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Murder on the Oxford Canal
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Series: DI Hillary Greene, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Meet DI Hilary Greene, a policewoman fighting to save her career. Not only has she lost her husband, but his actions have put her under investigation for corruption.
Then a bashed and broken body is found floating in the Oxford Canal. It looks like the victim fell off a boat, but Hillary is not so sure. Her investigation exposes a dark background to the death. Can Hillary clear her name and get to the bottom of a fiendish conspiracy on the water?
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- nicholas thomas
- 04-26-19
will.get better
The story was good, the narration monotone and one paced. The editing was poor with no breaks between sections which combined with the monotone voice meant you quite often went between scenes without realising they had changed subsequently losing the plot, The editor should also have picked up on some mispronunciations and American pronunciation which jar as you are listening.
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- Mrs Anne Westbrook
- 06-30-18
Great
I read the book on my kindle. Then downloaded audible for my son who is registered blind and loves audio books. Decided to listen to this story. I’m on book about 13 and it’s good to recap as to where it all started. The narration is good. And I’ve not downloaded book two as loved the audio so much.
6 people found this helpful
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- ChrisH
- 06-21-18
worth a listen
a light story with a a few twists and turns. the reader could have have put a bit more life into the reading
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- Maybe
- 04-09-19
What on earth is soddering?
The story is quite good and so is the performance to an extent, it’s just some of the pronunciation that spoils it. You wouldn’t think the mention of soldering would come up so often and then be mispronounced as soddering, sounds petty but it began to grate after a while. Shame because apart from that and other strange pronunciations it was acceptable.
3 people found this helpful
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- M
- 03-23-19
Narration so poor
The storyline was perfectly fine but this was ruined by the narrator who has a particularly loose command of the English language. Her mispronunciations were really distracting. It was a real pity. Why did nobody check?
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- Mr James H Morris
- 04-05-19
Good intro to a new heroine but...
The narrator ruined it for me as I had to really concentrate to notice a scene change!
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- Oxfordshire lady
- 01-14-21
Slow Moving Excitement on Oxford Canal
Moving from the deprivation and sometime squalor of Blackbird leys to the rustic ldyll of the Canal.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-26-20
Good story shame about the narrator
narrator needs to be local to get local place names right. makes a difference
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- KCT
- 11-07-20
Didn’t finish it
I love crime thrillers and get through about five or six a month but I found this really boring to the point that I didn’t bother finishing. I rarely leave a book like this but genuinely don’t care what happened. I just want to move on to something else that I actually enjoy listening to. The narrator was good, it was the story that I had a problem with.
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- Ergophobiac
- 10-08-20
A well crafted plot
I'm now hooked on Faith Martin's books, looking forward to the next one. The storyline was complex enough to keep you guessing although the performance was a bit stilted in some places. Ordering the next one later and looking forward to the rest in the series.
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- pen606
- 08-12-19
Unable to finish
This is a book I will have to read myself. I kept trying to work out why I wasn’t enjoying it and I came to the conclusion that it really sounded like it was being read rather than performed and it irritated me so much I couldn’t finish. It sounded like a series of statements.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-23-19
boring, too much description,
We started listening to this on a long road trip but it was so tedious it almost put us to sleep. Only worth listening to if you have insomnia.