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Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré's first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley. This dramatisation, set in London in the late 1950s, finds Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself, Smiley decides to investigate.

A dying woman confesses a terrible secret to her priest along with a cryptic list of nine names. Before he is able to uncover anything more, the priest is struck dead in the fog and the police discover the list in his shoe. Our hero Mark Easterbrook, a historian, learns of a secretive organisation known as The Pale Horse and of their supernatural connections in the village of Much Deeping. The list of names seems to foretell the deaths of several people and Mark must piece together the clues and unearth the connections between them all.

The master turns sleuth and spy in this quintet of radio dramas. Actor, playwright, songwriter, director, author and star - as far as we know, Noël Coward never added ‘detective’ or ‘undercover agent’ to his astonishing achievements. But could the intriguing gaps in his memoirs be hiding a thrilling secret life?

För tre månader sedan körde Lena Nguyens tvillingsyster Cambry till en undangömd bro tio mil från Missoula i Montana – och hoppade. Hon dog sextio meter nedanför bron, på stenarna i den uttorkade flodfåran. Det hävdar polisen i sin utredning. Men Lena tror inte på det. Nu har hon själv kört till bron i sin döda systers bil, beväpnad med en bandspelare och fast besluten att ta reda på vad som verkligen hände genom att intervjua polismannen som hittade Cambrys kropp. Korpral Raymond Raycevic är sympatisk, rättfram och professionell. Men hans berättelse känns fel.

Jane Moneypenny is the perfect example of chic sophistication and unflappable poise. She handles her cohort of unruly 00 agents with good-humoured grace. Yet, behind her polished perfection, she exudes a certain aura of mystery. Indeed there is more to Miss Moneypenny than meets the eye.

Jane Moneypenny may project a cool, calm and collected image but her secret diaries reveal a rather different story. In the grip of an uncertain love affair and haunted by a dark family secret, the last thing she needs is a crisis at work. But the Secret Intelligence Service is in chaos and her beloved James Bond is in danger. Moneypenny soon finds herself embroiled in a highly-charged adventure infused with the glamour of the Cold War espionage game.

This follow-up to the national best-seller A Study in Sherlock is a stunning new volume of original stories compiled by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger.

Magical Los Angeles is a ticking time bomb. The normally cooperative crime families are at each other’s throats, an unseen force manipulating them from behind the scenes like a sinister chess master. Nick Morgan and Bron Broome are the only ones who know what’s going on, and they've got a tough job: convince the crime lords a demon’s playing them like chumps before the whole town goes up like a powder keg.

After five years in Los Angeles, Bron has come to terms with living as a mundane. Following a horrific ritual accident that cost the life of her mentor, she wants nothing to do with magic ever again. That’s becoming a lot harder now that her new best friend Nick is the grandson of LA’s biggest magical crime lord. And harder still when her mentor’s daughter shows up and drops a bombshell on her: The ritual accident might not have been her fault at all. Worst of all, somebody’s stirring up the magical crime families from behind the scenes, trying to set them against each other.

Ambulanssjuksköterskan Erik Sandström får plötsligt larm om en man som står på fel sida av ett broräcke i centrala Gävle. Ordningspolisen Patrik Andréasson möter upp Erik på bron och förklarar att det är den kända ishockeyspelaren Peter Hilmersson som är i färd med att ta sitt liv. Innan Patrik hinner säga något öppnas en av dörrarna på polisbilen. Tomas Svensson kliver ut, ser sig omkring, och flinar belåtet. Mannen på bron är den femte fristående boken om ambulanssjuksköterskan Erik Sandström.

When brilliant but penniless pianist Alexei is hired to tutor the 10-year-old daughter of Russian oligarch Mikhail, he is drawn into a world of chance, obsession and violence. Hopelessly infatuated with Mikhail's beautiful stepdaughter, Polina, he vows to do anything to win her love: and so begins his involvement in a dangerous, high-stakes game.

Ein Rätsel aus der Vergangenheit wird Meggie zum Verhängnis: Als Kind war sie Zeugin eines Mordes, der nie aufgeklärt wurde. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit kehrt sie zurück nach Cornwall, dem Ort des Verbrechens, und gerät dabei selbst in Lebensgefahr...

Inspektor Janusz Woronko i aspirant Katarzyna Solińska prowadzą śledztwo. Zamordowana została nauczycielka jednego z gdańskich liceów, jej niewidomy mąż kilka dni przed odnalezieniem ciała zgłosił zaginięcie żony. Solińska przesłuchuje koleżankę ofiary.