The Football Murder
About this audiobook
OBSESSIONS CAN TURN DEADLY.
Eric Ward has a new client: Dieter Barschell. He’s an ex-professional footballer charged with dealing drugs at a Newcastle racecourse.
Eric secures bail for his client. He also precipitates a murder investigation.
While defending Barschell, Eric antagonizes one of the prosecution witnesses, DCI Charlie Spate.
Can the two men work together to try to resolve this mess?
This time Eric’s client has connections that stretch far beyond Tyneside.
He soon finds himself having to protect a German journalist, Hannah Witt, who believes the case is connected to her homeland.
Will he be able to tie up all the loose ends before more people get hurt?
About the author
Roy Lewis (1933–2019) was a well-established crime writer with more than sixty novels to his name. He lived in the north of England, where he set many of his books. He was a former college principal and Inspector of Schools who ran business training programs and had business interests in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. His three children are all lawyers. He also wrote books on law under the pen name J. R. Lewis.
British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.
