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Read By: Peter Forbes Publisher: Quercus Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Enzo Files Release Date: January 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781529403039

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Total Audiobook Chapters:

50

Longest Chapter Length:

37:46 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

02:25 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

12:38 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

18

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Publisher Description

IN THE RED-HOT FINALE TO PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, ENZO MACLEOD WILL FACE HIS MOST CHALLENGING COLD CASE YET.

"ENDS MACLEOD'S QUEST WITH A FLOURISH." ---MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"A SATISFYING SURPRISE." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

"THE LAST SHALL BE BEST." --KIRKUS REVIEWS

Western France, 1989

A weeping killer deposits the unconscious body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin, her head wrapped in a blue plastic bag, into the waters of a picturesque lake. Lot-et-Garonne, 2003 Fourteen years later, a summer heat wave parches the countryside, killing trees and bushes and drying out streams. In the scorched mud and desiccated slime of the lake, a fisherman finds a skeleton wearing a bag over its skull. Paris, October 2011 In an elegant apartment in Paris, forensic expert Enzo Macleod, now fifty-six years old, pores over the scant evidence of the sixth and final cold case he has been challenged to solve. The most obvious suspect is Régis Blanc, a former pimp already imprisoned for the murders of three sex workers, who may have been Lucie's lover in the months before her disappearance. But Régis has a solid alibi, and Enzo has a feeling the real explanation might be more complicated. In taking on this old and seemingly impossible-to-crack case, Enzo puts everything and everyone he holds dear in terrible danger--and in ways even he never could have imagined.

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The loose strings of Enzo's personal and professional life are neatly tied together at the story's end, and his compelling character, with all of his strengths and weaknesses, will be missed. Bonne chance, Enzo. Recommended for tartan noir fans, including the works of Christopher Brookmyre and Stuart MacBride, not to mention Enzo's personal favorite, Val McDermid.

— Booklist  

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  • The last book in this series, and it ends Macleod's quest with a flourish.

    — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
  • May expertly plants nicely misleading red herrings; every time the reader thinks the plot will fall into predictability, the ground shifts and the direction changes. The end comes as a satisfying surprise, built as it is on clues that were subtly in place all along.

    — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
  • A totally engrossing thriller . . . Peter May's name on the cover practically guarantees a first-class reading experience. This book comes together in a satisfying way . . . with a great deal of exciting action. Enjoy the ride.

    — Deadly Pleasures Magazine
  • Enzo is an irascible, complex protagonist, with more than his share of personal loss, often masked by bravado. This is the sixth and final book in May's gripping series-and one of the best.

    — Library Journal
  • Cast Iron is shot through with the dark legacy of the past.

    — The Guardian
  • Even though this book is the end of a monumental series, it is still one that is strong, frightening, and can stand alone. Although, if you skip the other tales of Enzo, you will be missing out on a tremendous amount of incredible writing and an unforgettable character.

    — Suspense Magazine
  • Peter May has written a suspenseful and detailed story with a plethora of suspects.

    — New York Journal of Books
  • Rich with the traditions of this southern France winemaking region, this is a mystery with Gallic flavor to be savored.

    — Mystery Scene Magazine on The Critic
  • A finely crafted and surprising mystery.

    — Kirkus Reviews
  • Action-packed . . . [with] a thrilling denouement in the catacombs of Paris.

    — Entertainment Weekly on Extraordinary People
  • Brisk and thrilling. . . the layers of complexity bode well for future installments.

    — The Baltimore Sun on Extraordinary People
  • A fun and fascinating book.

    — The San Jose Mercury News on Extraordinary People
  • A thoroughly engaging puzzle mystery.

    — Library Journal on Extraordinary People
  • From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer

    — Sophie Hannah, bestselling writer of The Monogram Murders
  • Peter May is an author I'd follow to the ends of the earth.

    — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
  • The impressively rendered sense of place and the keen character ensigns author May has shown in his books set in the Hebrides and in China are rich in evidence in this novel...Plays out against sharply sketched scenes of Paris and Bordeaux in late fall. The last shall be best.

    — Kirkus Reviews

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    — Andrina Lever, 3/11/2023

About Peter May

Peter May, born and raised in Scotland, was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 Entry Island won the Deanston’s Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award.

About Peter Forbes

Peter Forbes is an audiobook narrator and actor. He studied English in the same year as Ian Rankin at Edinburgh University. His credits include Berkeley Square (BBC), Peter Kosminsky’s The Government Inspector (Channel 4 UK), the award-winning Black Watch, Never So Good, Afterlife, and Mamma Mia! (London West End). He was nominated in the 2011 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland for his performance in Liz Lochhead’s Educating Agnes.