length: 5 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47826
Airs above the ground by Mary Stewart. Vanessa March believes her husband to
be on business in Stockholm. When she glimpses him in a news-reel shot in Austria
with another woman; she decides to confront him. She knows about the beautiful
Lipizzaner stallions in Vienna but she doesn't expect to get so involved with them, or
with a suspected murder. Length: 9 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 68666
Alibi for a judge by Henry Cecil. [S.l.]: M. Justice Carstairs, a High Court Judge is
completely incompetent and a chronic worrier to boot. He takes the unprecedented
step of trying to overrule his own judgement and encounters resistance on all sides.
Matters get really complicated when, in trying to prove the man's innocence, he
becomes convinced of his guilt. He also becomes the target of a blackmailer. Length:
6 hours, 44 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62707
Alibi for a witch by Elizabeth Ferrars Constable, 1991. Lester would never have
been seen in the cheap gabardine suit, green shirt and the brown suede shoes but as
he was dead, he had no control over such sartorial lapses. Ruth, his son's governess,
found his murder body and was as baffled by its incongruous attire as by the murder
itself. Soon even more puzzles arose. Length: 7 hours, 1 minute. RNIB. Order
Number: 47830
All that remains by Patricia Cornwell. Bath: Chivers, 1996. Kay Scarpetta, Chief
Medical Examiner, is faced with the disappearance of five young couples from their
cars. When they are found dead months later, in deeply wooded areas, they have no
socks and shoes. Using the latest forensic techniques, she tracks the murderer.
Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45840
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Page Number: 11
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All this and heaven too by Rachel Field. Based on the true story of one of the most
notorious murder cases in French history. Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, governess to
the children of the Duc de Praslin, found herself strangely drawn to her employer.
When the Duc murdered his wife in the most savage fashion, she had to plead her
own case before the Chancellor of France in a sensational murder trial that helped
bring down the French king. Length: 21 hours, 18 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number:
70072
Almost blue by Carlo Lucarelli ; translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky.
London: Harvill, 2003. A serial killer is terrorising the students of Bologna. Rookie
female detective Grazia Negro must solve the case. Only one witness can positively
identify the killer but he's blind. Simone spends his days in solitude, scanning the
radio to eavesdrop on other people's lives. His acute hearing sets alarm bells ringing
upon hearing the voice of the killer. Length: 7 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65033
Always say die by Elizabeth Ferrars What happened to Aunt Violet? Helen wasn't
sure that anything had happened but when Martin implied that her aunt had
disappeared, she felt she should try and clear things up. Her aunt had been acting
rather strangely since her marriage and it seems Helen isn't the only person looking
for her. Length: 6 hours, 27 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 47837
An advancement of learning: a Dalziel and Pascoe novel by Reginald Hill.
London: HarperCollins, 1996. Superintendent Dalziel had a cynical view of Higher
Education but the discovery of a body hidden under a statue in the grounds of the
College surprised even him. With Sergeant Pascoe's help he begins a learning
process which expands to include to more bodies before its end. Length: 8 hours, 16
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46155
An arsonist's guide to writers' homes in New England by Brock Clarke.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008. Sam never intended to torch an American
landmark; it was simply a tragic accident. After prison he puts the past behind him,
settling down with a family, career and a home. When several famous homes go up in
smoke he is the prime suspect. Sam must find the real culprit to clear his name but
the truth will cost a terrible price. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 10 hours, 11 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 52926
An axe to grind by Robert Wallace. London: Gollancz, 1990. Intrigue, danger and
humour in a plot concerned with Yugoslav nationalists in Australia, corrupt French
police, the Australian Secret Service and assorted villains. Length: 7 hours, 22
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 64554
An excellent mystery: the eleventh chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters.
Brother Humilis and his attendant Fidelis shelter at Shrewbury. Humilis has given up
his marriage and entered the cloister. All is well until his groom Nicholas arrives,
asking for Humilis's blessing to marry his ex-fiancee. Tragedy ensues and Brother
Cadfael must distinguish between the innocent and the guilty. Length: 8 hours, 38
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70638
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An instance of the fingerpost by Iain Pears. London: Cape, 1997. Oxford, in the
1660s, was a time and place of scientific, religious and political ferment. When a
fellow of the New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances and a young
woman is accused of his murder, four witnesses each have their own version of the
event. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Length: 25 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46160
An unkindness of ravens by Ruth Rendell. [S.I]: Hutchinson, 1985. Wexford's
investigation of the murder of a paint sales manager points to a number of suspects.
Later, when several men are knifed, the detective wonders if the murders are related
to a local radical feminist cult. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex.
Length: 8 hours, 7 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66211
And shame the devil by Sara Woods. A barrister is called to defend a police
sergeant and a constable accused of the wrongful arrest of two Pakistani immigrants.
Length: 10 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66121
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack
Kerouac. In the summer of 1944 these novice writers were involved in a murder.
This novel tells the terrible tale of one of their friends killing another in a moment of
brutal and tragic bloodshed. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled
tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and
violence. Length: 4 hours, 30 minutes. Order Number: 58313
And then you die by Michael Dibdin. Oxford: ISIS Audio Books, 2002. After months
recovering from a bomb attack, Aurelio Zen is lying low and waiting to testify in an
anti-Mafia trial. When people around him start to drop dead at an alarming rate, it
seems just a matter of time before the Mafia manage to finish the job they bungled
months before. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 6 hours, 44
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63054
Angels passing by Graham Hurley. Oxford: Isis. Detective Inspector Joe Faraday
investigates a teenager who plunged to her death from a tower block and the murder
of a drug dealer. Contains strong language. Length: 15 hours, 40 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 47841
Appleby and Honeybath by Michael Innes. Gollancz, 1983. Charles Honeybath is a
guest at Grinton Hall. He wanders into the library and meets a corpse sitting
comfortably in an armchair and wearing an expression of malign glee. Locking the
door behind him he fetches his friend Sir John Appleby, but the body has vanished.
Length: 6 hours, 5 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 47847
Appleby and the Ospreys by Michael Innes. Gollancz, 1986. Clusters, a great
country house, is troubled by bats. Sir John Appleby cannot help but when Lord
Osprey is found stabbed with an oriental dagger Appleby feels this is challenge he
can take on. In the end the bats have the last word. Length: 5 hours, 29 minutes..
RNIB. Order Number: 47848
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Appleby at Allington by Michael Innes. Gollancz, 1968. Sir John Appleby has had a
long evening at Allington Park but politely agrees to view his host's 'son et lumiere'
control box in the attic before leaving. They expected the usual attic junk but not the
bundle in the corner that is a corpse. Length: 5 hours, 46 minutes.. RNIB. Order
Number: 47849
Appleby's End by Michael Innes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. Appleby's End
was the name of the station where Detective John Appleby got off the train from
Scotland Yard. A coincidence? Perhaps but coincidences came much too often and
too fast. Length: 8 hours, 11 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 47850
Appleby's other story by Michael Innes. Gollancz, 1974. For Sir John Appleby,
retirement is anything but relaxing. He could never resist the intrigues of the rich and
powerful, especially when they resulted in murder. So when his host at a house party
is found dead amid an extraordinary collection of suspects, Sir John sets to work.
Length: 6 hours, 30 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 73391
Arms and the women by Reginald Hill. Oxford: Isis, 2000. When Ellie Pascoe finds
herself under threat, the men in her life assume it's because she's married to a cop.
Ellie's search for a haven finds her alone except for her friend Daphne, an ancient
aid-worker, a money launderer, an old crone and a female cop. Length: 16 hours, 19
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47859
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. This story
begins as a pair of alternating biographies, a tale of opposites. One is a boy full of
dreams, the young Conan Doyle; on the other, is George, the son of a vicar in rural
England, poor, friendless and stolid. As adults their lives converge when George is
convicted of mutilating livestock. Arthur champions the case for a pardon and it is the
only time he put on Holmes's cloak to solve a mystery. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 14 hours, 1 minute. VAILS. Order Number:
45153
Artists in crime by Ngaio Marsh. London: Fontana, 1994. It began as a student
exercise; the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place, but before
Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class the pose has been re-enacted
in earnest. It's a difficult case for Inspector Alleyn. He loves Agatha but no one can be
above suspicion. Length: 9 hours, 4 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71306
As darkness falls by Bronwyn Parry. Sydney: Hodder Australia, 2008. Detective
Isabella O'Connell, haunted by her failures, lives in an isolated small town in the New
South Wales outback. She is recalled to duty by Detective Alec Goddard as yet
another child is abducted from her home town. They have days to find the child and
their mutual attraction is being ruthlessly exploited by the killer. Contains strong
language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 37
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57609
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Page Number: 14
Mystery And Detective Stories
As husbands go by Susan Isaacs. Susan assumed her marriage was great;
married to a handsome, successful plastic surgeon who clearly adored her & their
kids! When he was found murder in a second-rate escort's apartment she was
overwhelmed with questions. Her tough talking Grandma helps her take on her
snooty in-laws, her husband's medication partners, the NYPD and the DA, all to prove
her wonderful life has been no lie. Length: 11 hours, 46 minutes. Order Number:
59783
Ashes to ashes by Tami Hoag. London: Orion, 1999. Kate Conlan, ex-FBI agent
turned advocate, finds herself protecting a teenage runaway who has witnessed the
latest murder by a serial killer who burns women alive. The witness isn't talking and
Kate can't tell if the witness is just reluctant, or something more sinister is going on.
Contains strong language. Length: 17 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
45848
Asking questions: an Inspector Ghote mystery by H.R.F. Keating. London:
Macmillan, 1996. Inspector Ghote is making enquiries into the Mira Behn Institute for
Medical Research. It seems someone there is smuggling out a dangerous drug made
from the venom of poisonous snakes. The snake-handler is the obvious suspect until
he is found dead, locked in the Reptile Room. Length: 7 hours, 23 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46236
Asta's book by Barbara Vine. [S.l.]: Viking, 1993. Asta and Rasmus come to
Hackney in 1905 from Denmark. To keep loneliness at bay, Asta writes her diaries.
When these are published seventy years later, they uncover the truth of an unsolved
crime. Length: 14 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 64870
Autographs in the rain by Quintin Jardine. Oxford: Isis. As Deputy Chief Constable
Bob Skinner takes an evening stroll with an old flame, it seems his biggest worry is
that a new colleague is scheming to enlarge his territory into Skinner's. When a
frightening shotgun attack sends them diving for cover, it seems danger has chosen
to zero in on him once again. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length:
10 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47863
Autumn quail by Naguib Mahfouz. Doubleday, 1990. A young bureaucrat is one of
the early victims of the purge following the 1952 Revolution. He is the central figure of
this tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall. Length: 5 hours, 11
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46237
Avalanche Pass by John A. Flanagan. Sydney: Random House, 2010. Guests at a
ski lodge in Utah are taken hostage by a group of mercenaries. Jesse Parker, who
has left Steamboat Springs to try to salvage his career after a horrific skiing accident,
discovers he's in the right place at the right time. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 21 minutes. VAILS. Order
Number: 63472
B is for burglar by Sue Grafton. London: Macmillan, 1986. Wise-cracking, female
private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, is hired to find a missing sister. However, when
the trail leads to Florida, Kinsey finds herself caught up in a dangerous case involving
fires, burglary and murder. Length: 8 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
46240
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Back to Bologna by Michael Dibdin. Oxford: Isis, 2005. When the corpse of the
shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed,
Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation.
Then a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, immediately
after publicly humiliating Italy's leading celebrity television chef. Contains strong
language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 8
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73378
Backlash by Paula Gosling. Macmillan, 1989. It's open season on cops. The
Grantham police are being hunted and shot down, one by one, by somebody who
knows a lot about cops, guns and hate. Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker is assigned
to tracking the killer, not an easy job, nor a safe one. Length: 6 hours, 36 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 46241
Bad girls, good women by Rosie Thomas. Michael Joseph, 1988. Julia and Mattie,
are best friends who come from widely differing lives. They flee the stifling confines of
their suburban homes for the excitement of swinging 1950s London. Over the next
thirty years they rely on their friendship to carry them through the ups and downs of
life. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 30 hours, 59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
46242
Bad men by John Connolly. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003. Long ago settlers
on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own. Now,
invaders out for revenge are set to unleash the fury of Sanctuary's ghosts, and only
the local policeman stands in their way. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 43 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65354
Bareback by Kit Whitfield. In a world where biology is destiny, Lola is insultingly
called a 'bareback'. As a DORLA agent she is sent out at night to keep crime off the
streets especially during a full moon when the werewolves abound. When her friend
is mutilated and she must defend the attacker she goes in search of the truth. In this
divided world answers may not bring justice. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 15 hours, 5 minutes. VAILS. Order
Number: 50454
Bats fly up for Inspector Ghote by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins, 1974. Inspector
Ghote infiltrates the anti-fraud force known as BATS in hopes of finding an informer.
Length: 7 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65253
Bedford Square by Anne Perry. London: Headline, 1999. When a man is found
murdered on the doorstep of a respectable house in Bedford Square, Victorian
England's finest and most controversial policeman, Thomas Pitt, is immediately called
to the scene. Pitt finds himself embroiled in a fight to preserve the integrity of the Bow
Street's police force. Length: 12 hours, 14 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 47877
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Before midnight by Rex Stout. London: Warner, 1993. Nero Wolfe and his assistant
Archie are called in to solve a murder of a high profile advertising agency manager.
The ad agency's client is about to launch their latest perfume and a nationwide
competition may have got out of hand. Length: 6 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46251
Bent Road by Lori Roy. Young Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to
Detroit, married and never looked back at the secrets surrounding his sister's death.
When the 1967 riots frighten him more than his past, he moves his family to the road
he grew up on. The family has mixed feelings about country life, the loneliness and
the brutality of life and death on a farm. When a local girl disappears, the family finds
itself catapulted headlong into the mystery. Length: 9 hours, 23 minutes. Order
Number: 63875
Big foot by Edgar Wallace. Assembled Stories, 1997. A woman is found brutally
murdered in a lonely beach cottage. Huge footprints are stamped outside in the
sands. Superintendent Minter must set about unravelling the mystery. Length: 7
hours, 15 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46257
Bird of passage by Nicola Thorne. Grafton, 1990. As a famous model Alison can do
no wrong, loved by all, including her village of Lesser Tripling. She's brought them
style and fame until, inexplicably, she disappears. When Alison finally returns, trouble
begins; sparking off startling new passions, rousing old flames and creating terrible
tensions in the community. Alison has concealed lies and hides a terrible secret
behind her disappearance. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 11 hours, 56 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 65996
Black and blue by Ian Rankin. Oxford: Isis, 1999. Inspector John Rebus must
disinter four cases to nail a killer. Personally he is accused of taking backhanders
from Glasgow's Mr Big and the media is hounding him. One mistake is likely to mean
an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still, losing his job.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 16 hours, 4 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 65559
Black ice by Leah Giarratano. Sydney: Random House, 2009. Detective Sergeant
Jill Jackson is working undercover in Sydney's murky drug world. Her sister's
successful new boyfriend, a drug dealer, drags her into a world of cocaine. When she
ends up overdosed in hospital the sisters meet on opposite sides of the law. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours,
23 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57610
Black notice by Patricia D Cornwell. Bath: Chivers, 2000. While Lucy goes
undercover in Miami to bring down a notorious criminal cartel, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and
Pete Marino discover a body in a Belgium cargo ship. Kay's post mortem reveals
neither a cause of death nor any identification but an odd tattoo takes them on a hunt
for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon. Contains violence.
Length: 11 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45852
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Blackman's coffin by Mark de Castrique. Sam Blackman is an angry man. A
criminal investigation officer of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq and is
recuperating, when a murder drags him back into action. To solve the present murder
he must dig into the town's famous past, guided by a ninety-year-old journal written by
a young boy. Length: 8 hours, 25 minutes. Order Number: 58318
Blind date by Frances Fyfield. Bath: Chivers, 1998. Elisabeth, a disgraced ex-police
officer, is haunted by her sister's horrific murder and her own humiliating attempts to
lure the killer into a confession. When she is the victim of a senseless attack she
flees to the comfort of her mother's house. She soon discovers that even the safest
places are not sacrosanct. Contains strong language. Length: 10 hours, 20 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 46332
Blood brotherhood by Robert Barnard. During a symposium held at a usually
peaceful Anglican Community on the Yorkshire moors, one of the brethren is brutally
murdered. Length: 6 hours, 48 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47904
Blood rain by Michael Dibdin. Bath: Chivers, 2002. Inspector Zen receives the order
he has been dreading all his professional life. His next posting is to Sicily. Against the
backdrop of the 3000-year-old city of Catania, Aurelio Zen will need all his cunning
and skill just to survive. Length: 8 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73382
Blood sympathy by Reginald Hill. London: HarperCollins, 1994. Can a balding,
middle-aged redundant lathe operator from Luton, really be a Private Investigator?
Joe Sixsmith thinks so but he encounters plenty of discouragement along the way.
His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you would have to be crazy to hire him and Joe's current
clients certainly fit the bill. Length: 7 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46343
Blood work by Michael Connelly. Oxford: Isis, 1999. Pensioned off from the FBI
after a heart transplant, Agent Terry McCaleb wants nothing more than a quiet life but
finds himself on the trail of the murderer of his heart donor. He quickly realises that he
is dealing with a serial killer. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length:
12 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63155
Bloodline by Fiona Mountain. Oxford: Isis, 2005. An anonymous note means
nothing to ancestor detective Natasha Blake. Then an enigmatic old man who had
commission Natasha to research a family tree, is shot dead at his isolated farm in the
Cotswolds. Can there be a link? She knows that family histories hide many secrets;
some sparking murder. Length: 9 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47913
Blow fly by Patricia Cornwell. London :Little, Brown, 2003. Kay Scarpetta has quit
her job as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner before she was fired. Resettled in the
Florida sun she becomes deeply involved in the case of a woman found dead in a
seedy hotel. Her history of blackouts and violent outbursts create more questions for
Kay than clues. Kay receives chilling news that the vicious Wolfman is still pursuing
her. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 17 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 46162
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Blue shoes and happiness by Alexander McCall Smith. Oxford: Isis, 2006. The
seventh installment of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency brings more adventures for
Precious Ramotswe and her fine assistant Mma Makutsi. They encounter a cobra in
the office, complaints of faulty blood-pressure readings at the medical clinic, a
superstitious group of farm workers, and it looks like Aunty Emang, advice columnist
in the local newspaper, may not be what she seems. Length: 7 hours, 34 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 72389
B-movie by Stan Barstow. Black Swan, 1988. In a post-war town someone robs a
pawnbroker's shop and leaves an old man unconscious. Arny and his cousin, Frank,
newly released from National Service, are holidaying in Blackpool. The police enquiry,
now a murder, shifts to Blackpool where the two young men are busy on their own
investigations, of the local talent. Frank soon finds himself facing an appalling
dilemma. Length: 3 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46346
Body of evidence by Patricia D Cornwell. London: Warner, 2000. A reclusive writer
thinks someone is stalking her and making threatening, obscene phone calls. To
complicate matters her manuscript has disappeared. Inexplicably she invites her killer
in. Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta heads the investigation that begins in
the laboratory and then leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.
Contains strong language. Length: 10 hours, 22 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
46347
Body on the beach by Simon Brett. Oxford: Isis, 2000. Very little disturbs the
ordered calm of Fethering, a self-contained retirement settlement on England's
southern coast. Carole Seddon has chosen to retire there and the last thing she
expected to find was a neighbour with a colourful past, or a body on the beach.
Length: 7 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71415
Bones and silence by Reginald Hill. London: HarperCollins, 1991. Peter Pascoe
returns to Mid Yorkshire CID after a long convalescence. He is uncertain about his
job, his marriage and his motives. He must try to divert Detective-Superintendent
Andy Dalziel's obsessional pursuit of a possibly innocent man. They can see no
solutions to their cases, only questions with no answers, only bones and silence.
Length: 12 hours, 24 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46350
Bones of contention by Jeanne Matthews. Dinah Pelerin's wealthy American
uncle, dying of cancer, has summoned his entire family to a remote lodge in upper
Australia, where he intends to end his life. The family is seething with secrets,
eccentricities and resentments, each with their own agendas. Dinah is swept into the
confusion that is compounded by two bizarre murders. Length: 10 hours, 38 minutes.
Order Number: 59838
Borrowed time by Robert Goddard. London: Bantam Press, 1995. During a six-day
tramp along Offa's Dyke, Robin meets an enigmatic middle-aged woman with whom
he converses. The conversation, though short, makes a strong impression on him.
When he returns home, he reads that the woman has been mysteriously murdered.
Length: 14 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46352
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Breaking and entering by H. R. F. Keating. Oxford: Isis, 2001. Officially excluded
from Bombay's most baffling murder case, Inspector Ghote is assigned to track down
a cat burglar who has been stealing valuable jewellery, but the detective soon
discovers that the two cases may be linked. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 56
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65254
Brewing up a storm: a John Thatcher mystery by Emma Lathen. New York: St
Martin's Press, 1996. When a teenager dies in a drunken car wreck, a non-alcoholic
beer becomes the centre of a political feud. The leader of the organisation against
teenage drinking leads a protest that causes a full scale riot in Manhattan and is later
found murdered. Length: 8 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47952
Bribery, corruption also by H.R.F. Keating. Oxford: Isis Publishing, 2004. Inspector
Ghote is not a happy man. His wife has inherited a beautiful house in Calcutta and
she is determined they will retired there. When they travel to view the legacy they find
a decaying ruin. Their lawyer prompts them to sell but Ghote detects a whiff of
corruption and is determined to get to the bottom of it. Length: 8 hours, 39 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 47955
Brimstone wedding by Barbara Vine. Unlike the other residents of Middleton Hall
nursing home, Stella is elegant, smart and in control. She keeps to herself and
reveals nothing of her past. Only Jenny, her care assistant and friend, knows that she
harbours a dark, painful mystery. Length: 11 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 64871
Broken by Martina Cole. Oxford: Isis,2001. DI Kate Burrows is leading an
investigation into the neglect and abandonment of several young children. She is
repulsed by this most vile and repugnant of criminals. As a mother herself, Kate finds
these crimes almost incomprehensible. With the case becoming ever more sinister,
she needs to find answers quickly. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 17 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45859
Buried too deep by Jane Finnis. When a wounded farmer dies at their inn, twins
Aurelia and Lucius return the body to his family. They investigate a shipwreck bearing
cargo that may have been stolen by sea raiders suspected of killing the farmer.
Length: 12 hours, 3 minutes. Order Number: 70868
Bury your dead by Louise Penny. As Quebec shivers in the grip of winter, Chief
Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the strangest case of his career. A man has
been brutally murdered in one of the city's oldest buildings; a library where the
English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. The death opens a door into the
past, exposing a mystery that has lain dormant for centuries. A mystery Gamache
must solve if he's to catch a present-day killer. Length: 13 hours, 13 minutes. Order
Number: 73098
C is for corpse by Sue Grafton. Papermac, 1988. Bobby's body survived his car
accident but his memory didn't. He hired Kinsey Millhone to discover who wanted him
dead but now Bobby has been murdered. The least she can do is find his killer.
Length: 8 hours, 5 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46370
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Cabal by Michael Dibdin. London: Faber and Faber, 1992. When Prince Ludovico
Ruspanti falls to his death in the chapel at St Peter's, Inspector Aurelio Zen must
decide whether it was suicide or murder. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Length: 8 hours, 59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63049
Cadillac juke box by James Lee Burke. London: Orion, 1997. Detective Dave
Robicheaux is surprised but calm when he gets a call from a convicted murderer who
was recently sent down for a long-ago killing. Then he gets more calls from other
sources urging him to ignore the killer's plea for help and dropping loosely disguised
promises of good things to come if he does. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Length: 10 hours, 37 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 63144
California fire and life by Don Winslow. Beautiful, heavily-insured Pamela Vale has
died in a house fire, leaving behind terrified children and a husband who is showing
little grief. Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened; all he
has to do is to gather the evidence. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions
of sex. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 59 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number:
66855
Careless in red by Elizabeth George. Barely three months since the murder of his
wife, Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to
distract himself from his loss. On the 43rd day, he spies a body on the beach. Shortly
afterwards, he encounters a young woman from Bristol whose personal history is a
blank before her 13th year. These events propel him into a case where revenge is
only one of the motives that can identify the killer. Length: 21 hours, 44 minutes.
Order Number: 69777
Cargo of eagles by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Hogarth, 1989. Two roads lead to
Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex estuary. One is fast and frequented by mods
and rockers on holiday weekends; the other is a dust-track almost hidden by
centuries of misuse by smugglers. Albert discovers that few roads lead out, however,
for Saltey holds a secret that is rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter the
village, despite someone's best endeavours to terrorise and murder in order to keep
that secret to themselves. Length: 6 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71227
Case closed by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1977. Inspector Finch looks into
the four-year-old case of a girl's disappearance. He finds it involves four gangster
brothers and a fortune in stolen cash and jewels. Length: 8 hours, 20 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 65880
Case histories by Kate Atkinson. London: Doubleday, 2004. To Jack Brodie, former
police inspector turned investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost
on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. His days are full
of people clamouring for answers and explanations. A jealous husband suspects his
wife; two spinster sisters make a shocking find; and a solicitor investigates an old
murder. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 10 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 71134
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Castang's city by NicolasFreeling. Heinemann, 1980. An intriguing case presents
itself to Castang where assassination and terrorism are the order of the day. A deputy
mayor is murdered, his wife attempts suicide and his son's accidentally death is
suspicious. Soon the mayor's family, friends and colleagues all become suspects.
Length: 10 hours, 34 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46375
Castle gay by John Buchan. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton, 1993. Dickson
McCunn and two of the Gorbals Diehards are drawn into further adventures when
they become involved in the kidnap of a millionaire newspaper proprietor. Can it be
connected with the strange behaviour of his secretary and a group of conspirators
from the central European state of Evallonia? Length: 11 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 45643
Caught in the light by Robert Goddard. London: Bantam, 1998. A photographer
falls in love with a woman he meets on an assignment in Vienna. Back in England he
separates from his wife and goes to met his lover at an agreed rendezvous. When
she mysteriously disappears he begins a frantic search. He must to solve a 170 year
old mystery to find her. Length: 12 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46378
Cause of death by Patricia D Cornwell. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
It's New Year's Eve, and a body takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's
icy surface. Was the dead investigative reporter simply diving for sunken trinkets or
looking for a story? Scarpetta wonders how someone could call her to report the
death before the police knew. Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 47971
Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle. Photographer Andre Kelly is at work in the south
of France on the magazine shoot. He stumbles upon a plumber loading a Cezanne
into his truck and sets off on the trail of the culinary delights of France in pursuit of a
wicked art scam. Length: 8 hours, 33 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 72499
Cheating death by H.R.F. Keating. Hutchinson, 1992. Inspector Ghote is perplexed
by a stolen exam papers case where the chief suspect has committed suicide and the
principal admits leaving his safe unlocked. Soon Ghote is involved in the often farcical
world of Indian college life, with struggles amongst the trustees and student protests
leading to kidnapping and violence. Length: 7 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 47974
Child's play: a Dalziel and Pascoe novel ; a tragi-comedy in three acts of
violence with a prologue and an epilogue by Reginald Hill. London: HarperCollins,
1993. Geraldine's son went missing in Italy during World War Two but the eccentric
old lady never accepted his death. Now she is dead. The funeral is interrupted by the
appearance of a man claiming to be her son. When a dead Italian turns up in the
police car park, Pascoe and his superior are plunged into the investigation. Length:
12 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46388
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Christine Falls by Benjamin Black. In the Pathology Department one night, Quirke
stumbles across a body that shouldn't be there and finds his brother-in-law, eminent
paediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause of death. It
is the first time Quirke encounters Christine Falls. The investigation he decides to
lead disturbs a dark secret that has been festering at the core of Dublin's high
Catholic society, a secret ready to destabilise the very heart and soul of Quirke's own
family. Length: 10 hours, 13 minutes. Order Number: 73520
Coffin and the paper man by Gwendoline Butler. London :Collins Crime, 1990.
John Coffin, now Chief Commander of the Second City of London, faces the toughest
and most painful investigation in the new Docklands. It began with the discovery of a
girl's body, it looked a simple case, but other deaths followed. The mysterious Paper
Man promised the police more deaths. Who is this Paper Man? Who would be the
next victim? Length: 7 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 61699
Coffin for baby by Gwendoline Butler. Bath: Chivers, 1993. Mary Ellen works in a
baby clinic in Southeast London where her days were pleasant until the Bishop baby
was kidnapped, Mrs Cox is murdered and the gruesome discovery of a mummified
child in a suitcase. It would take all of Inspector Coffin's skill to discover the identity of
the kidnapper-murderer. Length: 5 hours, 54 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number:
61700
Coffin in fashion by Gwendoline Butler. London: Collins, 1987. John Coffin, now a
sergeant, discovers a body in the new house he's bought, but when he decides to
investigate the case himself it unexpectedly leads to the clothing industry. Length: 6
hours, 27 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 61701
Coffin on the water by Gwendoline Butler ; abridged by Pat McLoughlin. Collins,
1986. A number of bodies are dropped on the rising tide of the River Thames. John
Coffin, a detective doing his probation in the bleak Docklands of the Post-War era,
discovers that these bodies have made this journey for one very odd purpose.
Length: 2 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47936
Cold granite by Stuart MacBride. Oxford: Isis, 2006. Det. Sgt. Logan MacRae, back
from a lengthy convalescence is plunged immediately into the investigation of a
brutally murdered child. There is a stalker in Aberdeen and the media is baying for
blood. The dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the
streets. Logan knows time is running out as more children are missing. Length: 13
hours, 51 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71429
Cold heart by Lynda La Plante. London: Macmillan, 1998. Harry Nathan is shot in
Beverly Hills; a trail of video evidence implicates leading Hollywood figures. When
Harry's wife asks private investigator Lorraine Page to find out what happened
Lorraine finds her investigations hampered by police chief Jake Burton. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours,
29 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56515
Come home Charlie and face them by R. F. Delderfield. London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1969. Charlie, an unhappy junior in a small bank, matures suddenly when
he is seduced by Ida, the manager's daughter, and then by Delphine who leads him
to robbery and near-murder. Length: 10 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 62453
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Complicity by Iain Banks. London: Little, Brown, 1993. Cameron is a journalist on an
Edinburgh paper, totally into his job, a computer game called Despot and an
intermittently sado-masochistic love affair. He is on the brink of uncovering the
grandfather of all conspiracies involving a series of bizarre past deaths. His
investigation is sidetracked when a current police enquiry finds Cameron as the prime
suspect. Contains strong language. Length: 10 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 45646
Constable along the riverbank by Nicholas Rhea. There is no lack of drama in
Aidensfield: a 14-year old girl goes missing, a boy plays truant from school and a man
disappears in the river. Old Zachariah Isaac Pentecost (Zip) is taken ill and Constable
Nick discovers that Zip has a son - but where is he now? Claude Jeremiah
Greengrass causes problems with his illegal egg round, lost house keys and appalling
bus driving. Length: 7 hours, 8 minutes. Order Number: 69782
Constable along the trail by Nicholas Rhea. There's a puzzle for Constable Nick
when hikers find an empty coffin and another head-scratching problem for Claude
Jeremiah Greengrass when he's asked to tidy two local graveyards. During his duties,
Nick discovers the romantic legend of Witch Hill. He learns that old-fashioned
methods of dealing with wrongdoers prevail on the moors when he finds a village
lock-up complete with occupant. Length: 7 hours, 26 minutes. Order Number: 69783
Constable around the houses by Nicholas Rhea. There are problems with
Greengrass's goat. It loves butting motor vehicle headlights and even attacks the
police constable's official transport, whilst Claude Jeremiah decides to establish the
Greengrass School of Motoring. Meanwhile, a famous art collection of red-headed
nudes is reported stolen and a builder discovers a human skeleton under the property
he is renovating. Length: 8 hours, 9 minutes. Order Number: 69784
Constable around the park by Nicholas Rhea. Having qualified for promotion,
Constable Nick must await a vacancy as he continues his rural duties in Aidensfield.
