Blood and Money

McBride & Tanner, Book 1

De: Rachel McLean

Narrado por: Lesley Mackie

DI Jade Tanner has been plunged into managing the Complex Crimes Unit, Police Scotland's newest investigating team. She's recruited Dr Petra McBride, fresh from losing her job at Dundee University, and DS Mo Uddin, who's reluctantly transferred from Birmingham.

When America's newest internet billionaire is shot on the shores of Loch Lomond, the team is brought in. Jade suspects a connection with the shooting of a local millionaire, an unsolved case which has been haunting her.

But the team has its problems. Jade is only just back at work after a personal trauma, and can barely leave her own front drive. Petra is receiving anonymous phone calls and trying to establish a relationship with the latest in a string of girlfriends. And Mo is missing the city and his old boss DI Zoe Finch.

Can the team work together despite their differences and find the killer before the next shooting? Or will the next victim be a member of the Complex Crimes Unit?

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Had Difficulty Focusing on The Story

I know that readers do their best to relay the tone and feel of the story. That being said, the narrator's tone didn't vary much at all between characters. I was really looking forward to this series, after becoming familiar with Petra and Mo in the original Zoe Finch series. The mood felt stagnant. I had to listen to some chapters more than once. My mind drifted and unlike other McLean novels, I wasn't captivated and honestly didn't care about most of the characters. Maybe it's just how much I LOVE Jan Cramer's narrations. I get that the location of events is Scotland, and my American ear has to lock in to follow the dialect at times. I plan to continue with the series and hope that my experience get much better.

Very hard to listen to

The story was good but the narrator is one of those who reads to the end of the line of text, not to the end of the sentence. It’s very distracting and hard to follow

Missing Jan Cramer

It’s hard to rate the story because I was so distracted by the bad cadence and breathy voice of the narrator of this book. I don’t know how or why she would do this, but she would take audible breaths every few words like she was running out of air. These pauses did nothing for the continuity of the story (think a bad Captain Kirk). I did love her Scottish accent and found her bad American accents amusing.
Story was ok but the American tech billionaire aspect was not believable… so I enjoyed it as if he was just a non-tech wealthy American.