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‘Martine Bailey has invented her
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culinary thriller’ – The Times
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‘A Monstrous Commotion is surely
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LNM’ – Literary Review
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‘Lovely, surprising ... filled with life
and optimism and a wicked sense of
comedy’ – The Times
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Dear Librarian
Where better to start this quarter than with one of the mysteries to have
captured the collective imagination: the Loch Ness Monster – or Nessie as she is
known! In A Monstrous Commotion, Gareth Williams looks at the sightings and
investigations over the years and comes up with his wholly original theory.
A husband goes missing in the middle of the night and his wife is suspected of
wrongdoing in The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent, while in Rebecca
Muddiman’s Tell Me Lies the police have a body but the resolution of the case
isn’t as easy as it should be.
David Morrell returns with Inspector of the Dead, his second mystery featuring
Thomas De Quincey who is set on preventing the murder of Queen Victoria.
Elsewhere Dr Watson, Holmes’s erstwhile companion, embarks on another
mystery, this time involving a kidnap and vile ransom threat, in Robert Ryan’s The
Sign of Fear.
Music plays a role in two of this quarter’s titles. The Song Collector by Natasha
Solomons tells the story of a composer, unable to write since the death of
his beloved wife, who finds that his grandson’s talent enables him to compose
again – and to face an old family rift. More sinister is Gilly Macmillan’s The
Perfect Girl, the chilling tale of a child musical sensation who caused the death of
three teenagers.
Two very different titles this quarter depend on contact with the world beyond.
In Pamela Hartshorne’s House of Shadows Kate awakens following an accident
with no memories – except those of someone who died 400 years ago. In Karen
Robards’ The Last Time I Saw Her a psychologist tries to find find the real killer so
that the soul of her dead lover, executed for the crime, can rest in peace.
In the final part of Rosie Clarke’s Emma trilogy, Emma’s Duty, our nurse heroine
is finding it difficult in adjusting to her husband’s appalling injuries following his
return from the war. When a husband doesn’t mend his gambling ways, his wife
becomes the object of the attention of a ruthless mine owner in Maggie Hope’s
Eliza’s Child. Will an orphaned girl take her unexpected chance of happiness is the
question asked in June Francis’ Lily’s War?
In Ursula’s Secret by Mairi Wilson a woman heads to Africa for answers about
her true identity, while fledgling archaeologist Joan Seabrook visits Arabia with
the goal of visiting the desert fort of Jabrin in Katherine Webb’s The English Girl.
In Under Italian Skies by Nicky Pellegrino a house swap leads Stella to wonder
about the owner of the house in which she is staying, but in Martine Bailey’s The
Penny Heart Mary Jebb finds herself in the penal colony in Botany Bay in far less
salubrious conditions!
Virginia Mcgregor’s The Astonishing Return of Norah Wells looks at the problem
of what happens when a wife and mother who walked out on her family returns
six years later. In Steve Mosby’s Black Flowers another person to reappear is a
girl with a horrifying tale to tell. A missing girl leads the police to the murky world
of migrant labour in Steven Dunne’s A Killing Moon, while in Oliver Harris’s
The House of Fame – the final part of the Nick Belsey trilogy – the dishonourable
copper is thrown into the glitzy world of stars and gossip.
Andrea Camilleri’s ever-popular Inspector Montalbano returns in Game of
Mirrors, this time investigating a woman apparently targeted by persons unknown
and an unexplained explosion. Also back with another case are Kristina
Ohlsson’s Frederika Berman and Alex Recht who investigate a killer targeting
the Jewish population of Stockholm in The Chosen. Newly-located in Luxembourg,
probation officer Cate Austin is concerned that the police aren’t taking the
disappearance of a young girl seriously in Ruth Dugdall’s Nowhere Girl and being
a member of a mafioso family spells trouble for a new member of the Rome
police in Nadia Dalbuono’s The Few.
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Jem Lester’s Shtum, a perceptive and heartfelt novel about a boy who won’t
talk has been compared favourably with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time. Isolation and strange powers lie at the heart of Pairic O’Donnell’s
The Maker of Swans, while there is change in the air for one man in Paris as
Europe transforms out of all recognition in Jim Powell’s The Breaking of Eggs.
Veterans returning from war and a hurricane about to strike America create
unbearable tensions in Vanessa Lafaye’s Summertime, whereas life is much
more compassionate in Bernadine Bishop’s The Street.
Winston Churchill is seen as the man who won the war, but as Sonia
Purnell reveals in First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill, he
himself admitted that he couldn’t have done it without his wife. Set in those
dark days is Lucy Ribchester’s The Amber Shadows a mystery with Bletchley
Park as its background.
Robert Service takes a look at what really brought about the end of the
Soviet Union in The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991, while John Lawton has
produced a thrilling novel set during the early days of the Berlin Wall in The
Unfortunate Englishman. A severed arm in the Rose Garden at the White House
contains a message that US archivist Beecher White realises could have dire
consequences in Brad Meltzer’s The President’s Shadow. An FBI Special Agent is
on the trail of a man with a hidden identity who kidnapped and brainwashed his
young son in The End Game by Raymond Khoury; and the body of a senior
banker on a beach and the pending collapse of a CIA-funded global bank mean
trouble for financial analyst Kate Pendragon in Jamie Doward’s Toxic.
So there we have it; another not-to-be-missed programme of unabridged audio
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MARTINE BAILEY
The Penny Heart
Read by Charlotte Strevens
Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her
reprieve is harsh: seven years in the penal colony of Botany Bay.Yet Mary is determined
not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the men who
sealed her fate. Artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome Michael
Croxon – if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new
cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world of deceit, doublecrossing, revenge and murder.
About the author
Inspired by 18th-century books of recipes, writing historical fiction has allowed Martine
Bailey to indulge in her obsessions with food, history and travel. Her first novel, An
Appetite for Violets, is also available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Martine Bailey
‘Martine Bailey has invented her own niche – gothic horror meeting culinary thriller’
– The Times 14 CDs • OCD 1052 • 978-1-78433-727-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1052 • 978-1-78433-763-6 • Playing time: 13hrs 58mins*
ANDREA CAMILLERI
JAMIE DOWARD
Game of Mirrors
Read by Daniel Philpott
Toxic
JUNE FRANCIS
Read by Peter Noble
Lily’s War
Read by Sue Jenkins
When Montalbano comes to
the aid of his new neighbour,
Liliana Lombardo, after her car
is interfered with, the inspector
can little imagine where this will
lead. It soon transpires that the
young woman is being targeted by someone. But
is Liliana’s growing interest in Montalbano simply a
product of the detective’s innate charm? Or is she
trying to lead him into trouble? Meanwhile a bomb
explodes outside an empty warehouse in Vigàta.
But who was it intended for? As Montalbano and
his colleagues investigate they begin to receive a
barrage of false clues. The inspector realises that
he is being led into a hall of mirrors, where there is
danger at every turn and nothing is quite clear ...
About the author
Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy’s most famous
contemporary writers. His Inspector Montalbano
series was adapted for Italian television and
screened on BBC4.
The mutilated body of a senior
banker is found on a Kent
beach. Could the man’s death be
linked to the scandal engulfing
his employer, a global bank
created by the CIA to help track
terrorism financing? Kate Pendragon, a financial
analyst seconded to MI5, discovers that the bank
is close to collapse. Elsewhere, intelligence is
gathered on an Islamic terrorist cell intent on
triggering a nuclear catastrophe to rig the world’s
financial markets – rigged, it would appear, by the
Americans. Pendragon believes the intelligence
community on both sides of the Atlantic could
be falling for a sophisticated hoax. Only, no one is
listening to her.
About the author
Jamie Doward has been a journalist on the
Observer for 16 years and is currently its
Senior Reporter.
Busy bringing up her motherless
brothers and sisters, romance
is the last thing on Lily Thorpe’s
mind. But when the handsome
preacher Matt Gibson asks Lily
to return with him to Australia
as his wife, she finds it very hard to say no. But
with rumours of war on the horizon, will she
have to choose between her head and her heart?
A story of love and loyalty set against a backdrop
of wartime Liverpool.
About the author
June Francis’s previous sagas include Friends
and Lovers, Going Home to Liverpool, Kitty and Her
Boys and Somebody’s Girl. She had her first novel
published at 40 and is married with three sons.
She lives in Liverpool.
5 CDs • OCD 1053 • 978-1-78433-728-5
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1053 • 978-1-78433-764-3
Playing time: 5hrs 37mins*
8 CDs • OCD 1054 • 978-1-78433-729-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1054 • 978-1-78433-765-0
10 CDs • OCD 1055 • 978-1-78433-730-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1055 • 978-1-78433-766-7
This audio book contains strong language and/or explicit scenes.
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RAYMOND KHOURY
The End Game
Read by Jeff Harding
Eminent scientist Dr Ralph Padley is dying – and he knows it’s time to finally tell the
truth. Padley has a dark secret, which, if it got out, would have deadly consequences. FBI
Special Agent Reilly has an agenda of his own. For months he has sought the man who
kidnapped and brainwashed his five-year-old son. But that man is a highly protected CIA
official with no name. Watched, manipulated, and framed for crimes he didn’t commit,
Reilly becomes a fugitive. He’s left with no choice but to risk everything to unearth
secrets that would shake the country to its core – if he’s ever allowed to get that far.
About the author
Raymond Khoury is the bestselling author of the Sean Reilly novels and two standalone thrillers, The Sign and The Sanctuary. An acclaimed screenwriter, his credits include
the BBC series Spooks and Waking the Dead.
11 CDs • OCD 1056 • 978-1-78433-731-5
JOHN LAWTON
The Unfortunate Englishman
Read by Lewis Hancock
Having shot someone in the chaos
of 1963 Berlin, Joe Wilderness finds
himself locked up with little chance
of escape. But an official pardon
through his father-in-law BurneJones, a senior agent at MI6, means
he is free to go. His newest operation will take him
back to Berlin, now the dividing line between the
West and the Soviets.When the Russians started
building the Berlin Wall in 1961, two ‘Unfortunate
Englishmen’ were trapped on opposite sides. In 1965
there is a plan to exchange the prisoners on Berlin’s
bridge of spies. But, as ever, Joe has something on
the side, just to make it profitable. A thrilling tale of
Khrushchev, Kennedy, a spy exchange … and 10,000
bottles of fine Bordeaux.
About the author
John Lawton worked for Channel 4 for many
years, and produced Harold Pinter’s O Superman.
He has written seven novels in his Troy series,
two Joe Wilderness novels, and the standalone
Sweet Sunday.
9 CDs • OCD 1057 • 978-1-78433-732-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1057 • 978-1-78433-768-1
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VIRGINIA MACGREGOR
The Astonishing Return
of Norah Wells
Read by Clare Corbett
GILLY MACMILLAN
The Perfect Girl
Read by Penelope Rawlins
& Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
One ordinary morning, Norah
walked out of her house on
Willoughby Street and never
looked back. Six years later, she
returns to the home she walked
away from only to find another
woman in her place. Fay held Norah’s family
together after she disappeared. Now that Norah
has returned, everyone has questions. Why did
she leave? And why is she back? As each member
of the family tries to find the answers they each
need, they must also face up to the most pressing
question of all – what happens to the mother who
stayed when the mother who left comes back?
About the author
Virginia Macgregor was brought up by a mother
who never stopped telling stories. From the
moment she was old enough to hold a pen,Virginia
set about writing her own.
Several years ago, Zoe Maisey –
child genius, musical sensation
– caused the death of three
teenagers. She served her
time. And now she’s free. Her
story begins with her giving
the performance of her life. By
midnight, her mother is dead.
The Perfect Girl is an intricate
exploration into the mind of a
teenager burdened by brilliance.
About the author
Gilly Macmillan grew up in Swindon and lived in
Northern California in her late teens. She studied
History of Art at Bristol University and then at the
Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She worked
at The Burlington Magazine and the Hayward
Gallery before starting a family, and since then has
done some lecturing in ‘A’ Level photography. Her
novel Burnt Paper Sky is also available from Oakhill.
10 CDs • OCD 1058 • 978-1-78433-733-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1058 • 978-1-78433-769-8
Playing time: 12hrs 7mis*
9 CDs • OCD 1059 • 978-1-78433-734-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1059 • 978-1-78433-770-4
Playing time: 10hrs 30min*
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REBECCA MUDDIMAN
Tell Me Lies
Read by Tim Bruce
Tell a lie? Break the law? Or solve the problem ... for good? The body in Lauren James’s
back garden belongs to her ex-boyfriend, Ritchie. DI Gardner thinks it’s an open-and-shut
case. But he reckoned without the interference of Lauren’s father, local businessman and
aspiring politician Walter James. And he couldn’t know about the secrets that everyone
involved wants to hide. When a murder touches so many lives, not even the cops are
immune from the consequences. In the end you must decide what you can live with: a
loving lie or the deadly truth?
About the author
Rebecca Muddiman was born in Redcar where she still lives. She has a degree in Film
and Media and an MA in Creative Writing. She won a Northern Writers’ Award in 2010.
