Penguin Podcast No5 - Most Wanted

Welcome to a crime special from Penguin, celebrating the launch of our dedicated crime and thriller  website, Penguin Most Wanted.

In this podcast we're bringing you two first novels, Stav Sherez's The Devil's Playground and Nick Stone's Mr Clarinet and an extract from bestselling chiller duo, Nicci French. So put on your headphones, check the doors are bolted and turn the lights down - it's crimetime.

Please note that because of the nature of the books featured in this podcast, today's episode contains adult themes and language.

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Read by Kate Sachs and Elisabeth Dermot Walsh and a recent Times Audiobook of the Week, Catch Me When I Fall is the latest chiller from husband and wife duo, Nicci French.

You’re a whirlwind. A success. You live life on the edge. But who’ll catch you when you fall?

Holly Krauss lives life in a whirlwind – her husband Charlie, her business partner Meg and her colleagues at KS Associates are left breathless by her energy. But sometimes her wild behaviour leads to reckless mistakes. Mistakes which soon leave her life spiralling out of control. 

And once her descent begins, Holly can do little to stop it. This is most definitely a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

But is Holly solely responsible for what is happening to her? Are her fears for her own safety caused by the paranoia of her illness - or very real danger ...?

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PIED PIPER. SOUL STEALER. SERIAL KILLER.

WHO IS MR CLARINET?

It was a job Miami private investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse: $10 million to locate billionaire's son Charlie Carver - missing now for over three years.

Young Charlie disappeared on the island of Haiti, where over the decades scores of children have vanished. In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called 'Mr Clarinet', who for years has been tempting children away from their families.

But could the truth be even more shocking than the legend?

To find out, Max will have to succeed where previous detectives have not only failed - but where some have died. And suddenly, this job isn't all about finding Charlie or his killers for the money - it's just about staying alive ...

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When the body of an old tramp, Jake Kuper, is found in a secluded Amsterdam park, Dutch police detective Van Hijn is convinced this is the tenth victim of the serial killer stalking the city. Except, all previous victims were young, female and beautiful... On the corpse Van Hijn finds contact details for Jon Reed, an Englishman who befriended Jake in London shortly before the murder. Van Hijn summons Jon to Amsterdam to fill in the missing pieces of the jigsaw. But was Jake really a tramp? What discovery did he make about his identity that led him to life on the streets? And did his fate lie not in the hands of a serial killer - but in the death camps of the Holocaust 50 years before . . . ?

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