Nick discovers the body of a man in a remote moorland house and a dog finds a
human leg in a wood. The funeral of a London gangster brings a hint of menace to
Ashfordly; a grandfather clock mysteriously disappears after an auction and there's a
prowler at the local hospital. Length: 8 hours, 8 minutes. Order Number: 69785
Constable at the fair by Nicholas Rhea. Constable Nick reminisces about times
gone by in Aidensfield and recalls the variety of fairs he has attended. The arrival of a
noisy fun fair sparked off a hunt for a missing schoolgirl, thought to have run away
with a fairground worker. Then there was the Crampton mop fair, used as a cover for
burglaries. The revival of St Aidan's Fair in Aidensfield created problems when the
carefully planned advertisements were all removed. Length: 7 hours, 19 minutes.
Order Number: 69786
Constable beats the bounds by Nicholas Rhea. Constable Nick recollects on the
times he had to go beyond the call of duty. Including his efforts to get a bride to the
church on time and the time he found himself defending a youth charged with a public
order offence. When a body is found on the moors, he knows he is duty bound to also
continue his performance of wide-ranging constabulary responsibilities. Length: 6
hours, 16 minutes. Order Number: 69787
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Constable in the country by Nicholas Rhea. Constable Nick's rural upbringing
helps him deal with the variety of incidents and people he encounters: such as a
press photographer who gets lost whilst trying to locate a centenarian, a party of
day-trippers who get imprisoned in a field, and a farmer whose vehicles smother the
lanes with mud. Meanwhile Greengrass splashes out on a colourful new car, only to
have it stolen. Length: 6 hours, 55 minutes. Order Number: 69788
Constable in the wilderness by Nicholas Rhea. The Superintendent is not pleased
when he catches Constable Nick building a snowman in the midst of a blizzard and
Nick faces resistance when he considers evacuating a market town because there is
the possibility a devastating flood within hours. Nick also copes with Claude Jeremiah
Greengrass almost killing himself on a runaway double bass and ponders why an
ageing widower would want a beauty contest in Aidensfield. Length: 6 hours, 52
minutes. Order Number: 69789
Constable on the coast by Nicholas Rhea. Occasionally, Constable Nick leaves his
beat in Aidensfield to assist his hard-pressed colleagues in busier places. In this
book, he finds himself on patrol in the seaside resort of Strensford. When a message
in a bottle washes up on the beach suggesting that a girl is being held hostage, Nick
must urgently find where the bottle entered the sea. Length: 6 hours, 47 minutes.
Order Number: 69790
Constable on view by Nicholas Rhea. Constable Nick deals with a family who are
locked out of their home and a burglar who enters isolated farms to leave only a note
saying he could have stolen everything. Meanwhile, Claude Jeremiah Greengrass
reports the theft of two tons of door knockers and the family of a drowned man refuse
to take responsibility for burying him. Length: 6 hours, 4 minutes. Order Number:
69791
Constable over the hill by Nicholas Rhea. During his final days at Aidensfield, Nick
has much to consider. There are duties to complete as he struggles to balance his
family's needs against the demands of the police service. Nick is challenged to solve
a centuries-old Aidensfield murder mystery but is also expected to trace a coal thief
before he burns the evidence. Length: 7 hours, 45 minutes. Order Number: 69792
Cool repentance by Antonia Fraser. London: Mandarin, 1991. When an
internationally celebrated actress with a scandalous past makes a controversial
comeback, the glamorous Jemima is fascinated by the ease with which she slips back
into her career. Her curiosity leads to the discovery of hatred, resentment and a trail
of murders. Length: 6 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 69948
Coroner's pidgin by Margery Allingham. Campion returns from three years work
for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an
unusual gift: the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent
suicide. Now, Campion must assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates and
Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a tangled plot of deception and murder. Length: 9
hours, 4 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71228
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Cover her face by P. D. James. London: Faber and Faber, 2002. On the same day
as the church fete in the grounds of her home Mrs Maxie learns of her son Stephen's
engagement. By the next morning, her new parlourmaid is dead. Detective
Chief-Inspector Adam Dalgliesh investigates murder in the Elizabethan manor house.
Length: 7 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48025
Crime at Christmas by C H B Kitchin. The festivities at a large Hampstead
residence are shattered by the murder of one of the invited. Stockbroker sleuth
Malcolm Warren is the spectator in an increasingly complex human drama as he
steers the police towards an unlikely solution. Length: 6 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 69439
Crime upon crime by Michael Underwood. [S.l.]: Macmillan, 1980. Kedby is a
professional blackmailer and this was to be his most lucrative operation. The victim is
a judge of the Crown Court. Weird and bloody events followed, brought to an
explosive conclusion in an Old Bailey Court. Length: 5 hours, 14 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 65953
Crook as Rookwood by Chris Nyst. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2005. In an inner
suburb of Sydney a pensioner is bashed in his home. A simple drug overdose has
far-reaching and surprising consequences. The action moves from sleazy Sydney
backstreets to the new-money glamour of the Gold Coast, in a world where politics,
crooked cops and business meet. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of
sex. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 43 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
50553
Crooked by Camilla Nelson. Sydney: Random House, 2008. Gus is transferred to a
new crimes branch and now works for a charismatic cop with an unorthodox way of
getting results. A series of violent killings escalate with a spectacular execution-style
murder. When a black book with names of prominent politicians and police officers is
discovered among the dead man's things, the case is blown wide open. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 5 hours, 25 minutes. VAILS.
Order Number: 57618
Crooked wood by Michael Underwood. London: Macmillan, 1978. Clive Donig was
on trial for the murder of Stanley Fulmer, a shady solicitor. The prosecution
contended that he was a professional killer, hired by one of Fulmer's clients whom he
had cheated. Was someone trying to knobble the jury? A complex trial and
investigation brings an unexpected climax. Length: 5 hours, 53 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65962
Cruel and unusual by Patricia Cornwell. Bath :Chivers,1994. The electrocution of a
murderer and the killing of a thirteen-year-old boy seen unrelated, until Scarpetta, a
Chief Medical Examiner, recalls that the boy's body had been arranged in a strikingly
similar position to that of the executed man's victims. Contains violence. Length: 9
hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48028
Cry guilty by Sara Woods. [S.l.]: Macmillan, 1981. Anthony Maitland appears as
Assistant Prosecuting Counsel in a court case that depends, unusually, on witnesses
of character. Length: 6 hours, 9 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66122
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Mystery And Detective Stories
Cut to black by Graham Hurley. For years, Bazza McKenzie has made millions
selling drugs on the streets of Portsmouth. The police are fed up and have set a trap
with Joe Faraday in charge. Bazza is one step ahead of the investigation at every turn
and his competition is trying to move in. Contains strong language. Length: 15 hours,
44 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48034
D is for deadbeat by Sue Grafton. Pan, 1990. Kinsey doesn't agree with the cops
that Dagget's death was accidental. There is an extensive list of suspects to choose
from; a long-suffering wife and daughter; a lady who thought she was his wife and
has the bruises to prove it; out-of-pocket drug dealers and the families of five victims
of his drunken driving crashes. Length: 7 hours, 44 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
46436
Dance hall of the dead by Tony Hillerman. Oxford: Isis Audio Books, 1992. Navajo
Tribal Policeman Lt. Joe Leaphorn is assigned to track down a missing Navajo youth
whose Zuni friend was found brutally murdered. Leaphorn's search unearths a deadly
secret and a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing. Length: 6 hours, 11 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 48036
Dancers in mourning by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Penguin, 1987. Everyone fell
under the spell of Jimmy Sutane, the charming and talented song-and-dance man.
Everyone except the spiteful practical joker who put a pin in his stick of greasepaint
and pasted 'Last Week' over his advertising posters. As soon as Albert Campion is
called in to investigate people begin to die and there is no shortage of suspects.
Length: 10 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71229
Dangerous deception by Sandy Curtis. A professor lies paralysed and unable to
speak. His colleague is attacked by a shotgun-wielding stranger and is fleeing for her
life. The search for a missing brother forces people together and results in a shocking
chain of events that reveals a family's dark secret. Contains strong language.
Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 32 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 50554
Dangerous to know by Barbara Taylor Bradford. London: HarperCollins, 1995.
Handsome and charismatic Sebastian is the patriarch of the Locke clan. He headed a
philanthropic foundation funded by the family fortune and gave away millions. The
police are baffled when Sebastian is found dead in mysterious circumstances. His
ex-wife is aware there was another side to this enigmatic man and sets out to find the
truth about his death. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length:
9 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 61939
Dangerous to know by Marion Babson. London: Collins, 1980. The proprietor of a
London evening paper decides that exposing frauds and uncovering scandals is the
way to improve the paper's declining circulation. Length: 5 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 63215
Dangerous women edited by Otto Penzler. This is a collection of short and sizzling
masterpieces proving just how sexy and not so gentle the 'gentler sex' can be. These
seventeen short stories come from some of the finest authors of mystery and
suspense fiction. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains
violence. Length: 11 hours, 32 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 50555
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Dark country by Bronwyn Parry. Sydney: Hodder Australia, 2009. They've
considered him a murderer for eighteen years, so no-one in Dungirri is surprised
when Gil returns and a woman's body is found in his car. Wearied by too many
deaths and doubting her own skills, local police sergeant Kristine Matthews isn't sure
whether Gil is a decent man wronged by life, or a hardened criminal. She does know
he's not guilty of this murder, because she is his alibi. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 4 minutes. VAILS.
Order Number: 63603
Darkside by P.T. Deutermann. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. A young
midshipman's supposedly accidental death threatens to ruin Midshipman Julie
Markham. She needs help from her retired naval father to discover the secrets behind
the U.S. Naval Academy administration, which is nicknamed the Darkside. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 19 hours, 5 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 54746
Day after day by Carlo Lucarelli ; translated from the Italian by Oonagh
Stransky. London: Harvill, 2004. A master of disguises and weapons expert is on a
killing spree throughout Italy. Each crime has his trade mark picture of a pit bull as the
only clue. When an innocent man surfing the Internet become the Pit Bull's next
target, Inspector Negro uses the man's knowledge of cyberspace to catch this illusive
murderer. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 7 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48052
Dead and buried by Quintin Jardine. Oxford: Isis, 2006. DCC Bob Skinner has a
failed marriage and a death on his conscience but he faces the biggest challenge of
his career within the secret corridors where dark power is wielded. As his hunt
develops, he goes to the very top, the Prime Minister, lest he himself becomes
collateral damage. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours,
6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66557
Dead lagoon by Michael Dibdin. London: Faber and Faber, 1994. Aurelio Zen
returns to his native Venice to probe the disappearance of a wealthy American
resident, but his investigation also reveals disturbing things about his own life.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 63050
Dead on time by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Hutchinson, 1988. A man has been killed in
a watchmaker's shop in Bombay. Inspector Ghote is summoned to an interview with
the Director General of Police, and sent to the Indian countryside to tackle the "Tick
Tock Murder". Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65255
Dead ringer by John Francome. London :HarperCollins/Isis, 1995. Fourteen years
ago David, traumatised by his mother's death, ran away from home and vanished,
leaving his father, Sir Mark, and his two young sisters utterly distraught. Now David
has been found, alive and well, in County Mayo. Length: 8 hours, 58 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 48059
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Dead simple by Peter James. Oxford: Isis, 2005. It was meant to be a harmless
stag-night prank, but a few hours later, the groom is left buried in a coffin and the four
friends who know where he is are dead. Detective Superintendent Grace finds that
the one man who knows something is the one man saying nothing. Contains strong
language. Length: 11 hours, 40 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65092
Dead souls: an Inspector Rebus novel by Ian Rankin. London, Orion, 1999.
Inspector John Rebus is asked to find an old school friend missing son. On top of that
case he is chasing up a poisoner at the local zoo, a freed paedophile with a camera
and the US government is causing trouble. Vigilantes leave Rebus with very mixed
feelings and a bigger caseload than he can handle. Contains strong language.
Length: 16 hours, 58 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46445
Dead weight by John Francome. Oxford: Isis. Phil has lost his nerve as a jockey,
but his problem is not as serious as the recent attacks on racing people by a madman
with a grudge. Then the assaults turn to murder and Phil must overcome his fear to
save his life. Length: 10 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48060
Deadheads: a Dalziel and Pascoe novel by Reginald Hill. London: HarperCollins,
1999. Life was a bed of roses for Patrick when Great Aunt Florence collapsed and he
inherited Rosemount House with its splendid gardens. When his boss suggested to
Peter that Patrick was a murderer then retracted the accusation the inspector was left
with a thorny problem. Length: 10 hours, 18 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48061
Deadlight by Graham Hurley. Oxford: Isis,2003. When a prison officer is found
brutally murdered, D I Joe Faraday is called in to drive the investigation. The trail of
enemies goes back twenty years to the Falklands War when the officer served aboard
a naval frigate. Murder is masked behind men lost in action. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 14 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
48070
Deadline man by Jon Talton. His life is consumed by his contentious Seattle
newspaper column. His multiple lovers and his past are kept well hidden but violence
looms. His latest story plunges him into a harrowing maze of murder and secrets that
powerful forces want concealed at all costs. Failure to meet the deadline will bring
lethal consequences. Length: 9 hours, 35 minutes. Order Number: 60236
Deadly deceit by Marian Babson. London: Constable, 2001. Margot's cousin Chloe
is in Holloway for murdering her twin sister Claudia, their mother has withdrawn into a
world of romance novels and Claudia's fourteen-year-old daughter refuses to leave
her bed. Why are they such a dysfunctional family? Then another body is found.
Length: 5 hours, 56 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48072
Deadly nightshade by Cynthia Riggs. While standing on a dock at night,
ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbell hears a scream, a splash and a car speeding
away. She soon finds a body in the water. Victoria, with the interruptions from her
granddaughter, the harbourmaster and island locals, must act quickly because a
second victim has already been found. Between suppers of Boston baked beans and
her detecting, she concocts a trap for the killer. Length: 8 hours, 52 minutes. Order
Number: 58324
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Deadly relations by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1979. A young girl is found
dead in the Essex countryside and Inspector Finch investigates the strange
circumstances. Length: 7 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65881
Deadly shoals by Joan Druett. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2008. Wike
Coffin's ship has reached the Rio Negro, an area where men disappear without a
trace. Wiki takes up the hunt for a missing ship but the trail leads to a body
half-buried in a salt hill with its skull picked clean by vultures. As Wiki investigates the
murder he discovers the killer has set his sights on another target, the Expedition
itself. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 58 minutes.
VAILS. Order Number: 52957
Death and the Oxford box by Veronica Stallwood. London: Headline, 1994. Out
running with her jogging group, Kate Ivory hears Rose telling how her husband
walked out on her, taking antique mourning-boxes with him. The group plans to steal
back the boxes, but their amateur raid covers up a more sinister crime. Length: 7
hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66008
Death and the princess by Robert Barnard. Murder and royalty don't mix. Princess
Helena has only a distant claim to the throne, but when her friends and lovers begin
turning up dead, Buckingham Palace demands to know why. Supt. Perry Trethowan
must stop a cold-blooded killer intent on blue-blooded murder and prevent a scandal
that will shake the nation. Length: 5 hours, 23 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70244
Death at Deepwood Grange by Michael Underwood. London: Macmillan, 1986.
Deepwood Grange is a beautiful old house converted into flats. There are murders, a
puzzle, several suspects, a police detective and an amateur detective in the person of
pretty young solicitor Rosa Epton. Rosa's godmother is a resident at the Grange and
becomes a suspect when a body is found in the chimney of an empty flat. Length: 5
hours, 24 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65956
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon. While the audience in theatre La Fenice waits
for the last part of 'Traviata', the star conductor lies dead in his changing room. How
did cyanide get into his coffee? Commissioner Brunetti's investigations discover a
chaotic mix of hunger for power, corruption and greed, until the last masks are taken
off. Length: 9 hours, 11 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62434
Death comes as the end by Agatha Christie. Story of a murder in the year 2000
B.C. in Thebes on the banks of the Nile. Based on letters from a farmer (the
Hekanakhte Papers), discovered in 1920-21 by the Egyptian Expedition of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Length: 7 hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
67207
Death in a strange country by Donna Leon. London: Pan books, 1995. Guido
Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts the grisly sight of a young man's
body in a Venetian canal. The clues point to a violent mugging, until incriminating
evidence is found in the dead man's flat. Brunetti is convinced that somebody is
taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime. Length: 10 hours, 8
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46448
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Death in disguise by Caroline Graham. London: Headline, 1993. The Elizabethan
manor house is home to a bunch of New Age oddballs, so no one in the village is
surprised to hear of a death in the house. It appears to be accidental until a second
death brings Chief Inspector Barnaby hurriedly to the scene. The suspects are the
most bizarre bunch he has ever encountered. Length: 13 hours, 56 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46462
Death in fashion by Marion Babson. London: Collins, 1985. A funeral wreath is
delivered to the most popular collection at London Fashion Week, and then a
despatch rider is found dead. Suspicion remains that the wrong man might have died,
and the tension builds to another death amidst the rivalries of the world of haute
couture. Length: 5 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63214
Death in holy orders by P. D. James. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. When the
body of a student is found on the shore of the East Anglian coast, Commander
Dalgliesh pays a visit. The weekend brings another murder and he soon finds himself
embroiled in one of the most horrific and puzzling cases of his career. Length: 14
hours, 57 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 54075
Death in the clouds by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot is enjoying his flight on a
luxury airliner, watching his fellow passengers. A wasp buzzing around the
passengers' heads causes a commotion but a second wasp is really a blowpipe
poisoned dart and is found in Madam Giselle dead body at the back of the plane.
Length: 6 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46463
Death in the garden by Elizabeth Ironside. London: New English Library, 1996. In
1925, an MP was found dead during his wife's weekend thirtieth birthday celebrations.
Six decades later her great-niece is celebrating her own thirtieth birthday. Her aunt's
legacy has left her with overwhelming secrets that occurred on that fateful weekend.
She is consumed with a need to conceal her private life but a greater compulsion to
know the truth. Length: 9 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46464
Death in the stocks by Georgette Heyer. A moonlight night, a sleepy village and a
corpse in evening dress, locked in the stocks on the Green. Intriguing ingredients for
a murder most foul. Superintendent Hannasyde is on the trail of a killer so cunning
that even his phenomenal powers of deduction are tested to the full. Length: 9 hours,
4 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48073
Death is a lonely business by Ray Bradbury. Grafton, 1986. It's 1949 in Venice,
California and the abandoned circus and old canals have created a shabby, tacky
city. A young writer joins forces with a quirky detective and a faded screen star to
investigate who is killing off the older denizens. Length: 9 hours. RNIB. Order
Number: 46465
Death is now my neighbour by Colin Dexter. London: Macmillan, 1996. The
residents of Bloxham Drive were accustomed to acts of minor vandalism and the odd
spot of joy-riding but they were unprepared for cold-blooded murder. Chief Inspector
Morse and his assistant Sergeant Lewis are called upon to investigate the murder of
a young woman who was shot from close range through her kitchen window. Length:
9 hours, 48 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46466
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Death of a blue movie star by Jeffery Deaver. Oxford: Isis. Rune, a struggling
filmmaker in New York, is shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb
attacks on the adult film industry. Religious terrorists appear to be behind the
bombings but Rune suspects there is more going on. Contains strong language.
Length: 8 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46469
Death of a con man by Josephine Bell. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968.
Setting out to clear a colleague's name at the hospital, Dr. Frost finds himself involved
in sordid small time intrigue and sudden savage violence. Contains violence. Length:
7 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62885
Death of a ghost by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Penguin, 1934. Painter John
Sebastian Lafadio left instructions to his wife, for one painting to be exhibited every
year after his death. Eight years later, a select group gathers to view the eighth
painting. They are treated instead to a murder. Albert Campion is one of the guests
and as usual, he gets to work on the baffling case. Length: 8 hours, 47 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 71230
Death of a hollow man by Caroline Graham. London: Headline, 1990. Detective
Chief Inspector Barnaby is in the audience when the Causton Amateur Dramatic
Society see one of their own murdered. They are forced to turn in on themselves in
the search for motive and perpetrator. The result is both a study in crime and a
whodunit involving an entire cast-list of suspects. Length: 11 hours, 9 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 45147
Death of an expert witness by P. D. James. London: Faber, 1977. When a young
girl is found strangled in a field, it looks like a routine job for the east Anglia Forensic
Laboratory. When the much disliked senior pathologist is murdered with a weapon he
is studying, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in from Scotland Yard. The victim
was known to bully his unstable assistant, but secret relationships also point to other
suspects. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66022
Death on a branch line by Andrew Martin. In the sweltering summer of 1911, Jim
Stringer confronts his most perplexing case to date. A train arrives carrying a young
aristocrat lately found guilty of murdering his father. He warns of yet another murder
about to happen. Jim and his wife seek out the intended victim, who, despite their
warnings, stubbornly refuses to leave. Contains strong language. Length: 8 hours, 29
minutes. Order Number: 69671
Death on demand by Paul Thomas. Auckland, N.Z.: Hodder Moa, 2012. Maverick
cop Tito Ihaka is called back to Auckland to follow a strange twist in an unsolved case
that got him into trouble. He is hunting a shadowy hitman as his enemies want him off
the case. Then he's assigned another case and as the bodies pile up he uncovers a
sex and blackmail racket with innocent origins. As the cases overlap Ihaka suspects
police corruption. Contains strong language. Length: 7 hours, 29 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 66138
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Death on the Downs by Simon Brett. Ulverscroft, 2001. It wasn't the rain that upset
Carole during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. What upset her was the human
skeleton she discovered in the barn she sheltered in. So begins the another
investigation for strait-laced Carole and her laid-back neighbour, Jude. Length: 8
hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46503
Death qualified by Kate Wilhelm. Nell's husband disappeared years ago. He has
now been found dead on her property and she is charged with his murder. How did
he change from a top secret experimenter to a drugged, amnesiac working as a
university handyman? Was he being used as a guinea pig? She turns to disillusioned
lawyer Barbara Holloway for help. There are many layers of deception for Barbara to
dissolve to reveal the truth. Length: 15 hours, 21 minutes. Order Number: 63873
Death's autograph by Marianne Macdonald. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.
Antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare is run off the road and her bookshop broken into.
Her father receives a threatening note and her shady ex-husband reappears. It
seems that Dido is in danger but who is after her and what do they want? Length: 7
hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46505
Deception on his mind by Elizabeth George. In a dying seaside town on the coast
of Essex a member of its small Asian community is found dead. The murder has
sparked a race riot. Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a
murderer but the price people pay for deceiving others and themselves. Contains
strong language. Length: 23 hours, 21 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62529
Detective by Arthur Hailey. London: Doubleday, 1997. On the eve of his execution,
a serial killer has requested to make a last confession to Sergeant Ainslie, an
ex-priest. He confesses to all but two of the killings. When Ainslie re-opens the cases
he discovers the truth is very close to home. Length: 18 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 45869
Detective stories from the Strand magazine selected and introduced by Jack
Adrian ; foreword by Julian Symons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. This is
a collection of 25 stories first published in the Strand magazine. Authors include:
Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, Sapper, Edgar Wallace, Aldous Huxley, Conan
Doyle and E.C. Bentley. Length: 14 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72658
Devil's food by Kerry Greenwood. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2006.
Corinna, baker extraordinaire, can't abide people not eating well. So, when a strange
cult that eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body dead from malnutrition,
she is very disturbed. Next, her mother is hysterical because her father has
absconded to Melbourne with all their money. Then the cafe next door is attracting a
very strange clientele and to top it off Corinna desires a new young lover. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 5
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 45782
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Diamond dove by Adrian Hyland. Melbourne: Text Publishing 2006. Something has
drawn Emily back to Central Australia to the community she left half a lifetime ago.
Not much has changed but Emily still doesn't know if she belongs in the Aboriginal
world or the white. Within hours of her arrival an old friend lies brutally murdered and
mutilated, an old enemy the only suspect. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 9 hours, 3 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 50571
Diamond dust by Peter Lovesey. London: Little, Brown, 2002. Detective Inspector
Peter Diamond is caught up in the most difficult investigation of his career, the murder
of his wife. She had been found shot in one of Bath's parks. Mad with grief, he finds
himself under suspicion and decides that a little independent action is called for.
Length: 11 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48081
Die for love by Elizabeth Peters. Nebraska librarian Jacqueline Kirby eagerly
attends the Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York but is
shocked by what happens. The death of a scandal columnist and a writer fearing for
her life send Jacqueline into action. There's a sinister scenario being perpetrated at
this purple prose congregation. Length: 9 hours, 12 minutes. Order Number: 58327
Die for me by Karen Rose. The first victim is found in a snow-covered Philadelphia
field. Detective Vito Ciccotelli enlists the aid of archaeologist Sophie Johannsen to
determine exactly what lies beneath the frozen ground. Sophie finds a matrix of
graves dug with chilling precision. Research for a new computer game has tipped
from fantasy to murder. Length: 17 hours, 11 minutes. Order Number: 58328
Die trying by Lee Child. London: Bantam Books, 1998. On a sunny Chicago street
Jack Reacher, stops to help a young woman with crutches. When he turns around a
gun is aimed at his stomach. Reacher is locked in a dark, stifling van racing across
America, chained to the woman. She claims to be an FBI agent. At their remote
destination, will raw courage and cunning be enough to overcome the hopeless
odds? Contains violence. Length: 16 hours, 9 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 64478
Dirty weekend by Gabrielle Lord. Sydney: Hodder Australia, 2005. Jack McCain is
the chief forensic scientist for the Australian Federal Police. Three murders draw him
into investigations that threaten to change his life forever. The first victim is his
ex-wife and he is the prime suspect. He must discover what she had in common with
a frail old man, a research scientist, a sex-swapping group, a rare orchid and
Terminator Bunnies. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex.
Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 36 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 45136
Double homicide by Faye & Jonathan Kellerman. Oxford: Isis, 2005. In Santa Fe,
Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz from Special Investigation Unit are called to a
homicide scene. They have entered a dangerous world where murder has been
perfected to an art form. In Boston, two cops find an autopsy that provides a stunning
twist on the cause of a death. Length: 7 hours, 16 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
48116
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Double jeopardy by Michael Underwood. Leicester: Ulverscroft, 1982. Rosa Epton,
solicitor, meets Toby Nash at a New Year's party and they are mutually attracted.
Toby has been accused of rape by the woman who accompanied him to the party.
After being charged by the police he asks Rosa to defend him. Among their problems
is the fierce animosity of Detective Inspector Dormer who is in charge of the case.
Length: 5 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65954
Doubled in diamonds by Victor Canning. Rex Carver is a private eye based in
Northumberland Avenue, London, but his work ofen takes him far from there. This
case leads him to Ireland and to France, whilst he is trying to find a man left a legacy
by an aunt. The man is involved with a large heist of diamonds. Rex has to deal with
people about to trade these millions of dollars worth of stolen diamonds for heroin
and opium. Two people involved are agents of the People's Republic of China.
Length: 7 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73682
Drowned rat by Elizabeth Ferrars Oxford: Isis, 2000. Douglas has returned from
Australia to inherit Havershaw House. He has displaced his cousin's family and
brought strangers to the village, stirring up trouble. Now someone is trying to kill him.
Length: 5 hours, 38 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 48152
Dual enigma by Michael Underwood. [S.l.]: Ulverscroft, 1990. Solicitor Rosa Epton
reads of a schoolboy killed by a hit and run driver. Going home on the train she
witnesses a young girl sitting opposite her behaving erratically. When the girl is
reported missing Rosa is puzzled but continues working until her client is found
murdered. Rosa goes looking for the connection between the three cases. Length: 5
hours, 49 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71261
Dumb witness by Agatha Christie. Miss Arundell's relatives are coming to stay with
her for Easter. During the weekend she has an accident and everyone blames her
terrier for leaving a ball on the stairs. However, her suspicions are aroused and she
writes to Hercule Poirot. By the time he gets the letter, she is dead. Length: 8 hours,
39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 67215
Dying light by Stuart MacBride. Oxford: Isis, 2006. DS Logan MacRae has another
bad day starting with a prostitute beaten to death down by the docks. Across the city,
six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows
screwed shut from the outside. Logan wants to crack the cases double quick to
escape DI Steel and her unconventional methods. Length: 14 hours, 25 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 71430
E is for evidence by Sue Grafton. Pan, 1990. It was two days after Christmas when
Kinsey Millhone receives the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars that
she didn't deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly it became clear that it was
a frame-up. Contains strong language. Length: 6 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46541
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Earthly delights by Kerry Greenwood. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2006.
Corinna loves her early mornings at her Earthly Delights bakery. When a junkie
collapses in her alley and she receives a threatening note she knows she has got
trouble. Then it is Goths, witchcraft, dead drug addicts and an attack on her cat. With
flair, chutzpah and a talent for kneading, Corinna must find out who is threatening her
life and get those muffins cooked on time. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 29 minutes. VAILS. Order
Number: 45784
Eight for eternity by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer. In January 532, mobs rule
Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire. As the political riot breaks out, John,
chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, is tasked with finding two escaped prisoners. Each
belongs to a different faction at the heart of the riots. John must untangle a web of
intrigue in a city where death holds court at every corner. Length: 10 hours, 19
minutes. Order Number: 60239
Eleven hours by Paullina Simons. London: Flamingo, 1998. Didi is heavily pregnant
when she is kidnapped by a desperate young man and bundled into his van. They are
pursued by Didi's adoring husband and an alarmingly laid-back FBI man. Her
kidnapper is enraged at God for allowing his wife and child to die. He wants a baby
and once he kills a cop he has nothing to lose. Length: 9 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 45878
Enough to kill a horse by Elizabeth Ferrars. London: Constable & Company Ltd,
1995. Fanny's party was turning out to be a disaster and so awkward to arrange. At
least Sir Peter, the newspaper tycoon, who was the catch of the evening, could come.
Then there was the risk of quarrels, nervous young widows and the mysterious Laura.
Things were becoming very peculiar. Length: 7 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46553
Entwined by Lynda La Plante. London: Pan, 1993. In the newly liberated streets of
modern Berlin, two women are drawn together by a series of tragic and extraordinary
events. Under the harsh light of a murder investigation, long-buried secrets are
exposed and a devastating new truth is revealed. For no matter how cruelly twins are
separated, their lives will always be entwined. Contains violence. Length: 19 hours, 5
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48180
Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer. Bath: Chivers, 1993. A churlish host and an ill
assortment of Christmas guests create a bizarre celebration in a rambling old house.
When a corpse is added to the litter of paper hats and Christmas crackers, the
season of goodwill becomes the setting for a most unseasonable crime of murder.
Length: 10 hours, 48 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48181
Envy the night by Michael Koryta. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2008.
Frank's father, a U.S. marshal, was secretly a hitman. Seven years ago he committed
suicide to avoid prosecution. Frank discovers the man who recruited his father and
betrayed him, is returning to Wisconsin. Frank heads to the remote town for revenge.
He soon discovers there are family secrets, a gang of local ruthless killers and a pair
of Miami assassins, all complicating his father's legacy. Length: 9 hours, 54 minutes.
VAILS. Order Number: 57639
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Eternity ring by Patricia Wentworth. London: New English Library, 2000. Mary
Stokes was walking through Dead Man's Copse one evening when she saw, in the
beam of a torch, the corpse of a young woman dressed in a black coat, black gloves,
no hat and an eternity ring set with diamonds in her ear. When she and Detective
Sergeant Frank Abbott went back to the wood, the body had vanished. Length: 7
hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66177
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher. London: Harper Perennial, 2005. Orphaned
eight-year-old Eve is sent to a new life in rural Wales. With a sense of being lied to
she searches for her family's dark secret unaware there is more darkness to come
with the sinister disappearance of local girl, Rosie. Now, years later, something from
the past clicks in Eve's mind that reveals Rosie's abductor. Contains strong language.
Length: 7 hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48184
Even yuppies die by Marian Babson. London: Crime Club, 1993. Former film stars
Trixie and Evangeline rent a penthouse suite in a rundown warehouse full of strange
and somewhat dangerous tenants. Their habit of eavesdropping and snooping gets
them into hot water. Length: 6 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45882
Evidence to destroy by Margaret Yorke. Leicester: Penguin, 1987. Lydia is a
respectable, solitary widow knows she is in for trouble when her restless,
twice-married daughter Thelma returns home. Thelma has brought with her an
unsavoury young man. His attentions and Lydia's own past drive her headlong to the
edge of insanity. Length: 9 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48187
Evil under the sun by Agatha Christie. London: Collins, 1986. An opulent beach
resort is the setting as Hercules Poirot attempts to unravel the murder of an actress
everyone has reason to hate. Length: 6 hours, 23 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
61760
Exit lines: Dalziel and Pascoe novel by Reginald Hill. London: Grafton, 1987.
