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The Hope That Kills

DI Fenchurch East London Crime Thrillers, Book 1

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The Hope That Kills

By: Ed James
Narrated by: Angus King
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Summary

Meet Simon Fenchurch, detective inspector working the Met’s East London beat. Honest and funny but damaged, he’s working a case that could give him answers to his deepest trauma....

The body of a young woman is found on the streets of East London, in the shadow of the City’s gleaming towers. No ID on her, just hard-earned cash. But there is no doubting the ferocity of the attack.

DI Simon Fenchurch takes charge, but as his team tries to identify her and piece together her murder, they’re faced with cruel indifference at every turn—nobody cares about yet another dead sex worker.

To Fenchurch, however, the victim could just as easily be Chloe, his daughter, abducted from outside his home and still missing 10 years on, whose memory still haunts his days and nights, his burning obsession having killed his marriage.

When a second body is found, Fenchurch must peel back the grimy layers shrouding the London sex trade, confronting his own traumatic past while racing to undo a scheme larger, more complex and more evil than anything he could possibly have imagined.

For fans of Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, Alex Smith, and JD Kirk, The Hope That Kills is the novel that introduced listeners to troubled Detective Simon Fenchurch.

©2017, 2020 Scott Cullen Ltd (P)2023 Grey Dog Audio Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Fiction England Crime
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I wasn’t sure at the beginning if the story or the characters would grab me, and it took a while but suddenly I realised they had.
Interesting characters and story and well narrated by Angus King who really does have an amazing skill.

Interesting Start to a new series

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Angus king brings the book to life another great story from Ed James
Love the characters

Great narration of a great storyline

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enjoyable listen making you feel like you were 'a bodycam' being alongside the characters as they solve the case

gritty no frills policing

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Looks like another superb series by Ed James, this time set in London. Gritty, very disturbing and of course superbly written. Narration by Angus King is fantastic.

Fantastic.

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I have given the stars this book deserves, I've tried listing to Angus read for other authors only to see JD Kirk's Logan characters in my head 🤦‍♀️ I tried again with this book after a considerable break from JD but no go 😞 The story is good, narration is good, I'm upset I cannot listen to other authors work when Angus is narrating as he is so expressive and reads so well.

Angus King's narration is always good

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