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    In Place of Death
    In Place of Death
    In Place of Death
    Audiobook11 hours

    In Place of Death

    Written by Craig Robertson

    Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds

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    A young man enters the culverted remains of an ancient Glasgow stream, looking for thrills. Deep below the city, it is decaying and claustrophobic and gets more so with every step. As the ceiling lowers to no more than a couple of feet above the ground, the man finds his path blocked by another person. Someone with his throat cut.

    As DS Rachel Narey leads the official investigation, photographer Tony Winter follows a lead of his own, through the shadowy world of urbexers, people who pursue a dangerous and illegal hobby, a world that Winter knows more about than he lets on. And it soon becomes clear that the murderer has killed before, and has no qualms about doing so again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateSep 10, 2015
    ISBN9781471152054
    Author

    Craig Robertson

    Craig Robertson is a Sunday Times bestselling author, and his debut novel, Random, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger. His most recent novel, Murderabilia was longlisted for the UK’s top crime fiction awards, including Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2017 and the McIlvanney Prize 2017. During his twenty-year career with a Scottish Sunday newspaper, Craig Robertson interviewed three recent prime ministers and reported on major stories including 9/11, the Dunblane school massacre, the Omagh car bombing, and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

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    • 5/5
      Great story, lots of twist and turns. Did not suspect ending. Good narration. Fits the story setting.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent book! I listened to the Audiobook and ended up forgoing a night's sleep. Other than pausing to switch between charging bluetooth buds, I listened straight through in one go.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent read. Great narration and wonderful police drama story telling.
    • 5/5
      Interesting setting. New from other stories. Couldn’t figure out who done it.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book, highly recommend. Narrator was great, and the characters were very lovable.
    • 5/5
      This was such a good story! and a perfect original storyline! Great mix of characters, twists & plots. Have followed this author and listened to all his other audiobooks, which are just as brilliant! Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      An interesting but sometimes slightly confusing crime/thriller story. I liked the urbex setting and the characters are colorful.
    • 4/5
      Really fantastic book, thoroughly enjoyed the storyline, the only reason for not giving it 5 stars is the narrator, the book is set in Glasgow, Scotland, yet the narrator had an Irish accent most of the time.
    • 4/5
      The story line was intriguing holding you to every word.
    • 5/5
      In Place of Death – A Great Glasgow Crime ThrillerIn Place of Death is the latest Glasgow Crime Thriller from Craig Robertson, shining a light in to the darkest parts of Glasgow. This is an excellent police procedural thriller that has a fantastic dynamic between the two leading characters DI Rachel Narey and crime scene photographer Tony Wilson. There are some fantastic lines that Robertson uses to illustrate characters that just make you smile and think he has that spot on.With the reorganisation of the Police in Scotland and the creation of Police Scotland, Rachel Narey has just been promoted to a detective inspector in the major incident team that covers Glasgow. Her promotion will have earnt her plenty of snide comments as well as enemies; Narey not only has to battle the criminals but the sexism within her own force.Tony Wilson is a police photographer specialist, who has managed to hang on to his job in the reorganisation of Police Scotland. Again like Narey he has enemies and his line manager is the man that wants him gone in a heartbeat. All this is complicated by the fact that Wilson also happens to be dating Rachel Narey.A body is found in the Molendinar Burn and it looks like he has been there for a while, taking the pictures Wilson is shaken as he may know the victim. Later another body is found in the Odeon in central Glasgow, there seems to be no connection other than the bodies are hidden in places where nobody is ever expected to find them.The investigation takes Narey too many places that she wishes it did not; leads take her to the Rosewood Hotel, a hostel for the homeless, more like a waiting room for the grim reaper to Urbexing via the notorious Mullen crime family. She finds that people want her to fail so they can point to the fact is she is female and was only promoted for that reason.At the same time Winter re-enters a world he thought he had left behind years ago, when he too used to enjoy urbexing across Glasgow. As he gets further back in to the urbexing world he seems to place himself in the way of danger while at the same time crossing the line in to the Police investigation.As the investigation heads towards a conclusion there are some wonderful twists towards the end that you do not see coming. There are some interesting turns within the body of the thriller that help to give the characters depth and make them seem more human.This is an excellent crime thriller and Craig Robertson is going from strength to strength and this new series will get even better as the characters develop and we get to examine the dark underbelly of Glasgow.