Mary Miller had always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn - a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, she was initially treated with sympathy. But all that changed when the young man who pushed her died in an accident down the mines just two days later.
Now many years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy, and caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher. Both mother and son are in a desperate search for happiness, and must come to terms with the past and the dark secret from Mary's childhood. All this in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.
Fife born Donald Pirie was most recently seen on television in the BBC Scotland series River City playing Callum and in Spooks on BBC TV as PC Steven Bowyers. Theatre includes Antigone at the Old Vic, Myths of the Near Future at the Tramway, Glasgow, Macbeth at the Stephen Joseph Theatre and many others.
Author : Anne Perry
Performed By : Michael Page
Publisher : Brilliance Audio Inc
Runtime : 11 hours 25 minutes
Categories : Detective Detective Historical
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Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. More info...
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Author : Tess Gerritsen
Performed By : Jan Maxwell
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Detective Horror & Suspense Horror & Suspense Detective Thrillers
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As she races to save Tranquility -- and her son -- from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature, and turn innocents to slaughter. More info...
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Author : Agatha Christie
Performed By : Hugh Fraser
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 6 hours 5 minutes
Categories : Detective Crime Horror & Suspense Detective Thrillers
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Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim’s blood and hair. More info...
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Author : Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Performed By : Rene Auberjonois
Publisher : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Detective Detective Crime Thrillers
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No one is safe from a killer who stalks his prey in the blackness of night... More info...
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