Choke Back the Tears

A Yorkshire Coast Crime Thriller (Michael Brady, Book 4)

“Brilliant. Brady is fast becoming the Yorkshire Rebus.”

Billy and Sandra were childhood sweethearts.

Writing their names on a lovelock. Fastening it to the end of Whitby pier. Throwing the key into the sea.

A lifetime together. A happy retirement in a peaceful hamlet on the North Yorkshire Moors.

Until the day they were brutally murdered.

“Whoever did this–he didn’t do it quickly. And he enjoyed it…”

Billy was a fisherman, making a living in the cold, cruel North Sea. One night his boat went down. Two crewmen drowned. Billy survived.

Are the families looking for revenge? It’s the obvious conclusion.

But why have they waited so long?

Why have they killed Billy and Sandra?

And why kill them in such a barbaric way?

“This isn’t a murder, Mike. It’s an execution. A medieval execution.”

Choke Back the Tears is the fourth audiobook in the Michael Brady series.

©2022 Mark Richards (P)2025 W. F. Howes Ltd

Brady's self talk is annoying and takes away from

the story. I don't remember his self talk being quite so excessive in previous books. I honestly think the book would be 1/2 the length it is if they were to l leave out his constant repeating of things that have already been said. I was cringing most of the way through. Otherwise the story was good. Just takes so long to get to the conclusion that' it made me want to give up quite a few times