The Great Darkness, Jim Kelly
The Great Darkness, Jim Kelly
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The Great Darkness

Author: Jim Kelly

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 07/01/2018


Synopsis

Cambridge, 1939. The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout – The Great Darkness – covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force. Brooke investigates, calling on the expertise and inspiration of a faithful group of fellow “nighthawks” across the city, all condemned, like the detective, to a life lived away from the light. Within hours The Great Darkness has claimed a second victim. War, it seems, has many victims, but what links these crimes of the night?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on September 01, 2019

this novel took awhile to get going but about half way through the plot it started to get going. based in the early stages of ww2 Cambridge and the great darkness where several deaths are investigated by detective Brooke and the past.......more

Goodreads review by Sherrie on September 12, 2024

Disappointing, I struggled to give this three stars. Too slow developing, quite complex, I kept forgetting who was who and just wanted to get to the end. Sorry Jim!......more