• Fall From Grace

  • Detective Jane Candiotti
  • By: Clyde Phillips
  • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
  • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (204 ratings)

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Fall From Grace

By: Clyde Phillips
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
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Publisher's summary

When David Perry confides the sordid details of his bitter divorce to a sympathetic stranger, he never imagines the nightmare he would unleash. Now his socialite wife is dead, brutally murdered by a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants…Veteran San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti never allows her personal feelings to interfere with the job - until Jenna Perry is found strangled in the hills of Marin County. Now to uncover the truth, Jane must dig into the secrets of the city's most powerful families, a hunt that will draw her inextricably closer to David and his young daughter…and to the cold-blooded killer stalking their every move.

©2013 Clyde Phillips (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Great twist at the end!

Fall From Grace is a good detective novel with a great twist at the end. Unfortunately Angela Dawe's voice is as irritating as the sound of scratching on a blackboard. I seldom downrate a novel due to poor narration, but an exception is appropriate here.

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Awful Narration!

Would you try another book from Clyde Phillips and/or Angela Dawe?

I bought the next book in this series and I still cannot stand the narrator.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Fall From Grace?

The twist

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Angela Dawe?

No!!

Did Fall From Grace inspire you to do anything?

Stop listening to this narrator

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Too much -- and unrealistic -- romance for me!

I was disappointed with the setup for this story, because I found it unbelievable that a homicide cop would get involved with the husband of a murder victim in a case that she herself was investigating. It got to be a "very serious relationship" -- very fast (in days) and it seemed like this woman was not spending any time at work...

If you can suspend disbelief in this area, which after all is the whole basis of the story, you may not be able to get past the narrator, Angela Dawe, who (as someone else mentioned) has a weird inflection to her voice as she reads. Almost a little Valley Girl inflection, where there is an expectant lift at the end of sentences that just sounds wrong, somehow. As I listened, I kept thinking "how would I have read that?" -- which was a bit distracting. The odd thing is that she did dialogue wonderfully and distinguished all the characters' voices well.

I gave this 3 stars overall because there is an interesting twist at the end of the story that I liked. I will pass on the rest of the series, however. I got this one to "try out" a series that was new to me (I'm always looking for mystery authors I haven't read before).

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Good audiobook

Narration well done, enjoyable,
Loved the story base of San Francisco,and we'll done prose that allowed you to see the Golden Gate Bridge and its glory.

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A bit too much.

Just a bit too unbelievable and a detective that should not be on the job.

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Required heading (which it says is "optional")

The beginning of the story was pretty good. Then just got weird. The conduct of the detective was over the top and unbelievable even in these days where anything goes. A little gratuitous sex now and then.

I did get used to the narrator but it took a while.

I was guessing nearly to the end on the 'who dunnit' aspect. And I didn't see that many choices of possibilities so I was surprised at myself for not figuring it out earlier.

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Where do I begin ....?

Ok, I've never submitted a review until now, but I thought I should, in hopes that the author and narrator will learn from it for future books.
First, the narrator began horribly, and only improved somewhat over the course of the book. I almost stopped as soon as I started. She had an annoying sing song quality to her voice
And a habit of accentuating the end syllable of each word and also drawing it out. Agonizing.
But wait, it gets worse. The start started out ok, I personally love a good murder mystery now and then. But the characters actions and dialogue were so unrealistic and the plot, although it had potential, was very flawed. I won't go into detail, but the main character wasn't even believable as a police detective. I could go in but in summary i feel The editor did not do his or her job- it should have had a total re-write. The setting in San Francisco saved me from stopping mid book, but I did return it, which I rarely do.

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Forced myself to finish

The storyline was very predictable and Jane most be one of the worst cops ever. The narrator was awful and I found myself shaking my head so often at her inflections that I'm amazed I don't have whiplash.

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reasonably good story, terrible audio

The audio for this sounded like it was read by a synthetic voice or voice piped through auto tune. pretty sure the performer was human, and the performance itself was ok, but really awkward pauses and strange inflection made this a challenge to listen to. less noticeable at higher speed play back but still rather distracting.

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Fall From Grace

good book. didn't like audio.. Didn't like how the audio was presented to the audience.

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