Narrator Julia Franklin splendidly re-creates the surreal world that Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy encounters when she investigates numerous threats to the former child star Timony Weeks, now elderly, who frustrates local police because she frantically calls for their assistance almost daily. Franklin deftly delivers Weeks's peculiar childlike voice and Piercy's growing irritation with the seemingly groundless complaints, along with the vivid descriptions of the remote Staffordshire moorlands. Listeners will enjoy Piercy's banter with her partner, Mike Korpanski, and be moved as she experiences unexpected emotional reactions to the case. Most fascinating is hearing Weeks's longtime assistant, Diana Tong, present a fascinating look at a 1960s TV series and its tragic repercussions many years later.
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 2014
Duration: 9 hrs, 45 mins
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Novelist Benet Archdale and housemaid Carol Stratford are two young, single parents who have no reason to know each other. They become tangled in a nightmarish spiral of kidnap, fraud, family violence and death. Ruth Rendell creates psychological suspense in thrillers that are compulsively readable or, in this case, listenable. British actress Imelda Staunton's reading is perfectly paced, and the characters are well defined. You'll have a hard time turning it off.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 9 hrs
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Emerson and Peabody are at it again! Uncovering antiquities takes a back-seat as the romantic archaeologists track down the master criminal who is stealing Egypt's ancient treasures. With the help of their precocious son, Ramses, the intrepid pair unravel this mystery in crowded bazaars, desert camps and the heart of the Black Pyramid. Barbara Rosenblat's reading fully measures up to the tale. She is a master of timing and nuance. Rosenblat's power for character interpretation has grown with each book in this amusing series. This is the best one yet.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 12 hrs
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc.
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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