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A Feast of Carrion
- De: Keith McCarthy
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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St Benjamin's Medical School is the greatest of its kind, any death occurring within its walls would have created ripples within the academic world, but the death of Nikki Exner is far from being ordinary. Raped, and then grotesquely executed, her theatrical murder horrifies everyone. John Eisenmenger, a former forensic pathologist, finds himself dragged unwillingly into the case. Teaming up with solicitor Helena Flemming, Eisenmenger sets out to discover what really did happen to Nikki Exner.
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- De Yves en 06-27-09
De: Keith McCarthy
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Dead to Me
- De: Cath Staincliffe
- Narrado por: Julia Barrie
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Detective Constable Janet Scott is subtle and reliable, a diplomatic thinker with a wry sense of humor. She's put in the time and seen it all, but has no desire for the boss's job—she loves her own too much. Rachel Bailey couldn't be more different—she's energetic, impulsive, and ambitious, and has just been transferred to the Manchester murder squad. Their commander thinks Rachel's intuition could make her a great cop, but has reservations about her shoot-first-think-later approach, so she partners her with Janet.
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Three fascinating women
- De Lynne F en 05-18-14
De: Cath Staincliffe
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Shallow Waters
- Hannah Robbins, Book 1
- De: Rebecca Bradley
- Narrado por: Colleen Prendergast
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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When the naked, battered body of an unidentified teenager is found dumped in an alleyway, postmortem finds evidence of a harrowing series of events. Another teenage death with the same MO pushes DI Hannah Robbins and her team on the Nottingham City division Major Crimes Unit to their limits - and across county borders.
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Competent but Not Inspired
- De Sires en 03-14-16
De: Rebecca Bradley
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Blood for Blood
- Ziba MacKenzie, Book 1
- De: Victoria Selman
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone. When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he’s on a new spree. But what’s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus?
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Great New Series—Ziba Is Good Female Lead
- De Linda en 04-16-19
De: Victoria Selman
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All the Pretty Girls
- Taylor Jackson, Book 1
- De: J. T. Ellison
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene – the prior victim’s severed hand.
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Distracting subplot and uninteresting characters
- De Ed en 05-13-10
De: J. T. Ellison
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The Last Detective
- An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation
- De: Peter Lovesey
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door-stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry. So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks, and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit.
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Pleasantly surprised -- loved Inspector Diamond!
- De Tracey en 01-06-13
De: Peter Lovesey
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Blind Goddess
- A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel, Book 1
- De: Tom Geddes - translator, Anne Holt
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. The young man is adamant: he will speak to Karen Borg, and to her alone.
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Not Sure Why I Didn't Like It
- De Tracey Rains en 05-28-13
De: Tom Geddes - translator, y otros
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A Share in Death
- De: Deborah Crombie
- Narrado por: Michael Deehy
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs....
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series readers, start here
- De connie en 02-09-13
De: Deborah Crombie
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Killing Kate
- De: Alex Lake
- Narrado por: Genevieve Swallow
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Kate returns from a post-break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial killer in her hometown - and his victims all look like her. It could, of course, be a simple coincidence. Or maybe not. She becomes convinced she is being watched, followed even. Is she next? And could her mild-mannered ex-boyfriend really be a deranged murderer? Or is the truth something far more sinister?
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Decent suspense thriller makes the mark
- De Candice en 02-21-17
De: Alex Lake
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The Circle
- De: Peter Lovesey
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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Widowed van driver Bob Naylor is prodded into joining the Chichester Writers' Circle by his teenage daughter. Bob writes limericks and jingles, and fears he will be out of his class amongst the literati. But the members of the circle come from all walks of life and practice many forms of writing, from fantasy to household hints. There seems to be nothing about any of them to incite a serial killer. However, there is an arsonist in their midst, burning his victims to death, and Bob becomes a suspect.
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Clever and very amusing.
- De Megan en 05-07-14
De: Peter Lovesey
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A Place of Execution
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Paddy Glynn
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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A Greek tragedy in modern England, A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.
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Truly amazing
- De KismetKat11 en 11-17-09
De: Val McDermid
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The Vanishing Point
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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thriller with a nightmare scenario: a parent who loses her child in a bustling international airport. Young Jimmy Higgins is snatched from an airport security checkpoint while his guardian watches helplessly from the glass inspection box. But this is no ordinary abduction, as Jimmy is no ordinary child. His mother was Scarlett, a reality TV star who, dying of cancer and alienated from her unreliable family, entrusted the boy to the person she believed best able to give him a happy, stable life: her ghost writer, Stephanie Harker.
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So close to being great
- De Brock en 03-19-13
De: Val McDermid
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The Last Temptation
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Guerin Barry
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Mapping the minds of murderers is what Dr. Tony Hill does better than anyone. So when a twisted killer starts targeting psychologists across Northern Europe, he's the obvious choice to track the executioner's mental and physical journey.
