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Fatal Shadows
- The Adrien English Mysteries
- Narrated by: Chris Patton
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
Someone's out to get Los Angeles bookseller Adrien English. His best friend has been viciously murdered, now he's getting weird phone calls and sinister gifts from a mysterious "admirer." The cops think he's trying to divert suspicion from himself - with the exception of sexy and homophobic homicide detective Jake Riordan. Is Riordan really such a great detective - or does he have a few secrets of his own? Is his offer to help Adrien on the level or is he out to nail his favorite suspect - to the wall?
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- Josie
- 22-08-13
Great story and audiobook
This is my first Adrien English story by Josh Lanyon and i loved it. Chris Patton's narration was superb, his tone dry and witty, he is just perfect. I can't wait to listen to them all.
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- Kindle Customer
- 23-03-20
Nice mystery, no hot stuff, TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE
Well, the mystery was nice enough, and I guess the 99% antagonising and 1% something else main couple will tickle someone.
Anyway it was quite disappointing to read all the queer bashing by side characters.
What really freaked the whole thing up was the rape scene in the last chapter, came as a total surprise, like what in holy hell. And on top of that is was brushed off as nothing.
So, a freaking rape scene, no hot stuff between the main pair (I mean come one, even a kiss would be nice). Thanks, I need to go and bleach my brain.
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- Culwen
- 15-05-17
Captivating, thorough and keeps you guessing
This tale is very descriptive and the voice acting is very good and distinguishable. It kept my attention by guiding me through details of the location, of the protagonist's thought process and thus it does well to convey how Adrien felt in a situation like his.
The plot is original, the characters were unique and interesting. It's quite easy to flow through most of the book. Really, really enjoyable.
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- Michael Wild
- 21-01-24
Dated
It feels out of date and out of touch. The bare bones of a thriller. The reader is better than the book.
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- PB
- 26-01-23
Great but short
Loved the story and narration but book's too short! wish there could have been more of it. ;(
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- Dawn Barrell
- 15-07-21
Brilliant
Loved it, this is one of my all time favourite series and couples❤️ I enjoyed the voice of the narrator.
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- Mrs. E. J. Curtis
- 13-05-21
Enjoyable Story
A well written story with and interesting concept. The characters are likeable and the narration is very good.
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- Mrs C L B
- 12-03-21
First in the series
Having read the Adrien English series on Kindle I thought I would give the audio a try. Overall not bad but there were inconsistencies with the narration. Lots of plosives (popping p’s and sibilance for example) and at times you can hear the narrator swallow or turn a page. Turning down the volume helped but the quality could do with some tweaking. Adrien remains a favourite of mine, Jake, not so much.
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- BevS
- 02-06-18
Mystery rather obvious, but liked the narrator...
Spent some of my Audible credits on Josh Lanyon books. I quite like Chris Patton as a narrator [he did a good job too, apart from the pretty awful French accent for Claude 😉], and too many of my fave books at the mo are being narrated by people I really don't like. This series did not thrill me when I started to read it back in 2013, so 3.5 stars for the story BUT I'll try to persevere with the audio books.
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- JBo
- 02-06-16
Excellent version of Fatal Shadows
I have only recently got into audio books, having concentrated primarily on print and then electronic, and have begun to dip my toes in the water by getting audio books of titles I already own in other formats, which means that I knew in advance that I liked the first installment in the Adrien English series (good mystery, slow burn buildup of the relationship (in the broadest sense) between him and Jake, engaging character voices). The narrator is very good and brings the individual characters to life and the delivery when Adrien is narrating rather than talking to another character comes across as very noirish which I thought was appropriate and, at times, very funny (for the right reasons.)
All in all I enjoyed this version of the book and will happily move between the print, eBook, and audio versions depending on my mood and location. If you're looking for a light, noirish, modern murder mystery with a great main character then I do recommend this.
My *only* criticism of the narration is that when a character speaks in a low voice, sotto voce for example, the sound level dropped so much it was hard to hear. I use headphones at work, so if I had it loud enough to perfectly hear the quiet bits, I'd be deafened in the normal sections. With speakers it's fine, though.
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