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Lightseekers
- Philip Taiwo, Book 1
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
Waterstones Thriller of the Month
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER
Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times.
They already know who killed the men. What they don't know is why.
When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings - and their killers - are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why.
As the legal trial begins, investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo is contacted by the father of one of the boys, desperate for some answers to his son's murder. But Philip is an expert in crowd behaviour and violence, not a detective, and after travelling to the sleepy university town that bore witness to the killings, he soon realises that someone really doesn't want him there and will do anything to prevent him learning the truth.
Will he uncover what really happened to the Okiri Three?
Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo.
Critic reviews
"A superb novel - so inventive and so well done. It’s just brilliant." (Harriet Tyce)
"Gripping, beautifully written and unlike anything else you'll read." (William Ryan)
"What a sensational debut. Confident, beautifully-paced writing. Dr Philip Taiwo is a protagonist I want to meet again, and the setting is so well-drawn. Intelligent, suspenseful and utterly engrossing." (Will Dean)
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- Anonymous User
- 06-02-24
Crime/thriller set in midst of turbulence in a university town
Good range of characters, from the hero-narrator's sidekick to people in a crowd colluding in three victims' public torture and slow deaths. We watch a video of the murders in distressing detail. We're given evidence from possibly unreliable sources, don't know which police to trust, etc. So far, so very good. But I'd say stop listening around 20 minutes before the end. I thought the dénouement was implausible and made the torture scene exploitative.
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- Elise
- 17-06-21
Great slow-burn mystery
For anyone who both likes a procedural and who is interested in the ins and outs of Nigerian culture, seen from the higher echelons of society, this is a fabulous read. I was equally fascinated by the workings of the legal and academic society as I was by the crime story. And the narration was perfection!
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- viv
- 28-07-22
A detective story with a difference
It was good to read something set in Nigeria, I’ve certainly never read anything modern set anywhere like that. There was a good cast of characters, the main ones well rounded. The story itself was interesting and didn’t involve all the usual things you get in a British who or whydunit. The narration was very good. My only criticism is that it went on a bit too long but then I often think that about books.
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- Miss Claire Roberts
- 21-12-23
Fantastic plot
Loved the story, characters & the reader was brilliant throughout. I shall look forward to the next one.
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- Richard Garnett
- 09-07-22
Pretty standard
Pretty disappointing. This is a standard detective story, which makes some giant leaps at the end, out of nowhere, in order to bring it to a conclusion. Quite a lot of clichés and clichéd characters, and the female characters are all there as embellishments to the male characters, or vehicles to the male characters' story lines. I listened because it was Waterstones' thriller of the month, but I was not thrilled.
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