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What Happened in London

DI Adams, Book 1

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What Happened in London

By: Kim M. Watt
Narrated by: Jane Ajia
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About this listen

Baton. Light. Chocolate. Duck. This is not DS Adams' usual kit. This is not DS Adams' usual case. She doesn't think it's anyone's usual case, not with the vanishing children and the looming bridge and the hungry river. Not with the snap-snap-snap.

But six kids are missing, and she's not going to let there be a seventh. Not on her watch. And she knows how to handle human monsters, after all. How different can this really be? So: Baton. Light. Chocolate. And the bloody duck. Let's be having you, then.

©2023 Kim M. Watt (P)2023 Isis Audio Fantasy Fiction Humorous Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Detective Comedy

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This is the great start to the paranormal police genre. The narrator is perfect for the story. I recommend it.

Very good

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Eventful, exciting and so adventurous that kept me captivated. I really loved it and can't wait to reading the next book.

Brilliant story, really enjoyable

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We really did need to know why DI Adams relocated to Yorkshire, and this is a very satisfying explanation. I hope the author will give us more Adams, rubber ducks and all.

It's a pity that it meant a change of narrator - the excellent Patricia Gallimore had done such a fantastic job voicing the Toot Hansell WI, the dragons and all the other characters in the Beaufort Scales books - as this reader seems exceedingly ill-prepared. Strange inflections, emphases in the wrong places and straightforward mispronunciation of words makes listening quite hard work: it's only because I love Watt's writing that I persevered.

A great prequel!

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BE WARNED, books listed as one two and three and wrong, two and three should be referred with the Leeds book last!!
Nice story, nothing too heavy, gentle fantasy, narration is ok too, sometimes does some odd lengthening of sentences as if to denote spooky when it's nothing, a bit off putting at times, but otherwise enjoyable.

Audible listed books in wrong order!!

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Loved this story and the protagonist is very like-able. As a huge Rivers of London fan (actual books and audio) I was trepidatious in trying a new take on the London magical realism cop angle but the plot is super; it works. Some very funny lines and witticisms. Very good descriptions of place and atmosphere. I did rather struggle with the vocal performance which was very, very fast paced and had a constant and rather exhausting sense of urgency and some very odd inflections and stresses on unexpected words which made it quite hard to follow. I hope the second instalment is read at a more relaxed pace.

A really good story

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