DescriptionIt's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch - strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City
DescriptionThere are some things in life better not known, some things that should be left where they rest. Erin Paterson runs her grandfather's law firm in Glasgow, and is an uncompromisingly aggressive negotiator. But the success of her practice is not echoed in her personal life. Erin's father has had a stroke. She can't stand her mother. Her sister's a flake and their brother, Leland, committed suicide. She's not doing too well with her boyfriend either, whom she discovers in flagrante the day that an old school friend, Lucy Grant, is murdered. From this moment, events unravel to test Erin's resolve to the maximum. Can she hold onto her job, even onto her life, when the past slithers out of the darkness to expose a secret in the family that no one dares confront?
DescriptionIn London in 1735, 11-year-old Forrest Harper is living with his family at the Tower of London. There he helps his father tend the ravens and guard the prisoners. Still, life is lonely. When vicious Scottish Rebels are captured, Forrest is delighted. Perhaps now he can prove his courage and impress the local bullies who torment him. His happiness is short lived, though, when the Harpers are only given custody of Maddy, a Scottish Rebel's daughter, for a rebel in a dress will surely make Forrest a laughingstock. As the days pass, Maddy's beauty and warmth and her touching stories of life in Scotland seal a friendship between them. But when she is slated for execution, Forrest is faced with a horrifying choice. He can either commit treason and help her escape or obey the law and allow his innocent friend to be executed.
DescriptionDavid Balfour: a young man cheated out of his inheritance. Alan Breck Stewart: a Jacobite returning to his native land. Together they embark on a perilous adventure across the highlands of Scotland, falsely accused of murder. The Colonial Radio Theatre's epic production of Robert Louis Stevenson's magnificent adventure is possibly the grandest audio theatre presentation of this classic tale ever produced.
DescriptionCollege tutor and aspiring poet Rose Fenemore takes a much-needed vacation to the beautiful, isolated Scottish island of Moila. The stunning landscape and remote cottage seems perfect for Rose, until her tranquillity is interrupted by two mysterious, attractive men who arrive at her door, both claiming to be heirs of Moila's most prominent resident: the wealthy, recently deceased Colonel Hamilton. Soon Rose finds herself in the middle of an utterly chaotic situation, with romantic entanglements, surprise visits, break-ins at the Hamilton estate, and a shady developer who threatens the future of the island.
DescriptionLady Meleri Weatherby is desperate to escape the unthinkable: marriage to a man she does not love, a man she knows to be unspeakably cruel. In a bold move, she breaks off her betrothal to Lord Philip and flees her home in Northumberland, vowing to marry t