One Of Our Ministers Is Missing, Alan Johnson
One Of Our Ministers Is Missing, Alan Johnson
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One Of Our Ministers Is Missing
From the award-winning writer and former MP

Author: Alan Johnson

Narrator: Richard Attlee

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wildfire

Published: 09/01/2022

Synopsis

Another fast-paced and warm-hearted thriller from award-winning writer, and former MP, Alan Johnson.

A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air.

On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains when he mysteriously disappeared. After a vast search and rescue operation, the local police have no leads, save for a mobile phone discarded on a cliff edge.

Assistant Commissioner Louise Mangan of the Met Police is sent to assist in the investigation but soon discovers that there are more layers to this case than the local police realise.

Lady Bellingham is less than forthcoming, the family nanny is hiding something, and a scandal is brewing back in London that could destroy the minister's reputation for good.

Under pressure from the powers that be, can Louise find the missing minister, or will she discover something much more sinister at play?

(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

About Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson's childhood memoir THIS BOY was published in 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political writing award. His second volume of memoirs, PLEASE MR POSTMAN (2014) won the National Book Club award for Best Biography. The final book in his memoir trilogy, THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD (2016), won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir. IN MY LIFE - A MUSIC MEMOIR was published in 2018 and his highly acclaimed first novel, THE LATE TRAIN TO GIPSY HILL was published in 2021. The sequel ONE OF OUR MINISTERS IS MISSING followed up in 2022, and a third book in the series DEATH ON THE THAMES will be published in March 2024. Alan was a Labour MP for 20 years before retiring ahead of the 2017 general election. He served in five cabinet positions in the Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown including Education Secretary, Health Secretary and Home Secretary.He and his wife Carolyn live in East Yorkshire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on August 27, 2022

Another intriguing mystery from Alan Johnson who writes with a classic tone in a modern crime novel. A disappearance in Crete and an assassin waiting in the wings sets the scene, this is a purely pleasurable read with great characters and a descriptive setting. The story rocks along keeping the reader......more

Goodreads review by Eightlegs on August 04, 2023

I've read and enjoyed Johnson's biographical books so thought I'd try this novel when I came across it. Also enjoyable but more a steady read than an exciting one. Felt like it was setting up for a sequel.......more

Goodreads review by Phil on March 19, 2023

One Of Our Ministers Is Missing by Alan Johnson It took a couple of chapters for this romp to gather momentum but once it got up steam it was full speed ahead for this pleasing and very twisting cosy thriller. Our Government minister is Lord Bellingham and yes he goes missing whilst on a walk in rural......more

Goodreads review by Renita on March 09, 2023

Loved this one......more

Goodreads review by Sheri on May 28, 2023

I remember Alan Johnson as a Labour minister, and I was interested to read his book (his second novel - I haven't read the first). One of Our Ministers is Missing is an escapist crime romp, and the political backdrop is obviously something about which you'd expect Johnson (Alan, not Boris...) to kno......more

Quotes

Fascinating and ingenious. Melvyn Bragg

A smart, captivating, modern but timeless thriller. John Marrs

A fast-moving plot, complex but all too credible, expertly told. The fact it comes from the pen of a former Home Secretary makes the rich security detail and the myriad relationships all the more powerful. Alastair Campbell

Featuring espionage, the Russian Mafia and a gorgeous female on a train with a deadly secret, the tantalising plot has set Alan up for dominance of the bestseller charts for years to come. Fiona Phillips

Is there no limit to his talents? Not content with being a top politician, and a very nice feller, he turns his hand to writing four memoirs, which win prizes and awards and sell bucketloads. God I was spitting with envy. Why didn't he just stick to politics? I absolutely loved Alan's new thriller, it's brilliant. Hunter Davies

Blends gentle humour and brutal assassination into a cracking crime thriller. The Sun

The Girl on the Train with a dash of Russian poisoning and a classic femme fatale Sunday Telegraph

A fast-paced who-done-what Saga Magazine

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