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The Whisper Man

By: Alex North
Narrated by: Christopher Eccleston
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About this listen

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Whisper Man, by Alex North, read by Christopher Eccleston.

If you leave the door half open, you will hear the whispers spoken....

Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son, Jake, move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh start.

But Featherbank has a dark past. Fifteen years ago a twisted serial killer abducted and murdered five young boys. Until he was finally caught, the killer was known as 'The Whisper Man'.

Of course, an old crime need not trouble Tom and Jake as they try to settle in to their new home. Except that now another young boy has gone missing, stirring up rumours that the original killer was always known to have an accomplice. And then Jake begins acting strangely.

He says he hears a whispering at his window....

©2018 Alex North (P)2018 Penguin Audio Crime Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Small Town & Rural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Scary Exciting Murder

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Critic reviews

"The best crime novel of the decade." (Steve Cavanagh)

"Terrifying and utterly heartbreaking." (Mark Billingham)

"A dark, creepy, thriller with a huge amount of heart." (Stuart MacBride)
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This is generally a good story. It worked for me and I listened to it almost continuously. Now the bad part. I love Christopher Ecclestone, he is one of my favourite actors, but he phoned it in with this reading. He was obviously bored stiff reading it. There was precious little inflection and his monotone voice made for hard listening. The way he switched from characters made it difficult to work out when one voice changed to another. Sorry Christopher, but you dropped the ball with this one.

What a shame

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This was a brilliant book that I was consciously drawing out (as I didn’t want it to end) whilst devouring the next bit because couldn’t stop listening. You knew every character inside and out - they were so beautifully detailed and delivered. This was genuinely the best book I’ve listened to in a while

A heart stopping roller coaster

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I don’t usually leave full reviews but had to with this one. The story sounded great and part of me wanted to see it through but my god, Christopher Eccleston should stick to acting. He must have been a cheap hire, and I’m not sure what quality control processes even let this out into the world, but his monotone narration, absolutely no differentiation between characters... he just sounds like he doesn’t want to be in that recording booth.

I don’t usually rate British narrators (I’m British myself), but I returned this book for ‘The Secret of Crickley Hall’ and this... THIS is how narration should be done.

Totally ruined by the narrator

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really sad to say as Ecclestone is a brilliant actor, but his reading of this story is terrible, like he was reading it for the first time.

read the book instead

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Eccleston makes no effort whatsoever, the author must be devastated hearing his narration , he's a great actor but this is shockingly bad .

Abysmal Narration

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