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Read Between the Lies

The John Handful Mysteries, Book 5

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By: Andrew Hixson
Narrated by: Gerard Marquez
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Summary

In a remote town on the Suffolk coast, the local residents are stalked by a brutal killer.

After the sighting of strange lights in the sky, the dismembered, burnt remains of the local RAF base commander are discovered in his car. An autopsy reveals that the victim showed signs of exposure to high radiation levels.

Assistant Chief Constable Angela White enlists the aid of both John Handful and local reporter Yazmin Nash. The level of radiation the killer leaves in its wake should have killed any normal man by now, but the murders continue: the killer appears to be both more and less than human. And then when a leading government minister arrives the pressure is on for Handful to solve the case not only quickly but also quietly, by any means possible.

Until a strange craft is discovered...

Handful then turns from hunter to hunted, where everyone is playing for the highest stakes, and where violence becomes the only solution....

©2018 Andrew Hixson (P)2019 Andrew Hixson Genre Fiction Mystery Private Investigators Psychological Thriller & Suspense Scary
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This is my second venture into the John Handful universe and the story told here is a great journey into the world of the private investigator and his life.

I really like Andrews writing and he does a great job of writing John into thrilling situations while humanising him and not shying away from his physical and emotional weaknesses with those around him. It’s a very British story with a very British feel and I also appreciate that close to home feeling that shines through Andrews writing.

Overall, Gerard did a good job with the narration. He’s clear speaking, understandable and attempts accents for the characters. The biggest thing I enjoyed about Gerard in this book is that he really conveys emotion in more fragile scenes - which is often neglected in audiobooks. He has a talent of making the characters fragility and distress shine and I really enjoyed listening to that. He has a soft voice which is very easy to listen to as well.

However. In the production of the narration in this one, there are plenty mistakes left in the audio. Repeating sentences, obvious cuts to the audio that are retaken and yet all left in. There’s a couple points where the narrator speaks and corrects himself. It’s quite a jarring listen and those moments which happen often throughout the book, really take you out of John Handfuls world and crashing back to reality.

I also felt that the narrators accent took me out of the story quite a bit as the dialogue parts with English accents really sounded quite off. For having an Australian accent, he is quite neutral sounding but it’s still quite strong and I think that made accents a lot weaker. As well as that, I found that, the narration didn’t sound quite as natural as it could have and I wonder if that was in part from the setting of the book.

Overall, good story, good narration but I didn’t feel that the two were a good match.

Enjoyable!

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I'm not sure if it was just my downloaded book but both the editing and narration ruined what may have been a good story. The editing is very flawed and often repeats parts of sentences ruinIng the flow of the story. I also found the narration quite poor, I felt the narrator kept changing characters voices/accents, sometimes mid sentences. I tried to persevere but even with only 1hour left I had to give up. This is is a shame as I think the story itself could have been quite enjoyable and intriguing with better editing and narration.

Story let down by editing and narration

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The series continues to improve. It was a good series when it started and it just gets better book by book. I would definitely recommend this audio-book and the John handful series as a whole.

Another great listen.

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I like this audio book i have gave it 5 out of 5 I have all 3 of Andrew Hudson audio books I have there are more to come

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I did enjoy this book but in my opinion this is the weakest in the series, as there was no mystery just lots of deaths, car crashes and running lost in the woods. I liked the character of John Handful and was eager to see who his new contact in the police force was after the death of his friend, so was really surprised to find out he had lost another one in the form of his girlfriend, when is John going to get a break?
John Handful is hired to look into the death of a man who made a discovery on the local air force base. Something went on that night and all the witness have turned up dead. Aided in the investigation by a local reporter, John and Yazmin must survive car crashes and encounters with strange men as well as the airbase personal to get to the bottom of both the deaths and the lights in the sky.
The narrator was okay and did sound pleasant enough but the editing stopped it from getting five stars, as he repeated several sentences throughout at the book
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Little green men or a monster

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