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The Winter Visitor
The Essex Investigations (Related to this series)
- Author
- James Henry
- Narrator
- John Hopkins
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 1 February 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Essex, February, 1991. The weather is biting cold. Everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it's a big surprise when a wanted drug smuggler, Bruce Hopkins, risks a return to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade long exile on the Costa del Sol. Lured back by a letter from the wife Hopkins left behind, no one is more surprised than him when he finds himself abducted and stripped bare only to be sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The police wonder if it could be retaliation from a Spanish gang, sending a warning to their English counterparts?
DS Daniel Kenton is teamed up with the unorthodox DS Brazier to investigate a crime wave which takes in not only the murder of an expat dope smuggler, but a sophisticated arson attack on a Norman church and the unexpected suicide of an ageing florist. Could there possibly be a thread that connects them?
Written with the humour and period detail that have become his trademark, and set in the badlands of his beloved Essex, A Winter Visitor is James Henry at his inimitable best.
(P) 2024 Quercus Editions Limited
Critics Review
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A highly readable novel with an entertaining storyline and intriguing characters.
Crime Time
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Pacy and expertly engineered, this is a superior police procedural with a wonderful sense of place and time; pitch-perfect period detail range from the start of the "care in the community" policy of deinstitutionalisation, to mis-sold endowment mortgages and Man at C&A. Highly recommended.
Guardian (Best recent Crime and Thrillers)
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Extremely well-written . . . let's hope for a swift return of this oddball duo.
Irish Independent
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No one writes Essex like James Henry
Joanne Ooi, Founder of EA Festival
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The Winter Visitor has me snagged more than any other book I've read in the last 10 years
Delia Owens, author of Where The Crawdads Sing
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A cut above the average crime novel. Terrific
Nicholas Shakespeare
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Details
- Author
- James Henry
- Narrator
- John Hopkins
- Duration
- 8 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 February 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529431766
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Essex in February. Cold enough to catch your death.Essex, February, 1991. The weather is biting cold. Everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it's a big surprise when a wanted drug smuggler, Bruce Hopkins, risks a return to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade long exile on the Costa del Sol. Lured back by a letter from the wife Hopkins left behind, no one is more surprised than him when he finds himself abducted and stripped bare only to be sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The police wonder if it could be retaliation from a Spanish gang, sending a warning to their English counterparts?DS Daniel Kenton is teamed up with the unorthodox DS Brazier to investigate a crime wave which takes in not only the murder of an expat dope smuggler, but a sophisticated arson attack on a Norman church and the unexpected suicide of an ageing florist. Could there possibly be a thread that connects them?Written with the humour and period detail that have become his trademark, and set in the badlands of his beloved Essex, A Winter Visitor is James Henry at his inimitable best.(P) 2024 Quercus Editions Limited
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