The Purple Idol

A Supernatural Detective Story

By: Mark Barnard

Narrated by: Mark Reece Healey

The 1940s - Big Easy PI Lee "Red" Gammon (The Devil's Dice, Midnight Fugue) is back and having a very bad day. A new client appears and asks him to recover an idol that she insists was stolen from her by a local antique dealer who seems to have no discernible past.

Gammon is suspicious when she can't give more than a few vague specifics on what the statue looks like, but it's been a slow month, and the pay is both extremely good and presented up front. Oddly, when he goes to his usual source of information on the obscure, the mystery quickly becomes even more disturbingly sketchy.

It quickly becomes clear that he's yet again been reluctantly drawn into another potentially lethal brush with the supernatural when it develops that a toboda is a powerful and animate object.

©2021 Mark Barnard (P)2025 Mark Barnard

terrible narration

I never could appreciate the story as the narration was so bad. monotone, run on reading with many mispronounced words. too bad I can't get my money back. Avoid and spend your money elsewhere.

loved it

I loved this book. Mark Reece Healey's voice really brings this story to life. PI Lee (Red) Gammon is not having a great day and a client wants him to find a idol called a toboda. She claims it was stolen from her but is not forthcoming on the details. Is this idol more trouble than its worth?