Her novels Gone and Stolen are also available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Rebecca Muddiman
‘ … we shall hear much more of Ms Muddiman’ – Daily Mail
9 CDs • OCD 1060 • 978-1-78433-735-3
NATASHA SOLOMONS
KATHERINE WEBB
The Song Collector
Read by Charles Armstrong
GARETH WILLIAMS
The English Girl
Read by Anna Bentinck
Fox, as the celebrated composer
Harry Fox-Talbot is known, wants
to be left in peace. His beloved
wife has died, and he’s unable to
write a note of music. Then one
day he discovers that his fouryear-old grandson is a piano prodigy. The music
returns and Fox is compelled to re-engage with
life – and to confront an old family rift. Decades
earlier, Fox and his brothers returned to Hartgrove
Hall after the war. But on the last night of 1946,
the arrival of beautiful wartime singer Edie Rose
tangles the threads of love and duty, leading to a
shattering betrayal.
About the author
Natasha Solomons is the author of Mr
Rosenblum’s List,The Novel in the Viola, which was
chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club, and The
Gallery of Vanished Husbands.
Acclaim for Natasha Solomons
‘Moving and engaging’ – Book of the Month, Choice
Joan Seabrook, a fledgling
archaeologist, has fulfilled a
lifelong dream to visit Arabia by
travelling from England to the
ancient city of Muscat with her
fiancé, Rory. She longs to explore
the desert fort of Jabrin, and unearth the treasures
it is said to conceal. But Oman is a land lost in
time and gaining permission to explore Jabrin
could prove impossible. Joan’s disappointment is
alleviated by the thrill of meeting her childhood
heroine, pioneering explorer Maude Vickery. As
their friendship grows, Joan is seduced by Maude’s
stories, and the thrill of the adventure they hold.
Only too late does she question actions that will
spark a potentially disastrous, chain of events.
Will the girl that left England for this beautiful but
dangerous land ever find her way back?
About the author
Katherine Webb read History at Durham
University. Her novels The Unseen, A Half Forgotten
Song and The Misbegotten are available from Oakhill.
11 CDs • OCD 1061 • 978-1-78433-736-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1061 • 978-1-78433-772-8
12 CDs • OCD 1062 • 978-1-78433-737-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1062 • 978-1-78433-773-5
A Monstrous Commotion:
The Mysteries of Loch Ness (NF)
Read by Andrew Cullum
The Loch Ness Monster: a
creature that should have died
out with the dinosaurs, or a
legend built on hoaxes and
wishful thinking? Sir Peter Scott
was convinced that the Monster
existed. So were senior scientists at London’s
Natural History Museum and Chicago University;
they lost their jobs because they refused to
renounce their belief in the creature. For decades,
the scientific establishment was determined to
quash attempts to investigate Loch Ness – until the
journal Nature published an article by Peter Scott
featuring underwater photographs of the Monster.
Drawing extensively on new material, Gareth
Williams takes a wholly original look at what really
happened in Loch Ness.
About the author
Gareth Williams is Emeritus Professor at the
University of Bristol. He has written extensively on
the subject of science and scientific enquiry.
10 CDs • OCD 1063 • 978-1-78433-738-4
2 MP3s • OMP 1063 • 978-1-78433-774-2
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BERNARDINE BISHOP
The Street
In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with
incipient Alzheimer’s saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor finds real purpose,
a woman starved of love discovers it in an unexpected place and a beloved cat achieves
immortality. The Street reveals Bernardine Bishop’s trademark wry, refreshingly frank but
always compassionate understanding of human behaviour.
About the author
The great-granddaughter of the poet Alice Meynell, Bernardine Bishop was the
youngest witness in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960. After writing two novels, she taught
in a London comprehensive school for 10 years and then had a distinguished career as a
psychotherapist. Cancer forced her retirement in 2010 and she returned to her first love,
fiction, until her death in 2013.
Acclaim for The Street
‘Lovely, surprising ... filled with life and optimism and a wicked sense of comedy’
– The Times
6 CDs • OCD 1064 • 978-1-78433-739-1
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1064 • 978-1-78433-775-9 • Playing time: 6hrs 28mins*
ROSIE CLARKE
RUTH DUGDALL
Emma’s Duty
Read by Helena Coates
CHRISTOBEL KENT
Nowhere Girl
Read by Penny McDonald
The Loving Husband
Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to
her husband’s return from the war,
even though his appalling injuries
mean their marriage is in name
only. But then tragedy strikes,
and Emma finds she cannot turn
to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and onetime lover – for while he still loves her, he is now
a married man … The final instalment in Rosie
Clarke’s ‘Emma’ trilogy.
About the author
Rosie Clarke was born in Swindon. Her family
moved to Cambridgeshire when she was nine, but
she left at at the age of 15 to work as a hairdresser
in her father’s business. She was married at 18 and
ran her own hairdressing business for some years.
She has penned over 100 novels under different
pseudonyms. The other books in the trilogy, Emma
and Emma’s War, are also available from Oakhill.
Probation officer, Cate Austin,
has moved for a fresh start,
along with her daughter Amelia,
to live with her police detective
boyfriend, Olivier Massard. But
when she realises just how
casually he is taking the disappearance of a young
girl, Ellie, Cate decides to investigate matters for
herself. She discovers Luxembourg has a dark
heart. As Cate comes closer to discovering Ellie’s
whereabouts she uncovers a hidden world, placing
herself in danger, not just from traffickers, but
from a source much closer to home.
About the author
Ruth Dugdall worked as a Probation Officer in
high security prisons working with children who
have been convicted of murder. Now living in
Luxembourg, she is currently working at a local
prison. Her novels Humber Boy B and The Woman
Before Me are both available from Oakhill.
Fran Hall and her husband
Nathan live in a farmhouse on the
edge of the Fens. One night, when
Fran is woken by her baby, she
finds the bed empty beside her
and Nathan gone. Searching the
house for him she makes a devastating discovery.
As Fran finds herself under police scrutiny, she
and her two small children become more isolated
as she starts to doubt whether she really knew
Nathan. As police suspicion grows the questions
for Fran begin to mount. Is there something that
she is hiding from them – something she has kept
hidden from everyone, including her husband?
About the author
Christobel Kent was born in London and
educated at Cambridge. Her books Late Season, A
Party in San Niccolo and The Crooked House are all
available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Christobel Kent
‘Compulsive, unsettling and scary as hell’
– Sunday Mirror
9 CDs • OCD 1065 • 978-1-78433-740-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1065 • 978-1-78433-776-6
8 CDs • OCD 1066 • 978-1-78433-741-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1066 • 978-1-78433-777-3
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JEM LESTER
Shtum
Read by David Thorpe
Ben Jewell has hit breaking point. His 10-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken. So when
Ben and Jonah are forced to move in with Ben’s elderly father, three generations of
men – one who can’t talk; two who won’t – are thrown together. As Ben battles single
fatherhood, a string of well-meaning social workers and his own demons, he learns some
difficult home truths. Jonah, blissful in his innocence, becomes the prism through which
all the complicated strands of personal identity, family history and misunderstanding are
finally untangled.
About the author
Jem Lester was a journalist for nine years. He taught English and Media studies at
secondary schools for nine years. Jem has two children, one of whom is profoundly
autistic. Shtum, won the 2013 PFD/City University Prize for Fiction.
Acclaim for Shtum
‘A darker, sadder version of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, but just as
moving’ – The Observer
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BRAD MELTZER
The President’s Shadow
PARAIC O’DONNELL
KRISTINA OHLSSON
The Maker of Swans
Read by Mike Grady & Imogen Wilde
The Chosen
Read by Maggie Mash
Beecher White, a humble archivist
at the U.S. National Archives by
day, has a secret: he belongs to the
Culper Ring, a network of spies
founded by George Washington
during the American Revolution.
While working for the Culper Ring, White has
discovered countless secrets and saved more lives
than he knows – including the President’s. And
then, one day, White makes an alarming discovery
on the White House grounds: a severed arm
buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he
realises it’s a message ... one that may have dire
repercussions for the President.
About the author
Brad Meltzer is the author of the number one
New York Times bestsellers The Inner Circle and The
Book of Fate, and six other bestselling thrillers.
Acclaim for The President’s Shadow
‘Meltzer has mastered the art of baiting and
hooking readers into a fast-moving plot’ – USA Today
Amid the fading grandeur of a
country estate, Clara lives in
the care of Mr Crowe, a man of
many mysterious gifts. Mr Crowe
was once a man of learning and
means. Now, he devotes himself
to earthly pleasures. But when
Mr Crowe commits a crime of
passion, he attracts the attention
of Dr Chastern, the figurehead of
a secret society to which Crowe
belongs. When Chastern comes to call him to
account, his sinister attention is diverted to Clara.
For Clara possesses gifts of her own.
About the author
Paraic O’Donnell read English and French at
University College Dublin and Linguistics at Trinity
College Dublin. He has worked for many years in
the translation industry. This is his first novel.
Acclaim for The Maker of Swans
‘An oddly beautiful tale of magic and art’
– Editor’s Choice,The Bookseller On a cold winter’s day, a preschool teacher is shot to death in
front of parents and children at the
Jewish Congregation in Stockholm.
Just a few hours later two Jewish
boys go missing on their way to
tennis practice. A heavy snowstorm hits Stockholm
and the traces of the perpetrator are few and far
between. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht are
faced with one of their toughest challenges ever as
they hunt for a killer who seems as merciless as he
is effective. The leads in the investigation all point
to the same place: Israel. Someone or something
called the Paper Boy keeps popping up in the police
investigation. Could he possibly have resurfaced in
Stockholm, now claiming new victims?
About the author
Kristina Ohlsson is a political scientist and until
recently held the position of Counter-Terrorism
Officer at OSCE. Her novels Unwanted, Hostage,
Silenced and The Disappeared are all available
from Oakhill.
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Under Italian Skies
Read by Jane McDowell
For 25 years, Stella’s been trusted assistant to a legendary fashion designer, but after her
boss dies suddenly she is lost. Then she finds a house swap website and sees a beautiful
old villa in a southern Italian village. Could she really exchange her poky London flat for
that? But what was intended as just a break becomes much more. As the villa begins to
get under her skin, she can’t help but imagine the owner from the clues around her. But
can an idea of someone ever match up to the reality?
About the author
When Nicky Pellegrino’s Italian father came to England he married a Liverpool girl. He
brought to his new family his passion for food and instilled in them that you live to eat
instead of eating to live. Her novels One Summer in Venice, Recipe for Life,The Food of Love
Cookery School and The Villa Girls are all available from Oakhill.
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LUCY RIBCHESTER
ROBERT RYAN
The Amber Shadows
Read by Lucy Scott
ROBERT SERVICE
The Sign of Fear
Read by Richard Burnip
On a delayed train, deep in the
English countryside, two strangers
meet. It is 1942 and they are both
men of fighting age. As strangers
do, they pass the time by sharing
their stories. But walls have ears
and careless talk costs lives … At Bletchley Park,
Honey Deschamps spends her days transcribing
decrypted signals from the German Army. One
night, as she walks home in the blackout, she meets
a stranger who has a package for her. The parcel,
containing a small piece of amber, postmarked
from Russia and branded with two censor’s stamps,
is the first of several. Someone is trying to get
a message to her. Can Honey uncover who is
sending these mysterious packages and why before
it’s too late?
About the author
Lucy Ribchester received a Scottish Book Trust
New Writers Award for the opening chapters of
The Hourglass Factory, which is also available
from Oakhill.
Autumn, 1917. London is not the
city that Dr John Watson and
Sherlock Holmes once bestrode
like giants. When Watson’s
concert-going companion, Sir
Gilbert Hardy, is kidnapped there’s
a gruesome ransom, for Sir Gilbert and four others,
which will involve terrible mutilation unless the
demands are met. Help comes from an unlikely
source: Watson’s old ruthless adversary, the ‘She
Wolf’ Miss Pillbody. She makes him a remarkable
offer and so an unlikely partnership is formed
– the enemy spy and Sherlock Holmes’s faithful
companion, a detective duo which will eventually
uncover a shocking case of state-sponsored murder
and find Watson on board a German bomber, with
a crew intent on setting London ablaze.
About the author
Robert Ryan is an author, journalist and
screenwriter. His previous Dr Watson novels,
Dead Man’s Land,The Dead Can Wait and A Study in
Murder, are all available from Oakhill.
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The End of the Cold War:
1985-1991 (NF)
The dismantling of the Berlin
Wall in 1989 and the spread
of Perestroika throughout the
former Soviet bloc was a sea
change in world history. Here
acclaimed Russian historian
Robert Service examines precisely how that change
came about. Drawing on a vast and largely untapped
range of sources, he builds a picture of the two
men who spearheaded the breakthrough: Ronald
Reagan, President of the United States, and Mikhail
Gorbachev, last General Secretary of the Soviet
Union. Authoritative, compelling and meticulously
researched, this is political history at its best.
About the author
Robert Service’s books include the highly
acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with
a People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History
of World Communism. His book, Trotsky: A Biography,
was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize.
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NADIA DALBUONO
The Few
Read by Tim Bruce
Detective Leone Scamarcio, the son of a former leading Mafioso, has turned his back on
the family business, and has joined the Rome police force. But when Scamarcio is handed
a file of extremely compromising photographs of a high-profile Italian politician, and told
to ‘deal with it’, he knows he’s in for trouble. And when a young man is found stabbed to
death in Rome, and a little girl disappears on a beach in Elba, Scamarcio’s job gets a whole
lot more complicated. Worst of all, every lead seems to implicate the prime minister – a
multimedia baron, and the most powerful man in Italy.
