The Night Shift

Cavendish and Walker, Book 0

De: Sally Rigby

Narrado por: Clare Corbett

DS Whitney Walker wants a promotion, but it’s hard when she’s trying to balance motherhood with a career.

When a newborn baby is kidnapped from the local hospital, she draws on her skills as a mother to help. Despite being ordered not to, and when the leads are going nowhere, Walker enlists the help of a local journalist who’s convinced it’s the work of an international baby smuggling ring. Walker’s plan backfires and she fears they’re running out of time.

©2021 Sally Rigby (P)2021 Podium Audio

Short & sweet…

Nice easy listen. The story kept me involved & I was def invested in the outcome. The narrator did a great job, would most def recommend!

Fine

It’s an okay story and the writing is okay too. Not bad, but also not memorable. I liked the narrator, but had a bit of a cringe moment when she sang ‘baby mine’ and obviously didn’t know the song. Either Google it next time or don’t sing a song if you don’t know the tune, lol.

Strong female lead for British crime series

Enjoyed the start to this series. Strong and stubborn Whitney has a big heart that drives her policework. I had to look up all the British police abbreviations as I didn't know what DS and DCI were, but I love learned stuff like that. Great beginning.

Peak into Walker's past

In the mood for a short but suspenseful detective tale? you have found it!

Yes, please!

I listened to book one in the series and when I saw this prequel, I knew I wanted to listen before going on in the series. It was a terrific choice for a terrific listen. It's free (as of this writing) and just shy of two hours. There is no downside with trying this listen to set the stage for the other books in the series.

Great writer.

The story is good. Sally Rigby is an outstanding writer. Novellas are often difficult to get to know the characters but this short story gives you an nice insight to the protagonist and I look forward to reading more of this series. The narrator was excellent.

Bummed about the Main Character

The best thing about this was the narrator/reader/performer person. She kept me interested and engaged in the story. The main character of this book, however, just about killed this story for me. The main character just totally ignored whole lines of possible leads- I don't even know why those leads weren't explored, except it might have been done to show the main character's inexperience? Poorly done if that's the case. Anyway, this definitely had the feel of a semi-thought out fanfiction instead of a prequel.

A great beginning of the series!

This was my first book by Sally Rigby. It's free on Audible until the end of December. The book is less than two hours long but a lot happened!

Whitney's dad has just died but things are looking good at work. Her boss is encouraging and gives her the task to find the missing baby. I already have the second book downloaded.

What Whiner

I like this story but DI Walker is such a baby. She truly needs to put her big girl bloomers on and get on with her job. She would rather whine to herself about how unfair things aare and the DSI is out to get her. I hope eventually she woman's up

Now we know how Whitney got it

Very good story to serve as a prequel to the series involving Whitney and George. Looking forward to reading/hearing more about George’s background. We seem to have more information about George, her family and her romantic relationships.