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Random Acts of Unkindness
- DS Jan Pearce Crime Fiction Series
- Narrated by: Laura Brydon
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Best-selling, gripping crime thriller with an ending you will never guess.... How far would you go to find your child?
DS Jan Pearce has a big problem. Her 15-year-old son, Aiden, is missing. Jan draws together the threads of missing-person cases spanning 50 years and finds tragic connections and unsolved questions.
Bessy Swain, an elderly woman that Jan finds dead on her search for Aiden, and whose own son, Thomas, was also missing, may have the answers.
Jan uses Bessy's information and her own skills and instinct to track down the missing boys. But is it too late for Aiden?
Set in the North West of England, with the notorious Saddleworth Moor as a backdrop, Random Acts of Unkindness is a story about motherhood, love, and loss and how families of missing people suffer the consequences of major crimes involving their loved ones.
Random Acts of Unkindness is the second in the DS Jan Pearce series of novels. Fans of Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Val McDermid and Mandasue Heller will love this gritty crime novel.
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- Chester 2003
- 08-06-23
Very well written,totally believable
I really enjoyed this book, it was very well written and kept my attention throughout. Well thought out characters and lots of twists tithe plot.
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- Lorna
- 31-03-20
So Many layers and perhaps some trigger warnings.
This story is so much more gritty than the prequel, examining the subjects of missing children, the moors murders and people trafficking from the perspective of the mothers. With a gradually evolving storyline and the viewpoints of two different mothers in two different eras, the detective pieces together the her current case using the clues left by the older woman. Running alongside this her feelings about her own son being a missing person are mirrored in Bessie’s story too.
Harrowing and thought provoking this is a well laid out drama which thoroughly consumed me from start to finish.
Laura’s narration is warm and heartfelt and her Manchester accents softer and more authentic than in the first book.
I am going straight on to read the third book in this trilogy. Though I would say there is little continuity between this and the prequel and I am positive it could be read and enjoyed as a stand alone novel.
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- Aggie
- 04-03-20
Great book
I really enjoyed this book. It's an intriguing and well written story which keeps you captivating the whole way through. It's a psychologiac crime novel where the main character takes you on emotional journey. The narrator did a great job.
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- CM
- 18-04-19
Hope there is more to come
I did enjoy this book and hope there will be more to come in the series. The narrator was excellent. The book it’s self could have done with some tighter editing. Some parts were repetitious however the story was gripping and I found it hard to stop listening.
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- MR
- 22-12-19
Great story
This was a great listen. Good characters and a story with twists and turns that keeps you listening
I really enjoyed it.
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- Claire
- 06-03-20
Gripped until the end
Wonderful book, had me gripped right up to the end. Narrator great, looking forward to listening to the next in the series
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- Ann D
- 03-04-20
Highly Recommended!
This is a new author for me and I look forward to reading/listening to more of her work. This book is very well written, with well drawn characters and a compelling story. So many books in this genre are derivative. This one is not. The story moves seamlessly between North Manchester in the 1960s and the present day. Speaking as someone who grew-up in the area in the 60s, I found it to be well researched and accurate. I had another book lined-up to read straight after this one. However, I have set it aside as I just want to move on to the next in this series.
Many thanks to Bookboom and the author for giving me a free copy of this excellent book in exchange for an honest review.
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- Oops 66
- 24-11-21
Not to my taste
The true life event mentioned many times in this book was the reason I couldn’t continue to the end listened up until chapter 7
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