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Gift Wrapped
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Series: Hennessey & Yellich, Book 23
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice centre, each with the word “murder” scribbled in a foreign language and the same precise OS map reference, the police are called. DCI Hennessey and his team of detectives visit the sinister location and make a chilling discovery: The body of a professional man who had been reported missing ten years earlier.
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