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Six Stories
In 1996 teenager Tom Jeffries vanished from an Outward Bound centre. His body was found a year later. In 2017 in a series of podcasts investigative journalist Scott King attempts to discover what really happened.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Ewa Sherman
Ashes To Ashes
A killer has a caravan kitted out as a torture chamber, and he has moved to Bradburn, home of DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenberg. In the same town, there is another monstrous killer who, armed with a flame thrower, is burning his victims to death
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by John Barnbrook
Give Me The Child
An unexpected night-time visitor and a bag of lies is about to destroy Cat Lupo’s family.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Kati Barr-Taylor
Digging in the Dark
A history of the Yorkshire resurrectionists: body snatchers who robbed graves and sold the cadavers to medical schools for research.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Kim Fleet
Forever and a Death
Millionaire businessman Richard Curtis, who was forced to leave Hong Kong when the Chinese took over, plans a terrible revenge.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Sylvia Wilson
The Silk Stocking Murders
A vicar’s daughter goes missing and Roger Sheringham, a crime writer and amateur sleuth, is asked to investigate. This simple case leads to a chase to stop a serial killer from striking again.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Anthea Hawdon
Falling Creatures
Country girl Shilly finds love with the strangely gifted Charlotte Dymond on an isolated Cornish farm. When Charlotte is murdered she sets out to find the truth.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by John Cleal
Young Bond: Red Nemesis
James Bond receives a mysterious package from beyond the grave and has to work out the meaning of the cryptic notes left by his father.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
City of Light, City of Poison
Nicholas de la Reynie, the first police chief of Paris, is given the job of cleaning up the streets of Paris and ridding it and its courts of poisoners and black magic.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
The early modern era saw a grisly trade in the body parts of convicted criminals and their means of execution and its uses in popular medicine.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Cold Blood
When his former CO calls in a favour, Nick Stone ends up on a walking trip to the North Pole.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Linda Wilson
Woman of State
It is 1991 and the Troubles are still ongoing in Northern Ireland. Maire Anne McCartney, an 18-year-old girl, is asked by her IRA boyfriend to help with the honey trap of a British Special Branch man. She agrees to do so when he promises that there will be no violence – a promise that is not kept.
Reviewed on 14 October 2017 by Arnold Taylor
