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  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803

    Past Lying
    Karen Pirie Novels, Book 7
    By: Val McDermid

    Narrated by: Lauren Lyle
    Series: Karen Pirie, Book 7
    Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 12-10-23

    Summary
    THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL IN THE KAREN PIRIE SERIES, NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES STARRING LAUREN LYLE

    Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.

    Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University student who vanished from her own doorstep. The manuscript seems to be the key to unlocking what happened to Lara Hardie, but there's a problem: the author died before he finished it.

    As Karen digs deeper, she uncovers a spiraling game of betrayal and revenge, where lies are indistinguishable from the truth and with more than one unexpected twist . . .

    The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is at the top of her game in her most gripping and fiendishly clever case yet.
  • HENDRIK62HENDRIK62 Member Posts: 3,201
    HAYSIE said:


    Past Lying
    Karen Pirie Novels, Book 7
    By: Val McDermid

    Narrated by: Lauren Lyle
    Series: Karen Pirie, Book 7
    Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 12-10-23

    Summary
    THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL IN THE KAREN PIRIE SERIES, NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES STARRING LAUREN LYLE

    Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.

    Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University student who vanished from her own doorstep. The manuscript seems to be the key to unlocking what happened to Lara Hardie, but there's a problem: the author died before he finished it.

    As Karen digs deeper, she uncovers a spiraling game of betrayal and revenge, where lies are indistinguishable from the truth and with more than one unexpected twist . . .

    The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is at the top of her game in her most gripping and fiendishly clever case yet.

    Useless factoid When I was a kid we used to swim from that pier in the picture (Hawes Pier) :wink:
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    HENDRIK62 said:

    HAYSIE said:


    Past Lying
    Karen Pirie Novels, Book 7
    By: Val McDermid

    Narrated by: Lauren Lyle
    Series: Karen Pirie, Book 7
    Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 12-10-23

    Summary
    THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL IN THE KAREN PIRIE SERIES, NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES STARRING LAUREN LYLE

    Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.

    Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University student who vanished from her own doorstep. The manuscript seems to be the key to unlocking what happened to Lara Hardie, but there's a problem: the author died before he finished it.

    As Karen digs deeper, she uncovers a spiraling game of betrayal and revenge, where lies are indistinguishable from the truth and with more than one unexpected twist . . .

    The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is at the top of her game in her most gripping and fiendishly clever case yet.

    Useless factoid When I was a kid we used to swim from that pier in the picture (Hawes Pier) :wink:
    Do you still live there?
  • HENDRIK62HENDRIK62 Member Posts: 3,201
    HAYSIE said:

    HENDRIK62 said:

    HAYSIE said:


    Past Lying
    Karen Pirie Novels, Book 7
    By: Val McDermid

    Narrated by: Lauren Lyle
    Series: Karen Pirie, Book 7
    Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 12-10-23

    Summary
    THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL IN THE KAREN PIRIE SERIES, NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES STARRING LAUREN LYLE

    Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.

    Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University student who vanished from her own doorstep. The manuscript seems to be the key to unlocking what happened to Lara Hardie, but there's a problem: the author died before he finished it.

    As Karen digs deeper, she uncovers a spiraling game of betrayal and revenge, where lies are indistinguishable from the truth and with more than one unexpected twist . . .

    The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is at the top of her game in her most gripping and fiendishly clever case yet.

    Useless factoid When I was a kid we used to swim from that pier in the picture (Hawes Pier) :wink:
    Do you still live there?
    No not anymore, I still have friends there and visit often though, changed quite a lot over the years
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    edited November 2023

    Resurrection Walk
    The Lincoln Lawyer, Book 7
    By: Michael Connelly

    Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Peter Giles, Titus Welliver
    Series: Mickey Haller Series, Book 7
    Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 07-11-23

    Summary
    THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYER

    THE PATH TO JUSTICE CAN BE PAVED WITH LIES

    Defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - rides the wave of freeing a wrongfully convicted man from prison.

    Inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence, Haller enlists the help of ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find the next case which could result in a resurrection walk.

    When Bosch finds a needle in the haystack - a woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, a sheriff's deputy - they discover evidence that doesn't add up, and a department pushed for quick closure in the killing of one of its own.

    But is this rushed justice - or something more sinister?

    As they face a David versus Goliath court battle, the secrets which could lead to an innocent woman walking free could also mark the end of the Haller-Bosch dream team. . .
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803

    A delicious, and somewhat drunken, dinner party segues into a murder mystery game created by the hostess. However, the parlour game may hold clues about the dark truths hiding just under the surface of this genteel gathering...

    As suspects, clues and red herrings are sifted - it seems one of the guests has an unfair advantage: John Rebus, an ex-detective who used to do this for a living.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803

    Snow Fall
    By: Jørn Lier Horst, Anne Bruce - translator
    Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    Series: William Wisting, Book 6
    Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 23-11-23

    Summary

    When the body of an Australian backpacker is found in Spain, an online group of amateur true crime sleuths springs up around the world, attempting to solve the mystery of her death.

