The Black Hand, Will Thomas
The Black Hand, Will Thomas
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The Black Hand

Author: Will Thomas

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/11/2017


Synopsis

When an Italian assassin's body is found floating in a barrel in Victorian London's East End, enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn are called in to investigate. Soon corpses begin to appear all over London, each accompanied by a Mafia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the vendettas of rival Italian syndicates—and it is no longer clear who is a friend or foe.

About Will Thomas

Will Thomas is the author of the Barker and Llewelyn series, including Anatomy of Evil and Fatal Enquiry, as well as The Black Hand, The Hellfire Conspiracy, The Limehouse Text, To Kingdom Come, and the Shamus and Barry Award-nominated Some Danger Involved. He lives in Oklahoma.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bev on April 27, 2022

Private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn begin their fifth recorded case at the docks of London's East End. The bodies of an Italian assassin and his wife, who was just as deadly as her husband and never far from his side, are discovered floating in a barrel near the dock......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on March 03, 2009

I'm going to go out on a limb and give this 5 stars. It is the fifth book after all. And usually by book #5, I expect the author not to care so much, since he already has his readership hooked. But no! Barker & Llewelyn are as fresh as ever and the book is as good, if not better, than the first one.......more

Goodreads review by Carl on January 10, 2009

Both fun and thoughtful. Real insight into what London at the dawn of Scotland Yard must have been like. And the beginnings of what we know today to be the world of the Private Investigator. This is another Barker and Llewelyn adventure. As the title suggests, they take on the Mafia as the Sicilians......more

Goodreads review by Lou on June 17, 2024

A binge of a series in books instead of video takes a while. I'm trying not to hurry through them. Here is my review of book 5 of the Will Thomas series featuring a wonderfully mismatched set of Victorian enquiry agents in London. Yes, it is a great idea to read these in order. The characterizations o......more

Goodreads review by erforscherin on January 17, 2016

I was ready to swear off this series, but when faced with a week's worth of computer upgrade work and this book for company, I gave in for one last round. I don't quite know what to think of this series, really. All the right pieces are in place - I enjoy the historical asides, the main characters an......more