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River of Darkness by Rennie Airth audiobook

River of Darkness

By Rennie Airth
Read by Christopher Kay

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The John Madden Mysteries: Book 1

13.92 Hours • Unabridged
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In 1921, the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime the killer is plotting his second strike.

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Summary

A New York Times Notable Book

Finalist for the Edgar Award

An iBooks bestseller in Mysteries & Thrillers

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

In 1921, the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime the killer is plotting his second strike.

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Editorial Reviews

“It’s the tactics and terrain, the morale and the characters that make the difference between an average thriller and one as good as this.” —New York Times Book Review
“Christopher Kay narrates with an ease that makes him somehow invisible between the text and the listener…Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“One of the best mysteries I have read in years.” —Donald M. Murray, Boston Globe
“A tense and suspense-filled reading experience...River of Darkness is compelling reading.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“River of Darkness vividly recreates the post-World War I era, and Airth’s descriptions of the early use of psychology in crime solving are fascinating.” —RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
“Inspector John Madden is precisely the type of multifaceted and complex character readers will enjoy meeting time and again.” —Barnes&Noble.com
“Rennie Airth takes what at first seems to be a twenties drawing-room murder mystery and transforms it into an edge-of-the-seat serial killer thriller. Compelling stuff.” —Robert Goddard, author of Fault Line
“[A]...smart, well-plotted psychological mystery.” —Booklist
“A fine, frightening piece of work. One looks forward to meeting Inspector John Madden again soon.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Airth develops a situation that presages today’s much-touted psychological profiling and serves to build an almost excruciatingly suspenseful plot. In addition, his deft handling of the emotional aftereffects of war gives the work an added sense of purpose.” —Library Journal

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Author Bio: Rennie Airth

Author Bio: Rennie Airth

Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters before becoming a novelist. He is the author of the John Madden mysteries, including River of Darkness, a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and a Macavity Award for Best Mystery and a New York Times Notable Book, and The Blood-Dimmed Tide. He lives in Italy.

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Available Formats : CD
Runtime: 13.92
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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