The Real Manhunter Casebook

De: Colin Sutton

Narrado por: Colin Sutton

The Real Manhunter Casebook is the captivating accompaniment to hit Sky Crime TV series The Real Manhunter, chronicling 12 of the most complex cases that former Metropolitan Police detective Colin Sutton worked on throughout his career.

Colin Sutton is widely acknowledged as the most eminent Metropolitan Police detective of the last thirty years. His career was diverse, from a uniformed inspector to murder squad detective and eventually Detective Chief Inspector and it was the latter role that brought him to the public attention when he led the teams that caught serial killer Levi Bellfield and ‘Night Stalker’ Delroy Grant, cases which inspired the hit ITV dramas Manhunt, starring Martin Clunes.

In this book, Sutton gives listeners a glimpse into the life of a top tier police detective and revisits some of the other cases he led throughout his career, all against a backdrop of his own life. He goes into great detail about the investigations, starting from the moment the call came in right through to bringing the cases to trial, and all whilst having to deal with the pressures of being at the top.

This is his story, these are his cases.

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It’s not great.

Colin seems like quite a decent bloke on the whole, he’s a reasonable storyteller and I’m sure he was a good police officer, but ….and I’m genuinely sorry to say this, he is a terrible narrator. The audio quality generally is poor, it sounds as if Colin recorded it on an old fashioned tape recorder in his spare bedroom at home. I swear I heard someone close a door in the background at one point, in fact there were quite a few bumps and bangs, perhaps he was having building work done?! In any case, it isn’t a great recording and, for those of you who are sensitive to it, there are a few mouth noises. I’m sorry.

I guess it’s also unavoidable for anyone talking a lot about themselves and their career to occasionally come over as having a bit of an ego, he tries not to and I doubt he’s a conceited man, but as I say, it’s an unavoidable side effect of talking about one’s successes. His attempt to convince us that there is absolutely no institutional racism / sexism or classism in policing and that every single officer feels as he does, is however laughable and I’m surprised he could say it with a straight face.

All of that said it’s not a terrible book, but I’d recommend reading a text version rather than listening to the audiobook.