Bleeding Hearts

From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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Bleeding Hearts

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

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The death of a journalist from a single bullet to the heart makes for a dramatic story - but the twist in the tale is that this time, it's the man who fired the gun who's asking all the questions...

The assassin, Michael Weston, knows he has carried out his assignment successfully. One mistake was enough, a long time ago, when a young girl had accidentally received the fatal bullet. Her father hired a PI named Hoffer to track him down. Every time Weston completed a job, Hoffer was not far behind. But why had the police been on the scene so quickly? Weston has to find out - even if it means coming face to face with Hoffer...

Read by Steven Pacey

(p) 2011 Orion Publishing Group©1994 John Rebus Ltd

Crime Fiction

Fiction

Mystery

Police Procedural

Suspense

Thriller & Suspense

Traditional Detectives

Detective

Crime

Heartfelt

Crime Fiction Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Detective Crime Heartfelt

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Rankin has produced another stunningly clever plot, and peopled it with convincingly intriguing characters. Can this man do no wrong?

His consistent level of excellence is unmatched in the field of British crime fiction

Rankin is a phenomenon ... these novels are totally absorbing

Arguably Scotland's finest living writer

Rankin is without doubt Britain's best crime novelist

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The beginning was tight, intelligent, then it slowly became unbelievably boring. A bad sign, when I just skip bits, to find out what on earth the explanation is going to be and it was a huge, and I do mean huge, disappointment. I guess it paid the mortgage though. I always wonder with a collaboration, who wrote which bits, and more to the point, why.