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Winterman

By: Alex Walters
Narrated by: Frazer Blaxland
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Alex Walters is the best-selling and critically acclaimed author of the DI Alec McKay series. Winterman is a gripping serial killer thriller which will appeal to fans of Stuart Macbride and Mark Edwards.

DI Ivan Winterman is a man with a troubled past. The Blitz has left his young son dead and his wife seriously injured. He has made enemies in high places, and, with his career going nowhere, he returns to his home town in East Anglia, seeking to rebuild his life in a country gripped by postwar austerity. As the snow begins to fall, a drunken ex-clergyman stumbles on the semi-mummified body of a small child concealed in a ruined cottage. Days later, a second child's body is found in a Fenland dyke. Winterman, supported by a small team of assorted misfits, finds himself uncovering a web of secrets in the small rural community. When a further murder victim is discovered, Winterman discovers that the secrets are darker and the threat far more immediate than he'd ever envisaged.

©2019 Alex Walters (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd

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  • Nicola Medrano
  • 06-29-23

Gripping thriller!

I loved Frazer Blaxlanf’s telling of the story of Winterman! There were several avenues I expected the story would explore however it went down different, less predictable lines. I highly recommend this book.

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  • Prufrock
  • 09-22-23

I wish this wasn’t a standalone

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Well plotted and original. My one gripe is that the very excellent narrator makes far too many mispronunciations. Given that both the timbre of his voice and his dramatic rendering is well above average, he deserves being better edited. When affectation becomes affection (more than once) and dogged becomes dodged there’s a problem. There are books I won’t listen to because I find the narrator irritating. Here there is an excellent narrator whose vocabulary needs a little work.

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  • Greencath
  • 09-19-23

Ok but reservations

Gaps in the follow up of searching for evidence.
The reader had an annoying habit of quietening at the end of sentences so I was straining to hear.

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  • Jack
  • 08-25-23

Good twisting plot, great characters

Set in post war England, the story had enough interesting characters, but sometimes a bit vague on what eventually happened to some of them. Bit disconcerting to hear mispronunciations of English words, especially Laboratory pronounced the same as Lavatory, which at first I thought that was what the narrator had said.
Overall enough human interest and storyline to keep one listening.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 08-14-23

Narrator struggled.

Slurred words, failure to read punctuation, inconsistent character accents, incorrect emphasis on words and mispronounced words. At one stage I thought he was about to fall asleep. Story ok.

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  • Amanda Vermeulen
  • 08-11-23

Good story, shoddy production

The plot was engaging enough but like other reviewers, I was put off by Fraser Blaxland's many, many mispronunciations of basic words (is English his second language?). As the book progressed, his narration got more erratic and sloppy - frequent inappropriate emphasis, pauses in the wrong places, slurred words. It was almost as if he was reading the material for the first time. Equally annoying was his very breathy delivery - big intakes of breath before starting sentences - something I'd have thought would have been edited out of the final version. Just wondering who did the quality control on this production at the publisher W F Howes. If I were the author Alex Walters, I'd be pretty hacked off by how poorly this book was produced.

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  • Mary Corrie
  • 08-09-23

Engaging mystery

I enjoyed this story. The post war period, the landscape of the Fens and the dramatic weather events made for a stunning backdrop to an intriguing mystery.
The cast of characters were many and varied and nicely sketched. From the discovery of the first bodies to the last there were many threads and emotional themes to make this tale more than just another “who dunnit”.
I found the narration very well paced, not overly melodramatic as some narration can be but allowing the author’s voice to be heard and with a pleasing tone. However words were often slurred and sometimes unintelligible.
Overall a listening pleasure.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 08-08-23

Good little mystery

I liked this one. I thought it would be another formulaic murder mystery, but it stood out from that for me. Narration was good, not amazing, but not annoying.

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  • adam s.
  • 07-31-23

Had to give up a few hours in...

Unfortunately, for me, the narrator made this unlistenable (if that's a word). I found him to be monotonous and I continually tuned out and had to go back and re-listen to the part I'd just heard. Other narrators are pretty good at using tone, pitch, and accents to differentiate between each character's dialogue, but I don't think Frazer did that well at all. Sadly I can't really comment on the story itself because I gave up on this book, which is a shame due to the high rating on Audible.

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  • Kristy Von Demleux
  • 07-18-23

Took a long time to make sense.

The first three quarters were drawn out. It wasn’t until the last quarter of the book I actually worked out who all the characters were. The ending was good though.
I enjoyed the narrator although he did seem to slur his words a fair bit.

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