Nowhere to Hide cover art

Nowhere to Hide

Inspector Drake, Book 7

 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.

Nowhere to Hide

By: Stephen Puleston
Narrated by: Richard Elfyn
Try for £0.00

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

Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

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

A murdered mother. Drug dealing unchecked. Can Detective Drake achieve justice when so many have failed?

When drug addict Dawn Piper is found dead in her own home, her neighbors are far from surprised. Dawn’s habit led her to mix with some dangerous people. But this quiet mother of one was small fry. Would anyone want Dawn dead?

Inspector Drake knows there is more to Dawn’s murder than a simple drug deal gone wrong. As he digs deeper, he discovers that Dawn hoped to clean up the streets of her community that are being overrun by drugs and the dangerous County Lines gangs that sell them. And it cost her her life. Have the police force failed the community they serve?

Drake is used to the murky world of organized crime groups. He knows the dirty games they play to evade arrest. But in his toughest case to date, Drake is determined to make the guilty pay.

This time, they will have nowhere to hide.

Nowhere to Hide is the seventh book in the dynamic Inspector Drake crime series. If you like clever mysteries and engrossing listens, then you’ll love Stephen Puleston’s Ian Drake novels.

©2019 Stephen Puleston (P)2020 Stephen Puleston Crime Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Devil's Kitchen cover art
The Cardiff Stadium Murder cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
Grimm Up North cover art
The Hope That Kills cover art
The Bonnie Dead cover art
Detective Tom Janssen Hidden Norfolk, Books 1-3 cover art
The Lost Girls of Penzance cover art
A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
The Landscape of Death cover art
Silent Tide cover art
The Dark Tide cover art
The Engine House: A Black Beacons Murder Mystery cover art
The Body in the Marsh cover art
The Turning of Our Bones cover art
Dead Water cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
another winner from the puleston Elfynn combination hear as inspector Drake and his team investegate the murder of Dawn Piper, a seemingly reformed drug user. this book tackles the subject of county lines drug dealing which is an timely issue for this series to tackle.

We are currently living in strange times and this was the perfect read to curl up with and forget what is happening. Drake and his team feel like old friends now that we are 7 books in to the series and it's good to see Drake's pri?ate life really beginning to fall in to place.

the other members of Drake's team seem to be coming in their own as the series develops and it will be interesting to see how Drake interacts with his new boss as the series continues.

a timely storyline

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I am a huge audio book fan, but Nowhere To Hide is actually the first time I have listened to one which is a police procedural - and what a fabulous place to start!

Although this book is actually the seventh one in the Stephen Puleston's Inspector Drake series, it works extremely well as a stand-alone, which is good because I have not read any others in the series....yet!

The story concentrates on the murder of a small time drug addict, whose murder turns out to be much more of a complex affair that it first appears. As Inspector Drake and his trusty team investigate Dawn's death, some rather worrying facts come to light that seem to link it to the rise in the County Lines drug trafficking problem and despite their efforts, more bodies appear before they can get to the bottom of whoever is behind the crimes - and the violence comes much too close to home for Inspector Drake's liking.

The audio book is narrated by Richard Elfyn, who manages all the accents rather well and pronounces the Welsh place names oh so beautifully. I did find the narration a bit too monotone at times and would have liked to have heard a bit more passion expressed in the parts where the story affected DI Drake personally, but in all other ways the dispassionate way the story is told fits in quite well with the nature of a police investigation - cool and fact driven.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story itself, which builds tension nicely and has a lovely twist at the end - one which works well. I particularly liked the realistic way Drake and his team went about their painstaking investigation - each of them having a part in the more mundane aspects of police work that are necessary to gather the evidence needed for a successful prosecution.

In fact I enjoyed it so much that I suspect I will be delving into the past episodes of Stephen Puleston's DI Drake books before too long - I am already aching to get to the next one now I know all the characters!

Excellent police procedural!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Drake is back. That’s it he’s back I’m won over
These are one of the best books I’ve read or listened to.
Simple as that.
I adore Drake his idiosyncrasies & his attitude. So glad he’s getting his life together.
He takes no crap & deals with his job head 1st. The team are fab characters & they mix well, even with their annoyances at each other.
This story delves into drugs & local gangsters.
Excellent.
Narrator as always, spot on, kept me interested & the story rolling exactly as always does.

