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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

The Last Queen – C.W. Gortner

One of history’s most enigmatic women tells the haunting, passionate story of her tumultuous life. Juana of Castile is just thirteen when she witnesses the fall of Moorish Granada and the uniting of the fractured kingdoms of Spain under her warrior parents, Isabel and Fernando. Intelligent, beautiful, and proud of her heritage, Juana rebels when she is chosen as a bride for the Hapsburg heir – until she comes face-to-face with Prince Philip the Fair, a man who will bring her the greatest of passions, and the darkest despair. When tragedy decimates Juana’s family in Spain, she suddenly finds herself heiress to Castile, a realm prey to scheming lords bent on thwarting her rule. The betrayal of those she loves plunges Juana into a ruthless battle of wills – a struggle of corruption, perfidy, and heart-shattering deceit that could cost her the crown, her freedom, and her very life.
Unabridged.
Read by Marguerite Gavin.

Friday, 21 June 2013

The Last Policeman – Ben H. Winters

The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job – but not Hank Palace. Heâ€™s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week – except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. Whatâ€™s the point in solving murders if weâ€™re all going to die soon, anyway?
Unabridged.
Read by Peter Berkrot.

Sunday, 16 June 2013

One Last Breath – Stephen Booth

Major new psychological Peak District thriller from the acclaimed author of Blood on the Tongue and Blind to the Bones. The vast labyrinth of caverns, passages and subterranean rivers beneath the Peak District are a major tourist attraction. But this summer not all the darkness is underground, and not all the devils are folk legends. Mingling with the holidaymakers is a convicted killer, bent on revenge. Fourteen years ago Mansell Quinn was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he’s out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been murdered. As they try to anticipate the fugitive’s next move, detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper become increasingly puzzled by the case. Why did Quinn’s two friends refuse to back up his alibi? And why did nobody visit him in prison for the last ten years of his sentence? Nobody, that is, except one of those two friends: ex-soldier Will Thorpe, now living rough somewhere in the Hope Valley. Overstretched and unable to apprehend a killer who moves around the area with impunity, the police can do little but warn other potential victims to be on their guard.
Unabridged.
Read by Christopher Kay.

The Last Pleasure Garden – Lee Jackson

A sinister figure stalks the gas-lit groves of Cremorne Gardens, the last pleasure-ground on the banks of the Thames. His weapon, a sharp pair of scissors. His victims, young women in the first bloom of youth. His crime – merely to remove a lock of their hair. Inspector Decimus Webb of Scotland Yard suspects a harmless lunatic is at large. But when morbid obsession turns to murder, even Webb’s loyal sergeant begins to doubt his judgement. As the press and his superiors clamour for answers, Webb’s investigations lead him to Rose Perfitt, aspiring debutante and daughter of a respectable stock-broker. Will she fall prey to ‘The Cutter’ or does a worse fate beckon? One thing is certain – only Decimus Webb can save her. Lee Jackson’s third Inspector Webb novel takes the reader into the forgotten world of the Victorian pleasure-garden, in a gripping mystery of garish gas-light and dark secrets.
Unabridged.
Read by Joe Dunlop.

Sunday, 19 May 2013

The Last Girl – Jane Casey

High summer. Wimbledon. 14-year-old Lydia Kennford returns home to discover the bodies of her mother and twin sister in the family living room, while her father, Philip, lies unconscious and bleeding in an upstairs bedroom. DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent begin to investigate, discounting a burglary quickly and focusing instead on Philip Kennford QC himself. There is no easy explanation for why he survived when the others were shown no mercy, and they suspect he might have staged the attack on himself after killing his wife and daughter. But Kennford is a self-possessed, intelligent man who knows criminal law inside out; proving that he’s guilty will be difficult.
Unabridged.
Read by Caroline Lennon.

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Friday, 23 November 2012

The Last Don – Mario Puzo [Abridged]

Don Domenico, head of the last great Mafia family, the Clericuzio, moves to Hollywood to begin a new life. His past evil and savagery is to catch up with him. It is also to catch up with successive generations, as his grandchildren struggle to escape the family’s dark and menacing past.