Collection: Audio CD

1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. But for Nell Lewis, helping prisoners is something she cares about deeply, and when she's promoted into a new post as governor of HMP Brackerley in Yorkshire, she's tasked with transforming the renowned run-down facility into a modern, open p...

While other children were devouring the works of Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter, Carla Valentine was poring through the pages of Agatha Christie novels. It was this early fascination that led to her job as a pathology technician, trained in forensics and working in mortuaries. Of course, Agatha h...

The lifeless body sat, hands bound, silver tape over his mouth. Patches of blood had soaked into the cheap carpet around him. Zac had spent years gaining scientific insight into the mind: human motivation and behaviour. And this scene wasn't right. It's been five years since Detective Zac Boateng...

It's a dream come true for Frances Palmer: a voyage from Australia to England on the Empress of the Sea, together with her fiance Jack Sullivan and her Uncle Sal, aka 'Salvatore the Magnificent'. They've been hired to entertain the passengers with magic tricks and daring stunts. But all is not we...

Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial killer? February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a detective sergeant, has been posted to Peckham Criminal Investigation Department, one of London's toughest areas. As the rubbish...

Most of us today rarely see a dead body. In nineteenth-century Sydney, when health was precarious and workplaces and the busy city streets were often dangerous, witnessing a death was rather common. And any death that was sudden or suspicious would be investigated by the coroner. Henry Shiell was...

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her locked bedroom. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body. ...

In the sleepy village of Cookingdean, Dr Nell Ward is busy working in the grounds of a local manor house. Whilst inspecting an old tunnel, she did not expect to overhear a murder. As the only person with any clues as to what happened, Nell soon finds herself in the middle of the investigation. De...

Murder of Innocence, with Max DiLallo: Andrew Luster is rich, good-looking and dozens of women have been charmed by him. But there’s a very dark, very dangerous side to his womanising. And it’ll take a global manhunt to put him behind bars. A Murderous Affair, with Andrew Bourelle: Mark Putnam is...

Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain. American heiress Amanda Fortini heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return. Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile...