Hell Bay

Barker & Llewelyn, Book 8

De: Will Thomas

Narrado por: Antony Ferguson

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.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"Thomas supplies plenty of suspects and red herrings, ratcheting up the tension steadily as he winnows the targets to make this period adventure one of his best." ( Kirkus)

Good read

This novel represents a solid addition to the series. While it's well written and interesting, it's also a bit ludicrous in the same sense as a B horror movie. Even so, I recommend it. It's the best of the And Then There Were None style mysteries that I've read.

Great atmospheric mystery!

This one had some complicated twists and secondary plots, so I had to listen to it twice through to grasp the genius of the plot. I really enjoyed this, and it's now one of my favourites in this series!!!

Fun listen

The narration on all these books is outstanding. Great storyline and I was kinda surprised in who done it!

Adventure on an island

Thomas and Barker are tasked with protection detail on an isolated island, only for everything to go horribly wrong as members of the family begin to be murdered. In the locked room style, with no escape of the island, Thomas, Barker, Phillips, and the guest fight to survive while flushing out the culprit.

More classic mystery than usual

These stories tend to be full of details about historical (Victorian) London and related countries, as well as glimpses of China via background on Mr. Barker. This one was more of a classical locked-on-an-English-estate mystery, but with some twists on the Agatha Christie model. Good fun, trying times for our heroes!

Best of the series so far!

This is like Most Dangerous Game meets Clue in its typical clever style! My favorite of the series so far! Can't wait for more!

Awesome series!

I love this series and this was the best so far! The story is suspenseful, the characters are perfect and the narration is the best! Highly recommended.

fairly good parker-l series. jam-packed with actio

a pretty good series jam packed with action in the narrator was very good this is probably one of the best Barker Llewellyn series that I've read so far. very interesting involving multiple continents and international intrigue

One of the best in this series

Overall very good series and this is one of my favorites books in the series so far.

This is my favorite series!!

This book is one of the best in the series so far, looking forward to the next one! Anthony Ferguson is the perfect narrator for the Barker Llewellyn stories!
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
Our duo has been hired to protect a family on an island, and the mystery itself is a very good one, with a couple of twists here and there.
Two thumbs up from me!