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ID: 320080

Title: Skulduggery Pleasant

Author: Derek Landy

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:07:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Mystery & Fantasy, Humor

Summary:

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So you won't keep anything from me again?'

He put his hand to his chest. 'Cross my heart and hope to die.'

'Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart,' she said.

'I know.'

'And technically, you've already died.'

'I know that too.'

'Just so we're clear.'

Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.

Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.

When all hell breaks loose, it's lucky for Skulduggery that he's already dead. Though he's about to discover that being a skeleton doesn't stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there's anything Skulduggery hates, it's torture Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing's for sure: evil won't know what's hit it.

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ID: 320078

Title: Pale Horse

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Hugh Fraser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:43:33

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A dark offering from the Queen of Crime.

This represents the world-famous authors most successful foray into the dark world of murder and black magic.

To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?

Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gormans head? Or was it when the priests assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergymans cassock? Or could it have been the priests visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed?

Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?

Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish theyd never found it

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ID: 320077

Title: Clocks

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Hugh Fraser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:14:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Continuing the new look unabridged Poirot titles, read by Hugh Fraser.

As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.

What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three oclock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house

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ID: 320076

Title: Crooked House

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Hugh Fraser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:45:43

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A new Agatha Christie thriller, described by her as one of my best.

The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.

Suspicion naturally falls on the old mans young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionares granddaughter

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ID: 320079

Title: Third Girl

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Hugh Fraser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:59:27

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Designed to match the new look Hercule Poirot series.

Read by Hugh Fraser who plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series.

Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer.

Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirots tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty innocent or insane

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ID: 320091

Title: Journey

Author: Josephine Cox

Narrator: Carole Boyd

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Family Life, Sagas

Summary:

Read by Carole Boyd.

The new bestseller from the countrys number one storyteller is a deeply moving and powerful tale of love and courage and a sacrifice no man should be asked to make.

The story begins in 1952 when three strangers meet in a churchyard. One is a local farmer, Ben Morris, walking through the churchyard from his farmhouse. The other two Lucy and Eileen Baker are mother and daughter, bringing flowers to lay at the resting place of a man by the name of Barney Davidson. There is an air of mystery about them which greatly intrigues Ben.

When the older woman stumbles, Ben offers to help. The offer is refused but in that moment of contact with the younger of the two women, he finds himself oddly drawn to her.

When a handbag is found, Ben is nominated to return it to an address found inside. He goes to an old Edwardian house which is rumoured to have been a place of ill-repute many years ago. For reasons unknown, this rumour is vigorously denied by an elder who has lived in the hamlet of Salford all her life. When Ben returns with the handbag and is invited into the house, he is caught up in something that will change his life forever.

When the old woman is taken ill, and haunted by what happened long ago in her youth, she finally confesses the truth to Ben and her daughter Eileen. What she has to say shocks and amazes Ben, so much so that he can't get it out of his mind.

The extraordinary events that follow keep Ben and Eileen at the centre. As the story unfolds, the years fall away. Unsuspecting people are drawn together from both sides of the Atlantic. At long last the real truth about Barney Davidson is known. He was indeed a man amongst men. What he did changed all their lives in ways that could never have been imagined.

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ID: 320087

Title: Hundredth Man

Author: J. A. Kerley

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A darkly compelling serial-killer thriller set in America's deep South, introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for a long time to come.

A headless male torso found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night is assumed to be that of a murdered prostitute, killed in a moment of passion. The head of Mobile's police department would have it so, but Detective Carson Ryder sees something else: the deliberate placement of the remains, the lack of blood, the bizarre writing on the victim's skin. Ryder has become a local celebrity after solving a series of brutal murders a year earlier, but his reputation is built on a terrible secret, stemming from his childhood a secret he has kept from even his closest friend.

Another torso; another, even stranger, message and the victim this time is no prostitute. Whatever Ryder's instincts about the case, however, the Byzantine manoeuvrings of departmental politics are interfering with the investigation. Are deliberate obstacles being placed in Ryder's way? And how does the chief pathologist's office tie in? Is there indeed a psychopathic killer out there in the night or does the solution lie elsewhere?

Ryder must get to the heart of the murders and grapple with the demons that are rising again from his own past.

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ID: 320084

Title: Broken Souls

Author: J. A. Kerley

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 04:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A major new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestsellers The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors.

It looked like an abattoir when they found the mutilated body of the young journalist inside her car. And if Carson Ryder and his partner had known what they were getting into, they would never have taken the case.

Too late, what looks like the work of a lone madman spreads tentacles that wrap themselves round all sorts of strange areas. And its not long before attention focuses on the citys most unlikely suspects: the wealthy family whose philanthropy has made them famous and influential.

For behind every fortune, there is a crime. And behind their money and smiles is a family divided by hatred, a family whose strange and horrific past is about to engulf everyone around them including Ryder.

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ID: 320136

Title: Loner

Author: Josephine Cox

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox the countrys favourite storyteller.

After a tragic accident resulting in the death of his mother, and the disappearance of his father, young Davie flees his hometown of Blackburn, unsure of what the future holds for him. Devastated, he must escape the vicious rumours about his mother as well as his memories of her. With nothing more than the shirt on his back, he sets off to find his father, a livelihood and maybe a glimpse of happiness.

Meanwhile, back home, those Davie has left behind wait anxiously. There's Kathleen, his childhood friend who has held a secret close to her heart these past few years, and Joseph, his grandfather whose guilt at the events which unfolded that dreadful night burns right to his soul. Will they ever see their beloved Davie again?

Eventually, after months of wandering, Davie finds somewhere he can call home. But tragedy stalks him once more and it's not long before everything comes to a dreadful impasse. It's time for him to make a decision to keep running or go back home and face the past once and for all

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ID: 320089

Title: Beachcomber

Author: Josephine Cox

Narrator: Carole Boyd

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Contemporary

Summary:

One of the countrys bestselling storytellers joins HarperCollins with her new page-turning drama about struggle and triumph over adversity.

The Beachcomber is the story of two people, each with a dream, each lonely in different ways, and just when everything seems to be coming right for them, fate steps in to turn their worlds upside down.

In the summer of 1952, two lonely people arrive in the pretty seaside hamlet of West Bay. Strangers coming from very different backgrounds, they are there for the same reasons: to find peace of mind and the chance to start a new life.

A quiet, lonely man, Tom Arnold has abandoned all his possessions and walked away from a highly paid job. A year ago, he had a wife and two beautiful children, when suddenly his world was turned upside-down. The car he was driving with his family was deliberately run off the seaside road high above the cliffs. He was the only survivor. The maniac driver who Tom is sure intended to kill them all has never been found.

Now, a year later, he needs to be alone to deal with the pain and contemplate his future.

Kathy Wilson has tried to cling on to her zest for life and her sense of humour through times of pain and loneliness. Recovering from her divorce, she seeks comfort in the arms of other men and parties. But a shocking, revealing row with her mother is the final straw, and consequently when she inherits a rundown house in West Bay, she flees to Dorset.

For both Tom and Kathy, it seems there is hope of rebuilding their lives. Yet even now, someone means to wreck both Tom and Kathy's search for happiness. People are jealous. And a brutal killer is still on the loose Suddenly West Bay is not the peaceful place it was

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