About the author
Nadia Dalbuono has spent the last 15 years working as a documentary director and
consultant for Channel 4, ITV, and for National Geographic in various countries. The Few is
her first novel.
Acclaim for The Few
‘Gripping ...You won’t be able to put down this unsettling tale’ – The Sun
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STEVEN DUNNE
A Killing Moon
Read by Jonathan Keeble
OLIVER HARRIS
PAMELA HARTSHORNE
The House of Fame
Read by Toby Longworth
House of Shadows
Read by Christine Mackie
For the young woman kidnapped
on her way home from the pub,
the nightmare is about to begin.
Weeks after Caitlin Kinnear goes
missing, the police are unable
to break her case. Worse, they
are not even certain harm has come to her. But
determined to pursue all leads, DI Damen Brook
and his team begin to trawl through the murky
world of cheap migrant labour. Convinced that the
answers lie hidden within its depths, Brook soon
begins to realise Caitlin is in terrible danger.
About the author
Steven Dunne attended Kent University and St
Mary’s College in Twickenham. He has written the
highly acclaimed thrillers The Reaper, The Disciple,
Deity, The Unquiet Grave, and Death Do Us Part, all
of which are available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for A Killing Moon
‘A truly pulsating story which will leave readers
breathless’ – Lancashire Evening Post
Amber Knight is London’s hottest
ticket – pop star, film star, frontpage, gossip. Nick Belsey is less
celebrated. He can’t shake his
habit of getting into serious
trouble. His career at Hampstead
CID is coming to a dishonourable end. He is
currently of no fixed address. But a knock on
the door is about to lead Belsey straight into the
hollow heart of Amber’s glittering life – a world
populated by the glamorous and the lonely, the
desperate and the obsessed. The final book in
the hugely admired Belsey series, it sees one of
the most cunning and audacious characters in
contemporary crime throw himself headlong into
his most inextricable mystery yet, and come face
to face with a ghost from his own notorious past.
About the author
Oliver Harris is the author of the acclaimed
Nick Belsey trilogy, which includes the previous
titles The Hollow Man and Deep Shelter, both of
which are available from Oakhill.
When Kate Vavasour wakes in
hospital, she can remember nothing
about the family gathered around
her bed, or of her life before the
accident.The doctors diagnose
post-traumatic amnesia and say the
memories should start returning.Which they do ...
but these memories are not her own.They belong
to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby
Hall over 400 years earlier ... Returning to Askerby
Hall to recuperate, Kate finds herself in a house full
of shadows and suspicions, where she struggles to
piece together the events that led to her terrible fall.
About the author
This is Pamela Hartshorne’s fourth novel to
explore the haunting relationship between the past
and the present. The others, The Edge of Dark,Time’s
Echo and The Memory of Midnight, are also available
from Oakhill.
Acclaim for House of Shadows
‘Undoubtedly House of Shadows will leave you
hungry for more’ – Reader’s Digest
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Eliza’s Child
Read by Claire Jones
After the birth of their son, Eliza naively hopes her husband Jack will put his gambling habit
behind him and become more responsible. But then he loses their home and abandons
her, leaving Eliza with no choice but to return to her parents’ house. She inadvertently
attracts the attention of the ruthless mine owner Jonathan Moore. But can she sacrifice
her reputation to protect her son?
About the author
Maggie Hope was born and raised in County Durham. She worked as a nurse for many
years before giving up her career to raise her family. Her many titles for Oakhill include
Orphan Girl.
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VANESSA LAFAYE
STEVE MOSBY
Summertime
Read by Adjoa Andoh
DAVID MORRELL
Black Flowers
Inspector of the Dead
In the small town of Heron Key
everyone is preparing for the 4th
of July barbecue, unaware that
their world is about to change for
ever. Missy, maid to the Kincaid
family, feels she has wasted her
life pining for Henry, who went to fight on the
battlefields of France. Now he has returned with
a group of other desperate, destitute veterans.
When a white woman is found beaten nearly to
death, suspicion falls on Henry. As the tensions
rise, the barometer starts to plummet. But nothing
can prepare them for what is coming. For far out
over the Atlantic, the greatest storm ever to strike
North America is heading their way ...
About the author
Vanessa Lafaye was born in Tallahassee and raised
in Tampa, Florida, where there were hurricanes
most years. She first came to the UK in 1987.
Acclaim for Summertime
‘ … a taut and powerful novel that I found deeply
moving’ – Daily Mail
This is not a story about a girl
who disappears. This is the story
of a little girl who comes back.
She appears one day on a seaside
promenade, with a black flower
and a horrifying story. But telling
that story will start a chain reaction of dangerous
lies and deadly illusions that will claim many more
victims in the years to come. When Neil Dawson’s
father commits suicide, Neil is desperate. But
through his grief, he knows something isn’t right.
Among his father’s possessions, he finds a copy of
an old novel, The Black Flower. Opening it will take
Neil into an investigation full of danger, pain
and subterfuge.
About the author
Steve Mosby lives and works in Leeds. He is the
author of The Third Person,The Cutting Crew,The
50/50 Killer, Cry for Help and Still Bleeding.
The year is 1855. The British
government has fallen. Into this
crisis comes Thomas De Quincey,
one of the most notorious
personalities of Victorian England.
Along with his daughter Emily and
their Scotland Yard companions, Ryan and Becker,
he finds himself confronted by a murderer who is
targeting members of the elite. De Quincey and
his friends must race to protect their monarch,
uncovering old conspiracies and the heartbreaking
past of a man whose lust for revenge has
destroyed his soul.
About the author
David Morrell is best known for his debut
1972 novel First Blood, which would become the
successful Rambo film franchise. His previous De
Quincey novel, Murder as a Fine Art, is also available
from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Inspector of the Dead
‘Morrell ... leavens his social commentary with
moments of high adventure’ – Kirkus Reviews
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The Breaking of Eggs
Read by Charles Armstrong
Change is in the air in a shabby apartment in the 19th arrondissement in Paris. One
unremarkable day Madame Lefèvre invites Feliks to call her Sandrine. As his indomitable
landlady’s manners have been as unvarying as her dresses for the last 36 years, this
feels significant to Feliks. And it is. As the face of Europe transforms beyond recognition
Feliks’s own life teeters on the edge of change.Soon his carefully constructed world is
tumbling round his ears and Feliks wonders: is there such a thing as a second chance for
someone like him?
About the author
Jim Powell was educated at Cambridge. His first career was in advertising before
starting a pottery business. He was previously active in politics, contesting the 1987
Election and collaborating with former Foreign Secretary Francis Pym on his book The
Politics of Consent.
Acclaim for The Breaking of Eggs
‘A magnificent debut novel ... a haunting, quietly brilliant story’ – The Boston Globe
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SONIA PURNELL
KAREN ROBARDS
First Lady:
The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill (NF)
The Last Time I Saw Her
Read by Laurel Lefkow
MAIRI WILSON
Ursula’s Secret
Read by Jenny Dunbar
Without Churchill’s inspiring
leadership Britain could not
have survived its darkest hour
and repelled the Nazi menace.
Without his wife Clementine,
however, he might never have
become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the
Second World War would have been ‘impossible
without her’. Clementine was Winston’s
emotional rock and his most trusted confidante.
Yet her ability to charm Britain’s allies and her
humanitarian efforts on the Home Front earned
her deep respect. Now Sonia Purnell explores the
peculiar dynamics of this fascinating union.
About the author
Sonia Purnell pursued a successful career in
journalism. Her first book, Just Boris: A Tale of Blond
Ambition, a candid portrait of London Mayor Boris
Johnson, was long-listed for the Orwell Prize.
In this world, Dr Charlotte Stone
is an expert psychologist, helping
to catch serial killers. In the next
world, Charlotte’s ghostly lover –
wrongly executed killer Michael
Garland – is facing death yet again:
the ultimate annihilation of his soul. Can Charlie
prove Michael’s innocence and rescue him from
total oblivion? A stranger has turned up who could
be Michael’s identical twin. But the resemblance is
only skin deep – behind the handsome face lurks the
twisted mind of the real Southern Slasher. Charlie
intends to draw the truth out of the mysterious
killer ... whatever it takes. But Michael will move
heaven and hell for the chance to save Charlie’s life.
About the author
Karen Robards is the internationally bestselling
author of over 40 romantic suspense novels, which
have regularly appeared on the New York Times, USA
Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists.
Acclaim for The Last Time I Saw Her
‘Top-notch’ – Kirkus Reviews
In just a few heartbreaking days,
Lexy Shaw’s world has fallen apart.
After her mother is killed in a
tragic hit-and-run, her mother’s
childhood guardian, Ursula, also
dies suddenly, leaving everything
to Lexy. But as Lexy reads through Ursula’s hidden
papers, what she discovers raises doubts about
her own identity and if she really is now all alone
in the world. Desperate to find out if she has any
surviving family, Lexy travels to Africa hoping she
can unravel the mystery she’s now tormented by,
only to find that she’s stumbled into a past full of
lies and deceit and that her life is in grave danger.
About the author
Mairi Wilson was born in Scotland but brought
up in England, Turkey, Denmark and Spain. She now
divides her time between Edinburgh and Ullapool.
Ursula’s Secret, winner of the Sunday Mail Fiction
Prize, is her first completed novel.
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DEBORAH CADBURY
WENDY MOORE
Princes at War: The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the
Second World War (NF)
Read by Cameron Stewart
King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year
of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world’s
press revealed the king was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson. A life spent
in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently
unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire. Drawing on personal
accounts from the royal archives, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict
between George VI and his older brother.
12 CDs • OCD 981 • 978-1-78433-556-4
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DOROTHEA CREWDSON
Dorothea’s War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story (NF)
Edited by Richard Crewdson
Read by Julia Barrie & Richard Burnip
In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly-trained Red Cross nurse, received instructions
to leave for Le Tréport in northern France. Filled with excitement, Dorothea began writing a
diary. She would go on to witness and record some of the worst tragedy of the First World
War, though somehow always maintaining her optimism, curiosity and high spirits throughout.
Nearly a 100 years on, what shines out from these extraordinarily evocative diaries is a
courageous, spirited, compassionate young woman.
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TESSA DUNLOP
The Bletchley Girls
The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of 15 women who were all selected to work
in Britain’s most secret organisation – Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices.
Tessa Dunlop met and talked to these fascinating female secret-keepers who are still alive
today, and captures their extraordinary journeys into an adult world of war, secrecy, love
and loss. Through the voices of the women themselves, this is a portrait of life at Bletchley
Park beyond the celebrated code-breakers, it’s the story of the girls behind Britain’s ability
to consistently out-smart the enemy, and an insight into the women they have become.
10 CDs • OCD 1021 • 978-1-78433-655-4
JONATHAN GLANCEY
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner (NF)
In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely
popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck
Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial
flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale of national rivalries,
technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope politics, and a dream of a Dan
Dare future never quite realised. Jonathan Glancey traces the development
of Concorde not just through existing material and archives, but through
interviews with those who lived with the supersonic project from its inception.
8 CDs • OCD 1030 • 978-1-78433-664-6
NATALIE LIVINGSTONE
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power
and Intrigue in an English Stately Home (NF)
Read by Carole Boyd
From its dawn in the 1660s to its twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was an emblem of elite
misbehaviour and intrigue. Conceived by the Duke of Buckingham as a retreat for his
scandalous affair with Anna-Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, the house later served as the
backdrop for the Profumo Affair, which would bring down a government and change the
course of British history. In the 300 years between, the house was occupied by a dynasty of
remarkable women each of whom left their mark on this great house.
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match (NF)
Read by Rachel Atkins
Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain’s richest young heiresses. She married the Count
of Strathmore who died young so Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped
Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. Stoney
was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to
Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment. But after many years, a servant helped Mary
to escape and she began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day ...
11 CDs • OCD 999 • 978-1-78433-572-4
MIKE ROSSITER
The Spy who Changed the World (NF)
Read by Nigel Peever
The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British
Research Establishment at Harwell, in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey,
accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over 60 years disinformation and lies
surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States
and Russia tried to cover up the truth about his treachery. In this revealing account,
Mike Rossiter unravels the truth about his clandestine meetings, deadly secrets, family
entanglements and illicit love affairs, all set against the tumultuous years from the rise of
Hitler to the start of the Cold War.
11 CDs • OCD 979 • 978-1-78433-486-4
ANDY SEED
All Teachers Bright and Beautiful (NF)
Read by David Fleeshman
Andy Seed is beginning his fifth year teaching at Cragthwaite Primary in the Yorkshire Dales,
and as always a new term is full of surprises. There’s a beautiful, but not terribly bright,
student on placement from the local teacher training college, and a particularly pushy
parent with a fine line in complaining. At home in Applesett, things aren’t all rosy either.
Barbara is forced to take a job to help pay the mortgage, which means finding someone to
look after Tom and Reuben. When two old friends move into the village it looks like the
problem has been solved, but it soon transpires that rural life is not for everyone.
10 CDs • OCD 965 • 978-1-78433-473-4
LAURA THOMPSON
A Different Class of Murder (NF)
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a
Belgravia basement. A second woman,Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked.
