Indeed, I really liked his team member DI Becky Robinson who seemed so perceptive and down to earth. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. Nothing is straightforward and the more I read, the more I started to empathise with Martha who, at least in the beginning, comes across as a very detached and almost too clinical character.

The police murder investigation is interwoven with a mystery concerning why Martha Porter feels she has to run away. I am delighted to be able to participate in the blog tour to celebrate its launch bwith an extract and to offer a great Giveaway - a print copy of the book. When Tom Douglas and his team arrive at the offices, a young woman, an employee of the firm, Martha Porter, flees, hoping to avoid speaking to the police.The two stories swirl apart and ultimately coalesce, raising disturbing issues of mental manipulation and control of a group’s collective psyche. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, read by Noako Mori.

If you are already a fan of Rachel Abbott books, you expect to already be into the murder, or at least on your way to it, by the end of the first page; this story is different. This was followed by the number one bestselling novels The Back Road, Sleep Tight, Stranger Child, Nowhere Child (a short novel based on the characters from Stranger Child), Kill Me Again, The Sixth Window, Come a Little Closer, The Shape of Lies, Right Behind You and Close Your Eyes.Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. I like my thrillers to keep me guessing and trying to predict what will happen, and that's why I have enjoyed this book so much. When Martha disappears, immediately after Genevieve's murder, she puts herself right into the limelight.

Rachel's novels have now been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 5 million copies. Eliminate negativity and change your life with best-selling author, happiness expert and life coach Domonique Bertolucci. Bringing their own unique and counter-balanced personalities to proceedings they ask questions such as: what is happiness? It is those quieter moments that provide a welcome offset to the darkness in Martha's story, the proof that family life can be positive and uncomplicated. This grossly oversimplified understanding has created many complexities in our lives and taken away from us the very fundamentals of the joy of living.

When Tom Douglas and his team arrive at the offices, a young woman, Martha Porter, flees, hoping to avoid speaking to the police. Although this is the 9th book in the Tom Douglas series it would hold it’s own as a stand-alone due to Rachel’s clever writing and back history. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. I was born and brought up in the north of England, and worked for many years as the managing director of an interactive media company. Access to the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, including exclusive series.