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Silent Ruin

DCI Harry Grimm Crime Thrillers, Book 14

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Silent Ruin

By: David J. Gatward
Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
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A vanished couple. A disoriented treasure hunter. A body with suspicious injuries.

Harry Grimm is starting to feel like a local–almost. But when his quiet happiness is interrupted by a confused 80-year-old detectorist claiming to have seen Medieval knights fighting in a nearby ruined castle, the chief inspector is forced to investigate the bizarre claims. However, his focus is soon split to a second case when a teen and her boyfriend disappear without a trace.

As the unflappable DCI spearheads the search for the young lovers, he and his team confront conflicting witnesses, spiraling hostilities, and enraged families pointing accusing fingers. And with the aging detectorist continuing to cause disturbances around the village, Grimm takes his muddled statements more seriously after the discovery of a brutally battered corpse.

Can this gruff detective follow the cryptic clues to a killer?

Silent Ruin is the dramatic 14th book in the DCI Harry Grimm Crime Thrillers series. If you like beloved casts of characters, dark mysteries, and rising tension, then you’ll adore David J. Gatward’s transfixing whodunit.

Buy Silent Ruin to decipher whispers of murder today!

Perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, J. D. Kirk, Adam Croft, Simon McCleave, Alex Smith, J. M. Dalgliesh, J. E. Mayhew, and J. R. Ellis.

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Listened in a day!

Love this author and this series of books. I did enjoy the narrator (but his females DO sound like Les Dawson). Think I prefer to read as I lost the thread of the story when I was distracted. I might have to re-listen.

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Book 14

Great new book and narration by Aubrey Parsons. Just love the twists in David's writing. Had worked out who done it but not the twist. Looking forward to next book.

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Love it!

As always, I throughly enjoyed this book. Looking forward to the next book. Recommend the whole series

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Top story as always

Great listen, always a good plot and twist love this series can’t wait for the next one!

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Yet Another Great Story!

Really enjoyed this book, as usual Grimm manages to sort it out just in time and in his own inimitable style!!

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Welcome addition to the series

Listening to one of these is like being reuniting with friends. Strong storyline that moves along at pace. Brilliantly narrated as usual.

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Love hearing about Harry and the Team

Love the story but love even more hearing about the private lives of the characters

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Another excellent book

Absolutley love this series. Excellent storyline, that good I finished it within a day.

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Heartbreaking emotional moments

I was completely involved in this throughout, and enjoyed that a lot less time was spent in the office. I really felt for the team who were very stretched with so much going on, trying to look after everyone and deal with their own emotions as well

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Enjoyable but not usual Grimm standard

I did not enjoy the first two chapters at all, I became quite irritable listening to them in fact, and I'd just switched to this after another book had been irritating me so that did not go down well but I persevered and I'm glad I did although I did not feel that this was up to the usual Grimm standard.

I felt the storyline itself was fine but the execution was lacking, the team seemed to be super slow on the uptake in this one, and then once Grimm had twigged what was going on the ending was hurried. It fell a little flat for me but that may have been down to the previous book that irritated me so much, so I've given it four stars because opinions are subjective and they are also subject to outside influences.

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