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The Calling

DC Goodhew, Book 3

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The Calling

By: Alison Bruce
Narrated by: Jonathan Broadbent
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About this listen

Kaye Whiting went to buy a birthday present and didn't come back. She isn't dead, or physically injured. But she is alone and very, very scared. Fifty miles away in Cambridge town centre, a deeply disturbed young woman is standing by a payphone. She knows she often feels compelled to do harmful things and is driven by a desire to make a call.

DC Gary Goodhew is one of the detectives assigned to find Kaye, and when her body is discovered, the only clue to the potential murderer is a woman's voice on his answerphone saying, "Kaye isn't the first and won't be the last...."

Alison Bruce was born in Surrey, but moved to Cambridge in 1998. She has learnt about Cambridge and East Anglia from researching her two previous non-fiction books, Cambridgeshire Murders (Sutton Publishing) and The Billingtons, Death in the Family (also published by Sutton). She is married with two small children and enjoys horse riding and dancing, when not working on her new crime fiction series featuring DC Gary Goodhew.

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Critic reviews

"A fast-paced gritty tale guaranteed to have you hooked from beginning to end." ( Cambridgeshire Pride)
"Meaty and deeply plotted." ( Morning Star)
"DC Gary Goodhew could just develop into a worthy successor to those venerable of the police procedural now drawing their pensions." ( Tribune)
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With vivid sex, abuse and death scenes this can be a very dark listen. But the story does have a compelling narrative for those willing to go the ride

Dark and sometimes very uncomfortable

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I listen to lots of police dramas and this is one of the best series.

cut above the rest

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This is quite a hard listen in places - some grim descriptions of violence. However I am enjoying the series and about to order next book. Occasionally the narrator annoys - I live in Cambridge and he mispronounces the street names!

Not for the faint hearted…..

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The first chapter or two had me thinking - Glory, how can there me so many miserable people .... but as soon as the 'backdrop' was done the story took off and it was really compelling, holding my interest and gaining my sympathy. definitely worth a listen, very good and true narration too ( except on one character who seemed to start with an Australian accent then became British sounding! Hey Ho that could have been my misunderstanding)
A worthy use of valuable credits

Depressing start - but improves considerably

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The author chooses certainly some deep subjects to focus the plot around, and while it still isn't really credible to me that a young DC would ever be given so much freedom, nor a new, uniformed policewoman be immediately assigned to CID, it doesn't really matter in the overall scheme of things. The characters are well formed and the conclusion satisfying.

Excellent storyline, if somewhat disturbing

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