Andrew Hixson has 8 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators. The most-rated is The Oxmarket Aspal Murder Mystery.
Read Between the Lies
Summary
In a remote town on the Suffolk coast, the local residents are stalked by a brutal killer. After the sighting of strange lights in the sky, the dismembered, burnt remains of the local RAF base commander are discovered in his car. An autopsy reveals that the victim showed signs of exposure to high radiation levels. Assistant Chief Constable Angela White enlists the aid of both John Handful and local reporter Yazmin Nash. The level of radiation the killer leaves in its wake should have killed any normal man by now, but the murders continue: the killer appears to be both more and less than human. And then when a leading government minister arrives the pressure is on for Handful to solve the case not only quickly but also quietly, by any means possible. Until a strange craft is discovered... Handful then turns from hunter to hunted, where everyone is playing for the highest stakes, and where violence becomes the only solution....
©2018 Andrew Hixson (P)2019 Andrew Hixson
Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: A John Handful Mystery
Summary
Lady Casterton is found strangled in her bedroom shortly after seven when her housekeeper went to discover why her employer had not appeared for dinner. From an examination of the body, it was clear that she had been killed a little after six at the very earliest. Suspicion naturally fell onto her nephew, her inheritor, with whom relations had been strained in recent weeks. He would have looked like a prime suspect were it not for the testimony of the housekeeper. But then the nephew turns up dead in a locked room. The question for John Handful is who murdered the murderer?
©2020 Andrew Hixson (P)2020 Andrew Hixson
Through the Glass Darkly: A John Handful Mystery
Summary
During the worst blizzard in decades, a local gentry, the enigmatic Lord Mabbott, falls from his study window and it is at once assumed to be suicide. Lateral thinking private detective John Handful is not so convinced and is determined to prove otherwise and make it his business to know what other people don’t know. Never mind that Lord Mabbott was being blackmailed over an affair with a transgender stepsister-in-law or that the window he jumped from on the fourth floor was locked from the inside. Before long, another body turns up, believed to be Lord Mabbott’s former lover. The hunt is on to solve the case, and although, John Handful faces fresh adversaries with a stream of alibis and a host of conflicting motives, he is determined to solve the riddle - despite the best efforts of the challenging Mabbott family.
©2019 Andrew Hixson (P)2019 Andrew Hixson
Pain Has a Permanent Address
Summary
Private investigator John Handful specializes in solving the impossible cases that the Suffolk Constabulary cannot, and when local businessman Charles 'Buster' Bill is found mutilated in the local forest, it is believed there is a maniac on the loose. John Handful thinks differently. His own investigation soon reveals that at the heart of the man's death lies a devastating secret and by the time Handful realizes what it is he has just made himself the next target....
©2017 Andrew Hixson (P)2018 Andrew Hixson
Death Is for the Dying
Summary
Archie Andrews tries the new cologne his new girlfriend gave him for his birthday. He goes out to get some food for his birthday party and is later found dead near the vicinity of his apiary. With no clues, no suspects, and no idea how he died, the Suffolk constabulary call their consulting lateral-thinking private detective to assist them in their investigation. However, John Handful has a conflict of interests. The new girlfriend of the victim happens to be his ex, Kimberley Ashlyn Gere.
©2016 Andrew Hixson (P)2018 Andrew Hixson
Chandos Avenue
Summary
Chandos Avenue is a five-bedroomed house in one of the most sought after areas of Beodericsworth. Owned by Jason Barker, John Handful is slightly reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services by the Chairman of Beodericsworth Ornithological Society. Entering the strange world of bird-watching Handful is a little at a loss at his ability to help. He is apparently meant to consult on someone embezzling the society's funds and Jason Barker's reoccurring dream, of death, something not usually within his remit. The dream haunts Jason and only 24 hours after dismissing the bemused detective the dream becomes real. What ensues is a perplexing short story in which everyone is thrown into disarray and the mystery of secret lovers, flowers and a death that is not as it appears, slowly unfolds.
©2013 Andrew Hixson (P)2020 Andrew Hixson
Blind Spot (A John Handful Novel Mystery)
Summary
When a body is found at the foot of a cliff, the local Suffolk Constabulary calls in their consulting lateral thinking detective to help. There are many unanswered questions. Why did a man with impaired vision use a dangerous path as a route to work? If he did use the path every day, no matter what the weather, how come he suddenly fell? With plenty of red herrings and twists to keep the listener guessing. Blind Spot: A Bell Rings - A Rope Breaks - A Man Dies.
©2017 Andrew Hixson (P)2019 Andrew Hixson
The Oxmarket Aspal Murder Mystery
Summary
An old widow is brutally killed with a vicious blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on a local man Marcus Dye whose clothes revealed traces of the victim’s blood and hair. Yet something is amiss and the Suffolk Constabulary believe he is innocent and they ask John Handful to help save the man from a lifetime in prison.
©2017 Andrew Hixson (P)2019 Andrew Hixson