Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • A Hard Woman to Kill

  • DI Hanlon, Book 3
  • By: Alex Howard
  • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
  • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (34 ratings)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
A Hard Woman to Kill cover art

A Hard Woman to Kill

By: Alex Howard
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Silenced for Good cover art
Unleashed cover art
The Murderer's Son cover art
A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
False Start cover art
Detective Sebastian Clifford, Books 1-3 cover art
The Body in the Marsh cover art
The Infirmary: A DCI Ryan Mystery (Multicast Drama) cover art
Dead Wrong cover art
Call the Shots cover art
The Missing Ones cover art
The Night Shift cover art
The Lost Girls of Penzance cover art
The Bonnie Dead cover art
Kickback cover art

Summary

When a frightened Russian woman seeks DCI Hanlon's help in finding her missing husband, Hanlon's not keen on the case. Until she hears a name she recognises only too well: Arkady Belanov, sadistic pimp and owner of an exclusive brothel in Oxford is involved.

When her former partner and friend disappears, Hanlon is forced into an uneasy alliance with the London underworld to rescue him from the blood-stained hands of the Russian mafia.

©2015 Alex Howard (P)2016 W F Howes Ltd

Critic reviews

Praise for the author: "A tenacious crime thriller with a difference." ( LOvereading on Cold Revenge)
"Visceral, violent thriller which races along, propelled by an excellent new heroine." ( Mauis Gabrielon Time to Die)

What listeners say about A Hard Woman to Kill

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    19
  • 4 Stars
    11
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    21
  • 4 Stars
    7
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    18
  • 4 Stars
    8
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Best D I Hanlon book yet

Narrator breathed life into characters especially Russian accents. Final shoot-out exciting and action packed!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Another corker!

I love the DCI Hanlon books so much that as soon as my credit is available, I buy the next one in the series. This book is great, a little far fetched and totally not by the rules but it’s an easy listen and if you know and like Hanlon, you’ll like a little bit more after this book. Excellently narrated by the very talented Adjoa Andoh.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Amazing

Absolutely love DI Hanlon the books are fantastic and it’s such a great story

Can’t wait for the next one

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

enjoyed the book, not so much the fat shaming

great narration, story ok, author seems obsessed with characters weight. One woman in the book we are told is a size 12, then later we are told 'despite her size' she manages to climb into a tractor. Another character spends all three books bemoaning his lost physique. Yes spoiled it for me.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Terrible Russian accent

I enjoyed the other D I Hanlon books but not so much with this one. Although Adjoa Andoh has a lovely speaking voice and is a very good narrator I'm afraid her Russian accent really put me off, it sounded like someone trying to do a cartoon version with a mouth full of rice pudding. It made me feel quite nauseous.
Slow start, very brutal and depressing in the middle (i almost gave up on it) but picks up at the end with a reasonable conclusion

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

DCI Hanlon at her best

Hanlon has been relocated to preserve her career, as she is a 'take action' kind of woman which is why we love her, but her bosses are not so keen, although Corrigan has always been on her side which is why she's now in Slough listening to a Russian woman talk about her missing (presumed dead) husband. Hanlon is not at all interested until she hears the magic words ' Arkady Belanov ' and then she is all ears.

What follows is simply brilliant, vengeance on all (well most) of Hanlon's enemies, but I do admit that this leaves me worried about the future of this series. I sincerely hope that there will be more Hanlon books for me to obsess over.

Oh, and by the way, Adjoa Andoh narrates this marvellously, get it now, you will not regret it, unless you are new to DI Hanlon in which case you might want to start at book 1 because that is also brilliant, and will give you an idea of what is going on, although this book could be listened to as a standalone it will be much better enjoyed as part of the series.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!