Three old men died on a stormy November night. Inspector Pascoe is called in to
investigate and finds that the integrity of the local constabulary is questionable.
Length: 9 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46564
Exit music by Ian Rankin. London: Orion, 2008. As Detective Inspector John Rebus
tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident
Russian poet has been found dead. Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke become
convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack.
Meanwhile, a brutal and premeditated assault on a local gangster sees Rebus in the
frame. Has the Inspector taken a step too far in tying up those loose ends? Contains
strong language. Length: 15 hours, 51 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70990
F is for fugitive by Sue Grafton. Macmillan London, 1989. In the California town of
Floral Beach, the residents don't dwell on the past. They don't think about Bailey
Fowler, the self-confessed killer who was tried, convicted, and a year later walked
away from jail. Now, seventeen years later, Bailey has reappeared and Kinsey has
been hired to prove his innocence. Length: 6 hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46565
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Faceless killers by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 2006. Inspector Kurt Wallander,
a local Swedish police officer whose own personal life is falling apart, finds himself
coping with a wave of anti-foreigner sentiment when he is put in charge of the
investigation into the brutal murders of an elderly couple. Contains strong language.
Length: 7 hours, 58 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65514
Faithful unto death by Caroline Graham. London: Headline, 1996. When the
pleasant, vague wife of a local businessman vanishes from the village of Fawcett
Green, her ever-vigilant neighbours suspect the worst. The discovery of a body draws
Chief Inspector Barnaby to the village, testing his powers of deduction to their fullest.
Length: 13 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48191
Fall when hit by Richard Crawford. London: Mandarin, 1993. Garret Kearns, a UDR
part-timer, is driving home from a late-night shift when he is rammed off the road by a
speeding car. Shots are fired. The next day a British intelligence agent is dead and
Kearns is arrested. Caught in the middle is a young girl on the run with a secret that
could topple the government. Contains strong language. Length: 7 hours, 13
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63408
Fallen gods by Quintin Jardine. Oxford: Isis, 2003. DCC Bob Skinner's career
hangs by a thread as his enemies plot against him. A body is identified as his hated
brother whose existence he has hidden for years. An incendiary device destroys a
valuable painting in the Royal Scottish Academy. As Skinner tackles these crises, his
wife, in America to recover from the loss of her parents, finds comfort with an old
lover. Is Bob up for all these challenges? Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 11 hours, 36 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66555
Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Henry has been looking for someone. Anyone
will do, as long as they are a woman, preferably with money. When writer Daisy buys
a cottage close by he arouses her agent's suspicions. A chilling secret is about to be
discovered. Length: 12 hours, 44 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48192
False impression by Jeffrey Archer. London: Macmillan, 2005. When an old lady is
brutally murdered the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and
Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death
- a priceless Van Gogh painting. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 10 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65438
Farewell, my lovely by Raymond Chandler. In the neon wilderness of Los Angeles,
Philip Marlowe is hired to find a woman named Velma. The dull witted giant who hires
him doesn't give him much help and Marlowe soon discovers that someone doesn't
want Velma found. Length: 8 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70579
Farriers' Lane: a Victorian murder mystery by Anne Perry. London: HarperCollins,
1994. When Judge Stafford collapses in a theatre box and dies from opium
poisoning, Inspector Pitt is called in to investigate. Suspicion initially falls on the
immediate family but Pitt soon discovers another powerful motive. Stafford had been
re-examining one of his old cases, the controversial hanging of a Jewish actor.
Length: 15 hours, 53 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 64736
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Fat Ollie's book by Ed McBain. Oxford: Isis. Foul-mouthed and short-tempered, Fat
Ollie Weeks tries his hands at writing a crime novel, entitled 'Report to the
Commissioner'. On his way to his agent with his finished opus he stops to catch a
murder suspect. When he returns to his car it has been broken into and the
manuscript, his only copy, is gone. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 40 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 48201
Fatal inheritance by Peter Cave. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993. When Dr Janet
Napier, owner of the Napier Health Farm and on trial for murdering her husband's
mistress, is given a 'not-proven' verdict, Taggart is ordered to take a rest. He promptly
books in at the Napier Health Farm to see if there is more to discover. Within days of
his arrival, members of Dr Napier's family begin to be murdered. Length: 6 hours, 13
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73536
Fatal remedies by Donna Leon. London: William Heinemann, 1999. Commissario
Guido Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator of an act of vandalism is no petty criminal
but his wife! Suddenly his career is under threat as his professional and personal lives
clash. Length: 7 hours, 45 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 63452
Feeding the demons by Gabrielle Lord. Gemma wakes up one morning to find her
clothes laid out in the effigy of a woman with the throat and crotch horribly slashed.
Her friend Detective Sergeant Angie McDonald has a similar sinister incident but it
involves a real murder. As the owner of a security business Gemma joins the police to
track down the psychopath. As the violence escalates, Gemma is caught in a trap
where she must fight for her life. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 12 hours, 45 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63562
Fell of dark by Reginald Hill. London: HarperCollins, 1998. A friendship renewed; a
marriage going sour; Harry heads for the Lake District not knowing if he's going in
search of something or running away. Then two girls are found murdered in the high
fells and suddenly there's no doubt about it. He's running. Length: 6 hours, 58
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48203
Filth by Irvine Welsh. London :Jonathan Cape, 1998. Detective Sergeant Bruce
Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up for Christmas with a week of sex
and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating distractions, though, including a missing
wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, and a
string of extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve.
Contains strong language. Length: 14 hour, 36 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
46583
Final curtain by Ngaio Marsh. Detective-Inspector Alleyn's wife was painting the
portrait of a famous actor. Sudden death intervenes and husband and wife solve a
mystery which provides amusing studies of theatrical types. Length: 10 hours, 20
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70968
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Firewall by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Stopping to use a cash machine
late one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground dead. Then a taxi driver is
savagely attacked by two teenage girls. Inspector Wallander is appalled with their
total lack of remorse. Then another grisly death leads him into a bitter fight against
terrorists hiding in cyberspace. Contains strong language. Length: 13 hours, 41
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48205
Five little pigs by Agatha Christie. HarperCollins, 1943. Caroline was convicted of
murdering her husband but there were five other suspects. Who was really guilty?
Length: 8 hour, 17 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46590
Flowers for the judge by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Heinemann, 1936. When a
director of a respected publishing house goes missing, nobody sees fit to question his
disappearance. When his corpse is discovered in the firm's strongroom the questions
are never ending. Length: 10 hours, 51 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71240
For the sake of Elena by Elizabeth George. Elena shocked anyone meeting her for
the first time. In her skimpy dresses and dazzling jewellery, she exuded intelligence
and sexuality, challenging all preconceptions. Until one morning, while out jogging,
she is bludgeoned to death. Detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers
investigate a web of love, obsession and violence. Contains strong language.
Length: 13 hours, 59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62527
Forbidden fruit by Kerry Greenwood. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2009.
Corinna detests Christmas and its frantic shopping and oppressive heat. She finds
herself dealing with a rose-loving donkey, a maniacal mother and a distracted
assistant, while Daniel is hunting for two young runaways. Their Romeo and Juliet
drama involves a sinister religious cult on a collision course with a band of Romany
gypsies. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 9 hours, 16 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63481
Found in the street by Patricia Highsmith. Heinemann, 1986. Elsie is fresh,
childlike and vibrantly pretty, one of thousands of young people who drift to New York.
She has ambition and a sexual magic that works fatally on both men and women.
This is a tale of sexual obsession and the dark side of violent desire in Greenwich
Village. Length: 10 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 46606
Fourth attempt: a Dr George Barnabas mystery by Claire Rayner. London:
Michael Joseph, 1996. In this medical mystery, three suspected suicide deaths
among the staff have the gossipmongers working overtime. George could have told
them the truth but when a fourth person dies, this time it's murder and she comes
under suspicion herself. As she juggles her work, relationships and the deaths,
George is pulled into a whirlwind of intrigue. Length: 11 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 45655
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Fox evil by Minette Walters. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2002. When
elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy,
land-owning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. The inquest gives a verdict of
natural causes but the gossip about James refuses to go away. The village of
Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 25 minutes. RNZFB. Order
Number: 56455
Friends in high places by Donna Leon. London: Arrow, 2001. Just after a terrified
young bureaucrat complains to Commissario Guido Brunetti about the lack of official
approval for the building of his apartment, the young man is found dead. His fall from
scaffolding is very suspicious and has wide reaching implications. Contains strong
language. Length: 8 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48228
From Doon with death by Ruth Rendell. Arrow, 1982. Margaret was a good woman,
religious, old-fashioned and respectable. It was not her life that interested Chief
Inspector Wexford though but her death. She had met with a death of passion and
violence for which there seemed neither motive nor clue. Length: 4 hours, 40 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 48231
From Potter's field by Patricia Cornwell. London: Scribner, 1995. FBI consultant Dr
Kay Scarpetta is in the midst of a late-night autopsy when the call comes; Gault, a
sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck again. It soon
becomes apparent to Scarpetta that Gault is as focused on her as she is on him.
Length: 9 hours, 34 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 63445
Frost at Christmas by R. D. Wingfield. London: Corgi, 1996. Ten days to Christmas
and Tracey, aged eight, hasn't come home from Sunday School. Her mother, a young
prostitute, is desperate. In his usually unorthodox style, Frost consults a local witch
and is drawn into an unsolved crime that risks his career and life. Length: 8 hours, 47
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46703
Funeral music by Morag Joss. Oxford: Isis. The charity concert in Bath's famous
Pump Room was vitally important to international cellist Sara Selkirk. It was her
chance to regain her lost confidence, the first time she would perform in public since
the death of her lover. If she had known what was to happen she would have lost her
nerve completely. Length: 10 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48236
Funnelweb by Russell Braddon. Constable, 1990. Detective Chief Inspector
Cheadle heads the hunt for a rational but ruthless psychopath who uses deadly
Australian spiders to claim his victims. Length: 7 hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46616
G is for gumshoe by Sue Grafton. Macmillan, 1990. Kinsey Milhone, the feisty
private investigator, is back. In this tale she unearths the truth about a long buried
betrayal and, in the process, comes face to face with the grisly fact of her own
mortality. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 9 hours, 25 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46617
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Garnethill by Denise Mina. London: Bantam press, 1998. Maureen is a psychiatric
patient stuck in a dead-end job and secretive relationship with a shady therapist.
When she wakes up to find her lover murdered in her living room she becomes the
prime suspect. As she retraces his final days she discovers a horrifying trail of rape
and scandal. Contains strong language. Length: 12 hours, 7 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46619
Gentlemen & players by Joanne Harris. Bath, U.K.: Chivers, 2006. A new year has
just begun at St Oswald’s, an old and long-established boys’ grammar school in the
north of England. Beneath the everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent
stirs. A bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to
erupt. Who is Mole, whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating towards
violence and perhaps, murder? Contains strong language. Length: 13 hours, 26
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73195
Gently mistaken by Alan Hunter. London: Constable, 1999. When Chief
Superintendent George Gently gains entry into a flat in Putney he discovers a
fugitive's married mistress lying strangled on the bed. The fugitive, a young
accountant, is spotted hiding out in a seaside town. Before Gently arrives, the
suspect is found battered to death and there is no trace of the money he stole from
his office. Length: 4 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46620
Gideon's march by J. J. Marric. Chivers, 1994. Commander Gideon of Scotland
Yard already has a heavy workload. It is doubled when he is put in charge of the
Branch preparing for the visit of three foreign heads of State. The crowds, pageantry
and turmoil ensure a perfect environment for an assassin's strike. Length: 7 hours, 47
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46621
Gideon's men by J. J. Marric. Leicester: Ulverscroft,1975. Commander Gideon has
his hands full of problems to solve. There is trouble in an overcrowded slum area and
the officer in charge is prejudiced against coloured people; can he be trusted?
Meanwhile murder, robbery and petty crime bring their own burdens. Will the personal
problems of Gideon and his men interfere as they combat London's latest crime
wave? Length: 5 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45669
Gideon's month by J. J. Marric. Leicester: Ulverscroft, 1975. Commander Gideon's
month starts quietly enough at Scotland Yard. Crime seems to be taking a holiday but
before along chaos erupts. He has a case of an ill-treated child, another of a
murdered receiver and yet another of a wife who jumped backwards out of the
window. Length: 7 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46622
Gideon's ride by J. J. Marric. Leicester: Ulverscroft, 1974. A gang is at robbing
passengers they find alone on the top deck of London's buses. One night they strike
too hard and murder results; followed by another killing of the bus conductress who
could have identified them. Gideon is having another busy week at Scotland Yard.
Length: 6 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46623
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Gideon's sport by J. J. Marric. Leicester: Ulverscroft,1980. London basks in the
June sunshine with everyone looking forward to the great sporting events of the
summer. For Commander Gideon and Scotland Yard it will bring unknown troubles.
Will the Derby be fixed? Will the young American black at Wimbledon create racial
problems? Finally, will the presence of the South African team at Lord trigger a
political demonstration? Length: 6 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45670
Gideon's week by J. J. Marric. Leicester :Ulverscroft, 1969. No week in the life of
Commander Gideon of Scotland Yard could be entirely uneventful. However, a mass
escape from Millways Gaol, Manchester, makes this a particularly harassing week,
especially with a criminal like Benson at large. Length: 6 hours, 34 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46624
Gideon's wrath by J. J. Marric. Leicester: Ulverscroft, 1975. Commander Gideon
and his colleagues at Scotland Yard are bedevilled by an outbreak of vandalism in
London's churches. Their caseload also includes a killer who seeks sanctuary in a
church, threats to the great cathedrals and a series of murders of young girls shortly
after they had been photographed in the nude. Length: 8 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46625
Glory days by Rosie Scott. Auckland: Penguin, 1988. In the shadowy environs of
low-life Auckland lives Glory Day, promising artist and occasional nightclub singer.
When a young junkie suspiciously dies and her daughter is abducted, Glory finds
herself dangerously entrapped. Contains strong language. Length: 9 hours, 3
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70869
Go west, Inspector Ghote by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins,1981. Inspector Ghote
is sent to California by a Sindhi businessman to remove his daughter from an Ashram
retreat, dominated by a charlatan Swami. On the night of Ghote's arrival, the Swami is
found dead in highly mysterious circumstances. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours,
20 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65244
Goodnight lady by Martina Cole. Oxford: Isis, 2005. In the sixties the infamous
Briony Cavanagh ran a string of notorious brothels in London's East End. Patronised
by peers and politicians, only she knew what went on behind those velvet curtains. No
one knew her secrets unless it was to her benefit. Contains violence. Length: 21
hours, 49 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48601
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. Collins, 1981. Chief Investigator Arkady Renko of
the Moscow militia is called to Gorky Park late one spring night to investigate three
bodies under the snow. Length: 17 hours, 40 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48288
Grabbing the family jewels by Gaby Hauptmann ; translated by Helen Atkins.
London: Virago, 2002. Anno Adelmann, a wealthy widower, is the survivor of two
heart attacks. His four scheming daughters all have designs on his inheritance. He
decides to have a bit of fun at their expense, but what starts as a joke soon turns into
kidnapping, blackmail and possibly murder. Length: 9 hours, 38 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 56223
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Great law & order stories edited and introduced by John Mortimer. [S.l.]: Bellew,
1990. The creator of the irrepressible Rumpole of the Old Bailey, presents a
collection of classic tales of mystery and suspense. With stories by such authors as
P.D. James and Charles Dickens, Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, Edgar Allan
Poe and John Mortimer himself, this anthology explores new dimensions in crime
writing. Length: 14 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 67859
Green grow the dollars by Emma Lathen. Gollancz, 1982. Vandam's is America's
largest nursery and seed company where the dollars grow as greenly as the plants. A
secretary's murder and industrial espionage bring John Putman Thatcher into their
world. A genetic miracle super-tomato is a red as the blood being spilt. Length: 8
hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48298
Ground to a halt by Claudia Bishop. It's autumn at the Inn at Hemlock Falls and
the attendees of the International Association of Pet Food Providers are fighting over
a campaign to switch to vegan pet food. Things don't improve when Quill discovers
the body of Lila Longstreet while on a tour of Heavenly Hogg's Pig Farm. When pet
psychic Olivia Oberline correctly predicts another murder, Meg and Quill investigate.
Length: 6 hours, 30 minutes. Order Number: 70849
Guerilla season by Paul Thomas. Auckland, N.Z.: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1996. New
Zealand is in the grip of urban terrorism, as the shadowy and sinister Aotearoa
People's Army is on the rampage. Who are they and what do they want? The SIS
thinks it knows but the maverick cop Tito Ihaka thinks otherwise. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours. RNZFB. Order Number: 55790
Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland. Melbourne: Text Publishing 2010. Emily Tempest
is small, black and the woman least likely to work in policing. Her old mate
Superintendent MacGillivray persuades her to join the outback Aboriginal Community
Police Force. When he is hospitalised Emily finds herself working for a new bloke, a
martinet called Cockburn. Unable to keep her big mouth shut she is immediately at
odds with the new boss. A violent drunken brawl complicates things even more.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 40 minutes. VAILS.
Order Number: 63638
H is for homicide by Sue Grafton. Macmillan, 1991. When a murdered colleague is
murdered is sparks another investigation for Kinsey Millhone. The dead efficiency
expert, a false insurance claim and a night in the local jail land her on a fast drive to
Los Angeles, a prisoner with no one to turn to! Length: 8 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46692
Half past dead by Jane Clifton. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2002. Ronnie's life is
pretty damn good; fantastic job, happy marriage and wonderful son. Trouble is she
has a massive crush on Laurence, her co-worker. Harmless flirtation turns to waking
up with a massive hangover in Laurence's bed. Then she discovers his bloodstained
body in the kitchen. When she turns her back his body disappears and Ronnie knows
she needs help, big time. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex.
Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 27 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 50588
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Hand of fate by Michael Underwood. London: Macmillan, 1981. Frank never
doubted his abilities and was confident of committing the perfect murder. His wife just
vanished, no body, scandal. Rumours spread but the police couldn't do much without
a body. They couldn't do anything until Frank got unlucky and a damning piece of
evidence appeared. Length: 6 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65963
Hangman's holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers. London: New English Library, 1974. Lord
Peter Wimsey, the delightful detective, introduces the incredible Mr Egg, travelling
salesman extraordinaire, with brilliant powers of deduction. This collection of twelve
stories contains the author's essential charm that has captivated readers over the
years. Length: 6 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46693
Hard Frost by R. D. Wingfield. London: Corgi, 1996. Frost should be on holiday but
the case of a murdered boy has been dumped on him. Then another boy goes
missing, followed by a ransom demand. Frost stumbles from crisis to crisis as he tries
to cope with a child-stabbing pervert, the discovery of a decomposing body and the
abduction of a teenage girl. Length: 14 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
46706
Hard news by Jeffery Deaver. Oxford: Isis, 2002. After viewing a video of a
convicted murderer, Rune decides the man is innocent. She then convinces her
employer, Network News, to sponsor her investigation. She finds an unlikely and
untrustworthy ally in the powerful news anchorwoman. Length: 8 hours, 41 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 45886
Hard stop by Chris Knopf. Sam is dragged back into the deadly world of corporate
intrigue when his former boss insists Sam find his missing girlfriend. Sam traces her
to a Long Island house she shared with a bunch of Gen-Xers. With help from Jackie
and others he digs deeper in the dirty business dealings of big money and even
bigger egos. Length: 9 hours, 5 minutes. Order Number: 59579
Harm's way by Catherine Aird. Collins, 1984. Two members of the Berebury
Footpath Society are exploring a public right-of-way when a crow drops a human
finger in front of them. Detective Inspector C.D Sloan sets out to find the rest of the
body. Length: 6 hours, 34 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48306
He died with his eyes open by Derek Raymond. London: Warner Books, 1993. The
tramp found under a bush in West London had been systematically butchered. The
awesome depths of violence fascinate the Detective Sergeant. His investigation
became an obsession as he traverses the mean streets and squalor of London's less
salubrious districts. Contains strong language. Length: 6 hours, 23 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46699
Head shot by Quintin Jardine. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Assistant Chief Constable Skinner
is shaken when he is faced with the brutally murdered bodies of his wife's parents.
Soon it's clear that there is a killer hunting down a group of men with links that go
back to the sixties and he is acting on instructions from a highly placed source.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66554
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Head wounds by Chris Knopf. Behind the glamour of the fabled Hamptons is a
beautiful place filled with ugly secrets. This is Sam Acquillo's world. He locks horns
with a blundering bully who shares one thing with Sam; an irresistible attraction to the
beautiful Amanda. With the help of his wry pal Jackie Swaitkowski and rich guy,
ex-boxer, Burton Lewis, Sam enters a world full of life and death. Length: 10 hours.
Order Number: 59576
Heat by Ed McBain. London: Coronet, 1995. Detectives Kling and Carella reel under
record heat and crime waves. While the team investigates a suicide that reeks of
homicidal intent, Kling is stalked by a man sprung from prison after twelve years and
lusting for revenge. Contains strong language. Length: 6 hours, 51 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46702
Heavenly pleasures by Kerry Greenwood. Mysteries seem to spontaneously erupt
around Corinna, who just wants to create in her bakery. She is busy enough with her
missing new lover, who finally appears bruised and battered. Next, it is the owner of
the chocolate shop who is in trouble. Is it all an elaborate and horrible joke or
something worse? Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains
violence. Length: 9 hours, 13 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 45786
Henrietta who? by Catherine Aird. The death of Henrietta's mother in a hit-and-run
accident suddenly raises a crisis as to Henrietta's real identity which shatters her
straightforward existence. Investigations by Detective Inspector Sloan reveal that
what seemed a tragic accident was in fact only part of a long-term murder plan.
Length: 6 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65040
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie. Simon Lee has called together his
many offspring for the Christmas season with the express purpose of tormenting them
for his own amusement. It is hardly surprising that he is found murdered in a locked
room. Hercule Poirot, staying with friends in the district, is asked to take on the case.
Length: 7 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 69440
Hide & seek by Ian Rankin. London: Orion Books, 1998. A junkie lies dead in an
English squat, laid out in a Satanic design. Just another dead addict, until John
Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks
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. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 65560
Hide my eyes by Margery Allingham ; new introduction by Mary Cadogan and
Patricia Craig. Hogarth, 1985. A murder is committed on a rainy night in London's
theatre district. The clues, a left-hand glove and lizard-skin lettercase, link the crime
to other killings in a museum and an East End dump. Length: 7 hours, 4 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 48318
His last bow: some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
[s. War-time stories of the great amateur detective, now living on a small farm near
Eastbourne and prepared to put his genius at the service of the Government. Length:
6 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66151
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Hollywood Station: a novel by Joseph Wambaugh. London: Quercus, 2007. The
underbelly of Hollywood is dirty, drugged up and criminal. So if Marilyn Monroe, a six
foot three transvestite, calls in to report that Batman is assaulting Spiderman you
know you can only be in Los Angeles. The police at the Hollywood Station are the
front line against the flotsam and jetsam of the streets. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 7 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 47724
House of masks by Barbara Cooper. London: R. A mystery surrounding an ugly old
house and a rare collection of strange and grotesque masks and sinister events that
transpired there. Length: 6 hours, 14 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 60585
House rules by Jodi Picoult. ws Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2010. Teenager
Jacob Hunt has Asperger's syndrome and an obsessive interest in forensic analysis.
He normally helps the police solve crimes, but when he becomes the prime suspect in
a murder, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public
spotlight on him and his family. Contains strong language. Length: 16 hours, 43
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63699
Hunted by Richard Pitman & Joe McNally. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.
When Eddie Malloy's rival jump jockey is found dead, Eddie is arrested as the prime
suspect, despite having received a threatening note himself. When a second jockey is
found murdered, Eddie becomes caught up in the hunt for the killer and needs to
clear his name before the killer hunts him down. Length: 10 hours, 17 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 62409
I is for innocent by Sue Grafton. London: Pan in association with Macmillan, 1993.
Kinsey Millhone was out of work when Attorney Lonnie Klingman's usual private
investigator dropped dead, so she got involved in a murder case. Trouble started the
first day when she discovered that either her predecessor was incompetent, or
someone had been getting away with murder. Length: 8 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46751
Ice by Ed McBain. New York: Avon Books, 1983. Ice coats the streets where the
rapist prowls. Ice spills from the pockets of a dead diamond dealer. Ice runs through
the heart of a cold-blooded killer and the veins of the player the showbiz scam. Deep
in the chill of winter the 87th Precinct must save a city frozen in fear. Length: 10
hours, 51 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46754
If death ever slept by Rex Stout. London :Warner, 1993. A wealthy businessman
needs Nero Wolfe to identify who is sabotaging his business deals. The businessman
is convinced his daughter-in-law is guilty but Archie finds a viper's nest of suspects in
the organisation. Then someone murders the sacked secretary and it is up to Wolfe
to rescue Archie from the mess. Length: 5 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
46755
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In pursuit of the proper sinner by Elizabeth George. Two bodies are discovered in
a prehistoric stone circle in Derbyshire. One is the daughter of a retired Scotland Yard
undercover officer. Asked to head the case DI Thomas Lynley chooses to work
without the help of his partner DS Barbara Havers, recently demoted after an internal
investigation. Contains strong language. Length: 23 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 62530
In the company of cheerful ladies by Alexander McCall Smith. Oxford: Isis, 2004.
Precious is now married to Mr J L Matekoni. The agency is busy and life is good until
a close encounter between her tiny white van and a bicycle. Her attempt to help a
woman with a particular misfortune is interrupted by the disagreeable garage
apprentice, his fancy girlfriend and a man at a dancing class who can't dance. Length:
7 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45902
In the presence of the enemy by Elizabeth George. London: Bantam, 1996. When
a young girl vanishes in London without a trace, her MP mother becomes convinced
that the kidnapper is the child's father. That is, until Detective Inspector Thomas
Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers uncover a web of deception, betrayal and
death. Length: 22 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70601
In the shadow of the glacier by Vicki Delany. In a bucolic mountain town in British
Columbia a young constable Molly Smith stumbles across a body. The deceased was
a highly unpopular newcomer who wanted to develop a luxury resort outside of town.
This is Molly's opportunity to impress her hard-edged supervisor and win her hippie
parents approval. Length: 9 hours, 52 minutes. Order Number: 60119
Injury time by Catherine Aird. London: Macmillan, 1994. A selection of sixteen
stories about the phlegmatic D.I. Sloan and his enthusiastic constable, Crosby, in the
police station down in the not so sleepy county of Calleshire. Length: 4 hours, 52
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48351
Inspector Ghote breaks an egg by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins,1970. Ghote, the
Bombay detective, investigates a death from fifteen years earlier and comes up
against the local holy man, who has embarked on a fast-to-death against any
investigations. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65245
Inspector Ghote draws a line by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins,1979. Inspector
Ghote is sent to a vast old house deep in the Indian countryside to protect an aged
and unpopular judge who has received threatening letters. Contains violence.
Length: 7 hours, 24 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65246
Inspector Ghote goes by train by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins,1971. Inspector
Ghote, bringing a notorious confidence man back to Bombay for trial, intends to relax
on the Calcutta Mail, but his fellow passengers soon prove anything but restful.
Length: 7 hours, 45 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65247
Inspector Ghote hunts the Peacock by H. R. F. Keating. Inspector Ghote of
Bombay goes to London for a conference on drug-smuggling, and gets involved in the
disappearance of Peacock, a beautiful young Indian woman. Length: 7 hours, 19
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65243
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Inspector Ghote plays a joker by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins, 1969. Inspector
Ghote is ordered to prevent the killing of a precious flamingo in the Bombay Zoo. He
then unearths the traces of a monstrous practical joker and finds that he has a more
serious murder on his hands. Length: 7 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
65256
Inspector Ghote trusts the heart by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins,1972.
Kidnappers, intending to snatch the son of a business tycoon, have accidentally made
off with a tailor's son instead, but still set a huge ransom for him. Inspector Ghote
must investigate. Length: 7 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65248
J is for judgement by Sue Grafton. London: Macmillan, 1993. Wendell and the
millions he defrauded from investors both vanished five years ago. Only his boat was
found drifting in the sea. Now, just as his is declared legally dead, Jaffe is spotted in
Mexico. Kinsey is hired to find out the truth. Length: 9 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46768
Jack in the pulpit by Cynthia Riggs. An island town is the scene of a conflict
between two men of God, the outgoing minister and his successor, each known as
Jack. Victoria is more concerned with a series of unexpected deaths, caused by
anonymous food packages left on people's doorsteps. Victoria's sharp eye for detail
and local knowledge help her to discover the truth behind the mystery. Length: 7
hours, 45 minutes. Order Number: 63782
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. After her mother's death, Mary joined her
mother's sister at Jamaica Inn, where her uncle was the landlord. She first sensed
something was wrong when the coachman looked uncomfortable about her
destination. Length: 10 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62303
Jemima Shore at the sunny grave and other stories by Antonia Fraser. London:
Bloomsbury, 1991. In this collection of short stories, Jemima Shore's investigations
are flung as far as a Caribbean graveyard and a Corfu tourist resort, as near as a
leafy London square and an English university high table. Length: 7 hours, 9 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 69967
Jemima Shore's first case and other stories by Antonia Fraser. London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. A collection of short stories including Jemima
Shore's first case. Also included are four "real crime" stories, a witty and sinister tale
of literary life and some ghost stories. Length: 6 hours, 20 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 69968
Jump by Tim Maleeny. When the most hated landlord in San Francisco takes an
unexpected jump off the roof of his own building, it isn't too hard to find suspects.
Ex-cop Sam McGowan lives in the building and knows it was murder. He gets to know
his neighbours and as more bodies surface the mystery deepen. Length: 7 hours, 14
minutes. Order Number: 58347
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K is for killer by Sue Grafton. London: Macmillan, 1994. Lorna was beautiful and
wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Police suspected her death was
murder but had no motive nor suspect. Only her mother kept the mystery alive.
Kinsey enters a world of deception and betrayal to avenge Lorna's death. Length: 9
hours, 49 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46790
Killer in the rain by Raymond Chandler. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. First
published in the 1930s in 'Black Mask', this early collection of Chandler's detective
stories introduces the type of private eye who would later evolve into the character of
Philip Marlowe. Contains strong language. Length: 15 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 70581
Killing floor by Lee Child. London: Bantam Books, 1999. Margrave is a no-account
town in Georgia that just had a homicide. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus thinking he is
just passing through. As the only stranger in town he is thrown into jail for the murder.
When nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, they realise they picked the
wrong guy. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
64477
Kissing the gunner's daughter by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1992. Friday
the 13th is the day Sergeant Caleb Martin will lose his life in a bank robbery. Months
later, the Flory family are discovered shot at Tancred House. The cases seem
unrelated, but Chief Inspector Wexford comes to believe there is a connection
between the two crimes. Length: 14 hours, 24 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62333
Knots and crosses by Ian Rankin. London: Orion Books, 1998. Edinburgh
policeman, John Rebus spends his time evading his memories and right now ignoring
a series of crank letters. As murders occur under his nose he realises he can no
longer ignore the killer's presence. Length: 6 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 48376
L is for lawless by Sue Grafton. London: Macmillan, 1996. 'I don't mean to bitch, but
in future I intend to hesitate before I do a favour for a friend of a friend. Never have I
taken on such a load of grief'. This was PI Kinsey Millhone's verdict on her
investigations into the life and death of Johnny Lee. Length: 9 hours, 30 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 46793
Land of the living by Nicci French. London: Penguin, 2003. Abbie wakes in the dark
to find she is hooded and bound and kept alive by a man who promises he will
eventually kill her, 'like the others'. Grasping at memories and plotting survival,
Abbie's spirit sustains her but is there a connection between her life and the man in
the darkness? Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 19
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56404
Last act in Palmyra by Lindsey Davis. London: Century, 1994. Marcus Didius Falco,
imperial agent and informer, arrives in Petra with his aristocratic love, Helena Justina.
