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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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Run of the mill
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simon Prebble, the master narrator
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Bloodline
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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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Detective Sargent DC Smith series continued!
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The Body in the Mist
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A body is found on a quiet lane in Exmoor, victim of a hit and run. He has no ID, no wallet, no phone, and - after being dragged along the road - no recognisable face. Meanwhile, fresh from his last case, DCI Craig Gillard is unexpectedly called away to Devon on family business. Gillard is soon embroiled when the car in question is traced to his aunt. As he delves deeper, a dark mystery reveals itself, haunted by family secrets, with repercussions Gillard could never have imagined. The past has never been deadlier.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good book; horrible recording
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The Body in the Marsh
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Criminologist Martin Knight lives a gilded life and is a thorn in the side of the police. But then his wife, Liz, goes missing. There is no good explanation and no sign of Martin.... To make things worse, Liz is the ex-girlfriend of DCI Craig Gillard who is drawn into the investigation. Is it just a missing person or something worse? And what relevance do the events around the shocking Girl F case, so taken up by Knight, have to do with the present? The truth is darker than you could ever have imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
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The Body in the Snow
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A young detective is out for a jog on a snowy winter morning. Then she sees something terrible: a murder in the park, sudden and inexplicable. A woman has been killed by a passing hooded cyclist. It’s just DCI Craig Gillard’s luck that he’s on duty. The body is that of Tanvi Roy, one of the richest women in Britain and matriarch of a food empire. With a tangled web of family and business contacts and jealousies, Gillard’s job just got even more complex. As he delves deeper into the Roy family, it’s clear that everything is not as it seems.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good mystery, tired of Aunt
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
A brutal murder in the Lake District. A double assassination in a secret lab in London’s West End. Seemingly unconnected, unexpected links between the gruesome crimes emerge, and it’s up to DI Kelly Porter to follow the trail - all the way to the capital. Back among old colleagues and forced to work alongside her calculating ex, DCI Matt Carter, Kelly must untangle a web of deceit that stretches into the highest echelons of power - a place where secrets and lies are currency and no obstacle is insurmountable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping ingenious and timely
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The Long Call
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 943
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ok story
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good read. Ignore the bad reviews.
- By Mrseche on 02-21-20
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 11
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Every Monday evening six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about shame. A respected doctor, a well-heeled housewife, a young male prostitute...they could not be more different. All they have in common is a history of addiction. But when one of the group is murdered, it quickly becomes apparent that someone else in that circle is responsible. The investigation is hampered by the strict confidentiality that binds these individuals and their therapist together, which makes things difficult for Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I missed Tom...
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Publisher's Summary
The Crime: The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is a young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.
The Demand: Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.
The Twist: What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away... but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-05-19
Thorne makes me crazy but I love the books!
I like Mark Billingham's writing, both in the Tom Thorne and other books. Thorne is even more the maverick than other "cops with an attitude." It's a genre all it's own with troubled, break every rule, but highly intuitive police officers. And I like the genre. Thorne goes 'way over the top in this one. For good, compassionate reasons perhaps, but still... A touch of reality doesn't hurt from time to time .
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- Joseph
- 06-30-15
Thorne worth reading
DI Thorne is not an unusual character for British crime fiction but he is enjoyable. I got caught up with the BBC televised mini series and then latched onto the books. Both are time well spent.
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- GerBear
- 06-07-15
Great Read
Enjoyed the continuing story of DI Tom Thorne. Too much time has past since the last Thorne novel. I hope a the next novel doesn't leap ahead too much.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-21-12
Fair, worth the credit
I really enjoyed the story and as with most of this genre (My favorite type of audible books) it was only slightly predictable. I did not agree with the one star rating. It is as good and as bad as most others in genre, escape listening with no lingering impression.