THE FINAL CUT

The opening chapters of DS Hutton Book 2, A PLAGUE OF CROWS, read by author Douglas Lindsay. Hutton comes down from the mountain to get psycho-analysed, and is then called back to work by his detective inspector, who shows him photographs of three victims who've had their brains eaten by crows.

A couple of short readings from the soon-to-be-released eighth novel in the DS Hutton crime fiction series. Hutton and DI Kallas stand over a disfigured corpse in the morgue He and DI Kallas interview a witness, learning that the killer is planning a grand adventure to escape capture

Selected readings from the third book in the Barney Thomson series. After a year on the run, Barney returns to society: he fails in an attempt to hand himself into the police finds a job at a barbershop and outlines his iconic idea for a whisky advert featuring the Teletubbies.

Readings from the fourth book in the DS Hutton crime series, in which Hutton dreams about crows jabbing at his brains, has to interview a man whose neighbours are performing exhibitionist sex acts for his benefit, and relates a tale of being caught drinking wine up the graveyard, while chatting to the dead.

Human flesh turns up in a sandwich shop in excerpts from COLD CUTS, the first book in the Pereira & Bain crime series. A series so short it only has two books in it, and so therefore isn't really a series at all.

Further readings from the second Barbershop Floor collection, including the Schrödinger cut, the Rzeszów Covenant, and Shag, Marry, Get The Fuck Out Of Dodge - The Best Bond Villains Rated.

Readings from the sixth book in the DS Hutton crime series, Implements Of The Model Maker, plus the long and winding road to the book becoming a Hutton novel. Hutton chews the fat; Hutton gets a telling off from the chief inspector; Hutton gets another telling off from another chief inspector.

Scenes from the seventh Barney Thomson novel, The Final Cut. Barney arrives at the offices of a large marketing firm in London; Barney gives a marketing executive advice and a haircut; murder at the hands of infamous assassin Harlequin Sweetlips.

Scenes from the third book in the DI Westphall series. Westphall haunted by guilt; interviewing an artist; and sitting in church, staring up at a stained glass window of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian...

Readings from the second Barney Thomson book. Barney digs a grave! Barney cuts hair! Barney hides out in the attic, having inevitably been accused of serial murder!