A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly, read by Michael Beck (Orion, 4 tapes, 6 hrs, £12.99 in UK)

Heart transplant or no heart transplant, it was never really on the cards that Connelly's FBI profiler hero, Terry McCaleb, would…

Heart transplant or no heart transplant, it was never really on the cards that Connelly's FBI profiler hero, Terry McCaleb, would live quietly ever after on Catalina Island with his new family. And sure enough, A Darkness More Than Night sees him spring back into business with a plot which revolves - with typical Connolly panache - around the work of the painter Hieronymus Bosch. Despite the title, this is a less chilling book than, say, The Poet, but its twists and turns show the author at his elegant best: if you can work it out, you should be writing crime novels, not listening to them.