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Diary of a War Crime
- DC Ruth Hunter, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
Diary of a War Crime is the first book in the DI Ruth Hunter crime prequel series. If you like chilling police procedurals, true-to-life characters and psychological twists, then you’ll love Simon McCleave’s addictive thrill ride.
London, 1997. A series of baffling murders. A web of political corruption. DC Ruth Hunter thinks she has the brutal killer in her sights, but there's one problem. He’s a Serbian War criminal who died five years earlier and lies buried in Bosnia.
When Detective Constable Ruth Hunter is called to the death of a pensioner in South London, she becomes convinced that it is not as routine as it first appeared. There are links to the death of another pensioner which suggest a link back to the Bosnian War of the early 1990s.
With the investigation thwarted at every turn, Ruth soon realises she may have stumbled upon a political cover-up in the lead up to the 1997 General Election. As she races against the clock, Ruth believes the man she is tracking is a Serbian War criminal who supposedly died in Bosnia five years earlier. Can Ruth find the notorious 'Butcher of Strigova' before he murders again to cover his tracks?
Born in South London, Simon McCleave was a script editor at the BBC before working as a story analyst in Los Angeles. He worked on films such as The Full Monty and the BBC crime drama Between the Lines.
Simon then became a script writer for television and film. He wrote on series such as Silent Witness, Murder in Suburbia, Teachers, Attachments, The Bill, EastEnders and many more.
Simon is now a best-selling crime novelist. He has had over 300,000 sales and downloads of his DI Ruth Hunter crime thriller series. Simon has just signed a deal to turn the books into a television series.
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- Nicola
- 26-05-24
Oh dear
Cliched dialogue and a predictable plot - and only average narration. Disappointing - I won’t be getting the next.
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- Bob two blades
- 25-01-22
Excellent dialogue poor plot
Very easy listen but the story seemed very thin. Don't know if I recognise our heroine of later books in this story line.
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- Joey Pacheco
- 26-08-21
Good thriller
Thoroughly enjoyed - took me back to Blair coming into power, nostalgic. Enjoyable story. Would recommend as gripping and female leads.
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- Karen S.
- 26-07-22
What a different book and I loved it
I am a big lover of female detective uk books and it took me awhile to get into it , but I soon did and lived the story line . Now to start the next book in the series .
Brilliant narration.
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- Mr
- 27-10-24
A nice short crime book
I really liked the plot. Someone should have told the narrator to a) stop overacting and b) it’s not children’s book.
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- pamela davies
- 20-03-24
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I loved this book , easy to listen to the wonderful voice of narrator, and absolutely am addicted to DI RUTH HUNTER ,feel like I know her well , this book kept me highly interested right the way through
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- d j.
- 25-11-23
Don’t bother
Tediously written with terrible female leads who veered wildly between being pathetic, downtrodden damsels in distress and utterly reckless. Totally unbelievable. I found myself wondering if the author had ever even met a woman before! There’s an unlikely but convenient lesbian angle, which felt pointless other than to add titivation for the male gaze. I found it hard to differentiate between the various Balkan characters as they were not fleshed our sufficiently and I really didn’t care who lived or died! In the end I just wanted it to be over.
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- Gus
- 13-03-24
Terrible
Clunky plot. Terrible dialogue. Horrible narration. Why did both female police officers have to sound like Eliza Doolittle. An audiobook which felt like it was designed by a committee and knocked off on a Friday afternoon. Avoid.
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- Katie
- 06-06-24
Do not get this book
There were so many plot holes that you would need a whole fleet of buses to fill them, for example if you are having a tense and threatening walk UP stairs from the ground floor to the fifth floor (even mentioning going past the third floor) you do not come out at ground level. If your loving father died five years ago you would know as an adult what had killed him. No working police staff would be able to just go off whenever and wherever they wanted without answering to someone. I would say sack the editor, but I don't believe there was one. I listen to approximately five audio books a month and this is the worst one I have ever heard.
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