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Fatal Decision

The Freeman Files Series, Book 1

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By: Ted Tayler
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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Gus Freeman is a retired detective inspector who has spent the past three years alone.

Freeman’s wife, Tess, died from a brain aneurysm six months to the day after his retirement. He is still coming to terms with his enforced solitary existence.

His old boss wants Gus to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases. Old witness statements plus fresh clues, and the hunt would be on. But Freeman wonders whether his superiors need his old-style methods. Is the request out of pity, to occupy his mind with fruitless digging into cases that their best young brains failed to crack? Yet he can’t resist the chance to enter the fray for one last hurrah.

In this first case, the team tackles the brutal murder of Daphne Tolliver in June 2008. The sixty-eight-year-old widow was walking her dog, Bobby, in a woodland close to her home. Despite the efforts of detectives at the time, they never identified a single suspect. A reconstruction of Daphne’s last known moments on television five years later yielded nothing. Gus Freeman and his new team appear to have a tough nut to crack for their first case.

©2019 Ted Tayler (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Detective Human Brain Cold Case
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failry clever story although it draged at time. But the narration and pronunciation were terribe. Hearing Salisbury pronounced repeatedly as Sa-lis-be-ri was grating. I am grateful the tale did not also involve places such as Bicester, Launceston or Leicester.

Terrible narration

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I can't listen to this narrator mispronouncing place names.
Please get a British narrator to read books set in the UK.

Terrible Pronunciation

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Took me a chapter or so to get into it , but ended up loving the book .. my first time listen to a boom by this author and narrator .. I will look forward to listening to more .

It would go fine very well if they were put into box sets as the books are not that long

Slow start but got better

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I enjoyed this novel but it took a long time to get going. I found the narrator's voice very boring but I listen to audiobooks to help me sleep so a boring voice works well. However, what's with his pronounciation? Sal-is-bury? Marbella is pronoumced 'Mar-BAY-a. Doesn't anyone listen to these books as they're being recorded?

Pretty good but the narrator isn't great

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I thought the story was well put together. Easy to follow.
I’m from Salisbury and so it made the action quite believable HOWEVER the narrator’s inability to pronounce Salisbury correctly has deterred me from buying book 2 in the series!

Pronunciation!!

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