The Great Escape
The Partho Mystery Series, Book 3
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The Great Escape
Buy Now for £11.99
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Narrated by:
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Shawn Goodman Jones
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By:
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Rajib Mukherjee
About this listen
A new strain of the virus, COVID-30, has brought the world to its knees. Amid escalating tensions between nations and a falling economy, finding the virus' true cause becomes essential in the race to find the vaccine. Dreadful memories of COVID-19 from the previous decade surge up in people's minds.
As the world struggles in the shackles of the deadly virus, an unforeseen situation emerges. Top billionaires in various parts of the world fall dead. When Betsy, his dear friend, suddenly disappears, and Tom, her husband, succumbs to a heart attack, Partho is unwittingly drawn into the most intriguing case of the century.
Partho makes a host of enemies when his team dig up Tom's grave in Cochin. What they find opens a can of worms. There was no corpse in the coffin!
CBI hands over the case to the FBI. Partho and team find themselves on a grave-digging mission, crossing the boundaries of nations. His investigation reveals that all the deaths were from similar symptoms. Cardiac arrest!
Who is stealing the corpses? To what end?
Partho realizes how deep the conspiracy runs when he discovers the link between the new strain of the virus and the mysterious missing corpses. The only way to unravel the truth is to face it head-on. Can Partho figure it out before it's too late? Find out in book three of the Partho Mystery series.
©2021 Rajib Mukherjee (P)2021 Rajib MukherjeeListener received this title free
The inclusion of the new pandemic, Covid 30, should give an immediacy to this story, but with no further convincing support for it's presence other than a single victim, it almost felt like an intrusive irrelevancy set up in the story for no real reason. The rest of the tale, however, is very intriguing although a somewhat unbelievable muddle of solution was disappointing. Much more enjoyable than the two previous books, however, possible because of the new narrator: Shawn Goodman Jones has a pleasing reading voice and takes both alternating first person chapters of Partho and brother-in-law, Dave. I was surprised to discover that Partho, with an investigative style similar to Sherlock Holmes, was relatively young: from previous stories I had assumed he must be at least in late middle age! It would have been improved, however, if two narrators had each taken one of the two story tellers as the voicing were too similar.
My thanks to the rights holder of The Great Escape who freely gifted me with a complimentary copy. It was an enjoyable book, although editing could have made it better. But fun to read and this new narrator made the listening pleasure much greater. At approximately four and a half hours this is a quick and interesting read.
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