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The Fourth Friend
- A Jackman and Evans Thriller
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Series: Jackman & Evans (Published Order), Book 3, Jackman & Evans (Recommended Listening Order), Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Doesn’t disappoint
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Five bloody hearts
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Publisher's Summary
Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl.
Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work, but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks. So for each of his four friends, he decides to complete something that they left unfinished.
Eighteen months before the crash, Suzanne Holland disappeared, leaving a room with traces of blood but no other leads. Suzanne was the wife of one of Carter’s four best friends. Adding to the pressure, the boss’ niece has a stalker. Due to the sensitivity of the Holland case, Carter is put on this investigation.
DS Marie Evans is the only person Carter can confide in. But even she begins to doubt whether he can really cope and whether he is actually losing his mind. DI Jackman and DS Evans of the Fenland police face a battle to untangle three mysteries, and can they really believe their friend and colleague Carter?
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- bdd48
- 2021-03-13
The Puzzler
It remains one of my favourite Joy Ellis mysteries. Never, ever replace Richard Armitage as narrator. His voice is syrup, which can be a challenge when listening at bedtime. The characters are riveting and it becomes a solver 3-4 way through the story. But you stay tuned, to believe it will end the way you anticipate.
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- GCY Newell
- 2019-12-12
Loved it!
I just started listening to this series about a week ago and have already gone through the first three. I like the characters, the narrator is excellent and the stories, too are excellent.
Would definitely recommend this audiobook!
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-06-09
The fourth friend
I have thoroughly enjoyed the first three books in this series. However as I’m sure other would agree so much of an audible story comes down to the narrator and this one is a true gem.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-08-15
What a spooky police mystery!
I really enjoyed this spooky police mystery written by Joy Ellis and narrated so excellently by Richard Armitage. I like the police characters who work so well together, and the mystery that this story is centred around is the wonderfully spooky part! I'm now excited to read the fourth book, The Guilty Ones!
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- sara
- 2022-07-26
Great characters.
The story has characters dealing with situations you can imagine struggling with in real life. There are some pithy moments with the all too familiar rich guy who pays for work things nobody would voluntarily pay for, but there is also some language that suggests the author authentically knows some inner workings of a British police force. It’s a good mystery with sympathetic characters.
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- Krista
- 2022-07-20
another home run
I am hooked on this series and can't wait to continue! The writing and narration are equally excellent. thank you!
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- Madeleine
- 2022-07-02
Riveting and a refreshing change
No spoilers, but an unusual detective story with plenty of atnosphere and a supernatural twist. had a hard time putting it down.
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- MOJO
- 2022-06-12
Awesome
Just a fantastic story, just grabs you. I loved the person reading helped make the story great.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-06-10
Not what you expect
Wow I was blown away at this read. I listen to Aprox 4 books per week. This is going to be one I listen to again just to catch the Things I missed. After listening to it you will understand. And you will want to hear it again
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- DEBRA
- 2022-05-15
Another excellet book in the series!
another great book written and narrated perfectly totally different from the first once heard and really enjoyed it old book in this series seems to be a completely different story most enjoyable!
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- Maine Knitter
- 2018-12-24
A bit of a disappointment
This is a tough one. I truly enjoy Joy Ellis’s work. After the first two books in this series, Jackman and Evans and their team have become interesting and I’m curious as to where things go with them. For that reason I finished this book. Oh, and Richard Armitage’s narration helped a great deal, too.
The story itself was difficult. I couldn’t get invested in the players, mainly Carter. I had to force myself to keep going.
I smiled at the mention of Nikki Galena (one of my favorite characters) and I want to know more about Orlagh in the basement.
This is my least favorite book in the series but I’ll continue with it while waiting for the next Nikki Galena book.
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- Mary Catherine
- 2019-01-16
I did finish the book
I thought this book was OK, and I did finish it, The characters were fine, but the actual story did not sit well with me. SPOILER ALERT: I would like to listen to a police procedural where the criminal, murderer, victim, etc. is not the police, main character, co-worker, friend, spouse, neighbor, pet, or partner. I would like to listen to a book about a police team working together to solve a case using a list of suspects outside the police circle. Can't a police team work together to solve a mystery without being a part of it?. The story was not happy, and had a dreary ending. Not a bad writer, but I would like to see a different story-line in the next book. I haven't decided if I want to listen to another book by this author. There won't be many fictional police left in the UK to write about, since most of them end up dead or guilty of a major crime. Too many books turn out the same way.
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- Lauren
- 2018-12-07
Ellis/Armitage knocks it out of the park again!