He is on a mission from the Emperor to discover who murdered a Roman playwright.
Falco is hired as a travelling theatre group's new writer and he finds himself too close
for comfort to another murder. Can he write a new comedy and solve the murders?
Length: 14 hours, 7 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45676
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Last man standing by David Baldacci. Web London and his FBI Hostage Rescue
Team roared into a blind alley toward a drug dealer's lair, only to meet an ambush
that killed everyone around him. He must discover why he was the one man who lived
through it and find the only other person who came out of that alley alive, a
ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared. Length: 22 hours, 46 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 54228
Latter end by Patricia Wentworth. [S.l.]: Severn House, 1993. Lois's bullying
created many enemies at Latter End. When someone murdered her it was
embarrassing to discover how many people wanted her dead. Miss Silver would need
her strong moral principles, a passion for justice and an innate understanding of the
basest human motivation to sift through the suspects and find the murderer. Length: 9
hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66171
Left, right and centre by Ruth Brandon. Collins, 1986. Someone has leaked a top
secret Pentagon document to the Monitor newspaper in London. Who is the mole and
will the leak set off the final holocaust? Length: 7 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46803
Let me call you sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark. London: Simon & Schuster,
1991. Taking her young daughter to a plastic surgeon following a car accident, Kerry
McGrath sees a patient who looks hauntingly familiar. Later she realises that the
woman resembled the victim in a murder case which she had prosecuted ten years
earlier in her legal career. Length: 8 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62998
Letter of intent by Robert Hillstrom. London: Headline, 1998. William who was
judged criminally insane after he killed a woman, makes his escape with the help of
his twin sister. He starts work on a plan to kill the judge who put him away. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 15 hours, 3
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 72160
Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross. London: Headline, 2005.
Everything is going right for lifeguard Ned, he has the beautiful Tess and is about to
access a million dollars from a robbery of world-class art. When Tess is brutally
murdered and the others involved in the robbery are massacred, Ned is the prime
suspect. He has been set up. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex.
Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 20 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65572
Lifeline by John Francome. Isis, 2001. Unlike some of his fellow jockeys, Tony has
never taken a bribe nor ridden a dishonest race. Star rider Freddy Montague has
never stuck to the rules. For both men, the guarantees run out once Freddy's gravy
train comes off the rails, turning the gravy into blood. Length: 11 hours, 24 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 48404
Lightning strikes by Virginia Andrews. New York: Pocket Books, 2000. Having
finally won over Grandmother Hudson, Rain finds a measure of peace in the
privileged world into which she was thrown after the death of her sister. However, her
real love is acting and eventually she is allowed to go to London to study at one of
England's most prestigious drama schools. The unexpected lies in wait for her.
Length: 10 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71481
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Listening woman by Tony Hillerman. Oxford: Isis Audio Books,1992. Navajo Tribal
Policeman Lt. Joe Leaphorn investigates the dual murder of an old soothsayer and a
young girl, the bizarre kidnapping of a boy scout troop, and attempts on his own life.
Length: 6 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71471
Little Knell by Catherine Aird. London :Macmillan, 2000. Mr Fixby-Smith inherits an
Egyptian mummy but the body must be inspected before it can be removed from the
Museum. When Detective Inspector Sloan raises the coffin lid they are amazed to
find the body of a young woman. She has been dead only a matter of days. Length: 5
hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46830
London fields by Martin Amis. l.]: Cape,1989. Cursed with premonitions since
childhood, Nicola forsees her own murder, and sets out to make the two most likely
suspects pay in advance for what one of them is going to do to her. Length: 22 hours,
41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73370
Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Penguin, 1931. The Gyrth Chalice
has been the sacred trust of the Gyrth family for centuries. Its beauty and antiquity
make it unique. As the scion of a noble house himself Albert Campion is keenly aware
of its importance. When its safety is threatened by a ring of wealthy and ruthless
collectors, he springs to its defence. Enlisting the help of young Val Gyrth, Campion
sets out on a course that is dangerous and possibly deadly. Length: 9 hours, 44
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71231
Looking good dead by Peter James. London: Pan, 2006. Tom picks up a CD from
the train seat but when unable to find the owner, he becomes the only witness to a
savage killing. Reporting the crime to the police has disastrous consequences and
the lives of both he and his wife are threatened. When DS Roy Grace becomes
involved, he finds himself up against a group of very well organised criminals.
Contains strong language. Length: 16 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
71338
Lord Peter views the body by Dorothy L. Sayers. Bath: Chivers, 1985. A collection
of twelve detective stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Length: 7 hours, 10 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 48420
Lost by Michael Robotham. London: Time Warner Books, 2005. On a cold London
night, a detective is fished out of the Thames with a bullet in his leg and no memory.
He's got loads of trouble when a blood-spattered boat is discovered nearby, his pistol
is missing and his colleagues think he is faking amnesia. He wants to reopen the
case of a missing girl but no one agrees. With two mysteries to solve, he needs facts
and missing memories. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 11
hours, 8 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 45792
Lost light by Michael Connelly. London: Orion, 2003. Harry Bosch believes that the
murder of a film production assistant four years earlier during a two million dollar
robbery and the financing of a terrorist training camp are connected, and reopens the
murder case. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 12
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 54711
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M is for malice by Sue Grafton. London: Macmillan, 1997. Malice, murder and
money, lots of it, have created mayhem for Malek Construction, a modest family
company that is now one of California's business giants. Contains strong language.
Length: 9 hours, 53 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46840
Madam, will you talk? by Mary Stewart. An attractive English widow, on holiday in
France, becomes involved in some rather frightening adventures. Length: 7 hours, 39
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 66622
Maelstrom by Michael MacConnell. Sydney: Hachette Livre, 2007. Rookie FBI
agent Sarah Reilly is following in her father's footsteps and tracking America's worst
serial killers. The latest monster has stalked victims for thirty years while someone
else is ruthlessly exterminating the serial killers. Sarah is given the job of investigating
a double murder which draws her into the world of the hunter and the killer. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours,
34 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57661
Maigret and the dosser by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by
Jean Stewart. London: Hamilton, 1973. A homeless man is found beaten and
unconscious along the banks of the Seine. Inspector Maigret must connect him to a
pas and a possible motive for his attempted murder. The investigation provides
Maigret with a chilling look at those who have rejected society and the small measure
of justice it offers them. Length: 4 hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72404
Maigret by Georges Simenon. [S.l.]: H. Hamilton, 1992. A collection of six stories
featuring the popular pipe-smoking Inspector Maigret. He embarks on more detective
adventures which involve the darker impulses of the human heart and violent
betrayals. Length: 29 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72410
Maigret right and wrong: comprising Maigret in Montmartre and Maigret's
mistakes by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Daphne
Woodward and Alan Hodge. [S.l.]: Hamilton, 1967. Contains two stories about
Maigret, one concerning the death of a young Parisian stripper, the other concerns
the death of an ex-prostitute. Length: 9 hours, 5 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
72412
Maigret sets a trap by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Daphne
Woodward. In the oppressive heat of a Parisian August, Maigret baits a trap to lure
the murderer of five women, all of whom have been brutally knifed in the streets of
Montmartre. Maigret fakes an arrest, hoping the murderer's vanity will make him strike
again. There are plenty of potential victims; each one a policewoman skilled in self
defence. Length: 4 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72414
Maigret's boyhood friend by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by
Eileen Ellenbogen. [S.l.]: Chivers, 1991. Maigret is visited by an old school friend,
last seen accompanied by an elegant Parisienne twenty years ago. Now, disreputable
and shabby, he tells Maigret that the lady of loose morals he was living with was shot
while he was in the cupboard of the next room. He protests his innocence but, when
her savings are found in his flat, Maigret must discover if things are as straightforward
as they appear. Length: 5 hours, 22 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72405
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Maigret's failure by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Daphne
Woodward. [S.l.]: H. An old school companion of Maigret's has asked for police
protection. Then is shot right in front of them. Length: 4 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 72406
Maigret's pickpocket by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Nigel
Ryan. [S.l.]: H. Hamilton, 1968. A pickpocket helps himself to Maigret's wallet and
which then leads him to a complicated case of murder. Length: 4 hours, 36 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 72411
Maigret's rival by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Helen
Thomson. [S.l.]: H. Hamilton, 1979. Maigret has gone to Saint-Aubin, unofficially, as
a personal favour to the examining magistrate, Brejon. A local youth has been run
over by a train and malicious rumours are circulating that Brejon's brother-in law,
Etienne Naud, had murdered the young man and that Genevieve, Naud's daughter
had been his mistress. Justin Carve, and ex-policeman turned detective, is there also
and Maigret finds competition for every snippet of evidence. Length: 5 hours, 43
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72413
Make death love me by Ruth Rendell. London: Arrow, 1994. Alan had a fantasy of
robbing a bank. He does not like his wife, did not want his children and has a tedious,
managerial job in a tiny bank. Then someone robs his bank and people disappear.
His life is caught up in a brutal, chilling nightmare. Length: 7 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 48429
Manhattan is my beat by Jeffery Deaver. Oxford: Isis. Rune hasn't been in
Manhattan very long but she has found a video store job that feeds her love of old
movies. Mr Kelly has the same movie passion and she is shocked when she finds him
shot dead. Rune is certain the key to his murder is hidden in the hazy,
black-and-white frames of his favourite movie. Length: 8 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46525
Master of the moor by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1982. Stephen Whalby
stumbles across the bodies of two brutally-murdered young women in the abandoned
lead mine called the Vangmoor. The police suspect Whalby of the murders, and as
fear grips the village, his life starts to fall apart. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 6 hours, 51 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62337
Masterclass by Morris West. London: Hutchinson, 1988. A young American art
historian is left holding two priceless works of art when his Italian lover dies, and in
trying to bring them to auction, he becomes embroiled in the murder case of a famous
artist. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
62692
Mates by Laurie Mantell. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1998. Detective Sergeant Eric
Walden is working on a murder case where the main suspect is a friend. Eric wants to
prove his innocence but finds it increasingly hard to remain objective. Length: 5
hours, 47 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 55990
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Means of evil and other stories by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1979. Five
cases, ranging from a suspicious suicide to a strange episode of child abduction.
Each challenges Wexford's considerable imagination and resourcefulness, as well as
the patient reasoning of the long suffering Burden. Length: 5 hours, 17 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 62334
Medusa by Michael Dibdin. Oxford: Isis, 2003. When Austrian cavers exploring
abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come across human remains, everyone
assumes the death was accidental. That is until they discover that the body was
stolen from the morgue and there is an official news blackout. Aurelio Zen is charged
with finding out the truth. Contains strong language. Length: 9 hours, 48 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 48443
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. [s. l.]: [s. Eleven adventures
of the Baker Street detective, ranging from a meeting with Holmes' brilliant brother to
the climactic and seemingly fatal encounter between Holmes and the criminal
mastermind Moriarty. Length: 8 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66147
Messiah by Boris Starling. Oxford: Isis. London is in the grip of a heat wave and a
killer stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to a mysterious pattern,
corpses with silver spoons in place of their tongues. Set against this merciless
butcher is Detective Superintendent Red Metcalfe who finds sometimes, it takes a
killer to catch a killer. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 15
hours, 11 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48445
Might as well be dead by Rex Stout. London: Warner, 1993. Nero Wolfe is hired to
find a missing son. Archie Goodwin finds him living under an assumed name, which is
hardly surprising, as he has been convicted of murdering his mistress's husband.
Wolfe sets out to prove he has been framed. Length: 6 hours, 20 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46860
Miles off course by Sulari Gentill. tral Bay, N.S.W.: Pantera Press, 2012. In early
1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury
of the Hydro Majestic, Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant. When Harry
Simpson vanishes, croquet and pre-dinner cocktails are abandoned for the High
Country where Rowland hunts for Simpson with a determination that is as mysterious
as the disappearance itself. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 9
hours. VAILS. Order Number: 71836
Miss Marple's final cases by Agatha Christie. London: HarperCollins,1994. Eight
short detective stories, featuring Miss Marple. Length: 3 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46865
Miss Silver comes to stay by Patricia Wentworth. London: Coronet Books, 1995.
Maud Silver is visiting her old school friend Celia for a relaxing holiday. Its not very
peaceful as complicated past relationships have come back to haunt several of the
villagers. Who would have thought that the sleepy village would be home to a vicious
blackmailer, an embezzler and a murderer? Length: 8 hours, 5 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 66178
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Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George. [London]: Bantam, 1993. Deborah St James
shelters from the rain in the National Gallery and finds herself confessing her anguish
to an Anglican priest, who is found dead a few months later. She soon realises the
Vicar's death was far from straightforward and as her suspicion grows she turns to an
old friend, Thomas Lynley, on leave from Scotland Yard. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 18 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
65339
Mistress of justice by Jeffery Deaver. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. Taylor
juggles twin careers as a struggling jazz musician in seedy Manhattan clubs and a
paralegal at the genteel Wall Street law firm. When a multimillion-dollar promissory
note is stolen, dark secrets emerge behind the Victorian facades of the firm. Contains
strong language. Length: 10 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48449
Money, money, money by Ed McBain. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. A
mauled body leads the detectives to a massive counterfeiting conspiracy. Fat Ollie
Weeks and the team are on the case. Forced to work under intense media scrutiny,
they navigate the investigation's twists and turns with their inimitable combination of
humour and grit. Length: 8 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48450
Monkey puzzle by Paula Gosling. Macmillan, 1985. Murder on an American
university campus forces a tough detective onto the trail of a killer. He soon discovers
no one wants to help as they wished the murdered professor would drop dead.
Length: 7 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46874
Morality for beautiful girls by Alexander McCall Smith. Precious is now the
announced fiance of Mr J L B Matekoni. She is struggling with her detective agency
finances and he is unusually low and neglecting his garage. With the help of friends
and a beauty pageant things are bound to get better. Length: 6 hours, 15 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 45912
More work for the undertaker by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Heinemann/Penguin,
1949. Albert Campion is sent into the eccentric Palinode household, where there
have been two suspicious deaths. Not only has there been a poisoning, there are also
anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Length: 7 hours, 42
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71232
Morse's greatest mystery and other stories by Colin Dexter. London: Macmillan,
1994. This collection includes five ingenious cases for Morse, plus five other original
tales. Chief Inspector Morse must discover, who murdered a beautiful Oxford
graduate; what awaits him in Room 231 of the Ransdolph Hotel; why a theft creates
Christmas goodwill within him and will he become the next victim? Length: 5 hours,
28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45680
Mortal remains by Margaret Yorke. London: Arrow Books, 1978. Felix is supposed
to be lecturing on a cruise liner but his body is found on a lonely beach in Crete.
Oxford colleague Dr Patrick Grant believes his death was not accidental. To unravel
the mystery, he follows a sinister trail to the tombs of Mycenae and amid the ancient
ruins he must risk his own life. Length: 5 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
48453
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Mother's boys by Robert Barnard. Collins, 1981. Lily was always saying that she
and her boys made a great family . She never realised that her sons hated her so
much that they were busily plotting her death. Length: 6 hours, 24 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46954
Mrs Craggs by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1985. Mrs Cragg, a cleaning lady,
solves crimes with ease and swiftness that can reduce the police to embarrassment.
Together with the wilting and genteel Mrs Milhorne, she becomes involved in criminal
cases from misappropriation to murder. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 18
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65261
Mrs Pargeter's plot by Simon Brett. Ulverscroft, 2001. Melita Pargeter's plans to
build her dream house are dashed when her builder is arrested for murder. Concrete
Jack is no angel but nor is he a killer. As the evidence piles up against him, she
decides to help. With the assistance of her late husband's colourful band of
ex-colleagues she sets out to unmask the real killer. Length: 5 hours, 34 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 46965
Much in evidence by Henry Cecil. [S.l.]: M. William is bald and lame but that is not
his only misfortune. On the very night he has $100,000 in his safe, his home is broken
into and he is beaten up. His insurance company pays up but they are highly
suspicious. It would appear that a series of bald and lame men have been making
dubious insurance claims. Length: 6 hours, 20 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62708
Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin. December, 1909. A train hits a
snowdrift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is
discovered. Jim Stringer's new investigation takes him from the mighty blast furnaces
of Ironopolis, to Fleet Street in the company of a cynical reporter from The Railway
Rover, and to a nightmarish spot in the Highlands. Contains strong language.
Length: 8 hours, 34 minutes. Order Number: 69674
Murder at the Brian Boru by Joan Druett. Auckland: HarperCollins, 1992. A tale of
jealousy, conflict, family intrigue and a feud that began in 1867, when the Thames
goldfields beckoned speculators from all over the world. Length: 7 hours, 48 minutes.
RNZFB. Order Number: 56069
Murder being once done by Ruth Rendell. [S.l.]: Hutchinson,1972. Wexford's
doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work, but
when a young girl's murder in a London cemetery has police baffled, Wexford decides
to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by
investigating on his own. Length: 6 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66205
Murder in style by Rex Stout. London: Warner, 1993. Nero Wolfe has been hired to
discover why so many authors and dramatists are being accused of plagiarism within
weeks of their works hitting the bestseller lists. Archie Goodwin sets out to investigate
but only finds dead bodies. Wolfe has a challenge and must give up beer until he
identifies the killer. Length: 5 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46967
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Murder moves in by Elizabeth Ferrars. London: Collins, 1986. When Robina moved
to a quaint English village with her husband, the last thing she expected was hate,
jealousy and murder. Her ideal life was being destroyed and if she isn't careful
perhaps even her life will be at peril. Length: 6 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 46968
Murmuring the judge by Quintin Jardine. [S.I]: Oxford: Isis, 2004. In Edinburgh's
old Parliament House an armed robbery trial takes a macabre turn as the judge
collapses in mortal agony. Was he the victim of a heart attack? Deputy Chief
Constable Bob Skinner faces the most baffling case of his career. Brutal robberies
continue and it becomes apparent they are ruthless killers. Skinner must piece
together a puzzle of sinister complexity. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 11 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66552
Mystery mile by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Heinemann, 1967. Crowdy Lobbett is an
American judge who has long dealt with the evil of the Simister gang, bringing many
of them to justice. Finally he has a clue to the identity of Simister himself. Simister
follows Lobbett across the Atlantic, determined to kill him. The trail leads to the
English countryside, to Mystery Mile, and a meeting with Albert Campion. Length: 9
hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71237
Mystical paths by Susan Howatch. HarperCollins, 1992. In 1968 Nicholas is
engaged to Rosalind, but how can he marry when he cannot avoid promiscuity? How
can he face ordination when he can't keep his vows? How can he break free from his
father whose psychic gifts he shares and cope with a mysterious death enquiry?
Contains strong language. Length: 21 hours, 52 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number:
46976
Naked lunch: the restored text by William S. Burroughs ; edited by James
Grauerholz and Barry Miles ; with an introduction by J.G. Ballard. London: Fourth
Estate, 2009. An unnerving tale of an addict adrift in New York, Tangiers and a
nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone. The novel has exerted its influence on
many authors regarding the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of
music, film, and media. This restored text includes editorial corrections and
incorporates Burroughs' notes, and several essays he wrote over the years about the
book. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 11 hours, 17 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71502
Nasty habits by Gillian White. For three generations the Pilkingtons and their
equally rich neighbours have enjoyed their Devon coast summer retreat. Into this
idyllic holiday stumbles Desmond; immature, mother's boy, solitary birdwatcher and
catalyst. Desmond's discovery reveals long-past sins, misunderstandings and false
assumptions, which bring about the final, scandalous, tragedy. Length: 9 hours, 6
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65473
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Nest of vipers by Peter Cave. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993. When two skulls are
discovered on the site of a new bypass, Taggart is called in to investigate. Poisonous
snakes stolen from a pharmaceutical laboratory are a pivotal clue. Taggart needs all
his detective skills as he puzzles over the link between a missing girl and a tangle of
corporate intrigue involving the lab's owners, in a thrilling race against time. Length: 7
hours, 22 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46978
Night frost by R. D. Wingfield. London: Corgi, 1997. The police are contending with
a serial killer, arson attacks and death threats on a young couple, a suspicious
suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos, poison-pen letters. In charge is Detective
Inspector Jack Frost, but with inadequate backup, the unsolved crimes pile up and
Frost has to cut corners. Contains strong language. Length: 12 hours, 25 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 46986
Nightmare for Dr Morelle by Ernest Dudley. Bath: Chivers, 1998. Helping Interpol
unmask the big wheel behind an international narcotics-racket, Dr. Morelle becomes
involved in a train smash with unforeseen results. Meanwhile, his inimitable secretary,
who is making a flying dash across the Continent to assist Dr. Morelle, is also caught
up in the sinister tangle. Length: 5 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46987
No fear or favour by Henry Cecil. [S.l.]: M. 'If everyone had a clear conscience, the
blackmailer would have no chance'. So begins a trial in which the unfortunate judge is
himself blackmailed. Unwittingly picked up by a respectable-looking girl the judge is
put into an impossible situation by an blackmailer who threatens Justice Slaughter's
career and personal life. Length: 4 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62709
No flowers, by request by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1987. Twenty people
are partying in a pretty drawing-room in the village of Woodstone in Essex. When, a
few days later one of the partiers is blasted with a shotgun, all the others are under
suspicion. The small community is shattered and as Detective Inspector Finch starts
his routine questioning, he becomes aware of undercurrents in the apparently cosy
relationships. Length: 8 hours, 25 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65886
No graves as yet by Anne Perry. London: Headline, 2004. The calm June days of
1914 are shattered for Cambridge don Joseph Reavley when his brother brings news
of their parents' deaths in a car accident. When they find out their father was carrying
a mysterious document uncovering a sinister plot, the deaths begin to look less
accidental. Length: 13 hours, 23 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 50868
No more dying then by Ruth Rendell. Hutchinson, 1971. When a five-year-old boy
and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham, one search
turns into a murder investigation, and the other turns into a race against time. Length:
8 hours, 21 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66204
No night is too long by Barbara Vine. London: Viking, 1994. Tim thought he had got
away with murder. Tim's victim was his sometime lover, Ivo Steadman, the man who
made Tim realize he wasn't undersexed but merely uninterested in women. Letters
turn up a year later which make him realise someone knows what he did. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Length: 12 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 64872
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No wind of blame by Georgette Heyer. London: Grafton, 1988. Tragedy befalls the
Carter family following an eventful visit from a Russian prince and a scandalous
blackmail letter. The murder of Wally Carter generates a bewildering mystery: how
does one shoot a man crossing a narrow bridge without being near the murder
weapon when it is fired? Length: 10 hours, 5 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48524
Nocturnes by John Connolly. Oxford: Isis, 2006. In this macabre collection of tales,
Connolly delves into our darkest fears - lost lovers, missing children, subterranean
creatures and predatory demons. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 13 hours, 17 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65351
Not as far as Velma by Nicolas Freeling. Deutsch, 1989. An old Polish-Jewish
painter learns that someone is using his name for some strange purpose, possibly
connected with the sudden disappearance of a young widow from a French town. As
Commissaire Castang becomes involved, mystery piles upon mystery. Contains
strong language. Length: 9 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46992
Not dead enough yet by Peter James. London: Pan, 2011. On the night Brian
Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At
least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in
to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop.
Grace concludes that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being
in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever
liar? Contains strong language. Length: 16 hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
73551
Not in the flesh by Ruth Rendell. London: Arrow, 2008. Searching for truffles in a
wood, a man and his dog unearth a human hand. The body has lain buried for ten
years, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet, and the post mortem cannot reveal the
precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs.
Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 17 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66213
O is for outlaw by Sue Grafton. Isis, 2000. Someone who has bought old storage
units calls Kinsey Millhone about the childhood memorabilia inside them. Curiosity
wins out and she buys the lot, only to find an old undelivered letter that forces her to
re-examine her beliefs about the breakup of her first marriage. Length: 10 hours, 53
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47018
Odds against by Dick Francis. After a fall from a racehorse that permanently
crippled a hand, Sid Halley joined a detective agency. When a two-bit hoodlum drilled
a slug into his side his new job really got serious. That was where he met Zanna, a
woman who just might make life worth living again. Would he survive to find out?
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 9 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 61704
Ode to a banker by Lindsey Davis. London: Century, 2000. When a rich banker
from an Athenian family becomes patron to a group of struggling writers and is then
murdered, Marcus Didius Falco is sent to investigate. His aspirations to become a
published poet are put on hold. Length: 12 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
63269
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One damn thing after another by NicolasFreeling. Heinemann, 1981. It is one
crisis follows another for Arlette, widow of Dutch detective Van de Valk. Now
advertising herself in Strasbourg's local press as friend, adviser and investigator, she
finds she has more trouble than she can cope with. Length: 8 hours, 19 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 47023
One good turn: a jolly murder mystery by Kate Atkinson. London: Black Swan,
2007. People queuing for a lunchtime show at the Edinburgh festival witness a
road-rage incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie,
ex-army, ex-police, ex-detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a
murder suspect. Length: 12 hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65218
One shot by Lee Child. London: Bantam Press, 2005. A gunman creates
pandemonium when he shoots into a crowd in an Indiana plaza, but surprisingly he
leaves a perfect trail of evidence and within hours is arrested. His only words to the
police are a command to fetch Jack Reacher, the wandering dropout officer, for him.
Length: 11 hours, 39 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 55070
One step behind by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 200?. It is Midsummer's Eve
and three friends gather in a wood. A hidden watcher soon brings their performance
to an end. His approach is careful and his aim is perfect; three bullets, three corpses.
What is the connection between these deaths and the murder of one of Inspector
Wallander's colleagues? Length: 14 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65520
One virgin too many by Lindsey Davis. London: Century, 1999. Falco has been
made an equestrian as reward for his work on the Census. However, his new duties
as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry of the Senate and People of Rome, bring their
own complications. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 17 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 63296
Original face by Nicholas Jose. Artamon, NSW: Giramondo Publishing, 2005. A
body is dumped in south-western Sydney, skinned, with no face. A taxi driver, a
recent arrival from Beijing, is first on the scene. With detectives in hot pursuit he is
drawn into a deadly immigration racket, with a cast that includes a LA movie-maker, a
Buddhist monk, a millionaire bachelor artist, a masseuse, a maniacal violinist and a
refugee assassin. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains
violence. Length: 7 hours, 41 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 45805
Original sin by P. D. James. London: Faber, 1994. A ruthless publisher is found
dead in his London office, his body bizarrely desecrated. There is no shortage of
suspects, as his enemies were many. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted
with a puzzling case and a murderer prepared to kill again. Contains violence.
Length: 18 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66026
Out of the past by Patricia Wentworth. London: New English Library, 1996. James
and Carmona are playing host to numerous friends. The arrival of a figure from
Carmona's past causes mounting tension, culminating in murder. Fortunately Miss
Silver is present to unravel the complex mystery. Length: 8 hours, 14 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66182
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Oxford blood by Antonia Fraser. [S.I]: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985. Jemima
Shore is making a documentary about the exotic lifestyles of the over-privileged
undergraduates at Oxford University, the "Oxford Bloods", when the life of one of the
most colourful of them is threatened. Jemima investigates and finds that his life is not
what it seemed. Length: 8 hours, 16 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 69949
Oxford blue by Veronica Stallwood. Oxford: Isis, [s.d.]. After the death of a close
friend, Kate Ivory finds sanctuary in another friend's cottage. She barely has time to
unpack before her gardener is found dead in mysterious circumstances, and she is
reluctantly drawn into an investigation. Length: 7 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 66013
Oxford double by Veronica Stallwood. Oxford: Isis, 2002. Kate Ivory has new
neighbours. On one side is a charming Oxford academic, and on the other a retired
couple. Neither seems likely to be involved in serious crime, but soon Kate is
answering questions about a brutal murder on her own doorstep. Contains strong
language. Length: 6 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66016
Oxford exit by Veronica Stallwood. London: Headline, 1994. While Kate Ivory is
investigating the theft of priceless books from the Bodleian Library, at the same time
someone is handing in some disturbing essays to an Oxford creative writing class.
Length: 7 hours, 22 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66010
Oxford fall by Veronica Stallwood. After Christopher Townsend's tragic death, Kate
Ivory is hired to finish his preparations for the 'Gender and genre' study fortnight, and
starts to wonder if his death was an accident after all. Length: 7 hours, 52 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 66011
Oxford knot by Veronica Stallwood. Oxford: Isis, 2003. Kate Ivory is going on a
promotional trip of bookshops and libraries with author Devlin Hayle. She soon finds
that Hayle has a mysterious past which keeps him on the road. A killer is not only
after him, but also targets Kate. Length: 7 hours, 14 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66012
Oxford letters by Veronica Stallwood. Oxford: Isis, 2005. When Kate visits her
mother, Roz sends her away, insisting that her new friends, the Freemans, are taking
care of her. Although the couple seems kind-hearted, something about them disturbs
Kate, and she soon uncovers a trail of deception. Length: 8 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66033
Oxford menace by Veronica Stallwood. Kate Ivory should be writing her latest
novel, but she discovers that her friend Peter Blake has been receiving smoke bombs
through his work letterbox and slanderous letters are being circulated around
campus. Peter works at an Oxford University biotechnology unit and is used to
warding off animal rights activists. However, the attacks on his unit are growing more
sophisticated. Length: 8 hours, 38 minutes. Order Number: 73148
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Oxford mourning by Veronica Stallwood. London: Headline, 1995. Kate Ivory's
acquaintance with Olivia, an English don at Oxford, was brief and disagreeable. They
had clashed over the sensational material Olivia had found on a respected literary
figure; material Kate hopes to use in her novel. Now Olivia was dead and Kate's
friend is high on the list of murder suspects. Contains strong language. Length: 8
hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48554
Oxford proof by Veronica Stallwood. Oxford: Isis, [s.d.]. When Kate Ivory is spotted
by a successful publisher, at last it looks as if her days as a hack writer are over.
When her new editor falls victim to fraud, Kate must try to clear his name. Length: 7
hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66028
Oxford remains by Veronica Stallwood. Oxford: Isis, 2004. When Daisy puts in a
complaint about her tutor, Kate Ivory is drawn into the investigation for her impartial
opinion. Then Daisy is murdered and Kate is drawn further into the search for the
truth. Length: 10 hours, 1 minute. RNIB. Order Number: 48555
Oxford shadows by Veronica Stallwood. London: Headline, 2001. Kate Ivory,
searching for wartime love stories as material for her latest historical romance,
uncovers a tragic tale from World War II that still has implications for the present.
Length: 8 hours, 14 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66015
Oxford shift by Veronica Stallwood. Oxford: Isis, [s.d.]. Joyce Field is missing and
Kate Ivory has been hired to find her. It isn't long before Kate discovers a dead body.
The police think that Joyce is a murderer, but Kate realises that Joyce has walked
into danger and it's now a race against time. Length: 7 hours, 49 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66014
P is for peril by Sue Grafton. Oxford: Isis. Dr. Purcell said goodnight to his nursing
home colleagues, climbed into his car, drove away and disappeared. His embittered
first wife thinks he is still alive. His much young second wife is just as sure he is dead.
Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired to find out just what has happened to
the man they loved. Length: 11 hours, 44 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47054
Parker Pyne investigates by Agatha Christie. London: HarperCollins, 1998. On the
front page of 'The Times' newspaper there appeared daily, this cryptic
announcement: 'Are you happy? If not consult Mr Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond St.' In
response to this advertisement lies the varied and amazing events of this mystery.
Length: 6 hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45685
Passing strange by Catherine Aird. [S.l.]: Collins, 1980. Things had gone wrong
from the very beginning at the Almstone Flower Show, including the disappearance of
village nurse. Events take a decidedly macabre turn when the she is found and
Detective Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby arrive to investigate a murder for
which there seems no means, no motive and no opportunity. Length: 6 hours, 12
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65042
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Past mortem by Ben Elton. Oxford: Isis, 2005. With old friends like these, who
needs enemies? It's a question detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself as
he pursues old girlfriends via websites. At work the lovely Natasha, a very much
attached sergeant, is hopeless at solving crimes. When a school reunion is planned,
history repeats itself and the past crashes headlong into the present. Contains strong
language. Length: 11 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48561
Paul Temple and the Front Page Men by Francis Durbridge. [Bath]: Chivers, 1994.
