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Born in a Burial Gown

DI Avison Fluke, Book 1

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Born in a Burial Gown

By: M. W. Craven
Narrated by: John Banks
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The first gritty thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show.

Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless.

Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site.

Shot once in the back of the head, it is a cold, calculated execution. When the postmortem reveals she has gone to significant expense in disguising her appearance, Fluke knows this is no ordinary murder.

With the help of a psychotic ex-Para, a gangland leader and a woman more interested in maggots than people, Fluke must find out who she was and why she was murdered before he can even think about finding her killer.

©2019 M. W. Craven (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK Crime Thrillers Modern Detectives Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime

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"Deeply layered, fiendishly clever and absorbing." (Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter series)

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Was a very great story, Missed Poe and Tilly. Did enjoy the new characters. Enjoyed the plot but didn't see the twist at the end. great narration

same but different

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i enjoy the Craven-Banks combo. Banks has one of the best voices for this kind of read and is firmly identified as Washington Poe from Craven's brilliant other series.

Having recently read The Puppet Show, i was keen for more Poe. Fluke is basically Poe by another name -- same personality, same fight with Council over housing, similar taste in girlfriends -- to the point where i wondered why we needed a new character. This one works okay though.

The story is reasonably engrossing. Not up there with the best Poe books but enjoyable.

Washington Poe mark 2

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