Unnatural Ends

De: Christopher Huang

Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill

Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered—savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist. But his heirs soon find that his last testament contains a strange proviso—that his estate shall go to the heir who solves his murder.

To secure their future, each Linwood heir must now dig into the past. As their suspicion mounts—of each other and of peculiar strangers in the churchless town of Linwood Hollow—they come to suspect that the perpetrator lurks in the mysterious origins of their own birth.

©2023 Christopher Huang (P)2023 Audible, Inc.

unlike first book by ch

ghastly overdramatic narration
story eventually gets better
implausible description of villagers and police stereotypes etc undermines plot twists

Uniquely Original Gothic Mystery

I liked Huang's first mystery a lot but this second one held deeper philosophical and moral intrigue with a clever, seemingly intractable at times, outcome. Great characters made more tangible by a rich narrator performance. I'll miss that voice in my ear.

For fans of Knives Out and Agatha Christie

Well-written, expertly crafted with lyrical language and a surprise ending you will not see coming.

dark and twisted

I didn't see the ending coming. this was quite a dark ride that kept me guessing until the end. I recommend this book to mystery lovers.

I stopped listening to the story before bedtime

It is hard to figure out who the author wanted his readers to root for the most. I wasn’t sure I cared for anyone very much. Even at the end, it was not easy to say I liked any of the characters. The story was a difficult one and reminded me of The Boys From Brazil only set in the English countryside. Sometimes hard to listen to, I stuck with it to find out if my guess at the denouement was correct. I did enjoy the narrator.