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Human Remains
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
How well do you know your neighbours? Would you notice if they lived or died?
Police analyst Annabel wouldn’t describe herself as lonely. Her work keeps her busy and the needs of her ageing mother and her cat are more than enough to fill her time when she’s on her own. But Annabel is shocked when she discovers her neighbour’s decomposing body in the house next door, and appalled to think that no one, including herself, noticed her absence. Back at work she sets out to investigate, despite her police officer colleagues’ lack of interest, and finds data showing that such cases are frighteningly common in her own home town. A chilling thriller and a hymn to all the lonely people, whose individual voices haunt the pages, Elizabeth Haynes’ new novel is a deeply disturbing and powerful thriller that preys on our darkest fears, showing how vulnerable we are when we live alone, and how easily ordinary lives can fall apart when no one is watching.
About the Author
Elizabeth Haynes is a police intelligence analyst. She started writing fiction in 2006 thanks to the annual challenge of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) and the encouragement of the creative writing courses at West Dean College. She lives in a village near Maidstone, Kent, with her husband and son. Her first novel, Into the Darkest Corner, was the winner of Amazon's Rising Stars and has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, Revenge of the Tide, was published in March 2012.
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- Manny
- 17-05-22
Boring
Confusing storyline, too many characters and no clear plot. Boring not worth listening to. Didn’t finish
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Saffy
- 28-02-13
Spoilt by appalling narration
Elizabeth Haynes 'Into the darkest corner' is my best ever Audible listen, so it's a huge shame that this, her third novel, is practically unlistenable, wholly due to Karen Cass' appalling narration. This is a novel of many voices and in this narration they are all read by Karen Cass. The voice of Annabel is fine, however the other character's voices are laughable. The use of multiple narrators would work perfectly for this novel, so I'm not sure why this was not done. As I am unable to read at the moment I feel very angered that so often the books I long to read are being spoilt by such poor narration.
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- Deep purple
- 23-10-19
Don’t bother
A complete waste of time - struggled to halfway point - a test of endurance - then gave up - terrible
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Christina
- 25-02-13
DEATH BY READER
I am not sure how good this book is as it was murdered by the reader. This book has many voices and for me, this reader seemed incapable of more than one. I googled the reader and discovered she is LAMDA trained which I find interesting. Maybe this book's delivery is not her fault, maybe its the director who is to blame but the flat unvaried delivery meant I found the book irritating and unlike me, unable to listen to the end.
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- S
- 12-03-13
Really poor
The title captured my Interest as I love crime thrillers but this was like trying o listen to jackanory
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- William Stewart
- 08-01-14
For me ....Dull and uninspiring.
What disappointed you about Human Remains?
This was a story I simply could not get into...it was slow to ignite anything in my imagination and seemed to be more about little stories rather that a bigger picture about remains found in the house next door, I could not bring myself to continue to the end of the book.
Would you ever listen to anything by Elizabeth Haynes again?
Possibly
Would you be willing to try another one of Karen Cass’s performances?
Mmmmm, maybe part of the reason I could not get on with this story was the way it was read...
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Human Remains?
It would be difficult to suggest cutting scenes as there appeared to be too many, it would be better to suggest that the story should not have drifted so much..?
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Mrs Ann Hinds
- 24-02-13
Pretty good story let down by a dreadful reader
This audio book underlines how important the reader is and in this case the
reader lets it down completely by making one of the pivotal characters sound like an asinine chump.
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- sealover
- 18-05-13
Unpleasant
Maybe I didn't read the blurb correctly, but I found this book to be deeply unpleasant and badly narrated.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Christopher
- 22-04-13
Not for me !
I have just spent hours listening to this book in the hope that it may get better as the book progressed... how wrong was I... The narration was slow & I found it very tedious, with numerous voices all more or less sounding the same. The actual story in my opinion was a waste of money & has put me off listsening to any more books by this author..
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- mrs s j knox
- 17-01-17
Disappointed
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I'm sure the story would have been good if I could have listened to it. Unfortunately, the narrator spoilt it and I couldn't bear to listen to it anymore - such a shame.
How could the performance have been better?
A different narrator springs to mind.
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