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Dead Center
- Rookie Club Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
Fifteen years ago, the Rookie Club began as a tight-knit band of female cops struggling for respect. Jamie Vail was one of them. So was Natasha Devlin, the woman Jamie caught in bed with her husband.
When Natasha Devlin turns up dead, Jamie can't bring herself to care. She's got enough on her plate, hunting a sexual predator who preys on female officers. He leaves them alive, but brutalized. But when the MO of the Devlin murder matches the MO of the perp in Jamie's case, she's brought in on the homicide investigation and back into the Rookie Club she has been avoiding since her husband's affair.
As more cops become victims, Jamie must confront her past and solve the murder of her ex-husband's lover before she becomes the killer's ultimate prize.
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- danny curtis
- 22-07-19
Staccato Narration
The story is ok, but the reader read a line at a time rather than a sentence, with intonations and pauses in completely the wrong places. This is a shame as her voice should have been perfect for this tale.
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- Margaret F
- 27-06-24
good plot, with a couple of plots going on at same time
enjoyed the plot and narration, women portrayed as strong yet susceptible to usual fears, good story lines
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- Angela
- 14-11-23
Worth a listen
Took me a bit to get into this book but once I did I enjoyed it. The characters aren’t instantly likeable but that’s really the point as none are perfect. There’s quite a bit going on and it wasn’t as straightforward as initially presented.
The narrator was also fine - her range of voices wasn’t huge but the intonation worked well.
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- Kate
- 13-02-24
Thought this was written by a man who’d never seen an actual woman.
Really awful writing. The story itself is pretty intriguing but was wholly let down but the author presumably being a horrendous human being. Initially I thought this was a prime candidate for ‘men writing women’ but apparently it’s written by a woman who hates other women. Over sexualisation of characters, sex shaming, talking about ‘rape victims always being women’ except for (spoiler alert) her male best friend who was raped by a man as a teenager and - my personal favourite - calling a sexual assault victim a coward for not being able to identify her attacker. And to top it all off, the author (not the character) misgendered a trans person towards the end of the book.
I agree with the comments about the narrator reading line by line; it was really off putting but seemed to improve over the course of the story (or maybe I was distracted by the overall misogyny). I had to skip backwards a few times to try and work out what the narrator was trying to say.
The door let out.
A creak and she exited onto.
The street.
Good premise to the book. Shame it’s let down by literally every other aspect of it.
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