‘Flawed’ by Jo Bannister
Published by Soundings Audio Book.
ISBN: 978-1-84559-703-0. (9 CD’S)
Read by Patience Tomlinson

Brodie Farrell, divorced, with a young daughter, is a successful businesswoman running a search agency, ‘Looking for Something?’ in the fictional South Coast town of Dimmock. Right now, the last thing she needs is to discover that she is pregnant by her ex-lover Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon. Despite the difficulties of the relationship between them both, Brodie is going ahead with the pregnancy and Deacon is delighted to learn of his impending fatherhood but bitterly jealous of the friendship between Brodie and the loving and loyal Daniel Hood  who steps in to support Brodie in her business. Deacon also has to deal with the cold and determined Detective Inspector Alix Hyde who has been sent in by the Serious Organised Crime Agency to bring to justice a local villain, the wily and manipulative Terry Walsh who may be involved in the death by drowning of the Achille Bello, an Albanian Mafioso. Hyde has her own ways of pursuing her aims, ignoring Deacon’s advice which is based  on long experience and local knowledge. Even Sergeant Charley Voss, seconded by Deacon to assist Hyde, is unable to restrain her juggernaut approach to the investigation. Meanwhile Daniel is involved with young Noah Selkirk, who may be the victim of physical abuse from his father, a well-known local solicitor who acts for Terry Walsh.

Essentially this is a story about how facts which appear on the surface to have one interpretation may truly have a quite different meaning. It is this, rather than the crime element, which gives the story its depth and significance.

The reading by Patience Tomlinson is excellent.
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Radmila May