Stewart Giles has 12 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Backpacker: A Detective Harriet Taylor Thriller.
The Backpacker: A Detective Harriet Taylor Thriller
Summary
From number one best-selling author Stewart Giles comes a new detective story set on the Cornish coast, where the pretty villages and towns hold some very dark secrets. What is the secret at Landell's farm? A girl’s body is found hidden in a remote spot of a Cornish farm - the same farm that a young girl ran toward to escape her pursuer many years before. Detective Harriet Taylor has to abandon her day off to investigate. As the forensics team get to work, they uncover another mystery hidden among the rocks. Who would kill a young backpacker? Is there a link between this and a mystery from many years ago? As Harriet and the team get to work, they find more questions than answers. What secrets is the sleepy Cornish village hiding? This is a fast-paced pause-resister that has so many twists and turns it keeps the listener guessing right up to the shocking end.
©2018 Stewart Giles (P)2018 Stewart Giles
Phobia
Summary
Phobia is a series of five DS Jason Smith cases he worked on before we met him in the first book, Smith. We get insights into what molded him into the detective sergeant we first get a glimpse of in Smith. Smith quickly realizes that police work isn't always cut and dry. Justice is not always black and white; there are many shades of gray in between.
©2015 Stewart Giles (P)2016 Stewart Giles
Ladybird
Summary
Detective Sergeant Jason Smith is days away from the end of his sick leave after a case that almost cost him his life when he gets a call from an old friend. His friend has been arrested for the murder of a student. He wants Smith to investigate the murder and prove his innocence. Smith is persuaded return to work. The student was killed with a bread knife. Ladybirds were scattered on his dead body. When another man is found dead with ladybirds on his body, Smith enlists the help of an insect doctor, the enigmatic Dr. Karen Wood, to try and understand the significance of the ladybirds. As Smith gets drawn closer to this mysterious woman and more and more men wind up dead with ladybirds on their bodies, Smith quickly realizes that Dr. Wood is not who she seems to be. Smith and his team unearth a terrible secret from 20 years earlier; somebody wants justice and, as more and more men die, Smith realizes he is running out of time to find out who.
©2016 Stewart Giles (P)2016 Stewart Giles
Unworthy
Summary
The unworthy must pay.
DS Jason Smith is dragged away from paternity leave when a woman is killed with her baby in the next room. When more women with children are brutally murdered, Smith discovers they all have something in common - they all share a secret.
When he finds out the mother of his own child is on this list of "Unworthy" women, he finds himself in a race against time to stop the killer before his whole world comes crashing down around him.
©2017 Stewart Giles (P)2018 Stewart Giles
Boomerang
Summary
A man is killing people in York. Initially the murders appear to be the random acts of a maniac. Detective Jason Smith is put in charge of the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the murders are all connected to him in one way or another. All of the killings correspond to events in Smith's life and the murderer leaves dates at the crime scene which tie up to important dates in Smith's history. When one of the dates is a time before Smith was even born, he realizes he must look deep into the past to find a way to stop the worst spate of murders in York's long history.
©2014 Stewart Giles (P)2016 Stewart Giles
Harlequin
Summary
The circus comes to town and children start to disappear. Detective Sergeant Jason Smith is persuaded to return to work after three weeks of a marijuana induced haze. Forced to endure the leadership of a new DI, the fulsome Bryony Brownhill, Smith is faced with the most difficult investigation of his colorful career. When the children who vanished are found murdered in various parts of the city, all clues lead to the circus grounds, but Smith and his team are met with a sinister silence everywhere they turn. Smith digs deeper and discovers the cause of this silence; the chain of events that led up to the vile murders that have shattered the hearts of the people of York.
©2017 Stewart Giles (P)2017 Stewart Giles
Miranda
Summary
Miranda: a stand-alone psychological thriller by Stewart Giles My name is Miranda. I’ll be 28 years old soon, and I’m a serial murderer. I might just kill again! From number one best seller Stewart Giles comes a completely stand-alone psychological thriller that you don’t want to miss. Miranda is a unique read, the best book yet by Stewart Giles. Sentenced to life in a secure hospital for the murder of 12 people, Miranda tells her story. In the meantime, the listener is transported back to the time of the murders as we follow DI Keene and her team along the many twists, turns, and dead ends as they try to find the murderer of several unrelated victims. This is an edge-of-your-seat, adrenaline-pumping listen that will have you listening all the way to the totally unexpected ending. Buckle up; this is a bumpy ride. The location: Dunford is a fictional town in Southwest England. Crowfield is a high-security hospital wing attached side of Bowton prison in Otherly, North Yorkshire (also fictional). What readers are saying about Miranda: "Stewart Giles has hit it out of the park with Miranda. She lived in my head for more than a week after I finished reading the book, which I did in a day because I just couldn’t put it down." (Heather Opperman) "Love this book, so different from normal crime books and had me hooked from the very first page." (Black Books Blog) "Wow, Stewart Giles has really pulled it out of the bag this time. This is an awesome read from an author who has really stepped outside the box." (Books ‘n’ All) "I was fortunate enough to be able to read this book a week or so. It is amazing. Very different, absolutely riveting. A must read for fans of crime fiction with a difference." (Sandra Brown)
©2019 Stewart Giles (P)2019 Stewart Giles
Smith
Summary
The sleepy historical city of York is about to wake up. It is Christmas Day in York. A woman is found dead in her bed. A suicide note is found on her chest. It reads "I am so sorry Martin". Hours later, the police are called to a house a few miles away. A mother and her daughter have been brutally attacked; the mother is dead and the daughter is barely alive. The father is found shaking uncontrollably in the corner of the room. He is covered in blood but he is unharmed. His name is Martin Willow. Detective Sergeant Jason Smith is put in charge of the investigation. After reaching dead end after dead end, Smith starts to put the pieces together and figures out that Martin Willow is innocent and the killer is still out there. The little girl who was attacked on Christmas Day wakes from her coma and gives Smith a clue about the attacker; a piece of a song she heard directly before the attack. Smith then finds himself in a race against time to find this maniac before he kills again.
