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Silver

Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, now a major BBC TV series for summer 2025

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Silver

By: Chris Hammer
Narrated by: Nicholas Osmond
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 For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping.

He'd vowed never to return to his hometown, Port Silver, and its traumatic memories. But now his new partner, Mandy Blonde, has inherited an old house in the seaside town and Martin knows their chance of a new life together won't come again.

Martin arrives to find his best friend from school days brutally murdered, and Mandy the chief suspect. With the police curiously reluctant to pursue other suspects, Martin goes searching for the killer. And finds the past waiting for him.

He's making little progress when a terrible new crime starts to reveal the truth. The media descend on Port Silver, attracted by a story that has it all: sex, drugs, celebrity and religion. Once again, Martin finds himself in the front line of reporting.

Yet the demands of deadlines and his desire to clear Mandy are not enough: the past is ever present.

An enthralling and propulsive thriller from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Scrublands.

(P)2019 Headline Publishing Group Ltd©2019 Chris Hammer Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction

Critic reviews

Shimmers ... A tortured tale of blood and loss (Val McDermid on 'Scrublands')
Stunning ... Scrublands is that rare combination, a page-turner that stays long in the memory (Sunday Times on 'Scrublands')
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A superb book to listen too. Thank you

Excellent

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Completely hooked in from beginning to end. Narrator did an amazing job. Highly recommend.

Excellent Story Excellent Narration

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An Aussie sitting in London during lockdown being helped to reminisce about growing up in coastal nsw. Thankyou.

Silver

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I enjoyed this book. I had already listened to Scrublands and was looking forward to this one. It has lots of sub stories and then the main one at the centre. Some reviewers have thought this not needed but they do add interest to the background of the main character Martin Scarsdale so I liked this. The narrator was good. I would recommend this book and look forward to the next one.

Good story with lots of twist and turns.

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Such a treat to find an author that writes in a manner that satisfies and leaves me wanting to read / listen to his next book.
Twist turns and edge of the seat story telling at its best.

Another great story from a brilliant writer

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