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Blood Ties

By: Jo Nesbo, Robert Ferguson - translation

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

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Brought to you by Penguin.

FAMILY COMES FIRST. NO MATTER THE COST.

Brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os, where they've killed their way to the top. Carl manages the swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park.

Life’s good at the top. But the local sheriff is looking to bring them down.

Sheriff Kurt Olsen believes he has new evidence that will prove the brothers’ involvement in several past murders – but Carl and Roy are used to covering their tracks, and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty.

The body count in Os is about to get even higher.

Blood Ties is an explosive suspense novel about family, loyalty, and the lengths someone is willing to go to for both, from crime writing's king of the cliffhanger.

'A 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight' LEE CHILD

'Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers' Sunday Express

'Nesbo’s plotting is always reliably devious and his characters brutal' THE TIMES

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I could keep track of the story or the point of it all. I don’t even know who lived or died was saved or murdered or tried or succeeded in commuting suicide!

Sean Barratt’s voice saves the listening experience but it didn’t save the story … for me.

It cannot be suggested that there isn’t enough content in Jo Nesbo’s story. There is loads of content including deep emotion, exploration of familial relationships and so on. Perhaps the most intriguing is the self justifying mind of a serial killer. It is all very human as ultimately, nothing is simple.

For me, there were just too many plates to spin and balls to juggle all at the same time, I lost track and the floor is littered with debris.

Perhaps it would be better if I listened to it again, but I don’t think I will.