A mystery novel, 'The Front Page Men', appears and soon after, a series of
kidnappings is carried out by a gang calling itself the Front Page Men. Fiction
becomes fact as Paul Temple finds himself up against a far reaching, unscrupulous
organization. Length: 6 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47061
Paving the new road by Sulari Gentill. tral Bay, N.S.W.: Pantera Press, 2012. It's
1933 and the political landscape of Europe is darkening. Rowland Sinclair must travel
to Germany to defend Australian democracy from the relentless march of Fascism.
Amidst the goosestepping euphoria of a rising Nazi movement, Rowland encounters
those who will change the course of history. In a world of spies, murderers and
despotic madmen, he can trust no-one but an artist, a poet and a brazen sculptress.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 47 minutes. VAILS.
Order Number: 71839
Payment in blood by Elizabeth George. [London]: Bantam, 1989. Inspector Thomas
Lynley of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of a playwright at a Scottish country
house hotel. The members of a West End theatre company have assembled for the
first reading of a controversial new play. Contains strong language. Length: 12 hours,
13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62525
Penhallow by Georgette Heyer. Adam Penhallow rules his large ill assorted family
with a ruthless tyranny. It is small wonder that many of its members harbour violent
thoughts against him. Then they discover that his death, far from bringing them
release, creates more problems than it solves. Length: 12 hours, 16 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 48566
Penny wise by Susan Moody. London: Penguin, 1990. Penny Wanawake is a
private investigator on the trail of a husband who has apparently killed his wife with
kindness. Length: 7 hours, 11 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 72501
Picture perfect by Jodi Picoult. London: Hodder, 2010. Cassie Barrett, a
world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a graveyard and doesn't know who she
is. Taken in by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for
her life to reappear. When Hollywood heartthrob Alex Rivers shows up to claim her as
his wife, she is stunned. As her memory gradually returns Cassie is faced with
choices she never dreamed she would have to make. Contains strong language.
Length: 15 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73203
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Pictures of perfection: a Dalziel and Pascoe novel by Reginald Hill. London:
HarperCollins, 1995. In the Yorkshire Dales stands the pretty village of Enscombe,
proud survivor of all that history has thrown at it. Little has changed until now as the
old ways of life are threatened by a crime wave. When DCI Pascoe and Andy Dalziel
investigate the disappearance of a policeman they unearth a hotbed of lust, lying,
family feuds and ancient injuries. Length: 11 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 48569
Pilgrim's rest by Patricia Wentworth. Judy tells old friend, Detective Sergeant
Abbott that she is taking a job in the country at Pilgrim's Rest. Frank is appalled,
mysterious deaths have been taking place there. A curse is on the house of Pilgrim's
Rest and by the time Miss Silver investigates she has four murders to solve. Length:
8 hours, 58 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66170
Pillars of gold by Alice Thomas Ellis. Viking, 1992. When Barbs, a loud, radical,
feminist American goes missing, her neighbours luxuriate in the loathing they have
always felt for her but do nothing to find her. A body is found in the canal and soon
speculation and rumours abound. Length: 6 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 48571
Plain murder by C S Forester. Morris is a bully who gets his buddies to do his
bidding. He has no conscience, he suffers no guilt, in short, Morris is a psychopath.
When he and his mates are caught in a two-bit scam, Morris decides murder is an
easy fix. Before it is over, Morris turns on his friends, who know what they can expect
from him. Length: 6 hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62095
Playing for the ashes by Elizabeth George. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley,
the eighth earl of Asherton, and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers,
encounter what seems to be a perfect crime as they investigate a fatal fire at a
fifteenth-century cottage. Contains strong language. Length: 25 hours, 16 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 62528
Plum Island by Nelson DeMille. Little, Brown and Company, 1997. NYPD Homicide
detective John Corey is recuperating from wounds he received in the line of duty. He
is hired to consult on the murder of two biologists who worked on Plum Island
conducting animal research for the Department of Agriculture. Had they discovered a
vaccine or even a new virus? Contains strong language. Length: 19 hours, 10
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48574
Point of origin by Patricia Cornwell. London: Little, Brown and Co., 1998. Dr Kay
Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner investigates a grisly murder and arson while a
deranged killer released from a prison hospital seeks revenge on Scarpetta and her
family for a perceived wrong Scarpetta did him. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 11 hours, 25 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 63446
Poison in the pen by Patricia Wentworth. In the quiet village of Tilling a spate of
anonymous letters accuse a young widow of murdering her husband. Then another
young woman recipient is found drowned in the ornamental lake of the local Manor.
Who is sending these letters and how are they connected to the marriage of a young
heiress? Miss Silver is asked to investigate. Length: 9 hours, 22 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66185
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Polar star by Martin Cruz Smith. Collins, 1989. After being considered politically
unreliable, Arkady Renko is now working as a second-class seaman aboard the
Soviet factory ship Polar Star. When the body of a Russian girl, who worked on board
ship, is discovered, Renko becomes involved in an investigation that uncovers drug
trafficking and espionage. Length: 13 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
48577
Police at the funeral by Margery Allingham. Great Aunt Caroline rules everyone's
life with a rod of Victorian iron. When Uncle Andrew disappears, his great niece,
Joyce, seeks the help of Albert Campion. Before he can help, news comes of the
murder of the lost uncle. Next for the mortuary is Aunt Julie and suspicion falls all
around in this bizarre household of horror. Campion must travel through a tortuous
maze of intrigue to uncover the truth. Length: 10 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 71238
Political death by Antonia Fraser. London: Heinemann, 1994. Jemima Shore is
summoned by the wayward Lady Imogen Swain. She has become increasingly
eccentric and threatens to reveal details of her affair with Foreign Secretary Burgo
Smith and of the subsequent mysterious disappearance of a young journalist.
Entrusting Jemima with her diary is the first step in a sinister series of events leading
not only to scandal but also to murder. Length: 6 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 69950
Political suicide by Robert Barnard. Collins, 1986. When the Tory M.P. for
Bootham East is pulled out of the River Thames it looks like either suicide or an
accident. As Superintendent Sutcliffe's investigations gets underway some very
murky political waters are dredged up and will reveal dark secrets. Length: 6 hours, 4
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47075
Popcorn by Ben Elton. London: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Bruce Delamitri makes
films about killers. Films where people die to a rock and roll soundtrack. However, on
Oscar night, he has to face up to the real thing, in the shape of psychotics Wayne and
Scout, and it isn't quite to his liking. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions
of sex. Length: 7 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72555
Poseidon's gold: a Falco novel by Lindsey Davis. London: Century, 1993. Imperial
Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco finds his apartment wrecked and a legionnaire
demanding money. When the soldier is murdered Falco is the prime suspect and his
girlfriend Helena Justina is arrested as an accomplice. On top of that he desperately
needs money in order to marry his beloved, Helena, and his only client is his mother,
who insists that he clear his dead brother's name. Length: 12 hours, 41 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 45687
Postmortem by Patricia D Cornwell. London: Warner, 1992. Dr Kay Scarpetta has
two problems. The first one is that a serial killer is strangling women in their own
bedrooms; the second is that not everyone is thrilled that a woman is chief medical
examiner. She uses all the technical tools at her disposal; computers,
fingerprint-matching processors and DNA-testing equipment to identify the killer.
Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48580
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Precious blood by Jonathan Hayes. London: Random House, 2008. The student's
naked body is marked with an indecipherable ancient script and arranged in the
shape of a ritual sacrifice. The murderer is posing as a cop. Former forensic
pathologist Edward Jenner, who is reluctantly assisting in the investigation, realises a
serial killer is involved. He incurs the wrath of his former boss and nemesis in order to
pursue his suspicions. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex.
Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 20 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57690
Predator by Patricia D Cornwell. Bath: Chivers, 2007. In the icy chill of Boston,
Benton Wesley is working on a secret project involving convicted killers. It is a project
that gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece Lucy, who is
spending too much time drinking and indulging in casual pick-ups in cheap bars.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66048
Prime suspect by Lynda La Plante. London: Pan, 1991. In London a woman is
murdered and the police have a prime suspect but cannot prove it. Detective Chief
Inspector Jane Tennison fights to solve the crime and win the respect of her fellow,
male officers. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 8 hours, 1 minute. RNIB. Order
Number: 45926
Prizzi's glory by Richard Condon. London: Joseph, 1988. The Prizzi family, pillar of
the American Mafia, longs for respectability. So they devise a means of franchising
their nefarious activities. Coupled with this, political ambitions take hold; Prizzi for
President! A humorous adventure ensues that charts the delicious corruption that
accompanies the family's search for approval. Length: 8 hours, 18 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 47081
Put on by cunning by Ruth Rendell. [S.I]: Hutchinson, 1981. The death of Sir
Camargue, the elderly rich flautist, shortly before his second marriage is shrouded in
mystery, as is the identity of the young woman claiming to be the daughter he had not
seen for nineteen years. Length: 7 hours, 4 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66209
Queen's ransom by Fiona Buckley. Lady-in-Waiting Ursula Blanchard has a
mandate from the Secretary of State to spy on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. She now
must travel to France to hand deliver a letter from Elizabeth to the Queen Mother and
Regent, Catherine. The mission to mediate peace between warring Protestant and
Catholic French factions seems clear, but there are hidden forces at work. Length: 9
hours, 56 minutes. Order Number: 69312
Quiet as a nun by Antonia Fraser. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. A nun
is found dead in a ruined tower at Blessed Eleanor's Convent. Jemima Shore,
renowned television reporter, is called in by Reverend Mother Ancilla to investigate.
Blessed Eleanor was Jemima's own convent school and the dead nun was heiress to
a fortune. Length: 6 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 69951
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Rainbow in the mist by Phyllis A Whitney. [S.l.]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989.
Possessing the psychic ability to 'see' certain events proves troubling to Christy. Her
attempt to find refuge at her aunt's rural home proves just as upsetting when she
uses her power to find a missing local woman. The woman's son has reported seeing
his mother flitting about the woods in a white robe. Length: 11 hours, 2 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 66199
Ratking by Michael Dibdin. London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Police Commissioner
Aurelio Zen, who has crossed swords with the establishment before and lost, is
unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over a kidnapping case involving one of
Italy's most powerful families. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length:
8 hours, 59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63047
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. [S. Rebecca drowned in the sea near Manderly or
did she? Maxim de Winter, her husband, never spoke of Rebecca, however, others
did. What did his new wife make of it all? Length: 17 hours, 43 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65313
Recalled to life: a Dalziel and Pascoe novel by Reginald Hill. London: Collins,
1992. Cissy has been in jail for almost thirty years for murder. Now she is out and an
inquiry into this seeming miscarriage of justice is ordered. The convenient scapegoat
is the man in charge of the original investigation but Dalziel is convinced he was
straight so start an investigation on his own. Length: 12 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 47090
Reel murder by Marian Babson. London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1986. Two
aging Hollywood actresses in London for a film festival become involved with police
when bodies are found at their London home. Length: 6 hours, 28 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 73419
Remember when by Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Laine Tavish
is an ordinary woman running a gift shop until her father's past as a con man comes
back to haunt her. Her long lost uncle leaves her a cryptic warning as he dies in the
street then her home is ransacked. Now it's up to Laine and a sexy stranger to
uncover the truth that involves New York Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and a hoard
of missing diamonds. Length: 16 hours, 20 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66017
Resurrection men by Ian Rankin. London: Orion, 2001. Rebus is off the case, quite
literally, and is sent to the Scottish Police College for retraining. There he meets other
officers who have similar problems, but some members of the team have their own
secrets, and will stop at nothing to protect them. Length: 17 hours, 4 minutes.
RNZFB. Order Number: 53959
Reward for a defector by Michael Underwood. [S.l.]: Macmillan, 1973. An East
German defector arrives on the doorstep of a London solicitor engaged in defending a
British Army officer who is accused of spying and Security officials are suspicious.
Length: 6 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65965
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Rhinoceros by Colin Forbes. Oxford: Isis, 2001. Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob
Newman are on the trail of five heads of state who are conspiring to cause massive
civil unrest throughout the Western world. Tweed knows the identity of four of the
ringleaders but who is the fifth? Length: 13 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
48656
Road rage by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1998. A by-pass is planned in
Kingsmarkham that will destroy its peace and the natural habitat forever. A local
protest movement forms and trouble is expected. However, before the protesters
make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is
discovered. Length: 11 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47099
Rocking Horse Road by Carl Nixon. Auckland, N.Z.: Vintage, Random House New
Zealand, 2007. The body of a teenage girl is found on the beach in the days leading
up to Christmas, 1980. The event makes a huge impact on all those who live along
Rocking Horse Road. This hot summer brings together a group of fifteen-year-old
boys and then keeps them linked for the rest of their lives. Length: 5 hours, 48
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 50295
Rosa's dilemma by Michael Underwood. [S.l.]: Ulverscroft Large Print Books, 1990.
Solicitor Rosa Epton has vowed never to work with Malcolm Palfrey again, yet here
she was, helping him defend a young couple charged with malicious damage. He was
elusive as she prepared the case, culminating in his non-appearance on the day of
the trial. Then Palfrey was discovered on a park bench with a bullet in his brain and a
revolver beside him. Was it suicide or murder? Length: 5 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 65959
Rosemary for remembrance by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1988. It looked to
Detective Chief Inspector Jack Finch like a classic murder case of the blunt
instrument wielded with considerable force and deadly intention. Though why was the
sprig of rosemary clenched in the dead man's right hand in a final death spasm?
Length: 8 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65887
Rough ride by John Francome. London: Headline, 1993. When amateur jockey
Archie Best receives a surprise legacy from an old family friend, it comes with some
unwelcome strings attached. The strange bequest points an accusing finger at a rich
influential businessman. Archie sets out with his would-be girlfriend to uncover a
deadly web of corruption. Length: 9 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48662
Run afoul by Joan Druett. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2008. As the US
Exploring Expedition heads into Rio de Janeiro it collides with a trading ship. Wiki
Coffin is astonished to discover that it's commander is his estranged father, an
incorrigible adventurer. Their reunion is overshadowed by two mysterious deaths and
soon, his father's trial for a murder he didn't commit. Wiki must unmask the real killers
before the Expedition sails on. Length: 8 hours, 33 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
52999
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Running blind by Desmond Bagley. [London]: Fontana, 1972. The errand seemed
simple enough; deliver a parcel to someone in Iceland. An ex-spy expects to take a
short detour from his summer holiday; except a man tries to stop him and is killed. He
finds himself in a maze of bluffs and double-bluffs as he stumbles upon the chilling
possibility that a top British intelligence official may be a Cold War Russian mole.
Length: 9 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45932
Safe bet by John Francome. London :Headline, 1998. Divorced jockey Mike Powell
has lost a fortune buying and selling horses. When he is killed in a car crash his
ex-brother-in-law discovers Mike's estate has been left to a stranger. Mike's shady
past leaves a trail of mystery. Length: 8 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
50793
Sand castles by Nicolas Freeling. Deutsch, 1989. Crime and corruption ooze from
the dark corners of small towns and no one understands this more than Police
Inspector van der Valk. Decent family men are paying good money for highly indecent
photographs and the repercussions will be devastating. Contains strong language.
Length: 7 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47115
Seafire: a Webb Carrick story by Bill Knox. Long, 1970. As soon as he takes over
his fishery protection vessel, Carrick finds himself battling against unknown and
ruthless enemies. Length: 6 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48688
Selling Grace by Simon Shaw. Oxford: Isis, 2003. PI Grace Cornish has been
caught breaking and entering. Her ex-flame can help but there is a catch. He is been
tailing an elusive money-launderer and need bait to catch him. Grace must poise as a
call girl and sacrifice her body for just one night to make her court case disappear.
Length: 16 hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48720
Send for Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge. Bath, U.K.: Black Dagger Crime,
1992. A mysterious jewel thief and murderer from South Africa is creating mayhem in
England. Scotland Yard is struggling to solve the crimes and turns to Paul Temple for
help. Paul, aided by the beautiful and spirited journalist Steve Trent, is soon chasing
one of the cleverest and most dangerous criminal gangs in Europe. Length: 6 hours,
12 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47134
Server down: a Mad Dog and Englishman mystery by J.M. Hayes. While in
Tucson, Mad Dog, a wannabe shaman, is accused of being a witch and a murderer.
His niece Heather must comb the mean streets to find the real killer. Sheriff English
becomes involved when his office computer receives threats against both of them.
Contains strong language. Length: 6 hours, 40 minutes. Order Number: 58382
Set in darkness by Ian Rankin. London: Orion, 2000. The new Scottish parliament is
home to a legend of a young man roasted on a spit by a madman. The fireplace
where the youth died is uncovered, but so is the body from a much more recent
murder, to be followed days later by the murder of a prospective MSP. Contains
violence. Length: 13 hours, 32 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 53979
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Set in stone by Robert Goddard. Bath: Chivers, 2000. Recovering from the death of
his wife in a tragic accident, Tony goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy and her
husband in their country home. He is disturbed by memories of his wife and his
attraction for Lucy. Then he starts having weird dreams and wonders if he is adding to
his victims. Length: 11 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48722
Settled out of court by Henry Cecil. [S.l.]: M. Lonsdale Walsh is a rich financier who
is wrongly imprisoned for murder. From his prison cell he hatches an intricate plan to
stage his own retrial at a secret location. He is surprised by unexpected twists as he
tries to secure an acquittal. Length: 6 hours, 11 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
62710
Shadow by Karin Alvtegen ; translated from the Swedish by McKinley Burnett.
Melbourne: Text, 2009. As darkness falls a little boy stands alone on the steps of an
amusement park. He has been told to stay and wait; only no one returns for him. Why
would a mother do such a thing? The mystery haunts the boy's life. Then the death of
a stranger and a mysterious bequest triggers the unravelling of secrets. Length: 9
hours, 25 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57693
Shadow of a doubt by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1981. Hawton Hall is a
successful and very expensive, psychiatric clinic run by the equally successful Dr.
Jordan. When his rather timid, grey-haired wife disappears his main concern is to
avoid scandal. Then his pretty secretary is murdered. Length: 9 hours, 14 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 65882
Shadows in bronze by Lindsey Davis. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1990.
Marcus Didius Falco takes to the streets of Ancient Rome once more, this time as a
private investigator for the Emperor Vespasian himself. He is put on the trail of a
villain who means to depose the Emperor. Length: 14 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 63266
Shake hands for ever by Ruth Rendell. [S.I.]: Hutchinson, 1975. Seemingly, Angela
Hathall had picked up a stranger and that stranger had killed her. Chief Inspector
Wexford can discover no motive, no reason and no suspect for the murder, but his
intuition tells him something more is happening here. Length: 6 hours, 34 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 66207
Shark Island by Joan Druett. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2007. Sailing
aboard the US Exploring Expedition, Wiki Coffin finds his linguistic skills get him
posted to an island off the Brazilian coast to investigate a report of pirates. When
violence and murder erupts on the island and a despicable shipmate is accused of
the deed, Wiki must investigate murky secrets of a dishonest and dishonourable
captain. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 10 minutes.
VAILS. Order Number: 53011
Sheer torture by Robert Barnard. Collins, 1981. Reluctantly Perry Trethowan
returned to his ancestral home. His father has been found dead; wearing gauzy
spangled tights! Length: 6 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47138
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Sheiks and adders: a novel by Michael Innes. Gollancz, 1982. Detective John
Appleby is now retired. He is puzzled by the number of sheiks at a charity fete but
when a murder occurs his afternoon becomes even stranger. Length: 5 hours, 33
minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 48729
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 2003. Kurt Wallander must discover
why a teenage girl doused herself in petrol and burned herself to death, leaving no
clues as to who she was. Then a former minister of justice is butchered in a bizarre
murder that proves to be the first of a killer who strikes again and again. Contains
strong language. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 23 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65518
Silent truths by Susan Lewis. Oxford: Isis Publishing, 2002. Beth's husband has just
been arrested for murder when journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on her doorstep.
Neither suspect what lies ahead. Beth throws herself into a life of reckless living while
Laurie is terrorized for what she knows. To save them both Laurie must put her trust
in Elliot Russell, her hated rival. Length: 21 hours, 53 minutes.. RNIB. Order
Number: 48730
Simisola by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1994. Only eighteen black people
live in Kingsmarkham, one of them Wexford's new doctor. When the doctor's
daughter goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than a mere professional
interest in the case, testing not only his powers of deduction, but his beliefs and
prejudices about racial equality. Length: 12 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66212
Situation tragedy by Simon Brett. London: Gollancz, 1981. Charles Paris, seasoned
actor and part-time sleuth, has got a job close to his heart, playing the golf club
barman in a new TV sit-com. But someone is bumping off members of the production
crew and soon Charles finds himself on the trail of a mass murderer. Length: 6 hours,
2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71414
Skinner's festival by Quintin Jardine. London: Headline, 1994. An explosion rocks
Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a
group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain. As atrocities escalate,
Head of CID Bob Skinner realizes this is no gang of fanatics but a highly professional
team. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 10 hours, 16 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66550
Skinner's ghosts by Quintin Jardine. London: Headline, 1998. Deputy Chief
Constable Bob Skinner believes the past is behind him when he solves the riddle of
his wife's death. Investigating another murder should be easy. However, when the
victim is the widow of a government minister and her son has been kidnapped, he
knows he will get personally involved. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 10 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66551
Skinner's ordeal by Quintin Jardine. London: Headline, 2009. A plane has been
blown up in the Scottish skies, with the British and American defence secretaries
amongst the victims. Chief Constable Bob Skinner finds himself with the greatest
challenge of his career, as he tries to find the bombers. Contains strong language.
Length: 14 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72392
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Skinner's round by Quintin Jardine. London: Headline, 2009. A golfing tournament
is being staged for the opening of an elite country club. However, the discovery of a
body and a legendary witches' curse involves Assistant Chief Constable Skinner in a
dramatic and unexpected investigation. Length: 14 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 72395
Skinner's rules by Quintin Jardine. As head of Edinburgh's CID, Detective Chief
Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all. However, even he is shocked by the
savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified as a
successful young lawyer and the motive for the death is a mystery. Then more
random killings occur, suggesting a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. When the
lawyer's fiancee is also murdered, Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest.
Length: 12 hours, 29 minutes. Order Number: 73120
Skinner's trail by Quintin Jardine. London: Headline, 2009. Skinner is on the trail of
organised crime and a cold-blooded killer. A man has been found knifed in a luxury
villa. The victim had run a chain of laundrettes, saunas and pubs throughout the city,
but for some time the police suspected these to be the front for a drug distribution
network. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 31
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72396
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. An anthropologist
has disappeared and near her secret dig, policeman Jim Chee finds the bodies of
men who have been stealing the Anasazi cultural relics. Length: 7 hours, 18 minutes.
RNZFB. Order Number: 63454
Slay-ride by Dick Francis. London: Michael Joseph, 1973. David Cleveland is an
investigator for the Jockey Club. He must go to Norway in response to an appeal from
the Oslo racecourse. A British jockey, riding there, has disappeared and with him has
gone a day's takings. The Norwegian police have found no trace of him, nor have the
British, and the case is being filed as just one more unsolved theft. Length: 7 hours,
26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65306
Snow White and Rose Red by Ed McBain. Bath: Chivers. Sarah was nuttier than a
fruitcake. That was what the attorney who had handled her commitment told Matthew
Hope. Was it her story or her beauty that persuaded Matthew to take on her crusade
for freedom? There was a disturbing connection between her case and discovery of a
body. Contains strong language. Length: 7 hours, 22 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47147
So much blood by Simon Brett. London: Gollancz, 1976. Charles Paris returns
again, in a fringe show at the Edinburgh Festival, with another nubile girl to provoke
him, and his accommodating wife to console him, and a gory murder to challenge
him. Length: 7 hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71412
Some die eloquent by Catherine Aird. [S.l.]: Collins, 1979. Miss Wansdyke, retired
chemistry teacher, lived quietly and modestly. Her death was sudden and she had
recently acquired a great deal of money. All these things and the strange reactions of
the beneficiaries under the will concern Inspector Sloan. Length: 6 hours, 43 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 65041
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Some lie and some die by Ruth Rendell. [S.I]: Hutchinson, 1973. Kingsmarkham
doesn't have too many complaints about its first annual rock festival, until two lovers
find a body in a nearby quarry that makes even Wexford's stomach lurch. All he can
discover is that there is a strange connection with the star of the festival, Zeno
Vedast. Length: 6 hours, 21 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66206
Something in the air by Emma Lathen. Simon and Schuster, 1988. John Putnam
Thatcher is a banker and a covert amateur detective. He discovers that the airline
business is riddled with sabotage, plotting and elaborate schemes. A body in the
Boston harbour and a sharp television reporter force Thatcher deeper into the
mystery. Length: 9 hours, 9 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48808
Something might happen by Julie Myerson. London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. It is an
October night in a small seaside town in Suffolk and a woman is brutally murdered.
Suddenly nothing is certain, the mundane becomes charged with significance,
established relationships begin to crumble and nowhere is safe. Explicit descriptions
of sex. Length: 8 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48812
Soul by Tobsha Learner. Two women, across two eras, struggle with obsessive
love and revenge. In 1860, young Lavinia moves from her Irish village to a new life in
Mayfair, London, as the wife of an elderly gentleman. Soon she is standing trial for his
murder. In modern-day Los Angeles, Professor Julia Huntington has received a
prestigious commission from the US Defence Department to research a genetic killer
agent. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 16 hours, 50 minutes.
VAILS. Order Number: 50686
Spider trap by Barry Maitland. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Skeletons
are discovered in Cockpit Lane, a poor black area of South London. They lead DCI
David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla on a dark and dangerous journey into the heart of a
drug-riddled, secretive community. They find the past and present collide in an
intricate web as Brock re-discovers the hand of a formidable old antagonist, Spider
Roach. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 7 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
50687
Spinsters in jeopardy by Ngaio Marsh. Roderick Alleyn and family are en route on
the night train when he saw something being killed against the wall of the Chateau
d'Argent. Elsewhere on the train Miss Truebody, an English spinster, burst her
appendix. What followed was the most unconventional and fantastic few days that
Alleyn ever endured in the cause of proving that English policemen are wonderful.
Length: 10 hours, 45 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71307
Splinter by Michael MacConnell. Sydney: Hachette Livre, 2008. FBI agent Sarah
Reilly has brought down one of America's worst serial killers but during the
investigation loved ones are kidnapped and murdered. Refusing offers of extended
leave she launches herself back into a murder investigation of a child. It seems
someone has been coldly and brutally extorting wealthy West Coast families.
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length:
10 hours, 15 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57662
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Spotlight by Patricia Wentworth. Wallington, U.K.: Severn House, 1990. When a
successful blackmailer includes a traitor, a bigamist, a black marketeer and a
murderer among his weekend guests, he clearly means to combine business with
pleasure. Length: 8 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66172
Started early, took my dog by Kate Atkinson. London: Doubleday, 2010. One
moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy Waterhouses' humdrum world to be
turned upside down; the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every
turn. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are:
Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie
who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. Length: 13
hours, 32 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71135
Stay of execution by Quintin Jardine. Oxford: Isis, 2004. As international terrorism
stalks Edinburgh, DCC Bob Skinner confronts his darkest demons. A small-time
crook stumbles upon a body hanging from a tree and two members from a Belgian
marching band die in separate suspicious incidences. Excitement in the city is
feverish in preparation for the Pope's visit. Security must be bullet-proof but Bob
Skinner has his doubts. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 14
hours, 25 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66556
Stephanie by Winston Graham. Chapmans, 1992. Stephanie was a carefree
student, until she discovered that her lover had a double life. Her father fights for
justice for her at the risk of his life. There is also Nari, blackmailed into becoming a
human carrier. The fate of these people is the subject of a tense story. Length: 11
hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47161
Stiff news by Catherine Aird. London: Macmillan, 1998. On the morning of
Gertrude's funeral, her son Lionel receives a letter from his mother. In it, Gertrude
states that someone is trying to kill her. For every fact Detective Inspector Sloan
learns about Gertrude, there seems to be another mystery. Length: 5 hours, 34
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47162
Still life by Louise Penny. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called in to the
scene of a death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local artist from
Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The
locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident but Gamache smells something foul in
these remote woods. Length: 9 hours, 35 minutes. Order Number: 69294
Still voices by Maria Barrett. ord: Isis, 2003. Three lives converge. Charles, a
respected professor of history, is writing a book on a Victorian crime of passion. Lotte
is unhappily married to a bully of a man. Annie is newly promoted to Detective
Inspector. When a student goes missing, their lives suddenly become intertwined.
Length: 12 hours, 53 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 73368
Stone kiss by Faye Kellerman. Oxford: Isis, 2003. When one of Peter's relatives is
killed and another goes missing, LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife, Rina
Lazarus, rush to New York, where their survival in the seedier areas is in the hands of
a vengeful gangster. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 56 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65415
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Storm peak by John A. Flanagan. Sydney: Random House, 2008. Jesse Parker,
ex-Denver police detective, has returned to his Colorado hometown to spend the
winter working the ski patrol and taking it easy. He is reluctantly dragged back into a
world of violence and murder when a serial killer begins a killing spree in the sleepy
ski town. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 14 hours, 49 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57697
Strangers by Mary Anna Evans. Faye Longchamp's archaeological firm has landed
a project in St. Augustine, Florida. In four centuries, America's oldest city has
accumulated skeletons that should probably stay buried. Within a day of Faye's
arrival, a woman disappears, leaving behind blood, priceless artifacts, and a note
asking for Faye's help. Length: 11 hours, 14 minutes. Order Number: 69170
Strangers in company by Jane Aiken Hodge. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. Marian
and Stella travel together on a guided coach tour of Greece, from which passengers
strangely keep disappearing. Length: 9 hours, 53 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
48848
Street dreams by Faye Kellerman. Oxford: Isis Publishing, 2004. When LAPD
Officer Cindy Decker finds an abandoned baby she is determined to find and help the
confused new mother. Meanwhile Cindy's father, Lieutenant Peter Decker, worries
about Cindy's dreams and memories of being brutally stalked. Teamed together the
father-daughter detective duo are a mighty force to reckon with. Length: 13 hours, 16
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48850
Suffer the children by Sara Fraser. A raving, bedraggled girl is found sheltering in a
barn near the Parish of Tardebigge in Worcestershire. Then the decomposing body of
a small boy is uneartched by poachers in a nearby wood. Both cases appear to be
connected to a wagonload of children known to have been abducted from the
Poorhouse. Length: 9 hours, 59 minutes. Order Number: 69820
Suicide intended by David Williams. London: HarperCollins, 1999. Freddy was a
blackmailer, drug peddler, thief and eighteen-year-old bully, studying for his A levels.
When his naked body is discovered there is more secret joy than sorrow amongst the
College pupils and teachers. What looked like suicide is suddenly revealed to have
been a well-organised murder. Length: 9 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 47168
Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh. Roberta Grey of New Zealand visits her
friends the Lampreys in their London flat and is caught up in an intriguing murder
mystery. Length: 10 hours, 15 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 55359
Surviving the seasons by Fern Kupfer. Piatkus, 1988. This is a story of immigrant
Jewish families that grow and intertwine into modern relationships. The Pearlmans in
the Bronx have remained passionately married for forty years and now their two
daughters face mature entanglements. In Florida the Elkinds live a quiet life of
acceptance. Length: 11 hour, 24 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47172
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Sweet danger by Margery Allingham. Guffy Randall is making his leisurely way
home from the French Riviera when he is unwilling involved in chasing possible
criminals. When he finds his friend, Albert Campion, impersonating royalty his ready
curiosity is aroused. He joins in a treasure hunt but the light-hearted goose chase
soon becomes something much more dangerous. Length: 7 hours, 19 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 71239
Sweet vengeance by Una-Mary Parker. [S. l]: Isis, 2001. When designer Arabella
Webster disappears the day before her first showing at London Fashion Week, her
daughter Joanna can't help but fear the worst. As she investigate her mother's
disappearance she discovers the woman she idolises has been hiding a dark secret
which will change everything. Length: 8 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 71480
Taken to the cleaners by Morgan Jones. Whatamango Bay, Queen Charlotte
Sound: Cape Catley Press, 1997. Miles, former art curator and football star now
drives a limo in Queenstown. A meeting with the enigmatic Mr Ng leads Miles to
Sydney. Against the background of art dealing, rare books and fake antiques bodies
start to pile up. The police have their suspicions about Miles but are they on the right
track? Length: 11 hours, 27 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 55669
Tears of the giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith. Oxford: Isis, 2003. Precious faces
a new challenge; resolving a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African
plains. She must also cope with her own impending marriage, the promotion of her
secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and the arrival of her future
in-laws. Length: 6 hours, 22 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45946
Tell-all by Chuck Palahniuk. Hazie Coogan has tended to the needs of veteran
actress "Miss Kathie" Kenton for decades. Danger arrives when Miss Kathie's
gentleman caller writes a celebrity tell-all memoir, foretelling her death in a
forthcoming musical extravaganza. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a
plan to save Miss Kathie for her fans and for posterity. Length: 5 hours, 23 minutes.
