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The Ruin
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Series: The Cormac Reilly Series, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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The International Best Seller.
Cormac Reilly is about to reopen a case it took him twenty years to forget.
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- Jus Shemare
- 11-03-18
Riveting
Really enjoyed this book. The narration and story compelling. Can’t wait for the next book
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- Rachel
- 27-09-18
Great Stuart on a new series.
Since this was the first in the series, the author took a bit longer to fill in the characters, but once it got cracking it was hard to put down. I'm looking forward to Book 2.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-08-18
Amazing
One of the best books I listen to. Throughly enjoyed it. Will definitely be recommending this.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-03-18
Next Chapter please, can't wait for 2019!
Loved it from start to finish, made me long for Galway, Cormac's got his work cut out for him! Multi case load, like it, loved it.
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- Bernie - Chorley
- 16-10-18
Excellent!
Couldn't put this down, totally gripped from start to finish.
Great storyine, likeable & believable main character, DS Reilly. Great new author and hopefully more of the same to come. Disappointed we have to wait until 2019 for next in the series.
Excellent narration as ever from Aoife MacMahon.
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- Mrs F.
- 04-08-18
Superb 1st novel
Combination of story line and narration makes for a compelling and memorable 'listen.' Can't wait for the 2nd book in the series !
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- Chester Gunn
- 17-04-18
Competent story, slow character building
This is a book from a new author with a great potential. The story itself is good enough, but for my tastes it is too slow to start, and well over the first half of the book is spent getting the story nowhere at all. That could have been totally forgiveable if the time hadde been spent buldring an intriguing set of characters. But unfortunately it is a bit of a miss in this regard.
I get the feeling that the author really loves this main character - but she doesn't manage to convince me that I should love him. I am not really a fan of books where the main character has a major flaw or a gimmick to him/her, but this book is a bit too careful in the character building. This results in a main protagonist who is very vanilla and uninteresting. This makes me sad, because I was really rooting for Cormac to be a great guy. I got the same feeling for Aisling (spelling?). I wanted her to be great too, but she seemed to be mostly sad and tired all the time. Maybe if there had been a more empowering progression arc she would become the great, strong character I feel she deserves to be.
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- M. M. Makki
- 16-05-18
Gripping
One of the best thrillers I have heard on Audible. Very exciting but with a minimum of gore and believable characters.
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- agnes hackett
- 21-03-19
Ruin
This is truly a work of art , catches the attention right from the opening chapter
Dervla McTiernan an is an amazing author .
I felt I was back in that wind and rain in Galway walks g down Shop Street
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-10-18
Excellent
This was one of the best audio books I've listened to. Brilliant story excellently read, 5 stars!
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- Biborka
- 06-10-19
Amazing Thriller
A page-turner. All the characters are full of life in the middle of a very interesting week, where old murders, office politics, life decisions and events that make or break carriers happen every second. And the reader is right in the middle of that with characters you would love to know everything about, but the writer keeps information from you in order to keep the suspense going. Do yourself a favour: turn whatever you’re doing into an exciting experience by listening to this during it. Worth every minute spent with it.
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- Joshua
- 04-06-22
Good police drama
Well developed characters. Great narration. The lilt of the narrator is a pleasant change from the ubiquitous American and British accents. Couldn't stop listening in the end. Not that it's the most compelling story I've ever listened to but it drew me in none the less.
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- Cliente Amazon
- 29-06-21
very good
liked it was intrigued all the way the way through, want to listen to the next ones now
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- cmissy_
- 09-12-19
Started slow but absolutely worth every second
It starts quite slow, before Chapter 6 it's really unclear how anything could possibly be connected, but given how complex and detailed everything turns out to be in the end it was well worth it. I had already listed to a previous book by the same author, The Sisters, that I was impressed by, so knew there must be good reason and pheeeew. It's really great writing, that is very well performed, strongly recommended for crime readers!!
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- Ady Hirsch
- 27-11-19
An excellent read
Two timelines and two seemingly separate story lines converge seamlessly into a great read. Great writing, further enhanced by the superb narration. In fact, if I could give the performance more stars I would.