Thornley, Paul

The road of the dead by Kevin Brooks( Sound Recording )
12 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 654 libraries worldwide
Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.

Foyle's war. Set 5( visu )
2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 521 libraries worldwide
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an ecumenical conference on the morality of continued Allied bombing, Foyle probes the suspicious death of a young cartographer from the Air Ministry office. Broken souls: October 1944. At a psychiatric clinic treating troubled soldiers, the investigation of a doctor's murder turns up no shortage of suspects among the patients and staff. It also complicates Foyle's friendship with Dr. Josef Novak, the Polish refugee who heads the clinic. All clear: May 1945. As all of Britain awaits the formal announcement of the war's end, Foyle reluctantly joins a committee preparing to keep public order during the celebration to come. But the end comes too soon for two men-- one a stabbing victim, the other an apparent suicide.

Layer cake by J. J Connolly( Sound Recording )
5 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 340 libraries worldwide
Layer cake, a metaphor for the many murk layers of the criminal world, is set in modern day London and features smooth-talking and sophisicated drug dealer "X" whose plan is to quietly bank-roll enough cash to retire young. Operating under the polished veneer of a legitimate businessman, his method is to keep a low profile and run a tight operation until it's time to get out. "X" sees his opportunity to make a final score when crime boss Jimmy Price asks him to find the wayward daughter of rival crime boss Eddy Ryder. He agrees to take the seemingly innocuous assignment as his opportunity to get out of the business with the blessing of Jimmy Price.

Foyle's war. Set 5, All clear( visu )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 138 libraries worldwide
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. May 1945: As all of Britain awaits the formal announcement of the war's end, Foyle reluctantly joins a committee preparing to keep public order during the celebration to come. But the end comes too soon for two men-- one a stabbing victim, the other an apparent suicide.

The protector by Duncan Falconer( Sound Recording )
3 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide
Three men: an Iraqi, a former coalition soldier and a journalist, drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the U.S. Marines encircle the city to take it apart. It seems the men are on a single mission to seek a recent kidnap victim, but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town, and each keep a dark secret from the others. Greed, ambition - and guilt - are what separates their individual motivations, but a single miscalculation could bring an end to them all.

From the dead by Mark Billingham( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 118 libraries worldwide
When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him. DI Tom Thorne worked on the Alan Langford case, so when Carpenter brings the photo to him, he refuses to believe that the man whose body was found in a burned-out car ten years before can still be alive. But when a prison inmate that he and Anna interview is viciously murdered, Thorne starts to understand that Langford is not only alive, but ready to get rid of anyone who could threaten his comfortable new life in Spain.

Remainder by Tom McCarthy( Sound Recording )
3 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 118 libraries worldwide
Traumatised by an accident which involves something falling from the sky and leaving him eight and a half million pounds richer, our hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting memories and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them ... But, when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts reconstructing more and more violent events, including hold-ups and shoot-outs.

Blood line by Mark Billingham( Sound Recording )
2 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 118 libraries worldwide
It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's first and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary.

The dealer and the dead by Gerald Seymour( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 117 libraries worldwide
Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croatian villagers discover the identity of the Englishman who they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply arms. With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him down.

Zero hour by Andrew McNab( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 117 libraries worldwide
A terrorist group is on the brink of obtaining a code that will jam every item of military hardware from Washington to Kabul. Only one man can find and stop the perpetrator- but for the first time in his life, Nick Stone doesn't want to play ball.