Hell Bay, Will Thomas
Hell Bay, Will Thomas
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Hell Bay

Author: Will Thomas

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/11/2017


Synopsis

At the request of Her Majesty's government, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker agrees to take on his least favorite kind of assignment—he's to provide security for a secret conference with the French government. The conference is to take place on the private estate of Lord Hargrave on a remote island off the coast of Cornwall. The goal of the conference is the negotiation of a new treaty with France. The cover story for the gathering is a house party—an attempt to introduce Lord Hargrave's two unmarried sons to potential mates.

But shortly after the parties land at the island, Lord Hargrave is killed by a sniper shot, and the French ambassador’s head of security is found stabbed to death. The only means of egress from the island—a boat—has been sent away, and the means of signaling for help has been destroyed. Trapped in a manor house with no way of escape, Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, must uncover which among them is the killer before the next victim falls.

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 Patrick on January 14, 2020

Godolphin Island, one of the Scilly isles off the tip of Cornwall, provides the isolated setting for Thomas’s uneven eighth Victorian mystery (after 2015’s Anatomy of Evil). Private detective Cyrus Barker and his sidekick, Thomas Llewelyn, set out for the island at the request of Lord Hargrave, who......more

Goodreads review by Cherie on April 21, 2020

The story reminded me of Christie's "And Then There Were None". That is how it started out, any way, although with lots more people.......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on October 31, 2016

The format of this book is different than the other books in the series. Once you figure that out, just strap in for the ride. I loved this book! It's very Agatha Christie-esque with everyone being trapped on a basically deserted island and a mysterious sniper picking people off one by one. Barker a......more

Goodreads review by Glen on January 03, 2017

I won this novel in a goodreads drawing. Barker and Llewelyn get hired for security at a manor at which there will be treaty discussions. The manor is on a sea island with little communication with the mainland. Soon enough there are gruesome murders, and Barker and Llewelyn have to find a way to sto......more

Goodreads review by Ladyhawk on May 01, 2024

3.5 Stars. I love this series. This story moved away from the norm of Barker and Llewellyn traversing across London and instead had them confined to a remote island with a vicious killer on the loose.......more