Trick of the Night

Detective Matt Ballard, Book 5

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Trick of the Night

By: Joy Ellis

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

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Matt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn't guarantee a quiet life.

A deserted building. A face in the window. A face that shouldn't be there.

Photography student Toby Unsworth has found the location for the perfect night-time shoot. A cobbled street in the old part of Fenfleet. Later, when he looks at the images on his laptop, he thinks he sees a woman's face in the window of an old, disused building. He asks his housemate Alex to come and take a look . . .

Two days later, Toby and Alex are dead. Carbon monoxide poisoning. An unfortunate accident. But Alex's mother doesn't believe it. She hires Matt and Liz to find out the truth.

Meanwhile, nine-year-old Simon is missing. He was staying with his Aunt Jessie in a cottage on the edge of the marsh. And his older sister Kellie is increasingly worried.

Matt and Liz's investigations reveal that something very big and very dangerous has descended on the small market town of Fenfleet. And if they don't get to the bottom of it, more deaths will follow.

Joy EllisMatthew Lloyd DaviesTantor AudioDetective Matt Ballard

Crime Fiction

Fiction

Genre Fiction

Mystery

Police Procedural

Psychological

Crime

Exciting

Suspense

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Not sure what to make of it. I was delighted to get another Matt Ballard story but it’s very much different. Not sure what bothered me in the end but I think it’s the narration. It’s a good voice but just not what it was before it gave the story a completely different traction. The story carried it through but I’m not convinced it was the right choice. Have to mull over it for a bit and try the printed version to see what I missed.