The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl
of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following morning. The case, solved in the
eyes of the law, has retained its fascination ever since. Laura Thompson narrates the story
that led up to that cataclysmic event, and draws on her considerable forensic skills to reexamine the possible truths behind one of postwar Britain’s most notorious murders.
13 CDs • OCD 955 • 978-1-78433-463-5
A. N. WILSON
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible (NF)
Read by Gareth Armstrong
A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for
a year at university. Martin Luther King was ‘reading the Bible’ when he started the Civil
Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel,
he was ‘reading the Bible’. In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers
and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his
own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains
relevant even in a largely secular society, as a philosophical work, a work of literature and
a cultural touchstone.
5 CDs • OCD 1014 • 978-1-78433-588-5
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1014 • 978-1-78433-624-0 • Playing time: 5hrs 25mins
13 CDs • OCD 1046 • 978-1-78433-680-6
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STEWART BINNS
The Shadow of War: 1914 (The Great War series, Book 1)
The Special Dead
Read by Sally Armstrong
Mark Howitt expects a fun, no-strings night of passion with Leila. But when he wakes up
in the early hours of the morning, he is horrified to stumble upon his former bed partner
dead and suspended from the ceiling, alongside 27 Barbie dolls. Rhona Macleod’s forensic
investigation of the scene reveals the cord used to hang Leila to be a cingulum, an artefact
used in the practise of Wicca, and sketches hidden in nine of the dolls suggest the dolls are
linked with nine men. As the investigation continues, it looks increasingly likely that other
wiccan witches will be targeted too ...
June 1914. The beginning of another long, prosperous summer for Britain. But beneath
the clear skies, the chill wind of social discontent swirls around this sceptred isle. Shots
ring out in a distant European land – the assassination of a foreign aristocrat. From that
moment the entire world is propelled into a conflict unlike any seen before. This is the
story of five British communities, their circumstances very different, but who will all share
in the tragedy that is to come.
13 CDs • OCD 1040 • 978-1-78433-674-5
FANNY BLAKE
9 CDs • OCD 1004 • 978-1-78433-578-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1004 • 978-1-78433-614-1 • Playing time: 11hrs
House of Dreams
M. H. BAYLIS
Read by Sherry Baines
A Death at the Palace
Reporter Rex Tracey has just recovered from his affair with Lithuanian artist Milda
Majauskas when she disappears. He’s got other concerns, not least an anti-immigration
group spreading hate across his beloved Tottenham and a string of attacks on young
women at the local beauty spot, Alexandra Palace. But when Rex himself becomes a
suspect, he is forced to seek answers. But the truth behind Milda s fate evades him until the
final twist, when Rex, and the last people to see her, must all account for their guilt.
In the hilltop villa with its spectacular views, Lucy anxiously awaits the arrival of her
brother and sister. They’re coming to say farewell to Casa de Sueños, the house in the
mountains of southern Spain where they grew up. Her sister Jo dreads the prospect of this
time with her family, fulfilling their late mother’s last instructions that they celebrate her
birthday together. Tom, their brother, is filled with dread, wanting nothing more than for
their stay to go without a hitch. Then a beautiful face from his past appears at the villa …
11 CDs • OCD 1016 • 978-1-78433-650-9
BRITTA BOLT
9 CDs • OCD 980 • 978-1-78433-554-0
Lonely Graves (Pieter Postumus Book 1)
M. H. BAYLIS
The Tottenham Outrage
A family of Hasidic Jews dies suddenly while picnicking in Finsbury Park, and the finger is
quickly pointed at a gang of Islamist youths. Too quickly, thinks local reporter Rex Tracey.
Rex starts to investigate. But when his long-time colleague and friend is also accused
of murder, the sleuthing journalist with a fondness for Polish lager and dry one-liners is
catapulted out of his depth, into a disturbing world of religious fanaticism, false prophets
and century-old secrets.
9 CDs • OCD 1028 • 978-1-78433-662-2
A suicide. A drowned man. A sudden death. In Amsterdam, there’s a council department
known affectionately as the Lonely Funerals team which arranges burials for the
abandoned or unknown dead. Pieter Posthumus hasn’t been doing the job long, but he’s
determined to do it well. He finds he cares deeply about the people whose files land on
his desk. So when something doesn’t seem quite right about a Moroccan immigrant’s
‘accidental’ drowning, Posthumus starts digging. His quest for justice will lead him down
some dangerous paths …
8 CDs • OCD 1041 • 978-1-78433-675-2
DIANA BRETHERICK
The Devil’s Daughters
KATE BEAUFOY
Another Heartbeat in the House
Read by Niamh Cusack
When Edie Chadwick travels to Ireland to close up her uncle’s lodge, it’s as much to
escape the guilt she’s carrying as to break loose from the smart set of 1930s London. The
old house is full of memories – not just her own, but those of a woman whose story has
been left to gather dust in a chest in the attic ... Eliza Drury. As she turns the pages of the
handwritten manuscript, Edie uncovers secrets she could never have imagined – a story
that has waited a lifetime to be told.
11 CDs • OCD 1029 • 978-1-78433-663-9
1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito,
he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia’s 15-year-old cousin has vanished but the police
are unwilling to investigate. Accompanied by his younger sister Lucy, Murray returns to
the city of Turin where he was once apprenticed to the criminologist, Cesare Lombroso.
Here Murray uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances of young women. When the
body of one of the girls turns up bearing evidence of a satanic ritual, Murray begins to slot
together the pieces of the puzzle. But as two more bodies are discovered, fear grips the
city and a desperate hunt begins to find a truly terrifying killer.
11 CDs • OCD 992 • 978-1-78433-555-7
PARKER BILAL
IAIN BROOME
The Burning Gates: A Makana Investigation
A is for Angelica
Private Investigator Makana has a new client: the powerful art dealer Aram Kasabian.
Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went missing from Baghdad
during the US invasion. The art world is a far cry from the shady streets and dirty alleyways
of the Cairo that Makana knows, but he discovers that this side of the city has its own dark
underbelly. Before long, he finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a trail that
leads him into the darkness of war and which threatens to send the new life he has built
for himself up in flames.
10 CDs • OCD 944 • 978-1-78433-452-9
Read by Tim Bruce
Gordon Kingdom struggles with the fate of his seriously-ill wife while patiently observing
and methodically recording the lives of those around him: his neighbours. He has files
on them all, including Don Donald (best friend and petty thief), Annie Carnaffan (lives
next door, throws footballs over the fence), and Benny (the boy who paints with his eyes
closed). Then there’s Angelica, the new girl (42) on the street, with her multi-coloured
toenails and her filthy temper. It’s when she arrives that Gordon’s world of half-truths
really begins to unravel.
6 CDs • OCD 968 • 978-1-78433-475-8
HARRY BINGHAM
NICK BROWN
This Thing of Darkness
The Imperial Banner: Agent of Rome 2
Read by Siriol Jenkins
A marine engineer who tumbles off a cliff path on a windy night. A burglary where
everything taken was returned by the thief. The suicide of a man in love with life. An
accident, a mystery, an unexplained tragedy. And nothing at all to connect them. Until, that
is, Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths starts to wonder if all three incidents are not quite
what they seem. It could just be her imagination. But something tells her there are invisible
threads linking the crimes, and as she investigates further, she starts to see the outlines of
a conspiracy so unlikely and on such a vast scale, that it takes her breath away. And that’s
when they come for her.
12 CDs • OCD 1005 • 978-1-78433-579-3
Read by Nigel Peever
The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran
revolt. Faridun’s Banner, hallowed battle standard of the Persian Empire, has fallen into
Roman hands and is to be returned to the Persians as part of a historic peace treaty. But
on the eve of the signing the banner goes missing. Recalled to Syria, imperial agent Cassius
Corbulo is charged with recovering the flag. Accompanied by his faithful servant Simo and
ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara, Cassius must journey across the dangerous wastes of
Syria to the equally perilous streets of Antioch.
13 CDs • OCD 1017 • 978-1-78433-651-6
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ADAM CREED
Read by Mark Meadows
Read by Jonathan Oliver
Trust
Kill and Tell
Greg and Amanda are happy. They’ve been together 13 years and have two young
daughters. They’re very much in love. Dan and Sarah aren’t so fortunate. Their marriage is
going through the motions and they’re just staying together for the sake of their son. When
one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil and turns an unhappy couple into
love’s young dream, there’s only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: trust.
9 CDs • OCD 1018 • 978-1-78433-652-3
HELEN CADBURY
A reformed Sicilian criminal, Carmelo Trapani, has been kidnapped and his search for the
aged Carmelo leads Staffe all the way back to a terrible act at the Battle of Cable Street.
Meanwhile, Staffe’s own loyal servant,, DS Pulford, is in Pentonville awaiting trial for the
murder of Jadus Golding, the very man who attempted to murder Staffe, leaving wounds
from which Staffe is still recovering and it suits some in the hierarchy to see Pulford go
down. Can Staffe save Carmelo without leaving Pulford to the political vultures?
8 CDs • OCD 946 • 978-1-78433-454-3
Bones in the Nest
SARA CROWE
The Chasebridge Killer is out; racial tension is rising and the mutilated body of a young
Muslim man is found in the stairwell of a tower block in Doncaster. As he gets drawn
into the case, Sean Denton’s family life and his police job become dangerously entwined.
Meanwhile a young woman is trying to piece her life back together, but someone is out
there; someone who will never let her forget what she’s done.
Read by the author
Campari for Breakfast
7 CDs • OCD 1019 • 978-1-78433-653-0
Life is full of terrible things. In 1987, Sue Bowl’s world changes for ever. Her mother dies,
leaving her feeling like she’s lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with
an awful man-eater called Ivana. But Sue’s mother always told her to make the most of
what she’s got – and what she’s got is a love of writing and some eccentric relatives. So Sue
moves to her Aunt Coral’s crumbling ancestral home, where she fully intends to write a
book ... and perhaps drink Campari for breakfast.
8 CDs • OCD 935 • 978-1-78433-384-3
ANDREA CAMLLERI
Hunting Season
CHRIS CULVER
Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigàta, the town’s inhabitants immediately become
unsettled. It seems the young man, Fofo, is the son of a local peasant legendary for his
home-grown medicines; a man who was murdered many years before. Fofo opens his
own pharmacy in Vigàta and his remedies are sought by many. But he soon finds himself
entangled with Don Filippo, a philandering marchese, and his family. It won’t be long before
death visits Vigàta, and the town and its most noble family will never be the same again ...
4 CDs • OCD 945 • 978-1-78433- 453-6
ROSIE CLARKE
By Any Means
Read by John Chancer
At the end of a particularly gruelling summer day, Ash Rashid is heading home to his wife
and kids when he discovers a pair of bodies, shot execution style, in the front seat of a
crashed vehicle. As the first officer on the scene, Ash finds himself and his department 20
minutes behind a killer in a race where every second counts. With two victims down and a
third unaccounted for, the clock is ticking and Ash must find the killer before he strikes again.
10 CDs • OCD 969 • 978-1-78433-476-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 969• 978-1-78433-511-3 • Playing time: 12hrs 9mins
Emma’s War
BEA DAVENPORT
Newly married to the caring RAF pilot Jonathan Reece, Emma thinks that life couldn’t
be better. But her happiness is short-lived: within months, Jon’s plane is shot down over
France and he is declared missing, presumed dead. Alone and with two children to care for,
Emma’s first thought is how to support her family. But when she makes a new friend in the
American businessman Jack Harvey, she is faced with a difficult decision. Should she take a
last chance at happiness?
Read by Alexandra Whitworth
This Little Piggy
Read by Helena Coates
8 CDs • OCD 982 • 978-1-78433-557-1
It’s the summer of 1984 and there is a sense of unease on the troubled Sweetmeadows
estate. The residents are in shock after the suspicious death of a baby. Journalist Clare
Jackson follows the story as police bungle the inquiry and struggle to contain the escalating
violence. Haunted by a personal trauma, Clare is shadowed by nine-year-old Amy, a bright
but neglected little girl who seems to know more about the incident than she’s letting on.
As the days go on and the killer is not found, Clare ignores warnings not to get too close
to her stories and, in doing so, puts her own life in jeopardy.
7 CDs • OCD 1006 • 978-1-78433-580-9
RORY CLEMENTS
Holy Spy
MURRAY DAVIES
Read by Peter Wickham
In London’s smoky taverns, a conspiracy is brewing: a group of wealthy young Catholic
dissidents plot to assassinate Elizabeth, free Mary Queen of Scots – and open England to
Spanish invasion. But the conspirators have been infiltrated by Sir Francis Walsingham’s top
intelligencer, John Shakespeare. Shakespeare, however, is torn: the woman he loves stands
accused of murder. In a desperate race against time he must save her from the noose and
the realm from treachery.
11 CDs • OCD 956 • 978-1-78433-464-2
Welcome to Meantime
Read by Peter Wickham
DCI Patsy Chalke. Beautiful, rich, Oxford-educated. Owns a riverside penthouse, drives
a red Mercedes convertible. DS Bobby Leyden. The bruiser from the notorious Ferrier
estate. Lives on take-away Chinese and cans of 1664. Drives a Ford. They are Chalke and
Cheese, but when a gruesome string of murders rocks the royal borough of Greenwich,
the pair must work together to find out who is killing South London’s villains. And why.
