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    Divorcing Jack
    Divorcing Jack
    Divorcing Jack
    Audiobook9 hours

    Divorcing Jack

    Written by Colin Bateman

    Narrated by Adam Moore

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets a beautiful and apparently impoverished student. And then, terrifyingly, she is murdered. Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781471242908
    Divorcing Jack
    Author

    Colin Bateman

    Colin Bateman is an author, screenwriter and playwright. He is the creator of the BBC series Murphy's Law and was listed by the Daily Telegraph as one of the Top 50 crime writers of all time. Find out more at colinbateman.com

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    • 5/5
      This guy just writes the funniest mysteries in the world. The two I have read have been excellent, interesting, and parts of them are just hysterical.
    • 4/5
      Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman is the first in his series that features a witty Belfast newspaper columnist named Dan Starkey who excels at drinking and partying. One night at a party he is caught by his wife kissing another woman, and this misdeed leads him into a horrendous week of murder and politics with both the police, the IRA and the Loyalists all after him.Divorcing Jack is a wonderful combination of Irish noir and black comedy with a highly likeable anti-hero as the main character. As he stumbles and bumbles his way around Belfast at the height of the Troubles he runs into gangsters, politicians and thugs and while not always entirely credible, the story is always entertaining.I have had this book sitting on my shelves for more years than I care to count. I don’t know why it has taken me so long to finally start this series, but I will be continuing on with Starkey’s adventures in the near future.
    • 4/5
      This is a very entertaining book by Colin Bateman an author from my hometown of Bangor, so a lot of place names and expressions well used here in Northern Ireland!! It is however for everyone, it is very funny and fast paced.Dan Starkey is a journalist with a Belfast Newspaper, he is married to Patricia, both live a life packed with drink and parties. One night Dan meets Margaret, and in a drunken blur ends up having a one night stand with her, after Patricia throws him out. That is when the fun starts!, mystery is afoot as Margaret is murderd, but not before giving Jack a cassette tape and whispering Divorce Jack before she snuffs it!!Dan ends up all over Belfast with all sorts of dodgy characters, wondering what the heck he has got himself into and whats it all about.A very good read, lighthearted in a macabre sort of way!! You really should give it a go.
    • 3/5
      Lots of local colour for Belfast in this entertaining murder mystery. Dan Starkey stumbles through his mariage, an affair, the Belfast underworld, and Northern Ireland politics. A very good read.