Order Number: 69080
The Abyssinian proof by Jenny White. The Ottoman Empire is plagued by thefts of
antiquities from mosques and churches. Among them is a reliquary presumed lost for
400 years and around which an elaborate, mysterious sect has grown. In Istanbul,
magistrate Kamil Pasha is under pressure to break the smuggling ring amid rising
tensions between Christians and Muslims. Length: 12 hours, 48 minutes. Order
Number: 70899
The act of Roger Murgatroyd by Gilbert Adair. Oxford: Isis, 2006. Boxing Day
1935, at a Christmas party in a snowed-in manor in Dartmoor. In the attic, lies the
dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the
heart. The attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick
iron bars and, there is no sign of a murderer. Length: 7 hours, 58 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 67564
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The adventure of the Christmas pudding, and a selection of entrees by Agatha
Christie. HarperCollins, 1960. The author introduces this book as 'the Chef's
selection', with herself as the Chef. There are two main courses: the pudding and the
entrees with a mixture of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Length: 7 hours, 26
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47189
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this collection of
stories, the great detective uses his uncanny skills to rescue a king from blackmail, to
capture an ingenious bank robber, and to save an innocent son accused of patricide.
Length: 10 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66146
The adversary by Michael Walters. London: Quercus, 2007. The once untouchable
head of Mongolia's most powerful criminal empire has finally been caught. As the trial
starts to collapse Nergui and Doripalam suspect there is corruption within their
Serious Crimes Team. With the crime lord's acquittal impending and his revenge a
cold certainty, they are not even sure they can trust each other. Contains strong
language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 35
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 53015
The Affacombe affair by Elizabeth Lemarchand. [London]: Hart-Davis, 1968. Little
escapes the notice of Mrs Olivia Strode, the well-known local historian. Even before
the body was discovered below Monk's Leap, Olivia found herself caught up in the
fringes of blackmail involving those very near her. Length: 7 hours, 49 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 70634
The Allingham case book by Margery Allingham. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.
This book records eighteen crimes; from the seedy and sinister to the fashionable
and frivolous. Within its pages are more of the exploits of the famous detective Albert
Campion and his friends the policemen Charlie Luke and Stanislaus Oates. Length: 7
hours, 59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47190
The anonymous Venetian by Donna Leon. London: Pan books, 1995. Commissario
Guido Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed
when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera. Brunetti searches Venice for the
dead man's identity but he is met with a wall of silence until a phone call provides
some tantalizing information. Length: 9 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
65310
The Appleby file: detective stories by Michael Innes. Gollancz, 1975. This is a
collection of fifteen short stories featuring Inspector Appleby. In 'Poltergeist',
Appleby's wife tells him that her aunt is experiencing trouble with a Poltergeist. In 'A
Question of Confidence', Bobby Appleby's friend, Brian Button, is caught up in a
scandalous murder in Oxford. In 'The Ascham', an abandoned car on a narrow lane
intrigues Appleby and his wife, but even more intriguing is the medieval castle they
stumble upon. Length: 6 hours, 48 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 73393
The assize of the dying by Ellis Peters. Headline, 1991. Two vintage tales of
murder most foul. When Louis is found guilty of murder he tells the real murderers
that he will call them to meet him at the Assize of the Dying. Meanwhile 'Aunt Helen'
is a story of blind obsession and psychological suspense starting with what looks like
the perfect murder. Length: 6 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48884
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The babes in the wood by Ruth Rendell. A couple returns from a weekend in Paris
to find their two teenagers and the baby-sitter have disappeared and fear they have
drowned. When frogmen find nothing Chief Inspector Wexford begins to trust his
intuition and wonders if the children were really all that innocent. Length: 11 hours, 45
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56201
The bad detective by H.R.F. Keating. London: Macmillan, 1996. Detective Sergeant
Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. He could
retire to his dream island if he can steal an incriminating file from the fraud
investigation office at police HQ. Length: 7 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47195
The bad samaritan by Robert Barnard. London: Isis Audio Books, 1996. The vicar's
wife has lost her faith. Her relationship with a young refugee has brought trouble to
her husband's parish. Other ladies in the parish are creating difficulty but when a
body is found, after the church fete, things get far more serious. Length: 7 hours, 6
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46243
The bad seed by William March. London: H. Christine begins to suspect that her
daughter, Rhoda, is really a child serial killer, and wonders whether there is
something in their family tree that makes murder a family trait. Length: 7 hours, 18
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 66815
The Baker Street letters by Michael Robertson. Two brothers lease office space
on Baker Street but must agree to respond to letters sent to Sherlock Holmes, who
famously occupied the same address. Then Nigel disappears quite suddenly leaving
a dead body in his wake. Reggie hops a flight to Los Angeles to uncover the truth not
realising Laura, a quick-witted actress who's captured the hearts of both brothers, is
hot on his heels. Length: 6 hours, 20 minutes. Order Number: 58315
The beach house by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. Oxford: Isis, 2002.
Jack, a Harvard law student, loves his summer job at a Boston law firm. Then he
receives news that his brother is dead. The police think he committed suicide but
Jack senses a darker, dangerous truth and is determined to bring the killer to justice.
His relentless crusade is pitted against the most powerful and ruthless man in New
York. Contains violence. Length: 6 hours, 49 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62796
The beckoning lady by Margery Allingham. It is high summer but the glorious
season is tainted with death. The village of Pontisbright, Suffolk, is in mourning for its
most eminent resident; author and librettist William Faraday. Albert Campion receives
a cryptic message warning that murder is afoot and the same day an eight-day-old
corpse is discovered. The villagers show a singular lack of concern and the plot
thickens. Length: 9 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73344
The best man to die by Ruth Rendell. [S.I]: Arrow, 1981. Jack Pertwee's stag party
ends with the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton, and Chief Inspector Wexford
and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer. Length: 6 hours, 35
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66203
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Page Number: 79
Mystery And Detective Stories
The big four by Agatha Christie. HarperCollins, 1994. Framed in the doorway of
Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The
gaunt man's face stares for a moment then sways and falls. Who is he and what is
the significance of the figure four scribbled repeatedly on a piece of paper? Length: 5
hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47204
The big sleep by Raymond Chandler. [S.l.]: H. When a dying millionaire hires Philip
Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe
finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction
and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. Length: 6 hours,
54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70578
The black angel by John Connolly. Oxford: Isis, 2005. A young woman goes
missing from the streets of New York, and Parker realises that her disappearance is
part of an older mystery, linked to an ornate church of bones and to the quest for a
mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel.
Contains violence. Length: 17 hours, 25 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65349
The black book by Ian Rankin. London: Orion, 2008. When a close colleague is
brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an
unidentified body and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Rebus must piece
together a jigsaw no one wants completed. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 10 hours, 58 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72929
The black echo by Michael Connelly. Oxford: Isis, 2002. A Vietnam
veteran-turned-detective, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch discovers the body of a former
comrade-in-arms during an investigation and, with the help of an attractive FBI agent,
hunts for the murderers on a trail leading back to Saigon. Length: 13 hours, 22
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63147
The black ice by Michael Connelly. Oxford: Isis, 2001. The corpse in the hotel room
appears to bez that of a missing narcotics officer. Rumours abound that the cop had
crossed over, selling a new drug called Black Ice that has been infiltrating LA. The
police are quick to declare his death a suicide, but Detective Harry Bosch isn't so
sure. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 11 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 63149
The black tower by P. D. James. London: Faber, 1975. Adam Dalgliesh, newly
promoted to commander, is facing a crisis in his career. He is thinking of resigning.
He travels to Dorset to visit an old family friend at a home for the disabled only to
discover his friend has suddenly died. As more mysterious deaths follow, Dalgliesh
finds the problem is hidden in an enclosed world seething with malice, intrigue, hatred
and murder. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66021
The Blackpool highflyer by Andrew Martin. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. When
railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holidaymakers to Blackpool in the
summer of 1905, he is thrilled. His dreams of beer and woman end when his
high-speed train meets a huge millstone on the line. As he hunts for the saboteur he
is drawn into a dangerous world of eccentrics, conmen and cowards. Contains strong
language. Length: 11 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48901
RNZFB
Page Number: 80
Mystery And Detective Stories
The blessing way by Tony Hillerman. Oxford: Isis. Navajo tribal policeman Joe
Leaphorn is sent on a casual summer outing into harsh desert country. The aim is to
investigate rumours of Navajo sorcery. He and anthropologist Bergen McKee are led
to a series of inexplicably grisly murders. Length: 6 hours, 24 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 48902
The blood doctor by Barbara Vine. Lord Nanther embarks on a biography of his
great-grandfather, the first Lord Nanther, physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria
and an expert on blood diseases. What he uncovers begins to horrify him as he
realizes that Nanther died a guilty man, carrying a horrific secret to the grave. Length:
13 hours, 38 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56147
The body farm by Patricia Cornwell. London :Little, Brown, 2004. Black Mountain,
North Carolina is a sleepy town, an unlikely place for a serial killer to be stalking. Dr
Kay Scarpetta, the Chief Medical Examiner, has a hunch that further bodies will be
found. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47211
The body in the billiard room by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Hutchinson, 1987.
Inspector Ghote finds himself cast in the role of the Great Detective when Surinder
Mehta M.C. expressly requests that the Bombay detective be sent up to Ooty, the
famous hill station, to solve the murder of the billiard marker in their most historic
club. Length: 8 hours, 18 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65257
The bone collector by Jeffery Deaver. Oxford: Isis, 2006. When the Bone Collector,
a serial kidnapper and killer, gives the police a chance to save his victims by leaving
obscure clues, the cops turn to Lincoln Rhyme, a paralysed ex-NYPD forensics
expert who possesses an astonishing mind. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 12 hours, 49 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65410
The Boundary by Nicole Watson. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press,
2011. Long ago, Meston Park marked Brisbane city's boundary. A curfew kept the
Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark. When the park becomes the
site of a multi-million dollar development, the Corrowa People file a native title claim.
Hours after rejecting the claim, the judge is brutally murdered. Some believe it is the
work of an ancient assassin, returned to destroy the boundary. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 2 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
67733
The Brading collection by Patricia Wentworth. London: Hodder and Stoughton,
1996. Lewis Brading, owner of the priceless Brading jewellery collection, is a
frightened man. He sees thieves everywhere especially those who helped him amass
his gems. He approaches Miss Silver for help but she turns him away with some free
advice. A fortnight later she receives a letter from Brading, begging again for help.
The next morning's paper has the news of his murder. Length: 9 hours, 21 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 66179
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Page Number: 81
Mystery And Detective Stories
The breaker by Minette Walters. London :Macmillan, 1998. Twelve hours after a
woman's body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, her
traumatised three-year-old daughter is discovered in Poole. Why was Kate killed and
her daughter, a witness, allowed to live? Police suspicion centres on a young actor,
obsessed with pornography, but attention soon shifts towards the murdered woman's
husband. Contains strong language. Length: 10 hours, 43 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 47224
The broken shore by Peter Temple. London: Quercus, 2007. Joe Cashin had
changed since he almost died. Now he's been posted to the quiet seaside area where
he grew up. His tranquillity is broken when a prominent local is bashed and left for
dead. Everything seems to point to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community
but Cashin is unconvinced. As tragedy unfolds he must challenge himself to move
forward. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 55 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 71346
The broken window by Jeffrey Deaver. London: Hodder, 2009. Lincoln's estranged
cousin Arthur is arrested for murder after forensic evidence from his home is found all
over the scene of a crime. Lincoln grudgingly agrees to investigate the case and he
soon discovers a string of similar crimes with perpetrators claiming innocence,
despite ironclad evidence against them. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 16 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73170
The brothers of Baker Street by Michael Robertson. New York: Minotaur Books,
2011. The first Sherlock Holmes letter barrister Reggie Heath answered cost him his
personal fortune, his clients, and possibly the love of his life. He has a new case; a
cab driver accused of murder, but the letters to Sherlock Holmes are piling up. One is
from someone who claims to be the descendant of Professor James Moriarty. Length:
6 hours, 27 minutes. Order Number: 67474
The brutal telling by Louise Penny. A stranger is found murdered in the bistro and
antiques store in Three Pines. No one admits to knowing the murdered man but as
secrets are revealed, chaos begins to close in on the beloved bistro owner, Olivier.
Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers
of lies, exposing both treasures and secrets buried deep in the wilderness. Length: 13
hours, 13 minutes. Order Number: 69298
The bullet trick by Louise Welsh. Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, 2006. Hoping to
turn his luck around, a destitute Glasgow conjurer books work in the Berlin cabaret
shows. Once in the German capital, amid the showgirls and shysters, he abandons
his heart, his head and his past. Unfortunately secrets have a habit of catching up
with him. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 9 hours, 34 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 50698
The burden of proof by Scott Turow. Bloomsbury, 1990. Sandy, celebrated defence
lawyer, comes home to find that his wife of thirty years has committed suicide. As he
seeks to unravel both the mystery of her death and his brother-in-law's tangled web of
financial wheeling and dealing, his whole world is brought under the intense scrutiny.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 17 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47231
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Page Number: 82
Mystery And Detective Stories
The Caravaggio obsession: a novel by Oliver T Banks. Gollancz, 1985. Three art
robberies are carried out in Rome and some of the paintings, mysteriously
unreported, turn up at a New York auction. When the auction house's art expert
begins to show too much interest in them, he is murdered. His friend, art historian
Amos Hatcher, investigates. Length: 7 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47233
The case is closed by Patricia Wentworth. London: Coronet Books, 1995. Geoffrey
has been convicted of murder but his wife and her young cousin Hilary believe in his
innocence. Hilary's investigations lead her into danger, and her ex-fiance calls upon
the services of Miss Silver. Length: 7 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66169
The case of the late pig by Margery Allingham. Albert Campion is summoned to
the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns
out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon
other corpses start to turn up, and Campion must unravel the crime. Length: 3 hours,
40 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62993
The case of William Smith by Patricia Wentworth. London: Hodder and Stoughton,
2005. For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop,
ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory. When he is
mysteriously attacked in the street, Miss Silver is called in to help. As the attacks
escalate he and Miss Silver must look into his past to stop the culprits from striking
again. Length: 7 hours, 25 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66173
The casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. [S. Contains twelve
short stories concerning the famous detective. Length: 9 hours, 17 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66153
The cat dancers by P.T. Deutermann. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Lieutenant Cam Richter arrests two robbers who killed three people, but the judge
frees them on a technicality. After one is himself killed in a homemade electric chair,
Richter pursues a vigilante group who call themselves the cat dancers, and winds up
next on the killer's list. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 13
hours, 32 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 55003
The Cater Street hangman by Anne Perry. London: HarperCollins, 1998. Careless
of both murder and manners, Charlotte Ellison and her sister, two determinedly
unconventional young women, ignore Victorian mores and actively join the police
investigation. Young Inspector Thomas Pitt is heading the investigation into the
murder of their servant girl. Length: 9 hours, 49 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number:
48922
The Catherine Wheel by Patricia Wentworth. A heavy air of intrigue and mystery
emanated from the old cliff top inn. The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for
pirates and smugglers but now it was harbouring a murderer. It had begun with an
advertisement in the paper, requesting descendants for the late innkeeper to stay at
the inn. Maud Silver is sent to investigate when one of the group is murdered. Length:
9 hours, 43 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 70021
RNZFB
Page Number: 83
Mystery And Detective Stories
The cavalier case by Antonia Fraser. London: Bloomsbury, 1990. It was a case that
the newspapers couldn't let die, as it consisted of sex, sport, romance and
supernatural, as well as historical romance. From investigating the handsome ghost
of the 17th Century Cavalier Poe, Jemima Shore finds herself instead investigating at
least one murder. Length: 8 hours, 25 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 69952
The cemetery yew by Cynthia Riggs. The new West Tisbury police chief confidently
made ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull her deputy. Victoria knows everything
about everyone in Martha's Vineyard and is as sharp as a tack. When Victoria spots
something amiss with the cemetery gravestones, the police chief listens. After a coffin
is exhumed they discover it contains the wrong body and then, the entire thing
disappears! Length: 7 hours, 39 minutes. Order Number: 63781
The charming quirks of others by Alexander McCall Smith. London: Little, Brown,
2010. Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and curious observer of the behaviour
of her fellow man, is approached by a friend at a local boarding school that is
planning to appoint a new headmaster. An anonymous letter has arrived suggesting
that one of the shortlisted candidates has a compromising past. But which one is it?
Isabel finds herself exploring dilemmas of human weakness and forgiveness. She
turns to her fiance Jamie for advice, but he too appears to have something to hide.
Length: 7 hours, 48 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72391
The chimney sweeper's boy by Barbara Vine. London: Viking, 1998. The obituaries
for Gerald Candless were respectful; an admired family man and successful writer.
When his daughter embarked on his memoir, she discovered very little about him was
true. It seemed her father had taken on a different identity at some point in his life.
What had driven him to conceal his real identity and why was his latest manuscript
missing? Length: 12 hours, 1 minute. RNIB. Order Number: 45065
The china governess by Margery Allingham. Adopted heir Timothy Kinnir refuses
to marry his beloved Julia until he learns the truth about his parentage. When Albert
Campion traces the roots of Timothy's family tree, he finds them buried in a nasty
scandal involving a jilted nanny and a murder. When another death occurs, the
sinister blood legacy threatens the young lovers. Length: 9 hours, 59 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 73350
The Christmas night murder by Lee Harris. It's a snowy Christmas at St.
Stephen's Convent, where a cheerful party awaits an old friend, Father Hudson
McCormick. However, he never arrives. Christine Bennett, a former St. Stephen's
nun, is called to investigate the disappearance. Has Father McCormick, unable to
face the scene of his sins, gone underground? Or has someone taken belated
revenge, ensuring that the truth will never be known? Length: 6 hours, 49 minutes.
Order Number: 69453
The coffin dancer by Jeffery Deaver. Oxford: Isis, 2001. A shattered spine has
confined Lincoln Rhyme to bed, so that is where he conducts his detective work.
Together with his assistant he matches strategy against an evil genius, the Coffin
Dancer. They must stop this professional killer from striking down an innocent
woman. Contains strong language. Length: 12 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 48942
RNZFB
Page Number: 84
Mystery And Detective Stories
The cold moon by Jeffrey Deaver. London: Hodder, 2009. In the aftermath of two
brutal New York City murders, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his team
work doggedly to prevent additional killings by a time-obsessed serial murderer.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 15 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 71004
The complaints by Ian Rankin. London: Orion, 2009. Nobody likes The Complaints they're the cops who investigate other cops. That is where Malcolm Fox works.
Malcolm has just had a good result and should be feeling good, but he has problems;
an increasingly frail father in a care home and a sister who persists in an abusive
relationship. In the midst of this, the reluctant Fox is given a new task. Jamie Breck is
a dirty cop, but no one can prove it. Length: 11 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 70991
The concrete blonde by Michael Connelly. Oxford: Isis, 2001. Having shot the
notorious serial killer, the "Dollmaker," four years earlier, maverick LAPD homicide
detective Harry Bosch finds himself in court, defending himself against a lawsuit that
claims he killed the wrong man. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 23 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 63151
The confession of Brother Haluin: the fifteenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael by
Ellis Peters. London: Headline,1988. December 1142 brings snow, which damages
the guest hall of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The brothers
must repair its roof, but the icy conditions cause Brother Haluin to slip. He sustains
such grave injuries that he makes a deathbed confession to Brother Cadfael. Length:
7 hours, 1 minute. RNIB. Order Number: 70640
The constant gardener by John le Carre. London: Coronet, 2001. Tessa Quayle
has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her putative African lover
has disappeared, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener,
sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. Length: 19
hours, 17 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 54095
The corner of your eye by Kate Lyons. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2006.
Six months ago twelve-year-old Flo ran away from home and then just disappeared.
Her mother Lucy retreated to a country town to find a new life but now hears a
whisper that sets her on the long-cold trail. Lucy returns to Sydney with only her wits,
her anger and her fierce determination to find the truth about her own lies. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 12 minutes. VAILS. Order
Number: 50700
The cranefly orchid murders by Cynthia Riggs. Ninety-two-year-old sleuth Victoria
Trumbull, with her eleven-year-old assistant, search for a plant that could provide
clues in the investigation of the murder of a local attorney. Length: 8 hours, 29
minutes. Order Number: 58391
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Page Number: 85
Mystery And Detective Stories
The crow biddy by Gillian White. ord: Isis 2004. Molly, middle-aged, newly divorced
and overweight meets an old school friend, Erica. Long ago they belonged to a
witch-band led by Erica, using drugs, magic and their adolescent dreams to get high
and practise dark, unholy rites. Their secrets are buried so deeply that only a major
catastrophe could bring them to the surface. A school reunion may be that
catastrophe. Length: 7 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65474
The cruel mother by Janet LaPierre. don: Virago, 1990. Meg and policeman
Gutierrez desire a peaceful vacation together where he can recover from a bullet
wound. On a highway in Northern Idaho, their plans are thrown into turmoil by a wild
teenager and a dying sixties radical yearning to see his daughter. Contains strong
language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 23
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63694
The cruelest month by Louise Penny. It is spring in the tiny village of Three Pines.
Buds are on the trees, and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed
earth. Some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a seance, when one of their
party dies of fright. Was this a natural death or was the victim somehow helped
along? Length: 11 hours, 46 minutes. Order Number: 69296
The curse of the golden yo-yo by Robin Bowles. Rowville, VIC: Five Mile Press,
2007. With a swagger, a smile and a slash of lipstick Cornelia takes on the mystery of
a torched Ferrari, investigates poisoned Pekinese puppies and stumbles into the
world of missing persons, drug deals gone wrong, laundered money and murder. And
then there's Elvis, the tennis pro and a solid gold yo-yo to die for. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 56 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
53020
The dark room by Minette Walters. Jane Kingsley, fashion photographer and
heiress, apparently tried to kill herself in a car crash after being jilted by her fiance.
When she awakes from her coma she remembers nothing about the alleged suicide
attempt. Slowly the memories return of utter desperation and absolute terror.
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 25 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 65988
The dark stream by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1986. Stella Reeve lies
drowned in the dark stream which skirts the Essex village of Wynford. Her death
seems accidental. Inspector Finch, senses an aura of violence about Stella's death; a
straight forward accident or a particularly canny murder? Length: 7 hours, 12 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 65885
The dark wind by Tony Hillerman. [S.l.]: Gollancz, 1983. Navajo Indian detective
Jim Chee, barred from following up on a multi-million dollar drug case, investigates a
murder and a vandalism incident and finds that perhaps all three cases are part of the
same pattern. Length: 6 hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66084
RNZFB
Page Number: 86
Mystery And Detective Stories
The daughter of time by Josephine Tey. [S.I.]: P. While at a London hospital
recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of
King Richard III. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the
picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves
into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was
and who really killed the little princes. Length: 5 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 71107
The daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter. London: Macmillan, 1994. Chief Inspector
Morse and Sergeant Lewis are called in when too little progress is being made on an
Oxford murder. The victim has been stabbed, but there is no weapon, no suspect, no
motive. Within days they uncover startling information about the victim and another
body. Length: 11 hours; 4 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47262
The dead side of the mike by Simon Brett. London: Gollancz, 1980. When Andrea
Gower's body is discovered in the radio editing suite, the words she spoke only hours
before take on a completely different meaning. Charles, an amateur sleuth, can't get
the dead girl off his mind. When the trail leads to a DJ and another dead body, it
becomes only a matter of time until the clues fall into place. Length: 6 hours, 56
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71413
The devil doctor by Sax Rohmer. Bath: Black Dagger Crime, 1994. Nayland Smith
and Dr Petrie find themselves standing against the mighty Chinaman, Dr Fu Manchu
and his monstrous schemes to bring Europe and America under Chinese domination.
He and his assassins are terrorizing London and must be stopped. Length: 8 hours, 2
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47268
The devil's advocate by Morris West. An English priest, chosen to investigate a
canonisation, is caught in a web of intrigue and concealment. Length: 11 hours, 11
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62691
The devil's home on leave by Derek Raymond. London: Warner Books, 1993. Five
plastic carrier bags are discovered, each contains the carefully dissected and boiled
remains of the victim. A Detective Sergeant, who harbours a compulsion to
investigate the mysteries of mankind gone bad, vows to solve the case. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Length: 7 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47273
The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin. berwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2010.
Charlie Berlin has returned from World War II and joined the police force but is
struggling to fit back in to a normal life. He is sent to Albury-Wodonga to investigate a
spate of robberies. When the body of a young girl turns up, Berlin's investigations
lead him further through layers of small-town fears, secrets and despair. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 50
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 67735
The documents in the case by Dorothy L. Sayers. Gollancz, 1930. How did the
mushroom expert come to poison himself with deadly fungi? The documents in the
case seem to be simple love notes and letters home, yet they conceal a clue to the
murderer who baffled the best minds in London. Length: 8 hours, 4 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 48966
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Page Number: 87
Mystery And Detective Stories
The dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Inspector Kurt Wallander
and his team are called in to investigate the murder of two Latvian criminals.
Wallander then travels to Riga, where he is plunged into a nightmare world of police
surveillance, veiled threats and lies. Contains strong language. Length: 10 hours, 5
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65515
The doublet affair by Fiona Buckley. Some of Ursula Blanchard's acquaintances
may be plotting to overthrow Elizabeth in favour of Mary, Queen of Scots. Secretary
of State Sir William Cecil needs a spy and Ursula is the obvious choice. Torn between
her devotion to Elizabeth and her longing to be reunited with her exiled Catholic
husband in France; Ursula makes a difficult bargain that balances personal
happiness against duty to Queen and country. Length: 9 hours, 48 minutes. Order
Number: 69311
The doubly dead by Elizabeth Ferrars. Hornchurch: Ian Henry, 1983. Margot has
vanished. She was not in London nor her rural cottage, something was wrong. Her
country neighbours are soon swept into a web of mystery and suspicion as murder
becomes a catalyst to fear and suspicion. Length: 6 hours, 5 minutes.. RNIB. Order
Number: 48967
The drowned ones by Sara Fraser. It is 1827, and a young serving woman is found
drowned in the canal. Her widowed mother believes her daughter has been murdered
and appeals to the Parish Constable, Thomas Potts, for help. Defying the edict of
those in power above him, Tom takes up the widow's cause and investigates her
daughter's death. He is sure the "Leggers", town outcasts who work on the barges,
know something. Length: 10 hours. Order Number: 69819
The echo by Minette Walters. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997. Why did a homeless
alcoholic, die of starvation in the garage of wealthy architect Amanda Powell? Six
months later Amanda is suddenly obsessed with her dead visitor and is eager to talk
to journalist Michael Deacon. Deacon's curiosity is intense, particularly as Amanda's
wealth can only be explained if her husband is dead. Contains strong language.
Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 11 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65987
The empty chair by Jeffery Deaver. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. Rhyme
and Amelia are drafted in as forensic experts to help find two woman kidnapped by
the Insect Boy. When they manage to find him, Amelia becomes convinced of his
innocence and breaks him out of jail, with disastrous consequences. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 14 hours, 7 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
65412
The evidence exposed by Elizabeth George. Ibis, 2000. This is a collection of three
short stories featuring, to different degrees, Inspector Thomas Lynley. Murder stalks
the great houses of Britain, the pursuit of a priceless letter and is inspired by
consultation number four. Length: 3 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 48995
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Page Number: 88
Mystery And Detective Stories
The faceless by Vanda Symon. North Shore, N.Z.: Penguin, 2012. Billy didn't come
back last night and Max knows she must be in trouble. Even though their home is a
doorway with a couple of boxes for warmth, she always lets him know where she is
going to be. Bradley knows where she is. He is a middle-aged man trapped in
middle-class New Zealand and he's the man who kidnapped her. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 48 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number:
67154
The feng shui detective's casebook by Nury Vittachi. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen &
Unwin, 2006. CF Wong is a feng shui master touring around Asia-Pacific on a
business trip. Wherever he and his assistant go they run into trouble, a murder in the
Philippines, kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore, perplexing cases
that need their unique skills to resolve. Length: 9 hours, 56 minutes. VAILS. Order
Number: 50715
The fifth woman by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Inspector Kurt Wallander
searches for a killer as he uncovers the link between the murders of four nuns and an
unidentified woman in an Algerian convent and the death of a birdwatcher found
skewered in a pit of sharpened bamboo poles. Contains strong language. Length: 14
hours, 49 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65519
The fig eater by Jody Shields. London: Transworld Publishers, 2000. Vienna, 1910.
On a warm August night the body of a young girl is discovered in the city's celebrated
Volksgarten. She has been strangled. The Chief Inspector begins his investigation
while his exotic wife also goes on a search of her own for the murderer. Length: 10
hours, 59 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 72863
The final days by Alex Chance. Karen, a recently qualified San Francisco
psychologist, has known her share of trauma but the letters she is receiving are
terrifying. Has this child been kidnapped? Ella is Utah's first female police chief and is
handling the high profile case. Her only leads are a decaying tombstone, a butchered
cat and the now-mute sister who has ghastly nightmares. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 14 hours, 19 minutes. VAILS.
Order Number: 57712
The first eagle by Tony Hillerman. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Bubonic plague
appears to have returned to the American Southwest. When a biologist working on
the plague scare disappears and a policeman is killed apparently by an eagle
poacher, Joe Leaphorn is called in to investigate. Length: 6 hours, 40 minutes.
RNZFB. Order Number: 74002
The Fitzgerald ruse by Mark de Castrique. Sam Blackman and his partner,
Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. Their first client, a quirky elderly
woman, wants them to retrieve a lockbox she claims contains a purloined F. Scott
Fitzgerald manuscript. After retrieving the sealed box, someone steals it from their
office, killing a security guard in the process. Sam is left wondering whether the
mystery is rooted in the past or the present. Length: 8 hours, 24 minutes. Order
Number: 58332
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The flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier. In the twentieth century Duke
Claudio the Falcon lived his brutal, twisted life in Ruffano. Five hundred years later
the town has forgotten its violent history but have things really changed? Parallels are
drawn; through murder, humiliation and outrage, to the horrifying flight of the modern
Falcon. Length: 13 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62314
The franchise affair by Josephine Tey. Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an
unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have
led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise. Then
Betty Kane accuses them of kidnapping and abuse. It takes Robert Blair, solicitor
turned amateur detective, to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise
Affair. Length: 9 hours, 37 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71108
The freedom trap by Desmond Bagley. Collins, 1971. The Scarperers, a brilliantly
organised gang for getting long term prisoners out of prison has sprung Slade, a
notorious Russian agent. Slade's trail leads British agent Owen Stannard to the
mastermind behind the Scarperers. Length: 9 hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 62381
The frumious bandersnatch by Ed McBain. Oxford: Isis, 2004. The young, beautiful
and talented Tamar is being launched as a new pop idol. Halfway through her
performance of her single, Bandersnatch, she is dragged off stage by masked men
and into a waiting speedboat. The city is in an uproar and it is Detective Steve
Carella's responsibility to find her. Contains strong language. Length: 8 hours, 21
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49018
The full cupboard of life by Alexander McCall Smith. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Precious
wants to set her wedding date but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure
on her fiance. She has her own worries helping a wealthy lady who has several
suitors. Precious must use her skills and intuition to discover if they are just interested
in the lady's money. Length: 6 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45968
The Gabriel hounds by Mary Stewart. Christy unexpectedly runs into her cousin
Charles in Damascus. Being young, rich, and impetuous, they decide to visit their
eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet unannounced. A strange new world awaits them beyond
the gates of Dar Ibrahim, Lady Harriet's ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanon.
