Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Echo
    The Echo
    The Echo
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Echo

    Written by Minette Walters

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Best-selling author Minette Walters captivates mystery aficionados throughout the world with her evocative, multi-layered novels, which have been translated into 22 languages. In The Echo she spins a finely-wrought web of secrets and betrayals, love and guilt that entangles everyone who touches it. A homeless man has been found dead of starvation-huddled next to a food-filled freezer-in a London socialite's garage. When journalist Michael Deacon interviews the wealthy woman, he suspects she is hiding something. His search for answers leads him on a perilous journey through unsolved crimes of the past and the shadowy world of London's down and out. Edgar Award-winner Minette Walters grips her readers' emotions with her ever-heightening psychological suspense. British actor Simon Prebble's dramatic performance will keep you enthralled throughout the sinuous plot and the shattering finish.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 26, 2011
    ISBN9781461812760
    The Echo
    Author

    Minette Walters

    Minette Walters is England’s bestselling female crime writer. She has written many novels, including The Ice House and The Scold's Bridle, and has won the CWA John Creasey Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette Walters lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.

    More audiobooks from Minette Walters

    Related to The Echo

    Related audiobooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Jack the Ripper

      Jan 12, 2022

      Jack the Ripper
      11 min read

    • Article

      Jack the Ripper

      Jan 12, 2022

      Jack the Ripper
      11 min read

    • Article

      Jack the Ripper

      Jan 12, 2022

      Jack the Ripper
      11 min read

    • Article

      Jack the Ripper

      Jan 12, 2022

      Jack the Ripper
      11 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Jul 12, 2023

      Great Read
      7 min read

    • Article

      Mystery & suspense

      Jan 21, 2022

      Celebrated forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme is giving evidence in the trial of mobster Victor Buryak who has been charged with murder. Rhyme’s testimony is supposed to clinch the case but when gaping holes in his forensic evidence emerge, Buryak walks f

      3 min read

    • Article

      Radio

      Mar 8, 2023

      Radio
      3 min read

    • Article

      Paranormal Cold Case Investigating History’s Most Spine-chilling Encounters

      Jul 7, 2021

      I’m in prison. It’s a crisp, dark night, the stars twinkle above me in the West Country sky and I am standing in the courtyard of HMP Shepton Mallet, formerly the oldest working prison in the UK until it finally closed its doors in 2013. Its most fam

      2 min read

    • Article

      Fabulous Fiction

      Dec 11, 2020

      Defence attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the boot of his car. Mickey elects to defend himself and as he is unable to afford his bail, he must strategise and build his defence from his jail cell in the

      8 min read

    • Article

      Dear Paul

      Sep 10, 2021

      Dear Paul
      10 min read

    • Article

      Mary Schmich: When A Chicago Cop Finds A Stash Of Old Letters In The Trash, He's Transported To Chicago During World War II. And Vows To Get The Letters Back To The Family

      Oct 20, 2020

      CHICAGO - One day this summer, in the midst of the pandemic, Eric Wolforth took a walk to the store to buy milk and diapers. He followed his usual route, west along Catalpa Avenue, then a right turn into an alley. A few doors up he spotted piles of j

      9 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Sep 7, 2023

      Great Read
      7 min read

    • Article

      Vile Piggishness

      Dec 3, 2020

      Vile Piggishness
      10 min read

    • Article

      What To Read?

      May 26, 2023

      BY ELEANOR CATTON GRANTA Described by one critic as “a Kiwi Jonathan Franzen”, this fantastic novel explores what happens when a hippie collective clashes with a ruthless billionaire. Mira and Shelley run Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening group tha

      3 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Apr 15, 2024

      Books
      1 min read

    • Article

      SUMMER Reading SPECIAL

      Dec 28, 2022

      In last year’s Booker Prize shortlisted Oh William! we found narrator Lucy Barton reconnecting with her first husband, William, following the death of her second husband. In this sequel COVID has hit New York and William takes control. As a scientist

      10 min read

    • Article

      THINGS THAT GO Bump B In The Night

      Mar 16, 2021

      Poltergeists are not always violent and frightening – they can just be really annoying! In 1951, the Chilliwack Progress, the local newspaper for the town of Chilliwack in Canada, reported several times on the sound of banging on the walls which went

      2 min read

    • Article

      Summer Reading

      Jan 29, 2020

      Actor, playwright and author Leah Purcell grew up reading Henry Lawson’s famous 1892 short story The Drover’s Wife carrying around her own battered copy of the book and annotating it with her childish sketches. The tale of the pregnant woman isolated

      7 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Sep 7, 2022

      Great Read
      8 min read

    • Article

      In His New Monthly Column, BBC Radio’s Danny Robins Will Be Scouring The Archives In Search Of Real-life Ghost Stories, Starting With The Battersea Poltergeist

