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  • A Private Business

  • Hakim and Arnold, Book 1
  • By: Barbara Nadel
  • Narrated by: Paul Thornley
  • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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A Private Business

By: Barbara Nadel
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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Publisher's Summary

It is London 2012 and Stratford in the East End is at the centre of the world. But next to the Olympic Park are some of the poorest and most crime-ridden streets in the city. PI Lee Arnold and his assistant, Mumtaz Hakim, run a detective agency in a community fraught with conflict and tension. Approached by a frightened woman, they start to investigate her stalker. But soon their enquiries turn in a far more sinister direction.

©2012 Barbara Nadel (P)2013 Quercus Publishing Plc / WF Howes

Critic Reviews

"A compelling new series." ( Sunday Telegraph)
"A gutsy tale well-grounded in local colour." ( The Times)

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I don’t know what to think of this book. I chose Barbara Nadel because I watched a doco on Agatha Christie’s Piorot with David Suchet and she was mentioned as the Turkish Agatha Christie. Far from in fact. Nothing like her genre. The story started promising but quickly turned into a foul mouthed entertainer turned religious with people around her turning her toward the light. It got really boring with all the religious ramblings and less about the detective side of the plot. I didn’t get too far, chapter 5 I managed to get through when I had had enough. Not the book for me and will not be listening to any others written by the same author.

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