Running Scared

Name: Running Scared
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ann Granger
ISBN: 9781666168143

Author: Ann Granger

Series: Fran Varady #3

Narrator: Henrietta Meire

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/23/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

When a stranger is stabbed to death, Fran's own life is put in danger . . .

Amateur sleuth Fran Varady has to stay ahead of a killer in Running Scared, the third exciting mystery in Ann Granger's Fran Varady series. A must-listen for fans of LJ Ross and Elly Griffiths.

Aspiring actress and part-time private investigator Fran Varady knew there would be maximum disruption when her friend Ganesh decided to modernize his uncle's newsagents, starting with the washroom. But she isn't prepared for the nightmare that begins when an agitated passerby asks to use it: hours later, he's found stabbed to death, leaving a message for Fran to meet him, and a mysterious roll of film hidden behind the old pipes . . .

Fran realizes that whoever wanted the negatives knows where they were hidden. And, probably, where they are now. With her police protection more a hindrance than a help, an old friend, Tig, on the verge of collapse, and the builders wreaking havoc in the shop, can Fran find out why someone is prepared to murder for the negatives—before they find her?

About Ann Granger

Ann Granger is a British novelist of crime fiction. She writes the Mitchell and Markby, Fran Varady, Lizzie Martin, and Campbell and Carter series. Granger earned her modern languages degree from the University of London and went on to teach English in France for a year. Next, she worked at British consulates and embassies in various countries in Europe. After getting married, she ended up living in Zambia and Germany before coming back home to raise her family in England.

Granger began her career writing historical romance novels under the pen name Ann Hulme, beginning with the 1979 novel A Poor Relation. She began her crime fiction career in 1991 with the novel Say It with Poison, now writing as Ann Granger.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Johann on May 21, 2023

Der dritte Band rund um die Hobby-Detektivin Fran Varady ist wieder deutlich spannender und auch von der menschlichen Seite her tiefer gehender als der von mir zuvor gelesene zweite Band. Fran versucht wieder mal alle zu helfen. Ihre Neugier lässt sie mehr als einmal zum Ziel von Unterweltmitglieder......more

Goodreads review by Neely on January 12, 2025

As usual, trouble finds Fran pretty quickly. She’s help Gan at the newsstand when a stranger with a bloody nose comes in. His problem, of course, becomes Fran’s. Another scary adventure for the street-smart Fran.......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on April 14, 2022

I have become a big fan of this series. The mysteries are good, the characters are great and interesting. The entire book gets heard in the same day three times now!......more

Goodreads review by Simon on July 20, 2012

Originally published on my blog here in May 2000. The third Fran Varady novel continues with the themes which shaped the first two. Fran is currently working with her friend Ganesh in his uncle's corner shop. She becomes involved with crime once again when a man staggers into the shop, having managed......more

Goodreads review by Lbaker on May 02, 2016

I have been reading this series in a totally non linear manner. It doesn't matter, it's still great. I appreciate that the heroine (Fran Varady) in this series is poor, doesn't always have the necessities of life. She scrambles, but she's very realistic, smart, canny, and persistent. I really like thi......more