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Acclaim for The Expatriates
‘Brilliantly plotted and written,
utterly absorbing, often
heartbreaking’ – Daily Mail
Acclaim for Lives Lost
‘ … a compelling story that leaves
you wanting to hear more about
Pieter’s work and his life’
– We Love This Book
Acclaim for Paul Fraser Collard
‘Marvellous fun’
– Peterborough Telegraph
Acclaim for The Silent Ones
‘She has created a terrific villain,
fiendishly clever’ – Daily Mail
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Dear Librarian
As the evenings draw in what could beat listening to a great story, beautifully read?
And Oakhill’s autumn list has plenty to delight and entertain.
We start with a fabulous selection of thriller and mysteries. Politics and espionage
take centre stage in Stella Rimington’s Breaking Cover, a tale of counterespionage. The Envoy by Edward Wilson, set in 1950s London with the KGB, CIA
and MI6 plus blackmail and double dealing. In The Death of an Owl by Paul Torday
and Piers Torday Andrew Landford is tipped as the next PM, but a mishap in a
dark country lane threatens his future, should he own up or lie?
In Jamie Doward’s Hostage a bomb takes out a CIA station chief in Geneva,
a serial killer strikes in the UK and in Algeria terrorists control the illicit trade
in guns and drugs. In Rasputin’s Shadow by Raymond Khoury FBI agent Sean
Reilly has a new case: the apparent suicide of a Russian embassy attaché. His
investigation reaches back beyond the Cold War to Imperial Russia.
Steve Mosby’s Cry for Help presents Dave Lewis, a man with a history, and
Sam Currie, a man with a past, and there’s a killer at large. M. H. Baylis’s Rex
Tracey is sucked into a world of honour killings and clashing traditions in Black
Day at the Bosphorus Café. In Tom Wood’s A Time to Die, even for an assassin like
Victor, some men are too evil to live, like Milan Rados, former commander in
the Serbian army. In Harry Bingham’s The Dead House a young woman’s body
is found a tiny church, victim of a dark and disturbing mix of crime and medieval
religious practices.
In River of Souls by Kate Rhodes Jude Shelley, a cabinet minister’s daughter, was
left for dead in the Thames. Then another body is washed up, an elderly priest.
What are the Shelley family hiding? Burned and Broken by Mark Hardie sees
DS Frank Pearson and DC Catherine Russell from the Essex Police brought in
after a colleague’s death – they must crack the case, but not damage the force’s
reputation. And what starts as a misplaced bank card soon turns sinister in The
Victim by Jane Bidder.
In The Case of the Missing Bronte by Robert Barnard Scotland Yard’s Perry
Trethowan is shown an unpublished Bronte manuscript, motive enough for theft
and murder. The Silent Ones by Ali Knight finds Darren, only 11 when sister Carly
and four other teenage girls disappeared. A woman confessed to their murders
but refused to say any more. Darren needs to find the truth.
In Britta Bolt’s Lives Lost Pieter Posthumus is having a quiet drink when the
screaming starts. Marloes is arrested for two murders but have they got the right
person? Laetitia Rodd, Archdeacon’s widow and private detective of the utmost
discretion, is the sleuth in The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders: in winter
1850, Sir James Calderstone asks her to investigate the woman his son intends
to marry.
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Love and friendship link many of our new titles: Vanessa Greene’s The Little
Pieces of You and Me features best friends Isla and Sophie. In Winter Street by
Elin Hilderbrand Kelley is a proud father of four, but by Christmas the family
is in crisis. Three women based in Hong Kong are The Expatriates by Janice Y. K.
Lee. At sixty Matthew thinks he’s hit rock bottom, but he has a way to go yet
in Jim Powell’s Trading Futures. And parents and children are central to Lesley
Lokko’s Little White Lies, A Sister’s Duty by June Francis, The Miner’s Girl by
Maggie Hope and The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity HayesMcCoy.
In Essie Fox’s The Last Days of Leda Grey a horrific accident left Edwardian
actress Leda abandoned for decades, until journalist Ed Peters finds her. This is
Now by Ciara Geraghty is set in an ordinary bank, in an ordinary town. What
was about to happen? In Bernhard Schlink’s The Woman on the Stairs a lost
painting reappears and the three men who loved the woman in the painting
are stunned and vow to find her. And Michael M.Thomas‘s Fixers sees a
candidate who promised hope and change staff his campaign with Wall Street
insiders in exchange for cash.
With The White City by Simon Morden we face a dystopian future. Fleeing
London’s inferno, Mary and Dalip battle towards the one place in all of Down
without magic – will they find their way home?
Steve Jamieson’s Bilbo:The Lifeguard Dog, tells the true story of Steve, lifeguard
on a Cornish beach, and Bilbo, a chocolate Newfoundland puppy, who changes
his life forever. Hunter Davies‘s The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A Memoir of Growing
Up in the Post-War North will resonate with many. While Sarah Shaw’s Portland
Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary is based on her 1971 diary, when she was a
young woman working in London.
Finally there’s historical fiction with Stewart Binn’s The Darkness and the
Thunder: 1915 set on the Western Front. And in Simon Scarrow’s The
Generals:The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet, Book 2, Napoleon and Wellesley
both intend to win, whatever the cost. In The Lone Warrior by Paul Fraser
Collard Jack Lark arrives in Delhi in 1857 just as the Indian Mutiny explodes.
And in Dark Serpent by Paul Doherty Ralph Grandison, a leper, has been
found dead, a dagger from the Crown Jewels in his chest.
And as ever, for more details of these and all our titles, please visit our website.
Julian Batson
Julian Batson
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JANE BIDDER
The Victim
Read by Meriel Scholfield
A kindly voice from the ‘Lost or Stolen’ option at the other end of the phone confirmed
that no one had taken money from her cards in the short time they’d gone missing. Thank
heavens. She decided there was no need to cancel them … When Georgie Hamilton’s car
goes missing and then reappears outside her house hours later, her family is convinced
she must have left it there – after all, her handbag is still on the back seat. But as her bank
accounts start being emptied, and her husband’s and clients’ funds are raided too, it’s clear
someone has stolen her identity and is playing fast and loose with it ...
About the author
Jane Bidder is a well-known journalist who has contributed to The Times, Daily Telegraph,
Daily Express,Woman,Woman’s Home and Good Housekeeping, to name but a few. Until
recently, she was the writer in residence of a high security male prison.
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HUNTER DAVIES
The Co-Op’s Got Bananas!
A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War
North (NF)
VANESSA GREENE
PAUL DOHERTY
Dark Serpent
Read by Richard Burnip
Despite the struggle to make ends
meet during the tough years of
warfare in the 1940s and rationing
persisting until the early 1950s,
life could still be sweet. Especially
if you were a young boy, playing
football with your pals, saving up to go to the
movies at the weekend, and being captivated by
the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio.
Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be
a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. Hunter
Davies captures this period beautifully. His memoir
of growing up in post-war North of England from
1945 onwards, should be one that will resonate
with thousands of readers across Britain.
About the author
Hunter Davies is a journalist and author of over
50 books, including the only official biography of
the Beatles.
After his recent unveiling of
a devious assassin, Sir Hugh
Corbett has returned to service
as the Keeper of the Secret Seal.
Summoned to meet the King,
Corbett and Ranulf learn of the
death of Corbett’s friend, Ralph Grandison. Ralph,
a leper, has been found dead in a rowing boat, a
dagger in his chest. But this murder is not the
first of its kind. Other patients of the hospital, all
former knights of the Royal household, are being
targeted. The discovery that Ralph was killed by a
poison dagger that once belonged with the Crown
Jewels leads Corbett down a complex path, where
the risk of disease plays out against the backdrop
of finding an assassin who will use any means
necessary to kill.
About the author
Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough.
He studied History at Liverpool and Oxford
Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis
on Edward II and Queen Isabella.
10 CDs • OCD 1125 • 978-1-78433-954-8
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8 CDs • OCD 1126 • 978-1-78433-955-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1126 • 978-1-78433-991-3
Read by Cameron Stewart
The Little Pieces of You
and Me
Read by Victoria Fox
Best friends Isla and Sophie made
each other a promise a long
time ago: to never let life pass
them by.Years later, Isla is in love,
living abroad and fulfilling her
dreams. But for Sophie, things
haven’t turned out the way she was expecting and
she hasn’t achieved any of the things she and Isla
talked about. And then, in one sudden moment, life
irrevocably changes for both women. Isla and Sophie
have hard decisions to make but above all else they
must face up to the uncertainty that lies ahead.
