AN ACT OF KINDNESS

By Barbara Nadel

Synopsis

A young Asian couple move into a dilapidated house in Upton Park. Nasreen, spends her time working alone on the house, whilst her husband Abdullah goes to work. When Nasreen's friend, a homeless man, disappears she reaches out to the Arnold Detective Agency. Mumtaz Hakim begins to dig into Abdullah's past and into the house itself which, she finds, holds its own grim secrets.

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Narrator	Paul Thornley
Length	10hrs
Catalogue No.	12380
Publisher	Clipper Audio; 2014

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