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The Last Temptation - Wrong voice
- De Jannice en 04-08-04
De: Val McDermid
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The Distant Echo
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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Four in the morning, mid-December, snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman.
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Engrossing plot with excellent narration
- De Marian en 03-20-04
De: Val McDermid
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The Torment of Others
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago-murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of a deeply disturbed young man named Derek Tyler. But there's no way Tyler could have killed the latest victim. He's been locked up in a mental institution since his trial, barely speaking a word. So is there a copycat?
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Very good BUT an abridged version
- De P. C..S. en 04-06-07
De: Val McDermid
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The Grave Tattoo
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, a long-disregarded old wives' tale takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian, made infamous by Mutiny on the Bounty, staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And once there, what if he could tell his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem—a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive?
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Sort of like AS Byatt's Possession,
- De salamander en 06-01-10
De: Val McDermid
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A Place of Execution
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Paddy Glynn
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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A Greek tragedy in modern England, A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.
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Truly amazing
- De KismetKat11 en 11-17-09
De: Val McDermid
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The Vanishing Point
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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thriller with a nightmare scenario: a parent who loses her child in a bustling international airport. Young Jimmy Higgins is snatched from an airport security checkpoint while his guardian watches helplessly from the glass inspection box. But this is no ordinary abduction, as Jimmy is no ordinary child. His mother was Scarlett, a reality TV star who, dying of cancer and alienated from her unreliable family, entrusted the boy to the person she believed best able to give him a happy, stable life: her ghost writer, Stephanie Harker.
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So close to being great
- De Brock en 03-19-13
De: Val McDermid
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The Last Temptation
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Guerin Barry
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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Mapping the minds of murderers is what Dr. Tony Hill does better than anyone. So when a twisted killer starts targeting psychologists across Northern Europe, he's the obvious choice to track the executioner's mental and physical journey.
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The Last Temptation - Wrong voice
- De Jannice en 04-08-04
De: Val McDermid
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The Distant Echo
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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Four in the morning, mid-December, snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman.
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Engrossing plot with excellent narration
- De Marian en 03-20-04
De: Val McDermid
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The Torment of Others
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago-murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of a deeply disturbed young man named Derek Tyler. But there's no way Tyler could have killed the latest victim. He's been locked up in a mental institution since his trial, barely speaking a word. So is there a copycat?
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Very good BUT an abridged version
- De P. C..S. en 04-06-07
De: Val McDermid
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The Grave Tattoo
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, a long-disregarded old wives' tale takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian, made infamous by Mutiny on the Bounty, staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And once there, what if he could tell his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem—a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive?
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Sort of like AS Byatt's Possession,
- De salamander en 06-01-10
De: Val McDermid
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Dead Beat
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Chloe Massey
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Thai-boxing, rock-and-roll private detective Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to uncover the source of counterfeit luxury goods, Brannigan finds herself for the first time on the trail of a killer.
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dead beat
- De Hazel Campbell en 08-03-20
De: Val McDermid
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Trick of the Dark
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Gerri Halligan
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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In Trick of the Dark, forensic psychiatrist Charlotte Flint is in desperate need of a distraction after her testimony in a high-profile case comes under fire, threatening her career. Enter Dr. Corinna Newsam, an old professor of Charlotte’s who is convinced her son-in-law was murdered by her daughter’s new lover.
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Almost a good listen------
- De Jackie en 03-05-15
De: Val McDermid
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Killing the Shadows
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Vari Sylvester
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death.
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Too much
- De RITTAM! en 04-02-10
De: Val McDermid
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The Last Detective
- An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation
- De: Peter Lovesey
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door-stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry. So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks, and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit.
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Pleasantly surprised -- loved Inspector Diamond!
- De Tracey en 01-06-13
De: Peter Lovesey
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Perfect Remains
- DI Callanach, Book 1
- De: Helen Fields
- Narrado por: Robin Laing
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to identify the respected lawyer are her teeth and a fragment of clothing. In the concealed back room of a house in Edinburgh, the real Elaine Buxton screams into the darkness…. Detective Inspector Luc Callanach has barely set foot in his new office when Elaine’s missing persons case is escalated to a murder investigation. Having left behind a promising career at Interpol, he’s eager to prove himself to his new team.
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A great disappointment
- De Amazon Customer en 12-20-19
De: Helen Fields
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The Last Straw
- DCI Warren Jone, Book 1
- De: Paul Gitsham
- Narrado por: Malk Williams
- Duración: 13 h
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When Professor Alan Tunbridge is discovered in his office with his throat slashed, the suspects start queuing up. The brilliant but unpleasant microbiologist had a genius for making enemies. For Warren Jones, newly appointed Detective Chief Inspector to the Middlesbury force, a high-profile murder is the ideal opportunity. He’s determined to run a thorough and professional investigation but political pressure to resolve the case quickly and tensions in the office and at home make life anything but easy.
