Deathwatch: Broslin Creek

Broslin Creek, Book 1

De: Dana Marton

Narrado por: Talmadge Ragan

The only person who can identify the most notorious hit man in the country, Kate Bridges is running for her life. Murphy Dolan is in the Army Reserves, returning from his 2nd tour of duty, only to find a stranger hiding in his house. She's scared spitless. He's completely burned-out on violence. Neither of them has any trust left to give.

©2013 Dana Marton (P)2014 Dana Marton

Outstanding listen can't wait for the hit man book

Where does Deathwatch: Broslin Creek rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I loved the story but the lisp that you only hear in Ms, Ragan normal voice bugged me. Besides this I would say it was an outstanding listen. It is not the best but not the worse my far. I would listen to it again.

Which character – as performed by Talmadge Ragan – was your favorite?

Talmadge did wonderful on all the characters but I enjoyed Kate and the hit man the best.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Take a seat hang on for the ride of your life as you hold your breath as you have more action adventure than you can stand. More thrills as we send chills down your spine.

Any additional comments?

I am going to break this down from the narrator to the book. I have read Deathwatch and loved it. There are none of Dana Marton’s books that I have read that I do not love. Dana is one heck of an outstanding author who knows how to keep her readers on the edge of their seats as she takes you through her twist and turns. Dana knows how to tell a compelling story that always leaves you wanting more. In DeathWatch Katy watching her own funeral, I can’t even imagine setting there watching my family at my own funeral knowing until the bad man is caught they will have to live with the pain of my death. Knowing they will face many years of memories, of birthday, Christmas remembering the good times as they shed tears and not knowing how many more years you have to go before you can be with them again. This is one of those books that nothing but nothing is going to come between you and finishing it until the end.

How can you even think about being on the run for 18 months trying to keep one step ahead of a hit man? Be a sleep only to come awake to find a strange man in your bedroom what that must feel like. The author writes a story that keeps your heart in your mouth as she takes on a ride never knowing who to trust, no one has kept you safe not even the FBI. The author gives you everything you could ask for in this book. It is outstanding and you really should pick up one of Dana’s books to read or listen to. I cannot wait until I read the book where the hit man comes back.

Narrator: I thought she did an outstanding job on the characters, the different voices would done wonderfully. However she does have a lisp that you only hear in her normal voice, that did bug me. I did not find Ms. Ragan's voice to be smooth and even flowing in her normal voice but in the characters voice it was even and had an easy flow. I thought she brought wonderful life to the characters and I did enjoy her character voices.

good one

First, the story was awesome, the blurb doesn't do it justice. The twists coming when least expected were great, I love that in a book. The main characters, Murph and Kate, were so mismatched at the beginning made me wonder where does the story go, but as the story unfolded I fell in love with them. Great secondary characters, the chief and the mail lady were my fave.
Dana Marton is a new author-to-me and I like what I see so far, I will be looking for her other books to enjoy. Thank you Ms. Marton.

As for the narration, I loved Ms. Ragan's voice, not as varied as others I've listened to, but great pitch, very pleasant. The only thing that bugged me is that she has a slight lisp, not sure what it is from, but a few places I had to go back and listen again to the word/s to hear what it was, two places I couldn't make it out even after the third listen.

Loved it

Book two should be great. Looking forward to it. I did not figure out the killer. That was unusual for me!

Awesome start

4.5*'s

This is the first novel by his author for me and I have to say I enjoyed the story. There were a few spots in the story that were slow but over all it's a great read, or listen. I got lucky with this one being in a recent email I got about books on sale or something. I'm not sure which one but I am glad I picked it up. I will be looking at further books in this series by this author.

On OK read.. So-So narration..

I liked Kate and Murphy, and I liked that she told Murphy her story instead of insisting on leaving and taking care of herself, like soooo many authors tend to write, which I find totally stupid. Women who have no training cannot take care of themselves against a killer, I don’t care how big her gun is.

But at about 80% I was getting so frustrated I almost quit reading. I mean, Agent Cirelli of the FBI was soooo stupid you just wanted to jump into the book and slap her silly. Then I got PO’d at Murph because he really didn’t try hard enough to convince the FBI that he didn’t know where Kate was and they needed to be out looking for her. At least 20 minutes passed at the police station, time enough for Mordocai to rape and kill Kate 2 or 3 times and no one was even looking for her. The whole scenario was just so stupid it was ridiculous.

And this is NOT a cliffhanger but it did leave unanswered questions and said Murph and Kate would show up again in another book where the questions would be answered. I don’t like that.

As I said, there was some sexual tension in this book but their first time together was disappointing, since it was a 3-minute-quicky, with the FBI out in the other room. They did have sex again at about 95% but it was nothing to write home about.

I really can’t see myself reading anymore from this author because her EBOOKS are just too expensive. I won’t pay $5.00 for a book with 204 pages or $4.84 for 172 pages. This one was free, that’s the only reason I decided to try this author. It had its draggy moments but I was interested in finding out who the assassin was in town.

As to the narration: Mostly she did ok with the voices but a lot of time she sounded like she was reading around a mouthful of spit. That was very annoying. I’m not sure I could listen to her again.