Dead Level: DI Nick Dixon, Book 5

Excellent story but didn't like the male voice interpretation. Female voice same each character, terrible.

Almost gave up on this book due to the annoying way that the narrator gave all his female voices the same voice!!!!

Worst narration I have heard. Caricature coppers and a dull hero. two female officers whose voice is never more than sultry whisper. and the continual he said, she replied, he yelled is just so unnecessary.

The story line was a bit poor,and it was not helped by very poor naration.

Firstly, let me make this clear; Damien Boyd is a great writer and the 'Nick Dixon' stories are really good. Better still if you know the area in which they are set. So; I have no truck at all with either the author or the storyline/characters etc.

However; who in the name of all that's holy picks the narrators for these things? This guy - Napoleon Ryan - seems to voice all of his characters in different joke voices. Nick Dixon for instance seems to be a mixture of Sam Spade and a local radio newsreader from the 1980s. The breathy voice of the female performer is almost indistinguishable between characters...

The voice of Harry Unwin actually made me laugh out loud; a 1950s 'B' movie villain seems to be the inspiration here!

All of this is terribly sad. It tempered my enjoyment of the book so much that I had to skip great swathes of it in order to stop listening to the truly terrible voices.

Damien Boyd - if you ever get the chance to a) read this review and b) choose your narrator, PLEASE choose a different one. And if you can't find a good one, I'll do the whole thing for expenses only. I can't offer a professional history in voiceovers, but I can promise one thing; I can DEFINITELY do a better job than this joker..

Seriously; Vladimir Putin and Pat Butcher ( yes I know she's not real ) would have done a better job...

ANYone. Seriously. Ron Pickering would have been a better option. John Prescott could have done a better job.

Seriously? How about someone with a modicum of talent?

Not at all. Read the book and get some actual pleasure from the story.

I wish I'd known I could return the book...

An excellent story which builds up the suspense without revealing the conclusion until the final chapter. Hopefully, we will not have to wait too long for another in the series.

Not better, but a great alternative when driving or walking.

Another winner from Damien Boyd, great story line. I love his books, living in France it really reminds me of home, I love all the mention of local places. Damien writes great stories without over complicating and manages to keep your interest right the way through. He has not written a bad book yet, roll on the next one. This was the first audible version of his books I have purchased and was not disappointed! Napoleon Ryan read the book very well and got the characters spot on.

The intonation was frequently completely wrong and made some of the sentences meaningless. The women's voices (done by a female narrator) were all breathy and very similar to each other. None of this was helped by tedious and poorly written dialogue. I managed to skim over it in the book (the audio download came with kindle unlimited) but I had to listen to it in excruciating detail on the narration.

The story rattles along at a fair old pace.

This is not the best story I've heard, by some way. It seemed a bit clunky in characterisations. However this was as nothing compared to the narrator. Napoleon Ryan has a rather deep voice which led to many of the male minor characters having what I can only describe as cartoonish voices. How he managed the female voices I'm not sure; either his voice was digitally altered, or a female narrator was brought in but not credited. Either way, it's a cheat.
The story had some potential, but the characterisations and narration will prevent me hearing another Boyd story or anything spoken by Ryan.

loved all of DCI Dixon's stories and especially the audio narrated by Napoleon definitely worth a listen/read