Arrowood, Mick Finlay
Arrowood, Mick Finlay
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Arrowood

Author: Mick Finlay

Narrator: Alejandro De Mesa

Unabridged: 11 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2018

Synopsis

1895: Londres está asustado. Un asesino está al acecho en las calles de la ciudad. Los pobres estan hambrientos; los jefes del crimen están tomando el control; la fuerza policial está a punto de colapsar.Mientras los ricos buscan a Sherlock Holmes, el famoso detective privado raramente visita las calles sobrepobladas del sur de Londres, donde los crímenes son peores y la gente es más pobre.En un oscuro rincón de Southwark, las víctimas recurren a un hombre que desprecia a Holmes, a su clientela adinerada y a su alardeante enfoque forense hacia el crimen: Arrowood, psicólogo autodidacta, borracho ocasional e investigador privado.Cuando un hombre desaparece misteriosamente y la pista clave de Arrowood es brutalmente apuñalada ante sus ojos, él y su compañero Barnett enfrentan su investigación más difícil hasta ahora: capturar al jefe de la pandilla más peligrosa de Londres… En la tradición best seller de Anthony Horowitz y Andrew Taylor, este crimen gloriosamente oscuro perseguirá a los lectores mucho tiempo después de haber leído la última página.

About Mick Finlay

Mick Finlay was born in Glasgow and grew up in Canada and England. He now divides his time between Brighton and Cambridge. He teaches in a Psychology Department, and has published social psychological research on political violence, persuasion, and verbal and non-verbal behaviour. He reads widely in history, psychology, and enjoys a variety of fiction genres (including crime, of course!) Mick used his background in psychology for writing his first book, a historical crime novel Arrowood, set in Victorian London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria Hill on May 01, 2017

So I have finished my Easter Book. An anti-Sherlock Holmes set in 1895 London at the height of the notorious detective’s fame. The tagline on the book is "London Society takes its problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood." Arrowood and his very capable assistant Norman Barnett inve......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on April 02, 2019

I just can't resist reading a book that is set in the same time as Sherlock Holmes. And, the book did seem really promising with Arrowood being the poor man's Sherlock Holmes. However, I had some problems with the story. First, with Arrowood himself and his Sherlock envy. I mean his alias is Lockshe......more

Goodreads review by Keith on February 10, 2017

Down south, London town In South London in the 1890s, William Arrowood is fat and bald (‘a potato of a man’), physically unfit, exhibits problems with alcohol consumption and has a pathological aversion to Sherlock Holmes. For various reasons Arrowood finds himself a private investigator; like Holmes......more

Goodreads review by BlaireReadsTheThings on June 06, 2017

OK. So... I did not really like this book. I see what Finlay was trying to do here, but it just didn't work. 1) Arrowood is the discount, cheaply-made version of Sherlock Holmes. He is the Dollar General of private investigators. He is gross. Sweaty, fat, balding, farts all the time, messes around w......more

Goodreads review by The Lit Bitch on July 20, 2017

I absolutely love the tagline of this book: London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. That totally caught my eye when I was scanning Netgalley in search of new books to read this summer. An anti-Sherlock Holmes sounded refreshing and new. I have been watc......more

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