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Shadow over the Fens

DI Nikki Galena Series, Book 2

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Shadow over the Fens

By: Joy Ellis
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
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Detective Nikki Galena's friend and neighbor meets a tragic end, but there's more to his death than meets the eye. And someone terrible from DS Joseph Easter's past is back.

A man is found executed on a piece of wasteland in Greenborough town. The cold-blooded murder triggers terrible memories for DS Joseph Easter. Just when things seemed to be going well for DS Easter, he realizes that the nightmare is coming back, threatening his career, his sanity, and maybe his life. In a breath-taking conclusion, even Nikki begins to doubt DS Easter as he faces a race against time to save someone very close to him.

©2016 Joy Ellis (P)2016 Tantor Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Fiction Crime

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"5/5...There just doesn't seem time to catch your breath through this book, there is just something happening all the way through it." ( I Love Reading)
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narration surprisingly poor. lots of words misprounced and shame fen accents so phoney. story intriguing but far fetched. don't think Iwill finish the series

far fetched but readable

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Another great book from Mistress of the Fens, Joy Ellis. The selection of narrator was however poor and mispronunciation of many words a distraction. Selection of regional accents utterly perverse.

Great story - performance lacking

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As with the first in this series, the story is brilliant, but the narrator's strange, shrill voices, abysmal regional accents and constant mispronounced words are distracting. Very difficult after listening to her other series, narrated so well by Richard Armitage. Still worth a listen though, as it's a great story.

Great book, terrible narrator

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I agree with other reviewers, the narration is dreadful, the accents are unbelievable and so wrong, the women’s voices too high, squeaky & irritating. The mispronunciations, dire.
I stayed with it because I wanted to know how the story ended but without much pleasure. Such a shame. Where’s Richard Armitage when you need him.

Good story spoiled.

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Another good plot, and some plausible character development, although the dialogue is pretty wooden in places. But the narration... so many ordinary words mispronounced (covert, seconded, SOCO, etc) and weird sentence stresses with emphasis on the verb, pause, then disconnected complement. Worst of all are the accents: the narrator seems to think that the Fens are somewhere in the East Riding since pretty much everyone speaks with the same Yorkshire accent, coppers, locals, witnesses, all except Easter (whose voice is straight out of Eton College) and Kat (Essex). Oh, and a mysterious Irish accent crept in, too, although it swung between northern and southern within single sentences. I'm not sure I can bear any more of these, so I'll probably just buy the boks.

Good plot, execrable narration

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