Brutal Crimes

Name: Brutal Crimes
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Hambling
ISBN: 9781666133745

Author: Michael Hambling

Series: DCI Sophie Allen #10

Narrator: Cat Gould

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2022

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Suspense & Thriller, Psychological

Synopsis

Looking for a gripping mystery by a bestselling author? Packed full of twists, this crime thriller will keep you listening until the satisfying conclusion.

Twelve-year-old Amy Birkbeck is checking her bat boxes late one cold January evening in the woods by her house.

She witnesses something no child should ever see—a group of men rolling a body into the deep pool of the disused old clay pit.

Meanwhile, DCI Sophie Allen's team is falling apart.

One of the members of the unit goes missing. Surely he couldn't be the body in the pool? Or is something much darker going on?

Then a second body is found in the disused clay pit. And it seems the dead man is connected to a suspected arms dealer . . .

There are dangerous goings-on in Detective Allen's quiet patch of Dorset, and she doesn't know who to trust.

About Michael Hambling

Michael Hambling lives in the West of England, and he has set the location of his novels in this area. The early novels in the series are based in the Isle of Purbeck, a beautiful coastal area. But the rest of the county of Dorset does get a look in, and there are scenes set in other locations in the central south of England.

He writes because he constantly creates scenes, people, imaginary conversations, and unusual situations in his head. He has always done so, ever since he was a child. Using the richness of the English language to set down these creations in words is a great joy. Maybe by the time he's edited a passage for the umpteenth time it's beginning to lose some of its sparkle for him, but he believes in reshaping and polishing until it's as good as he can make it. It then becomes something about which he can feel some justifiable pride. He tries to include several plot layers in his novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on September 27, 2021

Brutal Crimes is the tenth instalment in the Superintendent, formerly DCI, Sophie Allen series. It's based in Purbeck, Dorset, mainly around the beautiful area that lies between Wareham and Corfe Castle, a locale that is a mix of hills, woods, heaths and farmland. More importantly, it has several om......more

Goodreads review by Jane on September 29, 2021

So, yet again I attend the party late as this is apparently book 10 of an on going series. So believe me when I say I gave a sigh of relief when I found I could read it as a standalone. But also saying that I would assume I'd have got even more out of it had I started at the beginning. So it's up to......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 01, 2021

When it rains, it pours. It starts with the murder of an unidentified man. Several men rolled the body into the bottom of an abandoned clay pit. None of the men noticed ... there was a witness. DCI Sophie Allen's team seems to be coming apart. New recruit, DC Tommy Carter, has not shown up for work.......more

Goodreads review by Books 'n' All on November 04, 2021

This is book 10 in the addictive Detective Sophie Allen series and the books just get better and better. Amy is a very independent teenager struggling with deafness she is very invested in nature and the countryside around her. While checking her bat boxes one night she sees a body being dumped in on......more

Goodreads review by Hannelore on September 16, 2021

Thank you Netgalley and Notre Books for the eARC. This is the tenth in the Superintendent Sophie Allen book and another good one. When a young girl goes to check her bat boxes one night,she sees a horrible crime: two men tossing a body into a disused clay pit. Then the police find another body beneath......more