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The Body in the Marsh

DCI Craig Gillard, Book 1

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By: Nick Louth
Narrated by: Marston York
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Criminologist Martin Knight lives a gilded life and is a thorn in the side of the police. But then his wife Liz goes missing. There is no good explanation and no sign of Martin…To make things worse, Liz is the ex-girlfriend of DCI Craig Gillard who is drawn into the investigation. Is it just a missing person or something worse? And what relevance do the events around the shocking Girl F case, so taken up by Knight, have to do with the present? The truth is darker than you could ever have imagined.©2017 Nick Louth (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Exciting
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Very detailed and interesting story.

Although I really liked listening to Marston York when reading narrative, I found his S.E. accent for male and female characters dreadful. I come from this area and the accent was far too exaggerated and jarred on my nerves. He also went up an octave which made the 'hard man South London' accent sound puny and almost laughable. Neither was there any differentiation between one character and another and so I got confused as to who was meant to be speaking.This also applied between male and female characters too!

If I ignored this problem, I found it to be a great read.

Brilliant with one small irritating fault.

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I was initially put off this series by reviews saying it was sexist. I'm a 45 year old woman and I'm a bit baffled by this - I felt that there was as much objectification of men as of women. Men and women often think and speak differently, but that isn't sexism. I really enjoyed this book. I saw the biggest twist from very early on, but there are so many pointers to it that I can only assume that the author wanted the story to unfold that way. There was still plenty of uncertainty and interest, right up to the end. I found it refreshing to find a crime author who isn't trying to smugly prove his cleverness as opposed to his readers' stupidity - the Ellery Queen books irritate me no end with their insistence that you should be able to pick out the three relevent clues, only mentioned in passing, when other details are far from logical. I'll be reading more of this series.

An intelligently written crime novel

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This is the best book I’ve read/listened to for ages. I t got my attention from the beginning and never failed keeping my interest. The plot was complicated but in the end plausible. It must have been well researched for which the author has my admiration. I shall be moving on to the next in the series.

Gripping

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Very well plotted - leads you to the likely conclusion, but makes you want to keep listening to see if you were right, and if so, how it was done! Have already downloaded more in the series to listen to.

Really enjoyed this!

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Excellent story and the twists turns weee great. My personal problem was not listening long enough and going back quite often to capture key parts. Loved it.

Very interesting and a great listen,

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