The Patient Man

he domestic bliss of Detective Inspector Rowan Jackman, of Fenland Constabulary, doesn’t last long. His old nemesis, serial killer Alistair Ashcroft, is back in town and ready to tidy up unfinished business.Ashcroft sends a sinister text to DS Marie Evans. His opening move in what will prove to be a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. Yet for all his taunts, where is he? In a county crawling with police on the lookout for him, Ashcroft is nowhere to be found.Everyone Jackman cares about is in danger. Alongside the hunt for Ashcroft, however, normal police work must continue. The separate thefts of six pigs, a thoroughbred stallion, guns and some oil lead Jackman’s crew to the notorious Lorimer family, ruled over on their farm by the fearsome matriarch Rachel.Meanwhile, a seemingly routine break-in at the home of gun-club owner Kenneth Harcourt quickly becomes more complicated when the man long held responsible for having killed Harcourt’s young daughter in a hit-and-run is shot dead in a car park - by a sniper. A killer is on the loose in the quiet streets of Saltern-le-Fen, and he isn’t going to stop at claiming one life. But why is he focusing on young Kevin, so close to promotion to detective?And the sniper, like Ashcroft, takes to taunting the police: they’ll never catch him, they need to respect him, they shouldn’t be sidetracked looking for their old adversary.In a stunning conclusion, Jackman and Evans race against time to catch the sniper and track down their deadly adversary. A lethal game with a very patient man. Full of twists and turns, this is a crime thriller that will keep you listening until the shocking ending. Set in the atmospheric Lincolnshire Fens whose towns and isolated villages hide many dark secrets.

Joy Ellis is an English crime author, based in the Lincolnshire Fens, who has written more than 30 books over three series. All of her print books have also been published in audio, and the Jackman books were made into a TV series starring Richard Armitage as DI Rowan Jackman.Joy had an unusual start to her crime-writing career. She began her working life in the 1960s as an apprentice florist in Covent Garden before opening her own flower shop in Lincolnshire. Later in life, she left the flowers behind her, dedicating her life to writing gritty crime thrillers set in the Fens, where she loves the remoteness and airy beauty of the marshlands. Her partner Jacqueline is a highly decorated retired police officer, and her harshest critic when it comes to police procedure. Joy recently celebrated her tenth #1 in the Amazon Kindle bestseller charts. Richard Armitage is an English actor and author who’s first leading role was in the BBC’s North & South. He best known for his role as dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's film trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit, which brought him international recognition. He is a prolific audiobook narrator with credits such as The River’s Edge by Joy Ellis and Fiona McIntosh’s By By Baby, as well as author of bestselling thriller Geneva.

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