Only one thing’s certain. In Meantime nothing is what it seems to be.
10 CDs • OCD 1042 • 978-1-78433-676-9
JOHN CONNOR
The Ice House
GRÉGOIRE DELACOURT
Read by Victoria Fox
Carl Bowman is a killer. An assassin for hire whose latest assignment is to take out a
10-year-old girl. He doesn’t know why someone wants her dead. But with the girl in his
sights, Carl can’t bring himself to pull the trigger. Instead he goes on the run, taking her with
him. In a small village in Southern Spain, Julia Martin’s life is falling apart. Her husband and
his mistress have been killed in an explosion and her daughter, Rebecca, has disappeared.
Julia has been fleeing the secrets of her past and it seems they’ve finally caught up with her.
To get her daughter back, Julia must confront a truth she’s spent years running from ...
8 CDs • OCD 957 • 978-1-78433-465-9
The First Thing You See
Arthur Dreyfuss is a young mechanic at a garage in the little community of Long, France.
He has a small flat and leads a simple life. So, imagine his surprise when he opens his door
one evening to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing before him. But although
feigning an American accent, this woman is not all that she seems. For her name is actually
Jeanine Foucamprez – and her story is very different from the glamorous life of a star.
Arthur is not all he seems, either; a lover of poetry with a darker past than one might
imagine, he has learnt to see beauty in the mundane.
5 CDs • OCD 993 • 978-1-78433-566-3
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MAGGIE FORD
Read by Kate Lee
Blueprints
A Woman’s Place
Jamie MacAfee’s life is almost perfect. She’s sure she loves her fiancée and she certainly
adores her job, working as an architect on their family home renovation show. Meanwhile,
her mother Caroline has built up her confidence after a painful divorce, working closely
alongside her daughter as the very successful host of Gut It! But when the TV network
plan to replace Caroline with Jamie as the show’s host, Caroline is left feeling horribly
betrayed – and old in the eyes of the world. Then tragedy strikes, leaving Jamie guardian to
her orphaned step-brother and fiancée to a man who doesn’t want the child.
12 CDs • OCD 983 • 978-1-78433-558-8
Eveline’s father believes a woman’s place is in the home. But when she is accidentally caught
up in a suffragette march, it changes her life forever. She finds friendships, and even the
possibility of love too in the form of the gentlemanly Laurence Jones-Fairbrook. But will
she be forced to choose between her family and friends., between duty and love?
12 CDs • OCD 958 • 978-1-78433-466-6
MAGGIE FORD
The Factory Girl
Read by Kate Lee
SOPHIE DUFFY
Bright Stars
Read by Angus King
Cameron Spark’s life is falling apart. He is separated from his wife, and awaiting a
disciplinary following an incident in the underground vaults of Edinburgh where he works
as a Ghost Tour guide. On the day he moves back home to live with his widowed dad,
he receives a letter from Canada. It is from Christie. Twenty-five years earlier, Cameron
attends Lancaster University and despite his crippling shyness, makes three unlikely friends:
Christie, the rich Canadian, Tommo, the wannabe rock star and Bex, the Feminist activist
who has his heart. In a whirlwind of alcohol, music and late night fox raids, Cameron feels
as though he’s finally living ...
8 CDs • OCD 1020 • 978-1-78433-654-7
RUTH DUGDALL
Humber Boy B
Read by Penny McDonald
A child is killed after falling from the Humber Bridge. Two young brothers are found guilty
and sent to prison. Upon their release they are granted anonymity. Probation officer Cate
Austin is responsible for Humber Boy B’s reintegration into society. But the general public’s
anger is steadily growing, and those around her wonder if he deserves to keep the secret
of his identity. Cate’s loyalty is challenged when she begins to discover the truth of the
crime. Is a child is capable of premeditated murder? Or is there a greater evil at play?
8 CDs • OCD 1043 • 978-1-78433-677-6
HELENA FAIRFAX
A Way from Heart to Heart
Read by Helen Longworth
A knock at the door shatters Kate Hemingway’s life when she’s informed of her husband
Stuart’s death in Afghanistan. She struggles to care for their young son George with only
Stuart’s aloof best friend Paul as emotional support. Piece by fragile piece, she tries to
rebuild her life, realising Paul and her son have formed an unlikely bond. When Paul agrees
to accompany Kate and a group of disadvantaged teenagers on a trip to the Yorkshire
moors, he finally reveals something he’s kept secret for years. Kate’s own scarred heart
begins to open up. But can she risk her son’s happiness as well as her own?
7 CDs • OCD 1007 • 978-1-78433-581-6
1 MP3 • OMP 1007 • 978-1-78433-617-2 • Playing time: 8hrs 22mins
Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a
more glamorous life. When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor
of a small jeweller’s shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world – but it
comes at a heavy price ...
12 CDs • OCD 994 • 978-1-78433-567-0
VANESSA GREENE
The Beachside Guest House
Read by Victoria Fox
When Rosa and Bee get together in the run-up to Bee’s wedding, they reminisce about
the holiday they took together as teenagers to the beautiful Greek island of Paros. They
remember the sandy coves, the guest house in the converted windmill where they stayed
with their friend Iona, and the gorgeous local men. As memories of that long-forgotten
holiday resurface, they are forced to confront the turns their lives have taken – and the
guilt they both feel about letting Iona slip away from them. When they learn that the
windmill guest house is going bust they form a plan: why not go back to the island and
take it over themselves? And so begins a life-changing journey – because it turns out that
opening a guest house and reliving their teenage dreams isn’t that easy ...
6 CDs • OCD 1031 • 978-1-78433-665-3
VANESSA GREENE
The Seafront Tea Rooms
Read by Fiona Paul
Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to track down Britain’s best tea rooms.
She knows she’s found something special in the Seafront Tea Rooms but is it a secret she
should share? Kathryn, a single mother whose only sanctuary is the ‘Seafront’, convinces
Charlie to keep the place out of her article by agreeing to join her on her search. Together
with another regular, Seraphine, a culture-shocked French au pair with a passion for pastrymaking, they travel around the country discovering quaint hideaways and hidden gems.
But what none of them expect is for their journey to surprise them with discoveries of a
different kind ...
8 CDs • OCD 947 • 978-1-78433- 455-0
BEAR GRYLLS
Ghost Flight
Read by Rupert Degas
MELANIE FINN
Shame
Redemption is a foreign country – or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a
departures board and takes the first flight. She is running away; from her failed marriage
and from the carnage she has caused in a small Swiss village. Pilgrim alights on the edge
of Africa. Over confessions and strong gin, she is lured into a world of mercenaries and
philanthropists, delusional heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits. Here, in a land
where fireflies light the sky, anything – even redemption – seems possible.
9 CDs • OCD 925 • 978-1-78433-374-4
CONOR FITZGERALD
Haunted by his wife and son’s brutal abduction and murder, ex-soldier Will Jaeger runs
to the ends of the earth to hide. But even there he is found, and compelled to undertake
one last mission: to lead an expedition into the remote Amazon jungle. At its heart lies
a mystery WWII warplane, one that harbours a secret so explosive that it may tear the
world asunder. Terrifying forces are hell-bent on keeping the warplane forever hidden.
Unwittingly, Will Jaeger is going in against them. But he senses that the air wreck also
harbours the answer he so longs to uncover: the identity of his wife and son’s murderers.
12 CDs • OCD 959 • 978-1-78433-467-3
KRISTIN HANNAH
The Nightingale
Bitter Remedy
Read by Saul Reichlin
Commissario Alec Blume, on health leave, has retreated from Rome to central Italy. At
the Villa Romanelli he enrols on a natural remedies course conducted by a young woman
named Silvana. But far from recuperating, a feverish Blume becomes isolated and sluggish
with sickness. Increasingly ill-at-ease in the stifling environment, the dark history of the
crumbling villa and its once-magnificent gardens draws him in. And when a Romanian girl
who works for Silvana’s fiancé Niki asks for his help, Blume is dragged into the shadowy
case of a missing girl, and the horrors of the garden’s malign beauty.
In the quiet village of Carriveau,Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as
he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France, but invade
they do. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must
live with the enemy or lose everything.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious 18-year-old
girl. She meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within
France. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking
her life time and again to save others. A heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the
resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a
novel for a lifetime.
8 CDs • OCD 970 • 978-1-78433-522-9
13 CDs • OCD 1008 • 978-1-78433-582-3
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VERONICA HENRY
Read by Grainne Gillis
The Heart of Winter
Honeycote
With the promise of December in the air and the hedgerows laced with frost,
Huntersbrook House has never looked more beautiful. Once the Craig family’s beloved
home, the house has been transformed into a magnificent countryside venue. And its first
booking couldn’t be more perfect – the Christmas wedding of a well-known film actress.
Yet, behind the scenes, the Craig children are feeling the chill. Pippa is skating on thin ice
with her reckless personal life; Joey, preoccupied with the business, is blind to his fiancé’s
struggles. And Lainey’s future is dealt a cruel blow. As the wedding approaches, everyone
hopes the house will weave its magic. But can the Craigs put their differences aside and
pull together as a family once more?
10 CDs • OCD 1032 • 978-1-78433-666-0
The Liddiards have a wonderful life at Honeycote House: endless guests, parties and family
fun. But unbeknownst to his wife Lucy, Mickey Liddiard has some secrets. He’s going to
make changes, though. 1) Give his mistress the boot. Tricky. 2) Get the family business back
on its feet. Trickier, as Mickey’s had his fingers in the till. 3) Give up the booze. Trickiest. He
owes it to Lucy and the children. But it’s going to take more than willpower, especially when
there’s more than one person with their eye on the brewery. And his house. And his wife …
11 CDs • OCD 1022 • 978-1-78433-656-1
EVA HOLLAND
The Daughter’s Secret
OLIVER HARRIS
Deep Shelter
Read by Toby Longworth
London is steaming under a summer of filthy heat and sudden storms – and Detective
Nick Belsey, of Hampstead CID, is trying to stay out of trouble. But then somebody sets
him a riddle. How does a man walk into a dead-end alley and never come out? How does
he disappear? And then reappear – to snatch a girl, to dump a body beneath a London
skyscraper, to send Belsey a package of human hair. The answer lies underground, where
the secrets degenerating beneath the city’s sickly glitter are about to see the light of day.
8 CDs • OCD 937 • 978-1-78433-386-7
When Rosalind’s 15-year-old daughter, Stephanie, ran away with her teacher, this ordinary
family became something it had never asked to be. Their lives held up to scrutiny in the
centre of a major police investigation, the Simms were headline news while Stephanie was
missing with a man who was risking everything. Now, six years on, Ros takes a call that
will change their lives all over again. He’s going to be released from prison.Years too early.
In 11days’ time. As Temperley’s release creeps ever closer, Ros is forced to confront the
events that led them here, back to a place she thought she’d left behind, to questions she
didn’t want to answer. Why did she do it? Where does the blame lie? What happens next?
9 CDs • OCD 971 • 978-1-78433-477-2
SJI HOLLIDAY
PAMELA HARTSHORNE
Black Wood
The Edge of Dark
Read by Jenny Dunbar
Jane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a path of deceit
and joy that takes her from the secrets of Holmwood House in York to London’s Mincing
Lane. Getting what you want comes at a price. For the child that she longed for, promised
to love and keep safe, turns out to be a dark spirit indeed. Over four centuries later, Roz
Acclam remembers nothing of the fire that killed her family – or of the brother who set it.
Trying on a beautiful Elizabethan necklace found in the newly-restored Holmwood House
triggers disturbing memories of the past – but the past Roz remembers is not her own ...
11 CDs • OCD 961 • 978-1-78433-469-7
Something happened to Claire and Jo in Black Wood: something that left Claire paralysed
and Jo with deep mental scars. But with Claire suffering memory loss, nobody believes Jo’s
story. Twenty-three years later, a familiar face walks into the bookshop where Jo works,
dredging up painful memories and rekindling her desire for vengeance. Meanwhile, Sergeant
Davie Gray is investigating a man who is attacking women near the village of Banktoun. But
what is the connection between Jo’s visitor and the masked man? To catch the assailant,
and to give Jo her long-awaited justice, Gray must unravel a web of past secrets, broken
friendship and tainted love. But can he crack the case before Jo finds herself with blood on
her hands?
7 CDs • OCD 960 • 978-1-78433-468-0
PAMELA HARTSHORNE
The Memory of Midnight
MAGGIE HOPE
In Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a chest, and a horror of the dark dogs
her for the rest of her life. Wed to the sadistic Ralph Maskewe, Nell must find joy where
she can, until her childhood sweetheart offers her escape to the New World. Four and a
half centuries later, Tess moves to York, eager to start a new life, away from her overbearing
husband. But time in York has a way of shifting strangely, and memories of a past that is not
her own begin to surface ...
A Nurse’s Duty
Read by Helen Longworth
11 CDs • OCD 939 • 978-1-78433-387-4
Following a disastrous marriage to a miner, Karen has devoted herself to a nursing career.
Rising to the challenge of caring for the wounded soldiers returning home from the Great
War, she has resigned herself to putting her vocation before any hope of a romantic life.
