The Detective’s Daughter
- Author Lesley Thomson
- Narrator Anna Bentinck
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date 10 July 2013
- Run Time 17 hours and 59 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
It was the murder that shocked the nation. Kate Rokesmith, a young mother, walked to the banks of the Thames with her three-year-old son. She never came home.
For three decades, the case file has lain, unsolved, in the corner of an attic. Until the detective's daughter, Stella Darnell, starts to clear out her father's house after his death...
Reviews for The Detective's Daughter:
'A haunting novel about loss and reconciliation, driven by a simple but clever plot' Sunday Times
'This book has a clever mystery plot – but its excellence is in the characters, all credible and memorable, and in its setting in a real West London street, exactly described' Literary Review
'A thoughtful, well-observed story... It reminded me of Kate Atkinson' Scott Pack
'A cerebral thriller... Evokes chills from more than just the frigid winter nights' Forward Reviews Magazine
'Lesley Thomson gets better and better' Ian Rankin
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