The Basement, Stephen Leather
The Basement, Stephen Leather
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The Basement

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 4 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2011

Synopsis

New York is a city full of strangers. For NYPD detectives Turner and Marcinko, none are harder to figure out than the serial killer on the loose torturing and killing young women. In fact, right now, somewhere in the city, a woman is being held captive in a basement and it is up to the detectives to find her and the killer—before it’s too late.As pressure mounts on Turner and Marcinko, their prime suspect is screenwriter wannabe Marvin Waller. He is becoming increasingly frustrated by his lack of success and the cops think he might be channeling his anger into murder—but he doesn’t seem to be at all concerned that they are hot on his trail. As Turner and Marcinko close in on Waller they have to wonder: is he the killer? And if he isn’t—who is?Fusing shifting viewpoints with a growing sense of dread and almost unbearable suspense, the UK’s thriller master Stephen Leather arrives on the shores of the United States with The Basement, his most terrifying work to date.

About Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers. He was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London’s Burning, The Knock and the BBC’s Murder in Mind series. The Stretch and The Bombmaker were filmed for TV. His ebooks have spent more than six months on the UK Kindle Top 100 and for several months he had four titles in the UK Kindle Top 10. You can find out more from his website, www.stephenleather.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on February 06, 2011

Not even sure what I liked about this book. The killer's narrative was appropriately grim but compelling and, thank God, no overload of gore or nasty details. However, the deluded writer just irritated me. I'm aware that he was supposed to be smug and unlikeable but that didn't make him any easier t......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 10, 2022

This book has been sitting on my Kindle waiting to be read for ages. I'm not even sure how long, but I suspect I picked it up when I got my first Kindle - and I'm now on my third! It's a very well written thriller / psychological suspense book with an ending that will kick you fairly and squarely in......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on December 13, 2011

what a twist at the end of this wow A must read.......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on April 30, 2014

At just over 100 pages this is a short story but superbly written. I used to watch a series on the BBC called Murder in Mind and when I was reading this book, the dark comedy aspects reminded me of the series. I was then reading about Stephen Leather and discovered that he actually wrote some of the......more

Goodreads review by Debbi on March 07, 2016

I have to confess that when my own books began to climb the ranks on Amazon UK, my first thought upon looking at the other names up at the top was, "Who the heck is Stephen Leather?" It even sounded like a name I should know. Yet, I couldn't recall ever seeing his books before. So, I checked on Amaz......more

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