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The Winter Visitor
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
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?
Crafted 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.
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- sentimentalreader
- 23-02-24
A chilling winter’s tale
Well plotted, good characters - a solid police procedural with a terrific sense of time and place. Narration was 99% excellent, but please, why did no-one spot the (frequent) woeful mispronunciation of Harwich? I loved though, and will look for more titles in this series.
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- mr j.
- 28-02-24
The slick and racy plot
I always enjoys James Henry’s books!
This time I chose to read the book alongside an audio version. John Hopkins has a great voice, but the miss pronunciation of local places was irritating. Audio makes it easier to be distracted, whereas a book is more absorbing, you have to concentrate; you just can’t beat a book in your hands.
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- Guy Crosman
- 04-03-24
Excellent
Brilliant narration and good story, rich in period details. Had not read this author before, but very enjoyable
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