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.

LJ RossJonathan KeebleAudible StudiosThe DCI Ryan Mysteries

Cosy

Crime

Mystery

Police Procedural

Romance

Romantic Suspense

Fiction

Murder

Suspense

Exciting

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!!