About the author
Vanessa Greene is the author of four novels:
The Vintage Teacup Club,The Seafront Tea Rooms,The
Beachside Guest House and The Little Pieces of You
and Me, all of which are available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for The Little Pieces of You and Me
‘You’ll laugh as much as you cry at this poignant tale
of female friendship, love and loss’ – Marie Claire
7 CDs • OCD 1127 • 978-1-78433-956-2
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1127 • 978-1-78433-992-0
This audio book contains strong language and/or explicit scenes.
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ELIN HILDERBRAND
Winter Street
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket’s Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four
– Patrick, Kevin, Ava and Bart, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. As
Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some
quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on his wife Mitzi kissing Santa Claus – or
the guy who’s playing Santa at the inn’s annual party – utter chaos descends. With the
three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart (a Marine) unreachable in
Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley’s ex-wife to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn.
About the author
Elin Hilderbrand lives with her husband and their three children on Nantucket,
Massachusetts, where her novels are set.
Acclaim for Winter Street
‘Winter Street … [will] get you in the holiday mood’ – Kirkus Reviews
5 CDs • OCD 1128 • 978-1-78433-970-8
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1128 • 978-1-78706-006-7 • Playing time: 6hrs 27mins*
JANICE Y. K. LEE
The Expatriates
LESLEY LOKKO
STEVE MOSBY
Little White Lies
Read by Julia Barrie
Cry for Help
Read by David Thorpe
Set in present-day Hong Kong,
The Expatriates follows the lives
of three women. An unspeakable
tragedy leaves twenty-something
Mercy with a crippling personal
inertia, and Margaret, a mother
of three, numb and unable to heal. In the same
small expatriate community, Hilary tries to distract
herself from a marriage gone stale by providing
piano lessons for a local orphan, only to find her
actions openly criticised on an anonymous online
forum. The individual, sometimes overlapping
perspectives of Mercy, Margaret and Hilary are
woven together, exposing the insularity and
complex privilege of the expatriate world, whilst
also revealing the fragility of a woman’s position in
the world.
About the author
Janice Y. K. Lee was born and raised in Hong
Kong. She graduated from Harvard College with
a degree in English and American Literature and
Language and is a former editor at Elle.
In a beachfront mansion in
Martha’s Vineyard, Annick and
Rebecca relax, knowing that
their children are in the care of
life-long friend Tash. But by the
end of the afternoon, one of the
children will have vanished … Annick, daughter
of an actress and an assassinated president, has
spent her life running from the truth of her family’s
wealth. Rebecca has always done the right thing.
Perfect daughter. Perfect wife. Perfect mother. She’s
beginning to wonder if she’ll ever get chance to
live for herself. And Tash, free from the poverty of
her heritage, has the world at her feet. So why is
she struggling to keep a grip on her life? This is the
sweeping story of three very different women –
their pasts, their secrets, and their friendship.
About the author
After various careers from cocktail waitress to
kibbutz worker, Lesley Lokko trained as an
architect. Several novels later, Lesley now splits her
time between Johannesburg and London.
Dave Lewis is a man with a history.
Haunted by his brother’s murder
when they were children, and
scarred by his parents’ grief, he’s
built a bitter life denying everything
they ever stood for. Sam Currie
is a man with a past. His failure to prevent his son’s
death has ended his marriage and cast a shadow
over his life. He’s directed his hatred towards the
man he sees as responsible. But now a killer is
stalking the city, abducting girls and sending texts and
emails to their families before killing them.When
Dave Lewis appears to connect both investigations,
it’s an opportunity Currie can’t resist ...
About the author
Steve Mosby is the author of The Third Person,
The Cutting Crew,The 50/50 Killer, Cry for Help, Still
Bleeding and Black Flowers, all of which are available
from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Cry for Help
‘A well-woven suspenseful tale, which explores
loyalty and revenge’ – South Wales Argus
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2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1129 • 978-1-78433-993-7
15 CDs • OCD 1130 • 978-1-78433-958-6
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8 CDs • OCD 1131 • 978-1-78433-959-3
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JIM POWELL
Trading Futures
Read by Charles Armstrong
Matthew Oxenhay is 60: a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and
failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his birthday party as an
opportunity to deliver some rather crushing home truths to his assembled loved ones, it
seems as though Matthew might have hit rock bottom. The truth, however, is that he has
some way to go yet …
About the author
Jim Powell is the author of one previous novel, The Breaking of Eggs, also available
from Oakhill, and was named by BBC2’s The Culture Show amongst ‘12 of The Best New
Novelists’ in 2011.
Acclaim for Trading Futures
‘With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a
man in meltdown’ – Daily Mail
5 CDs • OCD 1132 • 978-1-78433-960-9
SIMON SCARROW
The Generals:
The Wellington and
Napoleon Quartet, Book 2: 1795-1803
PAUL TORDAY
& PIERS TORDAY
TOM WOOD
The Death of an Owl
Read by Jonathan Keeble
Read by Leighton Pugh
In the turbulent aftermath of the
French Revolution Napoleon
Bonaparte stands accused of
treachery and corruption. His
reputation is saved by his skill
in leading his men to victory in
Italy and Egypt. But then he must restore order in
France and find peace or victory over her enemies:
England – and Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of
Wellington).Wellesley is leading a vast army in India,
where British interests are under threat.Wellesley
returns to England a hardened veteran and more
determined than ever to end France’s domination of
Europe. Both Wellesley and Napoleon intend to win
-– whatever the cost.Who will ultimately succeed?
About the author
Simon Scarrow pursued his great love of history
as a teacher, before becoming a full-time writer
in 2005. The Generals is the second book in The
Wellington and Napoleon Quartet, the first of
which, Young Bloods, is also available from Oakhill.
Andrew Landford is driving home
one night, along a dark country
lane, when a barn owl flies into
his windscreen. It is an accident,
nothing more. However Andrew
is in line to be the country’s next
prime minister. But barn owls are protected species,
and it is a crime to kill one. If Andrew acknowledges
that he has killed the owl, he could be risking his
political career. With Andrew in the car is his old
Oxford friend and political adviser, Charles Fryerne.
But the death of the owl threatens to destroy not
only Andrew’s career, but everything that Charles
has worked for too. Should they come clean, or
hide the story and hope it goes away?
About the author
Piers Torday is an award-winning children’s
author. He completed The Death of an Owl
following his father Paul Torday’s death.
Acclaim for The Death of an Owl
‘Skeweringly accurate’ – Evening Standard
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A Time to Die
Read by Daniel Philpott
If the assassin known only as
Victor once had a moral compass,
it is long since buried.Yet some
men are so evil even Victor
accepts they must die for reasons
other than just money. One such
is Milan Rados, a former commander in the Serbian
army who escaped trial at The Hague to become
a formidable criminal power. Tracking down and
killing this brutal man will win Victor a reprieve for
his own crimes on British soil. But Victor isn’t the
only one who wants Rados dead. A woman, whose
family was butchered on the tyrant’s orders, will do
anything to see Rados’ blood spilled on the snow
of Eastern Europe.
About the author
Tom Wood’s first novel, The Hunter, introduced
readers to a genuine antihero,Victor, an assassin.
Studiocanal and director Pierre Morel, are
currently adapting The Hunter for the big screen.
9 CDs • OCD 1135 • 978-1-78433-963-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1135 • 978-1-78433-999-9
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UK, CANADA & NEW ZEALAND • JANUARY 2017 AUSTRALIA
M. H. BAYLIS
Black Day at the Bosphorus Café
When Mina, a Kurdish student activist, plunges in flames from the top floor of Wood
Green Shopping City, it’s widely assumed to be a political protest. But local reporter
Rex Tracey, who knew the dead girl, doesn’t buy it. His suspicions mount when a council
whistleblower meets a similarly ugly end. As he investigates, the sleuthing journalist with
the chequered past and the penchant for Polish lager is sucked into a world of honour
killings, corrupt officials, and clashing traditions.