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Really like this series
- De wisconsinclark en 01-05-19
De: Paul Gitsham
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Silent Tide
- DCI Boyd Crime Series, Book 1
- De: Alex Scarrow
- Narrado por: Aubrey Parsons
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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A sinking boat is spotted off the South Coast. Waiting onboard is a grisly discovery. DCI Boyd, recently relocated from London to Hastings, is now with the East Sussex CID, and his first case is that of a local businessman and his new young wife, missing in the English Channel. All that remains of them is a grim scene aboard their half-submerged yacht and a digital trail of clues that could put Boyd and his daughter, Emma, in danger.
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Solid start to a series!
- De Lynch en 09-22-22
De: Alex Scarrow
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A Long Time Dead
- A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery (The Misty Isle, Book 1)
- De: J M Dalgliesh
- Narrado por: Angus King
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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D.I. Duncan McAdam is dispatched home to the Misty Isle. A body has been found buried in a remote location on the Waternish peninsula. Well-preserved in the peat, Isla Matheson—missing for the better part of two decades—is revealed to a shocked island community. A teenage runaway is dead...and no one is talking.
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Perfect setting for a murder mystery
- De Colorado Cowgirl en 12-01-23
De: J M Dalgliesh
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Grimm Up North
- A DCI Harry Grimm Crime Novel
- De: David J. Gatward
- Narrado por: Aubrey Parsons
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is forced to take leave from Bristol’s Major Investigations Team when his boss, tired of Harry chasing the ghost of his murderous father, sends him north on secondment. Used to city life and high stress, Harry fears his life will now be spent handing out speeding tickets, finding lost sheep, and directing tourists. But when a local teenager runs away, Harry finds himself pulled into an investigation much worse than anyone could have ever expected.
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An enthralling and entertaining new mystery series
- De Diana in SC @AudiobookObsession en 03-15-21
De: David J. Gatward
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The Moonstone
- De: Val McDermid - introduction, Wilkie Collins
- Narrado por: Ian Stewart, Patrick Tull
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
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The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion.
De: Val McDermid - introduction, y otros
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The Snowdonia Killings
- A DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller, Book 1
- De: Simon McCleave
- Narrado por: Deryn Edwards
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Starting a new life in Snowdonia was always DI Ruth Hunter's dream. Until a twisted killer turned it into her worst nightmare. Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit 50, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales. But Ruth has barely settled into her new position in North Wales Police, when the body of a brutally murdered woman is discovered...with strange symbols carved into her skin.
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This book is censored!!
- De Lynch en 04-23-22
De: Simon McCleave
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Forensics
- What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Sarah Barron
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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The dead talk - to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces.
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Crime Seen
- De Mark en 09-02-16
De: Val McDermid
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- David
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Formula, few surprises, heavy on romantic angst
Val McDermid handles the language really well, a saving grace in what is otherwise a formulaic, somewhat tiresome story. To be fair, the serial killer genre has been so done to death that it takes almost spectacular inventiveness to give it a fresh face. But that is what we want, isn't it? In this case, if you make a list of the usual elements in the serial killer yarn, you will be able to check them off one by one as you go along without missing a turn or a beat. Even the big twist at the climactic moment is ho-hum-obvious and the denouement is downright banal.
If there is an aspect of this book which is above average as presented in audible form, it is the persona of the killer and the chilling, makes-your-skin-crawl manner in which Graham Roberts brings it to life vocally. It is, after all, only when we are presented with an evil we cannot tolerate that we can really appreciate the struggle necessary to excise it. If only the protagonist pair were equally fascinating, the book would have risen above its prosaic formula, but instead they skirt perilously close to romance novel material, unconvincing and sometimes nearly silly. The author tries to lift the story out of its pedestrian path in a five minute coda at the end, but it is so blatantly an authorial device that it falls flat.
This is the first book in a series. Perhaps it improves, but I was left too disappointed by this one to continue to the next.
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- Katherine
- 07-06-13
A dark and ripping yarn!
Another outstanding mystery from McDermid. A perverse serial killer is on the loose, and the attacks seem to center on Bradfield's gay community. The two main characters, Carol Jordan and Tony Hill, are dedicated and likeable and reassuringly flawed (even if Tony's problem seems somewhat overblown: a major issue resulting from what was a minor critique). They move ever so slowly into mutual trust and honesty with authentic caution.
The author's conceit of introducing the victims to us inspires our sympathy and keeps us cheering on the investigators. While the detail can be quite gruesome, especially when you've become fond of the victim, it isn't gratuitous, and the author does turn our eyes away before it becomes unbearable.
