Assassins

Name: Assassins
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Jim Eldridge
ISBN: 9781399163675

Author: Jim Eldridge

Series: DCI Paul Stark #1

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 06/01/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

London, 1921. The Great War has recently ended and tensions in England are high. Now, prominent Cabinet minister Lord Amersham has been shot dead outside his Regent's Park home and the signs point to a professional hit. Charged with solving one of the most sensitive and high-profile cases Scotland Yard has ever faced, DCI Paul Stark is under pressure to get the job done quickly. Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is convinced the Bolsheviks are responsible. Stark's contemporaries at Special Branch suspect a connection to Government talks about Irish Home Rule. And others believe the motive could be connected to Lord Amersham's rather scandalous private life . . . When a second crime occurs - another murder committed by an expert marksman at close range - the case takes a terrifying turn and puts Stark right in the middle of an international crisis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy

I received an e-ARC of this novel through NetGalley and Severn House Publishing. Assassins is the first book in a new series and one which I enjoyed reading. In 1921 London the just finished war is a subject which can still cause troubles, especially for the lower classes of service men who returned......more

Goodreads review by Neer

A promising start of a police procedural set in post-WWI London peters down to a rather predictable end. It is quite unfortunate since I liked the mix of real-life and imaginative characters. Also the team of Detective Chief Inspector Paul Stark and his sergeant, Robert Danvers - coming as they are......more

Goodreads review by Reggie

A rattling good tale (in what I might dare to say a neatly balanced "manly" style, that moves along with enough pauses for fill-in on family relationships and deeper WWI background...all accurate in fact, tone and mood of the time. I know. My family memoirs and studies in history confirms it all. Som......more

Goodreads review by Holly

this is the first book of DCI Paul Stark a new series by Jim Eldridge. I really like it and hope Soundings or some other audio book keeps making these. I really like Jim Eldridge as an author in this book DCI Stark must figure out who is behind three murders of 2 members of parliment and a newspaper......more