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Author: Claire Askew
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Author Claire Askew
Narrator Sarah Barron, Simon Slater
SeriesDI Birch, Book 4
Duration 8h 20m
At 8 a.m., the first shots are fired. At 1 p.m., the police establish the gunman has a hostage. By 5 p.m., a siege is underway. At 9 p.m., DI Helen Birch walks, alone and unarmed, into an abandoned Borders farmhouse to negotiate with the killer. One day. One woman. One chance to get everyone out alive. The outstanding new novel from the highly accl...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 11h 50m
The 27th book in the number one best-selling Alan Banks crime series - by the master of the police procedural. The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks and his team of detectives. There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left t...
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Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 10h 11m
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia's most import...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 12h 59m
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with œ5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. The suspects range from several individuals at the college wher...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 11h 58m
The 22nd novel in number-one best-selling author Peter Robinson's critically acclaimed DCI Banks series. When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. And when a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground, and a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar nearby, t...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 16h
When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused and thrown from a moving van - before being beaten to death. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks must do...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 12h 2m
A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church, and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually the shooter is run to ground, and things take their inevitable course. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day and why. Struggling with the death of his first serious girlfriend and the return o...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 11h 46m
The thrilling 25th instalment in Peter Robinson's number one best-selling Banks series, in which Banks and his team find themselves with two suspicious deaths. A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. Didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 11h 58m
Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was he discarded as rubbish, or left as a warning to someone? He looks Middle Eastern, but no one on the East Side Estate has seen him before. As the local press seize upon an illegal immigrant angle, and the national media the st...
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Author: Hilary Mantel
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Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Simon Slater
SeriesThomas Cromwell Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 24h 30m
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both ideal...
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Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 13h 38m
Banks is back - and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Reid is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards i...
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