Brat Farrar - Josephine Tey

Written by Josephine Tey
Read by Carole Boyd
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 09-01-11
Publisher: Chivers/AudioGo
Audible 2017

What begins as a ploy to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor’s life hanging in the balance.

Almost eight years ago Patrick Ashby, a thirteen-year-old boy, committed suicide after his parents’ death. No body was found, just his jacket and a farewell note. Now Simon Ashby, the younger twin, is about to inherit the Ashby holdings.

In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family’s sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick’s mannerism’s, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick’s early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself.

He then approaches the family lawyers and presents himself shortly before Patrick and Simon’s twenty-first birthday. Now, as Patrick Ashby, he moves into Latchetts with the family. Simon refuses to accept him or believe he is really Pat Ashby. To complicate things, he discovers an attachment to his “sister”, Eleanor.

It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the imposter’s plan and his life but there is something…something sinister lurking. What really happened to Patrick Ashby?

Culminating in a final terrible moment when all is revealed, Brat Farrar is a precarious adventure that grips the reader early and firmly and then holds on until the explosive conclusion.