The Nidderdale Murders, J. R. Ellis
The Nidderdale Murders, J. R. Ellis
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The Nidderdale Murders

Author: J. R. Ellis

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/20/2020

Synopsis

In a Yorkshire Dales village everyone has a motive for murder—except the killer.A retired judge is shot dead outside the Dog and Gun inn in the remote Yorkshire village of Niddersgill. There’s a witness who saw everything, and the gunman’s on the run; the case should be open-and-shut for DCI Jim Oldroyd. But the murderer had no motive for wanting Sandy Fraser dead and, what’s more, no trace of him can be found.As Oldroyd and his team cast the net wider, they discover that Fraser wasn’t without enemies in Niddersgill. As the wealthy owner of a grouse moor, he’d clashed with farmers, debtors, hunt saboteurs and blackmailers. But none of them were at the scene of the murder. And when a local shopkeeper is gunned down in a second senseless attack, it’s clear that these killings are anything but random.Surrounded by the dramatic beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, Oldroyd faces a race against time to connect the crimes and find who’s behind them. But with all the evidence sending him down dead ends, can he get one step ahead before someone else is killed?

About J. R. Ellis

John R. Ellis has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life and has spent many years exploring Yorkshire’s diverse landscapes, history, language and communities. He recently retired after a career in teaching, mostly in further education in the Leeds area. In addition to the Yorkshire Murder Mystery series, he writes poetry, ghost stories and biography. He has completed a screenplay about the last years of the poet Edward Thomas and a work of faction about the extraordinary life of his Irish mother-in-law. He is currently working on his memoirs of growing up in a working-class area of Huddersfield in the 1950s and 1960s.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 12, 2023

This was another strong instalment in J.R. Ellis's DCI Jim Oldroyd / Yorkshire Murder Mysteries series. It's autumn - grouse shooting season - in the Yorkshire Dales and DCI Jim Oldroyd and his team are called out to the village of Niddersgill, where unpopular retired judge and local grouse moor owne......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on August 21, 2020

Once again I've jumped into a mystery series with both feet because of the offer to read an advanced readers copy of the latest book via NetGalley! This mystery works fine as a stand alone--any references to previous cases are briefly explained. This is a police procedural set in the Nidderdale dale......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on July 24, 2020

I would like to thank Netgalley and Amazon Publishing UK for an advance copy of The Nidderdale Murders, the fifth novel to feature DCI Jim Oldroyd ofHarrogate Police. A retired judge is shot dead outside a pub in the fictional Yorkshire village of Niddersgill. Barmaid Kirsty witnesses it all and can......more

Goodreads review by Linda on November 25, 2020

Nidderdale is a remote Yorkshire village of Niddersgill .. not somewhere one would suspect a murder taking place. A retired judge is the victim. He wasn't well liked and almost everyone in the village had a motive. DCI Jim Oldroyd and his team are tasked with the investigation. There just happens to......more

Goodreads review by Judy on August 20, 2020

Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for an e-galley of this novel. This is the fifth book in the series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Jim Oldroyd and his two team members solving the difficult cases in the Yorkshire Dales of England. This is a modern police procedural but the techno......more

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