The young cousins are to discover that the legend of the Gabriel hounds is
frighteningly real. Length: 11 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 68678
The ghostway by Tony Hillerman. [S.l.]: Gollancz, 1985. The Navajo "Big
Reservation" is a land of snakeweed and buffalo grass, a wilderness of empty
mountain and canyons that offers perfect hiding places. When the Federal Witness
Protection Program hides a convicted felon there without informing the Tribal Police, it
touches off a sequence of murder and treachery. Length: 6 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66082
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Page Number: 90
Mystery And Detective Stories
The girl in the cellar by Patricia Wentworth. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.
She comes to consciousness to find herself in the dark, standing on some cellar
steps, not knowing who she is or how she has got there. She does know that a dead
girl lies at the bottom of the steps. Fortunately Miss Silver is about to enter the scene.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 6 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47308
The girl in Times Square by Paullina Simons. London: HarperCollins, 2004. She
loves her aimless life in New York until her best friend and roommate disappears. In
desperation she turns to a derelict police detective for help. As he uncovers the truth
about her life, her friend and her family, she is dragged into the fight of her life.
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 18 hours, 58
minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 54911
The good detective by H.R.F. Keating. London: Macmillan, 1995. An old case
returns to haunt Assistant Chief Constable Ned French. Heather Jones, forced into a
false confession to murder, has served fifteen years of her long sentence but now
someone else has confessed. Length: 5 hours, 43 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
49027
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett. Thronging with princes, diplomats,
beautiful heiresses and international conspirators, the sumptuous suites and corridors
of the Grand Babylon Hotel are buzzing with gossip, intrigue and even murder. The
action opens when Theodore Racksole, a New York railroad millionaire with more
money than sense, decides to buy the Grand Babylon for his own amusement.
Length: 7 hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62061
The hanging garden by Ian Rankin. Oxford: Isis, 1999. Detective Inspector John
Rebus is buried under paper work but the escalating dispute between Tommy Telford
and Big Ger Cafferty's gang brings him out of his office. Telford has links to a man
bringing refugees into Britain as prostitutes. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 4 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 49036
The hanging in the hotel by Simon Brett. Oxford: Isis, 2004. A young solicitor is
found hanged from his four-poster bed in a country house hotel following an all-male
society dinner the night before. Jude doesn't believe it was suicide and with her friend
Carole's help, it would appear that The Pillars of Sussex are involved in a grand
collusion. Length: 8 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71420
The heart of danger by Gerald Seymour. London: HarperCollins, 1995. In a Croat
village a mass grave is uncovered and the body of an English woman is exhumed.
Her mother becomes obsessed searching for the truth of her death and hires a
private investigator. His search for evidence becomes an epic journey through a
country torn apart by civil war. Length: 16 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
49038
The hidden man by Michael Underwood. London: Macmillan, 1985. Sarah was
driving while just over the breathalyser limit when she knocked down a pop star and
killed him. Was this just an ordinary motoring accident or not? Length: 6 hours, 22
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65955
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Page Number: 91
Mystery And Detective Stories
The Hollow by Agatha Christie. Fontana, 1955. Attending a weekend party at 'The
Hollow' is a doctor, sculptress, shop girl, undergraduate and the owner of a country
house. For one of the guests there is no return journey home. When murder takes
place Poirot comes to lunch. He is baffled until one simple sentence shows him the
truth. Length: 7 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47325
The hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. [S. The mysterious death of
Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the
Baskerville family for 200 years. Sherlock Holmes sets out to uncover the truth about
a monstrous, supernatural hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the latest
heir to the Baskerville estate. Length: 5 hours, 53 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66148
The house by the sea by Nicola Thorne. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Clare's aim of working
on a biography of Joan of Arc is curtailed as events propel her into investigating an
ancient curse. Can an aristocratic French family suffer brutal deaths and it not have a
bearing on their lives? Length: 6 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66002
The house of silk by Anthony Horowitz. London: Orion, 2011. It is November 1890
and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are
enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b
Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced
man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Length: 9 hours, 29
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72546
The house of stairs by Barbara Vine. London: Viking, 1988. Recently widowed
Cosette buys a large dilapidated house in London at the end of the 1960s. Her young
cousin comes to stay, as do many young people absorbed into the drug culture, lured
by Cosette's wealth, and soon sudden death takes root. Length: 13 hours, 5 minute.
RNIB. Order Number: 49056
The Hyde Park headsman by Anne Perry. London: HarperCollins, 1994. London,
1890, and Superintendent Thomas Pitt is investigating the most horrific killings as
headless bodies keep appearing. For once his wife Charlotte is too preoccupied to
help her husband. Her brother-in-law is standing for Parliament, her mother is
unsuitably fond of a young actor and, most important, the Pitts are moving house.
Length: 15 hours, 3 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 47331
The ice house by Minette Walters. London: Macmillan, 1998. The discovery of a
corpse in the ice house of the Grange begins a murder investigation for the three
women living there. Will it be the end of the search for a husband missing for ten
years? Deep-buried prejudices surface when Inspector Walsh and Sergeant
McLaughlin delve into private lives and secret passions. Length: 10 hours, 33
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47333
The iciest sin by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Hutchinson, 1990. Inspector Ganesh Ghote
is given the assignment of catching and stopping Dolly Darnwala a despised
blackmailer. The case takes a twist when Ganesh witnesses another crime. Length: 6
hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65252
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Page Number: 92
Mystery And Detective Stories
The injudicious judge by Michael Underwood. [S.l.]: Ulverscroft, 1989. When
Judge Celia Kilby receives a anonymous letter threatening her life no one is
particularly surprised but when she is found murdered her death reveals surprising
aspects of her personal life. Suspects and motives abound but means and
opportunity remain elusive until Rosa Epton accepts a client who confesses to being
the anonymous letter-writer. Length: 5 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
65957
The innocence of Father Brown by G K Chesterton. Eleven more stories in which
Father Brown, priest-detective, solves plots of murder and mystery. Length: 7 hours,
56 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62572
The iron hand of Mars by Lindsey Davis. Hutchinson, 1992. With Caesar in pursuit
of Marcus Didius Falco's girlfriend, Falco is sent out of the way on an undercover
mission to Roman Gaul. He must cope with two bodies, a rebel chieftain and the
Fourteenth Legion's personal grudge, as he slips behind enemy lines, where every
rustling leaf heralds danger. Length: 11 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
47341
The ivory dagger by Patricia Wentworth. London: New English Library, 1996. Lila
Dryden is found standing over the dead body of her irritating fiance, the murder
weapon at her feet. It seems an open and shut case but where is the motive? When
Herbert's will disappears, the mystery deepens. Miss Silver is called in to investigate.
Length: 8 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66180
The ivy tree by Mary Stewart. Mary Grey has nothing to look forward to except a
future as colourless as her name. So if she looks, walks, and smiles so much like the
glamorous missing heiress Annabel Winslow, what harm could there be in living her
life for a while? Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 12 hours, 59 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 68689
The Jupiter myth by Lindsey Davis. Detective Marcus Didius Falco and his family
are staying in London when Falco is summoned to the scene of a murder. Sex, death
and gambling are the order of the day and the newly built Amphitheatre, with its flashy
female gladiators, is proving particularly popular. Falco soon realises that the initially
troublesome gladiators may just give him the edge he needs to solve the murder.
Length: 10 hours,44 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 56148
The Kalahari typing school for men by Alexander McCall Smith. London: Abacus,
2004, 2002. Precious is continuing to run her detective agency with her usual
formidable talent. Plans for her wedding need to be made. Further complications arise
when her assistant decides to expand the agency by opening a typing school for men.
Length: 5 hours, 53 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 45970
The killer's wife by Bill Floyd. Sydney: Hachette Livre, 2008. Six years after her
former husband had been sentenced to death for a series of brutal killings, Leigh has
built a new life for herself and her son. When her past is revealed, it forces her to
confront what happened. As she delves into her ex-husband's murders a new killer
emerges and is stalking Leigh. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 8 hours, 18 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57723
RNZFB
Page Number: 93
Mystery And Detective Stories
The killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham. London: Headline, 1989.
Badger's Drift is a tranquil English village. To the village doctor, a woman's death
looks natural enough, but her friend is unconvinced. Detective Chief Inspector
Barnaby's investigations reveal an unexpectedly seamy side to Badger's Drift . Then a
second gruesome killing shocks all. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 26 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 65034
The king of torts by John Grisham. London: Century, 2003. Washed-up public
defender Clay Carter's latest case seems like a routine street killing, until he
discovers evidence of a conspiracy involving a large drug company and a lawsuit with
a huge potential settlement. A successful case could change his life and make him
the king of torts. Length: 11 hours, 29 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56203
The knocker on death's door by Ellis Peters. [S.I.]: Macmillan, 1970. When a
heavy, oak door with a purportedly mystical knocker is moved to the village church,
Detective Chief Inspector George Felse must investigate some mysterious deaths
supposedly linked to the knocker. Length: 8 hours, 23 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 70641
The labyrinth of drowning by Alex Palmer. ble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2009. Two
years have passed since top cop Paul Harrigan walked away from the New South
Wales Police Force to be his own man. Since then his life with his partner Agent
Grace Riordan and their daughter has been a gift. That is until they realise someone
is watching them and Grace is assigned to a brutal murder in the Sydney bushland.
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length:
10 hours, 51 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63586
The lake of dead languages by Carol Goodman. London: Heinemann, 2002. Jane
Hudson returns as a Latin teacher to her alma mater, Heart Lake, a private girls
school deep in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Newly separated from her
husband, she hopes to find sanctuary at her old school, but is disturbed to find that
old legends still haunt the school. Length: 13 hours, 11 minutes. RNZFB. Order
Number: 56175
The last coyote by Michael Connelly. Oxford: Isis, 2002. Harry's girlfriend has left
him and he has been in a punch-up with a senior police officer. He decides to re-open
the investigation of his prostitute mother's murder, and finds that the key seems to lie
with an aged DA, the man who loved Harry's mother. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 63152
The last dance: a novel of the 87th precinct by Ed McBain. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1999. A man with no enemies is found hanging in what appears to be a
suicide. As the investigation unfolds, Carella and Meyer discover that, drugged and
unconscious, he could not possibly have hanged himself. They are dealing with
murder and an investigation that takes them into the politics and passion of a musical
opening in the theatre district. Contains strong language. Length: 7 hours, 56
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45776
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Page Number: 94
Mystery And Detective Stories
The last house-party by Peter Dickinson. Bodley Head, 1983. A mystery unravels
during the events of one particular weekend in the summer of 1939. The last of the
famous political house-parties to be given by Zena, Countess of Snailwood and
something goes dangerously amiss. Length: 8 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 47355
The last precinct by Patricia D Cornwell. Bath: Chivers, 2001. Kay Scarpetta is to
investigate the four hundred-year-old death of one of America's first settlers in
Virginia. It attracts headlines and the unwelcome ire of a mysterious person. At first
more nuisance than assault, the attacks quickly escalate to violence. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 15 hours, 52 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66047
The last refuge: a tale of money and murder in the Hamptons by Chris Knopf.
Sam Acquillo is a middle-aged dropout living alone in a ramshackle seaside cottage.
He has abandoned family, friends and career to drink vodka and brood. When the old
lady next door is found dead, Sam is the only one who wonders why. Despite himself,
the ex-engineer and ex-professional boxer finds himself uncovering secrets no one
could have imagined. Length: 11 hours, 3 minutes. Order Number: 58349
The last train to Scarborough by Andrew Martin. One night, in a private boarding
house in Scarborough, a railway man vanishes. It is the eve of the Great War, and
Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about this assignment. His governor seems
to be deliberately holding back details of the case and that his assistant is
trigger-happy. When Jim encounters the seductive and beautiful Amanda Rickerby a
whole new personal danger enters Jim's life. Contains strong language. Length: 9
hours, 17 minutes. Order Number: 69672
The Latimer mercy by Robert Richardson. Gollancz, 1985. When a valuable Bible
is stolen from Vercaster Cathedral and Diana Porter, a London actress, goes missing
at the Dean's garden party, the local police are concerned but not unduly alarmed.
Length: 5 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47356
The Lazarus tree by Robert Richardson. Gollancz, 1992. Nasty things have been
happening in the village of Medmelton; the vicious murder of a poet and strange
occurrences around the legendary Lazarus tree in the churchyard. Playwright Gus
Maltravers, has been called in to help the suspicious villagers. He must tear away
years of deceit to get at the truth but its exposure will have terrible consequences.
Length: 7 hours, 34 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45428
The lie direct by Sara Woods. [S.l.]: Macmillan, 1983. Anthony Maitland is asked to
defend a man who is not only on a charge of treason, but who is obviously guilty as
well. To make matters worse, the client has committed bigamy in the most
extraordinary circumstances. Length: 6 hours, 45 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
66124
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Page Number: 95
Mystery And Detective Stories
The lighthouse by P. D. James. London: Penguin in association with Faber and
Faber, 2006. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy
and cruelty. It now serves as a place where over-stressed, powerful men and women
find serenity in conditions of guaranteed security. When one of its distinguished
visitors is found hanging from Combe's lighthouse, the peace of the island is
shattered and Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to investigate. Contains violence.
Length: 12 hours, 47 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 66025
The listening eye by Patricia Wentworth. Paulina lip reads a disturbing
conversation while at an art exhibition. She was so shaken by its implications that she
visited Miss Silver. It was the last thing she did. Subsequent events involved Miss
Silver in murder and robbery and a tense house party, where everyone is linked to
Paulina, and one of them is the killer. Length: 7 hours, 18 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 66184
The little friend by Donna Tartt. Oxford: Isis. Harriet Cleve Dusfrenes grows up
haunted by the murder of her brother. When she is twelve she decides to find his
murderer and exact her revenge, but her sleuthing leads to an adult world that is dark
and menacing. Length: 24 hours, 48 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49105
The long good-bye by Raymond Chandler. [S.l.]: H. The first time Marlowe sets
eyes on Terry Lennox he's lying drunk in the passenger seat of a Rolls-Royce Silver
Wraith, the next time he's on Skid Row. Lennox has the promise of a job in Las
Vegas and takes a second honeymoon with his wife Sylvia. The honeymoon turns
sour, his wife ends up dead and Lennox turns up on Marlowe's doorstep in big
trouble. Length: 11 hours. RNIB. Order Number: 70580
The lost luggage porter by Andrew Martin. After his adventures as an amateur
sleuth, Jim Stringer is now an official railway detective. The local paper carries a story
highly unusual by York standards: two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile,
Jim is hot on the trail of pickpockets, "station loungers" and other small fry of the
underworld. Then in a tiny, one-room pub he enters the orbit of a dangerous villain
who is playing for much higher stakes. Contains strong language. Length: 9 hours,
11 minutes. Order Number: 69673
The love of gods by Alan Hunter. London: Constable, 1997. As Chief
Superintendent George Gently sits on his lawn having Sunday afternoon tea, nothing
could be further from his mind than untimely death. His tranquil afternoon is
interrupted with news of the brutal murder of a local poet. Length: 5 hours, 55
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47373
The lovely bones by Alice Sebold. London: Picador, 2003. After her murder,
fourteen-year-old Susie discovers that life is not quite finished with her. From heaven,
she watches her family and friends coping with her disappearance and her killer
covering his tracks. Length: 10 hours, 16 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 54912
The lying voices by Elizabeth Ferrars. London: Constable, 1995. aThe room where
Arnold was killed was filled with clocks, but every single one was wrong. So the fact
that a bullet had stopped a clock gave no pointer to the time of his murder. Length: 7
hours, 6 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 49112
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Page Number: 96
Mystery And Detective Stories
The madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon ; translated by Geoffrey
Sainsbury. London: Penguin, 1952. Inspector Maigret is shot whilst following a man
who mysteriously jumps off a moving train. He then gets caught up in an investigation
in a provincial French town terrorised by a maniacal murderer. Length: 4 hours, 17
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72403
The mamalade files by Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann. ney: HarperCollins, 2012.
When seasoned newshound Harry Dunkley is slipped a compromising photograph,
he knows he's onto something big. In pursuit of the scoop, Dunkley must negotiate
the deadly corridors of power where the minority government hangs by a thread.
From the teahouses of Beijing to the beaches of Bali, from the marbled halls of
Washington to the basements of the bureaucracy, Dunkley's quest takes him ever
closer to the truth - and ever deeper into a lethal political game. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 31 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
71861
The man in the queue by Josephine Tey. [S.I.]: P. Outside a London theatre a
throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. As
the doors open at last, a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of
a stiletto. Inspector Grant tenaciously pursues his suspects throughout the length of
Britain and the labyrinth of London. Length: 8 hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 71111
The man who died on Friday by Michael Underwood. A witness to a murder
becomes the chief suspect and the affair becomes a battle against time and
circumstantial evidence. Length: 6 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65964
The man who never lived by Kevin Ireland. Auckland: Vintage, 1997. When Arthur
Gransey retired from his position working at the port he lived quietly across the
harbour from his old job. The tranquillity is shattered while out walking on the beach
when he finds a mangled body. Length: 8 hours, 58 minutes. RNZFB. Order
Number: 55995
The man who smiled by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 2006. Staying alive
becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and
hunted in a terrifying game of money and power. Two men have died and an
enigmatic business tycoon who hides behind an entourage of brusque secretaries
and tight security seems to be the link between the two deaths. Length: 11 hours, 10
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65517
The man within by Graham Greene. The key themes running through this novel are
betrayal, pursuit, and the search for peace. Andrews has informed on his fellow
smugglers. He takes refuge from his avengers in a girl's house and she persuades
him to give evidence in court against his accomplices. Length: 8 hours, 33 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 65480
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Page Number: 97
Mystery And Detective Stories
The midnight promise: a detective's story in ten cases by Zane Lovitt. bourne:
Text, 2012. John Dorn is a private investigator, just like his father used to be. It says
'private inquiry agent' in his yellow pages ad. That's what his father called himself,
back before his business folded, his wife left him and he drank himself to death. But
John's not going to end up like his father. He doesn't have a wife, or much business.
He doesn't really drink, not yet... Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 8 hours, 50 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 71864
The mind readers by Margery Allingham. Fact catches up with fiction when the
secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the
mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys. Whether they stole it or invented it,
there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Length: 10 hours, 12
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73351
The missing Bronte by Robert Barnard. Collins, 1983. While on holiday in South
Yorkshire, Perry Trethowan was shown a manuscript apparently written in the tiny
hand of the Bronte sisters. When the owner is brutally attacked and the manuscript
stolen, Perry sets out on the trail of what could turn out to be the literary sensation of
the century. Length: 5 hours, 30 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47400
The moon-spinners by Mary Stewart. Nicola Ferris is looking forward to her holiday
in Crete, but before she reaches the island, she stumbles across a murderous crime
involving a young English woman and a group of people tied together by blood. For
the first time in her life, Nicola meets a man and a situation she can't handle. Length:
10 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 68690
The moonstone by Sir Wilkie Collins. The moonstone is a yellow diamond of
unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth
birthday present but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse. This novel
features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge,
a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers. Length: 22 hours, 36
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71501
The murder of the Maharajah by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Collins,1980. A handful of
Western visitors meet with the outrageous Maharajah of Bhopore and his entourage
in the opulent Summer Palace. Before long, the Maharajah has been murdered, and
various people in the Palace become suspects. Length: 10 hours, 48 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 65249
The murder room by P. D. James. Bath: Chivers, 2004. When Commander
Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit a small private museum on the edge of
Hampstead Heath, he had no idea that death lurked. One of the family trustees has
been horribly murdered. Dalgliesh thinks the museum's Murder Room, may be
inspiring a modern killer. Contains violence. Length: 13 hours, 44 minutes. RNZFB.
Order Number: 66024
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Page Number: 98
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The mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer. Bath: Chivers, 1992. Sir Crichton
Davies is dead. Along his arm, amongst cocaine needles tracks, is the imprint of red
painted lips. The deadly Zayat kiss presages the malignant shadow of Fu Manchu.
Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie follow him to the opium deans and fogbound London
docks in a desperate bid to outwit the evil genius. Length: 9 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 47411
The mystery of the missing masterpiece by Robin Bowles. Rowville, VIC: Five
Mile Press, 2008. Having recovered from her near fatal run-in with a novice nun,
Cornelia is the lucky recipient of a Tang dynasty porcelain horse. To bad the triads
are murdering people for just such a horse. Hilarious antics ensue as a surgeon's
after-hours shenanigans are revealed, followed by late night pursuit of a shifty courier
that leaves our heroine dangerously exposed. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 8 hours, 21 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57732
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco; translated from the Italian by William
Weaver. Picador ; Secker and Warburg, 1983. In 1327, an English friar and a young
German monk visit an Italian abbey. Upon arrival the friar is asked to investigate
some bizarre murders. He soon finds the abbey holds many secrets. It is an
atmosphere steeped in pungent foods, sexual mores, heresies, earthly humour and
the harsh quality of life. Length: 16 hours, 36 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47413
The no. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. Oxford: Isis.
Private detective Precious Remotswe embarks upon her new career from her
breezeblock office in Botswana. This is her humourous story of missing husbands,
impostor relatives, and wayward daughters. The case that tugs at her heart, and
lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched
by witchdoctors. Length: 6 hours, 34 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47416
The nursing home murder by Ngaio Marsh. London: Fontana, 1970. A Harley
Street surgeon and his nurse are nervous about operating on the Home Secretary, as
they both have good reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although
the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn
must find out why. Length: 6 hours, 28 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49125
The outcast by Michael Walters. London: Quercus, 2009. Ulaan Bataar bakes in the
summer heat as it prepares to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of the
Mongol Empire. The city is also facing a series of unexpected crises; an apparent
suicide bomber shot down by police, an explosion at a political rally, a body in the City
Museum and yet another body found murdered nearby. Contains strong language.
Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 3 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57738
The paperwhite narcissus by Cynthia Riggs. Martha's Vineyard is rocked by the
murder of a real-estate developer. He had an unhappy wife, an unpleasant attitude
toward women, and much disliked plans for the island. It is up to ninety-two-year-old
sheriff's deputy Victoria Trumbull to find the culprit responsible. Length: 7 hours, 29
minutes. Order Number: 70852
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The partner by John Grisham. Bath: Chivers, 1997. Lanigan had it all; a successful
career in a prominent law firm, a beautiful wife, a new baby girl and a bright future.
Then one winter night he was trapped in a burning car; the casket they buried held
nothing but ashes. When ninety million dollars disappeared from the law firm his
partners knew he was still alive and the long pursuit began. Length: 11 hours, 56
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45067
The perfect murder by H.R.F. Keating. Inspector Ghote's career begins with the
Bombay Police and he is saddled with the perfect murder with not even a corpse! He
must also contend with a cunning tycoon and the mysterious theft of one rupee from
the desk of the Minister of Police Affairs and the Arts. The heat is on to solve the
mysteries. Length: 8 hours, 9 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47435
The perfect murder by Peter James. London: Pan, 2010. Victor Smiley and his wife
Joan have been married for nearly twenty years. Victor secretly loathes Joan more
and more each day. Joan is bored by Victor and his snoring drives her mad. Their
marriage has reached a crisis point. Victor decides there is only one way to get Joan
out of his life for ever, but he's about to get a nasty surprise. Length: 2 hours, 15
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73552
The pyramid: and four other Kurt Wallander mysteries by Henning Mankell ;
[translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg with Laurie Thompson]. A
volume of short works featuring the popular investigator features Wallander as a
young patrolman on his first case, a new father facing unexpected danger on
Christmas Eve, a middle-aged man solving a poisoning death, a separated husband
investigating a photographer's murder, and a veteran detective connecting a dual
murder to a plane crash. Length: 15 hours, 21 minutes. Order Number: 58380
The reckoning by Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Emily Read.
[S.l.]: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. Jules Maletras is surprised when he strangles the
unimpressive little Lulu. He has never desired her physically so why was he jealous?
At least it will be a relief to be free of her. That is, until the unexpected repercussions
begin to appear. Length: 5 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72415
The red room by Nicci French. Oxford: Isis. Kit is a young woman who inhabits
dangerous worlds; crime scenes, interrogations, hospitals for the criminally insane.
Horribly wounded in a brutal attack, she must return to the site of her worst fears. A
young runaway has been found dead near a London canal and the chief suspect is
the man who wounded her. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 51 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46941
The religious body by Catherine Aird. Inspector Sloan investigates the murder of a
nun found at the foot of the cellars steps in the convent of St Anselm. It seems the
reason behind the death is money but Sloan must investigate every possibility.
Length: 6 hours, 10 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65039
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The reluctant constable by Sara Fraser. Gentle, kindly, impoverished bachelor,
Thomas Potts, is forced to fill the unpopular post of "Constable" of the Parish of
Tardebrigge. Constantly hectored by his shrewish widowed mother, Tom is jeered at
by the notorious, savagely violent "Needle Pointers" and despised by the local ruling
Gentry. When a homicidal maniac begins murdering and mutilating women, it is Tom
who must identify and confront this killer. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 27 minutes. Order
Number: 69817
The remorseful day by Colin Dexter. Chivers, 2000. When Inspector Morse refuses
to lead the reinvestigation into the murder of his old friend Yvonne Harrison, Lewis
begins to suspect that Morse knows more about her death than he has revealed.
Length: 11 hours; 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49160
The resurrection men by Sara Fraser. It is 1826 in the town of Redditch in
Worcestershire, Thomas Potts battles to keep the peace. The notorious Needle
Pointers up in arms at the news of a cut in their rate of pay. Plus, a mysterious
criminal gang, known as the Rippling Boys, have been robbing, murdering and
body-snatching with impunity. Gentle, timid Tom has his work cut out. Length: 9
hours, 20 minutes. Order Number: 69818
The return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. [S. Three years have
passed since Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty vanished into the Reichenbach Falls.
Then Watson meets a mysterious deformed man who reveals the truth behind that
fateful final conflict, and paves the way for the return of the world's greatest sleuth.
Length: 12 hours, 15 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66150
The Richmond conspiracy by Andrew Grimes. bourne: Text, 2012. Victor Radcliffe,
prominent Melbourne businessman, on the committee of the Carlton Football Club,
lies murdered in a deserted warehouse. Police Inspector James Maclaine, and his
sidekick Harry Devlin, are having trouble tracking down the killer. A shadowy group of
WW1 army veterans keeps showing up during investigations, as does the charming
stepdaughter of the deceased. Set in the summer of the Bodyline cricket series, The
Richmond Conspiracy is a crime mystery about men who have returned after war and
are refugees in their own land. Length: 7 hours, 33 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
71848
The salamander by Morris West. London: Heinemann, 1973. A card with a crowned
salamander, signifying 'survival', is found in the room of General Pantalone, leader of
a conspiracy against the Italian government. When the general dies, Colonel Dante
Alighieri Matucci must resolve the mystery. Length: 11 hours, 47 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 62668
The scold's bridle by Minette Walters. London: Macmillan, 1994. Dr Sarah
Blakeney does not agree that Mathilda's death from an overdose was suicide. A
rusted cage, a scold's bridle, now obscures the dead woman's face. Sarah has been
Mathilda's GP for only a year and finds she has inherited everything. Only Mathilda's
diaries can shed light on the mystery but they have disappeared. Contains strong
language. Length: 12 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47477
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The sea king's daughter by Barbara Michaels. Berkley, 1989. Sandy was lured to
the Greek island of Thera by a father she had never known, an archaeologist scorned
for his obsession with the lost continent of Atlantis. She was also drawn by haunting
dreams which draw her deeper into a labyrinth of ancient mystery, to her destiny and
her doom. Length: 8 hours, 7 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47482
The second confession by Rex Stout. London: Warner, 1992. Nero Wolfe is
investigating a young woman's unsavoury boyfriend. Is he is a member of the
Communist Party? Then Wolfe's orchid collection is destroyed and Louis Rony is
killed. Wolfe realises he is up against someone most sinister, a man called Arnold
Zeck, the only person who can make him afraid. Length: 8 hours. RNIB. Order
Number: 47484
The secrets of Harry Bright by Joseph Wambaugh. London: Joseph, 1986. Two
Los Angeles police detectives have been brought to the Californian desert by a
millionaire to investigate the year-old, unsolved murder of his only son. Length: 9
hours, 59 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 60065
The severance by Elliott Sawyer. The rehabilitation platoon is made up of
troublemakers and misfits who take on missions no one else wants. Platoon leader
Captain Jake Roberts and his men, fighting in the Afghan mountains, discover a
hoard of American dollars which they hide, planning to smuggle it out of the country
as their severance pay package. They have an unknown adversary who is trying to
kill them to grab the package. Length: 6 hours, 17 minutes. Order Number: 63784
The shadow walker by Michael Walters. London: Quercus, 2007. As winter falls
upon the streets of Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, a serial killer is just getting warmed up. His
fourth victim's mutilated body is found in one of the city's most expensive hotels.
Political pressure has Nergui working with Doripalam and they are joined by Senior
British CID officer, Drew McLeish. The murders continue, leading them out into the
Gobi and then McLeish is kidnapped. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions
of sex. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 25 minutes. VAILS. Order Number:
53035
The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics by Nury Vittachi. Crows Nest, N.S.W.:
Allen & Unwin, 2006. CF Wong is a simple man enjoying his profitable feng shui
business. Then his assistant seems to have lost her marbles and become a
vegetarian, his office is being demolished and a group of vegan terrorists are
threatening him with guns. Next there is a white elephant, Shanghai's biggest traffic
jam ever and the vegans are threatening murder, mayhem and bombs! Length: 10
hours, 54 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 50684
The shape of snakes by Minette Walters. Bath, U.K.: Chivers, 2001. 1978,
somewhere in West London, a black woman dies in a rain soaked gutter. Her passing
would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who
believes that Annie was murdered. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 10 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65989
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Page Number: 102
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The sharp end by Gabrielle Lord. Two apparently disparate murders yet Detective
Harry Doyle is convinced they are connected. The link turns out to be Harry himself.
With the killer out for revenge, his whole family is at risk. The silence which has grown
between them makes them extra vulnerable to attack. Contains strong language.
Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 14 minutes. VAILS.
Order Number: 63678
The sheriff of Bombay: an inspector Ghote novel by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]:
Collins,1984. While escorting an ageing British film hero on a tour of Bombay's
notorious red-light district, Inspector Ghote witnesses a murder and finds the sole
suspect to be none other than the Sheriff of Bombay. Length: 6 hours, 37 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 65250
The silent hour by Michael Koryta. Whisper Ridge, a multimillion-dollar estate,
once housed a unique program for paroled murderers. It has been derelict for over a
decade and is a strange monument to dangerous secrets and missing people. Private
investigator Lincoln Perry unwillingly gets involved in a nasty maze of suspects which
leaves him questioning his choice of career. Length: 11 hours, 41 minutes. Order
Number: 59725
The silver pigs by Lindsey Davis. London: Pan Books ; Sidgwick and Jackson,
1990. Marcus Didius Falco is a cynical private eye living and working in the seedier
parts of ancient Rome. A new case sends him to Britain where he ends up slaving in
a silver mine in search of missing silver pigs. He uncovers a plot to depose the
emperor and must work with a senator's sharp-tongued daughter to solve murder,
mayhem and intrigue in high places. Length: 9 hours, 48 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 47492
The singing sands by Josephine Tey. Inspector Grant investigates a death made
suspicious by a few enigmatic lines, apparently scribbled by the deceased before his
demise. Grant's enquiries take him to the remote Hebrides, where the bizarre
circumstances of the death begin to become clear. Length: 7 hours, 31 minutes.
RNZFB. Order Number: 66983
The skull beneath the skin by P. D. James. London: Faber, 1982. In a Victorian
castle perched high on a remote island off the coast of Dorset, private eye Cordelia
Gray finds herself on a dangerous new assignment. The victim was an aged and
egomaniacal actress queen. Length: 15 hours, 43 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
50803
The small boat of great sorrows by Dan Fesperman. Oxford: Isis Publishing, 2004.
Vlado Petric, former detective in war-torn Sarajevo, has finally left his homeland to
join his family in Germany. He is visited by an enigmatic American investigator who
works for the International War Crimes Tribunal. He wants Petric to help capture a
man responsible for a terrible massacre. Petric suspects he is being used as bait.