However, she finds herself drawn to handsome, troubled Patrick Murphy. But Patrick is also
a Catholic priest. Dare Karen risk scandal and her position by falling for the one man she
cannot have?
14 CDs • OCD 972 • 978-1-78433-478-9
VERONICA HENRY
High Tide
MAGGIE HOPE
Kate has only planned a flying visit to clear out the family home after the death of her
mother. When she finds an anonymous letter, she is drawn back into her own past. Single
dad Sam is juggling his deli and two lively teenagers, so romance is the last thing on his
mind. Then Cupid fires an unexpected arrow. Nathan Fisher is happy running picnic
cruises on the river, but kissing the widow of the richest man in Pennfleet has disastrous
consequences.Vanessa knows what she has done is unseemly for a widow, but it’s the most
fun she’s had for years. Must she always be on her best behaviour?
A Mother’s Gift
8 CDs • OCD 995 • 978-1-78433-568-7
Taken in by her grandparents to ease the pressure on her family, Katie Benfield knows she’s
one of the lucky ones and she dreams of pursuing a nursing career. Despite many hardships,
Katie achieves her goal, but tragedy strikes when her grandfather and her childhood
sweetheart are killed in a mining accident. Distraught, Katie succumbs to the advances of
the married owner of the mine, Matthew Hamilton. Thrown out by her grandmother, her
reputation and career in tatters, Katie faces a home for unmarried mothers. Then Matthew
Hamilton offers her a way to keep her baby, but only if she becomes his mistress ...
9 CDs • OCD 939 • 978-1-78433-388-1
VERONICA HENRY
The Birthday Party
MAGGIE HOPE
Secrets, rivalry, glamour – it’s time for the party of the year ... Delilah has lived out her
tempestuous marriage to hell-raiser Raf in the glare of the media spotlight. Now planning a
milestone birthday, she has more on her mind than invitations. Raf has been offered a part
in a movie he can’t refuse. But will he succumb to the temptations he’s struggled to resist
for the last 10 years? Delilah’s three daughters are building careers of their own, only too
aware that the press are waiting for them to slip up. For the Rafferty girls might look like
angels, but they are only human ...
A Wartime Nurse
11 CDs • OCD 962 • 978-1-78433-470-3
Against the odds, miner’s daughter Theda Wearmouth succeeds in gaining a nursing place
at Newcastle Hospital. By the time war breaks out, she is newly qualified and working in a
children’s ward, a role she adores. She also finds herself being courted by a young soldier.
Only Theda’s dreams of becoming Mrs Alan Price are shattered when he is killed in action
before he can make good on his promise to marry her. Broken-hearted, Theda finds herself
re-assigned to a special unit of the hospital dealing with German prisoners of war. Her duty
is clear. But will she be able to cope with nursing the very men her fiancé died fighting?
10 CDs • OCD 1009 • 978-1-78433-583-0
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KATHERINE JOHN
Read by Wayne Forester
Orphan Girl
By Any Name
Lorinda is only a child when tragedy deprives her of her true family and, sent to live with
her aunt in her boarding house, she grows up desperately craving affection. And although
she finds friendship – and even love – in the boarding house, she finally sees a chance to
escape her drab surroundings and unkind family. But is a marriage of convenience better
than a love that’s true?
11 CDs • OCD 1044 • 978-1-78433-678-3
A bloodstained man runs half naked down a motorway at night. Cornered by police,
admitted to a psychiatric ward suffering from trauma-induced amnesia, all he can recall is a
detailed knowledge of sophisticated weaponry. When two armed soldiers guarding his room
are murdered and Dr Elizabeth Santer, the psychiatrist assigned to his case, is abducted at
gunpoint a desperate hunt begins for a dangerous killer. Terrorist? Murderer? Kidnapper?
Thief? Whatever he is, it is to Brecon he drags Elizabeth Santer with the security forces in
all-out pursuit. Is Elizabeth in the hands of a homicidal terrorist or an innocent pawn?
8 CDs • OCD 997 • 978-1-78433-570-0
ALEX HOURSTON
In My House
PHILIP KAZAN
Read by Julia Franklin
Maggie lives a life of careful routines and measured pleasures. But everything changes when,
walking through Gatwick a few days shy of her 58th birthday, a young woman approaches
her and whispers a single word: ‘Help’. Maggie responds, and in that moment saves a
stranger, earning Anja her freedom and ensuring the arrest of a brutal trafficker. But when
the story gets picked up by the papers, Margaret is panicked by the publicity, as well as the
strange phone calls she begins to receive. Meanwhile Anja makes contact. She wants to
thank her rescuer, but quickly insinuates herself into Maggie’s life. As her relationship with
Anja intensifies, Maggie begins to reveal, in increments, what it is she has been hiding.
8 CDs • OCD 984 • 978-1-78433-559-5
The Painter of Souls
Beauty can be a gift ... or a wicked temptation. So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in
Renaissance Florence. He has a talent - not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can
capture it, paint it. But while beauty can seduce you, and art can transport you – it cannot
always feed you or protect you. To survive, Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, street urchin, forger,
drinker, seducer of nuns must become Fra Filippo Lippi – Carmelite friar, man of God.Yet
at the same time he is Lippo Lippi, creator of some the most radiantly beautiful paintings,
Botticelli’s teacher, Medici’s confidante. So who is he really – lover, believer, father, teacher,
artist? Which man? Which life? Is anything true except the paintings?
8 CDs • OCD 973 • 978-1-78433-479-6
LINDA HUBER
The Cold Cold Sea
CATHY KELLY
Read by Kate Lee
When three-year-old Olivia disappears, her mother Maggie refuses to leave the cottage,
staring out at the turbulent sea and praying it didn’t claim her daughter’s life. Another
mother watches proudly as her daughter starts school. Jennifer has loved Hailey for five
years, but the child is suddenly moody, and there’s a niggling worry that Jennifer cannot
shake off. Time is running out for Maggie, and also for Jennifer and Hailey. No one can
underestimate a mother’s love for her child, and no one can predict the lengths one will go
to, to protect her family.
7 CDs • OCD 927 • 978-1-78433-376-8
LINDA HUBER
Between Sisters
Read by Caroline Lennon
Cassie has spent her married life doing everything right – making sure her children have the
perfect life, being a devoted wife and a dutiful daughter-in-law. She’s certain she wouldn’t
change anything, until temptation comes her way. Her sister Coco believes men complicate
things and she’s got enough to contend with looking after her staff. Watching over them
is grandmother Pearl, with her chickens and a secret lover. But something is keeping her
awake at night. Was she right to do what she did all those years ago? And then there’s Elsa,
the polished face of daytime TV, who’s battled demons in the past. Now Elsa faces one final
battle – but this one will require more bravery than anything that’s come before.
13 CDs • OCD 985 • 978-1-78433-560-1
The Paradise Trees
Read by Meriel Scholfield
LIZA KLAUSSMANN
When Alicia Bryson returns to her estranged father’s home in a tiny Yorkshire village, she
feels burdened by his illness. Her hometown brings back memories of a miserable and
violent childhood, and Alicia worries that her young daughter Jenny’s summer will be filled
with a similar sense of unhappiness. The town is exactly as she remembered it, the people,
the buildings, even the woods. But her arrival has not gone unnoticed. There is someone
watching her every move. Someone who has a plan of his own. Someone who will not stop
until the people he loves most can rest together, in paradise.
7 CDs • OCD 996 • 978-1-78433-569-4
M. K. HUME
Death of an Empire: Prophecy, Book 2
Villa America
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John
Dos Passos – all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy.Visionary, misunderstood,
and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and set forth
to create a beautiful world. They alight on Villa America: their coastal oasis of artistic genius,
debauched parties, impeccable style and flamboyant imagination. But before long, a stranger
enters into their relationship, and their marriage must accommodate an intensity that
neither had foreseen. When tragedy strikes, their friends reach out to them, but the golden
bowl is shattered, and neither Gerald nor Sara will ever be the same.
11 CDs • OCD 963 • 978-1-78433-471-0
Merlin’s epic quest continues as he journeys in search of his father. Myrddion Emrys of
Segontium is the product of a brutal rape, but when King Vortigern hints at his father’s
identity, Myrddion embarks on a journey to Constantinople. It is a voyage that is to turn the
young healer into a man of great renown. Serving under General Flavius Aetius at the Battle
of the Catalaunian Plains, Myrddion saves the lives of thousands of warriors. But a deadlier
conflict between Emperor Valentinian of the West and Senator Petronius Maximus is still to
come and Myrddion must use all his strength to carry out his work in an evil world.
14 CDs • OCD 948 • 978-1-78433-456-7
LIZZIE LANE
A Wartime Family
Read by Julia Franklin
Having left her abusive husband for very good reasons, Mary Anne Randall finds herself
judged harshly by her neighbours, especially after she has the courage to risk a second
chance at happiness. with the only man she has ever loved away fighting, Mary Anne is less
concerned by her tarnished reputation than with keeping her children safe, as the bombs
fall on Bristol – all too close to home.
9 CDs • OCD 949 • 978-1-78433-457-4
JANE ISAAC
Before It’s Too Late
HARRIET LANE
Read by Tim Bruce & Cathy Sabberton
Following an argument with her British boyfriend, Chinese student Min Li is abducted
whilst walking the dark streets of picturesque Stratford-upon-Avon alone. Trapped in a
dark pit, Min is at the mercy of her captor. Detective Inspector Will Jackman is tasked with
solving the case and in his search for answers discovers that the truth is buried deeper
than he ever expected. But, as another student vanishes and Min grows ever weaker, time is
running out. Can Jackman track down the kidnapper, before it’s too late?
7 CDs • OCD 1033 • 978-1-78433-667-7
Alys, Always
Frances is a thirty-something lowly sub-editor, but her routine, colourless existence is
disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and
hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys’s family makes contact in an
attempt to find closure, Frances is given a tantalising glimpse of a very different world: one
of privilege and possibility. The relationships she builds with the Kytes will have an impact
on her own life as Frances dares to wonder whether she might now become a player in
her own right ...
6 CDs • OCD 986 • 978-1-78433-561-8
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GILLY MACMILLAN
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Read by Penelope Rawlins & Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Her
Burnt Paper Sky
Two women; two different worlds. Emma is a struggling mother who has put everything on
hold. Nina is sophisticated and independent – entirely in control. When the pair meet, Nina
generously draws Emma into her life. But this isn’t the first time the women’s paths have
crossed. Nina remembers Emma and she remembers what Emma did. But what exactly
does Nina want from her? And how far will she go in pursuit of it?
7 CDs • OCD 1023 • 978-1-78433-657-8
Rachel Jenner turned her back for a moment. Now her eight-year-old son Ben is missing.
But what really happened that fateful afternoon? Caught between her personal tragedy and
a public who have turned against her, there is nobody left who Rachel can trust. But can
the nation trust Rachel? The clock is ticking to find Ben alive. Whose side are you on?
10 CDs • OCD 1024 • 978-1-78433-658-5
BROOKE MAGNANTI
OWEN LAUKKANEN
The Turning Tide
Kill Fee
Read by Joan Walker
On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens
and FBI special agent Carla Windermere, witness the assassination of one of the state’s
wealthiest men. The shooter is a young man, utterly unremarkable … except for the dead
look in his eyes. The events of that sunny springtime day will lead Stevens and Windermere
to a flourishing 21st century enterprise: a high-tech murder-for-hire social media website.
But just who has the dead-eyed shooter targeted next … and who’s choosing his victims?
10 CDs • OCD 987 • 978-1-78433-562-5
Erykah Macdonald has a nice life, but on her 20th wedding anniversary, she’s about to cross
a line. Several hundred miles away in the shallow waters of a Hebridean island, a body is
found. This is no accidental death. Erykah’s lived with secrets most of her life. The trouble is,
there are far worse secrets than her own about to emerge. And a net is tightening. Those
that find themselves caught are willing to kill to get out with reputations intact. Erykah
must work out what she’s capable of if she’s going to keep her head above water …
10 CDs • OCD 1047 • 978-1-78433-681-3
KAREN MAITLAND
JOHN LAWTON
The Raven’s Head
Riptide
Spring 1941: After 10 years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl disappears during
a Berlin air raid. The Germans think he’s dead. The British know he’s not. But where is
he?MI6 convince US Intelligence that Stahl will head for London, and so Captain Cal
Cormack, a shy American ‘aristocrat’, is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton of Stepney,
fat, 50, and convivial, and between them they scour London, a city awash with spivs and
refugees. But then things start to go terribly wrong and, ditched by MI6 and disowned by
his embassy, Cal is introduced to his one last hope – Sergeant Troy of Scotland Yard.
11 CDs • OCD 1045 • 978-1-78433-679-0
Vincent is an apprentice librarian who stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to destroy
his master. With the foolish arrogance of youth, he attempts blackmail but the attempt fails
and Vincent finds himself on the run and in possession of an intricately carved silver raven’s
head. Any attempt to sell the head fails ... until Vincent tries to palm it off on the intimidating
Lord Sylvain – unbeknown to Vincent, a powerful Alchemist with an all-consuming quest.
Once more Vincent’s life is in danger because Sylvain and his neighbours, the menacing
White Canons, consider him a predestined sacrifice in their shocking experiment.
