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A Room Full of Killers

DCI Matilda Darke, Book 3

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A Room Full of Killers

By: Michael Wood
Narrated by: Stephanie Beattie
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‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths

The third book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Lee Child and Karin Slaughter.

Eight killers. One house. And the almost perfect murder…

Starling House is home to some of the nation’s deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison.

When the latest arrival is found brutally murdered, DCI Matilda Darke and her team investigate, and discover a prison manager falling apart and a sabotaged security system. Neither the staff nor the inmates can be trusted.

The only person Matilda believes is innocent is facing prison for the rest of his life. With time running out, she must solve the unsolvable to save a young man from his fate, and find a murderer in a house full of killers…

©2019 Michael Wood (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Action & Adventure Crime Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Psychological Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Murder Exciting Scary
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Critic reviews

"You can count on Michael Wood to deliver a deliciously twisted and intriguing plot, leading to a surprise ending by a likeable and very real protagonist, Matilda Darke." (Yrsa Sigurdardottir)

"A pitch-black concept, tightly delivered and played at exhilarating pace." (Paul Finch)

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While it was still an enjoyable listen, it’s begun to fall into the inevitable scenario of police officer who knows better than everyone, thinks police procedures don’t apply to them, when I was enjoying the fact she was just a woman, good at her job. I’ll try another but if this new trait in Matilda’s character continues it will be the last I think.

Disappointing

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Please narrators when paid to be reading a book where several of the characters come from Norfolk, please do your homework and give them a Norfolk accent!! Not a West Country accent. Or better still if unsure, don’t do one at all. Norfolk is NOTHING LIKE West Country. Great book. Great story. Almost ruined by truly terrible accents.

Norfolk isn’t in the West Country

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Great story. Well narrated. Great twist at the end.
I really enjoyed listening to the book

Great story

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Quite the page-turner - and well narrated too. Glad I have come back to this series.

Very good

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Started slow but soon got me gripped. Looking forward to next book.. I want to find out what Matilda deals with next

Started slow

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