The Guilty Dead

A Monkeewrench Novel, Book 9

By: P. J. Tracy

Narrated by: Sarah Borges

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author P. J. Tracy is back with the most addictive installment in her award-winning mystery series.

Dead men tell no tales...but their pasts can't keep a secret.

Gregory Norwood is Minnesota's most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his son's overdose was splashed across the front page of all the papers. When a photojournalist sets out to get a candid shot of the highly successful businessman on the one-year anniversary of his son's death, he's shocked to find Norwood dead with a smoking gun in his hand. The city is devastated, and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called in to handle the delicate case. It should be open and shut, but something is not right. Norwood's death is no suicide.

With no suspects and an increasing tangle of digital evidence that confounds the Minneapolis Police Department's most seasoned cops, Magozzi calls on Grace MacBride, Monkeewrench Software's founder and chief computer genius and the soon-to-be mother of their child together. She and her motley crew of partners begin to unravel connections between Norwood's death and an even larger plot. Norwood wasn't the first, won't be the last, and by the end, may be just one of many to die. The breakneck, high-stakes race to find his killer and save the lives of hundreds make P. J. Tracy's The Guilty Dead her most outstanding novel yet.

©2018 P. J. Tracy (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Weak reader

There are soooo many mispronunciations throughout the book it’s quite annoying. The narrator’s voice isn’t bad but if you want to do this as a professional you should expand your vocabulary and learn to pronounce words correctly!!!

Good addition to series marred by narrator

I've been a fan of the Monkeewrench series via audiobooks for more than 10 yrs and have adjusted to a few narrators. Series fans beware: This narrator -Sarah Borges- has transformed Gino (MN Italian-American detective) into a whinier version of Marge from Fargo with a caricature of a MN Scando accent. Also, be prepared to cringe a couple times at "nefarious" losing a syllable- "NEF-a-russ"- and HVAC (pronounced "H- Vac" in MN) being spelled out as "H-V-A-C." This might not bother you. For me, both the regionalism and suspense in a regional suspense series that I love were undercut by an inappropriate accent and distracting mispronunciations.

Returning awful narrator

Will buy kindle edition This was just too awfully to keep Love the author but do not was your money or credits

switcharoo

I found this series when I discovered "live bait".falling in love with the characters. used to the narrator;then I got a female voice, ok I suppose, however its very much like when they change actors in a TV series, something is just a bit off. the story is great.

Great Story

The switch of male narrators in past books was hard but going to a female narrator was a ridiculous choice.

new reader

We have listened to all the other PJ Tracy stories in this series. This one has a new reader. The previous reader was a male This was a female and she didn't do a very good job. she really needed to have listened to how the previous reader portrayed the various characters. The story takes place in Minnesota and we are from Minnesota not from Fargo. she made a couple of the characters sound like they were from the movie Fargo. This was insulting to me as a minnesotan.

This story was a challenge to listen to from beginning to end. It was slow to take off it dragged in the middle and was not in any way a surprise at the end. they also left out some pretty important information about the new program the monkey wrench characters had come up with. This was a huge disappointment. you may not listen to another one if it's the same reader.

Terrible Narration

Might have been a decent story. but the awful accents, narration, and mispronounced words made it extremely difficult to get through.

pretty good

In my opinion, this narrator has promise. However, her rendering of Gino made him feel like a quivering older woman.

I was very disappointed to hear the very disrespectful comment about Zimbabwe.

I sincerely hope this narrator will read the book all the way through and look up pronunciations for the words that she does not know. She rendered desolate, dissolute.

I gave up trying to keep track of the many, manry mispronunciations

Who Dunnit?

I like Audible a lot. But one drawback is that it is more difficult to keep multiple characters straight. This whodunnit has too many who’s. And way too many dunnits. Too many side plots and too many characters—I would support a good audible editor trimming subplots for(lower cost) Audible versions.

The Novel ROCKS, But the Narrator Ruins It

I LOVE this novel. I adore everything P.J. Tracy writes, but especially this one. This novel combines her usual Monkeewrench tech prowess with good police work. There is a terrorism sub plot along with a murder mystery. If you haven’t read/listened to the others in the series you may be a bit lost, but it can still be good on its own as Tracy gives enough backstory for the characters. It is phenomenally written and is an absolute MUST READ.
That being said, this narrator SUCKS. She is just plainly AWFUL. Half of her voices sound identical. For example, when you’re trying to differentiate between speakers in a conversation it’s easy to get lost.
Also, her voice for Gino is just terrible. It’s like someone googled “How to Speak Minnesotan” (true, but also a joke for long time readers) and spoken like that.
She also mispronounces MANY words. And I don’t mean colloquial mispronunciations. She literally mispronounces words. The one that comes to mind right now is ‘nefarious.’ She literally pronounces it “nef-er-ous.” And when she says ‘hovering’ she says “ha-overing.” I’ve found many more in my listen, but those stwo stick out the most.
While this novel is NOT to be missed, you’d do better to read the novel. This speaker ruins the book.