What Doesn't Kill You

DI Fenchurch East London Crime Thrillers, Book 3

By: Ed James

Narrated by: Angus King

A missing child. A dead lawyer. Long-awaited answers.

While helping to police a heated discussion on City of London territory, DI Simon Fenchurch is called out to an East London building site.

A young City lawyer has been assaulted and brutally murdered.

Initial inquiries lead Fenchurch to a driver employed by Travis, a controversial new app-based cab company.

Within days another woman is murdered. A Travis driver.

As the body count rises, Fenchurch delves into the crimes and unveils a murky conspiracy that some will do anything to keep hidden.

When familiar faces begin to emerge from the shadows, Fenchurch realizes this case is more personal than he’d thought.

Could he finally be on the brink of solving the mystery that has dogged him for more than a decade: Who abducted his daughter, Chloe—and where is she now?

Or did she die?

Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, JD Kirk, and Alex Smith, What Doesn't Kill You continues the best-selling Detective Simon Fenchurch series of gritty police procedurals.

©2016 Scott Cullen, Ltd (P)2023 Scott Cullen, Ltd

Really have to suspend your disbelief for this one

I started this series mostly because Angus King is the narrator and let's be frank, he could read me the phone book and I'd find it entertaining. That being said, each of these books get more outlandish as they go. There is absolutely zero chance that any police detective would be allowed to interview suspects in his own daughter's abduction. Let alone take one of them out of their jail cell for a field trip, or have his non-cop wife join an interview!! Additionally, we are 3 books in and there is absolutely no character backstory or development for anyone but the MC. I find myself thinking, who was that and what do they have to do with the story too often.

I'm not sure yet if I will continue with this series or not. Maybe....

Bloody Hell

The Fuck of England. Are any other words used there?
Finally we find out what happened. Or do we? I’m kind of over it. But just kind of. I think It’s going to take me one more volume to figure out because I’m invested and I really liked another of his series so I guess I’m just hopefully chasing the past high.
Please, though, PLEASE; Less chewing sounds, stabbing of eyes, terrible English Mexican food? I mean potatoes? No.
whah whah whah. It’s so much self absorption marinated in pity. Got it. Abbey just says “Simon! Let it go” for 20 odd boring years because typewriters are interesting enough to explain some deeper monologue of the wasted time of fixing needed in the mourning of a lost past no longer needed, yet prized.
All Women characters are paper thin and ready to crinkle up and blow in the wind with the first burp or weird bodily function proper enough to be laughed at by a cool English Gen x cop. Men Cops there are all Losers born into some relentless mold and silently dirt-clodding their way through life; either turning into mud or drying up as the rain or liquor sees fit. A little more earthy than the women, yet just unalterable monuments of nature’s consuming process. Am I ever going to ever find a deeper meaning for all these fatuous events? Is England really just full of pedophiles everywhere every time, ever when why how? Is there anything else ever happening ever anywhere? This may be my last straw in the thatched roofs of beautiful Agatha Christie memorial villages chronicled by a century of gorgeously documented puzzles of a notational pride from the UK I’ve scrutinized obsessively. I don’t know if it’s just my OCD or if I will be rescued from these doldrums of weariness. Therein lies the rub? Yes, that’s right. Maybe no one besides Agatha Christie and Shakespeare can do it so well. So just sit back and enjoying the trying. So Of course that’s all there is?

Not to be missed

Good solid story with plenty of twists and turns. All of his characters in all of his books are believable. I was sorry this one ended.

Best read ever

The story was intriguing as fenchurch navigates through the corruption . I cannot wait for the next book .As always Angus King delivers

The best book!

The book was fantastic, so many thrills as the narrator read on. It was captivating, it’s like you were there with the characters living it all. All you want to is continue listening. This series is a must read.