The Cleansing
DCI Tom Caton Manchester Murder Mysteries, Book 1
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The Cleansing
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Narrated by:
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Michael Troughton
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By:
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Bill Rogers
About this listen
Introducing Detective Chief Inspector Tom Caton. Christmas approaches. A killer dressed as a clown haunts the streets of Manchester. For him the City’s miraculous regeneration had unacceptable consequences. This is the reckoning. DCI Tom Caton enlists the help of forensic profiler Kate Webb, placing her in mortal danger.
The trail leads from the site of the old mass cholera graves, through Moss Side, the Gay Village, the penthouse opulence of canalside apartment blocks, and the bustling Christmas Market, to the Victorian Gothic grandeur of the Town Hall.
Time is running out. For Tom, for Kate…and for the City.
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Would you try another book written by Bill Rogers or narrated by Michael Troughton?
NoIf you’ve listened to books by Bill Rogers before, how does this one compare?
NoWhat aspect of Michael Troughton’s performance might you have changed?
He narrated it to fast a slower pitch would have been betterCould you see The Cleansing being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?
NoAny additional comments?
Average story line, didn't warm to the characters and wasn't narrated as well as others I have heardDidn't do for me
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Not really. I just couldn't get into it and living in Manchester city centre I really wanted to. There were that many gratuitous (and sometimes inaccurate references) to Manchester geography that I started to feel like I was listening to an audio A to Z. It just felt like it was trying too hard.How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Its sounds stupid but the characters names really alienated me. The name of someone always helps me visualise who they are and names for allegedly youngish people like Gordon, Carol and Barry just made them seem so dated and really made it hard for me to relate to the characters. A few Sams, Alex's or just something a bit more in keeping with the idea that these people live and work in a cosmopolitan, fashionable city centre would have gone a long way to making me engage more with the characters. Also there were a few stereotypes that just don't exist. he describes homeless people queuing for a soup kitchen all wearing army greatcoats, heavy black boots, balaclavas and fingerless gloves. I've volunteered in plenty of soup kitchens and have never seen anyone wearing that, it's all hoodies and jeans. Post war Britain perhaps but not in the day and age he is trying to emulate. Things like that just ruin the credibility of everything else for me.How did the narrator detract from the book?
Where to start?? He was the worst part about it. Clearly he has never been to Manchester as they all had accents that made them sound like pensionable seniors from Last of the Summer Wine. They weren't even Lancashire accents let alone Mancunian and Tom Caton just came off as a bit of a smug prat who would be as far removed from living in a trendy Deansgate apartment as the moon. The Nigerian accent was borderline offensive. The accents irritated beyond words and when he wasn't doing his best impression of a Manc he narrated the prose in the style of a patronising adult speaking to a child. I just couldn't engage at all and none of the characters came off as particularly likeable and it was hard to empathise with them because the accents were SO horrendous. He might have been better off just jacking the accents in and reading it straight. It was all made worse by the fact that I had just listened to a Stuart MacBride read by Stuart MacBride and it was fabulously narrated.Was The Cleansing worth the listening time?
Don't know couldn't finish it. The narrator was horrendous. I've never reviewed a book before on here again but there is always a first time!Any additional comments?
Might give the books another go with a different narrator. I listen to a lot of books travelling around for work and have become quite discerning about which narrators to give a miss and this is definitely one of them. Rogers would do himself a service by going with someone who actually inspires a bit of passion, conviction and dynamism.Has the narrator ever been to Manchester??
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The characters are well developed. The storyline is unpredictable and it comes to a good conclusion.
The main character, Tom Caton, is likeable, credible and human.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I really look forward to the next one in the series. *****
Excellent book.
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It was ok
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However I do think Mr Troughton was the wrong choice of narrator. he was certainly competent enough, but his accent/timbre kept dragging me away from city centre Manchester.
Ok but wrong narrator
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