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Fatal Decision

The Freeman Files Series, Book 1

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Fatal Decision

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 Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Detective Human Brain Cold Case

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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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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 could listen to Roger Clark read a cereal box, and this was better than Kellogg’s ingredients. But, unfortunately, not by much. Very run of the mill cold case crime story with characters I haven’t warmed to after 1 book. I’ll try the next and see how it develops.

Adding to the above, I’ve now done 10 books as they’re included in the ‘free’ titles with membership. I wouldn’t have purchased any of them. I’m prepared to suspend reality for the purpose of fiction, and I’m sure there’s not much entertainment involved in real cold case investigation, but solving an old case every book? Within a week in most cases? Whilst being in your 60’s and attracting basically every female you encounter? After 60hrs odd of listening I still haven’t warmed to the characters, which is partly to do with the writing, and partly due to the delivery by Roger Clark. I love his voice, he’s like the North American Stephen Fry, but he’s given too much to do here. Many regional accents, some he does ok, others not so much, and place pronunciation is really off on many occasions. Maybe it’s just me but when a ‘local’ character can’t pronounce the city/town/village they’ve lived in all their lives, well it takes me totally out of the story. I’ll keep going til the free ones run out just to keep listening to Roger Clark, but without him I wouldn’t have even got to the end of book 1. I hate to say that as Ted Tayler is obviously much more talented than me at writing crime fiction, but I have listened/read a LOT of these type of books and these don’t do it for me.

Arthur Morgan reads an OK book

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