Aphrodite
Written by Russell Andrews
Narrated by Buck Schirner
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Whenever the word Aphrodite is whispered somebody dies. The victims never know what it meant: is it a person, a product, a code word - what? And why is keeping its meaning secret, so important?
Justin Westwood has retreated from reality by taking a menial post with the police department in Long Island. Mindless traffic duty and a lot of booze stop him reliving the past, but his dormant professionalism is reluctantly awakened when he realises that the death of a young journalist is deliberate, not accidental.
Retracing the woman's movements in the hours before her death, Justin learns she's been in trouble for quoting some erroneous facts in an obituary of a man who had been living in the local old people's home. Not the sort of mistake which normally brings a duo of professional hitmen to the door of a fallible reporter, and certainly not one which brings the FBI into town.
As Justin attempts to unravel the puzzle, he finds someone is a step ahead of him, disposing of witnesses and setting him up for the rap. Realising he has to face real life at its starkest if he is to survive, he goes solo - and finds himself at the centre of one of the greatest conspiracies of his time.
Praise for Russell Andrews
'A fast moving thriller in the Grisham genre' Sunday Telegraph
'I defy you to figure out who dunnit, why they dunnit, or how they dunnit' Janet Evanovich
Russell Andrews
Russell Andrews is a pseudonym for Peter Gethers. Under the Andrews name, he has written three international bestselling thrillers, Gideon, Icarus, and Aphrodite. When using his real name, he is a screenwriter, novelist, publisher, and the author of three bestselling nonfiction books, The Cat Who Went to Paris, A Cat Abroad, and The Cat Who’ll Live Forever.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An elderly man dies and the reporter who wrote his obituary is killed. Neither looks like homicide until Justin Westwood started looking. Westwood is a young but worn out cop just passing the time in a crime free Long Island berg. Two deaths seem to spawn more and the tale unfolds. Andrews tells a compelling story and this is as good as his others.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5fast paced
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More than fantasic, superb reading, so convincing that I began to wonder, could this story be true??????? A thriller that keeps you turning pages wanting to find out what will happen next, will the innocent survive? Read it and find out for yourself!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a fairly decent thriller. Nothing fantastic about it but it was a good solid read, which didn't take long to finish. Weighs in at about 450 pages.Set in America, the main character is former hot shot detective who went to hide out in a sleepy town after a tragedy killed his wife and daughter. He's been giving our parking tickets for years, is seriously unfit and likes a few drinks every night. Now he's got a multiple murder case, and the shadowy perpetrators are now looking to silence him as well...