Bookmarks: Chills and Spills: June 2020
Welcome to this issue of Bookmarks, Chills and Spills. Chills and Spills includes fiction and true life adventure and crime, disasters, mystery and detective stories, sea and spy stories, thrillers and westerns.
The listed DAISY audio books have been recently added to the Blind Low Vision NZ Library collection. They are available to order via our CD service and to download from Book Link and over Alexa.
To request a book via our CD service, please contact the Blind Low Vision NZ Library on 0800 24 33 33 or library@blindlowvision.org.nz and quote the book number.
Audio books
Maratoto gold
By Ann Bale
Book number 119571
Fiction: Adventure. The Bell family become modern-day gold miners, aided and abetted by Sparkes, an old miner with gold fever still running in his veins.
Produced by RNZFB. Read by Alma Woods in 4 hours, 7 minutes. Book number 119571.
Murder in the snow
By Gladys Mitchell
Book number 129965
Fiction: Mystery and Detective Stories. Mrs Bradley, sharp-eyed detective and celebrated psychiatrist, has decided to spend Christmas with her nephew at his beautiful house in the Cotswolds. It isn't long before a mystery unfolds. There are strange events occurring in the nearby wood and local villagers are receiving anonymous threatening letters. Then the snow begins to fall - and a body is discovered. Mrs Bradley is on the case, but she'll have to hatch an ingenious plan to reveal the truth and find the culprit.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Patience Tomlinson in 7 hours, 35 minutes. Book number 129965.
Never tell
By Lisa Gardner
Book number 129968
Fiction: Thriller. A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun. D. D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman - Evie Carter. Evie's father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many. Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face. But D.D. and Flora are about to discover that in this case the truth is a devilishly elusive thing. As layer by layer they peel away the half-truths and outright lies, they wonder: How many secrets can one family have?
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Regina Reagan in 12 hours, 4 minutes. Book number 129968.
The crow trap
By Ann Cleeves
Book number 129969
Fiction: Mystery and Detective Stories. Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie's Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, hiding plenty of her own secrets. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide - a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope enters the picture.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Janine Birkett in 14 hours, 19 minutes. Book number 129969.
The liar
By Steve Cavanagh
Book number 131673
Fiction: Mystery and Detective Stories. When wealthy businessman Leonard Howell's daughter is kidnapped, the police jump on it straight away. But Howell knows this won't be straightforward - he needs someone willing to break the rules. Who better than the former con artist and now a hotshot lawyer, Eddie Flynn? Eddie Flynn series, book 3.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Adam Sims in 10 hours, 16 minutes. Book number 131673.
Whatever it takes
By Andy Mcnab
Book number 131674
Fiction: Thriller. For James Mercer, the financial ruin of his family by the institutions they trusted can never be undone. It shattered everyone, leaving him with a burning need to right the wrongs they suffered. He will stop at nothing to recoup what they are owed.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Paul Thornley in 10 hours, 9 minutes. Book number 131674.
Silenced
By Kristina Ohlsson.
Book number 131675
Fiction: Thriller. A teenage girl is assaulted and raped as she picks flowers. Fifteen years later, a man is killed in a hit and run. At the same time, a priest and his wife are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman, along with Alex Recht's federal investigation unit, is assigned to the seemingly-unconnected cases. The investigations lead to a clandestine people-smuggling network.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Maggie Mash in 13 hours, 19 minutes. Book number 131675.
Silent voices
By Ann Cleeves
Book number 131681
Fiction; Mystery And Detective Stories. When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. Then Vera spots ligature marks around the victim's throat. Vera is investigating with Sergeant Joe Ashworth to find a motive. Probing the secretive community, they try to stop a killer in the present who can't seem to let go of the past.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Janine Birkett in 10 hours, 26 minutes. Book number 131681.
Sea of greed
By Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Book number 131684
Fiction: Adventure Stories. After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find the fault. The trail leads them to a billionaire in the alternative energy field. But is she an environmental hero...or a rogue genetic engineer?
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Jeff Harding in 10 hours, 24 minutes. Book number 131684.
The plea
By Steve Cavanagh
Book number 131689
Fiction: Thrillers. For years, major New York law firm Harland & Sinton has operated a massive global fraud. The FBI are on to them, but they need witnesses to secure their case. When a major client of the firm, David Child, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Adam Sims in 11 hours, 42 minutes. Book number 131689.
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