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Deadly Wishes
- Detective Zoe Finch, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
Meet Zoe Finch, West Midlands Police's newest Detective Inspector. She's outspoken, ambitious, and damaged. And she's working a case that could make her career, or cost her everything...
Fresh from the success of the Canary investigation into depravity and corruption at the highest levels, she's attracted attention. Not least from Assistant Chief Constable Bryn Jackson.
But when Jackson is brutally murdered on the night of his retirement party, Zoe is dragged into a case that's deeply personal.
All the evidence points to the victim's downtrodden wife, who has secrets of her own. But Zoe begins to suspect all isn't as it seems. Could Jackson's death be linked to the Canary case? And what is her new boss, DCI David Randle, hiding?
Seeking out the truth will force Zoe to confront her own past, and put her career, and her team's lives, on the line.
Deadly Wishes is a gritty crime thriller perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Caroline Mitchell, and the BBC's Line of Duty.
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- Digenean
- 14-08-23
Good start to the series
I enjoyed the storyline and characterisation but had a problem with the narration, particularly the voice used for Lesley which was totally wrong.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-05-21
gripping
loved it kept me interested, good storyline. listened to it over 2 days and really liked t h e narrator
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- Mr D L Parker
- 14-02-23
Fabulous
Really enjoyed listening to this book. Just finished the Dorset crime collection. Looking forward to this collection as well
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- Z
- 05-07-21
Terrible narration!
The plot, characters and writing is good- but the narration is really dire! She makes everything sound like the bored and monotonous reading out of council meetings minutes ;\ hardly any realistic differentiation in character voices and the cadence and intonation of the main characters is all wrong! It sounds like a rough reading through of the book, rather than a top class performance we come to expect from audible. It’s very off putting, which is such a shame as the story itself is really good.
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- Carol P.
- 26-03-21
Awful Narration
The story line was good but then totally ruined by the worst narration I have ever heard.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-21
Ok but the inane narration makes it impossible to listen
The audible description of the book sounded quite good so I downloaded urgh big mistake , the story takes way too long to develop mostly due to the fact the lady narrator is absolutely useless , no infliction in her voice just a monotone drone that is never ending it is so bad I had to give up with 4 hours 20 mins left as my ears and brain could take no more of the quite frankly worst piece of audiobook narration I have ever heard and I have been an audible member for 9 years and have over 400 titles but I can honestly say I will be going nowhere near the rest of this authors series or any book narrated by this narrator it is just too painful to listen to
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- Karen S.
- 09-01-21
A fantastic new detective series
What a fantastic first book in the series .. so many twists and turns and when you have Jan Cramer doing the narrating , it’s a winner all over
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- Oops 66
- 03-01-21
First book ✔️
I have enjoyed this book the series I can see will be another favourite, the Narrator is very good too.
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- Bob McG.
- 30-09-21
Disappointing.
I have recently been reading/listening to first books in series to give me some new detective collections to follow. While the plot in this book was fairly good, I felt that the actual writing was very flat. One of the other reviewers expressed an opinion that the series would make a good television show and I agree, but not for a good reason.
There was so little description of places, characters or of the action itself that it felt as if one was reading a script or screenplay. Some of the characters were given superficial habits and ticks, but there was no real exploration of their inner thoughts. Genuine places were named but with no description. Times of day were filled in for reasons of plot, but there was no atmosphere. Hardly any adjectives were used at all.
The narrator, I think, did a very good job, considering that there were no real hints as what intonation might be appropriate at any time.
Although it ended with some obvious loose end, which will no doubt be resolved in the following books, I did not feel that I knew anything about even the main character and therefore I was not really interested in what happens next.
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- Stephanie mason
- 05-12-21
Awful Narration
I absolutely loved this story line and I really wanted to know what happened in the end which is why I carried on with this listen. However, the narration was AWFUL. Why did everyone sound bored, annoyed and angry?! Get a better narrator and I will happily listen to more by this author
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