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  • Best Served Cold: A DCI Harry Grimm Novel

  • Harry Grimm Series, Book 2
  • By: David J. Gatward
  • Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
  • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (406 ratings)

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Best Served Cold: A DCI Harry Grimm Novel

By: David J. Gatward
Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
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Summary

A grisly death staged as an accident. Can a hard-nosed copper track a killer as elusive as a shadow?

North Yorkshire, England. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is reluctantly easing into life in the dales. As he gradually acclimatizes to the slower pace of the countryside while he awaits a return to the city, he’s called out to inspect a farmer’s crushed body. And despite the doctor on site declaring it a tragic mishap, the seasoned police officer rolls up his sleeves when evidence points to foul play.

Frustrated with the lack of witnesses and suspects, Grimm whips his easygoing team into action when a second corpse is found. And with a mysterious clue the only connection and the not-so-quiet village in self-imposed lockdown, the city-bred cop hunts for a link lethal enough to lead to murder….

Can he stop the picturesque countryside from becoming a blood-filled cemetery?

Best Served Cold is the riveting second book in the DCI Harry Grimm crime fiction series. If you like square pegs jammed into round holes, deeply textured plots, and lively local color, then you’ll love David J. Gatward's riveting puzzle.

Buy Best Served Cold to plow up the gruesome truth today!

©2020 David Gatward (P)2022 David Gatward

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Fantastic Book

Well done David!
I really enjoyed the first book.
Enjoyed your second even more... Now guess what?!.. just about to settle in and buy your 3rd!

Please keep writing fantastic Harry Grimm Novels, you have an absolute talent for it.
You really bring all the characters to life and bring the stories alive in the way you write them.

A big fan!
Thank you

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Book2

Another gripping read which kept me guessing right to the end. Looking forward to the next book

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A very troubled story.

Following the first book the second was not such a great story and the narrator's voice became so harsh in character I did not enjoy it .

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Addictive listen

Very enjoyable second outing with Harry. I did guess who did it, quite early on, but not why. Narration was excellent again. Really looking forward to rest of the series.

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A good book for Audible

I am enjoying this series, I do like a series where you can continue with characters you’ve got to know. The story as good and I do like descriptions of places and the people. Looking forward to listening to the next. A good narrator s essential with Audible and Aubrey is excelent.

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A moving story

Really getting into Harry and his team. Good down to earth story, with no inconsequential rambling.
Narrator is fantastic also, the accents so true and good voice changes.
Starting the next one right now!

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It’s all about the characters

It’s all about the honesty of the characters and the story of their lives within the story itself,next please.

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I’m starting to het hooked!

No 2 in the series and the characters are starting to draw me in; have to be honest I wasn’t sure after the first one.
Pretty good story line, although I’d identified who the killer was after the first death but not why! The story behind the killings was well thought out with a pretty good bit sad twist.
The narrator’s accents are pretty good, but have to be honest at times I found it lacked a little something but overall it was good.
Well worth listen!

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Enjoyable listen

I have listened to both Harry Grimm stories, and am so pleased I did. The narration is amazing, the stories are clever and funny. Really looking forward to the next one x

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Another corker!

I'm loving this series! Born in Yorkshire, my family moved to Sussex when I was at primary school, so I was perfectly used to eating cheese with cake, and Mischief Night, and wearing wellies, and eating Yorkshire pudding with gravy for first course, then loads of seasonal vegetables with roast meat for mains and apple pie with cheese or rhubarb crumble for afters.

I can't wait for the next episode!

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