Utterly Rafted

The Utterly Crime Series, Book 3

By: Pauline Manders

Narrated by: AJ Deane

Book three in the Utterly Crime Series.

It begins with two deaths. The body of a young woman is found, so peaceful she could be sleeping. The other, a ferocious murder beyond the railway lines at Stowmarket. Soon, three apprentice carpenters are catapulted into the dangerous world of illegal hare coursing and drug abuse in the south Suffolk countryside.

DI Clive Merry investigates as the characters find themselves embroiled in a dark and dangerous underworld, stretching from Wattisham to Hadleigh, Sudbury to Bury St. Edmunds, and beyond the Orwell Bridge. All this is played out against a backdrop of manuscript restoration, totem pole carving, and preparation for the annual raft race at Needham Market.

Pauline Manders has drawn on her love of the British Suffolk countryside to create a fresh, fast-paced, witty crime novel. Her quirky, fallible main characters, previously encountered in Utterly Explosive and Utterly Fuelled, lead the listener through a pause-resister of a finale.

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