Turning Blue
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Turning Blue
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Andrew McIntosh
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Benjamin Myers
About this listen
‘Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir, and with Turning Blue, he has created a whole new genre: folk crime … this is by turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable’ PAUL KINGSNORTH
In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing.
The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive, taciturn and solitary, but nobody on the force is more relentless in pursuing justice. Local journalist Roddy Mace has sacrificed a high-flying career as a reporter in London to take up a role with the local newspaper. For him the Muncy case offers the chance of redemption.
Darker forces are at work than either man has realised. On a farm high above the hamlet, Steven Rutter, a destitute loner, harbours secrets that will shock even the hardened Brindle. Nobody knows the bleak moors and their hiding places better than him.
As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of the case from the tight-lipped locals, their investigation leads first to the pillars of the community and finally to a local celebrity who has his own hiding places, and his own dark tastes.©2016 Benjamin Myers (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Myers summons up the Yorkshire landscape with lyrical aplomb. The bleakness of the snowbound landscape, the beauty of the moors, the vivid realisation of market town and northern city are all rendered with absolute clarity. His prose is beautifully controlled and so graphic it’s impossible not to picture the scenes he conjures up in striking detail. There is no hiding place from the darkness because the writing is so damned good (VAL McDERMID)
Working within the genre of crime fiction, and yet with a prose style that at times reads like poetry, Myers spins a tale of torment that creaks into other, older narratives. He creates a novel that is both environmentally and ecologically prescient … Turning Blue is a brave and utterly uncompromising novel which positions Benjamin Myers alongside the great names of crime fiction. He has earned his metaphorical seat on the bench, snuggled in between Val McDermid and James Ellroy (KATHARINE NORBURY)
A queasily compulsive evocation of a wild and brutal Yorkshire landscape, informed and haunted in equal measure by the shades of Jimmy Savile and his monstrous deeds and the East Riding’s lost boy of crime fiction, Ted Lewis (CATHI UNSWORTH)
turning blue
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The narrator's performance is staccato and punchy, it fits but can get a bit samey - you have to pay attention to catch the swaps in character perspective because they are marked and there is no difference in reading style.
I'm going to listen to the next book in the series but probably after a break to lighten my mood and cleanse my ears!
Ben Myers is too good a writer for this..
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Despite the bleakness of the background, it is obvious that Mr Myers has a great affection for the North of England. His other stories show a similar love. This though paints the scenery in its harshest and most savage state, and he portrays the people with grey colours.
I agree with other reviewers, the narration is difficult to follow. The Northern accent was spot on and added to the overall atmosphere of the story but the breaks (or lack of) between characters caught me off guard a few times.
Be ready for this book. It is a hard read/listen, but it is brilliant.
Bleak. Grim. Brilliant.
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Horrific
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