A Killing in the City

Tom Kendall, Book 4

By: John Holt

Narrated by: Christopher Hunter

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

‘To make a killing in the City’ is a phrase often used within the financial world, to indicate making a large profit on investments, or through dealings on the stock market--the bigger the profit, the bigger the killing. However, Tom Kendall, a private detective, on vacation in London, has a different kind of killing in mind when he hears about the death of one of his fellow passengers who traveled with him on the plane from Miami. It was suicide apparently, a simple overdose of prescribed tablets. Kendall immediately offers his help to Scotland Yard. He is shocked when he is told his services will not be required. They can manage perfectly well without him, thank you.

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Suicide or murder?

Private detective Kendall is off sleuthing in London. Where will his talents lead him??

Christopher Hunter did a good job narrating.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Great Read

A Killing In The City (Kendall Book 4) was a great read by John Holt. Tom Kendall, a private detective on vacation in London. He finds out that one of his fellow passengers he travelled on the plane with died. They believe he overdosed on prescribed tablets. Kendall immediately offers his help and Scotland Yard tells him that his services will not be required. I enjoyed reading this book and cant wait to read more by the author.

Highly recommended !!

"Wow! What else can I say? This story is wonderful. Kendall is a likable, memorable private investigater bound by unquestioned values of justice...Individual voices are displayed and all the characters are quite visible in the mind's eye." - 

an interesting detective story

I liked the story by line. it reminded me a little of Colombo. Kendall was like a dog with a bone. he kept telling the inspector that the man was murdered. the narrator was a little flat sounding. monotone, but other than that good story

3 1/2

The story developed slowly which allowed me to settle in and learn the rhythms of this author. The plot filled in nicely, the characters were interesting. I liked the thinking of the private eye, he jumped around a lot but always finally focused on the evidences of crime. My mind found this very easy to follow and together we solved the crime.
I was distracted by the narrator so often using the word "aksed" and his verypoor reading of the text. He has a nice voice, I hope he gets more coaching and practice.

Bad narration

I love the Kendall series, but this particular narrator should find another line of work. After hearing him pronounce ask and asked as axe and axed for a couple dozen times I had to stop the story. I apologize to the author but your choice of narrators for this one was not good.

A Good read / listen

A Killing in the City: Tom Kendall, Book 4.
The more books I read in the Kendall series the more I think of him as a modern day "Columbo". Dogged and determined to get to the truth, a thoroughly likeable character. The writing style is unusual but suits the Kendall perfectly.
And as usual the criminals conceit is his main downfall (apart from Kendalls efforts).
Really good detective entertainment.
I was given a free copy of this audio book at my own request, and voluntarily leave this review.

A great read!

I just want to say how much I really enjoyed this narrator I have never heard him before and thought he did a great job. Can only hope he does the rest of the Kindle books. This one was intelligent and never boring I really enjoyed it! Can’t wait to read the next one.

highly recommended

absolutely love this story! i cannot get enough of kendall! it is so fun trying to figure out the truth before it is revealed!

Kendill and Molly

I love the Kendill and Molly books and this one was no exception the mystery and intrigue were there with my favorite characters. On the other hand not a good narrator, saying “axed” instead of “asked”, that was a turnoff. It was a good book, but not the narrator nothing narration.