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The Rock

The DCI Ryan Mysteries, Book 18

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The Rock

By: LJ Ross
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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From the number one international best-selling author of Holy Island and Impostor.

From the shadows into the light....

When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot ignore the call to duty.

With one already dead and more human cargo missing from the wreckage, Ryan and his team race to find the remaining souls - before it’s too late and their investigation turns to murder. As they uncover the seedy underbelly of Tyneside, cold and calculated opportunism clashes with the rock-hard arm of the Law, but there’s one thing that proves stronger than stone....

The human spirit.

Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunnit set amidst the spectacular North Eastern landscape.

©2021 LJ Ross (P)2021 Audible, Ltd Cosy Crime Mystery Police Procedural Romance Romantic Suspense Fiction Murder Suspense Exciting
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While impatiently waiting for this to become available on Audible, I read some of the reviews on Amazon, and saw complaints that half of the book was about the interpersonal relationships between all of the main characters, and not enough police procedural.

That is entirely true, but so has every other one of the excellent books in this series! It's one of the traits that make them so thoroughly enjoyable for so many people, me included!

Like many people, I was annoyed that the last two books were split into two, when it clearly should have been one book, and it smacked of the publishers putting profits above all else. Hopefully lessons have been learned from so much criticism of that fact, and it didn't feel as though that had happened again, apart from a nice lead in to a future book.

Wonderful narration as always! I can't contemplate a DCI Ryan book without Jonathan Keeble bringing all of the characters to life. He is a Master of his craft!!

Another brilliant visit to Ryan and his team!

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Well I used to love these books of which beautiful Northumberland was one of the main stars and Ryan was your fairly archetypal flawed genius but now Northumberland is hardly a backdrop and Ryan is so perfect his halo must give him headaches sometimes and the romance is a bit schmultzy - I am not sure where the author will go next and I will follow out of curiosity and loyalty- but ......

Hmmmmm...

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and I know I have to wait for the next one l j ross please keep writing you have helped me in the saddest time of my life when I lost my mum from covid 19 thank you so much x

this was one of the best books I have ever read

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I've waited for the new book to arrive and it didn't dissapoimt...I can't stop listening..love The Author..The Narrator and The all the characters ....cant believe i now have to wait for the next installment to see if they can find their next unsolved case....loved every minute and so sad it has finished...took me 2 days to finishand now I've got the long wait again

Another cracking book

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Sadly so much shorter than the previous books and it does have an impact

Sadly shorter

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