About the author
M. H. Baylis worked for the BBC as a storyliner on EastEnders, before moving to Kenya
and Cambodia. His present role is television critic for the Daily Express. His novels, A Death
at the Palace and The Tottenham Outrage are also available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Black Day at the Bosphorus Café
‘Black Day at the Bosphorus Café is both a page-turner and a portrait of modern urban
living’ – Glasgow Herald
10 CDs • OCD 1136 • 978-1-78433-964-7
BRITTA BOLT
HARRY BINGHAM
JAMIE DOWARD
The Dead House
Lives Lost: Pieter Posthumus 2
When the body of a young
woman is found in an old ‘dead
house’ – the annexe where the
dead were stored before burial in
medieval times – of a tiny church,
it seems that past and present
have come together in a bizarre and horrifying
way. For DC Fiona Griffiths, the girl represents an
intriguing puzzle, given Fiona’s unusual empathy for
the dead. And when her investigations lead her to
an obscure and secretive monastery in a remote
valley, she finds that the murder victim is far from
the only victim of a dark and disturbing melding of
modern crime and medieval religious practices.
About the author
Harry Bingham is the author of the Fiona
Griffiths series of crime novels. He also runs The
Writers’ Workshop, an editorial consultancy for
new writers, and has written books on Getting
Published and How to Write.
Acclaim for Harry Bingham
‘A terrific, intriguing heroine’ – Woman & Home
Pieter Posthumus is enjoying a
quiet drink when the screaming
starts. Marloes, the owner of the
guesthouse next door rushes
in: one of her tenants has been
murdered. Posthumus cannot
believe it when she is arrested – for both her
tenant Zig’s murder and another death years
before. Why do people think Marloes is guilty? And
why did Zig paint one picture every year – a copy
of a Dutch master, but with one peculiar twist? As
his investigation progresses he finds that asking
questions leads to a truth that’s hard to bear.
About the author
Britta Bolt is former lawyer Britta Böhler and
Rodney Bolt who teamed up to write a crime
series set in their beloved adopted city Amsterdam.
Their first Pieter Posthumus book, Lonely Graves, is
also available from Oakhill.
A bomb takes out a CIA station
chief in Geneva. A serial killer
strikes apparently at random
across the UK. In Algeria a
terrorist network that controls
the illicit trade in guns, drugs, oil
and cigarettes is preparing to murder a hundred
US and British energy workers. The British and the
American intelligence services are competing to
find the kidnappers for very different reasons. One
person can see how everything is linked, and that
both MI5 and the CIA are being manipulated as
part of a grotesque marketing campaign. But Kate
Pendragon threatens vested interests who don’t
want the truth to surface.
About the author
Jamie Doward has been a journalist on the
Observer for 16 years and, currently, is Senior
Reporter. His novel Toxic is also available
from Oakhill.
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Read by Siriol Jenkins
Read by Andrew Cullum
Hostage
Read by Peter Noble
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JUNE FRANCIS
A Sister’s Duty
Read by Sue Jenkins
Rosie Kilshaw is only 15 when her mother Violet is killed in a tragic accident, but as the
oldest of her siblings, she vows to keep her family together, no matter what the sacrifice.
But as distant family members begin to resurface into their lives, Rosie quickly realises
that there is a lot more to parenting than she first thought. And when her estranged aunt
Amelia decides to take them in, she will have a difficult choice to make…
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.
10 CDs • OCD 1140 • 978-1-78433-968-5
FELICITY HAYES-McCOY
MARK HARDIE
Burned and Broken
Read by Rupert Holliday-Evans
A policeman is found burned to
death in his car on the Southend
seafront. A vulnerable young
woman is trying to discover the
truth behind the sudden death
of her best friend. As DS Frank
Pearson and DC Catherine Russell from the Essex
Police Major Investigation Team are brought in to
solve the mystery that surrounds their colleague’s
death, they’re under intense pressure to crack
the case without damaging the force’s reputation.
When a dramatic turn of events casts a whole new
light on both cases, the way forward is far from
clear. Were the victims connected in some way?
About the author
Mark Hardie began writing full time after
completely losing his eyesight in 2002. He has
completed a creative writing course and an
advanced creative writing course at the Open
University, both with distinction.
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The Library at the Edge
of the World
Read by Marcella Riordan
As Hanna Casey drives her mobile
library van between farms and
villages she tries not to think
of the sophisticated London
lifestyle she abandoned after
finding her barrister husband in
bed with another woman. Or that she’s living in
the back bedroom of her mother’s retirement
bungalow in the small town she walked away
from in her teens. Now with her daughter Jazz
travelling the world, and her relationship with
her mother growing increasingly fraught, Hanna
is determined to reclaim her independence. But
when the threatened closure of the library puts
her plans in jeopardy, she finds herself leading a
battle to restore the heart and soul of Finfarran’s
fragmented community.
About the author
Felicity Hayes-McCoy was born in Dublin and
moved to England in the 1970s.
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STEVE JAMIESON
Bilbo: The Lifeguard Dog (NF)
Read by Mike Rogers
When Steve Jamieson met Bilbo,
a chocolate Newfoundland puppy,
little did he know that the small
bundle of fluff would grow to
take up a huge space in his heart
and change his life forever. The
pair were inseparable, with Bilbo accompanying
Steve to his job as head lifeguard of Sennen beach
in Cornwall every day. Bilbo was an excellent
swimmer and he was soon promoted to honorary
lifeguard. He was even credited with saving the
lives of three people. But Bilbo and Steve couldn’t
have foreseen the obstacles that life would throw
at them. Together, they would have to gather every
bit of their strength to fight for their livelihood.
About the author
Steve Jamieson was born in the Shetland
Islands. He briefly worked for the Ministry of
Defence before adopting a life of freedom as a
waterman and lifeguard in, on and by the sea at
Lands End, Cornwall.
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Rasputin’s Shadow
Read by Jeff Harding
Siberia, 1916. A mine turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely
and ferociously. Minutes later, two men – a horrified scientist and infamous Russian
mystic Rasputin – hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the
carnage. New York, present day. FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case.
A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourthfloor window, while a faceless killer roams New York City. Reilly’s investigation uncovers
a deadly search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back to the darkest days of
the Cold War and to Imperial Russia ...
About the author
Raymond Khoury is the author of five consecutive New York Times bestsellers, following
a career in screenwriting, including the BAFTA award-winning BBC series Spooks and
Waking The Dead.
Acclaim for Raymond Khoury
‘Khoury knows the recipe for a good read’ – Library Journal
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STELLA RIMINGTON
KATE RHODES
EDWARD WILSON
River of Souls
Breaking Cover
Jude Shelley, the daughter of a
cabinet minister, was assaulted and
left for dead in the river Thames.
Her attacker was never caught.
A year later, forensic psychologist
Alice Quentin is asked to reexamine the case. Then another body is found:
an elderly priest, washed up at Westminster Pier.
An ancient glass bead is tied to his wrist. Alice is
certain that the Shelleys are hiding something –
and that there will be more victims unless she can
persuade them to share what they know.
About the author
Kate Rhodes is an award-winning poet and
author of the acclaimed Alice Quentin series
featuring a London-based forensic scientist which
includes Crossbones Yard, A Killing of Angels,The Winter
Foundlings, River of Souls and Blood Symmetry, all of
which are available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for River of Souls
‘A fast-moving, entertaining mix of sex, suspense
and serial killings’ – Washington Post
Following a gruelling operation
in Paris, Liz Carlyle’s bosses post
her to MI5’s counter-espionage
desk, but they haven’t counted on
the fallout from Putin’s incursions
into the Ukraine. Liz needs
to track down a Russian spy who has entered
the UK before he completes his fatal mission.
Meanwhile, the intelligence services are in the
spotlight. In response to the debate raging around
privacy and security, they hire Jasminder Kapoor,
a controversial civil rights lawyer, to explain the
issues to the public. But in this new world of
shadowy motives and secret identities, Jasminder
must be extra-careful about whom she can trust.
About the author
Stella Rimington joined the Security Service
(MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all
the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion,
counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was
appointed Director General in 1992.
