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The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox

By: Claire Gradidge
Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
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About this listen

Winner of the Richard & Judy "search for a best seller" competition.

The perfect listen for fans of Sunday night drama. Foyle's War meets Jessica Fellowes in this deliciously dark tale of wartime family secrets and lies in small-town England.

Everyone has secrets - some are just more deadly than others....

April 1941, Romsey, England.

Josephine 'Josy' Fox hasn't set foot in Romsey in over 20 years. As an illegitimate child, her family - headed by her controlling grandfather - found her an embarrassment. Now, she wants to return to what was once her home and uncover the secret of her parentage. Who was her father, and why would her mother never talk about him?

Josy arrives the day after the Luftwaffe have bombed the town. The local pub, The Cricketers' Arms, has been completely destroyed, and rescue teams are searching for the remains of the seven people known to be in the pub at the time the bomb hit. They are shocked, however, to uncover eight bodies, not seven. The unidentified eighth body is that of a teenage girl, whom no one in the town claims to know. Who is she, how did she get there, but most importantly - who killed her?

Teaming up with local coroner and old friend Bram Nash, Josy sets out to establish the identity of the girl and solve the riddle of her death. In doing so, she also uncovers her own personal mystery.

Be careful what you wish for....

©2019 Claire Gradidge (P)2019 Bonnier Books UK
Crime Fiction Detective Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime

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Loved it !!! didn't want it to end, listened over 2 days couldn't put it down.

More please !!!!

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I love this author her story telling is so in-depth and realistic not one boring moment in the whole book
Exciting with great twists and turns I’m only sorry that it’s ended.
More please!
Also the narrator was brilliant.

Brilliant !!

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I did not enjoy this very much. Although the book is well-written, it is rather dark and heavy and the narration accentuates this. I thought it would lighten up but can’t say it did.

Not my kind of book

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Very well characterised I felt I could actually see the character as the. Narrator read. I wish there were more books with Josephine Cox as the heroine. loved it!!!








Most entertaining.book.I've read recently

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Really enjoyed this , great story so atmospheric of the Second World War. Small town in Hampshire . Believable characters and make mistakes. Five stars for narration and five stars for the story. Looking for more by Clare Goodridge and narration by Lucy Price Lewis.

Atmospheric

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I wasn't sure what to expect from this book, but I was totally drawn in to the story, the characters are very well constructed and the general attitudes towards women between the wars is very well shown here.

The story was good and I was emotionally invested in the events and personalities.

Nicely narrated too by Lucy Price-Lewis. I think this is one that I will read again.

A wonderful find!

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Really enjoyed this book, so much so that I was plugged in every time I had a spare few minutes! Wartime whodunnit written around a woman coming home to work out who her father is after her mother dies. Likeable, believable characters and extremely well read. Plot line was good although a little predictable at points but it had a decent twist at the end so I wasn’t 100% right. Really hoping there’s going to be a sequel as I’d love to know if Jo and Bram’s relationship blossoms

Fingers crossed for a sequel!

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A modern detective story in the best possible way. The story is a dark and beautifully crafted tale set in small town England in the second world war. And in a community that would rather ignore murder in its midst than admit that one of their own might have an unseemly secret.
It feels deeply researched and authentic, with a mystery that holds a mirror up to some of the darkest aspects of pulling together on the home front.
Well read, it's easy to get pulled into the story. I was captivated by the drama right to the end.

A modern mystery in a wartime setting

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Great narration, brilliant storyline, would like more by this author and set in this timeline.

Brilliant

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I really enjoyed this story up to a point, as the narrative was excellent and the characters were interesting, but the ending was quite predictable.

really good story

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