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 Ex-cop Bierce has been in prison for over 20 years, following his conviction for the murders of his wife and son. He has no memory of the tragedy and has never been able to say with certainty that he didn't do it - except he cannot imagine why on earth he would have killed his beloved family.

Unexpectedly released moments before his execution, he teams up with the beautiful, feisty, half-Chinese Alice Loong, who is seeking answers to her own troubled past and the death of her mother on that same day in 1983.

Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more than he is telling about his wife's death, the pair embark on a dangerous race against time to uncover the real truth about the events of that fateful day...

©2007 David Hewson (P)2007 WF Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Crime Marriage
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I really enjoyed this book and will listen to more from this author. It makes such a difference to have a good narrator.

good story and good narration

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Promised Land has a really interesting structure - beginning with an execution situation (death row) that drew me in, and then following the protagonist closely every hour of the day. But what was so brilliant, was Hewson's writing, which made the personalities of the main character and his companion so convincing,and their experiences over the few days of the unfolding plot, Utterly compelling. The calm,passive life world of Biers, and his sardonic wit and weary cynicism, were brought out by details - opening a new style of beer can - and I was on his side from the start! I listened to it, ....and listened to it again straight away, it was so good!

utterly brilliant!

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Read the reviews and thought i'd leave this one because i didn't agree with some points the other readers raised. Personally i liked the narrator's voice it was perfect for the main protaganist. I didn't think it was a slow start; the whole idea of the book is that you really like the main character but , and he's not sure of his innocence himself, you wonder through out if he really did do the horrible things everyone thinks he did. To build up that kind of uncertainty you need to do quite a lot of meandering. Meandering makes it sound like a boring listen but each meander is quite action packed and exciting so the book is far from dull. Also I'm not sure if anyone else mentioned this, the book is funny, with well written characters and dialogue. In it's way it is very suspenseful

loved this book!

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I have read and listened to other books by this author set in Italy and in Holland. I much preferred those books. This one reminded me of the worst Harry Bosch novel (Nine Dragons) - too much happening in too short a time and little of it believable. The book got off to a good start though. The narrator was awful, so slow, until I sped it up to 1.2x and then I found the narration to be pretty good. I’ll stick to Hewson’s books set in Europe in future (and to all those other Harry Bosch books by Connolly).

A bit disappointing

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This is a book I probably wouldn't have 'got into' very quickly had I been reading it, but listening to the narrator telling the story it was compelling. I thoroughly enjoyed every word and listened to it - to and from work every day in my car. Brilliant - and quite different to the Italian novels.

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