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The Murder Bag

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The Murder Bag

By: Tony Parsons
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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Twenty years ago seven students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the corridors of power. As the bodies pile up, Max finds he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life....

The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime-novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this.

©2014 Tony Parsons (P)2014 W.F. Howes Ltd
Crime Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Exciting Scary Mystery

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Critic reviews

"Propulsive ... If The Murder Bag marks the launch of a new crime series, count me in." ( The Times)
"A tense debut crime novel with a dose of dry wit" ( Daily Express)
"Impressive, page-turning ... Told with conviction and at an ever increasing pace" ( Daily Mail)
"Truly emotive crime-writing is a rarity, and The Murder Bag looks set to win Tony Parsons many new fans in the genre" ( GQ)
"Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic." (Lee Child)
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Most of this book was exciting and captivating and very well narrated. It flows along very nicely until the final hour when it didnt really resolve very well at all - or maybe I was a feeling a bit tired. It was as if Tony parsons suddenly 'lost the plot' All that apart it was a good listen and I am sure it will become a good series over time.

Almost but not quite.

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The story was great, likeable main character, good plot with plenty of twists and turns, but you'll have to put up with the awful Sam Spade narration. I almost gave up after 5 minutes, it's so grating. Stick with it, eventually you'll build up an immunity.

Worth it, despite the narration

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I hesitated to buy this book because of some of the reviews but I'm so glad I did. At one or two points I feared the story was going to be somewhat predictable but I'm pleased to say I was wrong. Quite the reverse! I hope this is the start of a series. The narrator was excellent; just right for the voice of Max Wolfe.

Refreshingly good

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Fantastic story, excellently acted/read, wonderfully written! Steamed through this and already downloaded the next one !! Who doesn’t like a flawed main character and a whodunnit!!

Great story

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Something different to the standard American style pulp where it is all so simple to get the bad guy. Our bad guys are politicians/lawyers and always stand in the gray, so they do nothing but always get paid...scum

Something different

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