Catherine Aird
A Late Phoenix

Read by Robin Bailey
An Inspector C. D. Sloan mystery. Decades ago, Germans bombed the village at Lamb Lane. But now redevelopment is under way. A bombsite is cleared and, during the excavation, a workman finds the remains of a pregnant girl with a bullet lodged in her spine. The trail is definitely stone cold when C. D. Sloan takes on the case.

Dick Francis
The Edge

Read by Tony Britton
Julius Apollo Filmer is an expert in corruption and witness intimidation and a slippery character to put behind bars. Baffled, the Jockey Club call in undercover security agent Tor Kelsey. It turns out to be a mission that takes Tor from the finest of English racecourses to the wild Canadian interior – on a transcontinental train journey to end them all.

Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Sea Change

Read by Eleanor Bron
A beautiful and unusual novel concerned with a playwright, his wife, a young man and the playwright’s secretary. As the story shifts from London to New York and on to a Greek island via Athens, each character relates their different point of view. And the discoveries they make about themselves and each other are gradually revealed.

Ngaio Marsh
Dead Water

Read by James Saxon
When Miss Emily Pride inherits the celebrated land on which Portcarrow stands, she wants to put an end to the villagers’ thriving trade in miracle cures, especially Miss Elspeth Cost’s gift shop. But someone puts an end to Miss Cost herself, and Miss Pride’s guardian angel, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, finds himself on the spot in both senses of the word.