Episode 7
Becker can hardly believe that Vanessaβs ex-husband destroyed a studio full of her work, in the new thriller from best selling author Paula Hawkins. Read by Alexandra Mathie.
Curator Becker has been searching for missing artworks from the Chapman estate. Her reluctant executor Grace has sensationally claimed that Vanessaβs ex-husband Julian destroyed them in a jealous rage.
Written by Paula Hawkins
Read by Alexandra Mathie
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
An EcoAudio certified from ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Audio Scotland for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
The New York Times bestselling author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN explores ambition, creativity and loyalty in an unsettling psychological thriller with echoes of Du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith. Uncovering buried links between late artist Vanessa Chapman, her faithless missing husband and the rural GP who holds the key to Chapmanβs work, Becker must race the tide if heβs to escape Vanessaβs remote Scottish studio with the deadly story behind βDivision IIβ.
Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, she moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN became a global phenomenon, selling over 23 million copies and adapted into a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt. Paulaβs most recent thrillers, INTO THE WATER and A SLOW FIRE BURNING, were also instant No.1 bestsellers. THE BLUE HOUR has just been published around the world.
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