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Murder at Roaringwater

By: Nick Foster
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of a young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. In this notorious and unresolved crime, the victim seemed to have a premonition of her own terrible end.

Ever since she was violently killed outside her holiday cottage in the remote West Cork countryside just before Christmas in 1996, mystery has surrounded the unresolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.For six years, author Nick Foster has been painstakingly piecing together her life and death, developing an ongoing ‘friendship’ with the Englishman long-suspected of her murder, Ian Bailey, and his partner, Jules Thomas.The story follows Foster in Paris and Ireland as he leaves no stone unturned in his quest to reveal the young Frenchwoman’s killer and understand the motives behind such a terrible crime.

“A true-crime tour de force. Foster delivers a forensic and exciting account of this international murder mystery.” DONAL MACINTYRE©2021 Nick Foster (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd Murder Social Sciences True Crime Crime
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loved everything about this book,its timeliness its narrative and would recommend it to any sleuth

great listen very interesting case still unsolved?

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I found the narration actually quite good, though I appreciate that others were bothered, quite rightly, by mispronunciation of local place names and such.
This book goes over a lot of the information about this case that’s already in the public domain through other books, podcasts and tv films. I found it better structured and argued than some.
Mr Foster aims to differentiate his account by hitting on a specific detail that was ignored by the Gardai in the initial investigation and which he (Foster) determines to be a crucial piece of evidence overall, and specifically pointing to the guilt of Ian Bailey. That’s fair enough as a means to promote the book I guess.
I’m neither for or against Bailey as a suspect. However, the evidence in question was given by a person working in the motor trade. To suggest he might be confused or didn’t have sufficient time to observe the details of a vehicle he was filling with petrol, leading him to mistake a grey/blue car with no hub caps for a silver car with hubcaps seems to be stretching a point beyond credibility. I will also observe that, as a woman driving alone I often push back the passenger seat so that I can store items in the footwell. Sophie arrived at Cork airport with a number of items of luggage, and had a drive of around 2 hours from the airport to her house in Toormore. Perfectly reasonable to think she may have had a bag stowed safely on the floor but in easy reach with snacks, drinks, tissues, sanitary supplies etc that she may need on the drive.
Rather more interesting might be which other French women were in the area at that time who might have had a motive for killing Sophie so brutally, and a burly accomplice?

Well structured book, covering familiar ground for the most part. Warning spoilers.

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A true moving account of a life lost in a most tragic way. Beautifully told. Haunting.

A tribute - gripping.

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At last something that puts this horrible saga in context I now believe he dine it too many people give statements for them all to be lies.
Clothes in the bath, claiming he did not know her scratches on the arms to name a few .

Great insight

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I am an avid follower of this case and this book brought me a few surprises. It has also changed my mind again about who is responsible for Sophie’s murder. Nick Foster is smart, thorough, reflective and insightful.

The minus stars are because of the reader’s pronunciation. His voice and general performance are great. But good god why does he pronounce ‘Jules’ the French way and why does he insist on pronouncing Schull as ‘school’. The translation to English of Schull’s full name is ‘Mary’s School’ but ‘School’ is not the name of the town. It’s Schull, pronounced ‘skull’. It’s really grating! His other pronunciations are a bit ambitious as well.

Excellent and thorough book

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