Collection: Audio CD

England, 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys fighting in the Battle of Britain overhead when a knock comes at the door. On the doorstep is a hatbox, and inside a tiny new-born baby, alone but for a ration book beside her. Annie does everythi...

When spirited Verity Bowman is left a sizeable legacy by her uncle on condition that she spends six months "in a wholly rational manner", neither she nor her long-suffering attorney Charles Congreve have any idea where it will lead them. Nor, it has to be said, does anyone else. Set in Newmarket ...

More than 50 years ago, Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caught the eye of the great Ruth Rendell, whose praise ignited Lovesey's life-long passion for short form crime fiction. More than 100 stories later, Peter Lovesey has assembled this devilishly clever ...

On a bright spring morning, John Hyde opens the gates to the grounds of Moreton Corbet Castle, a local medieval ruin, and discovers the body of a homeless man with his throat slashed. Detective Inspector Alex Randall and his team soon face some disturbing questions: was this a random attack, or d...

Living with her partner, Tony, his parents and their precocious teenage son, Alberta Granger considers she belongs to the perfect modern extended family. Her catering business is booming and her daughter, Hannah, is embarking on a glittering career. In fact, Alberta's only preoccupation is why To...

Ruby Brooks is a little sceptical when her horoscope says she's going to have a fabulous year - especially when she loses a boyfriend and a job in quick succession. So, Ruby takes luck and fate into her own hands with an unusual resolution - she'll enter ten competitions a day, whether they're fo...

Charles Paris' acting career plumbs new depths when he takes the part of a possible murder victim in Public Enemies, a true-crime television series. Finding himself in a bizarre world somewhere between police procedure and showbiz.

It's the early 1990s and Ruby 'Red' McCoy dreams about one day leaving her weatherboard house on the Central Coast of New South Wales, where her best friend, Stevie, is loose with the truth, and her dad, Sid, is always on the wrong side of the law. But wild, whip-smart Red can't stay out of troub...

To Billy Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So, when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he doesn't shy away from...

1951, Auckland: A man overboard, a murder and a lot of loose ends ... The workers and the government are heading for bloody confrontation and the waterfront is the frontline. But this is a war with more than two sides, and nothing is what it seems. Into the secret world of rival union politics, d...