Those Who Go by Night

By: Andrew Gaddes

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

A gruesome murder in a sleepy 14th-century English village sets the stage for a taut drama laced with witchcraft, depravity, and long-buried secrets.

England, 1324 - a land rife with superstition and gripped by fear of the Church’s holy wrath. When a beggar is murdered in the quiet village of Bottesford, his body draped across the altar of St. Mary’s church in a perverse pose of pagan sacrifice, the Pope’s Inquisitor General places the small hamlet in his sights.

Anxious to stave off the Inquisition, the Bishop of Lincoln dispatches Thomas Lester, son of a disgraced Templar Knight, to investigate - but the Archbishop’s fanatical emissary has already arrived to conduct his own inquiry. Thomas’s investigation uncovers a viper’s nest of perfidious players: the secretive wife of the local lord, a notorious Irishwoman accused of witchcraft, and a depraved assassin who has left a trail of murder and blackmail in his wake. As this sordid drama unfolds, Thomas finds himself falling in love with a woman whose beauty is matched only by her defiance of the Church’s fearsome power.

Is the killer poised to strike again? Will the Inquisition bring its hammer down on the hapless hamlet? And could there be a real witch hiding in plain sight? The race is on to conjure the truth.

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Alex Wyndham's narration introduces me to new auth

Alex Wyndham is the best narrator! I follow him and he never disappoints with the stories he chooses to present.

A Masterful, Moody Mystery

This is one of those rare listens that the minute I was done, I immediately started over, and am now tempted to do so for a third time. Even though the clues slowly unravel, by the end you realize that nothing is quite what it seems.

Hewing closely to historical veracity (as best I can tell), a blend of psychology, paranoia, misogyny and superstition hangs over the story. The scenes progress in a series of closely drawn, claustrophobic vignettes. Secrets and ambitions vie with one another as characters maneuver to dominate, elide, and subvert one another. Much is it at stake. More than discovering who murdered the strange beggar found ceremoniously draped along the alter, it's a matter of keeping the Inquisition out of England. "Those Who Go By Night" brings alive its full misogynistic dimensions, but even here, things are quite what they seem.

As always, Alex Wyndham brings his impeccable, masterful narration to the story. My only disappointment is that this is the only title by Andrew Gaddes. As a debut novel, a remarkable feat and a great listen. Highly recommend.

Excellent exciting read

This is this is a wonderful, exciting, murder mystery novel with engaging complex characters, villains, you love to hate, and an exciting story, kept interesting to the last minute. My only complaint is, where is the sequel? The story clearly begs for many more novels, but I don’t see them anywhere. I hope the author is reading this! Please write more novels!!