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A Willing Victim
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LENGTH12 hrs and 46 mins
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RELEASE DATE01/08/2012
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
London, November, 1956. DI Ted Stratton is investigating the murder of Jeremy Lloyd, a young man with a taste for esoteric religion. Stratton's enquiries lead him to Suffolk, where the mysterious Mr Roth has founded a Foundation for Spiritual Understanding. Apparently Lloyd had believed himself marked out for great things. But at the Foundation, Stratton meets 12-year-old Michael, who is proclaimed as the next incarnation in a long line of spiritual leaders.
He is rumoured amongst Roth's disciples to have been immaculately conceived, but the woman who is said to be his mother, and whose photograph was cherished by Lloyd, has disappeared. When a woman's body is found, Stratton assumes he has found "the mother", but the reality turns out to be far stranger.
©2012 Laura Wilson (P)2012 Isis Publishing Ltd
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What Members Say
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"just ok"
i do not understand why this was editors choice the book was only ok and had a very weak ending
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"kept me enthralled throughout"
Laura Wilson is an author new to me, whose storytelling held my attention throughout with clever turns of plot and excellent characterisations. The reader, Sean Barrett caught the exact phrasing and interpretation of each of the complex characters.
The story covers a period of about a decade in post WWII England, when society was struggling to find meaning and discovering a new wave of something spiritual to believe in. Essentially a murder mystery, with a careworn but likeable detective, it includes elements of a psychological thriller, crime investigation and social comment. It is an intelligent story requiring some concentration to hold all the threads leading to its conclusion which does not disappoint.
I look forward to discovering more by this writer and to listening again to Sean Barrett's readings.0 of 0 people found this review helpful