Rattle

By: Fiona Cummins

Narrated by: Karen Cass

On still nights, when the curve of a winter moon is smudged in the flow of the River Quaggy, the dead clamor for him. And sometimes he coaxes the living to join them. To other people, his victims might be mere medical oddities. To him, they are fascinating specimens, worthy of display. Above all, he is a collector, eager for recognition even as he hides in the shadows.

Detective Sergeant Etta Fitzroy is the first to recognize the connection between the disappearance of a young girl and a cold case that almost cost her the career she's sacrificed so much for. A faceless psychopath is walking the streets of London, tantalizing the authorities with clues, taunting them with his ability to spirit his victims out from under their very noses.

Better than anyone, Etta Fitzroy understands loss. But this is one contest she will win if it kills her....

©2018 Fiona Cummins (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Complete waste of time.

Not a single character—even the child victims—in this implausible dung pile elicits the slightest bit of sympathy. The reader’s insufferably wheedling voice turns the children into whining brats, the parents into self-absorbed twats, and the villain into a cartoon monster. (Spoiler alert: the monster gets away in an utterly absurd escape—where did his handcuffs go?—and half of the mystery remains unsolved.) This seems an obvious ploy to get readers to trudge through more tedious hours of the detective’s ill-conceived machinations. Not a chance.

Boring! Snooze!

I ordered this book because of all the good reviews. I probably would have liked it more if I read it myself! This book drags on and on and on before it gets to anything!