Dead Girl Walking cover art

Dead Girl Walking

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Dead Girl Walking

By: Chris Brookmyre
Narrated by: Angus King, Kate Bracken, Various
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £20.99

Buy Now for £20.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Famous, beautiful, and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then one day she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything. A call from an old friend offers a chance for redemption--but only if he can find out what happened to Heike.

From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it's too late, all while the walls are closing in...

©2015 Chris Brookmyre (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Crime Funny Scary Mystery Highlander

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
The Bonnie Dead cover art
The Turning of Our Bones cover art
The Hope That Kills cover art
Resolution Way cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
The Blood Strand cover art
Jaggy Splinters cover art
One Under cover art
Good Girls Don't Die cover art
Each Little Lie cover art
One False Move cover art
A Man with One of Those Faces cover art
The Murder Wall cover art
For Your Own Protection cover art
Deadly Lies cover art

Critic reviews

"Chilling, compelling…Brookmyre is unique." (Mark Billingham)
"A strident blast of the trumpet to wake up crime fiction readers everywhere." (Val McDermid)
All stars
Most relevant  
I struggled to finish this one. Angus King's narration was solid, Kate Bracken's really put a downer on the whole experience, I'm afraid. Unless I feel an urge to start listening to books about a whiny teenager's angst and depression (where I think her reading style would be well suited), I think I'll be avoiding her in the future. Of course, it is always possible that that was the desired effect - in which case, well done Kate! But I'll still be avoiding her... to be on the safe side.

Reasonable story, 50% excellent narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I hadn't read this author before but took a punt on it in the sales and was gripped by both the story line and the performance

Took a punt on this book and it had me gripped

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
i love jack parlabane, and narrators were fab! could bappily have listened to this all day.

energy

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You know enough about the synopsis - but I can add that the narration is spot-on, and the use of the two narrators works perfectly. CB's books are usually a treat because they are so intelligently written and engaging in their use of language, this one is too. More please - including all the missing ones from CB's back catalogue.

Tiwsty turny literature

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
An intriguing and engaging mystery with quite a few surprises. I usually guess the plots but this one did keep me guessing...

Excellent story, well narrated.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you try another book written by Chris Brookmyre or narrated by Angus King and Kate Bracken ?

Unlikely. The narrative was not engaging despite the good story.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

The narrative needs more forward motion. It feels too slow and always waiting for something to happen.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Make the character a little less whiny.

Do you think Dead Girl Walking needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

The story has been played out and the secret revealed.

Good basic story but narrative not engaging

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This is my second Jack Parlybane novel. Not sure I will do any more, too many books and too little time to follow just one character through the same but slightly different crime thrillers.

I like the well drawn characters, plus it was an interesting storyline of rock band prostitution, rock chicks, lesbians, drugs and human trafficking. Sounds rather awful now but did make a good story.

Narration was good although there were a few odd accents, when he spoke one character then realised he was using the wrong accent....Scottish to Eastern European all in one sentence! However it did not detract from the whole.

Scottish journo investigates

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very good Parlabane tale. Why won't this bloody app auto capitalise.
Great audio performance. One more word.

Not my favourite.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
loved it, one of the best books I've listened to in a long time. highly recommended

brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I don't know why but for some illogical reason I wasn't looking forward to this book. When it's turn came I started to listen reluctantly, and, of course, loved it. The story moves along at a cracking pace. There's intrigue, lies, dirty dealing, double crossing and danger aplenty. The narrators do a great job bringing the characters to life. All in all an excellent, well thought out tale with a number of complex threads, which come together to a weave a fabulous tapestry. This was my first Chris Brookmyre story, not having read or listened to any Jack Parlabane or Jasmine Sharp books previously. What a loser I am! I shall be seeking out these series now and can't wait to get stuck into them. How I've managed to let such a great author elude me for so long is a mystery, (albeit one that's not worth writing about). Now that I've found him, I'll be sticking by his side forever more. I highly recommend you join me on my Chris Brookmyre journey of discovery. You can thank me later!

Excellent listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews