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A Poison Tree

A DCI Will Blake Novel, Book 1

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A Poison Tree

By: J.E. Mayhew
Narrated by: Owen Welsh
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Would you forgive your child anything?

The murder of a young girl found barefoot in a country park and the re-emergence of shoes from the victims of a serial killer from over 40 years ago. A coincidence or a connection?

Will Blake is determined to find out, but as he unearths the past, questions are raised about the original investigations, and it becomes clear that The Wirral has a killer on the loose, once again.

Victor Hunt, father of Drucilla, the last victim back in the '80s, lies in a hospice, with weeks to live. The truth lies hidden in Hunt’s tangled family tree and the actions of his wayward daughter. Time is against Blake and his fractious team. If they don’t get to the root of past crimes, then innocent blood will flow again.

A Poison Tree is the first thrilling mystery in the Will Blake crime series. A great listen for fans of Luca Veste's DI Murphy and JD Kirk’s Jack Logan series.

Discover A Poison Tree and get involved in this exciting investigative series today.

©2020 Jonathan E. Mayhew (P)2020 Jonathan E. Mayhew Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Thriller Murder Exciting

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Okay. I am a southern lass and sometimes cannot get to grips with a northern accent (and would guess that goes for northerners too) but I really could not cope with Mr Welsh. Was not just the accent but the terrible tones for female characters and the lack of any changes for the male cast that had me heading for the pause button. I think this book might be quite good but needs to be read and not listened to......at least, that's my opinion.

Dreadful narrator

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Thoroughly enjoyed A Poison Tree.
Plenty of red herrings keep you guessing to the end.

Excellent whodunnit.

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I enjoyed this very much..I have walked near the near the bear pit many times.

A good local story

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I will fess up from the start. This is my husbands book and yeah I think the story is great. Intriguing characters and a twisting plot that has you guessing to the end. However I really wanted to post a review to congratulate our young narrator on his first audiobook production. Owen Welsh is a fabulous young Liverpool actor who graduated from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) and landed into a world of closed theatres and cancelled productions :(
However he has looked for opportunities to develop, and invested in the equipment and skills to launch himself into audiobook production. Although we only live on opposite sides of the River Mersey we still haven't actually met, but I have worked closely (remotely), with him to produce this authentic local audio version. I certainly enjoyed producing it and gained appreciation for the skill and versatility of narrators.

DCI Will Blake leads the team and Owen says he based his voice on his dad when he's grumpy (sounds like John Bishop to me !). I strongly recommend you give the audio version a try for an exciting scouse mystery thriller, that manages to keep its sense of humour too..... (but then I would do wouldn't I ? !!).

Books 2 and 3 of the series are under production now.

Fab Debut narration (OK I'm biased!)

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This is a fantastic story, plenty of twists and turns to keep you on your toes and great character development, I devoured the whole series on kindle, but the audios are hard going. The narrators own voice isn’t bad, possibly a little strong for a Wirral accent, but ok. It’s the character accents that spoilt it for me, any female over 30 sounded like a pantomime dame and a number of male characters were so broad Scouse, even this scouser couldn’t understand them! Definitely don’t miss the books, but I’d not bother with the audio.

Amazing story, but am dram panto character voices

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