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  • Murder of Angels

  • Detective Inspector Declan Walsh, Book 2
  • By: Jack Gatland
  • Narrated by: Robin Laing
  • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (95 ratings)
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Murder of Angels

By: Jack Gatland
Narrated by: Robin Laing
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Summary

The second book in a new series of procedural crime thrillers featuring DI Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon, Murder of Angels is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, Ian Rankin, Damian Boyd and Ann Cleeves.

Finding a home at DCI Alexander Monroe's Last Chance Saloon Crime Unit, Declan and his team are still recovering from the fallout connected to their most recent case....

But when Declan's old mentor, now terminally ill with cancer confesses to a gruesome murder, on the condition that Declan himself takes on the case, Declan and his colleagues find themselves in a race against time to find the real killer before a violent gang war breaks out over it. But soon another witness appears, claiming that he knows where the victim’s body is buried; in the process revealing another body in Birmingham, identical in every way. Now, with both North London and South Birmingham becoming battlegrounds and with vendettas reaching boiling point, Declan Walsh must delve back into the world of Johnny and Jackie Lucas, the East End ‘Twins’, as he tries to discover how one victim can have two identical bodies.

©2021 Jack Gatland (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd

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Narration!!!

Are all the narrators sourced from failed East Enders auditions? Doesn’t anyone listen before these books are made available on audible?

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Utter rubbish!

Unfortunately, I brought three of DI Declan Walsh's books in one go. Lesson learnt. Never again.
I stuck with the first book, the second book was complete nonsense, and I'd lost the will to live by the third book.
I'm amazed that Gatland has ever been commissioned.

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Loved it

Great story line, enjoying the Walsh story line. Can't wait to read the next instalment.

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Absolute Tripe!

This is such appalling twaddle, that I simply couldn’t listen to all of it & gave up after a few chapters.

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Another great crime thriller

Great story and loving how the characters and continuation back story is developing. Good narration as well.

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Disappointing follow-up to book 1

Started well and as always, narrated superbly by Robin Laing, but this was not a patch on Book 1. Really hard to follow with bent coppers, cardboard villains, sets of twins that proved so confusing I found it increasingly difficult to recognise who was what! All in all, quite a mess and extremely disappointing.

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Well,what can I say

Loved the first book,this one , not so much.
It was way too muddled. I'm sure the author had it straight in his head,but there were too many characters in this. I'm sure many of them were surplus to requirements.
The story line was a bit laughable,mainly because of one too many twists.
The narrator,while certainly not the worst I've heard, could not do certain accents.
I may try another,then again,I may not.

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Slow start

This took a while to get into but I am glad I stuck with it - will definitely read the next in series.

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Nowhere near as good as the first book

The author has gone from a brilliant twisty tale in the first book to a run of the mill crime family saga in this second outing for Declan Walsh. Way too many characters made it difficult to follow who was who. The twists weren't really twists as you could see them coming a mile off.

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Not as good as the first book

Found it hard to work out who was who a lot of the time which slightly took the edge of the jeopardy

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