Length: 11 hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49191
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The song of names by Norman Lebrecht. London: Review, 2002. Two very different
boys become blood brothers and roam the streets of wartime London finding tragedy
and triumph, sex and crime. When one mysteriously disappears the other is
devastated. Forty years later a musical clue sets him on the trail to self-discovery and
renewal. Length: 11 hours, 43 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49192
The speaker of Mandarin by Ruth Rendell. [S.I]: Hutchinson, 1983. Chief Inspector
Wexford is part of a team of detection experts assembled by Scotland Yard at the
request of the Chinese government. Back in England he investigates the murder of
one of his fellow tourists, and finds himself locked in a mystery that leads back to the
East. Length: 9 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66210
The stabbing in the stables by Simon Brett. Jude Seddon has never had a horse
for a client before. With a reluctant Carole providing transportation, the women arrive
at Long Bamber Stables only to stumble upon a dead body. It soon becomes clear
that the stables is a hotbed of dangerous passions, murderous rivalries and sinister
secret. This horsing community will do anything to conceal the truth behind their
deceptive lives. Length: 7 hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71419
The stone flower garden by Deborah Smith. Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2002.
Childhood friends are torn apart by a murder that has never been solved. They are
faced with long-buried secrets as the darker side of a family's saga is revealed.
Length: 12 hours, 50 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56215
The stone monkey by Jeffery Deaver. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. In a race
against time, Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two
dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer,
Youling the Ghost. Can they stop the Ghost before he murders again? Contains
strong language. Length: 15 hours, 37 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 56499
The story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. On a remote Wisconsin farm
an unusual alliance is formed between a mute youth and his dogs. When Edgar's
beloved father dies mysteriously he struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is
responsible. This is part mystery, thriller and ghost story, of a young man overcoming
many odds. Length: 21 hours, 23 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 54940
The sultan's seal by Jenny White. The body of a young Englishwoman washes up
in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The
death resembles the unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, ten years before. A
magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, sets out to find the killer, but his
dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening
danger. Length: 10 hours, 52 minutes. Order Number: 70846
The Sunday philosophy club by Alexander McCall Smith. Oxford: Isis, 2005. The
editor of The Review of Applied Ethics, a philosopher, and an irrepressibly curious
lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal
fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his
brokerage firm. Length: 7 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49208
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The take by Graham Hurley. Oxford: Isis, 2002. It has been a grim week in
Portsmouth. Detective Inspector Joe Faraday's assistant is killed in a car smash.
Then DS Paul Winter's wife is diagnosed with inoperable cancer and a serial flasher
has just upped the ante by inflicting bodily harm on a woman walking around the
harbour. Length: 11 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49210
The tattooed man by Alex Palmer. ble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2008. Paul Harrigan
is a top cop who has survived the corruption and political manoeuvrings of the NSW
Police. Grace Riordan left the Service to work in the shadowy world of undercover
intelligence. Harrigan is covering a grisly murder in Sydney's wealthy north while
Grace's case forces her to a flashpoint she would never have predicted. Contains
strong language. Contains violence. Length: 14 hours. VAILS. Order Number:
63587
The Thanksgiving Day murder by Lee Harris. More than a year ago Natalie
Gordon went to buy a balloon at the Thanksgiving Day Parade and dissolved into thin
air. The police still have no leads. Not only are Natalie's present whereabouts a
mystery but so is her past. Someone has stripped her personnel file in her old office.
Even her husband knows strangely little about her. Christine Bennett searches for a
life someone tried very hard to erase. Length: 6 hours, 51 minutes. Order Number:
69454
The thief of time: a novel by Tony Hillerman. New York: Harper & Row, c1988.
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navaho tribal police, grieving over the death of his
wife, resigns from the force when he is unable to resume ordinary life after his loss.
Then an archaeologist disappears and Leaphorn learns that Officer Jim Chee is
investigating the killing of two artefact robbers linked to the archaeologist's
disappearance. Leaphorn can't help but get involved again. Contains strong
language. Length: 6 hours, 58 minutes. Order Number: 73223
The tiger in the smoke by Margery Allingham. [S.l.]: Hogarth, 1987. Albert
Campion is sent into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two
suspicious deaths. Not only has there been a poisoning, there are also anonymous
letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Length: 10 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 71241
The torso in the town by Simon Brett. A dinner party at an English mansion with
some stuffy, not-very-close friends is not exactly Jude's cup of tea. When the
practically mummified torso of a woman found in the cellar Jude's races home to
Fethering and her friend Carole with the news. Soon the pair are back questioning the
locals. Length: 8 hours, 13 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71417
The tower by Michael Duffy. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2009. It's going to
be the biggest skyscraper in the world. One rainy night a young woman falls from an
unfinished upper storey, landing on a police car. Detectives Jon McIver and Nicholas
Troy think it will be a pretty simple investigation but all is not what is seems. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 15 hours,
55 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63411
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The twelfth card by Jeffery Deaver. Oxford: Isis, 2006. A high school girl in Harlem,
Geneva Settle, is the target of a ruthless professional killer. Rhyme believes that
Geneva is being targeted because of a paper she's writing about her ancestor,
Charles Singleton, who had a secret that could have tragic consequences if revealed.
Contains violence. Length: 16 hours, 27 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65411
The unconsoled by Ishiguro Kazuo. London: Faber, 1995. A musician of
international renown, checks into a hotel in a central European city. He has the
distinct recollection that he is due to perform in a few day's time but as the porter
escorts him to his room, it occurs to him that there is more to this visit than he first
anticipated. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 21 hours, 55 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 47526
The Upfold witch by Josephine Bell. A retired doctor and his wife, new owners of a
Sussex cottage with a sinister reputation, uncover a village story of murder and
persecution. Length: 6 hours, 31 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71104
The vanished man by Jeffery Deaver. Oxford: Isis, 2003. The police chase a killer
from the scene of a homicide at a Manhattan music school and into a locked
classroom, only to find the room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are then
pitted against "The Conjurer", who has one final, horrific trick to play. Contains strong
language. Contains violence. Length: 14 hours, 18 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
65409
The veiled one by Ruth Rendell. London: Hutchinson, 1988. A middle-aged
housewife is found murdered. Sidekick Burden pursues the boy who reported the
murder, while Wexford pursues the victim's daughter, blackmail schemes, and the
relationship between Burden and suspect number one. Length: 9 hours, 48 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 62332
The wages of Zen by James Melville. Superintendent Otani of the Hyogo
Prefectural Police in Japan investigates European and American murder suspects
with the utmost diplomacy as the case expands into the murky waters of drug
trafficking. Length: 6 hours, 8 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 73422
The watersplash by Patricia Wentworth. London: New English Library, 1998.
Lurking behind the tranquillity of the country village of Greenings is a tinder-dry
passion which owes its origins to events in the recent past. When Clarice Dean is
found drowned in a watersplash, the match is set. Can Miss Silver put out the blaze?
Length: 9 hours, 5 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66181
The white lioness by Henning Mankell. Oxford: Isis, 2004. In 1992, in peaceful
Southern Sweden, a young housewife, pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and
is later found murdered, execution style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are
called in to investigate. It is a case with its roots far away, in Apartheid South Africa.
Contains strong language. Length: 15 hours, 35 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
65516
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The wild island by Antonia Fraser. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978.
Jemima Shore, TV investigator, arrives on a Scottish island for a holiday, only to find
herself involved in the mystery following the drowning of the heir of a Jacobite family,
the aristocratic Beauregards. Length: 7 hours, 11 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
69953
The will and the deed by Ellis Peters. Headline, 1991. The reading of the will of
legendary diva Antonia Byrne turns out to hold some unpleasant surprises for her
nearest and dearest, especially when they all get snowed in together at Christmas.
Length: 6 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49238
The winter thief by Jenny White. January 1888, the police discover a shipload of
guns and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up. Suspicion falls on a socialist
commune in the eastern mountains of Turkey. Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha is
called in to investigate. The head of a special branch of the secret police has
convinced the sultan that the commune is leading a secessionist movement and
should be destroyed. Kamil must stop the massacre. Length: 11 hours, 15 minutes.
Order Number: 69169
The witness at the wedding by Simon Brett. Oxford: Isis, 2005. Carole Seddon's
son is about to be married. His fiance, Gaby, and her parents seem desperate to
keep the event very discreet. After a quiet engagement party, Gaby's father
disappears only to be found in a burnt out car. As the family deal with their grief,
Carole begins to suspect they are also hiding secrets that can be traced back thirty
years, to another murder. Length: 7 hours, 56 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 71418
The woman in red by Paula Gosling. Macmillan, 1983. A man falls to his death from
a five storey block of flats inhabited by British expatriates on Spain. Charles
Llewellyn, the local Foreign Office representative, investigates. Length: 8 hours, 9
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47597
The writing class by Jincy Willett. Melbourne: Scribe, 2008. Amy is a nervous,
reclusive widow whose only bright spot is the evening writing class that she teaches.
This semester's class has the usual characters but there is something different. A
scary phone call and obscene threats make her suspect one of her students.
Everyone becomes a suspect when a student is murdered. Dissecting each student's
writing for clues, Amy goes sleuthing. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 10 hours, 9 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57757
The year of the golden ape by Colin Forbes. Isis, 1999. Masterminding a plan to
destroy Israel, Sheik Gamal Tafak has hired professional terrorists. His conspiracy
stretches across the globe, culminating in a threat to annihilate San Francisco.
Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 38 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49248
They love not poison by Sara Woods. London: Macmillan, 1972. A mystery set in
1947 on a Yorkshire farm, involving hidden treasure, witchcraft and black magic.
Length: 6 hours, 46 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66123
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They stay for death by Sara Woods. [S.l.]: Macmillan, 1980. Barrister-sleuth
Anthony Maitland is pressed by his new aunt-in-law into investigating recent deaths at
a posh nursing home. Maitland reluctantly decides to placate his aunt and, in so
doing, uncovers a gruesome plot to murder the aged for their money. Length: 6 hours,
39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66125
Third girl by Agatha Christie. A young woman walks in on Hercule Poirot's
breakfast, announcing that she may have committed a murder. She then disappears,
leaving him to puzzle out the truth. Length: 9 hours, 5 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
67216
This body of death by Elizabeth George. DI Thomas Lynley is still on
compassionate leave and Isabelle Ardery is brought in as his temporary replacement.
The discovery of a body in Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle the chance to
make her mark. She persuades Lynley back into active service. The murder trail
leads them to the New Forest. The roots of the case are in a long-ago act of violence
that has poisoned subsequent generations. Length: 26 hours, 20 minutes. Order
Number: 69778
This fatal writ by Sara Woods. Leicester: Ulverscroft, 1983. Harry Charlton is
alleged to have sold top secret information to the Russians. A young friend of
Anthony Maitland's persuades him to take Charlton's case, although Maitland
suspects that his new client might indeed be guilty of treason, not to mention murder.
Length: 7 hours, 11 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66127
This rough magic by Mary Stewart. For one man, murder is only a game. He
shatters the tranquility of an Ionian island with fear, danger and death. Length: 11
hours, 50 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 70977
Three act tragedy by Agatha Christie. London: HarperCollins, 1995. Thirteen guests
arrived for dinner at an actor's house. It was an unlucky evening for the Reverend
Babbington, who died from his cocktail. Annoyingly for Poirot, there was no trace of
poison in his glass and absolutely no motive. Length: 5 hours, 51 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 47616
Three hands in the fountain by Lindsey Davis. London: Century, 1997. Marcus
Didius Falco and friend are near a local fountain when a human hand is found in it.
For years body parts have been appearing in Roman's water systems. The killer
strikes during public festivals and the Roman Games are imminent. Falco and Petro
start a desperate search for the killer before he strikes again. Length: 11 hours, 17
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63268
Thrones, dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh. London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1998. Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet Vane, the
detective story writer, are settling into their new life together in London. It is 1936, and
London is a social whirl for the fashionable and wealthy. When murder strikes in their
exalted social circle, Detective Inspector Charles Parker and Harriet must work
together. Length: 10 hours, 12 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 47619
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Thunder on the right by Mary Stewart. Jennifer is looking forward to meeting her
cousin at Gavarnie in the Pyrenees but upon arrival she finds that she has vanished.
There is evidence that she is dead but Jennifer refuses to believe it. Length: 7 hours,
55 minutes. RNZFB. Order Number: 70620
Thursday legends by Quintin Jardine. [S.I]: Oxford: Isis, 2001. Every Thursday
friends enjoy a game of football together, until the discovery of a former player's
corpse. As one of the players Bob Skinner must trawl through past cases trying to
find a clue to the murder. Is someone targeting this disparate group of colleagues and
friends in some bizarre scheme of retribution? Or is the murderer one of them?
Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 66553
Time to depart by Lindsey Davis. London: Century, 1995. One of Rome's top
criminals, Balbinus, has finally been exiled from the Empire. Soon the corpses start
appearing and it is obvious that he is back in the criminal underworld. Petro, captain
of the Aventine watch, with sleuth friend Marcus Didius Falco must descend into
Rome's underworld of crime to get their man. Length: 13 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 45754
To love and be wise by Josephine Tey. London: P. A brilliant and totally
unexpected solution is found to the puzzling disappearance of a young American
photographer from Alan Grant's village. Length: 7 hours, 5 minutes. RNZFB. Order
Number: 56996
To make a killing by June Thomson. [S.l.]: Constable, 1982. Detective Chief
Inspector Finch becomes involved in the art world when a dealer's body is discovered
in the outhouse of a decaying Essex mansion. A bedridden old artist, crippled with
arthritis, and his much younger wife live in the house and the area crawls with
characters; a scrounging younger brother, a prim admirer and a seductive secretary.
Length: 10 hours, 23 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65883
To prove a villain by Guy M. Townsend. A university English instructor is murdered
and a professor of history, who is fascinated by Richard III's historical legacy,
attempts to track the killer down. Length: 6 hours, 49 minutes. RNZFB. Order
Number: 66981
To ruin a queen by Fiona Buckley. When Elizabethan secret agent Ursula
Blanchard is re-united with her husband, she learns that her daughter has
disappeared. She investigates her disappearance, uncovering a sinister plot to
dethrone her queen in the process. Length: 10 hours, 18 minutes. Order Number:
69313
To shield the Queen by Fiona Buckley. It's 1560 and Ursula Blanchard, a poor
young widow, is sent to Queen Elizabeth's court to protect the Queen's reputation.
Rumour has linked Queen Elizabeth I to her Master of Horse, Robin Dudley. As
gossip would have it, only his ailing wife, Amy, prevents marriage between Dudley
and the Queen. Ursula can't prevent the accident that takes Amy's life. Did she fall or
was she pushed? Length: 9 hours, 26 minutes. Order Number: 69310
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Tokyo by Mo Hayder. Oxford: Isis, 2004. Student Grey Hutchins is in Tokyo to meet
a survivor of the notorious Nanking Massacre of thousands of civilians by the Imperial
Japanese Army. Alone and desperate she takes work as a hostess at a nightclub.
She meets an old gangster confined to a wheelchair and surviving on a powerful
elixir. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 12 hours, 36 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 49273
Tooth and claw by Gabrielle Lord. ney: Aurora Press, 1983. Since the death of her
partner a few months before in mysterious circumstances, Beth has lived alone. Then
she becomes convinced she is being watched. Length: 5 hours, 58 minutes. VAILS.
Order Number: 63679
Tooth and nail by Ian Rankin. Because the first body was found in Wolf Street,
because the murderer takes a bite from each body, the press call him the Wolfman.
Thanks to a supposed expertise in serial killers, Inspector Rebus is called down to
London from Edinburgh to solve the case. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 9 hours. Order Number: 57926
Touch not the cat by Mary Stewart. [S.l.]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. After the
death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become
the responsibility of her cousin Emory. Ashley Court with its load of debt was no
longer her worry. However, there was something very odd about her father's sudden
death. Length: 10 hours, 41 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 68692
Traitor's purse by Margery Allingham ; introduced by Jessica Mann. Dent, 1985.
He awoke in hospital not knowing who he was, nor why they were talking of hanging
him. Escaping, he finds everyone expects him to do something that is vital for
England, now on the brink of war. Length: 7 hours, 25 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 49288
Trick or treat by Kerry Greenwood. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2007.
Corinna's bakery has worrying competition and her gorgeous Daniel has a tall,
blonde, beautiful houseguest. Then life gets more complicated when Daniel is
regularly absent, sinister strangers appear and there are back alley ambushes.
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 9
hours, 34 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63480
Tripwire by Lee Child. London: Bantam Books, 2000. Being invisible has become a
habit for Jack Reacher. He doesn't want to be found. So when a private detective
comes nosing around, asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. When the detective
turns up dead with no fingertips Reacher is determined to find some answers.
Contains violence. Length: 16 hours, 53 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 64479
Trunk music by Michael Connelly. Oxford: Isis, 2000. The discovery of the body of
Tony Aliso, a minor player in Hollywood, is the beginning of a case for Harry Bosch
that takes him from LA to the casinos and strip clubs of Las Vegas. At first it looks as
though the mob killed Tony, but then he discovers that the killer is an undercover FBI
agent. Length: 12 hours, 44 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49216
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Truth by Peter Temple. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2009. In a glass bath, a young
woman lies dead, a panic button within reach, and Inspector Stephen Villani must
solve the case. Villani's life is his work, but as fires burn across the state and his
superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all his certainties are crumbling.
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length:
10 hours, 54 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63431
Turnstone by Graham Hurley. Oxford: Isis, 2001. Detective Inspector Joe Faraday
thinks that a young girl's father has been murdered but with his squad battling an
ever-growing caseload in a city torn by violence, poverty and drug-dealing, it will be
difficult to find him. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains
violence. Length: 9 hours, 19 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46013
Two time by Chris Knopf. Sam Acquillo is happy hanging out in his ramshackle
cottage with his vodka and his dog. When he is caught up in a deadly car bombing he
has no choice but to investigate. Using his trademark wit, instinct and charm he
unravels a complex deception involving financial transfers, an agoraphobic widow and
angry clients with possible Mafia connections. Length: 10 hours, 1 minute. Order
Number: 58397
Under a monsoon cloud by H. R. F. Keating. [S.l.]: Hutchinson, 1986. Inspector
Ghote has modelled his career on the efficiency and integrity of "Tiger" Kelkar, but in
a moment of pre-monsoon rage a subordinate is killed and Ghote must compromise
both duty and justice to defend his hero. Length: 7 hours, 32 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 65251
Under orders by Dick Francis. London: Michael Joseph, 2006. The winner of the
Triumph Hurdle crossing the finishing line with three bullets in his chest. He was Sid
Halley's friend. Halley's quest for answers draws him ever deeper into the darker side
of the race game, in a life-or-death power play that will push him to his very limits;
both professionally and personally. Contains strong language. Contains violence.
Length: 10 hours, 1 minute. RNIB. Order Number: 65308
Under the Andes by Rex Stout. Lured by the legends of Inca gold, the beautiful
dancer Desiree and two brothers enter a mysterious cave. What they don't realize is
that others live there, now misshapen after generations of living underground,
protecting the gold of their ancestors. Can the brothers' determination save
themselves and the incomparable Desiree? Length: 9 hours, 38 minutes. Order
Number: 59733
Under the hammer by John Mortimer. London: Penguin, 1994. Maggie Perowne is
head of Old Masters at Klinsky's auction house in London; Ben Glazier is an art
expert. Together Ben and Maggie are a crack team blending integrity and
professionalism with a keen eye for uncovering the strange circumstances around
priceless art works. They detect fakes at a hundred paces but spotting the forgers
may cause trickier problems. Length: 8 hours, 57 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
67911
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Under world: a Dalziel and Pascoe novel by Reginald Hill. London: Collins, 1988.
A child's death in the woods was solved years ago. Then Colin returns to the village
and disturbs the transquility and presages more death. Inspector Pascoe and
Superintendent Dalziel are drawn into the intricate maze mystery until its dark and
startling conclusion. Contains strong language. Length: 10 hours, 49 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 47661
Unnatural causes by P. D. James. London: Penguin, 1989. A peaceful village on the
Suffolk coast was Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh's retreat from the daily brutality of
Scotland Yard. Then they discovered the mutilated body of a crime writer who had a
host of local enemies who wanted him dead. Dalgliesh begins to untangle the mass of
lies and hatred. Contains violence. Length: 8 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 66020
Unreasonable doubt by Elizabeth Ferrars. London: Collins, 1986. Professor Alistair
Dirke thought he was a reasonable man, until he saw his wife with his best friend
Paul. The Dirkes would have enjoyed their holiday in the South of France but the
summer was tainted with murder and the disappearance of a valuable collection of
coins. Length: 6 hours, 24 minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 49299
Valley of the lost by Vicki Delany. In a bucolic mountain town in British Columbia, a
young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. While
this should be an open and shut drug case, restraint marks on the victim suggest to
Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters that the death is suspicious.
Length: 9 hours, 34 minutes. Order Number: 58398
Vanishing acts by Jodi Picoult. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2005. Delia,
raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, has a young daughter, a
handsome fiance and her own business, but is haunted by never knowing her mother
and by unexplainable dreams. Then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a
secret that changes her world. Length: 14 hours, 20 minutes. RNZFB. Order
Number: 55050
Vanishing point by Patricia Wentworth. London: New English Library, 1988.
Nothing much happens in the village of Hazel Green until a girl goes out for a walk
and never comes back. Could her disappearance be linked to security leaks at the
nearby Air Ministry station? Length: 8 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 66183
Vendetta by Michael Dibdin. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Oscar Burolo was the
kind of big-shot who thought he could control everything. Inside his Sardinian
mansion, everything was recorded on close-circuit TV even his own violent death.
Contains strong language. Length: 10 hours, 6 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
71247
Venus in copper by Lindsey Davis. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991. The
Roman Empire's most hard done by investigator is sprung from jail and accepts a
commission to help a family of freed slaves fend off a professional bribe. Amidst
poisonings and racketeers he is trying to persuade his girlfriend to join him in a new
apartment. Length: 11 hours, 2 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 63267
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Mystery And Detective Stories
Vodka doesn't freeze by Leah Giarratano. Sydney: Random House, 2007. When a
man is brutally murdered in the dunes overlooking a children's pool, Sergeant Jill
Jackson realises this was no ordinary victim. Someone has stopped a paedophile in
his tracks. When more sex offenders are murdered she knows she must act quickly.
She unearths a wealthy men's club that is really a Sydney paedophile ring. As she
faces predators and their victims she is forced to make a terrible decision. Contains
strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 9 hours, 6
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57775
Voodoo doll by Leah Giarratano. Sydney: Random House, 2008. Sergeant Jill
Jackson has been promoted to a taskforce targeting gang-related home invasions in
Sydney. She has a new partner and new team. Violence escalates to murder and Jill
finds they must hunt a psychopath, racing against time to uncover what links the
victims to the killer. Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains
violence. Length: 8 hours, 32 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57763
Warned off by Richard Pitman and Joe McNally. Sevenoaks: Coronet, 1992.
Falsely accused of involvement in a doping scandal, ex-champion steeplechase
jockey Eddie Malloy has the chance to redeem himself by helping to solve a murder
case. As he follows a trail of violence, drugs and blackmail he realises that it is
leading him towards the man who framed him. Contains strong language. Contains
violence. Length: 8 hours, 26 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65012
Wasted years by John Harvey. London :Mandarin, 1994. A series of brutal robberies
takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick back ten years, to a time when similar
incidents left him facing a frenzied sociopath. Resnick fights to track down the men
before they kill. Contains strong language. Contains violence. Length: 10 hours, 12
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62881
Watch the world burn by Leah Giarratano. Sydney: Random House, 2010. An
elderly lady, dining in a hotel restaurant with her son, bursts into flames and dies.
When accelerants are found on the victim's face and clothing, the attention is turned
to Berrigan, a fallen hero cop, who fits the arsonist profile. Detective Sergeant Jill
Jackson becomes caught up in the investigation that will change her life forever.
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 9
hours, 29 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63474
Well-schooled in murder by Elizabeth George. The murder of a gifted schoolboy
brings Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers to an old and
distinguished public school where loyalty and honour are watchwords or are they?
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 13 hours, 59
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 62526
West of sunset by Dirk Bogarde. London: Allen Lane, 1984. Hugo Arlington, a
celebrated young writer, had come from England to Los Angeles to research his latest
book. He is killed in a tragic road accident. Or was it a deliberate act of suicide? His
wife and two daughters struggle to come to terms with the future in Los Angeles, but
the memory of Hugo will not die. The past holds debts which must be paid. Length: 10
hours, 4 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 72343
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What angels fear by C. S. Harris. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2008. It's
1811 and the threat of revolution haunts King George III's England. When a young
woman is found murdered in an ancient London church the damning evidence points
to Sebastian St. Cyr, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the
Napoleonic Wars. Sebastian, with the help of some unexpected allies, must catch the
killer in a world of espionage & intrigue. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains
violence. Length: 10 hours, 35 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57769
When gods die by C. S. Harris. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2008. In the
Brighton Royal Pavilion in 1811, a beautiful young marchioness is dead in the Prince
Regent's arms. Once more Sebastian St. Cyr is dragged into murder and a
conspiracy that threatens the monarchy and himself. An actress and a reformed
pickpocket again come to his aid. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence.
Length: 9 hours, 23 minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 57770
Whip hand by Dick Francis. London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Ex-jockey Sid Halley is
now a crack private investigator. While checking out the mysterious failings of a
man's horses and the Jockey Club's corruption, he becomes embroiled with a
menacing syndicate, his ex-wife's boyfriend and a mess of unsavoury characters.
Contains strong language. Length: 9 hours, 29 minutes. RNIB. Order Number:
61705
Whipping boy by Gabrielle Lord. gwood, Vic.: McPhee Gribble, 1992. Sydney
lawyer Cass Meredith is appointed head of a state inquiry into a child pornography
racket. The closer she gets to the core of the racket, the closer she gets to the truth
about herself, her partner Jim Corrigan and her young son Mozzie. Contains strong
language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 11 hours, 1
minute. VAILS. Order Number: 63680
Whited sepulchres by Anne Perry. London: Headline, 1997. Killian's brilliant
architectural career is threatened when his patron charges him with 'breach of
promise' to marry his daughter. He needs the services of the best lawyer and private
investigator to scour Victorian London for evidence to defend him. The baffling
complex case suddenly and tragically ends. The outcome that no one, except a
ruthless murderer, could have foreseen. Length: 14 hours, 8 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 45148
Why mermaids sing by C. S. Harris. New York: Obsidian, 2008. In 1811, murder
has jarred London's elite. Bodies from prominent families have been found mutilated
and strange objects stuffed into their mouths. Although Sebastian St. Cyr is distracted
by his seemingly doomed relationship with actress Kat Boleyn, the oddness of these
murders nags at him. He is determined to track down the assassin even at the risk of
his own life. Explicit descriptions of sex. Contains violence. Length: 7 hours, 41
minutes. VAILS. Order Number: 63534
Why shoot a butler by Georgette Heyer. Bath: Chivers, 1989. A lonely old man is
murdered in a quiet country lane, apparently shot as he was driving home. The only
witness to the crime is a pretty young woman with a loaded automatic gun in her
pocket. Why indeed, shoot a butler unless he had seen too much. Length: 8 hours, 54
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 49346
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Wild horses by Dick Francis. London: Michael Joseph, 1994. Valentine, a blind,
confused and dying old man, makes his last confession to a visiting friend, Thomas
Lyon, mistaking him for a priest. Thomas must face the dilemma of revealing what he
has learnt when it may mean life or death. Contains strong language. Length: 9
hours, 54 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 65305
Wildfire at midnight by Mary Stewart. Sevenoaks: Coronet, 1977. A young crofter's
daughter is cruelly and ritually murdered on a bleak Scottish mountain. Gianette, a
guest at the deceptively idyllic nearby hotel, finds herself enmeshed in a web of rising
fear and suspicion. When she discovers that her ex-husband has booked into the
same hotel her peaceful holiday takes on quite another complexion. Length: 5 hours,
59 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 45771
Winter frost by R. D. Wingfield. Oxford: Isis, 2000. Winter in Denton is a busy time
for DI Jack Frost whose unsolved crime figures are mounting. A serial killer, armed
jewel thieves and a buried skeleton take a back seat to his concern for another
missing little girl. His prime suspect hangs himself in his cell and Frost is in serious
trouble. Length: 14 hours, 39 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46026
Winter of secrets by Vicki Delany. It's Christmas Eve and a snowstorm has settled
over the Canadian mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. Constables Molly
Smith and Dave Evans discover an apparent car accident until the autopsy reveals a
shocking secret. They are soon plunged into a world of sexual predators, recreational
drugs, privilege and high living. Length: 8 hours, 59 minutes. Order Number: 58400
With friends like these by Nicholas Coleridge. London: Orion, 1997. Anna Grant is
a magazine journalist with a flair for making people talk, and a penchant for danger.
She is found dead, killed almost certainly by someone she knew. Four men had a
motive to kill her, and all four had the opportunity. This book takes the reader into the
heart of the magazine business, where envy, ambition and gossip feed on each other,
and where deadly power games are played. Contains strong language. Explicit
descriptions of sex. Length: 14 hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 73453
With no one as witness by Elizabeth George. London: Hodder and Stoughton,
2005. When a young boy is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, New
Scotland Yard acting superintendent Thomas Lynley and constable Barbara Havers,
tie the crime to a series of killings. The case is complicated by racial issues and a
tragedy within the police ranks that causes them to fumble in their pursuit of the killer.
Contains strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. Length: 24 hours, 37
minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 46030
Without consent by Frances Fyfield. London: Corgi Books, 1997. Police officer DS
Ryan is accused of rape. He maintains a stubborn silence in the face of the charge;
indeed he seems obsessed with the capture of the stalker. Slowly his prey begins to
emerge as someone who brings chocolates and flowers, leaves without trace, and
learns how to kill with impunity. Contains strong language. Length: 8 hours, 1 minute.
RNIB. Order Number: 47736
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Wolf to the slaughter by Ruth Rendell. [S.I.]: Arrow, 1982. Chief Inspector Wexford
investigates the circumstances surrounding a blood-soaked hotel room which lacks
any other signs of a victim, and the disappearance of a beautiful, promiscuous
woman and the bundle of cash she had in her pocket. Length: 6 hours, 21 minutes.
RNIB. Order Number: 66202
Woman without a past by Phyllis A Whitney. [S.l.]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991.
Successful New York mystery novelist Molly Hunt, raised by adoptive parents, is
stunned to learn that she is the kidnapped twin daughter of an aristocratic Southern
family. She meets some members of her family of origin and learns some secrets that
could plunge her into grave danger. Length: 9 hours, 3 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 66200
Written in blood by Caroline Graham. London: Headline, 1994. The members of the
Midsomer Worthy's Writers' Circle realise that their invitation to best-selling author
Max Jennings is ambitious. Surprisingly Jennings accepts and before the night is over
the Circle's secretary is dead. So why was Jennings willing to speak to a group of
amateur writers and where is he now? Length: 14 hours, 17 minutes. RNIB. Order
Number: 47739
Wycliffe and the four Jacks by W. J. Burley. Corgi, 1994. David lived as a
bestselling novelist should live, in an opulent house in Cornwall. Beneath the
successful facade there lay a private nightmare. Mysterious warnings lead to a
murder and Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is drawn into a double murder, arson and a
series of crimes stretching back over many years. Length: 6 hours, 42 minutes. RNIB.
Order Number: 46033
Your royal hostage by Antonia Fraser. London: Mandarin, 1991. News of star
reporter Jemima Shore is in the headlines when she is sacked by Megalith Television.
When Jemima is hired by an American company to cover the royal wedding of HRH
Princess Amy and Prince Ferdinand, she stumbles upon a dangerous connection with
a secret animal rights group which specialises in its own kind of publicity. Length: 7
hours, 33 minutes. RNIB. Order Number: 69954
Zero at the bone by Elizabeth Ferrars. London: Constable, 1996. The escape of a
poisonous snake from a strange menagerie becomes linked with a violent death, and
an ingenious mystery is created using a classical puzzle. Length: 6 hours, 51
minutes.. RNIB. Order Number: 49375
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