AuthorFergus Craig
NarratorJoan Walker
Duration6h 27m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Cosy Crime
PublisherLittle, Brown
VersionUnabridged
RETIREMENT WILL HAVE TO WAIT. When former serial killer Carol takes her place in a luxury retirement home, she begins to find her feet with a small new group of friends. If she can only keep her past hidden, maybe she has a chance at happiness. That's when she discovers that, absurdly, every other one of Sheldon Oaks' residents was involved in the law somehow. It's not long before her true identity is leaked, and when a former police commissioner resident is murdered, naturally all eyes turn to her... Now she must solve the case to prove her innocence - just as her new friends start their own investigations into whether there is more than one killer at Sheldon Oaks.
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 20m
Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey, with Patricia Routledge as his mother, in this BBC radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Dorothy L. Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey tale introduces many of the author's best-known characters. Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of 'such a quaint thing'. She has heard through a frie...
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Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy', the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters - including one that says, 'Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup.' Some of the notes threaten murder and one of them involves a...
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Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer
Author: M. C. Beaton
Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 6h 25m
The latest Agatha Raisin mystery from best-selling author M. C. Beaton. The team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. As the village gets ready for the Bishop's visit, the twi...
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 15: A Reconstructed Corpse
Author: Simon Brett
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Bill Nighy
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 15
Duration 1h 52m
Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: unsuccessful actor, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately in need of work, having been kicked out of the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a missing property developer in a crime reconstruction programme. But the missing person case soon turns to murder when severed body parts begin to appear. Television...
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A Maisie Dobbs Mystery: The Mapping of Love and Death
Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Author Jacqueline Winspear
Narrator Julie Teal
SeriesMaisie Dobbs Mystery, Book 7
Duration 11h 2m
It is 1932 and the remains of a young American are found in a former battlefield in France. It is the body of missing cartographer Michael Clifton, and when it's clear he was murdered, his wealthy parents turn to Maisie for help. While tracking down the nurse who wrote a series of love letters to Michael, Maisie must wrestle with memories of servin...
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Father Brown Series 2 Episode 1: The Absence of Mr Glass
Author: G K Chesterton
Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 1
Duration 29m
Andrew Sachs stars as the famous clerical sleuth in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, h...
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A Miss Dimont Mystery Book 4: Died and Gone To Devon
Author: T.P. Fielden
Author T.P. Fielden
Narrator Eva Karpf
SeriesA Miss Dimont Mystery, Book 4
Duration 9h 30m
In the seaside town of Temple Regis, seagulls are wheeling overhead and the holidays are getting close. And then the body of political candidate Odile Clifford is discovered on the balcony of the lighthouse. Fearless Riviera Express reporter Judy Dimont goes in search of the killer - but who is it? And where will they strike next? What's more, Judy...
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A Maisie Dobbs Mystery: Elegy For Eddie
Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Author Jacqueline Winspear
Narrator Julie Teal
SeriesMaisie Dobbs Mystery, Book 9
Duration 10h 59m
April 1933. Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent accident, there is skepticism about the cause of death. Who would want to kill Eddie, and why? Maisie Dobbs is determined to offer her help. As Maisie uncovers lies and manipulation on a national scale, she must decide whet...
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Author: Smith Alexander Mccall
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 5h 50m
A second collection of eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations based on the popular books by Alexander McCall Smith. 'this full- cast production will charm listeners whether they already know and love these stories or are hearing them for the first time' - Audiofile Magazine 'How to Handle Men through the Application of Psychology': Precious Ram...
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A Maisie Dobbs Mystery: In This Grave Hour
Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Author Jacqueline Winspear
Narrator Julie Teal
Duration 9h 51m
Britain is at war. Returned from a dangerous mission onto enemy soil, Maisie Dobbs is fully aware of the gravity of the current situation; her world is on the cusp of great change. One of those changes can be seen in the floods of refugees that are arriving in Britain, desperate for sanctuary. When Maisie stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may...
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