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When We Were Killers

By: C.F. Barrington
Narrated by: Thoren Ferguson
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Five friends. One deadly obsession.

The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. It is a place where privilege counts, and those from the right backgrounds can get away with murder.

Finn is quickly seduced into a new circle of friends – four history scholars obsessed with the deepest roots of ancient Scotland – who sweep him away on wild adventures to forgotten castles and faerie lochs.

But he soon discovers the darker sides of his new friends: deadly rivalries, midnight rituals, and a desperate search for a long-lost hallucinogen. And as Finn sinks into a world where he can't always trust what he's seen each night, the group will learn just how deadly obsession can be…

A shocking fever-dream of a thriller perfect for fans M.L. Rio's If We Were Villains, Ashley Winstead's In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Ellie Keel's The Four.

C.F. Barrington is the author of the Pantheon thriller series about a deadly battle royale game featuring a cast of characters fighting for their lives on the rooftops of Edinburgh. The first book, The Wolf Mile, was published in 2021.

©2025 Saga Egmont (P)2025 Saga Egmont Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scotland Dream

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Saltburn meets The Secret History.
-- Ian Rankin
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I rarely review - but the editing on this is the worst I’ve ever come across on audible. Even at 1.5x speed there were huge pauses of over 5 seconds in the middle of dialogue. If it weren’t for my enjoyment of the Pantheon series I would have given up.

Terrible editing

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The narrator was good but there were so many loooooong pauses, it was really off putting. I kind of liked the story in the beginning but very little actually happened until the last quarter of the book and then it was a bit underwhelming

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