The setting is 1950s London, at
the height of the Cold War. Kit
Fournier is ostensibly a senior
diplomat at the US embassy in
Grosvenor Square, but is actually
CIA bureau chef in London. The
Arms Race informs much of the action in this fastpaced page turner which sees Kit go undercover to
meet a dissident KGB agent, lose a loved one, have
a crisis of soul and get blackmailed into becoming a
double agent for M16 ...
About the Author
Edward Wilson served in Vietnam as an officer in
the 5th Special Forces. His decorations include the
Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal for
Valor. Soon after leaving the army, Wilson became
a permanent expatriate. He formally lost US
nationality in 1986. He is a British citizen but has
also lived and worked in Germany and France. For
the past 30 years he has been a teacher in Suffolk.
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The Envoy
Read by Richard Attlee
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ROBERT BARNARD
The Case of the Missing Brontë
Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying a vacation evening at a cosy
Yorkshire pub when an old woman shows him an original, unpublished Bronte manuscript.
Trethowan agrees to engage in a little literary detective work, but he doesn’t realise that
for a criminal the manuscript is motive for theft, torture – and murder.
About the author
Robert Barnard (1936-2013) lived in Leeds, was born in Essex and educated at Balliol.
He had a distinguished career as an academic before he became a full-time writer. Under
the name of Bernard Bastable he also wrote novels featuring Mozart as a detective, and is
the author of many short stories. He was the winner of the 2003 CWA Cartier Diamond
Dagger Award for a lifetime of achievement.
Acclaim for Robert Barnard
‘You can count on a Barnard mystery being witty, intelligent and a joy to read’
– Publishers Weekly
5 CDs • OCD 1148 • 978-1-78433-976-0
STEWART BINNS
The Darkness and the Thunder:
1915 (The Great War series, Book 2)
The Western Front is a wasteland
of barbed wire, shell craters and
mud-filled trenches. Winston
Churchill, searching for a solution
to the stalemate, commits the
Allies to a disastrous Gallipoli
campaign. As men on both sides die in droves,
miners and mill-workers work tirelessly for the
war effort while families confront the broken
bodies of returning soldiers. Nurses, soldiers,
politicians, factory-workers and children – all are
torn apart by war, and for husbands and sons,
mothers and wives, the old way of life is vanishing.
About the author
Stewart Binns was an academic and later
enjoyed a successful career in television. He has
won awards for his documentaries.This is the
second novel in Stewart’s Great War series. The
Shadow of War was the first. His previous Making
of England series: Crusade, Conquest, Anarchy and
Lionheart are all available from Oakhill.
11 CDs • OCD 1149 • 978-1-78433-977-7
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PAUL FRASER COLLARD
ESSIE FOX
The Last Days of
Leda Grey
Read by Peter Noble & Rachel Atkins
During the heat wave of 1976
journalist Ed Peters finds an
Edwardian photograph of a darkhaired actress whose name was
Leda Grey. He discovers Leda Grey
is living still, in a decaying cliff-top
house once shared with Charles
Beauvois, a director of early silent
film. As Beauvois’s lover and muse,
Leda often starred in scenes where
stage magic and trick photography
were used to astonishing effect. But, while playing
a cursed Egyptian queen, the fantasies captured on
celluloid were echoed in reality. A horrific accident
left Leda abandoned for more than half a century –
until Ed Peters finds her and hears her secrets.
About the author
Essie Fox divides her time between Windsor and
Bow in the East End of London. Her novels The
Somnambulist and Elijah’s Mermaid are both available
from Oakhill.
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The Lone Warrior
(Jack Lark 4)
Read by Dudley Hinton
Bombay, 1857. India is simmering
with discontent, and Jack Lark,
honourably discharged from the
British Army, aims to take the
first ship back to England. But
before he leaves, he cannot resist
the adventure of helping a young woman escape
imprisonment in a gaming house. He promises
to escort Aamira home, but they arrive in Delhi
just as the Indian Mutiny explodes. As both sides
commit horrific slaughter and the siege of Delhi
begins, Jack realises that despite the danger he
cannot stand by and watch. At heart, he is still
a soldier ...
About the author
Paul Fraser Collard was determined to become
an officer in the British army and succeeded in
winning an Army Scholarship. However, he chose
to give up his boyhood ambition and instead went
into the finance industry.
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CIARA GERAGHTY
This is Now
Read by Caroline Lennon
An ordinary bank, in an ordinary town. There was no way of knowing what was about to
happen. Afterwards, the first thing Martha thinks about is a drink. She reads her reasons
why she shouldn’t. Tobias was a boy when the bombs dropped in Dresden. Now alone,
the memories he’s been running from are insistent visitors. Roman, a 14-year-old Polish
immigrant, is on the run. From the police. From Jimmy and his gang. Mama said everything
would be better in Ireland. She was wrong. Cillian, a detective, finds himself back in Dublin,
investigating a robbery. His girlfriend plans their future as she awaits his return. Each is
running. To a place where the past cannot be undone and the future cannot be known. A
place called now.
About the author
Ciara Geraghty is the author of five novels, one of which, Now That I’ve Found You, was
shortlisted for the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel Award, 2015.
10 CDs • OCD 1152 • 978-1-78433-980-7
ALI KNIGHT
MAGGIE HOPE
SIMON MORDEN
The Miner’s Girl
The Silent Ones
Orphaned from birth, Mary Trent
has always dreamed of the day
she can escape from poverty,
and when she meets the dashing
young doctor Tom Gallagher, it
seems her prayers have been
answered. But an untimely pregnancy spells disaster
and the threat of returning to a life of destitution.
Is a marriage of convenience the only thing that
can save her?
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.
Darren Evans was only 11
when his beloved sister Carly
and four other teenage girls
disappeared, sparking a huge
police investigation. Eventually,
a woman confessed to their
murders. But although she admitted her guilt, Olivia
Duvall refused to say what had happened to the
missing girls. Or where their bodies lie. Ten years
later, Darren’s family are still no closer to the truth.
Desperate to alleviate his parents’ heartbreak,
Darren gets a job as a cleaner in the psychiatric
hospital where Olivia was committed, hoping he
can make her tell him his sister’s fate once and for
all. But playing a killer is a very dangerous game ...
About the author
Ali Knight is the author of psychological thrillers
Wink Murder,The First Cut, and Until Death. Ali
worked as a sub-editor and journalist on several
national newspapers.
Since escaping London’s inferno,
Mary and Dalip have fought
monsters and won – though in
the magical world of Down, the
most frightening monsters come
from within. Now they hold the
greatest of treasures: maps that reveal the way to
the White City, where they can learn the secrets of
Down. But to get there they must rely on Crows,
who has already betrayed them at every turn. As
they battle their way towards the one place in all
of Down without magic, they must ask themselves
how far they will go to find their way home?
About the author
Simon Morden has won the Philip K. Dick Award
and has also proved to be a popular SF author. He
has been an editor at Focus magazine. His first Down
novel, Down Station, is also available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Simon Morden
‘Once again Simon Morden takes the fantasy genre
and moulds it wonderfully’ – The Sun
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Read by Claire Jones
Read by Karen Cass
The White City
Read by Thomas Judd
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The Secrets of Wishtide
Mrs Laetitia Rodd is the impoverished widow of an Archdeacon: she is also a private
detective of the utmost discretion. In winter 1850, she is asked by Sir James Calderstone
to investigate the background of an ‘unsuitable’ woman his son intends to marry. In the
guise of governess, she travels to the family seat, Wishtide, where she discovers that the
Calderstones have more to hide than most. As their secrets unfold, the case takes an
unpleasant turn when a man is found dead outside a tavern. Mrs Rodd’s keen eyes and
astute wits are taxed as never before in her search for the truth.
About the author
Kate Saunders has worked for The Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph
and Cosmopolitan and has contributed to Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and Start the Week.
Acclaim for The Secrets of Wishtide
‘I was left greedy for the return of Mrs Rodd’ – Daily Mail
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SARAH SHAW
BERNHARD SCHLINK
The Woman on
the Stairs
MICHAEL M.THOMAS
Portland Place:
Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary (NF)
Read by Jonathan Oliver
For decades the painting was
believed to be lost. But, just as
mysteriously as it disappeared,
it reappears, an anonymous
donation to a gallery in Sydney.
