Under Violent Skies

Name: Under Violent Skies
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Judi Daykin
ISBN: 9781666102345

Author: Judi Daykin

Series: DI Sara Hirst #1

Narrator: Shiromi Arserio

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/20/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

Set under the brooding skies of North Norfolk. Meet Sara Hirst as she searches for her lost father and finds that great beauty sometimes conceals great violence.

Detective Sara Hirst has moved from London to Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit. She wants to know the truth about her father, who has connections to the area. Her mother won't tell her the real story.

A new job. A new place. Same old problems.

Sara's first call-out is to a decomposing body discovered in a ditch on a local farm. How does the murder relate to a recent spate of thefts? Who wanted the victim dead?

Then the case grows very personal . . .

Contains mature themes.

About Judi Daykin

British born and Yorkshire bred, Judi Daykin has lived, worked, and made theater in Norfolk for the last forty years. She completed her masters in creative writing (crime fiction) at the University of East Anglia in the UK, and her debut novel was shortlisted for the Little, Brown UEA writer's prize in 2019.

Judi is also a working actor, and has been known to twiddle the knobs on the sound desk for the variety shows at Cromer Pier. She runs her own theater company, Broad Horizons, specializing in commissioning new plays recovering and retelling women's stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda

Detective Sara Hirst is starting her first day at the Serious Crimes unit, leaving behind the Met where she once worked, and her family. On a personal note, Sara wanted to leave London in order to find her father who evidently left and never looked back. Her mother won't talk about it to anyone, and......more

Goodreads review by Laur

This story captured and held my attention, from beginning to end. Suspense and tension sets the stage when a partially decomposed body of a man is found in a ditch on a local farm. A mystery emerges that needs to be solved that hits close to home, and later proves to be very personal to someone on t......more

Goodreads review by Bill

For me, the setting on the Norfolk coast was near perfect. A few years ago I had the good fortune to spend Holy Week visiting my brilliant niece Violet in Norwich, where she was a fellow at UEA, whilst staying at The Manor Hotel in Mundesley. Much of Under Violent Skies takes place within a few kilo......more

Goodreads review by Robin Loves

DS Sara Hirst has just begun a new job as a black woman in a mostly white environment. From the very start she is met with racism and sexism, even hazing from some at the police station from those who didn't think she deserved the job, so jealousy was also a factor. As Sara starts to work on her fir......more