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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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- 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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- Patricia Walker
- 07-06-13
Not finished it - not sure I want to
Like another reviewer, I feel this book is not enhanced by its narrator and I agree that at some moments I have wondered if it is meant to be a comedy or spoof. I am about half way through but I find it difficult to follow, and the change between voices (of the narrative) confusing because there is little change in the voice of the reader. I wondered if this book would be better read - but someone else seems to have tried that too and thought the audible version better. I may persevere just because I hate leaving books unfinished - even poor ones.
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6 people found this helpful
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- Irene
- 05-05-13
Was this a comic novel?
I was never sure whether this was supposed to be a thriller or a comic story, mainly due to the reader's representation of Colin's voice. I know it is not easy for a woman to do a male voice and vice versa but plenty other readers manage quite well. I am still not sure what the intention of the author was. And I am afraid I am unlikely to buy another book with main male characters read by Karen Cass
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5 people found this helpful
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- joanna chessell
- 13-08-19
Listened for an hour. Got refund!
This is read in pretty much the same tones and silly voices that I did when I read to my children when they were little. A narrator can make or break a book....and this one for me was broken five minutes into the story. I’ll never know if the story was actually any good, although I persevered for an hour with the dreadful narration, so feel confident in assuming it wouldn’t have suddenly turned into a book I could describe as anything other than “MEH”
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- pollyfitz
- 09-03-13
slow and boring
I found it very slow and far too repetitive. I worked out the plot quite quickly and found the graphic details were repeated over and over which got in the way of the plot and killed the suspense. Not my cup of tea. Come back Morse.
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- Malcolm Todd
- 17-05-13
Thought it was awful
Felt no allegiance to the characters at all, poor ending which fits with the rest of the book. The story is basically about people who have given up the will to live which about sums up my feelings listening to this book.
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- Narrowboat Lady
- 02-11-13
Disgusting!
I genuinely hated this story! I know that there are some very sick people out there and that the writer has, through her own experiences, come into contact with some of them but whether this should be written about and in so doing spread the sickness, is another matter entirely.
The sample gives you no warning of what is to come and as such I think that the book is being inappropriately sold.
The story is not particularly exciting and has a sort of monotony which the writer tries to overcome by using disgust as the main way of getting your attention. We have all at some time slowed down to stare at the after effects of a road traffic accident and it is that human weakness that the writer is trying to exploit.
I think the reader did a very good job given what she had to work with but I got the impression that even she would have preferred to be reading something else.
I would not recommend this book to anyone but I guess that by saying all this, some people will feel compelled to listen to it, just to find out what exactly I am talking about!
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- M.
- 05-06-13
A really nasty story
This is a very unpleasant story about a very nasty man. I wish I hadn't listened to it.
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- Chris W
- 22-05-14
Way too gory for me
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Nothing really - I just hated the level of description of rotting bodies and substances
Would you ever listen to anything by Elizabeth Haynes again?
Probably not
Any additional comments?
Just a bad choice for me.
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