Lady Jail, John Farrow
Lady Jail, John Farrow
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Lady Jail

Author: John Farrow

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/02/2021


Synopsis

Welcome to Lady Jail: a nest of killers, and not all of them are getting out alive …

Quebec, 1994. Fraud artist Abigail is the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women. When a prisoner is found dead in a toilet stall, Sergeant-Detective
Émile Cinq-Mars is summoned from Montreal to investigate, as he put Abigail away—and now she's the prime suspect. But he'll soon discover that in Lady Jail, nothing is as it seems …

About John Farrow

John Farrow is the pseudonym of Trevor Ferguson, a Canadian novelist and playwright with seven novels in the Émile Cinq-Mars thriller series and seven literary novels under his own name. Booklist in New York has called his crime series the best of our time. Die Zeit in Germany has called it the best of all time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

This is the ninth and most recent book in a series featuring Detective Emilie Cinq-Mars.He is a complex, multi faceted character whose nuances are chronicled over the course of the series. Growing up on a farm, he initially aspired to become a priest. His life journey, though, led him to join the po......more

If you like locked room mysteries and getting into the heads of cons, criminals, and cops, then you don’t want to miss this detective novel. It’s from the Emile Cinq-Mars series but can easily be read as a standalone. (Though somehow, I think you may be looking up previous titles in the series, like......more

Goodreads review by Elaine

I would like to thank Netgalley and Severn House Publishers for an advance copy of Lady Jail, the ninth novel to feature Montreal detective-sergeant Emile Cinq-Mars. It’s 1994 and Abigail, a convicted fraudster, is transferred to the experimental Joliette Institution for Women where communal living i......more