The Bag of Secrets

Detective Matt Ballard Mystery, Book 6

De: Joy Ellis

Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Matt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn't guarantee a quiet life.

An abandoned carpet bag full of mysterious handwritten notes. A body in a marshy lagoon.

Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets.

The following day, a body is discovered in a marshy lagoon. It's Old Molly. Suffocated with an expensive men's handkerchief.

Molly clearly knew something that got her killed. Liz believes she was trying to tell them something important. She calls on her nephew David to help decipher the carpet bag notes.

Meanwhile Matt is hired to find teenage runaway Liam Cooper. Liam has been missing for ten days now, and Matt has a very bad feeling about him. A few days later, a second body is discovered in an old barn out on the fens.

Matt and Liz must piece together the cryptic clues Molly has left for them before more people die. The answers lead to the remote fenland village of Marshdyke-St-Mary—and a series of shocking secrets stretching back many years.

©2023 Joy Ellis (P)2024 Tantor

Character development

Liked the narrator. Story felt a bit muddled. It was hard to figure out exactly happened.

Another favorite!

Please keep writing! I cannot get enough of Joy Ellis! I love the haunting, yet beautiful portrayal of the Fens. It makes me want to travel to this magical place and meet a real Matt Ballard. I am excited to listen to your next “Favorite” read/listen. I listen in the car, the gym, the kitchen- can’t put this one down!

Great as always

Loved the story line and the narrator is just fabulous. Can't get enough of Joy Ellis's books!

Excellent storyline!

Absolutely worth the wait! Excellent storyline that kept me guessing. And LOVED the other characters of the story - hoping that they weave in in future stories! Joy outdid herself - especially despite her not feeling well! Thanks for such an amazing book!

love the characters

Nothing. Excellent story and wonderful narrator. Love everything Joy Ellis writes. Can't wait for her next one.

Guessing till the end!

Bringing all of the broken pieces together made a perfect team. I hope that future books in this series make use of some of the same characters.

I loved the community of people pulling together to solve the clues left in a dear friend’s bag.

Loved the always evolving storyline. Filled with very interesting and unique people and pets. Loved this 📖 book 📕

Not her best effort - could have been a short story.

I have read every book in this series and loved them. This one felt rushed and more like a short story than a novel. Missing the usual scene and plot depth that is normally part of these stories. It’s like she ran out of anything to say about the main characters. I hope this is not a new pattern for Joy.

Visiting old friends

This book has the comfortable feeling of watching a new season of a well-loved Tv show…

The reader was excellent

Loved it as a mystery and the location involved in the mystery - it was pleasant to listen to even tho the crimes were inbred and slightly barbaric