London Falling, Audio Book
Saturday, February 10, 2024
London Falling, Audio Book (2014) Paul Cornell narrated by Damian Lynch (Shadow Police)
TW: child abuse, child death, murder, torture, faked suicide, general horribleness.
He’d been out, sort of, at his last nick. A few of the lads had asked, so he’d told them. And then his DI, Pete Grieves, had, too, over a pint—deliberately nothing official. “I should think you qualify us for some sort of grant, lad, representing two minorities for the price of one,” he’d said. Sefton had laughed along, only realizing later how the conversation had left him feeling … he still didn’t know how he felt about it.
Quill knew one old lag who’d been successfully cautioned with “Get in the fucking van, you’re nicked,” but that one had heard the full standard caution on forty-three previous occasions, and was thus claimed to have got the idea by now.
Maybe if she went to sleep and woke up again, her brain would reset and it would all then be gone …
Costain held up a hand and went into overdrive. “You know what you get when you Google ‘West Ham’ now? Serial killer, serial killer, serial killer … oh, look, there’s also some news about your FA Cup run, there on the third page. Only saving grace is, you’re helping to catch this killer by cooperating so fully. Yeah, I will speak to your chairman, that’d be nice.”
Publisher: Audible Studios
Rating: 8.5/10
- Categories: 8.5/10, Audio Book, British, Fantasy, Good Cover, Mental Health Rep, Mystery, Police, Queer, Reread, Urban
- Tags: Damian Lynch, Grief, Paul Cornell, PTSD, Shadow Police, Trigger Warnings, Violence
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