The Order of Things

Name: The Order of Things
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Graham Hurley
ISBN: 9781409160540

Author: Graham Hurley

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged: 9 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orion

Published: 11/19/2015

Categories: Fiction, Crime, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Police Procedural, Traditional British, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

D/S Jimmy Suttle is called to a brutal murder in the picturesque Devon village of Lympstone. Harriet Reilly, a local GP, has been found disembowelled in the bedroom of her partner, climate scientist Alois Bentner.

Suttle's estranged wife, Lizzie, has abandoned Portsmouth, moved to Exeter and returned to journalism, hearing rumours of a local GP offering mercy killings to patients meeting certain criteria. The name of the GP is Harriet Reilly.

So begins two investigations of the same crime. Operation Buzzard, with D/S Suttle at its heart, and Lizzie, piecing together her own version of the events that led to Harriet Reilly's death.

The fourth novel in the Jimmy Suttle series is a story of ultimate betrayal, reaching much further and wider than its Devon roots.

Read by Jonathan Keeble

(p) 2015 Isis Publishing Ltd

About Graham Hurley

Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. He is married and has grown up children. He lived in Portsmouth for 20 years but now lives in Exmouth, Devon.www.grahamhurley.co.uk

About Jonathan Keeble

Jonathan combines his audio work with a busy theatre and TV career. He is very proud to have appeared more times (11) at Manchester's prestigious Royal Exchange Theatre than any one else of his age. He has featured in over 500 radio plays for the BBC appearing in everything from Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to Dr Who and is also the evil Owen in The Archers. Much in demand for his voicework, this ranges from playing Sir Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral to The Angel of Death in the film Hellboy 2, with stops at all points in between. An award-winning reader, Jonathan has recorded over 100 audiobooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bruce Lawson

If you love reading, read this. I've been reading crime fiction for a long time now and maybe due to a surge in popularity of the genre there seems to be a race to the bottom going on: ever more ludicrous plots involving unbelievable coincidences; a cranking up of the body count; weirder and nastier......more

Goodreads review by Susan

This book is stuffed with unexamined biases. Suttle demonises a "bull dyke" for being predatory and (horror of horrors, fat) and Lizzie, a writer/journalist in her 30s, carries on as if she's about to be raped by same over a dinner. And Suttle's partner beats a dog to death with a baseball bat. Did......more

Goodreads review by Andy

This is a steady and entertaining crime mystery story. Set around Exeter in the time just after their floods a couple of years ago, the police try to solve a particularly gruesome murder with the help of the book's heroine, the lead detective's ex-wife, Lizzie. There is enough going on otherwise to......more

Goodreads review by Suzan

I always try to find a quiet place to read Graham Hurleys' novels, uninterrupted, as he always gives the reader something to reflect upon as well as a gripping plot and believable characters - both good and bad. In the "Order of Things", Jimmy Suttle is part of the team investigating the shocking and......more

Goodreads review by John

A magnificent book. Once again the author shows what can be done within the basic police procedural format. In my view he is criminally under-rated. The vicious murder of a local GP in a small village outside Exeter leads the reader into a labyrinthine plot involving climate scientists and voluntary......more

Quotes

Superior crime fiction Sunday Times

There is no-one writing better police procedurals today. Sunday Telegraph

Graham Hurley's determination to look the seamy reality full in the face is refreshing because it is so rare ... Hurley's devastating account of Suttle's marriage is one of the best things he has done. Daily Telegraph

'This book more than lives up to the previous three. It succeeds on several levels. It is a superb police procedural... it is a very cleverly manipulated whodunnit, with a trickle-down conclusion that contains one final twist; away from the police station, we have some memorable characters who are convincing if not always likable; and lastly we have one of the nastiest and most menacing villains that you are likely to encounter.' CRIME FICTION LOVER

Hurley writes inch-perfect, matter-of-fact police procedurals, but he peoples them with an almost Dickensian cast that set the books way above most of his peers. CRIMEREVIEW

A pleasurably intricate plot leads to a satisfying grotesque resolution, further enhancing the reputation of one of Britain's best-ever police procedural writers. MORNING STAR

There are some mighty subjects explored here within the context of a brilliant police procedural thriller... wrapped up in a typically tight and gripping plot. PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH

This is an excellent police procedural mystery with an intricate plot... Hurley gets better and better with every new title. Superb. CRIMESQUAD