The Winter Visitor

De: James Henry

Narrado por: John Hopkins

Essex in February. Cold enough to catch your death.

Essex, February, 1991. The weather is biting cold. Everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it's a big surprise when a wanted drug smuggler, Bruce Hopkins, risks a return to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade long exile on the Costa del Sol. Lured back by a letter from the wife Hopkins left behind, no one is more surprised than him when he finds himself abducted and stripped bare only to be sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The police wonder if it could be retaliation from a Spanish gang, sending a warning to their English counterparts?

DS Daniel Kenton is teamed up with the unorthodox DS Brazier to investigate a crime wave which takes in not only the murder of an expat dope smuggler, but a sophisticated arson attack on a Norman church and the unexpected suicide of an ageing florist. Could there possibly be a thread that connects them?

Crafted with the humour and period detail that have become his trademark, and set in the badlands of his beloved Essex, A Winter Visitor is James Henry at his inimitable best.

©2024 James Henry (P)2024 Quercus Editions Limited

Solid Uk procedural set in the 1990s

Story is top notch not predictable but not convoluted. Did great setting the scene for a few decades ago. Really enjoyed the narration, will look for more by this author and separately the narrator. Enjoyable commute listen with a few twists and turns. DS Kenton and DS Brazier were both believable characters, thought the Essex setting was well written.