Wow! Joy Ellis never disappoints. Her attention to character development and details is superb. Her attention to police investigative techniques and forensics adds to the richness of her stories that grabs you from the start. Richard Armitage makes Ellis's stories a living, breathing story that cannot fully be described. You are transported as if you are standing right next to each person and inside each scene. He electrifies all five of your senses and holds your attention where you cannot stop listening. You have to know what happens next.
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- Wayne
- 2020-03-12
Best novel of the series
THE FOURTH FRIEND is Book 3 in the six novel (so far) Jackman and Evans series by British author Joy Ellis. For some unexplained reason I failed to listen to it until now. It's a marvelous psychological thriller, the only psychological thriller in the modern detective series. The narration by British actor Richard Armitage is flawless. Very highly recommended!
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-01-23
Happily not what I expected.
I read the book first and then saw that Richard Armitage was the narrator in the audible version. I had to listen. While I enjoyed reading this book Richard's narration was spot on and gave me a whole new perspective. Going to have to check out more collaborations between Joy and Richard!
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- Lia
- 2019-05-19
Disappointing
So sorry, but I have to disagree with all the five star reviews here. The book is ok, but just DEPRESSING with a capital D. Guy survives a plane crash that kills all his friends, and we watch as he sadly schleps around trying to get his life back while his burnt up, dead friends haunt him to finish "their stuff". I kept waiting for it to get better (all those 5 star reviews!), but it didn't.
Not a horrible mystery, but the story overall just left me feeling depressed. Doubt I'll bother trying the other books in this series, none of the characters really resonated with me.
Richard Armitage was great with the delivery of the story and the only reason I finished the book
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- Diana Hart 33
- 2019-12-15
Loved it
I would say this is the best one yet, but they are all good, Narrator is fantastic.
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- E. Allison
- 2019-06-27
Not the best in the series, but solid.
I prefer police procedurals that focus on a case, not completely focus on the internal team dynamics. I make an exception for this series because it is so well written and while I was initially wary when I noticed how focused the story was on Carter here, the way it’s laid out won me over completely. A lot of authors would have made a mess of this type of framework, but this works very smoothly.
The case is not that interesting in isolation but because of how complicated it gets, and how the suspicion dances around different suspects, including Carter, it keeps it interesting. Carter is a wild card – literally having visions of his dead friends and you wonder more and more if Carter’s guilt is just about how they died, or because he was somehow involved in the original murder. He feels more and more like a ticking time bomb and you wonder how long it will be before he snaps and how bad that will be.
Do I even have to bother mentioning how amazing Richard Armitage is at this point? His array of voices are incredible – even his female voices are impressive and his ‘old people’ voices are jaw dropping. Best voice actor I’ve heard on Audible, and that’s quite the compliment.
This series is an impressive example of the police procedural – I would usually be put off by the focus more on the team than the crime, but it’s so well written that I will read all of them without hesitation. Another strong entry. I don’t feel book 2 and 3 lived up to the exceptional #1, but still a very enjoyable read. What’s a bit missing from 2 and 3 is a great case to work on – the cases in 2 and 3 feel almost like an afterthought, an emphasis on the team and their methods and far less on the case itself. The case in #1 was fascinating, and I think if you added a more interesting case to this formula, you’d return to the excellence of #1. This one is a definite improvement on 2 and 3, if you want to focus on the investigators more than the investigation, then the story has to be interesting enough to distract from the case itself – this is an example of it done right. I was never bored or not interested, I was always curious where it was going. Not the best in the series but very solid.
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- Jeanne DeShazer
- 2019-01-08
Best one in the Jackman/Evans Series
The Fourth Friend, by Joy Ellis. I listened to this on Audible. Narrated by Richard Armitage (North & South). The third installment in the Jackman and Evans series, DS Evans allows Detective Carter McLean back to work following his being the only survivor of a plane crash that killed his four best friends 18 mos earlier. When he confides in her that he sees his friends all the time and that they are each having him help them complete one last request, she wonders if she's made a mistake. When it turns out a missing woman is the wife of one of those friends, things get even dicier. I enjoy the characters in these books so much. Adding mental illness or the supernatural made the story even more interesting. Joy Ellis is very skilled at combining character, 3 different mysteries and elements of surprise making her books hard to put down. Richard Armitage is a stellar narrator moving seamlessly between character voices, leaving no doubt in your mind, which one is speaking. Enjoyed this very much.
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- Ester vdD
- 2019-05-16
Another Jackman & Evans story!
Love the way Joy Ellis describes the characters and surroundings. The story twists and turns.
I must admit I liked ‘Their list daughters’ more as a story.
The narration by Richard Armitage was sublime (as always in the books he narrates), I love the way he tells the story
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