Criminal Intentions: Season One, Episode One
The Cardigans (Criminal Intentions Series, Book 1)
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Criminal Intentions: Season One, Episode One
Narrated by:
Curt Bonnem
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Cole McCade
About this listen
When a string of young queer men turn up dead in grisly murders, all signs point to the ex-boyfriend - but what should be an open-and-shut case is fraught with tension when BPD homicide detective Malcolm Khalaji joins up with a partner he never wanted. Rigid, ice-cold, and a stickler for the rules, Seong-Jae Yoon is a watchful presence whose obstinacy and unpredictability constantly remind Malcolm why he prefers to work alone. Seong-Jae may be stunningly attractive, a man who moves like a graceful, lethal bird of prey...but he's as impossible to decipher as this case.
And if Malcolm doesn't find the key to unravel both in time, another vulnerable young victim may end up dead.
Contains mature themes.
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Being the reader of 2025, I won’t lie - I almost gave up half way through, but the gorgeous writing and the curious nature in me ensured I kept going. And it just kept better from there. Now knowing that there are like 30 more books in this series doesn’t look quite like daunting :)
Excellent narration by Curt Bonnem. New to me narrator and a lovely find. The gravely tones in Malcolm and the shirt clipped stoic tones of Seong-Jae were perfect.
Slow start but worth the wait
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Good plot and narration
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The Cardigans is Episode 1 of season 1 of Criminal Intentions. It is a fast-paced detective thriller with the briefest of glimpses into a potential slow-burn romance and it is structured like a television series hence the episode 1 season 1 description. The story, setting and characters Cole McCade gives us in this first installment are gritty, gory, fast paced, multilayered, fun and diverse! Both MCs are queen men of colour, there is an implied enby character that uses they/them/their pronouns and the crime plot itself dealt with queerness.
I don't want to go into any details surrounding the actual plot as going in as blind as you can will give you the best experience of this story as you are taken along with Detectives Khalaji (Malcolm) & Yoon (Seong-Jae) as they try to solve a recent string of murders. The story kept my interest throughout, it kept moving forward and really did feel like an episode of something like CSI etc, I loved both Seong-Jae & Malcom and there is clearly more to both of them and their pasts than we are given in this book and the tension and chemistry between them was great. I'm really looking forward to discovering more as this series goes on and seeing if that tension turns into more.
Book 1 was available in the Audible Plus catalogue and narrated by Curt Bonnem who did a fantastic job with all characters differentiating his voice well. This is full of action, intriguing characters and a fast paced mystery that will keep your interest throughout. The only reason this doesn't get a full five star from me is because I figured out whodunit before the big reveal... but that's just how my neurodivergent brain works and it is rare for books like this to surprise me in that way. I highly recommend giving this a try and I will without doubt be reading book 2 sooner rather than later.
Fantastic
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Even before the villain was revealed, I had to Google how long it takes to amputate a leg, as there's a scene where a body is completely dismembered... Now, I've known people who have had to be amputated & it was never instantaneous, however this book would try to make us believe that both death & complete dismemberment as well as villain escaping, would've taken no more than 20mns 😒
it's about 45mns to amputate ONE leg, let alone all the other limbs, but when the villain is revealed the improbability reaches almost comical limits of "it never would've happened" & that's not even considering that bone doesn't give that easily, so the villain would've been knackered after the first few tugs.
Also, later on a victim, who was around a foot taller than the villain, who was an athlete, ( who would've been muscular & biology will always come into play, regardless of what people choose to believe), was not only murdered by this 5ft02 villain, thin as a rake villain... (when people are asphyxiating to death, the body automatically goes into fight mode), hence why no human can use asphyxiation as a way to kill themselves, your body wouldn't allow it, so there's no way in hell that the athlete wouldn't have been able to overpower the villain out of sheer panic, even if we completely discount the fact that not only was he was taller & stronger than the villain.
Also, this 5ft02 villain was somehow able to carry a body that was nearly a foot taller than themselves, unseen through a busy campus 😳 😒 just no!
There's a character who uses They/Them pronouns, which naturally the author as they thought them up would know, however Seong-Jae is new to the force & hasn't met nor knows anything about them & the scene is in his POV where Malcolm is talking to Sade & somehow he magically knows their pronouns... it's a little thing, but it was incongruous enough that I had to listen to the scene again to try to understand how Seong-Jae had figured that one out!
I liked that the author tried to give us the unlikeliest of suspects, but it would've made more sense had there been a group of villains, rather than a singular one, who would've been overpowered by every single one of the victims.
There was an element of wistful Supernatural elements to the story & had the author leaned into to it fully, the improbability would've been explained away or even if there had been some sort of incapacitating drug that had been used to subdue the victims would've made it more probable 🤷♀️. Heck, even having the villain lure the suspects into traps or something, but that the villain was able to dismember TWO different victims in less time than it takes to amputate ONE, SINGLE leg?! it's asking for an amount of suspension of belief that is completely outside the realm of possibility!
It's not a bad book, if unlike me, you're able to overlook all the improbable elements of the story. Also, the author kinda implied that Nathan was hiding something, yet he seemed as befuddled as the rest...
I liked Malcolm & Seong-Jae, but even though the story is told through their eyes, we don't really know who they are by the end & that final scene between them is just asking for trouble... you'd know without resorting to such extreme tactics... but, I ain't complaining 😏
I'm still hoping that the improbable elements of this story are resolved in the next book, somehow.... 🤔
improbable
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Enjoyable
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