The Deadline Murders
The Fox & Farraday Mysteries, Book 1
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The Deadline Murders
Narrated by:
Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
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Narrated by:
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Gabrielle de Cuir
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Stefan Rudnicki
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Ron Morgans
About this listen
When a Chinese military plane explodes in a fireball before her lens, life for street photographer Henrietta Fox gets dangerous.
Five murders across Europe, each victim found dead with an exotic, lop-eared Sumxu cat, animals considered extinct for 300 years. Only Henri Fox knows why—and that knowledge could kill her. To survive she must pursue a madman across China with partner, Cass Farraday, but the hunters soon become the prey.
Desperate and on the run in Shanghai, pursued by the Tong and the police, they must break into the Chinese Gold Exchange for the proof they need to prevent a megalomaniac billionaire’s Armageddon assault on Britain’s Air Traffic Control.
If they fail—half a million lives will be lost.
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Intriguing and absorbing
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In this book, however, Gabrielle de Cuir is absolutely awful. Distractingly bad. It has hard to state just how terrible she is. The character of Henry (Henrietta) is supposed to come from London. The accent, however, slaloms across the country, although it seems to skirt Manchester quite a lot. The vowels are all wrong. At times it seems like she's not putting on an accent at all, until one of those wonky vowels slips in. I really can't emphasise how bad and distracting it is. And then there are the characters who are supposed to have an accent. I cringed at the "Scottish" accent. It's an abomination. You'll be reading this thinking, "Surely it can't be that bad!"
It is.
But it's not just the accent. She mispronounces words a lot. I lost count. Combined with the dodgy accents, it takes you out of the story, unfortunately.
And the story is the second problem here. It's just not that good. Lots of descriptions of what Henry is wearing for no apparent reason. The last few chapters pick up SLIGHTLY. However, the characters are caricatures, not helped by Gabrielle's reading, and the scenario is completely implausible (I can't say anything without giving part of the plot away). It's frustrating rather than tense.
What I DID like is that the two narrators tell the story from different points of view. Gabrielle de Cuir reads the chapters from Henry's point of view while Stefan Rudnicki narrates what is going on in China. It's a small positive.
These narrators have recorded another book in this series. However, I won't be touching that with a barge pole.
They will be narrating a sequel to The Secret Adversary, and I'm quite looking forward to that.
Absolutely awful
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