Just excellent

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

Listener received this title free

Number 7 in the DCI Drake series. About the worrying rise of county lines. Great story not too keen on the narrator he was a bit over the top for me 4 ****

DCI Drake !!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is an Inspector Drake novel well thought out, likable character a little bit of OCD but getting better, and now he has a new love in his life. This story starts with a murder and the author has a good knack of painting a picture of the victims and started with this poor soul a drug addict always trying to get herself clean to no avail, quite an intricate story and Puleston does get it right. A great story believable and very little swear words if any, good procedures, likable well-described characters and area description brilliant one can imagine being there. One of his best, whether you read or listen I have done both the book some time back and now the audio version the narrator as always does a fine job.

A Great Listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is a brilliant addition to the series, with a drug addict being found murdered in her house and the local residents all claiming that she upset the wrong person and had it coming to her.</p>


As Drake and his team investigate they release all is not as it seems and she has in fact been trying to get away from the drug scene, which Drake has also been trying to shut down for a while,.</p>

Whilst investigating Dawn's murder, one of her close friends also turns up dead in the same way, so Drake has to investigate that as well.</p>

All through the book there is a lot of action and stuff going on, which keeps the story flowing nicely and kept me hooked and wanting to read the next chapter each time I got to the end of one
As with all previous 6 books this one can be read as a stand alone, although you do get a lot more back story if you have read the previous ones first. This book delves more into the person that is Inspector Drake, and I really like the way that Stephen has written him, not too perfect but without many issues.

Overall this is a brilliant book and I am really enjoying the character of Drake and his team. The lovely Welsh landscape helps with the story as well.

Brilliant continuation of the series

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another great Inspector Drake book. A reformed drug addict is murdered, two vulnerable teenagers go missing and a dangerous adversary attacks Drake’s family. Fast paced and exhilarating read. Excellent narration from Richard Elfyn as always.

Great Read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I have been listening to a lot more audiobooks recently as I avoid watching too much TV and my reading has been slowing down. So when I was offered the opportunity to listen to the audiobook of Stephen Puleston’s Nowhere to Hide, I jumped at the chance.
This is the 7th in a series and although I have not read the others, I did not feel at a disadvantage and this worked fine as a stand-alone, though clearly there was a significant backstory I didn’t know.
Our protagonist is Detective Inspector Ian Drake, based in Deeside, North Wales. Drake works with DS Sara Morgan, DC Luned Thomas and DC Gareth Winder. Their Superintendent, Wyndham Price, is about to retire and Drake is concerned that the new appointment, Hobbs, will not be as easy to work with; his reputation is that of a man difficult to please.
Drake suffers from OCD, though that is improving now that he is in a new relationship with Annie and the pair are planning a much needed holiday, taking his kids to Disneyland, Paris.
The biggest problem facing the North Wales Police is drugs and the increasing supply coming in from England, which the police refer to as the ‘county lines’ problem. When Dawn Piper, a young woman and a recovering drug addict, is found dead in her flat and it’s clear she’s been killed somewhere else, Drake and Morgan investigate.
It’s pretty obvious to them that drugs are at the root of this murder and that Dawn’s death may be connected to local crime bosses. The local community are already up in arms about the drugs problem and then another death takes place, this time a friend of Dawn’s is murdered.
When Drake’s ex-wife is forced off the road, with his children in her car, Drake knows he has to find these killers before his family comes to serious harm.
Puleston writes a pacy novel and this police procedural is tense and twisty with a terrific sense of place.
Richard Elfyn’s narration is excellent. Fabulously and enthusiastically Welsh, he handles the different voices well and I could listen to his pronunciation of Caerphilly over and over.
Verdict: A solid and authentic police procedural with convincing characters and a strong and believable plot.

A solid and authentic police procedural

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

Listener received this title free

Inspector Drake is back to his very best with this latest instalment of the series. This time Drake is dealing with the death of a drug addict and the possible links to a county lines drug gang and a family of criminals who Drake already has a history with. As the case takes a dark and threatening turn for Drake it’s a race against time to find the murders and locate two missing teenagers. This book does not disappoint and I love the character of Inspector Drake who is very relatable and this is a warts and all look at police work which is a breath of fresh air every time.

Inspector Drake at his best

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I just absolutely adore everything about this series - the writing is great, the narration by Richard Elfyn is fantastic and the cases get better with each instalment.
I also love the huge improvement in Drake's private life - having listened to this while in Corona lock down I couldn't help but think that I wouldn't even wish a lock down with his ex wife on my worst enemy!
Highly recommended, but I'd start at the beginning - whilst they work as stand alones Drake's development makes more sense in chronological order.

Wonderful series, fantastic narration!

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