    Foremost on the message boards is Astria, a young Norwegian woman whose feverish pursuit takes her closer than anyone to solving the case.

    But just as she makes her claim of unravelling the mystery, she goes offline.

    No one in the group has heard from her since.

    When William Wisting is sent to investigate, he is plunged deep into a fascinating world of unorthodox investigators, whose connections are as vague and varied as their abilities. But in a dangerous case where nothing is as it seems, these online detectives may be the best hope he has for solving the mystery - before another victim falls...
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    HAYSIE said:


    A delicious, and somewhat drunken, dinner party segues into a murder mystery game created by the hostess. However, the parlour game may hold clues about the dark truths hiding just under the surface of this genteel gathering...

    As suspects, clues and red herrings are sifted - it seems one of the guests has an unfair advantage: John Rebus, an ex-detective who used to do this for a living.

    Cast and creatives announced for world premiere of Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice



    https://www.queens-theatre.co.uk/news/2023/02/28/cast-and-creatives-announced-for-world-premiere-of-ian-rankin-and-simon-reades-rebus-a-game-called-malice/
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    edited November 2023

    Cover the Bones
    By: Chris Hammer
    Narrated by: Lockie Chapman
    Series: Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan Series
    Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 31-10-23

    Summary
    NO ONE IS EVER INNOCENT IN PARADISE.

    A small town.

    A closely guarded secret, stretching back decades.

    And blood in the water.

    A body has washed up in an irrigation canal, the artery running through Yuwonderie, a man-made paradise on the border of the Outback. Stabbed through the heart, electrocuted and dumped under cover of night, there is no doubt that detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are dealing with a vicious homicide.

    The victim is Athol Hasluck, member of one of the seven dynasties who have controlled every slice of bountiful land in this modern-day Eden for generations.

    But this is not an isolated incident. Someone is targeting the landed aristocracy of this quiet paradise in the desert. Secrets stretching back decades are rising to the surface at last - but the question remains, who stands to gain most from their demise?

    Can Ivan and Nell track down a killer before the guilt at the heart of these seven families takes the entire town down with it?
  • green_beergreen_beer Member Posts: 1,936
    @HAYSIE do you read all them books before posting?

    i dont read novels that often, much prefer factual kinda stuff......right now im reading,

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Users-Guide-Stefan-Klein/dp/0141034637/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3RSTSV6GA2A8T&keywords=time+a+users+guide&qid=1699837487&s=books&sprefix=time+a+users+guide,stripbooks,75&sr=1-3

    so far its quite interesting, but im only a couple chapters in.......

  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803

    @HAYSIE do you read all them books before posting?

    i dont read novels that often, much prefer factual kinda stuff......right now im reading,

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Users-Guide-Stefan-Klein/dp/0141034637/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3RSTSV6GA2A8T&keywords=time+a+users+guide&qid=1699837487&s=books&sprefix=time+a+users+guide,stripbooks,75&sr=1-3

    so far its quite interesting, but im only a couple chapters in.......

    I do.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    HAYSIE said:

    @HAYSIE do you read all them books before posting?

    i dont read novels that often, much prefer factual kinda stuff......right now im reading,

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Users-Guide-Stefan-Klein/dp/0141034637/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3RSTSV6GA2A8T&keywords=time+a+users+guide&qid=1699837487&s=books&sprefix=time+a+users+guide,stripbooks,75&sr=1-3

    so far its quite interesting, but im only a couple chapters in.......

    I do.
    Although I dont read them, I listen to them.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    edited November 2023

    Scrublands
    By: Chris Hammer
    Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    Series: A Martin Scarsden Thriller, Book 1
    Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 27-09-18

    Summary
    The number one best selling Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane Harper

    In an isolated country town ravaged by drought, a charismatic young priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five men before being shot dead himself.

    A year later, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals don't fit with the accepted version of events.

    Just as Martin believes he is making headway, a shocking discovery rocks the town. The bodies of two backpackers - missing since the time of the massacre - are found in the scrublands. The media descends on Riversend and Martin is the one in the spotlight.

    Wrestling with his own demons, Martin finds himself risking everything to uncover a truth that becomes more complex with every twist. But there are powerful forces determined to stop him, and he has no idea how far they will go to make sure the town's secrets stay buried.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803

    Silver
    Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month
    By: Chris Hammer
    Narrated by: Nicholas Osmond
    Series: A Martin Scarsden Thriller, Book 2
    Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 01-10-19

    Summary
    For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping.

    He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherited an old house in the seaside town, and Martin knows their chance of a new life together won't come again.

    Martin arrives to find his best friend from school days brutally murdered and Mandy the chief suspect. With the police curiously reluctant to pursue other suspects, Martin goes searching for the killer. And finds the past waiting for him.

