Rabbit Hole

The Sunday Times number one bestseller

De: Mark Billingham

Narrado por: Maxine Peake

'Fast-paced and twisting' PAULA HAWKINS, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

'At the very least it should reach the shortlist of this year's Booker prize' THE TIMES
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My name is Alice. I'm a police officer.
I'm trying to solve a murder on a psychiatric ward.
But I'm also a patient...

They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, treated, cared for. But now one of their number is found murdered, and the accusations begin to fly.

Was it one of his fellow patients? A member of staff? Or did someone come in from the outside?

DC Alice Armitage is methodical, tireless, and she's quickly on the trail of the killer.

The only problem is, Alice is a patient too.
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'A deeply compelling read'
Harriet Tyce

'The most cunning, complex, claustrophobic mystery'
Louise Candlish

'Immense skill and heart'
Eve Chase

'Brilliant, suspenseful, poignant, heartbreaking, surprisingly funny'
Linwood Barclay

'One of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today'
Gillian Flynn

'A world-class crime writer'
Karin Slaughter

'Mark Billingham is a master of psychology'
Ian Rankin

'Billingham is always a must read'
Harlan Coben©2021 Mark Billingham Ltd

Reseñas de la Crítica

A gripping, twisting murder mystery and a blackly comic indictment of the way we treat psychological illness today. At the very least it should reach the shortlist of this year's Booker prize.

Follow Alice - plucky, resourceful, lovable and infuriating - down the Rabbit Hole in Billingham's fast-paced and twisting thriller

Rabbit Hole is the most cunning, complex, claustrophobic mystery with delicious echoes of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I tore through it, terrified I'd never get out

Rabbit Hole is authentic, raucous and deeply compassionate. Expertly balancing humour, tension and pathos, it'll do for the psychiatric ward what The Thursday Murder Club has done for retirement villages. A deeply compelling read

A gripping murder mystery with a streak of black humour

Mark Billingham's tough, funny novel combines a shockingly twisty plot with a scathing critique of our mental health services

I was totally drawn into Rabbit Hole by Alice, the novel's wildly unreliable narrator. Hilarious, menacing yet vulnerable, she's a brilliant creation, alive on the page. Billingham creates the dark, claustrophobic world of the psychiatric ward with both immense skill and heart

Brilliant, suspenseful, poignant, heartbreaking, surprisingly funny, and Mark Billingham, magician that he is, pulls that proverbial rabbit out of the hat at the end. More than just about any other book I've read, I HAD to know how it would all come together

Unusual and ambitious - written with immense sympathy, but also glorious jet-black humour

A one-of-a-kind narrative and a finale that resolves most matters but preserves a measure of tantalizing ambiguity

Billingham's picture of the ward and its staff is full of humanity, leaving us with a clear sense that this kind of illness could affect any of us, and the story offers an excellent twist. He gets better and better.

An absolute monster of a read, it pulls you in close for a hug as it slaps your awareness. A LoveReading Star Book and Book of the Month, Rabbit Hole is quite simply an outstanding and wondrous ride.

When the solution comes it's perfectly satisfying. My guess, though, is that what most readers will remember more intensely is . . . Alice's voice: by turns funny, broken, chatty, defiant, bewildered-but always utterly convincing and compelling.

It's all gripping stuff

With a powerful shocker that you never see coming, it is thought-provoking to discover what truly lies beneath

Mark Billingham's Rabbit Hole is a terrific mystery and a gripping whodunit and whydunit - and especially howdunit

Worried at first

Yes I was worried when I started listening to this book. So unlike mark billingham. I thought oh no he’s gone off ,I’m not going to enjoy this one. But………. It didn’t disappoint. Well I say that but I was disappointed to a degree because it wasn’t his usual writing but it got me hooked and kept me guessing right to the end. I gave it 5/5 because it is a good book with a great story but I do prefer his previous books.

Outstanding.

One of the best books I’ve read this year. The characters were so well drawn I felt I knew and cared about them all. Alice herself was warm and funny and narrator Maxine Peake did a spectacular job of giving her voice. I had the Kindle book version too but frankly it would have been a shame to miss out on the narration. Can’t recommend this one highly enough!

Best narration I’ve ever heard & brilliant story

I absolutely loved this book. Such a compelling story with some really likeable characters. The narration was the best I’ve ever heard. I’m actually sad now it’s finished. Please say you’ll write of Alice again, I’m invested in this character. Out of the hundreds of books I have enjoyed, this is a standout favourite. Honestly, it’s brilliant!

Awful!

This story be Mark Billingham was awful! The story went nowhere from the first ‘page’ to the last. Totally boring. My daughter has just started listening to it and I shall tell her not to bother going any further. She paid for it on my recommendation of Billingham’s stories being excellent. An absolute waste of money. I shall check more carefully before buying another book by him - whether in physical book form or on audio. He is quite entitled to attempt something different (extremely different), but this, for me, completely failed.