13 CDs • OCD 1048 • 978-1-78433-682-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1048 • 978-1-78433-718-6 • Playing time:15hrs 36mins
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JOHN LAWTON
Murder at the Miramar
Sweet Sunday
Read by Anne Wittman
Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away ...
they die. When his oldest friend Mel Kissing dies with an ice pick through his skull, Raines
picks up the thread and sets out to ask ‘who?’ and ‘why?’ But this is America in 1969 and
one death is just a drop in the ocean. The Vietnam War is ripping the country to pieces, the
Woodstock Festival is in full swing and Norman Mailer is standing as candidate for Mayor
of New York. Against this backdrop, Raines’ questions take him back to the childhood home
he left in Texas, back to the battered remains of his youth, and as his memory unravels,
America unravels with it.
10 CDs • OCD 974 • 978-1-78433-480-2
With the dreaded Family Reunion looming over her head – and a broken heart to boot –
Augusta Josephine Burnette takes matters in hand and leaves her hometown for a job in a
seaside resort. The setting is elegance incarnate, but the atmosphere says something else
entirely. With her innate sense of adventure (and just plain nosiness), AJ sets out to unravel
exactly what – and who – the Miramar Resort is hiding. AJ begins to think that time spent
with her crazy family might not be as lethal as the time spent at the Miramar ...
6 CDs • OCD 998 • 978-1-78433-571-7
A. P. McCOY
Narrowing the Field
COLIN MacINTYRE
Read by Daniel Weyman
The Letters of Ivor Punch
Read by Angus King
Imagine an island, a place separated from the mainland by choppy seas. A place of myths
and faith, where a Headless Horseman is said to stalk the woods but where the kirk is
always full. Imagine a community which held its own against Darwin but which can’t hold
on to its own. Prepare to meet a pioneering female travel writer, two fatherless boys, and a
man who, quite simply, fell from the sky. And, at the centre of it all, the figure who links the
past to the present – the irrepressible, unforgettable former Sergeant Punch. Ivor Punch
will not be taking his secrets to the grave.
8 CDs • OCD 950 • 978-1-78433-458-1
Everything seems to be going right for brilliant young jockey Duncan Claymore. A career
on the up, a beautiful wife, and all the trappings of wealth. But Duncan is haunted by the
death of one of his arch-rivals. As Duncan struggles to keep his focus on the job, Michelle
O’Brien – a friend and talented fellow jockey – is killed. Duncan knows this was no tragic
accident and will stop at nothing to avenge Michelle’s death. With Duncan’s seemingly
perfect world starting to fall apart, can he balance his desire for victory on the field with
his desire to see justice served?
7 CDs • OCD 1049 • 978-1-78433-683-7
ANDY McDERMOTT
Kingdom of Darkness
MALCOLM MACKAY
Read by Nigel Carrington
The Sudden Arrival of Violence
Read by Angus King
It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity
to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two
of Glasgow’s biggest criminal organisations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And
as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest – and bloodiest – manoeuvres are yet to
come ... The stunning conclusion to Malcolm Mackay’s lauded Glasgow Trilogy.
8 CDs • OCD 940 • 978-1-78433-389-8
1943 – Occupied Greece. The SS unit’s mission was simple: round up Jews for the
concentration camps. But they find a far greater bounty – a hidden shrine to Alexander
the Great and an urn filled with water possessing mysterious qualities. The Nazis take the
treasure in the name of Hitler and disappear. Present Day – Los Angeles. Archaeologist
Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase are sought out by a man, desperate to warn her
about a raid on Alexander’s newly-discovered tomb. But before he can explain more, he is
assassinated by a wanted Nazi war criminal who has barely aged in 70 years. As Nina and
Eddie search for answers, they discover that the most evil regime in history is threatening
to rise again ...
13 CDs • OCD 975 • 978-1-78433-481-9
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JONATHAN MOORE
Read by Gráinne Gillis
Read by Tim Flavin
The Dead Ground
The Poison Artist
Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire, already wrestling with the hardest decision of her
life, is forced to put her own problems on hold when she’s asked to help find a baby
taken from a local hospital. Then the brutal, ritualistic murder of a woman found lying on
a remote stone circle indicates a connection to the kidnapping and Paula knows that they
will have to move fast if they are to find the person responsible. Then another child is
taken and a pregnant woman goes missing ...
9 CDs • OCD 951 • 978-1-78433-459-8
FERGUS McNEILL
Cut Out
Dr. Caleb Maddox is a crack San Francisco toxicologist leading a ground-breaking study
of the human pain threshold based on minute analysis of chemical markers. He has also
just broken up with his artist girlfriend after she discovered a shocking family secret in his
past. Seeking solace, Caleb finds a dark, old-fashioned saloon called House of Shields, and is
mesmerised when a beautiful woman materialises out of the shadows, dressed like a 1940s
movie star. The enigmatic Emmeline shares a pouring of absinthe with him, brushes his arm
and vanishes. As he pursues her through night he becomes entangled in a serial murder
investigation that has the police stymied until Caleb’s analysis of the chemical markers in
their bodies reveals that each one was tortured to death. Also present are some of the
key components of absinthe. As Caleb finally looks forward to a night spent alone with
Emmeline, part of his mind wonders if behind the seductive vision is something.
8 CDs • OCD 1036 • 978-1-78433-670-7
Read by Mike Rogers
Nigel never meant for it to happen. At first, he just wanted to be Matt’s friend. But when
he discovers he can hear what is going on in the flat below him, his fascination with his
new neighbour drifts into obsession. Rearranging his furniture to recreate the layout of the
rooms downstairs. Buying the same clothes, going through Matt’s post, his things. Becoming
Matt without him ever knowing. And it would have been all right, if Matt hadn’t brought the
girl home. When things spiral out of control, Detective Inspector Harland has to unravel
the disturbing truth ...
8 CDs • OCD 1050 • 978-1-78433-684-4
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Larkswood
Read by Katie Scarfe
Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance. It is home
to the Hamilton children – Edward, Cynthia and Harriet – who enjoy the freedom and
excitement of privilege. But in the glorious summer of 1896, with absent parents and a
departed governess, disaster strikes the family, leaving it cruelly divided. More than 40 years
later, on the eve of the Second World War, Louisa Hamilton, newly presented at court
but struck down with glandular fever, is sent to Larkswood to recuperate. There, for the
first time, she meets her grandfather, Edward, home after decades in India. But as Louisa
begins to fall under the spell of Larkswood, she realises it holds the key to the mystery that
shattered her family two generations before. Will she find the courage to unravel the dark
secrets of the past? And can Larkswood ever become home to happiness again?
12 CDs • OCD 1034 • 978-1-78433-668-4
SIMON MORDEN
Down Station
Read by Thomas Judd
A group of commuters and tube workers witness a fiery apocalypse overtaking London.
They make their escape through a service tunnel. Reaching a door they step through
… and find themselves on a shore backed by cliffs and rolling grassland. The way back is
blocked. Heading inland they meet a man wearing a wolf’s cloak with wolves by his side.
He has heard of a place called London – other people have arrived down the ages – all
escaping from a London that is burning. None of them have returned. Except one – who
travels between the two worlds at will. The group begin a quest to find this one survivor;
the one who holds the key to their return and to the safety of London.
9 CDs • OCD 1051 • 978-1-78433-685-1
STEVE MOSBY
I Know Who Did It
Charlie Matheson died two years ago. So how is a woman bearing a startling resemblance
to her claiming to be back from the dead? Detective Mark Nelson is called in to hear her
terrifying account of what she’s been through in the afterlife. Every year Detective David
Groves receives a birthday card for his son – even though he buried him years ago. His son’s
murder took everything from him, apart from his belief in the law, even though the killers
were never found. This year, though, the card bears a different message: I know who did it.
8 CDs • OCD 988 • 978-1-78433-483-3
ALISON MERCER
After I Left You
STEVE MOSBY
read by Penny McDonald
Anna hasn’t been back to Oxford since her last summer at university. She tries not to think
about her time there, or the tightly-knit group of friends she once thought would be hers
forever. She has almost forgotten the sting of betrayal, the secret she carries around, the
last night she spent with them all. Then a chance meeting on a rainy day in London brings
her past tumbling back into her present ... Can Anna finally face up to the memories of that
summer and the people she left behind?
9 CDs • OCD 952 • CD ISBN 978-1-78433-460-4
RICHARD MONTANARI
Shutter Man
Read by William Hope
The Farren family has been a plague upon Philadelphia’s most dangerous neighbourhood,
the Devil’s Pocket, for generations. There, row after row of tumbledown houses hide dark
secrets – none darker than Billy, the youngest Farren. Afflicted by a syndrome that means
he can’t recognise faces, Billy must use photographs to identify his family – and his victims.
And when your life has bled away, he takes a final, gruesome picture for his wall. But what
is the meaning of the horrific ritual Billy enacts with every murder? And is there any
connection to a childhood event Detective Kevin Byrne has buried so well it’s hidden even
from his former partner Jessica Balzano?
10 CDs • OCD 1035 • 978-1-78433-669-1
The 50/50 Killer
Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mackey – author
of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey
is a legend in the force and it’s a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to
his job. When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey’s team is thrown
into an investigation that grows darker at every turn. The evidence points to a man known
as the 50/50 Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single
night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one
of them ever survives until dawn. Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station
badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still
being held captive in the woods he’s escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the
man has sealed his girlfriend’s fate. If they can’t piece together his experience by daybreak
then she will die in his place. However, all is not what it seems ...
9 CDs • OCD 1037 • 978-1-78433-671-4
REBECCA MUDDIMAN
Gone
Read by Tim Bruce
Eleven years ago, troubled teenager Emma Thorley went missing. The police assumed she
was a runaway. But now a body has been found in woods near Blyth. DI Michael Gardner
knows he didn’t take Emma’s disappearance seriously enough back then, and is determined
to make up for it now. But when he and DS Nicola Freeman start to reinvestigate, they
discover that nothing is as simple as it seems. As news of the discovery travels, the past will
come back to haunt all those involved. Because there are consequences when good people
do bad things, and some secrets cannot stay buried for ever ...
8 CDs • OCD 941 • 978-1-78433-390-4
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MARGIE ORFORD
Read by Sean Barrett
Read by Saul Reichlin
Dead of Night: An Inspector Ikmen Mystery
Gallows Hill
Inner city murder crosses two continents. Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman
from Istanbul are sent to a policing conference in Detroit, but little can prepare them for
the corruption that lies at its heart. When Ezekial Goins, an elderly man of Turkish descent
approaches them to crack the long-unsolved murder of his son, a quiet trip takes a far
more sinister turn. As they delve deeper into the case, the pair find themselves immersed
in a terrifying world of inter-gang drug war and racial prejudice that puts them in mortal
danger, and forces Ikmen to confront some demons of his own …
A dog scavenging in an illegal building site digs up a bone. A human bone. She drags it back
to where her mistress lies dead in an abandoned shed, but there are hundreds more.
Skeletons which have lain undisturbed for centuries beneath Gallows Hill, where Cape
Town’s notorious gibbets once stood. Investigative profiler Dr Clare Hart is called in by
Captain Riedwaan Faizal of the SAPS Gang Unit and soon discovers that a deadly, more
recent secret lies hidden among these long-buried bones. Who was the woman in the green
silk dress? Who wanted her dead? Who buried her body among these ancient graves?
9 CDs • OCD 1038 • 978-1-78433-672-1
9 CDs • OCD 1001 • 978-1-78433-574-8
ANDREW NICOLL
NICKY PELLEGRINO
Read by Angus King
Read by Jane McDowell
The Secret Life and Curious Death of Miss Jean Milne
Recipe for Life
A hundred years ago, the true story of the brutal murder of Miss Jean Milne in a small
seaside town captured the imagination of the whole country. A wealthy spinster who lived
alone in a crumbling mansion, Miss Milne appeared to be the very model of respectability.
But, behind the facade, Miss Milne was living a secret life. Why was this quiet spinster tied
up in her own home, tortured and brutally murdered? Now, using newly-released evidence
from police files, eye-witness testimony hidden for a century and long-forgotten newspaper
reports from the scene, Andrew Nicoll has brought the case back from the dead to reveal
the secrets of the little town where Jean Milne was murdered.
9 CDs • OCD 1010 • 978-1-78433-584-7
A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little
food … But life is rarely straightforward. Alice wants to make the most of life – after all,
she knows how fragile it can be – and knows she never feels more alive than when she’s
cooking. Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on the Italian
coast, supplying food to feed a family now grown and gone. One summer these two
women are brought together in a crumbling Mediterranean villa, with the shared language
of food. There, under the heat of the Italian sun, or the shade of the pomegranate tree,
secrets will be spoken, fears and hopes shared. But life’s lessons are not learned easily.
8 CDs • OCD 1012 • 978-1-78433-586-1
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
ANNE PERRY
Read by Caroline Lennon
Read by Jonathan Oliver
Caroline’s Sister
Blood on the Water
To her younger sister, Tessa, Caroline O’Shaughnessy has everything – great looks, easy
charm, and the distinctly desirable Damien Woods. But for Caroline, things don’t feel
quite so rosy. She’d dreamed about moving in with Damien, but not about having his child,
just yet. And though he did the honourable thing when she told him she was pregnant, it
obviously wasn’t what he wanted either. And as both of them struggle to make the best of
a bad job, neither are prepared for the impact a moment of drunken indiscretion will have
not just on their lives but on Tessa’s too ...
