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I often get asked by readers about which of my books are available in audio version. When I add them up on my fingers I'm always surprised that it's as many as five! So here's the definitive list:

The first two Lindenshaw mysteries - Best Corpse for the Job and Jury of One - are both in audio, with Audible, Amazon and itunes. Tea and sympathy have never been so deadly.

Then there's the first Cambridge fellows mystery, Lessons in Love, with the lovely Phil Mayes on narrator duty.

Now here's a couple you may not have come across:

Home Fires Burning features t
wo stories, with two couples in two different eras but with the constant theme of love. One of the romances is the very first Alasdair and Toby mystery.


''This Ground Which Was Secured at Great Expense''


It is 1914 and The Great War is underway. When the call to arms comes, Nicholas Southwell won't be found hanging back. It's a pity he can't be so decisive when it comes to letting his estate manager Paul Haskell know what he feels before he has to leave for the front line. In the trenches Nicholas meets a fellow officer, Phillip Taylor, who takes him into the unclaimed territory of physical love. Which one will he choose, if he's allowed the choice?


''The Case of the Overprotective Ass''


Stars of the silver screen Alasdair Hamilton and Toby Bowe are wowing the post WWII audiences with their depictions of Holmes and Watson. When they are asked by a friend to investigate a mysterious disappearance, they jump at the chance - surely detection can't be that hard? But a series of threatening letters - and an unwanted suitor - make real life very different from the movies. 



The fifth title - and possibly my favourite - is Promises Made Under Fire


France, 1915


Lieutenant Tom Donald envies everything about fellow officer Frank Foden--his confidence, his easy manner with the men in the trenches, the affectionate letters from his wife. Frank shares these letters happily, drawing Tom into a vicarious friendship with a woman he's never met. Although the bonds of friendship forged under fire are strong, Tom can't be so open with Frank--he's attracted to men and could never confess that to anyone.


When Frank is killed in no-man's-land, he leaves behind a mysterious request for Tom: to deliver a sealed letter to a man named Palmer. Tom undertakes the commission while on leave--and discovers that almost everything he thought he knew about Frank is a lie...

I hope you find something new to listen to among them.

Don't forget that Lume Books have made the first twelve Cambridge Fellows books available in one box set and given them a brilliant new cover. Isn't it gorgeous? And a great price, too.


 


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