Play Dead

Elise Sandburg, Book 1

By: Anne Frasier

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

No one is more familiar with Savannah's dark side than homicide detective and native resident Elise Sandburg. She's been haunted for years by her own mysterious past: She was abandoned as a baby in one of the city's ancient cemeteries, and it’s rumored that she is the illegitimate daughter of an infamous Savannah witch doctor. The local Gullah culture of voodoo and magic is one that few outsiders can understand, least of all Elise’s new partner. Now someone is terrorizing the city, creating real-life zombies by poisoning victims into a conscious paralysis that mimics death. As the chilling case unfolds, Elise is drawn back into the haunted past she's tried so hard to leave behind.

©2013 by Anne Frasier. (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Just ok

This book portrait the voodoo and magic as a farce and without a place in society. Unfortunately, that is the reason that the next story does not have an appeal to me. I was attracted under the assumption of voodoo being a moving force in society and the police having difficulty solving crimes.

The author wrote a pretty convincing who dun it. I knew that I was being pushed to assume one person was the killer. Later when I was able to think about the story and what Sherlock says (Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.) it was easy identifying the killer.

Most of the story dealt with the detectives looking at their lives. Elise Sandburg delves into her parentage and David Gould past is revealed. The crimes were solved with her using her belief in voodoo possibility effecting the crimes. David was a total non-believer who looked for the common explanation. I was not impressed with the detectives to sign on as fans of theirs. Which is why the next book does not appeal to me. This is a good mystery.

Ok will listen to the sequels

The setting is great, characters fairly well developed and the narration pretty good. It just did not grab me like some others of the genre. If I had not listened to the first I probably would not continue with the series.

Good twist, interesting story!

Really good character development. The plot was interesting. Overall it felt ominous not really suspenseful until the end which was good. Narration was good after getting used to it.

Might have been good if...

I started listening to this book and, although I was getting interested in the story, the way this narrator read the story grated on my nerves. Sad to say, but I couldn't take it any more and deleted it from my device. Perhaps I'll try the Kindle book instead.

Worth listening every minute

Story was riveting and I couldn't stop listening. The twists were unexpected. The narration was on point, convincing and well done.