16 CDs • OCD 1011 • 978-1-78433-585-4
Commander William Monk: in search of justice, he will not stop until he has found the
truth. It is a time of progress, with the Empire’s interests expanding and the contentious
new Suez Canal nearing completion. Many people stand to gain – and to lose – as the
world rapidly changes. When a Thames pleasure boat is blown up with the loss of many
lives, an Egyptian man is quickly sentenced to hang for the crime. But William Monk, head
of the River Police, discovers the evidence was flawed. If justice itself has been tainted,
exposing the true culprit will be far more dangerous …
11 CDs • OCD 1026 • 978-1-78433-660-8
KRISTINA OHLSSON
ANDREW PYPER
Read by Maggie Mash
Read by Adam Sims
Hostage
The Damned
Shortly after a crowded New York-bound flight takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat
is found on board. Anonymous hijackers demand that the Swedish government revoke its
decision to deport a Moroccan man. If their demands are not met, the plane will explode
if it attempts to land. The US and Swedish governments must choose between negotiating
with terrorists or pursuing the deportation of a possibly innocent man. Fredrika Bergman
returns to liaise between Police Superintendent Alex Recht and the abrasive Eden Lundell
of the Security Service’s counter-terrorism unit. They soon realise that the plot behind the
hijacking is far more complex than anyone thought …
12 CDs • OCD 1025 • 978-1-78433-659-2
Danny Orchard wrote a bestselling memoir about his near-death experience in a fire that
claimed the life of his twin sister, Ashleigh, but despite the resulting fame he’s never been
able to enjoy his second chance at life. Ash won’t let him. In life, Danny’s charming twin
had been a budding psychopath who terrorised her family – and death hasn’t changed her
wicked ways. Ash has haunted Danny for 20 years and now, just when he’s met the love of
his life, she wants more than ever to punish him for being alive – so she sets her sights on
Danny’s new wife and stepson.
7 CDs • OCD 929 • 978-1-78433-378-2
LUCY RIBCHESTER
NEIL OLIVER
The Hourglass Factory
Master of Shadows
Read by Lucy Scott
Read by the author
In 15th-century Constantinople, Prince Constantine saves the life of a broken-hearted girl.
But the price of his valour is high. John Grant is a young man on the edge of the world. His
unique abilities carry him from his home in Scotland to the heart of the Byzantine Empire
in search of a girl and the chance to fulfil a death-bed promise. Lena has remained hidden
from the men who have been searching for her for many years. When she’s hunted down,
at last she knows what she must do. As the Siege of Constantinople reaches its climax,
each must make a choice between head and heart, duty and destiny.
11 CDs • OCD 1000 • 978-1-78433-573-1
The suffragette movement is reaching fever pitch but for Frankie George, getting by in the
cut-throat world of Fleet Street newspapers is hard enough. Sent to interview trapeze
artist Ebony Diamond, Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly laced acrobat and
follows her to a Mayfair corset shop that hides more than one dark secret. Then Ebony
disappears in the middle of a performance, and Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks,
society columnists, corset fetishists, suffragettes and circus freaks. How did Ebony vanish
and who was she afraid of?
11 CDs • OCD 930 • 978-1-78433-379-9
I. D. ROBERTS
Kingdom Lock
It is 1914 and while battles rage across Europe, three empires fight for dominance in the
Middle East. In the midst of the chaos is Kingdom Lock. Working for the British Intelligence
Service, Lock is sent to Persia by the Australian Infantry Force. His mission: to prevent a
German spy from inciting rebellion among the Muslim tribes and from seizing control of
the oilfields. But before then, having recently rescued Amy Townshend, the daughter of a
British officer, he now finds that he must save her from the clutches of death once more.
It’s a task that seems destined to fail ...
10 CDs • OCD 931 • 978-1-78433-380-5
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JIM THOMPSON
Read by Amy Creighton
Read by Tim Flavin
The Swan Lake
The Killer Inside Me
When Astarte Weaver finds her boyfriend and best friend in her bed, she returns to
County Clare in Ireland, a place that holds happy childhood memories, and buys a ruined
cottage in an area that the locals call “the Swan Lake.” Trying to rebuild her home – and her
life – with the help of local builder Flynn, Astarte gradually becomes part of the tightly-knit
local community. But when tragedy hits the small village, Astarte discovers that the only
way to heal the sorrow of the present is to come to terms with the events of the past.
8 CDs • OCD 1002 • 978-1-78433-575-5
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town – patient
and thoughtful. Some people think he’s a little slow and boring but that’s the worst they
say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his ‘sickness’. It nearly got
him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now
the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again – and the
consequences are brutal and devastating.
6 CDs • OCD 1013 • 978-1-78433-587-8
ROBERT RYAN
SOPHIA TOBIN
A Study in Murder
The Widow’s Confession
The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is prisoner in a notorious POW camp.
With the Allied blockade of Germany, food is perilously short, and when a new prisoner
is murdered, all assume he was killed for his Red Cross parcel. But Watson isn’t so sure.
A creeping feeling of unease tells him there is more to this than meets the eye. And when
an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut, he knows he has touched a nerve and he
must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from
his old friend Sherlock Holmes ...
11 CDs • OCD 942 • 978-1-78433-391-1
SIMON SCARROW
Broadstairs, Kent, 1851. Once a sleepy fishing village, now a select sea-bathing resort, this
is a place where people come to take the air, and where they come to hide. Delphine and
her cousin Julia have come to the seaside with a secret, one they have been running from
for years. But this is a place with its own secrets, and a dark past. And when the body
of a young girl is found washed up on the beach, a mysterious message scrawled on the
sand beside her, the past returns to haunt Broadstairs and its inhabitants. As the incomers
are drawn into the mystery and each others’ lives, they realise they cannot escape what
happened here years before.
8 CDs • OCD 991 • 978-1-78433-576-2
Young Bloods: Wellington & Napoleon 1
FERDINAND VON SCHIRACH
Europe in the late 18th century was a tumultuous place, with war and rebellions breaking
out on many fronts.Young Arthur Wesley (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte
grow up worlds apart yet immersed from youth in a culture where a military career is a
natural choice for men of ambition. While Wellington is blooded in Ireland and Flanders,
Napoleon is caught up in the dramas of the French Revolution and war with Prussia,
Britain and Holland. None of this is enough to distract Wellington from his pursuit of Kitty
Pakenham or Napoleon from his future bride, Josephine, for these men throw themselves
into all aspects of life as enthusiastically as they rush to battle. A wonderful, multi-layered
introduction to an epic series.
Read by Cameron Stewart
The Girl Who Wasn’t There
16 CDs • OCD 1039 • 978-1-78433-673-8
ZOË SHARP
Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous
childhood to become a celebrated artist. He casts a provocative shadow over the Berlin
scene; his disturbing photographs and installations show that truth and reality are two
distinct things. When Sebastian is accused of murdering a young woman, seasoned lawyer
Konrad Biegler agrees to represent him – and hopes to help himself in the process. But
Biegler soon learns that nothing about the case, or the suspect, is what it appears.
5 CDs • OCD 1027 • 978-1-78433-661-5
GILES WATERFIELD
The Iron Necklace
The Blood Whisperer
The uncanny abilities of London crime-scene specialist Kelly Jacks to coax evidence from
the most unpromising of crime scenes once earned her the nickname of The Blood
Whisperer. Then six years Kelly woke next to the butchered body of a man, the knife in
her hands and no memory of what happened. Now released after serving her sentence for
involuntary manslaughter, she gets a job at a crime-scene cleaning firm. But when she asks
questions about a suicide somebody doesn’t want answered she finds herself fleeing from
the police, Russian thugs and a local gangster. Now street-smart and wary, can she use
everything she’s learned inside to evade capture, stay alive and clear her name?
11 CDs • OCD 989 • 978-1-78433-564-9
ROMA TEARNE
The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings
together the Curtius and Benson families. But their peace is soon shattered by the
outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a country where she is the
enemy, her sister Sophia faces the war as a nurse on the Western Front. For their brother
Mark, diplomatic service sees him moving between London, Washington and Copenhagen,
all the while struggling to confront his own identity. Against a backdrop of war and its
aftermath relationships are tested, sacrifices are made and Irene and her siblings strive to
find their place in an evolving world.
11 CDs • OCD 1003 • 978-1-78433-577-9
KATHERINE WEBB
The Night Falling
The Last Pier
Read by Catherine Harvey
Despite the dark clouds of war looming on the horizon, 13-year-old Cecily’s head is full
of first love, ice cream and sibling rivalry. She looks constantly to her impossibly beautiful
elder sister, Rose, with a mixture of envy and admiration. Desperately curious about Rose’s
secrets, and those of all the adults around her, Cecily eavesdrops at every opportunity that
summer: with dire consequences. For Cecily’s actions one fateful night at the outbreak of
the Second World War will ultimately tear her family apart and echo across the generations.
It is not until many years later that a grown-up Cecily can return to her childhood home
and unravel the remaining family secrets. And finally lay some ghosts to rest.
10 CDs • OCD 990 • 978-1-78433-565-6
Puglia, 1921. Leandro Cardetta emigrated to America to make his fortune and has returned
a rich man. Now Leandro has money enough to hire renowned English architect, Boyd
Kingsley, to renovate a crumbling palazzo and host Boyd’s teenage son and his wife, Clare.
Ether, Leonard’s nephew, a Great War veteran, has sworn to identify his fiancee’s killer, and
take his revenge. He is too proud to go to his uncle for charity, but when he injures himself
one day, he has no choice. Meeting Clare there will change everything – and in the most
violent way. During the fierce summer of 1921 hearts will be broken, blood will be spilt and
the hardest of life’s lessons will be learnt as shadows fall.
14 CDs • OCD 894 • 978-1-78433-281-5
DAVID WHITEHOUSE
Mobile Library
Read by Joe Coen
Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku catalogues traces of his mother’s life and waits for her
to return home. Bobby thinks that he’s been left to face the world alone until he meets
lonely single mother Val and her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together,
discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. But as the
summer draws to a close, Bobby finds himself in trouble and Val is in danger of losing her
job. There’s only one thing to do – and so they take to the road in the mobile library.
6 CDs • OCD 943 • 978-1-78433-392-8
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TOM WOOD
R. I. P.
The Darkest Day
Retired bank manager George Pearmain is, apparently, dead. According to the behaviour
of everyone around him, it seems he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also
passed away – and on the eve of her 99th year. Not only that, it could be that they were
both murdered. Apart from that, he feels fine. As George’s family gather for the 99th
birthday celebration that never was, he hovers around, watching and listening, entirely
unseen and makes all sorts of discoveries about himself, his wife Esmerelda and his
supposedly happy family ...
10 CDs • OCD 966 • 978-1-78433-289-1
While carrying out a hit on a terrorist financier,Victor finds himself the target of an
assassin who proves to be just as deadly as he is. Never one to let such a thing go,Victor
sets about hunting down his attacker and those who sent her. She is Raven – a freelance
assassin with a dark past and hidden agenda. Does she really want him dead, or does
someone else want them to kill each other? With the stakes growing higher by the minute,
Victor and Raven must decide who is friend and who is foe before a deadly terrorist plot
threatens to consume the city and them along with it.
8 CDs • OCD 1015 • 978-1-78433-589-2
ROBERT WILTON
TOM WOOD
The Spider of Sarajevo
The Game
Summer 1914: Europe is on the brink. As Britain’s enemies grow stronger, the ComptrollerGeneral must confront the man with whom he has struggled for a generation – a man
he knows only as the Spider. In a desperate gamble, he sends four agents out across the
continent, on a mission they do not understand ... The future of British intelligence – of
the British Empire – is in their hands. Not all of them will return. Unique and resourceful,
hunted and deceived, they have embarked on a journey that will climax in the town of
Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914.
13 CDs • OCD 859 • 978-1-78433-067-5
Victor is the perfect killer. He has no past. He will stop at nothing. And he can find you
anywhere. In sweltering Algiers, ultra-efficient hitman Victor executes a fellow assassin. But
when the CIA comes calling,Victor must pose as his victim to identify the dead man’s next
target, a mission that takes him across Europe to the bloody streets of Rome. Working
alongside a group of vicious mercenaries,Victor faces an impossible choice: to do what’s
right, or to sacrifice the only thing he cares about ... his life.
10 CDs • OCD 906• 978-1-78433-292-1
SUSAN ELLIOT WRIGHT
TOM WOOD
The Secrets We Left Behind
Better Off Dead
Read by Janice McKenzie
A hitman must be anonymous, amoral – and alone.Victor is the face in the crowd you don’t
see, a perfect assassin with nothing to live for. But when an old friend turns to him for help,
he finds he can’t refuse. For once his objective isn’t to kill, but to protect. Hunted through
the streets of London by ruthless enemies,Victor needs to be more than just a bodyguard
... but his every move leads danger closer to the very person he’s vowed to defend.
10 CDs • OCD 967 • 978-1-78433-474-1
She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a
home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth
is that she has done things she can never admit. Then one evening a phone call comes out
of the blue. Scott knows who she really is and what she has done. Now he is dying and he
gives her an ultimatum: either she tells the truth, or he will.
8 CDs • OCD 907 • 978-1-78433-293-8
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