Murder in the Gallowgate

Daniel Sellers

Jul 2024 · Detective Lola Harris Mystery Book 1 · Bolinda · Narrated by Karen Bartke

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Detective Lola Harris returns from a miserable solo holiday – an effort to get over her useless ex – only to find herself in charge of a high-stakes investigation. She rushes to a crime scene in the historic Gallowgate neighbourhood. The smell in the basement is thick and sweet, even through Lola’s forensic mask. The old wooden chair and the rope hanging from its arms are stained red. The earth below is saturated with blood. Six candleholders, their lights burned out, lend the scene an air of a completed ritual. And yet there is no sign of a body. A smashed-up phone in the corner puts the investigators on the trail of a local politician who has vanished without trace and a controversial artist who died 30 years ago on a remote Hebridean island. Lola will have to work with the most obnoxious detective in Glasgow if she’s going to stop the killer from striking again.

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Neville Townsend

July 1, 2024

Back from holiday Detective Lola Harris is given the lead of a murder investigation and work with a very unpopular detective. A well paced novel with good characterisations. This is the first in the series and a very good start it is. Karen Bartke is an excellent narrator and her accents are good. She flips through characters easily and you know who's speaking. Thanks to Bolinda audio and Netgalley for this review copy.

About the author

Daniel Sellers grew up in Yorkshire. He has lived and worked in Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, and Vaasa in Finland. He now lives in Argyll with his partner and a wheaten terrier called Rasmus. Daniel loves crime fiction, old and new, particularly the work of Margaret Murphy, Mo Hayder, Ruth Rendell, P D James and Josephine Tey.

Karen Bartke is an actor and voice artist from Glasgow, Scotland. She is best known for her portrayal of Officer Karen in BBC Scotland mockumentary Scot Squad; for her roles in the New York Times’ #1 bestselling Audible version of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and as the winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Debut Performance in My Name Is. She has appeared in more than 40 audio dramas and comedies for Radio 4 and Audible and has narrated 11 novels to date.

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