Slow Motion Ghosts, Jeff Noon
Slow Motion Ghosts, Jeff Noon
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Slow Motion Ghosts

Author: Jeff Noon

Narrator: Dean Williamson

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2019


Synopsis

'Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' Guardian
‘Constantly surprising’ Spectator

A viciously occult murder.

A curious clue left on the body.

The soundtrack to the murder still playing...

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It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police force - are being redrawn on a daily basis.

With the certainties of his life already sorely tested, a brutal murder will shake his beliefs to their very core once more. The manner of the death and its staged circumstances pose many questions to which there are no obvious answers.

To track the murderer, Hobbes must cross boundaries into a subculture hidden beneath the everyday world he thought he knew. His investigation takes him into a twisted reality, which is both seductive and devastating, and asks him the one question he has been dreading: How far will he go in pursuit of the truth?

Jeff Noon is the author of six acclaimed novels, Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove and Falling Out of Cars, as well as two collections of short fictions, and is also the crime fiction reviewer for The Spectator. He lives in Brighton.

(c) 2019, Jeff Noon (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

About Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He won the Arthur C Clarke Award for Vurt, the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer, a Tinniswood Award for innovation in radio drama and the Mobil prize for playwriting. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His previous book, The Body Library, was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on December 19, 2018

I’m a fan of this author after the quirky mind blowing Nyquist novels, this time he enters the world of more grounded mystery but still that noir feel and off kilter sense remains. I loved this. The setting is evocative, in the time of the Brixton riots, when the police were objects of suspicion, cas......more

Goodreads review by John on May 10, 2022

The overall plot was intriguing and unique but somehow the story just didn’t grab me. I feel this is Jeff Noon’s first traditional fictional book. I’ve loved his speculative/science fiction. I’ll be interested to see what type of book he writes next.......more

Goodreads review by Ross on January 08, 2019

*** Disclosure - I received a free advance copy of this book from netgalley in return for an honest review *** Jeff Noon is a writer of speculative fiction who has been on my reading list for some time (not through recommendation, but through finding his books in discount shops and liking the sound......more

Goodreads review by Andy on May 23, 2019

Despite an appealing summary of its storyline this is a slightly above average police procedural; rather a let down after expecting much. Set south of the river in London in the 1980s, with the police reeling after the Brixton Riots, experienced detective Hobbes is called in to help the Force to rec......more


Quotes

The obsessive world of pop culture becomes a dangerous, dark, bewitching place in Noon’s utterly brilliant crime fiction debut. William Shaw

Constantly surprising, the novel takes the form of the police procedural and pushes it in a variety of unexpected directions Spectator

Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter Guardian

Slow Motion Ghosts is a triumph … an ingeniously-plotted and multi-layered tale Independent

The enjoyably convoluted plot encompasses a heartfelt and moving examination of the other-worldly appeal of glam rock for nerds and outsiders. If you weren't poleaxed by Bowie's death, this very absorbing novel will help to explain why others were. The Telegraph