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Playing it Straight is now a free audiobook
I'm pleased to announce that my novel Playing it Straight is now available as a free audiobook on ElevenReader.
The audiobook runs for almost nine hours, and I've listened to some of it myself on my phone. I'm very pleased with how it sounds.
Playing it Straight is a detective novel set in 1990s England. It follows Detective Tom Tompkins, a successful but undervalued policeman whose investigation into the brutal murder of a gay man leads him into organised crime and corruption within the police.
This is my first experiment with turning one of my novels into an audiobook, and I'm impressed by what is now possible for independent authors.