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Lucifer's Shadow

By: David Hewson
Narrated by: Christopher Kay
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An intelligently crafted novel telling a chilling and suspenseful tale of classical music and corruption in Italy.

Venice is a beautiful and mysterious city. Lucifer's Shadow combines two stories in the city, set centuries apart from one another, and both involving the shady but seductive characters of Venice. The stories involve an anonymous manuscript for a violin concerto, and run parallel: interweaving to lead listeners into a stunning double twisted ending. Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Psychological Thriller & Suspense Thriller Crime Italy Suspense
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So many twists and turns brilliantly executed.
All underpinned with a deep insight into Venice and Venetians (I’m half Venetian).
Really excellent

Brilliant

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Normally I love David Hewson's works but I struggled with this one. The idea of two inter - related stories set a couple of hundred years apart was a good one, good enough to make me listen to the end, but soooo long. Every time I thought that the end was in sight (or hearing), I was thwarted by another twenty chapters! OK, I admit that I exaggerate but not much.

The narration was skilled but there are only so many heavy Italisn accents a woman can cope with, after a while they divide into one male and one female and that makes differentiating between the centuries more difficult. It is also hard on the ear!

Frankly David Hewson should have edited his book more skillfully and remembered that sometimes less is more. Had the book been less longwinded I feel that the narration would have been less wearing.

Longwinded Lucifer

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Whilst I enjoyed this book, the narrator's accent for one of the characters drove me mad. A sort of "shadda-uppa-your-face " accent? I understand from other readers reviews but I'm not the only one irritated by this. It did spoil my enjoyment of the book somewhat.

the accent detracted from the storyline will

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This was my first audio book and I can honestly say it won't be my last, the characters in this book came alive, my heart was in my mouth at times, the narrator was brilliant he added depth to the characters, I really enoyed how history was woven into the present, just wonderful...

splendid

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I have just finished listening to this marvellous book. The characters hsve invaded my psyche as has Juanita Macmahon's wonderful reading. I reccomend it to all who enjoy a rich often confronting plot read with wonderful consistency and great insight into this bleak time in English History.

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