• Take No More

  • James Blake, Book 1
  • By: Seb Kirby
  • Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
  • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Take No More

By: Seb Kirby
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
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Publisher's summary

An artistic voyage in crime - thrilling and original.

When James Blake discovers his wife murdered in their London home, he is determined to find her killer. As the prime suspect, he flees England and sets out on a journey that takes him to Florence and Venice and into a dark underworld of corruption, a trail that will lead him to the killer - and the shocking truth behind the mystery.

©2010 Seb Kirby (P)2014 Seb Kirby

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Here is the challenge: piece the puzzle together

If you could sum up Take No More in three words, what would they be?

An artful puzzle

What does Shiromi Arserio bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I loved the nuanced voice and the suspenseful interpretation of the story by Shiromi Arsenio. The performance was riveting to listen to.

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Structured by time and place, part I of TAKE NO MORE occurs Friday to Sunday in London; The rest occur in Florence. Part II occurs six days earlier; part III four days later; part IV six days earlier; part V four days later. So right away you realize how the author goes back and forth in time, challenging you to piece this puzzle together.

When the protagonist, James Blake, finds his wife murdered, he starts piecing together her work for a dangerous Italian family. For him, this is both an intellectual and an emotional challenge. As an art conservator, she was hoping to find a lost paintings, `Leda and the Swan' which may have been painted over to save it from destruction.

Carefully researched, the story is anchored in real facts in art history (Michaelangelo’s Leda and the Swan is missing.) From these details, which grant authenticity to the writing, the author has cast a wide web of imagination. In composing this story, Seb Kirby adds to the magic of the wonderful words and stories he discovered in the treasure trove of books in his grandfather’s mobile lending library.

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The book deserved better

This book is not uninteresting. The story line is pretty well thought out and the characters are , if not well fleshed out, at least believable. However the reader is so bad that if she is not someones daughter or sister there is no excuse to use her. God help the poor author, maybe she is a undercover spy sent to sink him.

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