Fall From Grace, David Ashton
Fall From Grace, David Ashton
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Fall From Grace
An Inspector McLevy Mystery 2

Author: David Ashton

Narrator: David Ashton

Unabridged: 14 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 05/12/2016

Synopsis


LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR McLEVY.

'DAVID ASHTON IMPECCABLY EVOKES EDINBURGH' Financial Times
ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times
'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox
'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society
'A REAL PAGE-TURNER' Sunday Post
'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO' Herald

A burglary and murder at the home of Sir Thomas Bouch, the enigmatic architect of the ill-fated Tay Bridge, sets Inspector James McLevy off on a train of brutal killings, lethal liaisons, and double suicide which leads to a violent encounter with an old enemy, Hercules Dunbar.
Caught up in a terrifying storm as he tracks his foe to Dundee, McLevy watches the rail bridge collapse and plunge into the icy depths of the Tay. The aftermath brings the destruction of reputation and love as the inspector uncovers the secret passions which have led to murder.

(P)2016 John Murray Press

About David Ashton

DAVID ASHTON was born in Greenock in 1941. He studied at Central Drama School, London, from 1964 to 1967, and most recently appeared in The Last King of Scotland and The Etruscan Smile. David started writing in 1984 and he has seen many of his plays and TV adaptations broadcast - he wrote early episodes of EastEnders and Casualty, and twelve McLevy series for BBC Radio 4.inspectormclevy.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

I don't hand out five stars lightly and I can't quite put my finger on why I found this particular installment in the series so involving but I found myself totally immersed in the doomed romances that drive all of the events of the novel.......more

Goodreads review by Toni

This second entry in the Inspector McLevy series is a little more personal and hits closer to home as the inspector's childhood nemesis, Hercules Dunbar, is involved in a robbery-turned-murder and Constable Mulholland's prospective father-in-law, an insurance adjuster, is implicated in an arson case......more

Goodreads review by Susan

A burglary gone wrong or something more sinister? This is the question that occupies our detective McLevy as she investigates a murder at the home of the architect of the Tay Bridge, Sir Thomas Bouch. Shortly after the murder, both the bridge and Bouch are doomed to fall. Are the two events connecte......more

Goodreads review by Cody

This one was a mixed bag. The writing and McLevy were as good as usual, and we got to see a new side of McLevy we hadn't seen before. However, a lot of the storylines I quite frankly wasn't interested in. I didn't care about Jean's love story or Mulholland's. I get characters need to grow, and I do......more

Quotes

PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR McLEVY SERIES
Mclevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endlessly fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town's steep cobbles and dark corners Financial Times

An intriguing Victorian story... elegant and convincing The Times

McLevy is one of the greatest psychological creations and Ashton the direct heir to Robert Louis Stevenson Brian Cox, CBE - Award-winning actor

David Ashton's writing is excellent, his characters thoroughly convincing and his narrative grabs you The Sherlock Holmes Society

Ashton's McLevy is a man obsessed with meting out justice and with demons of his own Scotsman

A real page-turner Sunday Post

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