Saturday 21 February 2009

The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks AUDIO

AZ: "On a storm-ravaged night, a 19-year-old girl is murdered. Three days later, her two younger brothers set out in search of her killer. Cole is a dark-eyed devil who doesn't care if he lives or dies; Ruben is a strange child who sometimes, inexplicably, experiences sensations above and beyond his own.

This is the story of the boys' journey from their half-gypsy home in a London junk yard to the ghostly moors of Devon, where they hope and fear to find the truth about their sister's death. It's a long road. It's the road of the dead...."

Brilliant Brooks as ever, was utterly with Cole and Rueben as they come to a small village intent on keeping its secrets, and solve the mystery of the violent death of their sister. And the elements of the supernatural are there as with his best books, not in the front but there informing the narrative.

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