This is the case of Detective Chief Inspector Alma Blair, Detective Alpha, her Sergeant Jason Trotter and Jo Blake, the crime scene manager. Watch how women behave towards each other. Rivals? Not enough. There may even be barely detectable flirting between them. A body is found in a garden in Cranby…
CIO Alma Blair … Julie Hesmondhalgh
DS Jason Trotter…John Hollingworth
CSM Jo Blake … Miriam Margolyes
Narrator…Jonathan Keeble
Brian Masters…Jonathan Keeble
Eric Ollerinshaw…Alan Rothwell
PC Sparks…Victoria Brazier
Claire…Victoria Brazier
Written by Val McDermid
Produced and directed by Justine Potter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014
Smart Death 1:08:30
DCI Alma Blair and DS Jason Trotter investigate a murder in the geography department of a university in the north of England. Where academics and, of course, other parts of the body rub shoulders with students and administrators. A place where students think they know everything, academics know they know everything, and secretaries actually know everything.
Alma worked her way up from making tea for the families of murder victims to ordering Jason to make tea. She knows she knows what's best. Jason should know that. Jason thinks a professor who wears part of his brain outside his head might just be his opportunity to put Alma in her place…
DCI Alma Blair … Julie Hesmondhalgh
DS Jason Trotter…John Hollingworth
CSM Jo Black…Miriam Margolyes
Narrator…Jonathan Keeble
Linda … Helene Kay
Marie…Gemma North
Mo…Nitin Kundra
Written by Val McDermid
Produced and directed by Justine Potter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015
Pan dead 2:16:49
DCI Alma Blair and her partner in life and crime CSM Jo Black attend a romantic dinner for two at Charnock 37, a fine dining restaurant. Is it only a matter of time before there's murder on the menu? And where is DS Sergeant Jason Trotter from Alma?
DCI Alma Blair … Julie Hesmondhalgh
DS Jason Trotter…John Hollingworth
CSM Jo Black….Jane Hazlegrove
Narrator…Jonathan Keeble
Michelle. …. Rosin Carbon
Richard …. Siméon Truby
Written by Val McDermid
Produced and directed by Justine Potter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.
Dead weight 3:12:54
DCI Alma Blair hides behind the scales at Fat Busters. Determined to remain anonymous, she poses as a florist, until someone with murder in mind forces Alma into action. DS Jason Trotter is called to the scene and it appears another member of the team is about to make a surprise appearance.
DCI Alma Blair – Julie Hesmondhalgh
CSM Jo Black – Jane Hazlegrove
DS Jason Trotter and others – John Hollingworth
Narrator and JP and others – Jonathan Keeble
Assistant CSM Mo – Nitin Kundra
Sue Fulwood, Jean Cranberry and Blanche Rogers – Helen Kay
Created by Val McDermid, written by Shelley Silas
Produced and directed by Justine Potter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.
I remember yesterday 3:12:54
A young woman haunts the streets of Edinburgh, seeking revenge on Donna Summer's 70s music. Hannah Donaldson reads this spooky ghost story.
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Set in Harrogate, this captivating story imagines the fallout from the torrid affair between two crime writers. Read by Siobhan Redmond.
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