• Under the Cold Bright Lights

  • By: Garry Disher
  • Narrated by: Douglas Hansell
  • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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Under the Cold Bright Lights

By: Garry Disher
Narrated by: Douglas Hansell
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Detective Alan Auhl does things his own way - and gets results. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick - his daughters are still convinced he was murdered, the coroner not so sure. Or the skeleton that’s just been found under a concrete slab. Or the doctor who killed two wives and a girlfriend and left no evidence at all....

©2017 Garry Disher; 2018 W. F. Howes Ltd (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd

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Another masterful book

Garry Disher needs to write faster - I'm running out of titles to dive into.
This is a terrific character, a former homicide detective brought out of retirement to work some
cold cases and finds himself caught up in a couple that are still quite hot.
The narrator does a great job with the characters..not so brilliant with the narration itself but fine.
However doesn't a writer as brilliant as Garry Disher deserve someone who knows how to pronounce the
location titles? Please engage a Victorian to narrate his books...it's grating to hear (for example) Moe pronounced as one of the Three Stooges instead of as in Cooee. Sounds picky but its distracting. Anyway, like all the Disher books this leaves me desperately wanting more.

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Good characters but overall story didn’t hold together

Too many moving parts: The various story lines were interesting & some of the characters were compelling...but pacing was clearly off, & nothing really developed with the depth to make it a cohesive novel.

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  • P.W.Ainsworth
  • 03-26-18

Good story

Good story plenty of different aspects to it. Just slightly spoilt by the performance delivery.

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  • Beverley Sharp
  • 07-18-23

Couldn’t stop listening

I enjoy all Disher’s books and this didn’t disappoint! Shame it’s a standalone as I’d like more with same character

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  • Maureen
  • 04-26-23

Brilliant

Loved this book, the main character is so very different from the usual detective, and he makes the book all the more interesting.
Disappointed it's a one off, would really love to hear more. One to listen to again.

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  • Ange
  • 06-24-23

another great Garry Disher Read

this stand alone Garry Disher book was just as good as I expected. Sadly there are no more books following up Alan Aur',s story.
highly recommend along with all the Garry Disher series

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  • Anonymous User
  • 03-25-23

Narrator could do with brushing up on local pronunciation

The narrators of Disher’s novels always have very odd ways of pronouncing place names (look out for Corio and Moe, for example). It’s as though they have no local knowledge at all, which is disappointing given how wonderfully Disher describes both iconic and less iconic Australian locations.

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  • Denise
  • 11-03-21

Dissapointing

Narrator was terrible. Toneless and boring not Garry Dishers best story . I really struggled to get into it but was glad to finish.

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