      Jun 10, 2021

      I’m Danny Robins and I don’t believe in ghosts... is what I would have confidently told you before I came across this truly strange case. On 27 January 1956, a mysterious old key appeared on the bed of 15-year-old Shirley Hitchings at 63 Wycliffe Roa

      2 min read

    • Article

      Summer Reading

      Jan 1, 2020

      A wealthy bibliophile brings a treasured manuscript to her Paris binder. The pages are creased, yellowed and pungent with the nutty aroma “that old paper exhales as it decays”, and underneath the title is a jumble of figures. The book is broken up in

      7 min read

    • Article

      Dear Paul

      Sep 11, 2020

      Dear Paul
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Echo

    4/5

    7 ratings5 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      A woman asks a reporter to track the identity of a homeless man she found dead of starvation in her garage. Mike Deacon, the reporter, has his own problems: two ex-wives, a dysfunctional family situation, a love of alcohol, and a career in the toilet. Enthralled by the woman, Amanda Powell, he pursues the investigation and along the way, befriends a homeless teen, an elderly retired lawyer, and the odd photo expert at the newspaper he writes for. Soon, he comes to realize that the dead man, Billy, could be one of two missing men, both of whom had reasons to vanish. Billy was obsessed with redemption and in pursuing the truth of Billy's life, Mike finds redemption of his own.But this story does not have the pat endings of some of Walters' books, where all the pieces fall into place. This one ends with some ambiguity, the way life tends to be. I love all her characters because they're so well-rounded and realistic, especially the truth seekers, but possibly Mike, at his irascible best, is my favorite even if the book isn't. (It's hard to choose a favorite book, but Acid Row, Fox Evil, and The Breaker are right up there.)All the elements that make her books special are here: psychological intrigue, secrets, lies, deception, plot twists, indelible characters, literary writing. If you haven't read her, try one. I'll bet you won't be able to stop with just the one.
    • 4/5
      The first part of the story was a little bit tangled up for me, the end of the story was a little bit tangled up for me, but the middle part was superb and made up for the tangles on either end. You have to like British dark suspense with all that that entails of everything having hidden meaning and no one is who they appear to be at any given time. I know I love watching these on BBC America, with all of the visual cues and atmosphere. My sister's been on me to read Minette's books, so this was the way I chose to do the first one. I'll read more and listen to more. Four British atmospheric suspenseful beans......
    • 3/5
      I picked this English Mystery by chance at the library while browsing the science fiction section. It was obviously misshelved. It isn't the kind of novel I normally read, but I was in a rush and the premise intrigued me. A homeless man starves to death in a upper middle class woman's garage, right next to a freeze and a shelf full of food. Who is he and why did he choose this woman's garage in which to die? A reporter with plenty of problems of his own seeks to discover the identity and link. It isn't much of a mystery, but it is an interesting social commentary on homelessness and relationships. Ms. Walters' characters are rich and ordinary. The problems they struggle with are the same ones the rest of us do. It really made me contemplate the conversations I have with my extended family. Do I really say what I want to say or do I hide my real feelings in useless drivel, keeping the truth from the light of day? Ms. Walters shows how hiding those feelings can cause so much damage over the years. It can be nice to have an intermediary like the main character finds between him and his mother. Well, I wouldn't really recommend this book to anyone, but it is an interesting read under the right circumstances. I learned more about me in this book than I thought I would. That is why it gets three stars. Otherwise, it probably would have been only one.
    • 4/5
      Minette Walters takes on the Oedipus question with this book. I found it a haunting story that I couldn't seem to put down once I began. I love the characters in this story! I loved the plot, and I loved the idea. Ms. Walters combines the past and present-day in a truly compelling way. This is one of those books that stays with you long after you close the covers. The book examines betrayal and murder so closely that it's almost uncomfortable because Ms. Walter puts her readers right there in the middle of the action. Ms. Walters examines closely the lives of people who live on the streets, and points out the various personalities and the power struggles that occur within that environment. She then juxtapositions that with the lives of the elite when she has a derelict homeless man die in the garage of a wealthy society woman. And why did Billy Blake's story consume the lives of so many peeople as they try to determine who he was and why he let himself starve to death in this garage? You have to read to find out, and to unravel the many convolutions in his story.
    • 3/5
      The unravelling of the story is the best part of this book. it is a mystery story rather than a crime thriller. However I found the characterisation unconvincing especially Terry Dalton who at times descends to comic book level. The newspaper story at the end of the book that attempts to tie up loose ends and offer some possible explanations to the actions of some of the characters sounds false.to me. This mystery novel that has psychological and literary pretensions does not work for me