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BEFORE THE FROST

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6803 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Barrett, Sean
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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A religious cult in Guyana commits mass suicide but one man survives. Later in Ystad, police make an horrific discovery and Inspector Wallander fears that this is the work of a group of extremists. He is joined on the investigation by a new recruit, his daughter Linda, who has the same temper and maverick approach as her father.

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CHRONICLER OF THE WINDS

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7977 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 6.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Worland, Richard
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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5 year old Nelio watched as his village was burned and his people massacred by bandits. He tells the gruelling story of his journey to the city and to a very different way of life.

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DOGS OF RIGA, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6246 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 10.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Harling, Frank
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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In winter 1991, after an anonymous tip-off, the police find two dead men in a life raft. The men are Eastern European, expensively dressed and both have been shot. Inspector Wallander becomes involved in a sinister case that takes him to the fledgling state of Latvia.

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FACELESS KILLERS

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6133 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.75
\pause{1500}Reader: Sanctuary, Gerald
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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Kurt Wallander, a senior Swedish police office,has a personal life which is disintegrating but this is the least of his worries. When he answers a routine call he discovers a nasty murder and few clues. He and his officers must solve the case quickly to prevent other deaths.

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FIFTH WOMAN, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7488 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Barrett, Sean
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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In Africa five women, four of them nuns, are killed in a savage attack. Some months later a series of gruesome murders are committed in Sweden. Gradually Inspector Wallander and his team discover the link between these killings and the deaths in Africa.

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FIREWALL

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6639 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Barrett, Sean
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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A man using a cash machine inexplicably drops to the ground dead. Then a taxi driver is savagely attacked by two girls who appal Inspector Wallander by showing no remorse. Finally there is a grisly discovery in the power station. Kurt Wallander is convinced these events are linked, but how?

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MAN WHO SMILED, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7349 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 11
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Barrett, Sean
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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Depressed after killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander refuses to help a solicitor in a murder case, but when the solicitor is also murdered he returns to lead the hunt for the killer. As he closes in, the tables are turned and he becomes the hunted.

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ONE STEP BEHIND

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6416 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 17.25
\pause{1500}Reader: Sanctuary, Gerald
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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In Sweden's southern province three young friends are shot dead whilst celebrating Midsummer's Eve. Closer to home one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is murdered. As the team investigates they unearth surprising details yet always seem to be one step behind the killer.

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WHITE LIONESS, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7316 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 13
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Butcher, Dennis
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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When Inspector Wallander and his team are called to investigate the disappearance of a respectable wife and mother they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy involving renegade members of the South African secret service who are determined to halt Nelson Mandelaãs rise to power.

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