The Scandal, Mari Hannah
The Scandal, Mari Hannah
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The Scandal

Author: Mari Hannah

Narrator: Colleen Prendergast

Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orion

Published: 03/07/2019


Synopsis

'Brand new series. Same top-notch writing.' Eva Dolan

When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for.

She IDs the victim as Herald court reporter, thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she's known since they were kids. With no eyewitnesses, the MIT are stumped. They discover that when Adams went out, never to return, he was working on a scoop that would make his name. But what was the story he was investigating? And who was trying to cover it up?

As detectives battle to solve the case, they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head. The exposé has put more than Adams' life in danger. And it's not over yet.

About Mari Hannah

Mari Hannah is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author/screenwriter. She writes across three crime series: DCI Kate Daniels (in development for TV with Sprout Pictures & Atlantic Nomad); Stone & Oliver and Ryan & O'Neil. Among her numerous awards is a Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library 2017. In 2019, Mari was the programming chair of Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. In 2020, she was the recipient of Capital Crime International Crime Writing Festival's Crime Book of the Year. She lives in rural Northumberland with her partner, an ex-murder detective.


Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on March 06, 2019

The Scandal is the third novel in the Newcastle based detectives DCI David Stone and DS Frankie Oliver series, and it's the best yet. The action creates a tense, anticipatory atmosphere that runs throughout with concurrent storylines that are equally as entertaining as one another. You find that jus......more

Goodreads review by Thebooktrail on March 04, 2019

Visit the locations in the novel The third and hopefully not the last of the Stone and Oliver books! This one is more personal for Frankie and delves deep into her older friendships and acquaintances around the city. When someone who she knew in childhood dies, things get very personal and it’s a tr......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on February 14, 2019

I would like to thank Netgalley and Orion Publishing Group for an advance copy of The Scandal, the third novel to feature Newcastle based detectives DCI David Stone and DS Frankie Oliver. When Frankie is called out to a murder scene she is horrified to recognise the victim as her childhood friend Chr......more

Goodreads review by Kate on March 08, 2019

How I love DS Frankie Oliver and DC I David Stone.... the relationship between them is wonderfully depicted as is the novel's mystery, which is a particularly difficult one for Frankie but a fascinating one for us. Review to follow shortly on For Winter Nights.......more

Goodreads review by Renita on December 05, 2019

Thrilling......more


Quotes

Mari Hannah is a class act when it comes to writing crime and The Scandal is no exception. Pitch perfect police procedural. Living Magazine

Another top-notch thriller that's gripping, right to the thrilling end. Peterborough Evening Telegraph