Disordered Minds cover art

Disordered Minds

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Disordered Minds

By: Minette Walters
Narrated by: Greg Wagland
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £17.99

Buy Now for £17.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded 20-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother. Less than three years later he is dead, driven to suicide by isolation and despair.

Thirty years on, Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, comes across the case by accident. He finds alarming disparities in the evidence and has little doubt that Stamp's conviction was a terrible miscarriage of justice. But how far is Hughes prepared to go in the search for justice? Is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling enough to make him leave his books and face his own demons? And with what result?

If Stamp didn't murder Grace Jeffries then somebody else did....

©2003 Minette Walters (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Amateur Sleuths Crime Thrillers Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Detective

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Patchwork Man cover art
Murder at the Nineteenth cover art
A Great Deliverance cover art
A Limited Justice cover art
Deadly Lies cover art
A Bespoke Murder cover art
Ice Blue cover art
Eye of the Raven cover art
Good Girls Don't Die cover art
No Name Lane cover art
Summary Justice cover art
Cut Short cover art
Dead Secret cover art
The Lost cover art
The Birthday cover art
Skinner's Rules cover art

Critic reviews

“A powerful, acute and vivid work from a staggeringly talented writer.” (Observer)
All stars
Most relevant  
I enjoyed the story but wasn’t entirely convinced by the characters. Also, the extraneous padding, especially the email addresses, are irritating in an audiobook.

Good plot

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Many plots , twists and turns, I'm still not quite sure 'who did it'! very well narrated and superbly written. characters were very real

twists and turns

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Not bad, not riveting, but quietly interesting. narrator was monotonous, but I found him quite calming slight robotic.

Interesting read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I remember reading Minette Walters first novels and enjoying them very much. I’ve never read this one so gave it a go. Goodness me! Utterly, utterly turgid. Unrealistic characters, tedious repetition, and to top it all, a boring narrator. I don’t know why I listened to the end, it could have been edited down to half its length. And having got to the end… I was none the wiser. Very disappointing.

Drear from start to finish

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The narrator is robotic and the book consists of boring repetitive details. I fell asleep halfway through chapter 2 and woke up to the same boring details.

Dull

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Minette Walters is a superb novelist, and this book is absolutely up to her usual standard. But what a pity that the reading is so pedestrian and monotonous, spoiling the pleasure. Disappointing.

Shame about the reader

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
After rwo or three attempts I had to give up on this. Dreary, full of extraneous detsil, with every character having a complex, about their origin or education or similar. Even the narrator sounded bored. And why do so many narrators not bother finding out how to pronounce foreign words? Very lazy and irtitating.

Meandering, boring

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.