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Killer by Nature

By: Jan Smith
Narrated by: Angela Griffin, Robert James-Collier, Katherine Kelly, Will Mellor, Thomas Turgoose
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Publisher's summary

What’s in a label? Are we the product of our upbringing or do we have a natural propensity towards good or evil? The eternal question of nature vs nurture is at the centre of Dr Diane Buckley’s world. A talented freelance forensic psychologist who has never quite found the key to engaging with people on a casual level, she is drafted in to examine a grisly murder – a body found in a children’s playground.

The murder carries all hallmarks of one of her most famous incarcerated clients, ‘The Playground Killer’ (aka Alfred Dinklage) – namely the location of the body and the tongue being ‘forked’ like a snake with scissors. Buckley has a race against time to unpick the facts and delve into Dinklage’s often manipulative, complicated mind to understand his past to understand the present events – whilst striving to prevent further murders...as someone out there will stop at nothing to complete what they see as Dinklage’s work.

Featuring: Kathryn Anderson, Shaun Aylward, Rob James, Collier, Angela Griffin, Lara Hutchinson, Christopher John-Slater, Katherine Kelly, Simon Kent, Damian Lynch, Will Mellor, Gray O'Brien, Bhasker Patel, Jeremy Swift and Tom Turgoose.

Please note this contains violence and adult content and language.

©2017 Audible, Ltd (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

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There was an old woman who swallowed a fly....
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  • There was an old woman who swallowed a fly....
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  • Police? There's someone in my house.
  • Killer by Nature
  • Now he knows we're here.
  • Killer by Nature
  • The human mind is very much like deep space.

Publisher's summary

What’s in a label? Are we the product of our upbringing or do we have a natural propensity towards good or evil? The eternal question of nature vs nurture is at the centre of Dr Diane Buckley’s world. A talented freelance forensic psychologist who has never quite found the key to engaging with people on a casual level, she is drafted in to examine a grisly murder – a body found in a children’s playground.

The murder carries all hallmarks of one of her most famous incarcerated clients, ‘The Playground Killer’ (aka Alfred Dinklage) – namely the location of the body and the tongue being ‘forked’ like a snake with scissors. Buckley has a race against time to unpick the facts and delve into Dinklage’s often manipulative, complicated mind to understand his past to understand the present events – whilst striving to prevent further murders...as someone out there will stop at nothing to complete what they see as Dinklage’s work.

Featuring: Kathryn Anderson, Shaun Aylward, Rob James, Collier, Angela Griffin, Lara Hutchinson, Christopher John-Slater, Katherine Kelly, Simon Kent, Damian Lynch, Will Mellor, Gray O'Brien, Bhasker Patel, Jeremy Swift and Tom Turgoose.

Please note this contains violence and adult content and language.

©2017 Audible, Ltd (P)2017 Audible, Ltd
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Jan Smith

About the Author

Born in County Durham, England, Jan Smith is an Edinburgh-based novelist and screenwriter. Originally an advertising copywriter, she has written novels published by Random House and HarperCollins under the pen name, J. J. Durham. She became a full-time screenwriter in 2013. Among her credits are episodes of BBC’s Doctors and the Irish crime drama, Red Rock. Her first movie script, Mata Hari—A Magnificent Lie, was a quarterfinalist in the 2015 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. A year later, she won the Creative Scotland/Bridge Script Development Award for her screenplay, Atchin Tan. She is developing a five-part adaptation of a Michel Faber novel for BBC Radio Scotland.

About the Performer

Rob James-Collier is best known for his portrayals of Thomas Barrow on Downton Abbey and Liam Connor on Coronation Street. The first garnered him three Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2013, 2015, 2016), along with a TV Guide Award for Favorite Feud (2013) and a role in the upcoming Downton Abbey movie. For his work on Coronation Street, he won three British Soap Awards—two for Sexiest Male (2007, 2008) and one for Best Exit (2009).

About the Performer

Katherine Kelly is a British actress who grew up in West Yorkshire and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). But it was her role as Becky McDonald on Coronation Street that made her a household name in the UK and garnered her a National Television Award for Best Serial Drama Performance (2012), and two British Soap Awards for Best Actress (2009) and Best Exit (2012). Other notable roles include Lady Mae in Mr Selfridge and Miss Quill on the Doctor Who spin-off, Class.