Playing with Fire, Patricia Hall
Playing with Fire, Patricia Hall
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Playing with Fire

Author: Patricia Hall

Narrator: Julie Maisey

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 05/01/2019


Synopsis

London 1964. At 3a.m. on a chilly autumn morning, Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard is called to a club in Greek Street where a young girl has fallen to her death from a top-floor window. But was it a tragic accident, or something more sinister? Meanwhile, Kate O’Donnell, Harry’s photographer girlfriend, receives a call from her Liverpudlian ex, pleading for her help. His new squeeze, Marie Collins, set off for London in the hope of getting a recording contract, but she’s not answering her phone. Where is she?

Reviews

This is the seventh book in the Kate O’Donnell series and the second that I have read. The series features Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard and his girlfriend, photographer Kate O’Donnell. It is 1964 and the location is the seedy area of Soho, London where clubs, pubs, restaurants and bars host pros......more

Goodreads review by Rog

I first read one of the author's books back in January 1999 and I read six more of her books in October 2007 but I can't remember much about any of them. This book is in a different series and is set in London in 1964 with a photographer, Kate O'Donnell, and her boyfriend, Detective Sergeant Harry B......more

Goodreads review by Susan

Soho in the 1960's and Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been called out to investigate a body having fallen from a building. Suicide, accident or murder. Meanwhile Barnard's girlfriend has been asked to find a missing female who has been attracted to London's musical scene. This is the first of......more

This book is set in 1960s London murder drugs gangs musicians based around a London Soho Sgt.in the police and his Liverpool photographer girlfriend . Certainly a book that keeps you interested from first page to last.......more