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One Of Our Ministers Is Missing

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One Of Our Ministers Is Missing

By: Alan Johnson
Narrated by: Richard Attlee
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 Another fast-paced and warm-hearted thriller from award-winning writer, and former MP, Alan Johnson.

A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air.

On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains when he mysteriously disappeared. After a vast search and rescue operation, the local police have no leads, save for a mobile phone discarded on a cliff edge.

Assistant Commissioner Louise Mangan of the Met Police is sent to assist in the investigation but soon discovers that there are more layers to this case than the local police realise.

Lady Bellingham is less than forthcoming, the family nanny is hiding something, and a scandal is brewing back in London that could destroy the minister's reputation for good.

Under pressure from the powers that be, can Louise find the missing minister, or will she discover something much more sinister at play?

(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd©2022 Alan Johnson Espionage Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Heartfelt Suspense

Critic reviews

Fascinating and ingenious.
A smart, captivating, modern but timeless thriller.
A fast-moving plot, complex but all too credible, expertly told. The fact it comes from the pen of a former Home Secretary makes the rich security detail and the myriad relationships all the more powerful.
Featuring espionage, the Russian Mafia and a gorgeous female on a train with a deadly secret, the tantalising plot has set Alan up for dominance of the bestseller charts for years to come.
Is there no limit to his talents? Not content with being a top politician, and a very nice feller, he turns his hand to writing four memoirs, which win prizes and awards and sell bucketloads. God I was spitting with envy. Why didn't he just stick to politics? I absolutely loved Alan's new thriller, it's brilliant.
Blends gentle humour and brutal assassination into a cracking crime thriller.
The Girl on the Train with a dash of Russian poisoning and a classic femme fatale
A fast-paced who-done-what
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Pleasant but with no real unexpected or thrilling aspects to the plot . Easy listening but easy to put down

Mediocre

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Was a bit boring, finished it and felt very underwhelmed. Not for me. Sorry just not my favourite.

Pleasant enough

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Wasn’t sure what to expect but it is an entertaining, if lightweight, story, very well narrated

Enjoyable listen

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A thoroughly enjoyable listen. I have added the next to my wish list. Good narrator.

A really good listen

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…..good characterisation and pace. Like a lot of mysteries, there were a lot of characters to keep in one’s head but it wasn’t difficult to follow. There were two separate stories really, very tenuously linked at the very end, but for much of the book it was impossible to see any connection between them. There was a lot that was easy to predict. It was, however, a good tale that on the whole I enjoyed.
The narration was a little strange, I felt: while the accents and characterisation were really good, when he was reading the events of the story he over-enunciated; it was as though he was reading it to very young children. I did find this off-putting.

Much to like……

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