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A Game of Fear

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A Game of Fear

By: Charles Todd
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.

Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex, where amongst the salt flats and a military airfield lies Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past. The lady of the house may prove his most bewildering witness yet. She claims she saw a violent murder—but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war.

Everyone in the village believes that Lady Benton’s losses have turned her mind—she is, after all, a grieving widow and mother—but the woman Rutledge interviews is rational and self-possessed. And then there is Captain Nelson: what really happened to him in the war? The more Rutledge delves into this baffling case, the more suspicious tragedies he uncovers. The Abbey and the airfield hold their secrets tightly. Until Rutledge arrives, and a new trail of death follows…

20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Military Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives War & Military World War I Fiction Crime Scotland Murder War Haunted
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Yay 🙌 x great story line x the character has developed so well personally over the course of these books x loved the ending x I’ll be on tenter hook for the next one !

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Very enjoyable with all the usual twists and turns. Narrated beautifully, but where Simon Prebble. His voice has become synonymous withIan and Hamish!

Brilliant as ever

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Simon Vance is a fantastic narrator, but this book is dreadful. Shallow, bygone snobberies. So a lady is taken seriously about an invisible murderer when the rest of us would be labeled as mad.

Absolutely dreadful

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