Cause to Kill

An Avery Black Mystery, Book 1

By: Blake Pierce

Narrated by: Elaine Wise

Homicide Detective Avery Black has been through hell. Once a top criminal defense attorney, she fell from grace when she managed to get a brilliant Harvard professor off - only to watch him kill again. She lost her husband and her daughter, and her life fell apart around her.

Trying to redeem herself, Avery has turned to the other side of the law. Working her way up the ranks, she has reached the rank of homicide detective, to the scorn of her fellow officers, who still remember what she did, and who will always hate her.

Yet even they cannot deny Avery's brilliant mind, and when a disturbing serial killer strikes fear into the heart of Boston, killing girls from elite colleges, it is Avery they turn to. It is Avery's chance to prove herself, to finally find the redemption she craves. And yet, as she is soon to find out, Avery has come up against a killer as brilliant and daring as she.

In this game of psychological cat and mouse, women are dying with mysterious clues, and the stakes could not be higher. A frantic race against time leads Avery through a series of shocking and unexpected twists - culminating in a climax that even Avery could not imagine.

©2016 Blake Pierce (P)2016 Blake Pierce

Accent

Didn't like the English accent. Especially because the story was set in Massachusetts. Next time have someone who speaks with an American accent.

Wrong Accent!

The narrator was good but she was English and everyone in the story was from the US. When the character had a "strong Boston accent" she spoke with a cockney accent. The story was great though although the "romance"/ flirting Avery Black did was kinda lame. Overall pretty good

good story, bad narration

The story was good, but I kept getting distracted by the English accent. It really needed an American accent.

Narration

The book takes place in Boston but, the characters are all British. Why? Doesn't make sense and was distracting.

British accent

Book was good, but listening to a story about a Boston murder read by a very competent narrator with a British accent was somewhat unsettling.