The Tattoo Murder, Roy Lewis
The Tattoo Murder, Roy Lewis
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The Tattoo Murder

Author: Roy Lewis

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2023

Synopsis

Past and present explode in murder.A counter-terrorist organization stops the murder of a French politician in the Pyrenees. The would-be assassin is killed at the scene. He has a disturbing tattoo on his arm.Eric Ward meets Ben Shaw at a bankers’ dinner. Ben hires him to look into his old rival and Eric’s ex-wife’s probable new lover, Jason Sullivan. Jason’s disappeared and so has the money for a project he was working on.DCI Spate is looking into illegal immigration in Newcastle. He speaks to Peter Olinger, local construction magnate, who seems a little shady and has large gambling debts. What’s he hiding?What connects the three strands is very dark and dangerous indeed.

About Roy Lewis

Roy Lewis is a well-established crime writer with more than sixty novels to his name. He lives in the north of England, where he sets many of his books. He is a former college principal and Inspector of Schools who now runs business training programs and has business interests in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. He has three children-all of them lawyers. He has also written books on law under the pen name J. R. Lewis.

About John Lee

John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris Lee

“The Tattoo Murder” is a repetitive and showy locked-room murder mystery set in late 1940’s Japan. The story is filled with more side tangents, ranting, and babbling on than I would care to mention. It’s like Poirot and Sherlock Holmes meets Inspector Jacques Clouseau, but void of the fun, laughs, a......more

Goodreads review by Vikas

This classic Japanese locked room mystery has been brilliantly translated in English by Deborah Boehm. The translation beautifully captures the fine nuances of Japanese culture and ethos. Perhaps the only plot of its type to have been attempted, tattoo artists and tattoo designs are central to the m......more

Goodreads review by Trish

Imagine for a moment Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had decided to set his Sherlock Holmes mysteries in Japan. Now imagine the time is not the late 19th century, but the middle of the 20th century, right after the devastation of World War II. Takagi Akimitsu (1920-1995) published this, his first novel, to g......more

Goodreads review by Uhtred

The title of the book is certainly intriguing and even the short description attracts the potential reader who loves thriller-noir: some pieces of a woman's corpse are found in a room closed from the inside. In perfect Agatha Christie style. In reality "The tattoo murder case" is not a thriller of t......more

Quotes

“Roy Lewis is a writer who believes in keeping his readers on their toes with plenty of twists and surprises.” Daily Telegraph (London), praise for the author

“Tightly written, well-paced, and relentlessly accurate.” Oxford Times (Oxford, England), praise for the series

“Tense, impressively evocative, and related in a refreshingly old-fashioned manner.” Chicago Tribune, praise for the series

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