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The Mark of a Murderer

By: Susanna Gregory
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
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 February 1355: Oxford explodes in one of the most serious riots of its turbulent history. Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee the city, and some choose the University at Cambridge as their temporary refuge. But they don't remain safe for long. Within hours of their arrival, the first of their number dies, followed quickly by a second. When Matthew Bartholomew begins to investigate the deaths, he uncovers evidence that the Oxford riot was not a case of random violence, but part of a carefully orchestrated plot.© Susanna Gregory; (P) Clipper Audio Crime Fiction Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Crime Detective

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Too long and found the characters confusing. The narrator has a pleasing voice but has the worst Welsh accent. Sounds more like Peter Sellars Indian.

Disappointing

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Story did not hold my attention and narrator had irritating inflection on some words pity, as had previously enjoyed the Bartholomew series.

Not her best

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The 'feeling' of the times and characters are not captured by this narrator. Belief is lost, as is interest in the 'Mills and Boone' style....

Not captured by narrator.

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As various other people have said, the change in narrator and producer ruins this, and the following book. The pronunciation of some names is bizarre (or just plain incorrect) and the character’s voices are so different from David Thorpe’s that it just sounds wrong. The chapter divisions are also all over the place rather than the objectively sensible breaks at the end of a chapter… Changing the narrator for the 11th and 12th books in a series is ridiculous but changing but so is changing from Hachette to W. F. Howes. Thankfully, it all goes back to normal for book 13.

Great story, terrible narration.

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I really enjoyed this 11th Matthew Bartholomew chronicle, and it was good to see some surprises in relation to characters met before. It feels like a step-change. The story-line was satisfying and held the interest throughout, though I little cared for the journey of the astrolabe. It was also very good to see some existing characters being fleshed out more and this made the novel all the more rewarding. No one following Matthew Bartholomew’s novels should hesitate; read it. The audio-book has a different performer, but Andrew Wincott does full justice to the story. The special relationship between Matthew and Michael loses some of the sense of obvious banter, though the story might have prompted some of that. I wait to see how this plays out in the next instalment with the same performer. Given the dramatic way this novel ends I am breaking with my self-imposed rule of not reading novels in a series straight after one another.

Surprises and Character Development

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I have enjoyed all the previous books in this series very much. This book was very entertaining and the story line was intriguing. However the change of narrator lessened my enjoyment of listening to this book. This new narrator's tone used for familiar characters changed their familiarity completely for me, as well as the names of several characters being pronounced differently than previous books. I hope the previous narrator will resume the narration of the newer books.

Disappointed by narrator change

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There are other books in the series featuring the same cast of characters, but this was my first (and the only one in the series available from Audible). I don't think it made a difference; the characters are very well defined in this book.

The story is set in 14th century Cambridge, but they could almost be walking round a dirty version of a modern town without cars. And there's a lot of walking! For all that, it's pretty good: the story unfolds gradually through the book, new twists appear and are resolved, and the ending is entirely satisfactory. No quibbles with the narration, either.

So why don't I give it all five stars? I suppose it's just because it doesn't stand out as the most gripping or wonderful or unmissable book. It's good enough, though, and I'm glad I listened.

A good read

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Another great instalment in the Matthew Bartholomew stories. But, oh heaven's Andrew Wincott just isn't a patch on David Thorpe. Aside from his singular lack in ability to do accent, his delivery is just not up to the task. This is a long, multi-charactered story and Wincott's voicing isn't sufficient to do it justice. Please bring us this with David Thorpe narrating.

Please give up Andrew Wincott as a reader

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Too many characters and far-fetched story with some continuity issues relating to previous books. Not as good as usual

Complicated, barely believable story

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The story was as good as ever and I like the characters but do not like this narrator as much as the usual one! He changed the characters significantly and even the pronunciation of their names!

Different Narrator

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