The House Of Smoke, Sam Christer
The House Of Smoke, Sam Christer
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The House Of Smoke
A Moriarty Thriller

Author: Sam Christer

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2016


Synopsis

Big Ben chimes in the first seconds of the first day of 1900, the start of a fresh century. Inside London's oldest gaol, preparations are afoot to hang Victorian England's deadliest assassin, a man wanted for two decades' worth of murders.

Cold-blooded killer Simeon Lynch has lived a brutal and glorious life in the employ of the House of Moriarty - the most feared criminal enterprise in the world. Now, as he faces the noose, Simeon learns dark truths about his master, about Sherlock Holmes and about his own past. Truths that make him determined to escape and kill again...

Follow Simeon's bloody footsteps through the capital's cobbled alleyways, wretched workhouses and flash taverns as he crosses swords with Sherlock Holmes and the villainous characters of Victorian London.

Reviews

Sometimes it happens that books surprise me in a positive way and the book I review today belongs to this category. The 341 pages of the book are divided into five consecutively numbered parts which are subdivided into 31 named chapters which are subdivided too. The story is told from first person poi......more

Goodreads review by Lainy

With that ending I'm assuming there might be a book 2? I listened to the audio version of this book, which is the only reason I made it to the end. The way the write up for this book was written I was expecting a book about Sherlock and Moriaty instead it's about Simeone who ends up working for James......more

Goodreads review by Lucy

Zajímavé dobové vyprávění z pohledu zločince. O jeho životě dětství, o tom, jaká budoucnost ho čeká a mnoho dalšího. Čtivé, poutavé, napínavé. Výborné čtení na odpoledne... [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Kate

Cold and clever, but ultimately not enormously engaging, account of the life - and imminent death at the end of a rope - of Moriarty's killer Simeon Lynch.......more


Quotes

Well plotted and mesmerising Shots

If you need your Sherlock fix now, try The House of Smoke Radio Times

An intelligent, exciting and seductive elaboration of both truth and fiction, a morality tale that tingles with all the tensions and menace of a fast-paced crime thriller Lancashire Evening Post