Brat Farrar

Written by Josephine Tey

Narrated by Karen Cass

A unique and absorbing standalone mystery, Brat Farrar is an essential addition to the Josephine Tey collection.

A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, 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.

It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SNR Audio
• Release date: Apr 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781915268914

Josephine Tey

Josephine Tey, author of The Daughter of Time and The Franchise Affair, was born Elizabeth MacKintosh in Inverness in Scotland in 1896. She trained and worked as a teacher before returning to her family home to look after her elderly parents. It was there that she took up writing. Although she described her crime writing, written under the pen name Josephine Tey, as ‘my weekly knitting’ she was and is recognized as a major writer of the Golden Age of Crime writing. She was also successful as a novelist and playwright, writing under the name of Gordon Daviot. Her plays were performed in London and on Broadway. A fiercely private woman, she died at her sister’s home in 1952.

Reviews for Brat Farrar

[Debbie Dawley · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Another intriguing book by Josephine Tey! She had the most incredible imagination. This is one of my favorite Tey books. Incredible story line. Many twists and turns