The Broken Trail

By: Dominika Best

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What would you be willing to do to become famous?

Cold Case Detective Harriet “Harri” Harper has done what she swore to do almost twenty-years ago: find her sister and bring her home. But, she hasn’t brought her sister’s killer to justice and that keeps her up at night. Now back at work at the Los Angeles Police Department, she works her caseload while hunting her sister’s killers at night with the help of Jake Tepesky, a former FBI profiler.

When a grieving father brings the case of his missing daughter to the Cold Case Unit and her missing friend is found in a wall in a Hollywood Hills home, Harri is assigned to the case led by Detective Tom Bards, her colleague on The Creek Killer task force. As she begins to uncover the secrets of the young woman and the world that she ran in, Harri stumbles across a link to the Eugene, Oregon case that she barely survived.

As the case bumps against the rich and powerful in Hollywood, Harri pushes the boundaries in order to find the missing girl. And then another girl is taken.

When the case takes a dangerous turn, Harri must decide what sacrifices she’s willing to make. Her career is on the line and it's not the only thing at risk.

The Broken Trail is the third Detective Harri Harper crime thriller.

not a virtual voice fan

Really enjoying the series. I read while doing other things--relaxing knitting, or driving, housework, etc. So if I find a good series, sometimes I resort to text to speech or now "virtual voice". Both get annoying as well as sometimes comic relief with the stupid way AI "reads".
Authors, virtual voice reduces the value of your books. Hope it is only a short term solution while figuring out options for human narration.

Despised virtual voice

Virtual voice has no emotion. No feeling in the voice. It doesn’t know common pronunciation of words!! Hated the voice but an overall great story.

The AI voice

Didn’t enjoy listening to the story with this narrator . I enjoy the personality of the human narrator.

AI NARRATION IS TERRIBLE

I like the story but the AI narration was terrible. I knew AI was applied going in, and hoped for the best. Will never download an AI narrated book again, even if free.