Bloodhounds

Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation Series, Book 4

By: Peter Lovesey

Narrated by: Michael Healy

A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to justice. But there's a hitch: the body lies inside a padlocked houseboat and the only key is in the pocket of a man with an airtight alibi.

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Critic reviews

"Lovesey demonstrates that his embrace of crime fiction reaches from John Dickson Carr to Andrew Vachss as he skillfully pays homage to the old style whodunit in this thoroughly modern mystery." ( Publishers Weekly)

terrible narrator...pompous., editorial reading to

terrible narrator... as if he's editing story as he reads... good story... could barely listen
as narrator didn't appear to be listening himself to what he was reading

Top notch

I love the author’s ability to paint a scene or a character. DCI Diamond is a flawed person who knows and understands his shortcomings but hangs on to them. He apologizes when appropriate. And often, in the case of Sgt. Julie. The cast of characters is fascinating. The narrator is good either way dialects.

Love Peter Diamond!

Good detective story! I appreciated each character as they were well-developed. Had me guessing up to the end.

New narrator but still enjoyable!

I was disappointed when I realized that the book was narrated by someone other than Simon Pebble. Diamond's voice was different and, initially, I felt out of sync with the story. But then I noticed that Michael Healy's narration is different but not unenjoyable. He has a style very similar to Neil Gaiman's narration. I love everything that Gaiman narrates and I found myself loving Pebble's style as well
The story itself is my favorite so far.

Oh no! The reader! I cannot listen to another word

What did you like best about Bloodhounds? What did you like least?

The reader's inflection is not remotely related to what he is saying. It is sing-song and boring

Who was your favorite character and why?

Cannot listen to enough to say

What didn’t you like about Michael Healy’s performance?

Everything!

Did Bloodhounds inspire you to do anything?

Find another book to listen to.

Finally!

Believe it or not, I've just finished reading Bloodhounds; it took me 26 long days. I felt the book was overly long and somewhat complicated to keep the facts straight.

Fun diversion with use of old school mystery tropes, but characters suffee

Really not a fan of this narrator. Hard to keep track of any of the characters. But that's not all his fault. The abrupt epilogue and lack of any sort of resolution to any of the story's character arcs was emblematic to the superficial character development. I don't know maybe that was also a throwback to the old.school Holmes/Agatha Christie/Poirrot type stories, which makes it a cute device, but unlike everything else in the series so far.

an interesting read a little dense but fun

a mystery with several components .... one was a classic locked-room with several different conclusions reached an ultimately the solution was very clever the book could have really ended there. another major element was a confidence game being run and the implications of that to the murder aspects of the storyline interesting lie though the author left that danglingat the end and chose not to come to a conclusion with several key elements not being shared it was almost like he was tired. three murders and how they were connected and done Worthy basis of the story. the author in many ways has a tribute to about every mystery writer you can think of.... the cast of characters that make up the central group call The bloodhounds take up a lot of narration of the book itself... he does bring a lot of background information on these characters who could have came out of any classic mystery novel which I think after reading several of his books seems to be his style. the audio performance is good it's difficult to differentiate all the voices that the author brings to play.

Where are you, Simon Prebble?

Like a previous reviewer, I was unhappy with the switch from Mr. Prebble to Mr. Healy. The narration was laborious and I could never distinguish between many of the main male characters, especially Peter Diamond. I’ll be reading the next several books…. Still adore Peter LOVESEY and the story was entertaining.

Narrator was fine Even if not the best.

The narrator wasn't great but he was fine. It's hard to compete when Simon Prebble does such a great job of Peter Diamond. At least I could listen to the entire book. The mystery was interesting as well.