The Deadhouse

De: Linda Fairstein

Narrado por: Melissa Hughes

Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back -- in this page-turning New York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein.
On Roosevelt Island, a strip of land in New York City's East River, stands an abandoned 19th century smallpox asylum, "The Deadhouse," where the afflicted were shipped off to die. It's a gruesome bit of history perhaps best forgotten. But for Alexandra Cooper, it may be the key to a shocking murder that cuts deeper than the arctic cold front gripping the city. A respected university professor is dead -- strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. And while the school does damage control for anxious parents, Cooper and her close detective friend Mike Chapman scramble for answers, fueled by the most daunting discovery: a piece of paper, found on the lifeless body of Professor Lola Dakota, that reads The Deadhouse....

Narrator was very disappointing.

Would you try another book from Linda Fairstein and/or Melissa Hughes?

I enjoy all of Ms. Fairstein's books (unabridged ones) but I found the narrator Melissa Hughes very disappointing. Barbara Rosenblat has done a wonderful job of making the New York characters come alive for me in this series of books, so listening to another narrator is a real come down.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Yes. The descriptions of the isolation of the location of the old prison and hospital sites and the bad weather added to the suspense.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Most definitely

Was The Deadhouse worth the listening time?

Yes. I dislike listening to abridged books because too much of the story gets left out.

Any additional comments?

In a series of books such as this you should not change narrators.

Narrator not good

Didn’t like voice of person reading she didn’t adapt between characters well. Sounded very monotone

Barbara Rosenblat is much preferred

After listening to Barbara Rosenblat’s narration of later books in the series, Blair Brown does not match up. I’m glad the change to Rosenblat was made!

Bring back Barbara to narrate!

Great story with so much fun New York history. But The narrator just doesn't fit. I missed Barbara.

Impetuous

For such an "intelligent" protagonist, she often was impetuous and acted rashly. the issue with Jake and his CI was unrealistic.

Didn’t like the reader

I love this series, but I prefer Barbara Rosenblat as the reader. Melissa Hughes is not believable

Narrator ruined the story.

I can hardly stand to listen to the narrator as she reads the story aloud. It's choppy and so obvious that she's reading aloud from a text. The other narrator for the other books in the series (Barbara Rosenblat) really makes the character her own. Because of that, you are drawn into the story. This narrators is just terrible. It's so distracting to the story.so bad that it distracts from the story. Too bad. I regret buying this book. I'm going to move onto the next book in the series – thankfully the next book is not narrated by this person.

Almost impossible to follow

After listening to 25 chapters I still could not figure out the story so I started over. After re-listening to more than 25 chapters I realized that every character sounded the same, the reader spoke in a monotone voice so the book just made no sense.
I could not tell you whether it is a good story or bad...