The art world is stunned but so
are the three men who loved the woman in the
painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they
track her down to an isolated cottage in Australia.
Here they must try to untangle the lies and
betrayals of their shared past – but time is
running out.
About the author
Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany is 1944.
A professor of law at Humboldt University, Berlin
and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the
author of the major international bestselling novel
and movie The Reader, short story collection Flights
of Love and several prize-winning crime novels. He
lives in Berlin and New York.
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Read by Anna Bentinck
Fixers
Read by Lewis Hancock
Portland Place is the diary of
Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971.
Working as a secretary for the
BBC at the time, Sarah’s diary
describes the life of a suburban
girl who certainly wasn’t
‘swinging’ but who was, ironically, not only working
on a cutting edge BBC survey on sex education
but was also about to embark on an extraordinary
first love affair. Sarah talks humorously and frankly
about what it was like to be a young, working
woman at the time as well as life at the BBC
during the 1970s.
About the author
Sarah Shaw was born in Purley, Surrey. Her first
job was at the BBC in the School Broadcasting
Council then on radio programming for schools.
Later, she returned to the BBC’s Television Plays
department, working on productions such as the
BAFTA-winning The Lost Boys.
What if a candidate who promised
hope and change had agreed to
staff his campaign with Wall Street
insiders in exchange for very
secret campaign cash? And what
if those insiders then made sure
that none of their own ever got caught when the
financial crisis exploded? Michael M. Thomas has
written a shocking, wildly plausible thriller about
the insider’s insider who brokers the deal – and
changes American history forever.
About the author
Michael M.Thomas is the bestselling author of
nine novels. Before becoming a full-time writer,
Thomas enjoyed successful careers as a curator at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a partner
at the Wall Street firm, Lehman Brothers.
Acclaim for Michael M.Thomas
‘Thomas has become an expert at unveiling the
private lives of the big-bucks boys. His anecdotes
ring with authenticity, and he has a wonderfully
clever command of the language’ – Chicago Sun-Times
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SONIA PURNELL
First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill (NF)
Wings on my Sleeve (NF)
In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University exchange course in Germany, and the first he
knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not
realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm
and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types
(487) than anyone else. Here here tells his own remarkable story.
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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 and she exerted an influence over her husband and the Government
that would appear scandalous to modern eyes.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.
13 CDs • OCD 1085 • 978-1-78433-760-5
LAURA DAWES
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Brtain’s Health (NF)
STEWART PURVIS & JEFF HULBERT
At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical
and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation’s health, they
warned; drugs, blood and medical resources would be in short supply; air raid shelters and
evacuation would spread diseases; and the psychological effects of bombing raids would
leave mental hospitals overflowing.Yet, astonishingly, Britain ended the war in better health
than ever before. Based on original archival research and written with wit and verve,
Fighting Fit reveals an extraordinary, forgotten story of medical triumph against the odds.
Read by Karen Cass
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Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone (NF)
Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker. He also set a gold standard for
conflicts of interest, working variously for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry
of Information and the KGB.Yet Burgess was never challenged by Britain’s spy-catchers:
his superiors were convinced he was too much of a liability to have been recruited by
Moscow. Now, with a major new release of hundreds of files into the National Archives,
Purvis and Hulbert reveal just how this charming establishment insider was able to fool
everyone for so long, without suspicion, all the while working for the KGB.
15 CDs • OCD 1122 • 978-1-78433-887-9
TESSA DUNLOP
The Bletchley Girls
ROBERT SERVICE
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
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.
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JONATHAN GLANCEY
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner (NF)
GARETH WILLIAMS
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.
A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness (NF)
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.
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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.
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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.
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KATIE AGNEW
STEWART BINNS
The Shadow of War: 1914 (The Great War series, Book 1)
The Inheritance
Read by Penelope Rawlins
From her hospital bed, Tilly Beaumont sends her granddaughter Sophia letters about her
life: dispatches about wartime England, about family secrets and, finally, about the most
beautiful thing she ever owned – a necklace of the most incredible pearls. If Sophia’s
prepared to listen, she’ll unlock the secret story of generations of incredible women, from
the pearl divers of Japan, to high society in pre-war England, and find that the necklace has
changed the lives of all who have worn it. The only problem? No one knows where it is.
Sophia must find out if she’s ready to take on the search for something so perfect it can
change a life.
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.
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BERNARDINE BISHOP
The Street
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LIN ANDERSON
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 ...
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.
6 CDs • OCD 1064 • 978-1-78433-739-1
FANNY BLAKE
House of Dreams
Read by Sherry Baines
9 CDs • OCD 1004 • 978-1-78433-578-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1004 • 978-1-78433-614-1 • Playing time: 11hrs
CLIVE ASLET
The Birdcage
Welcome to Salonika in1916, one of the jewels in the Ottoman crown. It is now suddenly
Greek. A city nominally neutral, but teeming with French, British and Serbian armies, to hold
it against the Austro-German forces to the north, with their Bulgarian allies. In this sparkling
tale we find a world of perilous ascents from military kite balloons; of madcap journeys by
mule, by Wolseley motor car and by foot over the grim northern mountains; of U-boats
lurking off the city; of sinister and dangerous Gazmend Effendi, who may be Turkish – or is it
Bulgarian? Or even Venezuelan? The breathless ride is just beginning.
9 CDs • OCD 1101 • 978-1-78433-865-7
MARTINE BAILEY
The Penny Heart
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, double-crossing, revenge
and murder.
14 CDs • OCD 1052 • 978-1-78433-727-8
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.
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
Lonely Graves (Pieter Postumus Book 1)
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
NICK BROWN
The Black Stone: Agent of Rome 4
Read by Nigel Peever
Obsessed by the solar religions of the east, the emperor Aurelian sets out to obtain every
sacred object within his realm. But one – a mysterious rock said to channel the power of
the sun god – lies beyond his reach. Warrior-priest Ilaha has captured the legendary stone
and is using it to raise an army against Rome. For Imperial agent Cassius Corbulo and
ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara, stopping him constitutes their greatest challenge yet. And
when they finally reach Ilaha’s mountain fortress, they face thousands of warriors who will
give their lives to protect him ... and the black stone.
14 CDs • OCD 1112 • 978-1-78433-877-0
NICK BROWN
The Imperial Banner: Agent of Rome 2
Read by Nigel Peever
9 CDs • OCD 1028 • 978-1-78433-662-2
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.
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
11 CDs • OCD 1029 • 978-1-78433-663-9
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ROSIE CLARKE
Read by Mark Meadows
Read by Helena Coates
Trust
Emma’s Duty
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
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 one-time lover – for
while he still loves her, he is now a married man … The final instalment in Rosie Clarke’s
‘Emma’ trilogy.
8 CDs • OCD 1065 • 978-1-78433-740-7
MICHEL BUSSI
JOSEPH CLYDE
Read by Joan Walker
Black Water Lilies
The Oligarch
Giverny. The home of the artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his
waterlilies. But there is a darker side to the peaceful French village. Jérôme Morval, a
man whose passion for art was matched only by his passion for women, has been found
dead in the stream that runs through the gardens. In his pocket is a postcard of Monet’s
Waterlilies with the words: 11 years old. Happy Birthday. Entangled in the mystery are
three women, all of whom share a secret. But what do they know about the discovery
of Jérôme Morval’s corpse? And what is the connection to the mysterious, rumoured
painting of Black Water Lilies?
10 CDs • OCD 1102 • 978-1-78433-866-4
HELEN CADBURY
Meet Arshile Grekov. A reclusive Russian oligarch, he lives in Holland Park in exceptional
opulence after successfully extricating his gigantic fortune from Russia. He is deeply
worried. His doctors are confounded by his slowly failing health and his beloved son, a loud,
druggy, dissolute Etonian, is secretly involved with a white-Russian princess. As a former spy,
he knows he will always remain of intense interest to the paranoid Russian government.
When Grekov’s private security force is infiltrated, he turns to former MI5 agent Tony
Underwood to prevent further mischief.
9 CDs • OCD 1089 • 978-1-78433-853-4
PAUL FRASER COLLARD
The Devil’s Assassin
Bones in the Nest
Read by Dudley Hinton
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.
