Pyke Mysteries (Books 1 & 3) - Andrew Pepper Audiobook

Written by Andrew Pepper
Read by Jeff Bellamy & Andrew Wincott
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

1. The Last Days Of New Gate
‘A story of high intrigue and low politics, brutal murder and cunning conspiracies . . . tangy and rambunctious stuff!’ Observer

‘Gripping and atmospheric’ Daily Express

‘Enjoyably disturbing . . . likely to leave the reader clamouring for more’ TLS

St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realises that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching.

In his pursuit of the murderer, Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people and, falsely accused of murder himself, he soon faces a death sentence and the gallows. Imprisoned, and with only his uncle and the headstrong, aristocratic daughter of his greatest enemy to help, Pyke must engineer his escape, find the real killer and untangle the web of intrigue that has been spun around him.

A story of intrigue, conspiracy and murder set in 19th-century Britain for fans of Antonia Hodgson, Ripper Street and Patrick Easter.

‘The novel drips with all the atmospheric details of a pre-Victorian murder mystery - “pea-soupers”, dingy lanterns and laudanum’ The Times

‘Pyke ia an intriguingly unfathomable character’ Financial Times

‘Pyke is violent, vengeful and conflicted in the best tradition of detectives. His story takes in grisly murder and torture, and uses 1800s London in the same way that hard-boiled fiction uses Los Angeles as a mirror of a corrupt society’ Time Out

3. Kill-Devil & Water
In London of 1840, the economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital’s poor neighborhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and struggling to shoulder his responsibilities as a father, is in debtors’ prison, having lost his home and reached the edge of bankruptcy. Fitzroy Tilling, now head of the new Metropolitan Police Force gives Pyke his freedom, but in return he must agree to investigate the brutal death of a young biracial woman, who was apparently working as a prostitute. It is not long before another woman turns up dead, and Pyke begins to suspect that he has stumbled on something more sinister, and more far-reaching than the murder of a couple of prostitutes. Pyke’s investigation takes him from the London docks to the sugar plantations of Jamaica, from a fading colonial mansion to the backstreets of the East End in a struggle against ambitious and ruthless enemies, as well as demons of his own.

Sadly The following books appear to have never been release on CD.

2. The Revenge Of Captain Paine.
4. The Detective Branch
5. Bloody Winter