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Web of Lies

Detective Sebastian Clifford, Book 1

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Web of Lies

By: Sally Rigby
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Summary

A trail of secrets. A dangerous discovery. A deadly turn.

Police officer Sebastian Clifford never planned on becoming a private investigator. But when a scandal leads to the disbandment of his London based special squad, he finds himself out of a job. That is, until his cousin calls on him to investigate her husband’s high-profile death, and prove that it wasn’t a suicide.

Clifford’s reluctant to get involved, but the more he digs, the more evidence he finds. With his ability to remember everything he's ever seen, he's the perfect person to untangle the layers of deceit.

He meets Detective Constable Bird, an underutilized detective at Market Harborough’s police force, who refuses to give him access to the records he’s requested unless he allows her to help with the investigation. Clifford isn't thrilled. The last time he worked as part of a team it ended his career. But with time running out, Clifford is out of options. Together they must wade through the web of lies in the hope that they’ll find the truth before it kills them.

Includes bonus story Nowhere to Hide.

©2021 Sally Rigby (P)2021 Podium Audio Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Private Investigators Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime
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This book was good but they changed the narrator and he turned Whitney Walker Geordie and some of his other voices were questionable. I personally prefer the lady who narrates the Cavendish and Walker series. Other than that the story was good and the characters progressed well through the book without losing the mystery storyline. I look forward to listening to the next one.

Good book overall I enjoyed it.

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Quirky narration, radio'play'esque, which in places is slightly OTT giving panto dame vibes for the female/child characters. The first 10 minutes almost made me switch off, but then I got used to it and settled in to listen in ernest.

The snakes and ladders aspect of the detailed investigation kept me interested. The MCs (Sebastian: venerable; revered; Birdy: sparrow like) interact well and perform their roles confidently with no crushing faux pas or idiotic statements to show one character's intelligence/dominance over the other.

There is a strange range of annoying Americanizms: "sucked", "off the bat" (a baseball term I believe) "arsewipe" "gotten" "Rule 101" (An American Court term) and other terms peppered throughout, which disturb the enjoyable flow of an Englishness, but what really annoyed me was the book ended 1hr 34 mins off the run time, making way for a "prequel" to the main novel.

ENJOYABLE

Market Harbouring Killer

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I enjoyed the story and loved the way the characters unfolded. It was a tame story but nice.

Good

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I laughed a lot and absolutely fell in love with them two main characters. It was written and narrated for more than 5 stars... bravo! Highly recommended for listening.

Love them two!

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a very enjoyable story by a new author for me . Jonathan Keeble is on of my favourite readers and helped me enjoy it.
I was able to ignore the errors on Police procedure which normally annoys me !!

a promising new series.

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