7 CDs • OCD 1019 • 978-1-78433-653-0
ANDREA CAMILLERI
Bombay, 1857. Jack Lark is living precariously as an officer when his heroic but fraudulent
past is discovered by the Devil – Major Ballard, the army’s intelligence officer. Ballard is
gathering a web of information to defend the British Empire, and he needs a man like Jack
on his side. Not far away, in Persia, the Shah is moving against British territory and seeks
to conquer the crucial city of Herat. As the British march to war, Jack learns that secrets
crucial to the campaign’s success are leaking into their enemies’ hands. Ballard has brought
him to the battlefield to end a spy’s deceit. But who is the traitor?
10 CDs • OCD 1091 • 978-1-78433-854-1
Blade of Light
NADIA DALBUONO
When a gentleman arrives at Montalbano’s station to report an armed robbery on his
wife that ended with a kiss, the inspector’s suspicions are aroused. But Montalbano finds
that none of the witnesses’ stories add up, and he can’t help feeling they’re not meant to.
Meanwhile there’s a case that keeps finding its way back to Montalbano’s office. A locked
door has appeared on a farmer’s disused shed, and then, just as quickly, disappears. The antiterrorist police intervene, but why are they so keen to keep this away from him? And why
does he sense that this case is connected to him somehow?
Read by Tim Bruce
The Few
5 CDs • OCD 1113 • 978-1-78433-878-7
ANDREA CAMILLERI
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.
9 CDs • OCD 1076 • 978-1-78433-751-3
Game of Mirrors
TORKIL DAMHAUG
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 ...
Read by Peter Noble
Medusa
5 CDs • OCD 1053 • 978-1-78433-728-5
DARCIE CHAN
A woman vanishes from a forest near Oslo. Days later her body is found, seemingly mauled
and maimed by a bear. When another woman is reported missing and then found dead
with the same scratches and bites, police find the link between them is local doctor, Axel
Glenne. Forensics reveal the women were murdered and a net of suspicion tightens around
Axel, who is convinced his twin brother Brede is responsible. But no one has seen him for
years and if Axel is to prove his innocence, he needs to find Brede. And fast. But there isn’t
a single photograph of the brothers together and neither Axel’s wife nor his children has
ever met a man called Brede ...
10 CDs • OCD 1104 • 978-1-78433-868-8
The Mill River Redemption
MICHELLE DAVIES
Read by Liza Ross
Gone Astray
Having unexpectedly lost her husband and lacking the means to support herself, Josie
DiSanti and her two daughters take refuge in the small town of Mill River. The sisters,
Rose and Emily, are inseparable growing up – until a shocking tragedy tears them apart.
Years later, they return to Mill River for the reading of their mother’s will, where they
learn that Josie would do anything to force their reconciliation: the sisters must move into
neighbouring houses and work together to locate the key to Josie’s safe deposit box, which
contains their inheritance. And so, left with no choice, Rose and Emily reluctantly begin
their search ...
Read by Clare Corbett
When Lesley and her husband Mack are the sudden winners of a £15 million EuroMillions
jackpot, they move with their 15-year-old daughter Rosie to an exclusive gated estate in
Buckinghamshire, leaving behind their ordinary lives – and friends. But it soon turns into
their darkest nightmare when Lesley returns to their house to find it empty: their daughter
Rosie is gone. DC Maggie Neville is assigned to be Family Liaison Officer to Lesley and
Mack, but she has a crisis threatening her own life – a secret from the past that could
shatter everything she’s worked for.
11 CDs • OCD 1103 • 978-1-78433-867-1
9 CDs • OCD 1090 • 978-1-78433-879-4
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STEVEN DUNNE
Read by Peter Wickham
Welcome to Meantime
Death Do Us Part
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.
DI Damen Brook is on a rare period of leave to re-connect with his daughter Terri. But
with her heavy drinking proving a challenge, Brook agrees to visit a local murder scene
when his help is requested. An elderly couple have each been executed with a single shot
to the heart with the method echoing that of a murdered middle-aged gay couple. With
the same killer suspected, Brook knows that he has little choice but to cut short his leave
when forced by his superiors to take the lead on the case. 10 CDs • OCD 1042 • 978-1-78433-676-9
11 CDs • OCD 1115 • 978-1-78433-881-7
TAMARA DIETRICH
STEVEN DUNNE
Read by Laurence Bouvard
The Hummingbird’s Cage
A Killing Moon
Joanna has spent 10 years married to a monster. Everyone thinks she has the perfect life,
but behind closed doors she lives in constant fear of her husband. Escape seems impossible
– and then a stranger offers her a chance to flee. On the run with her young daughter,
Joanna finds herself in the mysterious town of Morro. With no memory of how she got
there. And no idea of what the town truly is. Joanna faces a rare and terrible choice – stay
safe, or return to face the fight of her life, to save herself and her little girl.
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.
8 CDs • OCD 1114 • 978-1-78433-880-0
11 CDs • OCD 1077 • 978-1-78433-752-0
JAMIE DOWARD
HELENA FAIRFAX
Read by Peter Noble
Read by Helen Longworth
Toxic
A Way from Heart to Heart
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.
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?
8 CDs • OCD 1054 • 978-1-78433-729-2
7 CDs • OCD 1007 • 978-1-78433-581-6
1 MP3 • OMP 1007 • 978-1-78433-617-2 • Playing time: 8hrs 22mins
SOPHIE DUFFY
MAGGIE FORD
Read by Angus King
Read by Kate Lee
Bright Stars
A Soldier’s Girl
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
After a childhood in poverty and leaving school to work at the age of 13, life is beginning
to look up for Brenda Wilson. Freshly married to her handsome soldier husband, she finds
her true vocation in hairdressing. However, Brenda is forced to give up her dreams of
owning her own salon as Harry is called into service, leaving her to bring up their daughter
all by herself ...
12 CDs • OCD 1106 • 978-1-78433-870-1
ILANA FOX
The Glittering Art of Falling Apart
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
RUTH DUGDALL
1980s Soho is electric. For Eliza, the heady pull of its nightclubs and free-spirited people
leads her into the life she has craved – all glamour, late nights and excitement. But it comes
at a heavy cost. Cassie is fascinated by her family’s history and the abandoned Beaufont
Hall. Why won’t her mother talk about it? Offered the chance to restore Beaufont to its
former glory, Cassie jumps at the opportunity to learn more about her past. Separated by
a generation, but linked by a forgotten diary, these two women have more in common than
they know ...
8 CDs • OCD 1116 • 978-1-78433-876-3
JUNE FRANCIS
Lily’s War
Read by Sue Jenkins
Nowhere Girl
Read by Penny McDonald
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.
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.
10 CDs • OCD 1055 • 978-1-78433-730-8
8 CDs • OCD 1066 • 978-1-78433-741-4
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PAMELA HARTSHORNE
Read by Victoria Fox
Read by Christine Mackie
The Beachside Guest House
House of Shadows
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
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 posttraumatic 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.
11 CDs • OCD 1079 • 978-1-78433-754-4
VERONICA HENRY
Honeycote
BEAR GRYLLS
Read by Rachel Atkins
Burning Angels
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 …
Read by Rupert Degas
A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood. A jungle
island overrun by rabid primates – escapees from a research laboratory’s Hot Zone. A
massive seaplane hidden beneath a mountain, packed with a Nazi cargo of mind-blowing
evil. A penniless orphan kidnapped from an African slum, holding the key to the world’s
survival. Four terrifying journeys. One impossible path. Only one man to attempt it. Will
Jaeger. The Hunter.
11 CDs • OCD 1022 • 978-1-78433-656-1
10 CDs • OCD 1117 • 978-1-78433-855-8
VERONICA HENRY
How to Find Love in a Bookshop
KRISTIN HANNAH
The Nightingale
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.
13 CDs • OCD 1008 • 978-1-78433-582-3
Nightingale Books, nestled in the idyllic Cotswold town of Peasebrook, is a dream come
true for booklovers. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open. The
temptation to sell up is proving enormous – but what about the loyalty she owes to her
customers. Sarah Basildon, owner of stately pile Peasebrook Manor, has used the bookshop
as an escape from all her problems over the years. Since messing up his marriage, Jackson
asks Emilia for advice on books to read to the son he misses so much. And there’s
Thomasina, painfully shy, who runs a pop-up restaurant and has a huge crush on a man she
met and then lost in the cookery section!
