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Cause to Kill
- An Avery Black Mystery, Book 1
- Narrated by: Elaine Wise
- Series: Avery Black Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Sally
- 04-06-18
Please don’t shout!!
This was a good story but spoilt by the narrator shouting when a slightly raised voice would have sufficed
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- Netsie
- 22-03-19
good read.
I enjoyed the story but we don't have to be reminded all through the book who people are by full names and that he said she said thing. I'm ready for book 2.
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- Haze
- 23-05-18
Doesn't work for me
A decent enough story but I personally had problems with a very English narration for what is a gritty American police drama. At times I was tempted to quit the book but managed to get to the end.
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- Sam Hall
- 10-09-17
Awful narration
American setting and story but very, very British narration doesn't work at all. A shame.
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- lesleyha
- 14-08-17
Cause to kill
I really didn't like the narrator of this book. Had to give up after an hour.
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- Shirley
- 17-11-16
Good mystery
I listened to this book. The narrator was excellent. The plot was good and very well written. Characters well developed. Avery, the female former criminal defense lawyer turned detective, is a strong, intelligent, complicated woman. She endures the macho dislike of her fellow officers who blame her for the death of her partner in a previous case. She solves the case in spite how they treat her because she uses her mind and intelligence. I listened non-stop to the entire book beginning to end.
The author has the ability to make some of the characters so real that they made me dislike them intensely.
Good book!
4 people found this helpful
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- David
- 30-06-19
Especially poor as an audiobook
I don't know why this book was recorded by a reader with a strong British accent. It is supposed to take place in Boston--many characters are described as having strong Boston accents, and are given British lower class accents that don't resemble Boston in any way. There are also mispronunciations of Boston locales like Brandeis University. Unfortunately, the heroine has an implausible back story and does many stupid things. A very disappointing book.
3 people found this helpful
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- Anne
- 05-02-17
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The book takes place in Boston but, the characters are all British. Why? Doesn't make sense and was distracting.
6 people found this helpful
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- Rustey Dale Pedigo
- 30-05-19
Story line good but British accent in Boston?
Really like story line but did not finish the book because took place in Boston but everyone had a British accent. Just did make sense.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-04-20
Accent
Didn't like the English accent. Especially because the story was set in Massachusetts. Next time have someone who speaks with an American accent.
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- Caro de
- 01-08-19
Accent?
Enjoyed book once I got used to a girl from OH working in Boston with an accent that doesn't jibe.
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- Pamela Miller
- 13-09-18
Wrong Accent!
The narrator was good but she was English and everyone in the story was from the US. When the character had a "strong Boston accent" she spoke with a cockney accent. The story was great though although the "romance"/ flirting Avery Black did was kinda lame. Overall pretty good
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- dkbranam
- 22-12-21
Great murder mystery!
I enjoyed listening to this book and can’t wait listen to the next! It’s written and read really well.
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- Susan L. Twedt
- 03-10-21
British accent
Book was good, but listening to a story about a Boston murder read by a very competent narrator with a British accent was somewhat unsettling.
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- Gwen H.
- 02-05-21
Accent?
Why would you have a British narrator for a story that takes place in Boston? A Boston cop that sounds Cockney! So annoying. I gave up after Chapter 19.