The Murderers Apprentice, Ann Granger
The Murderers Apprentice, Ann Granger
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The Murderer's Apprentice
A Victorian London Murder Mystery

Author: Ann Granger

Narrator: Julia Barrie, Gareth Armstrong

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/25/2021

Synopsis

Ann Granger's seventh thrilling Victorian mystery featuring Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie.

It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross has more than the weather to worry about when the body of a young woman is found in a dustbin at the back of a Piccadilly restaurant.

Ben must establish who the victim is before he can find out how and why she came to be there. His enquiries lead him first to a bootmaker in Salisbury and then to a landowner in Yorkshire. Meanwhile, Ben's wife, Lizzie, aided by their eagle-eyed maid, Bessie, is investigating the mystery of a girl who is apparently being kept a prisoner in her own home.

As Ben pursues an increasingly complex case, Lizzie reveals a vital piece of evidence that brings him one step closer to solving the crime . . .

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 Marion on October 16, 2021

Une enquête plutôt sympathique en plein cœur de l'Angleterre victorienne et du fog londonien. Les rebondissements sont intéressants, malgré quelques longueurs, on a envie de savoir et d'arriver au dénouement mais ça manque de quelque chose. Il n'y a aucune dimension psychologique, on finit le roman......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 15, 2023

Set in 1870 London a body of a young girl is found in a back yard, at this point there is a flavour of Jack the Ripper. However as the plot progresses the author moves the action between a cold fog bound London, Salisbury and Yorkshire. There is a sub plot where the wife of Ben Ross tries to discover......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 26, 2025

This is an enjoyable read and a good story. The characters are likeable, however my only criticism is how historically realistic some of their views and relationships are. For example, the characters mostly have progressive views about women and those of “lower class”, which would not have been at a......more

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