9 CDs • OCD 1092 • 978-1-78433-856-5
ELIN HILDERBRAND
The Rumour
EMMA HANNIGAN
The Heart of Winter
Read by Grainne Gillis
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
OLIVER HARRIS
The House of Fame
Read by Toby Longworth
Amber Knight is London’s hottest ticket – pop star, film star, front-page, 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.
7 CDs • OCD 1078 • 978-1-78433-753-7
Nantucket writer Madeline King has a new novel coming out and it’s got bestseller
potential. But Madeline is terrified, because in her desperation to revive her career, she’s
done something reckless: reveal the truth behind an actual affair involving her best friend,
Grace. And that’s not the only strain on Madeline and Grace’s friendship: one fateful night,
the two women argue, voicing jealousies and resentments that have built for 20 years.
Bereft of each other, they get caught in the snares of a mysterious and destructive stranger.
8 CDs • OCD 1093 • 978-1-78433-857-2
DEBBY HOLT
The Soulmate
Read by Jilly Bond
A novel about love, loss and starting again. Widower Henry Drummond is marking time,
drifting towards retirement, until he accidentally saves a life. His daughter Maddie is at
a wedding with the love of her life. But he is the groom and she is not the bride. They
both decide they need to change their lives, preferably with a soulmate by their sides. But
as Henry’s mother tells him, ‘Love is a complicated business and it is not for the easily
discouraged.’ Strange encounters, humiliations and excitements come along and romance
keeps eluding them. Soon family crises get in the way. But their quest has taken on a life of
its own, with surprising consequences for all concerned.
8 CDs • OCD 1118 • 978-1-78433-882-4
MAGGIE HOPE
A Wartime Nurse
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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VANESSA LAFAYE
Read by Adjoa Andoh
Eliza’s Child
Summertime
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?
9 CDs • OCD 1080 • 978-1-78433-755-1
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 …
9 CDs • OCD 1081 • 978-1-78433-756-8
MAGGIE HOPE
Orphan Girl
HARRIET LANE
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
Her
Read by Julie Maisey
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
MAGGIE HOPE
Workhouse Child
LUCY LAWRIE
Lottie is just three years old when her Mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse. A
childhood spent in poverty, skivvying for other people, leaves her with no prospects, no
family … Yet Lottie is bright and has ambitions for a better life. And when an opportunity
arises at the local Chapel, Lottie seizes her chance. But will she ever be anything more than
a workhouse child? The heartwarming sequel to Eliza’s Child.
7 CDs • OCD 1094 • 978-1-78433-858-9
JANE ISAAC
Before It’s Too Late
The Last Day I Saw Her
Read by Jenny Dunbar
When lonely single mum Janey stumbles into an art workshop, she can’t believe her eyes
when her left hand mysteriously scribbles a picture of two little girls and a message from
someone called ‘Hattie’: Janey’s childhood best friend who she lost touch with after Hattie’s
family suddenly moved away in mysterious circumstances. Janey’s instincts tell her that she
must finally find out what happened to Hattie, but when writing appears on the walls of
her flat and her son Pip starts playing with an invisible friend, Janey fears she’s losing her
mind. Is it really a good idea to go digging up the past? As dark secrets come to light, she
can’t be sure what’s real any more – or who to trust.
10 CDs • OCD 1107 • 978-1-78433-872-5
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
CHRISTOBEL KENT
The Loving Husband
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?
10 CDs • OCD 1067 • 978-1-78433-742-1
RAYMOND KHOURY
The End Game
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.
11 CDs • OCD 1056 • 978-1-78433-731-5
JOHN LAWTON
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
JOHN LAWTON
The Unfortunate Englishman
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 Burne-Jones,
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.
10 CDs • OCD 1057 • 978-1-78433-732-2
JEM LESTER
Shtum
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.
8 CDs • OCD 1068 • 978-1-78433-743-8
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A. P. McCOY
Read by Tim Bruce
Read by Daniel Weyman
Ferney
Narrowing the Field
When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it’s to make a new start. But
the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to
an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws
them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away,
Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection – and to face an inexplicable truth
about their shared past. A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the
spell of Ferney.
12 CDs • OCD 1119 • 978-1-78433-884-8
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
VIRGINIA MACGREGOR
CLAIRE McGOWAN
Read by Gráinne Gillis
The Astonishing Return of Norah Wells
The Silent Dead
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?
10 CDs • OCD 1058 • 978-1-78433-733-9
Victim: Male. Mid-thirties. 5’7”. Cause of death: Hanging. Initial impression – murder. ID:
Mickey Doyle. The officers at the crime scene know exactly who the victim is. Doyle was
one of five suspected bombers who caused the deaths of 16 people. The remaining four
are also missing and when a second body is found, decapitated, it’s clear they are being
killed by the same methods their victims suffered. Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire
is assigned the case but she is up against the clock – will Paula be able to find those
responsible? After all, even killers deserve justice, don’t they?
9 CDs • OCD 1120 • 978-1-78433-885-5
GILLY MACMILLAN
FERGUS McNEILL
Read by Penelope Rawlins & Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Read by Mike Rogers
The Perfect Girl
Cut Out
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. It’s a story about the
wrongs in our past not letting go and how hard we must fight for second chances.
8 CDs • OCD 1059 • 978-1-78433-734-6
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
GILLY MACMILLAN
Burnt Paper Sky
BRAD MELTZER
Read by Penelope Rawlins & Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
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
The Turning Tide
Read by Joan Walker
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
The Raven’s Head
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.
The President’s Shadow
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.
10 CDs • OCD 1069 • 978-1-78433-744-5
VALERIE MENDES
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
13 CDs • OCD 1048 • 978-1-78433-682-0
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STEVE MOSBY
Read by William Hope
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Shutter Man
The 50/50 Killer
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
JONATHAN MOORE
The Poison Artist
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
Read by Tim Flavin
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
SIMON MORDEN
WALTER MOSLEY
Charcoal Joe
Read by Lucian Msamati
Easy Rawlins is living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of
course it’s not going to last. Because Easy’s old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is
one of the deadliest men in America. And Mouse wants a small favour. He wants Easy to help
a man he says is wrongly imprisoned, a friend of Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical
figure in the LA underworld – he pulls the strings but keeps out of sight. Reluctantly, Easy
agrees – he owes Mouse his life. But this is going to be Easy’s deadliest investigation yet.
8 CDs • OCD 1095 • 978-1-78433-859-6
SARAH MOSS
Signs for Lost Children
Down Station
Read by Meriel Scholfield
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
DAVID MORRELL
Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation.
Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor MoberleyCavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics
of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century
Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss
builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester
to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination.
9 CDs • OCD 1096 • 978-1-78433-860-2
REBECCA MUDDIMAN
Tell Me Lies
Read by Tim Bruce
Inspector of the Dead
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, leaving with each
corpse the name of someone who had attempted to kill Queen Victoria. 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.
10 CDs • OCD 1083 • 978-1-78433-758-2
STEVE MOSBY
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?
9 CDs • OCD 1060 • 978-1-78433-735-3
AMY MYERS
Classic Cashes In
Black Flowers
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.
9 CDs • OCD 1082 • 978-1-78433-757-5
Jack Colby, car detective, takes a seemingly routine commission that precipitates him into a
dangerous world of secrets and murder A commission to buy a classic Packard saloon from
the 1930s should have been routine, but this Packard is special … and as Jack struggles to
piece together the car’s history and the mystery surrounding it, he is soon catapulted into a
world where nothing is as it seems. But when murder strikes, Jack is drawn into a hunt for
the truth that involves not only his personal happiness but facing a relentless killer.
8 CDs • OCD 1108 • 978-1-78433-871-8
BARBARA NADEL
Dead of Night: An Inspector Ikmen Mystery
Read by Seán Barrett
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 …
9 CDs • OCD 1038 • 978-1-78433-672-1
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KRISTINA OHLSSON
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Read by Maggie Mash
On the Bone
The Chosen
On a buzzing street in the fashionable district of Beyoglu, a young man drops dead. Ümit
Kavas’s death was natural but the autopsy betrays a shocking truth: his last meal was
human flesh. Under desperate pressure from their superiors, Inspector Cetin Ikmen and
his colleague Mehmet Süleyman begin their most obscure investigation yet. Soon they find
themselves embroiled in a dark web of underground worlds: of Turkey’s old secular elite; a
community of squatters; and a new gastronomy scene breaking every boundary. But where
does the truth lie?
