The Birdwatcher

De: William Shaw

Narrado por: Roger Davis

Police Sergeant William South has a reason for not wanting to be on the murder investigation. He is a murderer himself. But the victim was his only friend - like him, a passionate birdwatcher.

South is warily partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi, newly recruited to the Kent coast from London. Together they find the body, violently beaten, forced inside a wooden chest. Only rage could kill a man like this. South knows it. But soon - too soon - they find a suspect: Donnie Fraser, a drifter from Northern Ireland. His presence in Kent disturbs William - because he knew him as a boy.

If the past is catching up with him, South wants to meet it head on. For even as he desperately investigates the connections, he knows there is no crime, however duplicitous or cruel, that can compare to the great lie of his childhood.

Moving from the storm-lashed, bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles, The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief and guilt and facing the darkness within.

©2016 William Shaw (P)2016 WF Howes Ltd

Sargent South finds himself involved in a murder

Sargent South finds himself involved in the murder of a friend and neighbor and the staged suicide of his supposed killer while alternately recounting his own childhood story. Each story and set of characters are well developed with plot twists to keep you interested. Author William Shaw and narrator Roger Davis combine to make a good team. This book is well written, with all the elements of a good book, albeit with gloomy, almost sad undertones. Despite this it went into the bottom of the top tier in my library.