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The residents of an apartment block in Central Krakow are trapped in their own building. All windows and doors are sealed, phone lines are down and the internet is off. Seven people, cut off from the world. It quickly turns out that they are participating in a strange game played by the mysterious ‘THEY’. Suspicions are cast, and conflicts break out. Paranoia thickens. Until finally, blood is shed.

Librarian Prunella Pearce has left heartbreak behind to start a new life in the village of Winterbottom, where there's little social life to be had aside from the meetings of The Winterbottom Women's Institute at the parish hall. But a bit of excitement ensues when the group is about to elect a new president—and the nominees for the position begin dropping like flies. One is found face down in a lemon drizzle cake stabbed with a crochet hook. Another dies spectacularly in the revolving doors of a Harrogate hotel.

‘A brilliantly fresh take on a cold case mystery. I adored the characters, the wit and the specificity of the work . . . An extremely accomplished debut’ Holly Seddon Cardiff, 1972: A series of killings holds the city in fear. Six bodies have been discovered, posed, around the city – and...

For software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, his private compound on the Florida coast is a sunny no-man’s-land separating his family from the rest of the world. Now, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the renowned Locard Institute have been summoned to its dark side. Martin’s pregnant daughter, Ashley, had ventured on a day trip in her motorboat into the Gulf, only to wash up dead on a nearby shore. Although the local coroner determined her death was an accident, Ellie and Rachael soon confirm Martin’s gravest fear: His daughter was murdered.

The two crime experts are enlisted by legendary rock star Billy Diamond to find his missing daughter. A level-headed student at Yale, Devon left six months earlier with her boyfriend, Carlos, for a career development retreat in Nevada. Her calls and notes became less frequent until they stopped. Billy wanted to give his daughter space—but after learning Carlos' body was found a few miles upstream from the ranch, he needs answers.

Der Titel "LORDSPIEL" symbolisiert die Rolle des Protagonisten Lord Leyton Lawlay, welche er als renommierter Advokat auf der Bühne jenes politischen Theaters spielt, dessen EISERNER VORHANG die Welt in Ost und West teilt. Die Systemkonfrontation bildet den realen Hintergrund der fiktionalen Hörspielserie, wenngleich die Mitte der 1980-er Jahre angesiedelten Episoden vornehmlich von charmanter Atmosphäre geprägt sind. Sobald neben dem gediegenen Rechtsanwalt der launige Journalist Tony Wilkins auftritt, ist – nach feiner englischer Art – Noblesse mit Nonchalance gepaart.