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The Cardiff Killings

DI Jemima Huxley Crime Thriller Book 1

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The Cardiff Killings

Yazan: Gaynor Torrance
Seslendiren: Eleanor Winters
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 MEET DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JEMIMA HUXLEY IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS.

An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves. A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career.

The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff.

DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discover that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland grave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start.

Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn’t have come at a worse time. Struggling to get pregnant, she is a woman on the edge, a woman who self-harms just to make it through the day. And with no one reported missing, no apparent motive and no obvious suspect, the investigation is anything but straightforward.

Eight graves. Eight dead women. All with pomegranate seeds placed inside their mouths.

When Jemima makes an unexpected breakthrough, she enters a desperate race against time to prevent more women dying.

Readers of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross, J.M. Dalgliesh, Mark Edwards and Lynda La Plante will love Gaynor Torrance’s feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.©2022 Gaynor Torrance (P)2024 W F Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedurals Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Heyecan verici
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There was a point when I felt I might end up not finishing this one, something I really don’t like doing. I’d find myself drifting off and having to replay sections. Then the story took a turn and I found myself more and more getting into it. A pleasant surprise indeed. Whilst the narration was good it wasn’t the sort to help draw you into the story. All in all a decent listen and I’m sure I’ll try the next in the series before long.

Surprising

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Good things: 1. Really liked the author's style of writing; 2. Really sympathetic development of female protagonist's character; 3. I liked the realism of the interaction between the characters; 4, The way the story developed had me hooked; 5. Very unexpected plot resolution; 6. Narrator very good other than the surprising lack of Welsh accents.

Not so great: 1. Extraordinary / unrealistic pursuit to resolution; 2. Actually one of the most horrific courses to revenge I have ever read; 3. Resolution possible, but extremely far from probable.

A lot to say............

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Not sure how I feel about out this book. I enjoyed the authors writing style and the narration, but the female protagonist really irritated me; I felt she desperately needed psychiatric help & shouldn’t have been in the position of police inspector, making judgements about other people. The self-harming aspects were difficult to listen to and actually nauseated me - great that an author has the capability to arose such emotions in a reader, but I felt personally that the descriptions were too graphic and unnecessary & I actually skipped over these parts of the book. I loved the story line, but am not sure I want to read another in this series and have to listen to the tedious descriptions of a disturbed police inspectors self-harm. I do wonder if there should be a warning to readers regarding the explicit descriptions around self-harm and mental health issues?

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The female protagonist started to get on my nerves after a while. I found it very difficult to be supportive of her. She allows her personal demons to affect her professional persona. However, I might be judging her unfairly having never experienced similar battles. To me, it over dominated the entire story and I found my empathy dwindling. I did like the intrigue of the plot and the complex family structure that needed to be explored to reach the solution. It was very far fetched but that didn’t spoil it for me. I agree with other reviews when it comes to the lack of welsh accents. I can’t comment on the correctness of the pronunciation of the places but it did seem odd that so many of the characters had English accents.

Managed to finish it

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Not one of the towns was pronounced correctly but a good story and nearly living it

Needed a Welsh narrative

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