The Burial Hour: Booktrack Edition

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

The Burial Hour: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
DANGEROUSLY GOOD.DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.

Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series.

A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman's noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate.

Soon the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer...

Despite their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs don't hesitate to rejoin the hunt.

But the search is now a complex case of international cooperation--and not all those involved may be who they seem. Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game, with lives all across the globe hanging in the balance.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

Loved the book

Narrator was very good, and a Lincoln Rhyme book has never, ever let me down.

Music

The music is annoying and unnecessary it destroys the storyline I hope in the future you will discontinue

Distracting music in background - YUCK

Hated the background “music”; annoying; story was fine — background noise distracted from hearing some portions; what idiot thinks listeners need that?

Good book but did not need music playing in the background

I have never written a review of a book before because I am not in the habit of criticizing nor praising... Books are often subjective. Who am I to judge? This book was however, very well written. I enjoyed the content. I strongly disliked the music playing beneath the person reading it. If it had been a sound effect that’s ok. But music constantly playing in the background just takes away from the audiobook. Imagine if you were watching the movie Halloween and throughout the entire movie they play the suspense music without pause... that is what they did to this otherwise wonderful book.

Background music compromised a good story

Background music should complement the story being presented. In this case, the music was not appropriate. I found the music to be intrusive and unrelated to story. In a good movie, the music complements and reinforces the mood and feeling for the current scene. The movie viewer often is unaware of the background music. With this book presentation, I often felt that the music was just wrong, it didn’t relate to the narrative and was often irritating. It was a good story with good narration with the wrong music.