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The Coffin Tree

By: Gwendoline Butler
Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
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Editor reviews

Gwendoline Butler’s 26th John Coffin mystery, The Coffin Tree finds the embattled police chief of London’s Second City embarking on an investigation into the "accidental" death of two of his officers, and leads him straight into a sticky web of money-laundering, arson, and duplicity in this absorbing police procedural radiantly performed by Nigel Carrington, who’s authentic British accent and confident delivery transport the listener to the criminal underworld lurking beneath the Thames.

Summary

A new mystery featuring the complex and fascinating London policeman John Coffin finds Coffin investigating the apparently accidental deaths of two of his officers, deaths linked to a strange half-dead tree. By the author of A Coffin for Charley.

©1994 Gwendoline Butler (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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Loved it ....

Firstly the narration was superb. Good narration brings a story to life.
Story itself was good. It kept me guessing.
No bad language - what a blessing.
Pity I'd pick this up before reading the previous books.

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performance easy to lost

reader is running with reading without any slowing down, I tried first going back few times to check if he is talking about next character already... bored voice, main character maybe because of reading is even more boring, irritating

no warm feelings to any of characters

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How many have to die .

This main character is an incompetent prat with a mommy complex that’s fixated on the character of the wife , indicating that behind all successful men there’s a woman , a didn’t I do well success , being a poor lad from a deprived background who has made good . Still not surprising seeing that the author of this drivel is a woman .