Murder on the Old Bog Road

By: David Pearson

Narrated by: Brian Walsh

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

A woman is found dead in a ditch. As the list of suspects grows, a town’s dirty secrets are revealed.

It’s a cold winter evening, and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an obstacle in the road. She clears the highway of stones from a damaged bridge only to see the body of a woman in a ditch. With no phone reception, she travels to the nearest police station to report what she has found.

The local Garda waste no time in attending the scene of the crime. The woman is clearly dead, but it needs proper forensics to establish if foul play was the cause. In the meantime, is it not possible that the woman driver was in fact the culprit? She is clearly not telling the whole truth.

A game of cat and mouse ensues when the inquiry is upgraded to a murder investigation. The trouble is, when the victim is recognised as a sex worker, there is no shortage of possible suspects. And few of them, if any, are willing to tell the truth to the police. It will take all of Galway detectives Hays and Lyons’ experience to cut through the web of lies and identify the killer in their midst.

©2018 David Pearson (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

Narration made it difficult to finish

The story was interesting so I stuck with it, but the narration was really poor. It was so monotone! There weren't even pauses between character dialog. A school teacher reading aloud would be better.

Good idea, poor execution

Great Irish accent and good voice but the story was read like a secondary school book report. The writing was uneven although the story itself was reasonably good

has the cadence and wording of a childrens book.

written and narrated like thomas the tank engine. i am only a few minurtes in though. i may go ack to it . perhaps i need more coffee this morning.

Meh

I totally agree with the other reviewer that the narration and writing style is reminiscent of Thomas the Tank Engine or a children's story. It's a bit over the top and doesn't fit with the subject matter of the story.