©2016 Stewart Giles (P)2016 Stewart Giles
The Enigma
Summary
From number-one best-selling author Stewart Giles comes a new detective series featuring the detectives from both the series we know and love. In Trotterdown, Cornwall, a boat, The Enigma, washes in to the harbour. The skipper is dead, and Harriet Taylor is brought in to investigate. But one dead body is not the only crime the team have to deal with. Meanwhile, further up the coast in Whitby, a boat washes up on the rocks just outside the harbour. Everyone on board is dead. Whitby Police are out of their depth, so DS Jason Smith is called in to help. It soon becomes clear the cases are connected and the teams from York and Trotterdown settle down to work with each other. This is a unique story with a twist, turns, and shocks all the way through making it an adrenaline-pumping listen you will not be able to pause. The detectives DC Harriet Taylor had only been married for two years when her philandering husband was killed in a car crash. It is common knowledge around the station that the woman who died next to him was his latest lover. Harriet transferred to Trotterdown to escape the gossip and sympathetic looks. She is now finding her way around Cornwall and getting to know the other members of the team. DS Jason Smith is an Australian who was sent to York to live with his grandmother when his sister disappeared from a beach. He has suffered many losses in his short life and is now a dedicated detective. He is a bit of a loose cannon - he has his own way of doing things and that doesn’t always mean following orders and procedures.
©2018 Stewart Giles (P)2019 Stewart Giles
Selene
Summary
When a man is found tucked up in bed with his throat sliced open two days after Christmas, DS Jason Smith and his team are baffled. It appears he has been drugged, killed, and carefully wrapped up in a duvet. The only evidence Smith finds are some strands of hair belonging to a woman. One month later, another man is killed in exactly the same manner but there appears to be no link whatsoever to the two men apart from the fact that they were both single, lonely, and middle-aged. In the midst of the worst winter in years, Smith and his team quickly run out of ideas and tensions between the detectives rise. Frustration leads to conflicts both at work and in their personal lives. The only clue the team has is the murders were carried out under the glow of the full moon. Just when Smith feels like he has reached the end of his tether and his own sanity is declining, help comes from an unexpected source; a man who knew this woman when she was a young girl in the mountains of Northern Romania. He sheds light on the reasons these men had to die. Smith finds out who this woman used to be but who she is now is still a mystery. Haunted by lucid dreams and terrifying double awakenings, Smith stumbles upon something that will send him on a hunt for the most baffling murderer the people of York has even seen. With time quickly running out before the next full moon and the safety of one of his closest colleagues entering the equation, Smith finally closes in on the most terrifying murderer he has ever come across.
©2017 Stewart Giles (P)2017 Stewart Giles
Occam's Razor
Summary
A football player is shot dead in front of a packed crowd of people. DS Jason Smith is put in charge of the investigation. The murder weapon is found in a house across the road from the football ground. It is a rare Russian army issue sniper rifle. As the investigation hits dead end after dead end, two government agents arrive and take over, pushing Smith and his colleagues to the side. As more people die Smith quickly realizes these agents are not who they claim to be. He is forced into the dark world of these phantoms and he finds himself at the mercy of his old nemesis, the man who kidnapped his sister years earlier.
©2015 Stewart Giles (P)2017 Stewart Giles
Horsemen
Summary
One draining murder investigation after another has left DS Jason Smith on the brink of losing his sanity, and he needs a break. A string of armed robberies at the McDonald's in the city of York are getting in the way. Smith's DI makes him a deal; if he can get to the bottom of it, he can have two weeks off. Smith figures out who the brains behind the robberies is - the young wife of Jimmy Phoenix, the owner of all the McDonald's franchises in the city.
Smith sets off for the peaceful Yorkshire village of Scarpdale for two weeks of country air, slow walks by the lakes, and no mobile phone reception. He wakes up on his first morning to find three policemen outside his room. A young woman has been found dead next to one of the lakes. Smith was seen talking to the woman the night before. The woman is Sophie Phoenix, the youngest daughter of Jimmy Phoenix. Ill-equipped to deal with such a serious crime, the local police, headed by the bungling Sergeant Wilkie, make no headway, and Smith is begged by Jimmy Phoenix to find out what happened to his daughter. Against his better judgment, Smith agrees and starts to ask questions, but the locals are not giving anything away.
When Sophie’s boyfriend, Lewis Van Camp, is found dead an hour before her funeral, Smith is baffled. Lewis was his odds-on favorite for Sophie’s murder. Smith quickly realizes that these rival horse breeders, the Van Camps and the Phoenixs, are involved somehow. Everybody he speaks to talks of something that happened in New York the previous summer - something sinister involving these horsemen - but nobody seems to know exactly what went on.
Smith knows the only way to put the pieces together is to go to New York and find out for himself what happened that was so terrible that young people had to die because of it. Accompanied against his will by Sophie’s elder sister, Charlotte, Smith soon sees that the opulent world of these horsemen is much more sinister than he could ever imagine. The secret centers on the sworn enemy of the man who pleaded with Smith to help him in the first place.
Smith returns to Scarpdale armed with the information he needs to apprehend the most unlikely killer he has ever come across.
©2018 Stewart Giles (P)2018 Stewart Giles