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The Abbot’s Agreement

The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon, Book 7

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The Abbot’s Agreement

Yazan: Mel Starr
Seslendiren: Tim Bruce
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“My life would have been more tranquil in the days after Martinmas had I not seen the crows. Whatever it was that the crows had found lay in the dappled shadow of the bare limbs of the oak, so I was nearly upon the thing before I recognized what the crows were feasting upon. The corpse wore black.”

Master Hugh is making his way towards Oxford when he discovers the young Benedictine - a fresh body, barefoot - not half a mile from the nearby abbey. The abbey’s novice master confirms the boy’s identity: John, one of three novices. But he had gone missing four days previously, and his corpse is fresh. There has been plague in the area, but this was not the cause of death: The lad has been stabbed in the back. To Hugh’s sinking heart, the abbot has a commission for him....

©2014 Mel Starr (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing Christian Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Kurgu Medieval Mystery Orta Çağ Samimi Historical Thriller
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Simular sort of investigation. Interesting story that keeps you interested so it was easy to get to the end. As this was the first book of the character that I have listened to I found the narrator to be absolutely fine.

If you like Ellis Peters you will like this.

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Shame about the narrator! Where did they find him? Tim Bruce has taken a pretty good story with a likeable main character, and reduced it to a monotonous drone that's almost un-listenable. He has little intonation to enliven the plot, but when he does (very rarely) add emphasis - it's in the wrong place!
If I were the author I would be weeping into my beverage of choice on hearing my hard work reduced and mangled thus.
I've struggled to get even part way through the book, (so far just under 5 hours), and I'll normally stick with even a poor book, but frankly I am not sure I can listen to this depressing and boring narration any longer, I've stopped caring who killed the victim.

Not a bad story, but .....

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Good story and interesting to hear about particular heresies, but the narration left a bit to be desired. While it was good to hear Hugh with a younger voice, there were times I couldn’t distinguish between characters, such was the poor attention to the different voices. Also, couldn’t they have asked locals how to pronounce Eynsham? And other pronunciations were suspect and incorrect. I do wish more attention was paid to the narration of all of these audio books. I don’t like shouting at my phone!

Good story, narration not great

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I like the characters and the story, but I do not like this narrator as much as the previous one. He does not differentiate the characters voices enough.

the strong characters

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If you wanted to really annoy your audience, the best way to do this is to change the reader in the middle of a series. You've done it before and it is rarely successful. So, when I realised you had ditched our Mr Crossley, I groaned inwardly....

But the grown-up attitude is to give this interloper the benefit of the doubt, so I started to listen. After all, it's not a reader's fault. My daughter earwigs when I'm enjoying my books, and she surprisingly burst out "What has happened to Hugh - he sounds different!" Indeed.

Our new reader was a bit tentative at first, but yes, by the time the book was well through, he was well into his task.

Well done, Tim..

What's happened to Hugh?

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