The Hangmans Secret, Laura Joh Rowland
The Hangmans Secret, Laura Joh Rowland
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The Hangman's Secret

Author: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrator: Alex Tregear

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2019

Synopsis

Crime-scene photographers Sarah, Hugh, and Mick are summoned to the goriest crime scene they’ve ever encountered. A pub owner named Harry Warbrick has been found hanged. His murder becomes a sensation because he was England’s top hangman. Sir Gerald, owner of the Daily World, announces that they—meaning Sarah and her friends—will investigate and solve Warbrick’s murder before the police do. She and her friends discover a connection between Warbrick’s murder and the most notorious criminal he ever executed: Amelia Carlisle. Something happened at Amelia’s execution. The Official Secrets Act forbids the seven witnesses present to divulge any information about it. But Harry had a bad habit of leaking tips to the press. What is the secret, and who hanged the hangman?

About Laura Joh Rowland

Laura Joh Rowland is the author of the Sano Ichiro mysteries, which have twice been named Best Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly. She lived through a natural disaster when Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed her house in New Orleans, and now lives in New York City.

About Alex Tregear

Alex Tregear graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in 2004, receiving a Laurence Olivier Bursary in her second year. In her final year, she won the Carleton Hobbs Award with the BBC Radio Drama Company, and, since then, she has worked regularly in radio and audiobook narration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Page on December 07, 2018

An ARC was provided to me by the author and publishers via Netgalley but my opinions are not at all affected by this. :) Set in 1890 London this novel features Photographer Sarah Bain, a photographer for "Daily World" newspaper though she usually ends up like a detective solving crimes even befor......more

Goodreads review by Dee on September 09, 2018

At first, I didn’t like the writing because of its form, as it didn’t capture the style and mood of the Victorian Era. In other words, it read like a modern-day novel. As this was my own personal opinion on how a Victorian novel should be written, I initially disregarded my feelings and continued on......more

Goodreads review by Vicky on February 02, 2019

When it comes to reading, I love the Victorian period. There’s something about the grimy glamour of London, of steam mills, of murder in back alleyways… (ahem) that always really grips me. I’m not sure what that says about me, but it does mean that The Hangman’s Secret was the perfect fit when it ca......more

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