A Spider in the Cup, Barbara Cleverly
A Spider in the Cup, Barbara Cleverly
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A Spider in the Cup

Author: Barbara Cleverly

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/20/2013

Synopsis

At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a missing toe and a priceless gold coin in her mouth. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Joe Sandilands' turf, but he's been given another assignment—and a very high-profile one. London is hosting a historic global economic conference to try to solve the global Depression, and political tensions are running very high, as very influential participants are starting to take positions allied with or staunchly against the rapidly militarizing Germany. Sandilands' job is to protect and keep an eye on the visiting American senator Cornelius Kingstone, right-hand man to President Roosevelt, throughout the conference. When a strange set of coincidences links the river bank body to the senator, Joe realizes his assignment is much bigger than he'd thought, and that Senator Kingstone is caught up in a very dangerous game—one that might cost not just one but thousands of lives.

About Barbara Cleverly

Barbara Cleverly is a former teacher and a graduate of Durham University who now lives in Cambridge. Her debut, The Last Kashmiri Rose, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2002.

About Steven Crossley

Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen

A group of dowsers find a body in a canal. Meanwhile, Joe Sandilands has to protect an American politician. I'm not sure whether this is some kind of spoof or not. It seems campy in places.......more

Goodreads review by Penelope

First of all, as I won this ARC, thanks to Goodreads and the Publisher, Soho Crime. I’m new to Goodreads and it was exciting to win. I look for books published by Soho, their fine international mysteries and period crime. “Spider in the Cup” is first and foremost an espionage novel and anyone expecti......more

Goodreads review by Michele

I received an ARC copy of this book as part of a Goodreads First Reads giveaway. Review to follow. I really liked the parts of the book that I was able to understand what was happening, and I really liked the cover. Other than that, I don't really know what to say. Most of the time I wasn't sure wha......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

This Joe Sandilands novel starts very slowly, and the reading does not flow well. Towards the middle of the book, the old Barbara Cleverly glimpses through the English mist. The story hints at the building German problem, as a few powerful men attempt to manipulate the world. Cleverly has spies and......more

Quotes

“The title (chosen with a nod to Shakespeare) is particularly apt as multiple villains hide beneath the surface of this eleventh adventure starring Scotland Yard’s Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands…[An] involving tale, marked by historical, cultural, and literary references, stiff-upper-lip dialogue, and occasionally surprising wittiness.” Booklist

“[A] suspenseful and intricate tale of honor and betrayal.” Suspense magazine

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