awful narration

Good story but the narrator should not try to do accents as a Glaswegian her attempts sounds more like bad Geordie

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Narration awful

Narration spoilt what may have been a good story. Simply could not concentrate as attempts at accents were very bad.

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Story ruined by narration

The narrator has a lovely, clear voice when reading fact or description. But she absolutely cannot do accents and, as there is a lot of dialogue in the story, these awful attempts were inescapable. I almost stopped listening several times. I was only able to keep going because it got laughable! The editor character swung between Irish, Scottish, Liverpool and Geordie...ish. And the accents for Swedish characters were like a cartoon take-off of an English-speaking person doing an impression of a Swedish person talking English. Painful. Please MG, don't do accents ... and probably gritty crime dramas full stop. And author and Audible...what were you thinking letting narration ruin narrative?!

To the story. I was drawn to it because we visited Malmo and absolutely loved it. The descriptions in the book brought it alive again. The story had lots of twists and turns and connections so it was attention-grabbing in that way. And the characters were clearly drawn. I did think it was a bit unbelievable that an investigator would have dinner with a key suspect during the investigation but.....Would like to listen to more but absolutely won't if narrated by the same woman. I feel like getting the book of what I've just listened to so I can actually hear the story.

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Desperately poor narration

Unfortunately I found it impossible to follow the story as the narration was so distractingly poor. If you cannot do accents you are better off not trying. I also feel that you should decide whether you are pronouncing words for an English listener or an American one. The language used is British English so maybe the narrator should have used that as the guide. I will avoid anything with this narrator in future.

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Meet me in malmo

I have to say that this was one of the worse books I have listened to on Audible. The accents were truly dreadful.

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grating accents

the storyline was interesting. Unfortunately the narration- specifically the accents let it down and I didn’t enjoy listening to it.

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Simplistic dialogue and story line.

Nothing else to write other than there are far more intelligent and Covent authors out there; therefore I would not recommend this book nor will I seek out other novels by the author.

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The reader chewed up the accents

The reader's attempts at accents distracted me from the storyline and I got a bit itrritated by it all.

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Slow Burner but worth a listen

Although the majority of the book is set in Sweden the author is British and for me this story lacked the idiosyncrasis and style of a Scandinavian thriller. Narration not the best but got use to it over the course of the story. I liked the main character Anita Sundstrom and will give the next novel a listen to see how her character is developed. Good book if you like police procedure without blood and gore.

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Good story if you stick with it

Good story however was put off by the attempted Geordie and 'Edinboro" accents. It would have been much more easy on the ears if the narrator had stuck to middle english in my opinion.

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