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Passing Strange
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"[Montague] has a clear, well-modulated voice, which is easy to listen to, and his dignified delivery matches the cerebral nature of this mystery." (AudioFile)
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- connie
- 04-23-10
it takes a village
to make the setting for this clever & dryly humouous English cozy
a character driven who-dunnit, set just before ubiquitous technology complicated detective cozies
very well narrated (in the style of classic English who-dunnits)
nothing profound, but a very pleasant mind massage with no graphic violence or sexual content
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Linda
- 10-04-13
My favorite Sloan so far
This is my favorite CD Sloan audiobook in the series so far. Perhaps I paid more attention, because this narrator is much improved over the narrator of the previous audiobooks. The plot is clever and enjoyable.
6 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Dana
- 03-06-07
just a good book
I enjoyed listening to this book. I enjoy the author.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- prc
- 12-01-21
not one of the better ones
the author seems to be running out of steam at this point in the series. Even the last line in the book was just a cheap trick. I will take a short break from these books and read something else entirely. but I will be back because I always finish every series I start. just can't say I'm looking forward to it now.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Kindle Customer
- 01-28-21
Slow
I have enjoyed several previous books in this series immensely. The narrator’s dry delivery added to the characters and to excellent writing. But I have struggled hard to remain interested in this one, despite the narrator’s valiant effort to redeem it. It drags; it goes on and on about tangents unrelated to the plot. It gets very tedious, consisting basically of inane conversation and tangential thoughts on the part of the inspector. Rather than being an enjoyable journey, as the previous books were, Passing Strange is a long, enigmatic bore.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- grey
- 12-21-20
As always, good.
Crosby is getting a bit smarter—we must to attribute this to Sloan’s (sp?) teaching.
Narrator strangely does Lee’s (sp?) voice as Scottish.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- beeverd
- 09-21-18
Wonderful inspector sloan
the inspector Sloan books are so good and entertaining...the author injects sufficient humor and riviting mystery. I especially enjoyed the narrator style and delivery...
spot on!!!
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
In Catherine Aird’s Stiff News, a letter received by an old woman’s son after her death alerts Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that one woman’s death by natural causes in a local nursing home may actually be murder. But that is just the beginning of the odd goings-on in this nursing home catering to former members of a WWII regiment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a good story
- By Gateor on 05-02-21
By: Catherine Aird
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Slight Mourning
- The Calleshire Chronicles, Book 6
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 209
Twelve friends sit down for supper at Strontfield Park, but only 11 survive the evening. After dinner, the host, William Fent, offers to drive one of his guests home, only to die behind the wheel in a violent accident. The autopsy shows that Fent ingested enough barbiturates to kill a horse. So begins a fresh tale of murder and deceit for Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan, whose list of suspects begins and ends with the surviving dinner guests.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always tongue-in-cheek; and always very fine ...
- By Sharon on 04-07-19
By: Catherine Aird
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His Burial Too
- The Calleshire Chronicles, Book 5
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4 out of 5 stars 214
On the hottest day in living memory, Richard Mallory Tindall, the owner of a patent firm, does not return home to Cleete village. When a man is found crushed to death, Tindall's case goes from missing person to homicide. In the course of solving murder cases, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan has seen all manner of ugly death. But there's something particularly gruesome about this one, the body crushed beneath the marble and iron of an old Saxon church tower. With rubble blocking off access to the crime scene, no one can get close enough to inspect the body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love—keep reading even when I don’t understand
- By Brennan on 12-11-20
By: Catherine Aird
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Little Knell
- The Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan Mysteries, Book 18
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Colonel Caversham, once prominent in the British colonial service, has died and left his large collection of artifacts to the local Calleshire museum. Included in those artifacts is a 3,000-year-old Egyptain mummy and case, now the responsibility of one Mr. Fixby-Smith, curator of the Greatorex Museum. When the lid of the mummy case is raised, however, what greets the coroner, curator, and inspector C. D. Sloan is not what they expect.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another wonderful Catherine Aird mystery
- By robert on 08-27-21
By: Catherine Aird
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After Effects
- Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan, Book17
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Muriel Ethel Galloway passed away at home, twitching and grasping at objects only she could see. Her family mourns, sad but unsurprised that an old woman suffering from heart disease should die suddenly. But when Mrs. Galloway's son receives an anonymous call alerting him that his mother's life was put in jeopardy by her doctors, he demands action from the Calleshire police.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great one!
