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BEFORE THE FROST

\pause{1500}Author: Mankell, Henning
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6803 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
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\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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BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL, 1945

\pause{1500}Author: Beevor, Anthony
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7516 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
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\pause{1500}Main subject: War - WW2
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Reaching Berlin in 1945, the Red Army wanted revenge, and the result was a terrible bloodbath, with hundreds of thousands of civilians dying. Using new documenets the author has reconstructed Berlin's downfall.

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BRANDENBURG

\pause{1500}Author: Porter, Henry
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7347 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Spy Stories
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Former double agent, dr Rudi Rosenharte, is summoned to Trieste by a former lover - a woman he last saw dead in her bath. Rudi is reluctant to make contact, but is forced to by the Stasi who imprison his family.

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DARK JUSTICE

\pause{1500}Author: Higgins, Jack
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6802 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Thrillers
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The US President is having dinner with an old friend when a man in the opposite building tries ti assassinate him. Intelligence operatives Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon set out to trace the would be assassin, but soon realise that he is just the tip of a far bigger conspiracy.

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EMPIRE

\pause{1500}Author: Ferguson, Niall
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6950 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 11
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\pause{1500}Main subject: History - General, Social history
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Subtitled µHow Britain made the modern worldã, the book focuses on the reasons why the British Empire came into being and how it fell. The author emphasizes the pursuit of economic profit and military might.

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FIFTH WOMAN, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Mankell, Henning
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7488 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
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\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}Author: Mankell, Henning
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6639 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
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\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}Author: Mankell, Henning
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7349 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 11
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\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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MYSTERY OF OLGA CHEKHOVA

\pause{1500}Author: Beevor, Anthony
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7518 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
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\pause{1500}Main subject: War - WW2
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Biography & Autobiography - General
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Olga Chekhova, a beautiful Russian,went to Berlin in 1921 and became a 'State Actress' to the Third Reich. She managed to survive the Russian revolution, civil war, WWII and Stalin's brutal regime - but how? Was she in fact a Soviet spy?

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ROYAL FLUSH

\pause{1500}Author: La Plante, Linda
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7013 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Thrillers
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'The Colonel' was rumoured to be the mastermind behind many successful robberies for the last forty years. Edward de Jersey is a wealthy man, whose pride is his stud farm. When he faces financial ruin he resurrects his criminal past, and uses the internet to put together a team of experts to pull off an audacious heist.

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