The House on Vesper Sands

Written by:
Paraic O'donnell
Narrated by:
Charles Armstrong

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
52
Narrator
16
Release Date
January 2021
Duration
10 hours 21 minutes
Summary
With all the wit of a Jane Austen novel, and a case as beguiling as any in Sherlock Holmes's casebook, Paraic O'Donnell introduces a detective duo for the ages, and slowly unlocks the secrets of a startling Victorian mystery.



London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress choose to jump out of that window? Why is there a cryptic message sewn into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances?



On the case is Gideon Bliss, a young Cambridge dropout who is in love with one of the missing girls, and his partner Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. There's also Octavia Hillingdon, a young reporter determined to tell stories that feel important despite her employer's preference that she write a women's society column. By turns clever, surprising, and impossible to put down, The House on Vesper Sands peels back the mystery layer by layer, offering in the strange undertow of late nineteenth-century London a startling glimpse at the secrets we all hold inside us.
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Sarah K.

Long winded Victorian tale with a twist of fantasy added that amounts to a lackluster story, don’t waste nine hours of your time.

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Carol W.

Great narrator. Stupid Book.

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Yvonne E.

Exquisite command of language and dialogue mastery . Characters were terrifically fleshed out and further brought to life by the brilliant narrative skills . A delightful investment if my time !

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Judi Jeanotte

This wasn't a type of story I normally read but it was highly enjoyable. If there were more stories with the inspector and his Sargent I would read them The narration was good and I was able to keep the characters apart for most of the time, though sometimes the dialect made that difficult

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Anonymous

Well narrated and the text at times is incredibly entertaining. I found the story line an unconvincing mix of mystery and science fiction and the characters are not as well developed as I’d like, but I listened and enjoyed it well enough. Again, hats off to the narrator who put interest into the text that would otherwise have been somewhat flat.

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Razorette

Very good mystery story all the way to the end. I’ll be on the lookout for the authors newest book coming out soon!

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Rachel Horsley

twists! Great narration and totally enjoyable. I would read more of these characters, for sure.

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Michael Hayes

It was an OK mystery with somewhat decent Characters but for some reason it was hard for me to stay interested. I may try the next one in the series to see if it was just me.

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Bonnie M.

Lack luster

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