- By grey on 02-11-21
By: Catherine Aird
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Chapter and Hearse
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Bruce Montague
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
This collection of mysteries contains the following short stories: "A Change of Heart", "Due Diligence", "Time Gentleman Please", "Cold Comfort Far", "Chapter and Hearse", "The Widow's Might", "Handsel Monday", "Preyed in Aid", "A DIfferent Cast of Mind", "Examination Results", "Child's Play", "Like to Die", "Dead Letters", "Gold, Frankincense, and Murder", and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful collection
- By Roger on 07-10-08
By: Catherine Aird
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Stiff News
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
In Catherine Aird’s Stiff News, a letter received by an old woman’s son after her death alerts Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that one woman’s death by natural causes in a local nursing home may actually be murder. But that is just the beginning of the odd goings-on in this nursing home catering to former members of a WWII regiment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a good story
- By Gateor on 05-02-21
By: Catherine Aird
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A Dead Liberty
- The Calleshire Chronicles, Book 12
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Lucy Durmast waits patiently in front of the judge at her own murder trial, refusing to utter a single word. Kenneth Carline, an employee of her father's, was found poisoned to death after eating a meal that Lucy herself had prepared. Kenneth was set to marry another, and Lucy, it seems, was jealous. But what should have been an open-and-shut case of envy-driven murder becomes complicated when primary detective Trevor Porritt suffers permanent brain damage. C. D. Sloan inherits the file - and immediately begins poking holes in what looked like an airtight case.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story very detailed, lots of introspection
- By grey on 01-11-21
By: Catherine Aird
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Harm's Way
- The Calleshire Chronicles, Book 11
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 149
When the Berebury Footpaths Society created their locally infamous motto, "Every walk a challenge," they couldn't have known just how apt it would be. Avid hikers Wendy Lamport and Gordon Briggs suffer from a good walk spoiled when, while reclaiming a public footpath from the greedy barbed-wire fences of encroaching farmers, a crow drops a severed human finger at their feet. And where there's a finger, thinks Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan, a body can't be far behind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- By Ms Peach on 07-06-19
By: Catherine Aird
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Past Tense
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Detectives Sloan and Crosby find themselves assigned two rather puzzling cases. First, there's the young woman's body which has been discovered in the River Alm. And then there's the mysterious break-in at the Berebury Nursing Home. To be precise, it's Josephine Short's room at the nursing home that's been entered, although nothing seems to be missing. What could the intruder have been after? It becomes apparent to Sloan and Crosby that the two cases are connected—but who can the killer be?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A modern classic
- By wisconsinclark on 05-24-17
By: Catherine Aird
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The Body Politic
- The Calleshire Chronicles, Book 13
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4 out of 5 stars 129
The British-based Anglo-Lassertan Mineral Company finds itself in hot water its engineer, Alan Ottershaw, hits and kills a pedestrian while driving in a foreign country - a nation with thick veins of the strategically important mineral querremitte. This country has draconian laws about killings, so Ottershaw is relieved when he's whisked back to Calleshire. Bur the Lassertan government threatens to strip the company of its most valuable contract, and poor Mr. Ottershaw dies suddenly, a very convenient solution. A little too convenient, if you ask Calleshire detective C. D. Sloan.
By: Catherine Aird
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A Going Concern
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Story4 out of 5 stars 208
When Octavia Garamond passed away, she left explicit instructions in her will: The police must be present at her funeral, and the coroner should be exceptionally thorough when examining her body. Amelia Kennerly is perplexed to find herself the sole executor of her great-aunt's will, as she barely knew her. Further questions arise when the local parson is anything but happy to conduct Octavia's service. Then someone breaks into Octavia's home and tears the house apart. It seems the old lady's words may have been eerily prescient: "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."
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3 out of 5 stars
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good listen until last few unsatisfying chapters
- By Marie on 04-01-20
By: Catherine Aird
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Some Die Eloquent
- The Calleshire Chronicles, Book 8
- By: Catherine Aird
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 196
That Miss Beatrice Wansdyke had died is not particularly surprising. A chemistry mistress at the Girls’ Grammar School in Berebury, she was a longtime sufferer of diabetes who managed to live her modest life to a ripe old age. But one thing is odd - Beatrice Wansdyke died a very wealthy woman. What was an old schoolteacher doing with a small fortune? Meanwhile, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan, Calleshire’s finest investigator, learns he is about to become a father. But with ominous players hell-bent on pursuing Miss Wansdyke’s money, will he live see his child’s first birthday?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent mystery series.
- By Zeeta on 06-16-19
By: Catherine Aird
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Last Respects
- By: Catherine Aird
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- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 226
When local fisherman Horace Boller decided to row his boat out on the tidal backwash of the river one morning, he couldn't have meant to land a catch like this. What he ended up with was a body floating on the river's surface. And judging by the state of the corpse, the death was not a recent one. The strange thing is, the coroner report indicates that drowning was not the cause of death. It's up to the intrepid C. D. Sloan - and his markedly less intrepid assistant, Constable Crosby - to investigate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another excellent mystery from her pen ...
- By Sharon on 06-25-19
By: Catherine Aird
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River of Darkness
- By: Rennie Airth
- Narrated by: Christopher Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Story4 out of 5 stars 397
In 1921, the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime the killer is plotting his second strike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New Mystery Written in 1920's Style-What A Thrill!
- By Nancy J on 06-27-12
By: Rennie Airth
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A Fatal Obsession
- Ryder and Loveday, Book 1
- By: Faith Martin
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 290
Oxford, 1960. There's a murderer on the loose, and two unlikely heroes are poised to solve the case. Meet Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday - smart, enthusiastic and always underestimated. In the hope of getting her out of the way, Trudy’s senior officer assigns her to help coroner Clement Ryder as he re-opens the case of a young woman's death. She can't believe her luck – she is actually going to be working on a real murder case.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just didn't buy it
- By Marie on 12-04-19