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The Wire in the Blood
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Young girls are disappearing around the country, and there is nothing to connect them to one another. Dr Tony Hill sets his team an exercise: they are given the details and asked to discover links between the cases. Only one officer comes up with a theory that is ridiculed...until one of their own is murdered.
For Tony Hill the murder becomes a matter for personal revenge, and, joined by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks on a game where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-07-17
Blood, sadism & cruelty - typical Val McDermid!
Many reviewers have criticised Saul Reichlin's narration, and I agree his Scottish accents did move between Wales, Ireland and somewhere else I'm not quite sure, but I love Saul Reichlin and his delivery, to me it's like having your father read the book to you - not perfect accents, but just so calm and familiar.
The sadism in Val McDermid's books is something I struggle with a bit, and the in-fighting between the police and other authorities, but the story is good. We know who the perpetrator is early on in the book and follow his activities as well as the team trying to track him down and stop him.
I plan to go on and either listen to or read the next book in the series, so Tony Hill is a strong enough character to make me want to invest the time in his story.
In summary, not for the faint-hearted, but worth a listen, and cut Saul Reichlin some slack!
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- Nik Cat
- 10-05-21
Great story line . Accents very distracting
I couldn't wait to listen to this every day, very enjoyable, a bit frustrating at the end
The narrators accents were terrible 😫
I stopped trying to work out where they were from as it drove me mad to start with.
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- James
- 27-12-20
Excellent
Excellent very well written looking forward to the all of the following books in the series.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-11-21
disappointing ending
good story but left too many unanswered questions in the end. very frustrating in that respect
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- Mrs S.
- 21-07-18
Great story - shocking narrator!!
The only negative I found was the narration - appalling attempts at Liverpudlian, East End, Yorkshire. Scottish. North-eastern.... and all his women’s voices were pathetic and breathless... do Val a favour and get a good narrator for her books next time!!!
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- Julie C
- 20-04-19
Compelling Story
This second of the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books is a great listen - so good that my kitchen is spotless as I find excuses to pop the earbuds in and listen to 'just one more chapter'. For escapism when driving, cleaning, cooking or gardening, Val McDermid is hard to beat.
The narration is ok - not brilliant on non-northern accents, but most importantly there is none of the heavy inhalations that spoil so many audiobooks.
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- Rachel
- 03-11-15
Wire in the Blood
Gripping novel. Impossible to stop listening. I've been an audible member for years and this is in the top five of my audible downloads. Thankfully, with my iPhone and headphones I can still listen while working at mind-numbing chores around the house or listen while driving so little things like paid work and sleep don't slow me down too much!
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- KOAD
- 01-07-20
Great book, terrible narration!
To put it mildly I struggled with the narrator. Can just about cope with his general storytelling narration but his characters voices are the absolute pits. Some sound like Shakespearean hams, some like comedy ee bah gum peasants, the women sound like pantomime Dames/dick Emery in drag/Fenella Fielding on mogadon. The scouse accent is beyond belief in it's ridiculousness. The tough glaswegian cop sound like the camp highland landlord from the Wicker Man. Love Val McDermid but this narrator is TERRIBLE!
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- N.C.Simpson
- 07-10-20
Wire in the blood
Years ago by a brilliant narrator - wonderful. This time so poorly done. It spoiled it
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- Tramaine
- 08-05-21
Stilted, almost comical narration
Had to overlook the datedness of the book but it’s still a good story! Surprisingly nasty. The female voices are awful (overly breathy) and the male accents a mix of all sorts of accents in one character! Terrible drunken Liverpudlian lol. Oh, and it took the narrator 10’s of chapters to decide on a way of saying the name ‘Shaz’. How hard can it be?! Gritty & gory storyline, well researched.
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