    He's making little progress when a terrible new crime starts to reveal the truth. The media descend on Port Silver, attracted by a story that has it all: sex, drugs, celebrity and religion. Once again, Martin finds himself in the front line of reporting.

    Yet the demands of deadlines and his desire to clear Mandy are not enough: the past is ever present.

    An enthralling and propulsive thriller from the acclaimed and best-selling author of Scrublands.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    edited November 2023

    Trust
    By: Chris Hammer
    Narrated by: Nicholas Osmond
    Series: A Martin Scarsden Thriller, Book 3
    Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 18-11-20

    Summary
    The gripping page-turner from the No.1 international bestselling author of Scrublands and 'master of Australian noir' Chris Hammer.

    On a bright sunny day in Port Silver, ex-journalist Martin Scarsden misses a call from his girlfriend Mandy. Checking his voicemail later, all he hears is her terrified scream before the phone cuts off.

    Back at the house, he finds a policeman unconscious on the floor, and Mandy gone.

    So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life deep.

    And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now the body of a man has been discovered - a man to whom she was engaged to marry. It's time to face her demons once and for all; it's time she learned how to trust.

    Set in a Sydney riven with corruption and nepotism, privilege and power, TRUST is the third riveting novel from award-winning and internationally acclaimed writer Chris Hammer.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803

    Dead Man's Creek
    By: Chris Hammer
    Narrated by: Lockie Chapman
    Series: Detective Nell Buchanan
    Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    Unabridged Audiobook
    Release date: 05-10-22

    Summary
    A dam breaks. A body rises from the flood.

    Hidden for decades, can this small town face the secrets that will surface?

    **THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH*

    **SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH**

    Young detective Nell Buchanan uncovers a deadly, decades-old mystery at the heart of her rural hometown in this stunning thriller from award-winning author Chris Hammer.

    Newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her hometown, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder - a 'file and forget'.

    But this is no ordinary cold case, her arrival provoking an unwelcome and threatening response from the small-town community. As more bodies are discovered, and she begins to question how well she truly knows those closest to her, Nell realises that finding the truth could prove more difficult - and dangerous - than she'd ever expected.

    The nearer Nell comes to uncovering the secrets of the past, the more treacherous her path becomes. Can she survive to root out the truth, and what price will she have to pay for it?

    Gripping and atmospheric, Dead Man's Creek is a stunning multi-layered thriller from Chris Hammer, the award-winning author of Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year Scrublands (2019) and Times Crime Book of the Month Opal Country (January 2022).
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,528
    edited November 2023

    @HAYSIE

    I am currently reading the recent autobio of Barry Hearn, very good it is too, he's extremely open & candid.

    Anyway, I thought of you last night while reading the chapter on the hard times he had getting snooker sponsors during the recession in the '80's.

    One year, he managed to get StormSeal to sponsor the World Championships at The Crucible for £600,000. Days before the World Champs started, StormSeal went busto (according to the book), & left Hearn in a big big hole.

    I'm guessing you'll remember StormSeal? Think Hearn said it was run by two brothers from Manchester.

    The oddity is after reading that I decided to look up the story of StormSeal's demise, & to my surprise there is still a Double Glazing/conservatory business around with that name. Did the original StormSeal survive, or did someone buy their name? Or is Barry telling porkies?





  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    Tikay10 said:


    @HAYSIE

    I am currently reading the recent autobio of Barry Hearn, very good it is too, he's extremely open & candid.

    Anyway, I thought of you last night while reading the chapter on the hard times he had getting snooker sponsors during the recession in the '80's.

    One year, he managed to get StormSeal to sponsor the World Championships at The Crucible for £600,000. Days before the World Champs started, StormSeal went busto (according to the book), & left Hearn in a big big hole.

    I'm guessing you'll remember StormSeal? Think Hearn said it was run by two brothers from Manchester.

    The oddity is after reading that I decided to look up the story of StormSeal's demise, & to my surprise there is still a Double Glazing/conservatory business around with that name. Did the original StormSeal survive, or did someone buy their name? Or is Barry telling porkies?





    Motion text
    That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to inquire into the circumstances of the collapse of Stormseal UPVC Windows Ltd.; views with the utmost concern the fact that the owners of Stormseal, Mark and Michael Sweeney, have created a new company, Surestyle Windows, despite their original company being in the hands of receivers and owing thousands of pounds of unpaid wages to their employees; and further calls on the Secretary of State to bring forward proposals to strengthen current legislation to protect the rights of workers in the event of their employer being declared bankrupt.

    EDM (Early Day Motion)527: tabled on 25 February 1991

    https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/3459/stormseal-upvc-windows-ltd-no-2


    The company that David Seaman was advertising for, Safestyle went through the other day.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,528

    Wow, once a wrong 'un, always a wrong 'un.
  • HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 35,803
    Tikay10 said:


    Wow, once a wrong 'un, always a wrong 'un.

    Another dodgy Arsenal player.
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