Evil Crimes

Name: Evil Crimes
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Hambling
ISBN: 9781666133660

Author: Michael Hambling

Series: DCI Sophie Allen #6

Narrator: Cat Gould

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/28/2021

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

Synopsis

A young man's body is spotted in the stormy sea off Dancing Ledge in Dorset.

Did he lose his footing in the gale force winds and fall in? Or is there a more sinister cause of death?

Detective Sophie Allen's team discover some curious links to a suicide that happened six months earlier.

A strikingly attractive female student connects the cases. Alarming facts slowly come to light as the team probes more deeply.

Is the young woman as evil as she seems or is someone else manipulating her?

DCI Sophie Allen races against time to uncover the tragic secrets behind the crimes and stop any more deaths.

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 Louise on November 29, 2017

This is the 6th book in the DCI Sophie Allen series. A middle aged woman commits suicide and the police have now closed the case. Her brother later discovers her diary and it contains strange notes about someone named H. He takes it to the police. A man's body is found in the sea in Dancing Ledge, Do......more

Goodreads review by Linda on November 29, 2017

Book 6 in this crime thriller series has Sophie Allen and her team investigating suicides that could actually have been murder. One young man fell off a cliff's ledge. An older woman was found hanging from a beam in her home. The only thing they had in common was a woman with long red hair. The more t......more

Goodreads review by Books 'n' All on December 03, 2017

This is the first book I have read by Michael and it is part of a series. It does work very well as stand-alone and his website has a very informative section on the characters which enabled me to learn about them before reading the book. The story begins with a suicide pact, or is it? From there the......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on December 06, 2017

*Thank you to Jill Burkinshaw and the team at Joffe Books for the copy which I received in exchange for an honest review* A body is found in what appears to be a suicide in the stormy seas. Sophie Allen and her team are called to investigate, and while investigating find some clues that link it to an......more

Goodreads review by Marsha on February 05, 2022

It was interesting; it was more of a generalized picture of an unsavory position and the deaths associated with it than a standard murder mystery. I have been reading these criminal mysteries of DCI Sophie Allen by Michael Hambling, and this is the sixth of them, and I am noticing that they are all......more