9 CDs • OCD 1097 • 978-1-78433-861-9
On a cold winter’s day, a pre-school 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?
13 CDs • OCD 1071 • 978-1-78433-746-9
ANDREW NICOLL
The Secret Life and Curious Death of Miss Jean Milne
NEIL OLIVER
Read by Angus King
Master of Shadows
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.
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.
9 CDs • OCD 1010 • 978-1-78433-584-7
11 CDs • OCD 1000 • 978-1-78433-573-1
PARAIC O’DONNELL
MARGIE ORFORD
Read by Mike Grady & Imogen Wilde
Read by Saul Reichlin
The Maker of Swans
Water Music
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. She must learn to use them quickly, if she is to
save them all.
10 CDs • OCD 1070 • 978-1-78433-745-2
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A terrified, frozen child is found close to death on an icy Cape Town mountainside. But
no-one reported her missing. Who does she belong to? Profiler Dr Clare Hart is baffled –
but when a young woman disappears, Clare sees a frightening pattern beginning to emerge.
Rosa is a gifted but troubled young cellist, and her grandfather is at his wits end. Why did
she walk out of her music school that day? Where has she gone now? As winter tightens its
grip, Clare must find Rosa and unravel her secrets …
8 CDs • OCD 1121 • 978-1-78433-886-2
NICKY PELLEGRINO
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
Recipe for Life
Caroline’s Sister
Read by Jane McDowell
Read by Caroline Lennon
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
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
KRISTINA OHLSSON
NICKY PELLEGRINO
Read by Maggie Mash
Read by Jane McDowell
Hostage
Under Italian Skies
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
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?
8 CDs • OCD 1072 • 978-1-78433-747-6
ANNE PERRY
Blood on the Water
Read by Jonathan Oliver
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
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JIM POWELL
GUY SAVILLE
The Breaking of Eggs
The Madagaskar Plan
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?
9 CDs • OCD 1084 • 978-1-78433-759-9
1953. Nazi Germany controls Europe and a vast African territory and the Jews have been
exiled to Madagaskar. Returning home after a disastrous mission to Africa, ex-mercenary
Burton Cole finds his lover has disappeared. Desperate to discover her, he is drawn
into a conspiracy that will lead him back to the Dark Continent. Meanwhile Walter
Hochburg, Nazi Governor of Kongo, has turned his attention to Madagaskar where there
are scientists who could develop a weapon of unimaginable power. But the British are
interested in Madagaskar too. They plan to destroy its naval base to bring America into a
war against the Reich. They have found the ideal man for the task: Reuben Salois, the only
Jew to have escaped the ghetto.
17 CDs • OCD 1110 • 978-1-78433-874-9
LUCY RIBCHESTER
The Amber Shadows
SIMON SCARROW
Read by Lucy Scott
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?
9 CDs • OCD 1073 • 978-1-78433-748-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1073 • 978-1-78433-772-784-1 • Playing time: 10hrs 52mins
KAREN ROBARDS
Young Bloods: Wellington & Napoleon 1
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.
16 CDs • OCD 1039 • 978-1-78433-673-8
The Last Time I Saw Her
NATASHA SOLOMONS
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.
9 CDs • OCD 1086 • 978-1-78433-761-2
The Song Collector
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 four-year-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.
10 CDs • OCD 1061 • 978-1-78433-736-0
I.D. ROBERTS
For Kingdom and Country
JIM THOMPSON
May 1915. Kingdom Lock and his faithful sidekick, Siddhartha Singh are gunned down on
the streets of Basra and suspicion falls on German spy, Wilhelm Wassmuss. Major Ross
believes Wassmuss is behind the assassination of a Turkish officer, the death of whom has
been blamed on Lock. Meanwhile, Lock has discovered that Amy Townshend is pregnant
and that the child is his. But the general’s daughter stubbornly refuses to break off her
engagement. Then, when Lock learns that there is a price on his head, Ross sends him to
the frontlines for his own safety ...
10 CDs • OCD 1109 • 978-1-78433-873-2
ROBERT RYAN
The Killer Inside Me
Read by Tim Flavin
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
The Sign of Fear
LUCA VESTE
The skies above London hum with danger. And in the Channel enemies lie in wait …
Autumn, 1917. London is not the city that Dr John Watson and Sherlock Holmes
once bestrode like giants. Terror has come from the sky and Londoners are scurrying
underground in fear. Then a twin tragedy strikes Watson. An old friend, Staff Nurse Jennings,
is on a boat-ambulance torpedoed in the Channel with no survivors. And his concert-going
companion, Sir Gilbert Hardy, is kidnapped. Then comes the gruesome ransom demand,
for Sir Gilbert and four others, which will involve terrible mutilation unless the demands
are met. Help comes from an unlikely source when Watson finds himself face-to-face
with his old ruthless adversary, the “She Wolf” Miss Pillbody. Shemakes 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 statesponsored murder and find Watson on board a German bomber, with a crew intent on
setting London ablaze.
Bloodstream
11 CDs • OCD 1074 • 978-1-78433-749-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1074 • 978-1-78433-785-8 Playing time: 13hrs 12mins
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Social media stars Chloe Morrison and Joe Hooper seem to have it all – until their
bodies are found following an anonymous phone call to their high-profile agent. Tied and
bound to chairs facing each other, their violent deaths cause a media scrum to descend
on Liverpool, with DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi assigned to the case. It quickly
becomes clear that the killer believes secrets and lies within relationships should have
deadly consequences …
10 CDs • OCD 1098 • 978-1-78433-862-6
SALLEY VICKERS
The Boy Who Could See Death
Read by Anna Bentinck & Peter Noble
Eli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary gift. It will shape the course of his whole life.
Cousin Francesca, a charming spinster and a favourite with the children, is harbouring
kleptomaniac tendencies. Sarah Palliser, living alone next to a ramshackle graveyard, is more
scared of the small box under her stairs than the ghosts outside her window. Dreamy
artist Nan is nursing a growing obsession with wolves in Britain and the recently widowed
Frances finds herself inventing an exotic imaginary boyfriend. In this collection of eleven
remarkable stories, Salley Vickers explores bereavement and betrayal, closely guarded
secrets and common gossip, long-overdue endings and decidedly strange beginnings.
5 CDs • OCD 1099 • 978-1-78433-863-3
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HUGO WILCKEN
Read byTim Flavin
The Girl Who Wasn’t There
The Reflection
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
Dr Manne isn’t himself when he’s called out by the police to evaluate a man suspected
of psychosis. But the man is perfectly calm, and insists he’s not who the police says he is.
Manne isn’t sure what to believe, but something definitely isn’t right. Before he knows it,
he’s helping his patient escape from an unfamiliar psychiatric hospital. Then a careless slip
on the subway leads to a horrific accident. Waking up in a hospital bed, Manne realises his
own identity is not as certain as he’d always believed. What kind of a hospital is he in and
why can’t he leave? As Manne pieces together the story, he realises that pretending to be
someone else might be his only chance for escape.
6 CDs • OCD 1111 • 978-1-78433-875-6
GILES WATERFIELD
The Long Afternoon
MAIRI WILSON
The year is 1912. Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a
house. Barely 30, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through illhealth. They fall in love with the dreamlike Lou Paradou and set about constructing a life of
ease, and a ravishing garden. But as the political conflict gathers, so the atmosphere of their
new home becomes increasingly unquiet and a tragic fate befalls them. The Long Afternoon
enchants and involves the reader, just as the Williamsons’ garden seduces its visitors.
6 CDs • OCD 1123 • 978-1-78433-883-1
KATHERINE WEBB
Ursula’s Secret
Read by Jenny Dunbar
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.
11 CDs • OCD 1087 • 978-1-78433-762-9
The English Girl
TOM WOOD
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?
14 CDs • OCD 1062 • 978-1-78433-737-7
The Darkest Day
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
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