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The Shrine
- A DCI Ryan Mystery
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: The DCI Ryan Mysteries, Book 16
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Amanda R
- 16-06-20
Last season of GOT esque.......
I love the DCI Ryan book series and am usually on tenterhooks over the plots. The story is made more gripping by the brilliant Jonathan Keble. Whom incidentally I believe ought to narrate everything on Audible. This book however reminded me of Game of Thrones final season. In fact when it said epilogue I thought the audiobook had skipped to the end of the story missing out the remaining chapters. I double checked and nope it wasn’t the app that had skipped the rest of the story, it was the author. I’d rather wait longer for a full book instead of several lesser works. I just hope that this isn’t going to set the tone for future books.
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- sinbad4england
- 10-06-20
well talk about 'letting it hang there' !
This book started really well , although a little predictable (LJ is nothing if not predictable). The story was bobbing along then stop, the end. I thought at first it had not downloaded properly and that there was another dozen or so chapters because the story didnt end it just stopped ? i won't say much more about the plot because you may read/listen to it yourself .
I don't doubt there is a 'sequel' but I feel ' I was robbed ' ! Books are too expensive to be short changed in such a dissapointing way .
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- Ms Nicola M Sugden
- 09-06-20
not value for money
A tired format,. Also we pay a lot of money for these books and they shorter and shorter
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- Adnil
- 07-06-20
No resolution.
I'm not sure that ending the book on a cliff hanger is satisfactory. Is it a way of getting people to pay more by cutting a book in half, I presume another book will come along to finish the story. I really don't like this in a book or on TV, which is where you usually see these kind of tactics, in fact it's irritating more than anything.
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- Smallbo
- 16-06-20
Where’s the rest of it ?????????
Like a lot of other reviewers, I feel cheated by this book. It doesn’t even pretend to be complete. At a little over 5 hours it’s clearly only half a book, but this is not reflected in the price. LJ Ross has done this before with her DCI Ryan novels. Frankly, I’ll stop buying them if she continues to do so. The story is the usual fast paced DCI Ryan and the characters are developed a little further, but I would have liked an end to the story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-06-20
incomplete story
i have been a big fan until now but left confused by ending. It felt like a first instalment. Am feeling disappointed....
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- Mr S J Hutchings
- 27-06-20
poor story
Felt as though it was churned out in no time, just to publish yet another DCI Ryan story
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- J. Reid
- 20-06-20
Crime, what crime?
Gave up after first five chapters - all about personal relationships between detectives. No sign of any detecting.
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- George Eager
- 27-06-20
DISAPPOINTING
Stumbled to an uninteresting conclusion. Had promise initally. Too bad as writing was quite okay.
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- lighthouse 715
- 03-06-20
Brilliant
I loved everything about this book, can’t wait for the next part!
I’ve given it five stars for everything,great story,favourite characters and wonderful narration, couldn’t ask for anything more
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- barbara
- 10-06-20
The Shrine
Wow, another great DCI Ryan book, I am absolutely hooked! Already can't wait for the next one! I am going to reread them all, so wish they could make a TV series out these books, would definitely be a success. The narration is as always, excellent.
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- Sue Giannotta
- 30-06-20
Half a book
I wish I had known that this was half a story. Although five hours is rather short for a novel, I thought the mystery would be resolved. So many questions were left unanswered regarding before the story begins and after it ends, it appears to be a few middle chapters. The narration was very good.
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- Trish R.
- 15-06-20
Excellent..
Another wonderful book about Ryan, Anna, Frank and MacKenzie. This time Anna is caught in an explosion and she’s hurt pretty badly, and Ryan is out for blood. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t end with this book. It’s not a cliffhanger but the story will go on about Cuthbert’s Cross in the next book.
No romance and no swearing.
As to the narration: Love, love, love Jonathan Keeble.
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- rose-a-line
- 23-07-20
Bewildered
This story had a lot going for it but was Spoilt by a rediculous ending.
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- B McM
- 30-11-21
The shrine is excellent!
I had read The Shrine when it first came out. My husband and I were driving home from Denver to Wisconsin—1,000 miles—and I thought he would enjoy this book! I’ve read all the DCI Ryan books but my husband hasn’t read any. We have a fond spot in our hearts for Durham Cathedral and figured that this was the one to listen to! We both enjoyed it! Thanks, LJ Ross!
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- Ladybird57
- 12-08-21
Too short
This audio started off well enough but ended too quickly seemed like half a story. Otherwise great writing as usual.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-04-21
So short
I used to love this author and buy all the books. Now they are around only 5 hours and are part of a 2 parter, so you end up having to buy 2 very short books at full price to read part 2 . This is just greed. I am going to stop buying them now. What a disappointment . Now looking for a new series
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- Ray
- 25-01-21
Where is Part 2?
Without researching whether there is a second book to continue the story, I can only register some frustration at the short length of this book and the lack of a conclusion.
I don’t generally purchase books with a duration less than 8 hours because I tend to finish them in a few days!
This was an exception because the Author’s other DC Ryan stories have been excellent and the Narrator is one of my favourites.
If there is more to the story, then I would have preferred a longer book. Most of LJ Ross’ books are around the 8 to 9 hour mark.
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- B. Rogers
- 13-12-20
Excellent Mystery - Great Characters
OMGoodness – I have found a wonderful new-to-me author and mystery series. I came into the series at the sixteenth book, but I fully intend to go back and start at the beginning because I enjoyed this one so much. I loved the characters; I loved the setting; I loved the mystery; I loved the writing style, and I can’t believe I’m just discovering them.
I used the Whispersync feature with this book, so I listened to the audio of some of it and read some of it. I liked the narrator’s voice as it was very smooth and flowed nicely. However, he didn’t seem to have a very wide range of voices – the females sounded like males with high voices and the male characters just sounded kind of raspy rather than distinctive. That said, I still enjoyed the listen – just not as much as I would have if there were a wider voice range.
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I definitely enjoyed this read and cannot wait to get started on the first fifteen that I missed.
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- Sharon
- 29-07-20
Great author, great reader
Another enthralling detective novel by a wonderful writer. Ryan and his colleagues zip through an investigation, only to wonder...