As grizzly as the book can be, the narrator is steady and impassive. He reads with the reassurance of one who knows everything will turn out fine in the end. I'm off to unearth more of McDermid's older mysteries, and search out what Graham Roberts is reading as well.
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- 11-20-14
The mermaid singing.
Would you listen to The Mermaids Singing again? Why?
This was such a freaky sick book for people who have a sick sense of what good horror writing is.the main character enjoys describing in detail each and every homosexual killing.I read this book in two days that's how much I enjoyed this book
What other book might you compare The Mermaids Singing to and why?
This book stands alone for me . I will definitely read ms Val again .I must confess I missed the reason for the title can anyone explain?
Which character – as performed by Graham Roberts – was your favorite?
I believe that Graham Roberts did an excellent job with the different dialects I was originally from the south of England and I did not perfect a ear for the northern lilts.Now I live in the USA so it all sounds a very strong accent.I believe he did the killers voice the best.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It made me feel sick at some of the extreme torture especially to the police officer.i just saw the series on Tv and it did not have the same impact as the book on tape.
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firstlty I think Ms McDermids writing is so different to the other writers she has so much imagination and her use of the English language is unique and totally her own.She is able to describe a death scene and you feel you are part of the team able to give the next answer to the Inspectors questions.Can you tell I like this author?
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- Nancy J
- 04-08-13
The First of a Superior Series
I purchased The Mermaids Singing partially because of the reviews I read on Audible, but probably more because Val McDermid seemed to be the favorite mystery author of Mikael Blomqvist in The Millenium Trilogy (The Girl With .....). Now that I have read all of the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan books to date (a new one is due later this year), I felt it was time to write a review of the first book.
McDermid writes wonderful prose that makes her characters come alive -- all of them, not just the two major characters. I won't try to tell you about the plot, since many other reviews do that. But the development of the plot, along with the minutiae of each character's life and personality, make for excellent reading. McDermid creates a tight, incredibly tense story that keeps you reading, sometimes even when you don't want to.
If you are averse to graphic depictions of violence and perversion, you may want to skip this series. But if that's not a problem, I highly recommend these books. In Tony Hill, McDermid has created a flawed and damaged character who still manages to live in the world and work for the forces of good as a Profiler, expert at his work because of his scarred past. The relationship of Tony and Carol Jordan, police inspector, is so tentative and slow moving that you sometimes could scream, but you keep waiting for it to progress. The pair pursues serial killers in plots that will keep you on the edge of your seat with your jaw clenched.
It is important that you read the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan books in the order in which they were published, since these are not stand alone novels. The characters and their relationships and pasts are developed over the course of the series, and reading out of order makes it more difficult to follow some developments.
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- Christina K Harris
- 09-18-16
Awesome!!!
This was a well written book, but I expect no less from Val McDermid, one of my favorite authors. The performance of the narrator was exceptional!
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- PBRlady
- 08-30-23
Better than other reviews
I like this book. It kept me at the edge of my seat and I couldn’t put it down. I did not find it overly gruesome or sexual. I will see what other books Val McDermid has written.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-31-24
Complex characters humanized with voice
I loved the Wire in the Blood series, and see how much better the original work was!
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- Lynch
- 06-30-13
Great Book!
I was an avid viewer of Wire In the Blood which was the BBC television series based on these books but I had no idea at the time that there was a written series. This book was awesome! A bit violent but what a story, dark, devious, lots of sexual tension and as far as police procedurals go - top notch. I can't wait to read the next book in the series!
Graham Roberts does a great job of narrating. He brought all of the characters to life and you can tell which one is speaking just from his voice. I can't believe I missed this series from the start.
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- Ted
- 04-18-14
Creepy
Traffic slows at accidents. Slime fascinates children. Freak shows make money. Which is how, 'Mermaids Singing' seized my attention. Creepy… Tony Hill, like many of today's successful fictional detectives is disturbed… Both by terrors around him, and his own internal-disgustions. Hill trods through and morphsinto the aberrant part of the field: "Aberrant Psychology." It makes him an aberrant psychologist by profession and personality. Creepy.
The dialogues McDermid writes, and which Graham Roberts reads, are slimy. Frequently I wanted to turn them off. Creepy. But I slowed rather than sped away from the disturbing deviant muck. Creepy.
I'm a little embarrassed that I listened to the end of "Mermaids Singing." Creepy… My excuse is the exceptional writing, not, I hope, with a primal magnetic attraction to… to… things so slimy-dark and … creepy.
BTW, Graham Roberts struggles in this book with the nature of the voices that Val McDermid demands as well as the parts required. Perhaps another actor wouldn't? Or perhaps no one actor can really stretch quite as far as McDermid demands. I'll be interested to read how other reviewers describe their reactions.
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- CC
- 04-19-14
So good even though you know what's coming
McDermid is terrific! The psychology doesn't get overbearing; it adds to the quality of the story. Characters are well defined. An all around good listen!
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